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| Doctors told to treat nicotine addiction as a disease |
Smoking should be treated as a form of drug addiction, with smoking cessation services and interventions such as nicotine replacement therapy available to all smokers on the NHS, according to a report published by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal C |
02/11/00 |
| Hospitals big winners in tobacco settlement |
Pennsylvania's hospitals will likely be the biggest beneficiaries of Gov. Ridge's plan for using the state's share of a national tobacco settlement, even if the Republican governor's initiative falls short of realizing a key goal -- providing quality cove |
02/11/00 |
| Antismoking Ads Upset Tobacco Cos. |
NEW YORK (AP) -- The biggest antismoking campaign ever is under way with teens helping shape its edgy messages and tobacco companies picking up the tab. But Philip Morris, the biggest cigarette maker, is fuming over what it has seen so far. |
02/11/00 |
| Swedish Team Working on Anti-Smoking Vaccine |
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A research team at Sweden's medical Karolinska Institute is talking to drug companies about developing a vaccine against tobacco addiction, the professor in charge of the unit said Thursday. |
02/10/00 |
| Smokers' Lawyer Accused of Pandering |
MIAMI (AP) -- A black attorney for the tobacco industry on Thursday accused a smokers' attorney of ``blatant racial pandering'' to a six-member jury with four blacks, and asked for a mistrial in the 19-month case. |
02/10/00 |
| Sixty Thousand Jobs Threatened in Tobacco Industry |
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 7 (Reforma/Infolatina) via NewsEdge Corporation - The international campaign implemented by the World Health Organization threatens to eliminate up to 60 thousand jobs in the tobacco industry in Mexico. |
02/09/00 |
| Physician Groups Shift Tobacco Settlement Focus from Proposed Statewide Initiative to Legislature and Orange County Ballot |
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The California Medical Association (CMA) and California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (CAL/ACEP) have announced they will not place on the year 2000 state ballot an initiative to earmark |
02/09/00 |
| Tobacco Growers Ready to Rumble Over 25 Cent Tobacco Tax Increase Proposal Says National Tobacco Council, Inc. |
HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ --
The Clinton-Gore Administration's Fiscal Year 2001 budget includes a 25 cents per pack increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes and accelerating the effective date of a 5 cents per pack increase from J |
02/09/00 |
| U.S. Cigarette Wholesalers Suing Tobacco Companies |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cigarette wholesalers and distributors are filing on Tuesday a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming major tobacco companies illegally fixed prices in the United States and abroad, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said. |
02/08/00 |
| Addictive Powers of Tobacco Examined |
LONDON (AP) - Tobacco smoke can be as addictive as heroin or cocaine, according to a report released Tuesday by a doctors' group, which called for the government to finance smokers' efforts to quit. |
02/08/00 |
| Tobacco Shrugs Off Price Fixing Claims |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Tobacco companies on Tuesday rejected claims in a federal lawsuit filed by cigarette wholesalers and distributors alleging the industry fixed prices as nonsense and without merit. |
02/08/00 |
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