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| Tobacco Prevention Council Says: ''State Needs Fully-funded Prevention Plan'' |
OLYMPIA, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2000--The Tobacco Prevention and Control Council has reaffirmed its commitment to seek full funding of the tobacco prevention plan. |
02/16/00 |
| Anti-smoking group to withdraw two ads |
NEW YORK, Feb 15 (Reuters) - An anti-smoking organisation said it would pull two of its harshest advertisements which have drawn strong criticism from the tobacco industry and which failed to show on some networks, the Wall Street Journal said Tuesday. |
02/15/00 |
| RJRT Reports New Doral Product Responds to Customers' Request for A Cigarette That Burns Slower, Lasts Longer |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company today issued the following: Doral, America's second largest cigarette brand, is packing more tobacco into each cigarette for a cigarette that burns slower and lasts longer. |
02/15/00 |
| Philip Morris Opens Russian Factory |
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- The Philip Morris tobacco company on Tuesday opened a 0 million cigarette factory outside St. Petersburg. |
02/15/00 |
| Cigars Increase Lung Cancer Risk Five-Fold, Per American Cancer Society/CDC Study in JNCI |
ATLANTA, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Cigar smoking is associated with greatly increased risk of death from several highly fatal cancers, according to a study by researchers from the American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C |
02/15/00 |
| Smoking foes call Patton's plan too little |
Anti-smoking groups and public health officials are criticizing Gov. Paul Patton's plan for curbing the use of tobacco among youths, saying the proposal is only a fraction of what's needed and that the state has plenty of money to do more. |
02/14/00 |
| Gilmore Revises Transportation Package |
RICHMOND, Feb. 13. Objections to Gov. James S. Gilmore III's plan to use tobacco settlement money for road and transit construction convinced him to retool his .5 billion transportation package today so that 0 million of the tobacco money goes to pa |
02/14/00 |
| Tobacco growers take a hit |
For most Kentucky tobacco farmers, the future appears as cold and bleak as an overcast February day. |
02/14/00 |
| Teens Blitz Lawmakers with Tobacco Prevention Valentines, Reports American Lung Association |
LANSING, Mich., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of an American Lung Association nationwide campaign to fund tobacco prevention programs, the Smoke-Free Class of 2000 is sending Valentines to their legislators. Thousands of Michigan kids are sending tobacc |
02/14/00 |
| Some want licensing for tobacco vendors to curb youth smoking |
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Proposed laws prohibiting children from having tobacco won't curb teen-age smoking without cooperation from merchants who sell tobacco to minors, health officials and anti-smoking leaders said. |
02/13/00 |
| New analysis of lung cancer and passive smoking studies confirms risk |
A study published in this week's British Medical Journal [1] has confirmed that passive smoking increases the risk of lung cancer, even if the risk may not be as high as previously estimated. |
02/11/00 |
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