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| Youth tobacco-prevention grants available |
The Erie-Niagara Tobacco-Free Coalition is seeking applications from organizations that serve youth for its youth tobacco-prevention grant programs. Human service agencies, PTAs, churches and schools are invited to participate |
10/18/00 |
| Millions fund ads, programs |
When the Washington State Department of Health asked students in Pasco and elsewhere in the state what would make them nonsmokers, the kids went for shock value -- nasty and gross. |
10/18/00 |
| Nonsmoking Women Married to Smokers Face No Increase in Breast Cancer Mortality |
A large new study reports that nonsmoking women married to smoking men do not have an increased risk of dying of breast cancer, a finding that contradicts the results of earlier studies. |
10/17/00 |
| E-Tailers Fuming Over N.Y. Law |
NEW YORK -- Fed up with the ever-increasing per-pack price of cigarettes, many smokers now purchase their cigarettes online, where the cost for a carton can be 30 percent lower than in many offline stores. |
10/17/00 |
| Bioavailable lycopene protects against lung cancer in smokers and nonsmokers |
WESTPORT, CT (Reuters Health) - Diets high in bioavailable lycopene appear to lower the risk of lung cancer in both smokers and nonsmokers, report investigators in Boston. However, while other carotenoids are inversely associated with lung cancer in non-s |
10/17/00 |
| Brown & Williamson Sues to Overturn Internet Sales |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. said on Monday it filed suit in federal court to overturn a New York state law banning cigarette sales via mail, phone and over the Internet, days after the No. 3 U.S. cigarette maker announced plans t |
10/16/00 |
| UNC plan helps pregnant women quit smoking |
After years of testing the best way to get pregnant women to quit smoking, researchers have identified a five-step counseling program that is successful in 30 percent to 70 percent of cases. |
10/16/00 |
| Ideas differ on spending tobacco fund |
JEFFERSON CITY - The pot of gold at the end of Missouri’s tobacco rainbow is getting little public attention from candidates for state offices. |
10/16/00 |
| War against smoking goes worldwide |
In Nigeria, tobacco companies aren't allowed to advertise, yet smoking among young people is growing, in part because of sponsorship of radio shows and sports teams. |
10/16/00 |
| Reynolds Ordered to Pay 0,000 in Suit |
TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida jury ordered the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. to pay 0,000 in compensatory damages in the death of a longtime smoker, but acquitted the cigarette maker of conspiring to defraud smokers. |
10/13/00 |
| U.S. Paints Grim Picture of Youth Tobacco Use |
THURSDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthScout) -- More than one in eight students in middle school and a third of high school students use tobacco, a new government survey shows. |
10/13/00 |
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