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Teen Cigarette Brand Preferences

And it poured nearly $ 2 million into party coffers in the first six months of this year -- almost 500% more than in the last comparable period ...
Raising the price of cigarettes by 10 percent worldwide would prevent between 5 million and 16 million deaths, they found ...
None of the other brands accounts for even 2 percent of the market among teen s ...

High School Student in MA Drafts Bill that Restricts Smoking

Though they were just a few steps from each other outside the Senate's television studio, Matt Myers and Mark Berlind didn't shake hands, embrace or even say hello ...
In a Statehouse hearing room festooned with signs promoting "Kick Butts Day," the Legislature's joint Health Care Committee yesterday approved a bill submitted by a Northbridge High School senior to restrict smoking at indoor flea markets ...
Leveraging peer pressure is an important way to reach a demographic in which Chief Executive Cheryl Healton says ...
Ideally, the tobacco industry, which has benefited from the quota system, ought to share the cost of the damage the system is now ...

Kids Are Easily Addicted To Cigarettes

It was the Joe Camel and Marlboro days when they started smoking , and it was when smoking came back into Hollywood,'' Connolly said ...
paid to "place" Marlboro cigarettes and signage in the first and second "Superman" movies ...
People in low- to mid-income countries and people between the ages of 15 and 29 would be the most impacted by the price increases, according to the study ...
Though they were just a few steps from each other outside the Senate's television studio, Matt Myers and Mark Berlind didn't shake hands, embrace or even say hello ...

Teens Targets of New Ohio Smoking Law

MARIETTA, OHIO (AP) -- Authorities are beginning to crack down on teen -agers violating a new Ohio law that bans tobacco use for anyone under 18 ...
Those remaining could better compete with foreign growers while there remains a legal market for tobacco ...
The face-to-face negotiating sessions and conference calls were so sensitive that Philip Morris and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids refused to tell even their closest allies ...
The quota owner can either grow tobacco himself or lease the quota to someone else ...

ME Bill Would Prohibit Use of Minors in Stings

UGUSTA, Maine - With some lawmakers expressing outrage over the use of teen -agers in sting operations to prevent tobacco sales to minors, the Maine House has voted overwhelmingly to outlaw the practice ...
According to Lynch, the tobacco settlement barred cigarette makers from advertising and marketing to young people ...
Clinton's comments today closed out a topsy-turvy week of action and threats on Capitol Hill, where the Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation that would cost tobacco companies $506 billion over 25 years, increase cigarette prices by $1 ...

Teen Magazines Discuss Tobacco

Why? We put the question to several smokers, particularly people you might expect to know better, interviewing them first via e-mail, then by phone; their comments here come from both sorts of contacts ...
As antitobacco ad campaigns gear up around the country, several magazines aimed at teen agers have a head start ...
5 percent of Hispanics who tried cigarettes eventually smoked daily ...

MN Children Demonstrate at the "Tobacco Memorial Wall"

We're not trying to put the tobacco companies out of business; we want to put them out of the business of selling cigarettes to kids ...
I think I don't know of any more graphic way you could show the cost of smoking to Minnesota ...
Why? We put the question to several smokers, particularly people you might expect to know better, interviewing them first via e-mail, then by phone; their comments here come from both sorts of contacts ...
By overwhelming majorities, we say that ultimately the decision to smoke or not should be a personal one that adults are ...

First Exposure to Nicotine May Change Adolescents' Brain And Behavior

Study results appeared in the online version of Psychopharmacology ...
These earlier studies have shown that teen s develop symptoms of dependence after minimal tobacco exposure and that those who smoke daily as teen s will more likely have difficulty quitting than those who start as adults ...
DURHAM -- Tethered to a pulse monitor, Robert Marrow sat in a tiny office and waited for the lab technician's cue ...
The White House supposedly will make its position clear soon after ...
In these tests, drug injections are matched with distinctive environmental cues ...

Big Tobacco is Still Targeting Kids

MIAMI (Reuters) - America's biggest cigarette makers are still doing business the same old way and targeting teen agers as customers, a plaintiffs lawyer told jurors weighing potentially massive damages for sick Florida smokers, anticipating the industry's arguments for leniency ...
It would raise the price of cigarettes, give the FDA full authority to regulate tobacco products, ban advertising aimed at children, and protect tobacco farmers ...
Monitoring the Future (MtF), a U-M study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has served as one of the primary sources of information documenting that trend ...

Teens Give Adults a D+ For (Not) Stopping Teens from Smoking

We're not trying to put the tobacco companies out of business; we want to put them out of the business of selling cigarettes to kids ...
Thanks to separate but equally calculated decisions by Philip Morris and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, each has broken ranks with their typical allies, formed a secret alliance and met clandestinely to iron out key sticking points on the legislation ...
In fact, the Senate is likely to go along with a buyout only if the Food and Drug Administration is given regulatory authority over tobacco products ...
Three years ago, appalled by how many children were becoming addicted to cigarettes every year, the Vice President and I committed this administration to stopping the sale and marketing of cigarettes to children ...
Teen s want to have a role in resolving the issues that directly affect them ...