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Senate Committee to Hold Hearing on Smoking in Movies

The Clinton administration plans to propose a federal tax increase of 55 cents a pack on cigarettes to help pay for ...
The money would also help offset $100 billion in proposed new Pentagon spending over the next six years ...
But anti- smoking activists argue that 60-plus years after that classic movie was made—long before the Surgeon General issued a warning on the dangers of tobacco—it's time for movies to lose the smoke ...

New Study: First Exposure to Nicotine May Change Adolescents' Brain And Behavior

The administration's 55-cent increase would be in addition to the industry's price increase and would more than double the federal tax on cigarettes, which is already scheduled to rise to 39 cents a pack in 2002 ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
These findings may help explain why teen smokers are prone to continue the habit into adulthood ...
Although running scared from some courtrooms, Big Tobacco's persistence and deviousness are alive and thriving ...

New Evidence that Teens are Most Vulnerable to Smoking Addiction

10 per pack by 2003 and force changes in cigarette advertising practices ...
In order to examine the period of the greatest reinforcing effects of nicotine, Belluzzi and colleague Frances Leslie, UCI TTURC director and professor of pharmacology, tested adolescent and adult rats for conditioned place preference ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 80 percent of tobacco users started at teen s ...
Animals are allowed to explore both sides of a test chamber, each with unique sensory cues ...

More Teen One-Timers Getting Hooked

One in three high school students who try smoking even once develop a daily habit before they graduate, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday ...
The high-profile campaign included buying ads on the Super Bowl this year ...
In these tests, drug injections are matched with distinctive environmental cues ...
I know that many of you traveled along with us day by day through television and the Internet, but I wish every American could have seen up close the renewed hope and restored pride that is evident in the six countries we visited ...

UK Health Development Agency Releases Briefing on Teen Smoking Prevention

The evidence briefing; ' Smoking and public health; a review of reviews of interventions to increase smoking cessation, reduce smoking initiation and prevent further uptake of smoking ', also details the clinical interventions that work best to help smokers of all ages quit the habit that kills over 120,000 people in the UK every year ...
The other centers are located at the University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown University, University of Wisconsin, Brown University, University ...
Once the politically popular bill cleared its first hurdle Wednesday, tobacco companies balked and warned that the added costs could bankrupt the industry ...

Act of Smoking as Addictive as Nicotine

When the technician counted down Researchers follow the path of compulsion and find that the act of smoking is just as compelling as the drug ...
The National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse in partnership with the Robert ...
We want to put them out of the business of selling cigarettes to kids ...
The bill, retooled right up until its unveiling and ultimately approved 19-1, is much tougher on the industry than the proposed settlement negotiated with 40 state attorneys general last June ...

Where to Get DC Tax Free Cigs? The Senate and House Office Buildings

Smokers in Washington usually cough up big bucks for cigarette taxes -- but that does not apply to one elite group on Capitol Hill ...
75 percent sales tax on top of that -- especially while lawmakers increasingly look at cig-arette-tax increases as a way to reap new revenue while deterring smoking ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path ...

Washington Post: Smoke Gets in Their Eyes

But when we asked experts on smoking behavior, we heard something else ...
The HDA has also identified that interventions with retailers can lead to a decrease in illegal sales to under-age smokers ...
The new tax, if enacted, would raise $8 billion a year over the next five years and would be used to help pay for a host of new social initiatives the president has announced over the past two weeks, including expanded after- school programs, support for ...
Congressional hearings on the proposed settlement resume after Labor Day ...
Leveraging peer pressure is an important way to reach a demographic in which Chief Executive Cheryl Healton says ...

Loosies Still a Big Problem

A teen also was able to buy cigarettes in Senate office buildings and the Capitol building ...
Three years ago, appalled by how many children were becoming addicted to cigarettes every year, the Vice President and I committed this ...
One 15-year-old girl was able to buy cigarettes from all sites tested in the House office buildings ...

Bidis Prove To Be A Serious Health Threat

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 ...
What works for adult smokers--and researchers are still trying to figure out that problem too--may backfire for adolescents ...
Study results appeared in the online version of Psychopharmacology ...
Bidis (pronounced beedies), with their arresting aromas and frequently lower prices, have become the latest smoking fad among teen s and young adults, first in San Diego and Los Angeles and now Atlanta, Boston and other major cities ...