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Intro |
Date |
| Council bans cigarette vending machines |
Cigarette vending machines are out, and tobacco will soon be moving behind store counters in Laguna Beach. |
02/04/00 |
| Students of all ages gather to protest habit, encourage legislators |
Death stood quietly at her side. |
02/04/00 |
| Insurer Cigna Censured Tobacco News |
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Cigna, one of the nation's largest health insurers, eliminated negative references to smoking in a newsletter it produced for employees of tobacco giant Philip Morris, Cigna confirmed Thursday. |
02/03/00 |
| Vitamin E may prevent smoking damage to arteries |
NEW YORK, Feb 01 (Reuters Health) -- Taking vitamin E supplements may help protect the cells that line arteries from damage immediately after cigarette smoking, but do not appear to reverse the long-term arterial damage caused by smoking, Austrian researc |
02/02/00 |
| House gives final approval to tobacco trust fund |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A plan to deposit billions of dollars from the national tobacco settlement into a trust fund is on its way to the Missouri Senate. |
02/02/00 |
| US adolescents less likely to smoke, watch TV |
NEW YORK, Feb 01 (Reuters Health) -- Overall, adolescents in the US are less likely to smoke, drink and watch TV than their counterparts in many countries around the world, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report released on Monday. |
02/02/00 |
| Missouri bills would ban possession of cigarettes by minors |
JEFFERSON CITY -- As the Missouri House was approving a plan Tuesday to set up a trust fund for money from the state's tobacco settlement, three Democratic lawmakers began a new assault on underage smoking. |
02/02/00 |
| RadioShack Partners With the American Lung Association on the Big Ride Across America |
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- RadioShack, America's largest consumer-electronics retailer has signed on to support the American Lung Association's premier cross-country cycling event. The event, now known as the RadioShack Big Ride Across Amer |
02/02/00 |
| National Complaint Amended Against Tobacco Industry and Political Defendants |
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000--The multibillion-dollar complaint against the big five tobacco companies has been expanded in a new First Amended Complaint, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California. |
02/02/00 |
| Jurors Hear Cancer-Tobacco Case |
MIAMI (AP) - A housewife told lawyers eight months before she died of lung cancer that she started sneaking cigarettes in the seventh grade because she thought smoking was ``cool'' and grown-up. |
02/02/00 |
| Tobacco Ad Restrictions Blocked |
BOSTON (AP) - The tobacco industry, battling state regulations on tobacco advertising near schools, won a minor victory Wednesday when a federal appeals court blocked implementation of the new rules. |
02/02/00 |
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