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Date |
| Youth-Targeted Smoking Cessation Programs Needed |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - As smoking continues to take its toll on individuals and society, a team of researchers is calling for new studies to investigate the causes of smoking among teens. |
05/26/00 |
| Pataki Vetoes Fire-Safe Cigarettes |
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. George Pataki has vetoed a bill that would have required tobacco companies to sell only self-extinguishing cigarettes in New York starting in April 2002. |
05/26/00 |
| Mass. May Force Cigarette Tests |
BOSTON (AP) - Stepping up its battle with the tobacco industry, the state Department of Public Health is planning to force cigarette makers to test smokers' urine to show how much nicotine gets into their bodies. |
05/25/00 |
| Area's Private Hospitals Offer Tobacco Funds Deal |
Hoping to strike a compromise, a representative of Ventura County's private hospitals offered Tuesday to share the county's 0 million tobacco settlement money if they successfully seize control of the funds in November. |
05/25/00 |
| Big Tobacco Money Plan Made |
The Erie County Legislature and County Executive Joel Giambra have come to a preliminary agreement on how to spend the county's share of the big tobacco settlement money. |
05/25/00 |
| Hypnosis' Anti-Smoking Benefits Doubtful |
Smokers who hope hypnosis will help them kick their habit need to temper their expectations, according to researchers at Ohio State University. |
05/24/00 |
| Evidence points to health risks of secondhand smoke |
"Smoke," the lyrics of the old Hoagy Carmichael song lament, "gets in your eyes." But that's not the only place it ends up. |
05/24/00 |
| Tobacco lawyers turn on each other as threat of huge verdict looms |
The level of invective in a Miami-Dade Circuit Court continued to grow on Tuesday, with lawyers for the five tobacco companies on trial breaking ranks and turning on each other as jurors and a full courtroom watched. |
05/24/00 |
| "Loud & Clear" Campain Sucessfully Launched |
In a successful effort to launch their new campaign coined "Loud and Clear", the National Coalition for Women Against Tobacco held a press conference today, May 24, 2000, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. |
05/24/00 |
| S.F. Judge Upholds Tobacco Verdict |
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A judge Wednesday refused to grant two tobacco companies' request that he overturn a .7 million jury verdict against them in the case of a dying smoker. |
05/24/00 |
| Nervous System Protein Plays Role in Allergy |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A small, powerful molecule called nerve growth factor (NGF) may be responsible for making allergy sufferers more sensitive to irritants such as tobacco smoke, according to a report in the May issue of the American Journal of Re |
05/23/00 |
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