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| Seven Out of Ten Kids Want The FDA to Regulate Tobacco According to Scholastic Poll |
NEW YORK, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 70% of America's kids think tobacco should be regulated by the FDA, according to a poll conducted by Scholastic, the global children's publishing and media company. In anticipation of tomorrow's Supreme Court heari |
11/30/99 |
| Gene linked to lung cancer risk in nonsmoking women |
NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters Health) -- As many as half of all nonsmoking white women are genetically more susceptible to the cancer-causing effects of environmental tobacco smoke, more than doubling their risk of lung cancer, US researchers report. |
11/30/99 |
| Imperial profits fired from overseas |
LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Britain's Imperial Tobacco Group Plc lit up a 23 percent rise in annual profits driven by booming overseas sales, while UK growth was stubbed out by hefty duty rises and increased cigarette smuggling. |
11/29/99 |
| Pennsylvania Health Secretary Calls on Food Merchants Association To Discourage Use of Billboard Ads for Tobacco Sales |
HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- State Department of Health Secretary Robert S. Zimmerman today asked the Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association to discourage its members from using billboards to advertise cigarette prices. |
11/29/99 |
| Tobacco Farmers Face Uncertainties |
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Having overcome a quota drop followed by a drought, tobacco farmers face new uncertainties when burley markets open Monday against the backdrop of a cigarette industry losing customers and under siege in courtrooms. |
11/26/99 |
| States Hurt by Poor Cigarette Sales |
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A decrease in cigarette sales may turn out to be a costly trend for states and tobacco opponents intending to funnel millions of dollars from the tobacco settlement into health care and anti-smoking campaigns. |
11/26/99 |
| With Joe Camel Gone, Tobacco Makers Try a More Direct Approach |
With Joe Camel gone, at the federal government's insistence, to that palm-studded marketing oasis in the sky, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco is turning to the magazine industry to give its biggest nondiscount brand a boost. |
11/24/99 |
| Class Action Certification Denied |
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation issued the following statement regarding a federal court ruling in Minnesota denying class certification in a suit by Minnesota smokers who seek to participate in smoking cess |
11/23/99 |
| N.Y might spend tobacco money on healthcare--paper |
NEW YORK, Nov 23 (Reuters) - New York State's lawmakers are moving toward a consensus that most, if not all, of the state's share of the national 6 billion tobacco settlement should be spent on healthcare, Tuesday's New York Times said. |
11/23/99 |
| Canada government hires tobacco industry "Insider" |
OTTAWA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The Canadian government announced on Tuesday it had hired Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, the man who blew the whistle on the U.S. tobacco industry and inspired the movie ``The Insider'', as a special health consultant on national tobacco p |
11/23/99 |
| Is Your Thanksgiving Dinner Smoking?: Activists Boycott Philip Morris's Kraft Foods |
BOSTON, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Kraft Foods may be promoting itself as a ``Thanksgiving Holiday Helper'' on its website and urging consumers to make its products part of their holiday meals, but thousands of US households will be boycotting the brand this |
11/23/99 |
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