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| Antismoking Policies at Work Help Smokers Kick Habit |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Policies that prohibit smoking in the workplace can help employees kick the habit, according to a report published in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health, the journal of the American Public Health Association |
05/01/00 |
| Smoking Linked to Higher Suicide Risk in Men |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who smoke at least 15 cigarettes a day may be four times more likely than nonsmoking men to commit suicide, researchers report. |
05/01/00 |
| World's Vaccine Experts Meeting in Washington to Report New Progress in Vaccine Development |
WASHINGTON, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of the world's leading vaccine scientists are gathering today in Washington, D.C., for the Third Annual Conference on Vaccine Research to report new research on the ``new generation'' of vaccines for such dive |
04/30/00 |
| Tobacco board votes to keep settlement distribution the same |
The Kentucky Tobacco Settlement Trust (Phase II) Board voted to base the 2000 Phase II payment on the 1999 data base of active quota owners and growers. |
04/30/00 |
| NH plans M fight against tobacco |
Beginning in July, New Hampshire will for the first time in its history spend state money million in the first year on efforts to discourage the use of tobacco. |
04/30/00 |
| State set to receive first payment from tobacco settlement |
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- The state is set to receive an initial payment of more than 0 million from tobacco companies in a national settlement, Attorney General Bill Pryor said. |
04/28/00 |
| Patton signs bills on education, tobacco money |
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Gov. Paul Patton tied up the loose ends of this year's legislative session yesterday by vetoing a few minor measures and signing into law the tobacco-settlement spending plan and two important education bills. It was the last possible da |
04/28/00 |
| Two Cigarette Cos. to Change Ads |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two companies that make unconventional cigarettes - one marketing an all-natural brand and the other selling an herbal blend - would stop advertising their products as safe alternatives to regular cigarettes under settlements proposed Fr |
04/28/00 |
| Tobacco death toll 'needlessly high' |
A US company says it has found a way virtually to remove major cancer-causing substances from tobacco. |
04/27/00 |
| Smoking Increases Impotence Risk |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many of the same things that are bad for the heart are bad for the sex life too, according to a study of impotence among middle-aged men. |
04/27/00 |
| Celebrities Rally Behind America's Kids to Thwart Youth Smoking |
WASHINGTON, April 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Model Christy Turlington, a former smoker turned tobacco prevention advocate, will serve as Master of Ceremonies at this year's Youth Advocates of the
Year Awards sponsored by the CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS. T |
04/27/00 |
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