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Maoris Have a Disproportionately High Rate of Smoking Related Diseases.

Bidi sellers, aware of the misconceptions of their customers regarding the health risks of bidis, have made no attempt to correct the deceptive impressions in callous disregard for the bidi smokers health ...
The problem of high smoking rates among Maori stretches back to the colonisation of New Zealand, says Prime Minister Helen Clark ...
Others said they'd developed a universe of habits in which lighting up plays a key role ...

VA Woman Sentenced to 10 Days in Jail for Smoking Around Children

Researchers say that finding Smokers who trade in their regular cigarettes for low-tar cigarettes may be kidding themselves if they think it will help them kick the habit or reduce their risks ...
The advisory committee to the Director-General will meet in Geneva in June to begin work towards a cancer control strategy ...
Tamara Silvius, 44, who has said she smokes about a pack of cigarettes a day, was led from a Caroline County courtroom in handcuffs ...

Japan Tobacco Markets Globally

It is critical to the public's health that all indoor facilities be smoke-free ...
The media often picture athletes, celebrities, and politicians puffing away on giant stogies at parties or awards ceremonies ...

NY Times: U.S. Court Considers a Once-and-for-All Tobacco Lawsuit

But the trial would foreclose claims for punitive damages by all smokers who received a diagnosis of any of 16 smoking -related disease s, including cancer and heart disease , between 1993 and the start of the trial ...
Over the past five years, the cigar industry has told the American public to light up a cigar to celebrate good times ...
These earlier studies have shown that teens develop symptoms of dependence after minimal tobacco exposure and that those who smoke daily as teens will more likely have difficulty quitting than those who start as adults ...
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 ...

WSJ: U.S. Opens Tobacco Industry Suit

By overwhelming majorities, we say that ultimately the decision to smoke or not should be a personal one that adults are free to make ...
Weinstein of United States District Court, said he would preside over a huge trial that would not evaluate individual claims for compensation ...

DOJ Charges 'Flat-Out Lies' Opening Statements in Suit Against Tobacco Industry

Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ...
In California, the percentage of stores selling bidis has nearly tripled since 1997, but remains relatively small, roughly 1 percent of all outlets that stock tobacco products, state surveys show ...

Tobacco Industry Admits Mistakes As Defense Opens in Racketeering Case

Airport General Manager Benjamin DeCosta agrees Atlanta's airport should be smoke-free ...
courts relating to the tobacco companies' exports or activities and investments abroad ...
Require the tobacco companies to contribute $10 billion annually to the World Health Organization or other agreed upon international agencies for ...
lawyer Robert McDermott said there is still no conclusive proof that secondhand smoke causes disease ...

Witnesses Quizzed on Dangers of Second Hand Smoke in Federal Racketeering Case

The tobacco companies deny they conspired to promote smoking and say the government has no grounds to pursue them after they drastically changed marketing practices as part of a 1998 settlement with state attorneys general ...
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 ...
and a claim that the regulations violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution ...
The sentence is the latest development in a bitter and long-running battle between Silvius and her ex-husband, Steven Silvius, over custody of their children, ages 10 and 8 ...

Appeals Court May Prevent from Using Key Memo As Evidence in Racketeering Case

The reasoning of 16-year-old Joe Binder of Lisle is typical of teenagers who opt for a once-obscure variety of Indian cigarettes called "bidis ...
The West Virginia Supreme Court upheld yesterday a jury's decision that the tobacco industry should not have ...
The ruling by the appeals court here allows BAT to claim attorney-client privilege, possibly preventing the memo from being used in the case ...

Secondhand Smoke Key Issue in $280B Racketeering Case Against Big Tobacco

This is landmark legislation that embodies a bipartisan compromise between my committee's ranking member, Rep ...
So far, more than 100 nations have signed the treaty, which will go into effect when 40 nations have ratified it ...
Nationwide, about 80 million bidis were sold in 1998 according to the Specialty Tobacco Council ...