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Teen Cigarette Brand Preferences

During the 1990s, smoking rates among American teen s rose to their highest levels in nearly two decades ...
Marlboro is the choice of nearly two-thirds of youth smokers by the time they reach the end of high school ...
By overwhelming majorities, we say that ultimately the decision to smoke or not should be a personal one that adults are free to ...
Mississippi and Florida have stood up to Big Tobacco and gotten the best deals they could get for their people ...

High School Student in MA Drafts Bill that Restricts Smoking

Only respondents who indicate that they have smoked one or more cigarettes in the prior 30 days are asked this question ...
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 ...
The MtF study involves annual surveys of nationally representative samples of nearly 50,000 students in eighth, 10th, and 12th grades, located in some 422 private and public secondary schools nationwide ...

Kids Are Easily Addicted To Cigarettes

Only respondents who indicate that they have smoked one or more cigarettes in the prior 30 days are asked this question ...
Even as Clinton offered assurances today that he didn't want to see them put wholly out of business, he made clear that he and like-minded lawmakers hold the upper hand ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
It was the Joe Camel and Marlboro days when they started smoking , and it was when smoking came back into Hollywood,'' Connolly said ...

Teens Targets of New Ohio Smoking Law

Marlboro is the choice of nearly two-thirds of youth smokers by the time they reach the end of high school ...
The Rhode Island Coalition for Responsible Tobacco Retailing is comprised of New England Convenience Store Association, the Rhode Island Food Dealers Association and ...
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 ...
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 ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...

ME Bill Would Prohibit Use of Minors in Stings

That the response to the defeat of S 1415 surprised many in the political community only underscores their need to understand better the ...
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 ...
Not only would the deal do nothing for public health, it would be paid for with money owed to the taxpayers ...

Teen Magazines Discuss Tobacco

Teen magazine, published by Emap, this week announced a partnership with the American Cancer Society to distribute anti smoking literature at teen fashion shows, among other efforts ...
They look strikingly like marijuana joints, but it's legal for adults -- and even minors in some states -- to smoke them ...
Rapid changes in the tobacco business have led to shrinking quotas, which are the authorizations to grow and sell certain amounts of tobacco ...

MN Children Demonstrate at the "Tobacco Memorial Wall"

A series of speakers -- Waldock's teen -age daughter, Valerie, among them -- told those at the rally that the money should be spent on prevention programs, and not to help fund a tax cut as some lawmakers have advocated ...
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 ...
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 ...
The gathering commemorated the one-year anniversary of the state's winning a $6 ...

First Exposure to Nicotine May Change Adolescents' Brain And Behavior

Marlboro is the choice of nearly two-thirds of youth smokers by the time they reach the end of high school ...
These findings may help explain why teen smokers are prone to continue the habit into adulthood ...
As secret documents began to be released and top tobacco executives were deposed, the tobacco companies caved in to Florida's public health demands and settled the case ...
Moore, D-Uxbridge, told the committee he learned of the hazards of second-hand smoke and play into the hands of the tobacco industry by taking the ...

Big Tobacco is Still Targeting Kids

But the White House has long signaled its intention to seek more money from tobacco, and officials confirmed a report in the Wall ...
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 ...
Previous studies had estimated that 33 percent to 50 percent of people who experiment with cigarettes become regular smokers ...
Animals are allowed to explore both sides of a test chamber, each with unique sensory cues ...

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

Participants in the focus groups, consisting of two male and two female groups, were asked their opinions on the grades ...
Moore, D-Uxbridge, told the committee he learned of the hazards of second-hand smoke and play into the hands of the tobacco industry by taking the ...
Teen s received the questions in the form of a mail survey, with the results weighted to reflect regional, ethnic and gender distribution across the United States ...
The gathering commemorated the one-year anniversary of the state's winning a $6 ...
Clinton's comments today closed out a topsy-turvy week of action and threats on Capitol Hill, where the Senate ...