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| House targets tobacco funds |
Maryland would spend millions of dollars to fight smoking-related heart and lung disease and send new state aid to suburban Washington hospitals under a plan approved by two House committees in Annapolis yesterday. |
03/19/00 |
| Smokers have a genetic inclination for nicotine |
LOS ANGELES, Mar 17 (Reuters Health) -- University of Toronto researchers are building a compelling case for the theory that smokers are hardwired to be nicotine-addicted. The latest evidence was presented here at the annual meeting of the American Societ |
03/17/00 |
| Wholesale Prices Jump on Fuel, Tobacco |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. wholesale prices raced up 1.0 percent in February, the sharpest spike in 9 1/2 years, the government said on Thursday in a report seen as assuring a Federal Reserve interest rate hike next week. |
03/16/00 |
| Potential Stop-Smoking Aid Isolated |
WEDNESDAY, March 15 (HealthSCOUT) -- Could keeping nicotine in the bloodstream actually help smokers quit? |
03/16/00 |
| Lung deaths tops in Mass. cancer study |
Lung cancer continues to kill more people in Massachusetts than any other type of cancer, and the incidence of the smoking-related killer is rising among women, according to figures released yesterday by the state Department of Public Health. |
03/16/00 |
| Reynolds Seeking Millions Back |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is seeking millions of dollars from five wholesalers and retailers Reynolds claims defrauded it of promotional money designed to lower store prices for cigarettes. |
03/16/00 |
| American Heart Association Calls for Stronger International Tobacco Control Restrictions |
WASHINGTON, March 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Two American Heart
Association officials, Diane Canova, vice president for advocacy
and Richard Hamburg, director of government relations today urged
support for an international effort to enact stronger restr |
03/16/00 |
| Turkish Cartoonist Can Break Your Heart |
This site serves as another example of how the Internet can break through communication boundaries. |
03/16/00 |
| Pennsylvania Governor Ridge Thanks Pennsylvania Outdoor Advertising Association for Extending Anti-Tobacco Billboard Campaign |
ERIE, Pa., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Pa. Gov. Tom Ridge today thanked the Outdoor Advertising Association of Pennsylvania for extending the Commonwealth's youth anti-tobacco billboard campaign. Members of the association have donated billboard space to kee |
03/16/00 |
| Ga. House OKs bln of tobacco-backed bonds-paper |
ATLANTA, March 16 (Reuters) - Georgia's state House soundly approved a plan to use some of the state's .8 billion tobacco settlement to spark economic development in its poorest areas, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Thursday. |
03/16/00 |
| Local Legislators Endorse Proposed County Healthcare Initiative |
ORANGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000--The Citizens Health Alliance to Reinvest the Tobacco Settlement (CHARTS), announced that several local state and federal legislators have endorsed the proposed countywide ballot initiative to ensure that th |
03/16/00 |
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