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Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

Sussman thinks designers of smoking cessation programs should accommodate young smokers' lifestyles ...
Some young smokers say they have no intention of quitting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which ...
Some young people are social smokers, lighting up only at parties or when they go out ...

Researchers and Public Health Advocates Suggest Smokeless Tobacco Products to Smokers

Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...
Some young smokers say they have no intention of quitting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which ...
Though no one is calling the products still light up each day despite aggressive public-education campaigns, heavy cigarette taxes to make them less affordable, significant social stigma and widespread smoking bans in public places ...
With slogans such as "Spit-free" and "For when you can't smoke," these products differ markedly from ...
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 ...

GA Triples Cigarette Tax

Senate Bill 94 -- allows owners of residential lots along coastal waterways to build a private dock, whether or not they plan to construct a house on the site ...
Some young smokers say they have no intention of quitting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which ...
Smokeless tobacco and loose tobacco: will be 10 percent of the wholesale price ...
House Bill 43 -- raises Georgia's tax on cigarettes from 12 cents per pack to 37 cents ...

ASH After "Eclipse" Again

Some young smokers say they have no intention of quitting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which ...
Public health advocates are clamoring for federal regulation of the new products ...
House Bill 444 -- prohibits motorboats on Lake Oconee that are longer than 30 feet, 6 inches, or boats equipped with exhaust systems that bypass the muffler ...

Washington Post: Smoke Gets in Their Eyes

They keep smoking , they said, to reduce stress or boost productivity ...
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 ...
Some young people are social smokers, lighting up only at parties or when they go out ...

MD Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against B&W for Marketing Cigarettes to Children

Martin Jarvis, professor emeritus of health psychology at University College London's department of epidemiology and public health, has spent 27 years trying to figure smokers out; he published his You see them huddled against the wind outside office buildings, cupping hands to protect tiny flames ...
claiming a hip-hop promotional campaign for its Kool brand violates an agreement not to market tobacco to children ...
This sin tax is expected to raise $180 million in general funds for fiscal 2004 ...

How Kids Are Fighting Smoking

that the new, Is a cigarette still a cigarette if it isn't just tobacco rolled in paper? The tobacco industry said yes and is beginning to carve out a new market niche for "reduced risk" products ...
House Bill 304 -- extends a state-imposed moratorium on aquifer storage and recovery through 2009 ...
They may start a letter-writing campaign to state legislators in support of anti - smoking legislation ...
Martin Jarvis, professor emeritus of health psychology at University College London's department of epidemiology and public health, has spent 27 years trying to figure smokers out; he published his You see them huddled against the wind outside office buildings, cupping hands to protect tiny flames ...

TheTruth Campaign OnLine for Kids

com, the online component of the $185 million national anti - smoking campaign built around the Truth brand ...
Brian Basinger of Morris News Service contributed to this article ...
claiming a hip-hop promotional campaign for its Kool brand violates an agreement not to market tobacco to children ...

DE Teenager Fights to Prevent Kids From Smoking

This sin tax is expected to raise $180 million in general funds for fiscal 2004 ...
claiming a hip-hop promotional campaign for its Kool brand violates an agreement not to market tobacco to children ...
The state will pay the installation costs for current agricultural water-use permit holders ...
And although she's not old enough to vote, the 17-year-old has lobbied for the state's anti - smoking law and for more federal regulation of tobacco ...
House Bill 579 -- requires farmers to measure the water they use to irrigate their crops ...

Movie Idols Send Strong Smoke Signals to Teens

Senate Bill 73 -- prohibits the naming of state highways or property for an elected official unless he or she is dead or has been out of office for five years ...
broadcast center will deliver both professionally and youth created music, talk, video and animated content ...
Despite laws to protect young people from tobacco marketing, powerful pro- smoking signals are reaching teens--and perhaps female teens in particular--through the loophole of Hollywood movies, in which glamorous stars are smoking more ...
Tudor said the full effect of the tax increase probably wouldn't be known for several months because it will take smokers time to adjust to the changes ...