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Date |
| E-Commerce: Taxes up in smoke |
The medical community cheered when Massachusetts imposed hefty taxes on cigarettes. But a battle looms over cheap smokes for sale on the Web. |
02/28/00 |
| Banning outdoor smoking is scientifically justifiable |
Simon Chapman has argued that smoking should not be banned in outdoor public venues such as hospital patios, beaches, and outdoor sporting areas, and this might also encompass building entrances, waiting lines for cinema tickets, and outdoor cafés. Howev |
02/28/00 |
| Govt. Presses for Tobacco Lawsuit |
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department says its massive lawsuit against the tobacco industry should be kept alive because the cigarette companies ``pose a continuing threat to the health and well-being of the American public.'' |
02/26/00 |
| San Francisco Gets First Taste of Tobacco Money |
San Francisco on Wednesday finally cashed in on its historic settlement with the tobacco industry. |
02/25/00 |
| House Democrats advance tobacco settlement spending plan |
JEFFERSON CITY -- House Democrats muscled through a tobacco settlement spending plan Thursday after they abruptly cut off debate to block Republican plans to attach anti-abortion provisions and make other changes. |
02/25/00 |
| Coalition Rallying Public on Anti-Tobacco Spending |
Anti-tobacco advocates on Thursday mounted a last-ditch campaign for the public's help in persuading lawmakers to spend more money fighting tobacco in Utah. |
02/25/00 |
| Assembly OKs ban on public teen smoking |
TRENTON -- Kids puffing on cigarettes in public would suffer embarrassment, but no penalty, under a measure approved by the Assembly yesterday that gives police and school officials the right to confiscate tobacco products. |
02/25/00 |
| U.S. Opposes Tobacco Lawsuit Dismissal |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department urged a federal judge on Friday to reject a tobacco industry request to dismiss the lawsuit that seeks to recover billions of dollars spent by the federal government on smoking-related illnesses. |
02/25/00 |
| Teens become nicotine addicts more quickly than adults |
NEW YORK, Feb 24 (Reuters Health) -- Adolescent smokers can develop nicotine addiction even before they begin to smoke on a daily basis, according to Dr. Joseph R. DiFranza of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. |
02/24/00 |
| Appeals judges leave smoke-trial gag order in place |
MIAMI, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Florida appeals judges on Thursday refused to undo a gag order in a high-stakes smokers class-action trial, shrugging off claims by cigarette makers that a ban against talking to reporters was confusing Wall Street. |
02/24/00 |
| House Democratic Budget Preserves Statewide Tobacco Prevention Effort |
OLYMPIA, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2000--The tobacco prevention budget released today by Democrats in the State House of Representatives is enough to help children throughout the state, according to the state Department of Health. |
02/24/00 |
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