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| Settlement money is on the way to centers |
State officials doled out million in grants to health centers across Indiana on Thursday -- the first handout from the state's share of the tobacco settlement. |
08/04/00 |
| Smoking Bans Protect Children From Secondhand Smoke |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that smoking bans at home, at school and in public places minimize children's exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and may also reduce the likelihood that teens will start smoking themselves. |
08/04/00 |
| Study Looks At Tobacoo Cos., Candy |
LONDON (AP) - Internal tobacco industry documents recently made public confirm that tobacco companies cooperated with the makers of candy cigarettes in designing snacks that promoted smoking to children, according to new research. |
08/04/00 |
| Antismoking Efforts Should Focus on Adults As Well As Kids |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Antismoking policies targeting youths won't significantly reduce the number of smokers in the US for decades, according to researchers at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. Campaign efforts should be directed to |
08/03/00 |
| Association of smoking with urinary tract cancer quantified |
WESTPORT, Aug 02 (Reuters Health) - Cigarette smokers are at a threefold higher risk of urinary tract cancer compared with nonsmokers, according to a report from Dutch researchers. In Europe, they say, half of urinary tract cancers in men and a third in w |
08/03/00 |
| Chinese Inventor Lowers Tobacco's Tar Content |
A Chinese inventor claims that he has developed a technology that can drastically lower the tar content in tobacco. |
08/03/00 |
| Stop smoking and live - if you're under 35 |
SMOKERS must give up by the age of 35 to have the best chance of beating a cigarette-related death, according to the world's foremost researcher into lung cancer. |
08/03/00 |
| Rival Tobacco-Settlement Plan Proposed |
Orange County Treasurer John M.W. Moorlach proposed a new measure Tuesday that calls for a higher percentage of money from the national tobacco settlement to pay down the county's bankruptcy debt than proposed in Measure H, a ballot initiative proposed by |
08/03/00 |
| Iowa considers selling tobacco settlement share |
DES MOINES -- State officials took a first step Wednesday toward the possible sale of all or part of Iowa's .9 billion settlement with tobacco companies, a move that might protect its share from turbulent legal and economic forces. |
08/03/00 |
| What Makes Asthmatics Smoke? |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even though smoking can worsen asthma--a disease that affects more than 17 million Americans and kills thousands each year--a surprising number of people with the disease smoke, researchers report. |
08/03/00 |
| Doctors: Quitting Smoking Can Halve Tobacco Deaths |
LONDON (Reuters) - Quitting smoking has halved the number of British lung cancer deaths and started a similar U.S. trend but one billion people will die in the 21st century if current smoking trends continue, doctors warned Wednesday. |
08/02/00 |
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