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Canada Wants to Block Japanese Cigarettes

Then in 1991 he kicked the habit with the help of nicotine gum, which his doctor told him would help him over the biggest hurdle: the crucial first weeks when the vast majority of would-be quitters relapse ...
This sin tax is expected to raise $180 million in general funds for fiscal 2004 ...
Sharing an office with a chain smoker caused a Middletown physical education teacher's tonsillar cancer, entitling him to disability benefits, a worker's compensation judge has ruled ...
But the Grits rolled over and played dead, killing the private member's bill ...
3 cigar ette maker, may change some labeling in Canada and could be blocked there from selling its top brand after a regulator vowed to ban such words as ``mild'' and ``light'' on cigar ette packages ...

Japan Tobacco Markets Globally

In contrast, rats tested during the earliest adolescent stage showed a significant preference following one brief exposure to nicotine ...
This high-nicotine tobacco is used today by Brown Inside the restricted laboratory compound on the south coast of England, five senior scientists for B ...
Like many of his generation, he started with Liggett's Chesterfields, a popular wartime brand, according to documents filed in the case ...
should learn to look at itself as a drug company,'' he said, ``rather than a tobacco company ...

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

Punitive damages recovered from the companies, Judge Weinstein said in his ruling, could be distributed to ailing smokers and deceased smokers' families and used for treatment, research and anti smoking activities ...
Avrum Spira and colleagues found that 97 bronchial cell genes were expressed differently in smokers than in people who had never smoked ...
1976), Boyle said that employer are required to provide safe working conditions ...
Investigators for the tobacco companies asked her family's neighbors if they had ever seen Rossi fighting with his wife, she said ...

WSJ: U.S. Opens Tobacco Industry Suit

This was after Parliament passed a motion seeking compensation for persons whose health had been affected by tobacco ...
Sondervan, commissioner of correction for the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said he doesn't expect that the extra enforcement will be needed ...

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

Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
Victory, however, can be a loosely defined term in the court system, and even more so in tobacco cases ...
Justice Department began its $280 billion civil racketeering suit against cigar ette makers Tuesday by alleging "flat-out lies" over decades that "victimized the youth of America ...
Benowitz was testifying for 40,000 to one million sick Florida smokers claiming that U ...
No government can calculate with reports like that,'' said Otakar Cerny, spokesman for the Czech health ministry ...

Professor Says He Was Pressured to Be A Tobacco Advocate in Federal Racketeering Suit

But the bill also seeks to help adult smokers -- by empowering the FDA to develop programs to help them quit, regulate the way ...
But the products developed there by Bertram Eichel, a biochemist, were suppressed by the tobacco companies, which feared lawsuits from cancer sufferers if they learnt that the manufacturers knew ...
Well, pardon me if I think this is little more than smoke and mirrors ...
Georgetown University professor Sorell Schwartz, who studies the effects of drugs, said the Tobacco Institute urged him and other researchers during the 1980s to A pharmacology professor testifying in the U ...
Philip Morris officials have been passing around an economic analysis that came up with the delightful finding that the early death of smokers is good for the Czech economy ...

NY Times: Federal Racketeering Suit Against Tobacco Industry Draws Small but Dedicated Crowd

Judge Gladys Kessler of Federal District Court has given each side six months to convince her that the companies either have or have not conspired over 50 years to keep America smoking cigar ettes and addicted ...
The Tobacco Control Bill appears certain after Health Minister Charity Ngilu committed the Government to an anti-tobacco legislation ...
adults described themselves as smokers in 2002, down slightly from 22 ...
The trade group for plaintiffs' lawyers, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, filed a brief backing the position of the tobacco companies, as did the American Cancer Society ...

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

And what was once a socially accepted behavior, freely enjoyed in public by close to half of Americans, is now frowned upon as a serious health risk, practiced increasingly in private ...
should learn to look at itself as a drug company,'' he said, ``rather than a tobacco company ...
Filed in Newark in February 1984, it passed through the hands of four district judges, three magistrate judges and dozens of attorneys ...
Dealing a setback to the government in its $280 billion lawsuit against the tobacco industry, a federal appeals court made ...

How Acute and Reversible are the Cardiovascular Risks of Secondhand Smoke?

Notwithstanding the substantial clinical and experimental evidence regarding the adverse cardiovascular effects of exposure to secondhand smoke, some have argued that an association between low level environmental exposures and health outcomes should be more critically evaluated, particularly when the relative risk for the exposure is below 2 ...
The tobacco companies said they did not want to make the change until early 2006, when they will be ...
The state will pay the installation costs for current agricultural water-use permit holders ...

New Laws In 1999 - Tobacco Free Kids Are One Aim

And so it goes in the government's $280 billion racketeering trial against the tobacco industry: another witness, another exhibit ...
1: a desire to protect people - especially kids - from the effects of tobacco and alcohol, including drunken drivers ...
In a report released ahead of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the WHO said studies found that the poor tend to smoke the most ...
The ruling by Judge James Boyle appears to be the first in New Jersey to extend compensation for second-hand-smoke exposure beyond lung cancer ...