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| Cancer-linked sperm mutations higher in smokers |
Smoking men are at nearly double the risk for cancer-linked sperm mutations than nonsmoking men, according to researchers. |
07/30/99 |
| Tobacco Money Goes to Health Care |
More than half of the tobacco settlement money that states have planned to use is earmarked for health care services, a new report says, but an anti-smoking group said too little is going to programs to keep people from starting the habit. |
07/29/99 |
| Tobacco growers may get aid |
An influential bloc of Southern senators yesterday called on Republican leaders to include 8 million in aid for tobacco growers as part of a massive farm relief bill. |
07/29/99 |
| Tobacco settlement could fund anti-smoking programs in Pennsylvania |
Smoking prevention, education and cessation programs should receive the bulk of Pennsylvania's allocation of national tobacco settlement funds, three local health officials testified Wednesday at a hearing in Wilkes-Barre. |
07/29/99 |
| WHO Chief Sees Cigarettes as Drugs |
Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said at an international drug regulatory conference in Berlin that cigarettes should be regulated like drugs. |
07/29/99 |
| L.A. Launches Sidewalk Ramp Project to Aid the Disabled |
Using tobacco settlement money, officials plan to install 40,000 curb cuts for wheelchair users. |
07/29/99 |
| Teen Tobacco Use: Bad News |
Consider the facts:
In the next 24 hours, 3,000 kids will start smoking, according to the American Cancer Society. |
07/29/99 |
| FTC: Tobacco marketing was on rise |
The Federal Trade Commission, in its annual report on tobacco marketing, today said marketing spending on tobacco grew a healthy 10.8% to .55 billion in 1997. |
07/29/99 |
| Lawyers awarded 5 mln in tobacco case |
A panel of independent arbitrators in Boston on Thursday ordered the tobacco industry to pay 5 million in legal fees to the five firms that sued on behalf of Massachusetts, the tobacco companies and a law firm involved in the suit said. |
07/29/99 |
| B&W Criticizes 5 Million Tobacco Legal Fees Award |
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation released the following statement regarding today's announced decision by an arbitration panel awarding a total of 5 million to the plaintiffs' lawyers representing the state of Massachusetts in the state's Medicai |
07/29/99 |
| Blue Cross Awards Foundation Grants to Innovative Programs |
Building grassroots community support to reduce tobacco use, encouraging low-income women of color to have breast cancer screenings, and supporting health and family stability screenings and services for new students are among the projects that Blue Cross |
07/28/99 |
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