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| Tobacco Stocks Climb After Court Ruling |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tobacco stocks rose across the board Thursday after a federal judge dismissed two key parts of a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit that seeks to recover billions of dollars spent treating sick smokers. |
09/28/00 |
| Judge Dismisses Parts of Govt. Tobacco Case |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed two key parts of the U.S. Justice Department's landmark lawsuit seeking to recover billions of dollars spent by the federal government on smoking-related illnesses, but allowed two remaining rac |
09/28/00 |
| Carrier says "nyet" to U.S. flight smoke ban |
MOSCOW, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The health concerns of the anti-smoking U.S. public have gone too far for Aeroflot , the flagship airline of a country with one of the highest rates of tobacco use in the world. |
09/27/00 |
| Anti-Smoking Activists Feel Shortchanged |
As Illinois property owners have begun receiving tax rebates for as little as , funded by the state's tobacco settlement, some politicians and health-care advocates on Tuesday revived their call to allocate more of the tobacco money toward anti-smoking |
09/27/00 |
| Smokers' lawsuits target tobacco funds |
Tennessee and other states are violating federal Medicaid law by not sharing their portion of a multibillion-dollar tobacco settlement with low-income smokers whose health has been ruined by their nicotine addictions, their lawyers say. |
09/27/00 |
| Med Students Give Kids Inside Story on Drugs, Smoking |
FRANKFORT -- Medical students visiting 6th-grade classes at Hickory Creek Middle School in Frankfort last week presented compelling evidence in the case against substance abuse. |
09/27/00 |
| No Butts About It: Eugene Bans Smoking |
The city of Eugene is going smoke-free after the adoption of new anti-smoking ordinances. |
09/26/00 |
| Moms who smoke may end up with colicky babies |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Infants of mothers who smoke are twice as likely to have colic as children of mothers who do not smoke, researchers report. |
09/26/00 |
| Study finds smoking causes unwanted pregancies |
New research shows that female contraceptive pills function far worse among female smokers than non-smokers, with head of the research project, Dr. Erling E. Andreasen from Kolding Hospital, stating at a world congress for medicine in Washington that fema |
09/26/00 |
| NIDA Study Finds Teens, Women, and Whites More Vulnerable Than Others To Becoming Nicotine-Dependent |
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- An analysis of the data from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse interviews with 22,292 smokers showed that adolescents, women, and whites are particularly vulnerable to developing nicotine-dependence symptoms, |
09/25/00 |
| Record toll of women killed by lung cancer |
Lung cancer deaths among women have overtaken those from breast cancer for the first time, marking a grim medical milestone in the history of this often incurable disease. |
09/25/00 |
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