free quit smoking program

Attorneys Ask for $1 Billion for Cessation Program in LA Tobacco Trial

A state district court jury will begin deliberating Wednesday the second phase of a long-running class-action suit ...
The plaintiffs include any Louisiana resident who smoked before the mid-1990s when the suit was filed ...
The plan would be administered by the court through a trust fund set up by the tobacco industry ...
They want a 25-year plan, costing about $45 million a year, that would pay for stop- smoking patches and gum, telephone hot lines, intensive counseling, advertising for the program , grants to churches and community groups to publicize the program , and training program s for quit - smoking counselors ...

France Likely to Classify Alcohol and Tobacco as "Dangerous Drugs"

A public information program will be unleashed, targeting pregnant women and teenage girls ...
The plaintiffs include any Louisiana resident who smoked before the mid-1990s when the suit was filed ...
The plan would be administered by the court through a trust fund set up by the tobacco industry ...
A state district court jury will begin deliberating Wednesday the second phase of a long-running class-action suit ...

Researchers Debate over the Safety of Smokeless Tobacco

Getting FDA approval requires time and expense, driving up prices ...
Doing so will release vast sums of government money to suppress the consumption of two legal but harmful substances that between them cause more than 120,000 French deaths a year ...
A growing number of anti- smoking researchers and public health advocates are adopting a tack that not long ago would have been considered heresy: suggesting that hard-core smokers who can't kick the habit would be better off switching to new smokeless tobacco products ...

Safer Cigarettes NOT Safe

The plan would be administered by the court through a trust fund set up by the tobacco industry ...
Doing so will release vast sums of government money to suppress the consumption of two legal but harmful substances that between them cause more than 120,000 French deaths a year ...
They maintain that independent research should be done on the new cigarettes to determine if they actually could reduce harm to smokers or work as a bridge to help the most addicted smokers quit ...

Researchers and Public Health Advocates Suggest Smokeless Tobacco Products to Smokers

A state district court jury will begin deliberating Wednesday the second phase of a long-running class-action suit ...
The plan would be administered by the court through a trust fund set up by the tobacco industry ...
Tobacco products are exempt from Food and Drug Administration regulation, while safer, pure medicinal products are subject to FDA scrutiny because they are considered to be drug (nicotine) delivery systems ...
Some 5 million French men and women can be classified as excessive drinkers and 2 million as alcoholics ...
Though no one is calling the products still light up each day despite aggressive public-education campaigns, heavy cigarette taxes to make them less affordable, significant social stigma and widespread smoking bans in public places ...

MI Smokers Brace for Tax Hike

PARIS -- Everyone's favorite caricature of the Frenchman -- baguette under arm, beret on head, Gauloise clamped to lower lip and glass of vin rouge in hand ...
In July, the same jury found that cigarette makers had deceived the public with an addictive product and schemed to market cigarettes to children ...
But the very notion of a safer cigarette appalls many tobacco-control advocates ...

U.S. Won't Ask Firms to Help Current Smokers Quit

Some 5 million French men and women can be classified as excessive drinkers and 2 million as alcoholics ...
Anti- smoking activists and industry lawyers ridiculed the government's description of its new cessation proposal ...
In a step no previous government has dared to take, the Socialist-led coalition of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin looks almost certain to place alcohol and tobacco in the same category as marijuana and heroin -- as dangerous drugs ...
The new cigarettes contain fewer nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carcinogens found in cigarette smoke, than premium cigarettes ...
A state district court jury will begin deliberating Wednesday the second phase of a long-running class-action suit ...

Tobacco Ads Impact Youth, Study Says

clinics are to be established in hospitals, and 3,000 doctors nationwide are to be given special training in anti-tobacco counseling ...
PARIS -- Everyone's favorite caricature of the Frenchman -- baguette under arm, beret on head, Gauloise clamped to lower lip and glass of vin rouge in hand ...
Tobacco products are exempt from Food and Drug Administration regulation, while safer, pure medicinal products are subject to FDA scrutiny because they are considered to be drug (nicotine) delivery systems ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Joe Camel may be gone, but cigarette makers are still coming up with ads that have a greater impact on young people than anti- smoking messages, said a study released Monday ...

How Parents Can Stop Teen Smoking

Justice Department officials refused to say how many people that may be, but the Department of Health and Human Services ...
In a step no previous government has dared to take, the Socialist-led coalition of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin looks almost certain to place alcohol and tobacco in the same category as marijuana and heroin -- as dangerous drugs ...
The plan would be administered by the court through a trust fund set up by the tobacco industry ...
Even those who have been smoking for several years can be helped to quit ...

Secondhand Smoke Endangering Children

The urgent warning was promoted this month by the Westmoreland County Tobacco- Free Youth Coalition and the American Cancer Society, with the March of Dimes providing the little garments ...
Don't believe that tobacco use is less dangerous than other risky behavior ...
The plaintiffs include any Louisiana resident who smoked before the mid-1990s when the suit was filed ...