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US News on Secret Tobacco Papers

The new reports spell out with great clarity the remarkable degree to which tobacco company lawyers controlled research into smoking and health, and the measures their clients took to conceal what they knew ...
It's not clear where the cigar companies stand on federal legislation ...
When a significant quadratic trend accompanied a significant linear trend, the data demonstrated a nonlinear variation (e ...

Children with Asthma Twice as Likely to Face Year-Round Attacks if Parents Smoke

smoked cigarettes on 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey), and (3) current frequent cigarette use (i ...
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 ...
The California warning label, by comparison, is almost inconspicuous ...
Those findings, made by University of Michigan researchers and scheduled to be presented here on May 4 at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, reinforce the importance of educating parents about how their own smoking can affect their children with asthma ...
What works for adult smokers--and researchers are still trying to figure out that problem too--may backfire for adolescents ...

WV Supreme Court Upholds Tobacco Verdict Rejecting Smokers' Medical Claims

Some young smokers say they have no intention of quitting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which raised the price of cigarettes by 50 cents a pack, may make them cut back on the amount they smoke ...
They don't believe the college is treading on individual rights in the process ...
We want to put them out of the business of selling cigarettes to kids ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...

Cuba Steps Up National Campaign Against Cigarettes

Alarmed, health officials are promoting new no- smoking zones and increasing tobacco education in the schools ...
We want to put them out of the business of selling cigarettes to kids ...
And perhaps most of all, let them know that you do care whether they smoke ...
Eva Prescott of the Institute for Illness Prevention, in an interview with daily newspaper Politiken ...

WHO Urges Pacific Islands Countries to Sign and Ratify the FCTC

Pacific Island countries clearly demonstrated their leadership and international influence during the Convention negotiations in Geneva, ...
Nearly 5 million deaths are related to tobacco use worldwide every year and this number is expected to double by 2020, when the deaths caused by tobacco-related disease s will represent 8 ...
For the first time this fall, the Memphis researchers will include bidis in the list of tobacco products whose use they chart with Memphis seventh-grade students ...

Number of Adult Smokers Fell by 11% in NYC from 2002 to 2003

But it's a daunting task in a nation that has had a steamy love affair with tobacco for more than five centuries ...
Some young people are social smokers, lighting up only at parties or when they go out ...
Like similar local and national polls, the surveys counted as smokers all people who said that they had smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their lives and that they now smoked every day or In the wake of huge tobacco tax increases and a ban on smoking in bars, the number of adult smokers in New York City fell 11 percent from 2002 to 2003, one of the steepest short-term declines ever measured, according to surveys commissioned by the city ...
The court said that a smoker who was aware of being addicted would know that cigarettes were harmful and would have to sue within a year of becoming addicted or violate the state's statute of limitations ...
California and Massachusetts have both enacted laws requiring warning labels on cigars ...

Congress Urges American Film Industry to Reduce Smoking in Movies

Data were weighted to provide national estimates, and SUDAAN was used for all data analyses ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) today urged Pacific island countries to sign and ratify the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control ...
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control was adopted by WHO's 192 Member States unanimously on 21 May 2003 ...
government's disease tracking agency, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), says about two-thirds of today's films depict tobacco use, including those intended for young audiences ...
The FCTC was adopted unanimously by the World Health Assembly in May 2003, opening the way for countries to sign and ratify the treaty ...

Editorial: Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport Should be Smokefree

Federal and state officials are taking aim at the rolled-up tobacco leaves, which recent research has found may have an even greater health risk than cigarettes ...
So far, more than 100 nations have signed the treaty, which will go into effect when 40 nations have ratified it ...
The court voted 3-1 to reject the smokers' appeal, which argued that they deserved free, routine medical monitoring because the cigarette companies sold a defective product with no regard for their customers' health ...
Attempting to corral the massive amounts of cigarette smoke in the airport's 11 smoking lounges and bars is futile ...

Majority of Cincinnati Citizens Support a Workplace Smoking Ban

Separate surveys indicate that a majority of Cincinnatians would be willing to support a ban on smoking in the workplace, and a majority of bars and restaurants returning surveys are either smoke-free or plan to go that direction ...
The surveys, to be released today, show that after holding steady for a decade, the number of regular smokers dropped more than 100,000 in a little more than a year, to 19 ...
It's like having four witnesses to an armed robbery instead of just two," said John Coale, a plaintiffs' lawyer specializing in tobacco litigation ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...

UK: Secondhand Smoke in the Workplace Kills Hundreds Per Year

This formula was based on information from other studies on the risks of dying from lung cancer, heart disease and cancer as a result of passive smoking ...
The nicotine wallop they pack can produce the dizzy, light-headed, vaguely intoxicated sensation dubbed a said Dr ...
At issue is whether the sensitive documents were protected under the attorney-client privilege ...
10 per pack by 2003 and force changes in cigarette advertising practices ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...