disease from smoking

Cigarette Wars Heating Up

Second-hand tobacco smoke at work kills hundreds of Britons each year - including almost one hospitality industry worker a week, a study ...
From higher taxes on a pack of smokes to new so-called safer cigarettes, the battle over tobacco in America is being reshaped ...
T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
He was 55 when he died, leaving behind three daughters, an ex-wife and a second wife ...

Smoking Makes Billions For Tobacco Corps. and Gov'ts

The top three favourites were British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco Group, who sell Lambert and that the risk of getting lung cancer is 14 times higher, while the risk of chronic pulmonary disease is 10 times higher ...
The media often picture athletes, celebrities, and politicians puffing away on giant stogies at parties or awards ceremonies ...
In staving off a decision for two decades, the defendants in Haines vs ...
Filed in Newark in February 1984, it passed through the hands of four district judges, three magistrate judges and dozens of attorneys ...
This week's progress in the Senate shows we have real momentum in both parties to do just that ...

BIDI Petition Filed

Belluzzi and Leslie also found a profound motor excitation, showing a considerable increase in physical activity, in late adolescent rats as compared to adult rats after a single exposure to nicotine ...
People believe that smoking bidis is healthy because -- unlike cigarettes and chewing tobacco ?? bidis frequently lack the required health warnings, are considered natural, are sold in health food stores, and contain flavorings such as strawberry, chocolate and cinnamon ...
It's the second time Republican House Speaker Rick Johnson of LeRoy has hinted that the chamber could take up legislation imposing ...
They are also linked to the same health problems, including lung and oral cancers as regular cigarettes ...
The lounges have no doors, so smoke wafts out despite expensive attempts at ventilation ...

MI Smokers Brace for Tax Hike

It is already the number one cause of death in the United States, claiming over 440,000 lives per year ...
Study results appeared in the online version of Psychopharmacology ...
Among women smokers, however, the risk of bloodclots was doubled among those studied who smoked just three to five cigarettes daily ...
The FCTC was adopted unanimously by the World Health Assembly in May 2003, opening the way for countries to sign and ratify the treaty ...

Washington Post: Smoke Gets in Their Eyes

Rossi's oldest daughter, who brought the claim as the administrator of his estate, says she was both stunned and relieved by the outcome ...
The percentage is probably higher among teen-agers over all because the survey did not include dropouts, Mr ...
But when we asked experts on smoking behavior, we heard something else ...
As more people light up, some US officials are saying cigars should abide by the same rules as cigarettes ...
Kalamazoo Valley Community College now refuses to hire smokers for full-time positions ...

Lung Cancer Hits Women Differently

and a claim that the regulations violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution ...
The once-confidential ruling by Judge Kenneth Fitzpatrick, issued in May, was made public Friday after the judge unsealed it ...
Not only are women catching up to men in getting the disease , they are more likely to develop lung cancer before age 50, according to a comprehensive analysis of lung cancer in the United States ...
WHO, in collaboration with host countries, is conducting awareness-raising workshops on the Convention worldwide ...

USA Today Editorial on New Surgeon General's Report on SHS

another brand, which its makers say contains "less toxins," is being test-marketed ...
The lawsuits seek billions of dollars in damages for alleged violations of consumer protection laws ...
In today's context, Carmona's findings won't shock the nation the way another surgeon general did 42 years ago by finding that smoking causes lung cancer ...
In the survey, respondents were asked to indicate their most important reasons for supporting the treaty ...

Bidis Prove To Be A Serious Health Threat

Bidis (pronounced beedies), with their arresting aromas and frequently lower prices, have become the latest smoking fad among teens and young adults, first in San Diego and Los Angeles and now Atlanta, Boston and other major cities ...
T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
For the third time this year, he took his case to the airwaves, using his weekly radio address today to argue once more that the tobacco industry should not be doing business with American kids ...

Flavored cigs harmful

It's not clear where the cigar companies stand on federal legislation ...
But the very notion of a safer cigarette appalls many tobacco-control advocates ...
Yet these documents are still only the tip of the iceberg according to Minnesota attorneys familiar with the case ...
Requests Regulation of Bidi Cigarettes Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has filed a legal petition with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the FTC to halt the unfair and deceptive trade practices surrounding bidi cigarettes ...
While white high school students smoke at nearly twice the rate of blacks, the gap has narrowed steadily in the 90's and some experts predict that it will ...

WORLD CONFERENCE ADDS SESSION AT ASH's REQUEST

But it said more study is needed to determine if there is the direct cause-and-effect relationship found with other cancers and leukemia ...
When a significant quadratic trend accompanied a significant linear trend, the data demonstrated a nonlinear variation (e ...
Contain an explicit stipulation by the tobacco companies that they will not claim in any context that settlement terms concerning their overseas sales or operations preclude other governments in any way from adopting laws and regulations more restrictive than those adopted in the United States ...
Haines, a Haddonfield resident and a paralegal at a Philadelphia law firm, had been working closely with Edell's law firm on a series of asbestos liability cases ...
The aim of the workshop is to promote a clear and comprehensive understanding of the Convention's objectives, provisions, and countries' obligations ...