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Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
Young people ages 16 to 24 interviewed across Southern California say it was often someone in their family who led them down that road, usually a relative they wanted to emulate, or a friend ...

Lawmakers Seek to Give FDA Power to Regulate Tobacco

The lawmakers unveiled a revised version of legislation that has foundered in recent years that would give the FDA power to regulate tobacco, including the ability to regulate nicotine, restrict advertising to children and order stronger and larger health warnings on packages ...
A bipartisan team of lawmakers opened a new drive on Thursday to grant the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate cigarettes and tobacco -- and got the backing of one major tobacco company ...
It would also prohibit unsubstantiated health claims about DeWine said ...

Canadian Arctic Bans Indoor Smoking

One 2002 study found that 80 percent of adolescents, 14 through 16, smoke an average of nine cigarettes a day, and many of them reported that they began smoking before they were 10 ...
Any worker who disobeys the ban will be fined the equivalent of $375, and businesses double ...
When Ireland moved to ban cigarettes from pubs last year, the world watched in wonder ...
Cancer rates are spiking in this territory of 27,000 people to double the national rate for men and quadruple the rate for women ...

New Evidence that Teens are Most Vulnerable to Smoking Addiction

When Ireland moved to ban cigarettes from pubs last year, the world watched in wonder ...
Smoking bans are infiltrating even the haziest corners of tobacco-loving cultures ...
Any worker who disobeys the ban will be fined the equivalent of $375, and businesses double ...
The other centers are located at the University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown University, University of Wisconsin, Brown University, University of Minnesota, Yale University and the University of Southern California ...
The Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center at UCI is one of seven centers in the United States established to study the factors involved with one of the nation's health crises: teen smoking ...

News Anchor Peter Jennings Dies at 67 of Lung Cancer

Govereau said the territory was forced to spend more than $50 million a year to transport patients for care for various diseases and conditions, many at least indirectly related to smoking, to ...
A bipartisan team of lawmakers opened a new drive on Thursday to grant the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate cigarettes and tobacco -- and got the backing of one major tobacco company ...
On May 1, the workers' compensation board for Nunavut and neighboring Northwest Territories prohibited smoking in any enclosed business or work site, including office buildings and bars ...
When Ireland moved to ban cigarettes from pubs last year, the world watched in wonder ...

B.A.T.'s Dirty Secrets Exposed

Public disclosure of once-secret industry documents has shown that Big Tobacco privately considered tobacco addictive and harmful at least four decades ago, even as it brushed aside claims that it manipulated nicotine in cigarettes to hook smoke rs ...
One recent government study noted that 484 of 1,000 babies under the age of 6 months old suffer from lower respiratory tract ...
Industries, the world's second-biggest cigarette maker, were devising ways to make it harder for people to quit smoking ...
Smoking bans are infiltrating even the haziest corners of tobacco-loving cultures ...
Cancer rates are spiking in this territory of 27,000 people to double the national rate for men and quadruple the rate for women ...

Tobacco Smuggling to Iraq

Taking the reader inside the once-impregnable industry, the papers disclose ...
Peter Jennings, a high school dropout from Canada who transformed himself into one of the most urbane, well-traveled and recognizable journalists on American television, died yesterday at home ...

Study Delves into Minds of Smokers

Iqaluit, the territorial capital, with 6,000 residents, enacted a bylaw two years ago prohibiting smoking in restaurants, groceries and most other public places ...
Cancer rates are spiking in this territory of 27,000 people to double the national rate for men and quadruple the rate for women ...
So social scientists turned to a new quarry: understanding the mind of the smoke r ...

CA Senate Committee Approves State Beach Smoking Ban

When Ireland moved to ban cigarettes from pubs last year, the world watched in wonder ...
Koretz agreed to the change, which would also allow local governments to designate more smoking areas or impose tougher controls ...
Tom Torlakson, D-Martinez, said city and county governments should have control over whether there was smoking on state beaches in their jurisdictions, suggesting that crowded Southern California beaches need the ban more than lightly used ones in the northern parts of the state ...

Philip Morris Files Suit Against Internet Tobacco Retailers

Part of its mission is to understand how nicotine, the addictive element of tobacco, impacts this brain maturation and leads to lifelong addiction ...
All smoke relocated to a Russian Web server and now is selling Marlboros at All smoke ...
The bill by Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, passed the Senate Natural Resources Committee, 6-3, after it was amended to allow local governments more flexibility ...
Govereau said the territory was forced to spend more than $50 million a year to transport patients for care for various diseases and conditions, many at least indirectly related to smoking, to ...