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Senate Committee to Hold Hearing on Smoking in Movies

The money would also help offset $100 billion in proposed new Pentagon spending over the next six years ...
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 ...
For the third time this year, he took his case to the airwaves, using his weekly radio address today to ...
Tomorrow, the issue of whether Hollywood glamorizes smoking , and thus encourages teen s to adopt the habit, will be the subject of a Senate Commerce Committee hearing called by Sen ...
Although running scared from some courtrooms, Big Tobacco's persistence and deviousness are alive and thriving ...

New Study: First Exposure to Nicotine May Change Adolescents' Brain And Behavior

Until now, little evidence has supported the theory that tobacco companies use movies as advertising vehicles ...
Some young people are social smokers, lighting up only at parties or when they go out ...
These earlier studies have shown that teen s develop symptoms of dependence after minimal tobacco exposure and that those who smoke daily as teen s will more likely have difficulty quitting than those who start as adults ...
Although running scared from some courtrooms, Big Tobacco's persistence and deviousness are alive and thriving ...

New Evidence that Teens are Most Vulnerable to Smoking Addiction

An industry spokesman said the tobacco companies would vigorously contest the tobacco increase ...
The First Lady and I have just returned, exhausted but exhilarated, from our trip to Africa ...
The Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center at UCI is one of seven centers in the United States established to study the factors involved with one of the nation's health crises: teen smoking ...

More Teen One-Timers Getting Hooked

One in three high school students who try smoking even once develop a daily habit before they graduate, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday ...
An industry spokesman said the tobacco companies would vigorously contest the tobacco increase ...
The new tax, if enacted, would raise $8 billion a year over the next five years and would be ...
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 ...

UK Health Development Agency Releases Briefing on Teen Smoking Prevention

Seventy percent of students surveyed said they had tried cigarettes at least once ...
Once the politically popular bill cleared its first hurdle Wednesday, tobacco companies balked and warned that the added costs could bankrupt the industry ...
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 ...
This is the first time that systematic review level evidence on tackling smoking has been brought together in one comprehensive publication ...
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 ...

Act of Smoking as Addictive as Nicotine

The National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation contributed nearly $85 million in funding support ...
When the technician counted down Researchers follow the path of compulsion and find that the act of smoking is just as compelling as the drug ...
It's against the rules to smoke on school grounds, so the girls crossed E ...
5 percent of Hispanics who tried cigarettes eventually smoked daily ...
They also are expected to argue that while $206 billion sounds like a large sum, a substantial portion of the proceeds will pay attorneys' fees and the remainder will not cover all the health-care costs of treating tobacco-related illnesses ...

Where to Get DC Tax Free Cigs? The Senate and House Office Buildings

We want to put them out of the business of selling cigarettes to kids ...
75 percent sales tax on top of that -- especially while lawmakers increasingly look at cig-arette-tax increases as a way to reap new revenue while deterring smoking ...
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 ...

Washington Post: Smoke Gets in Their Eyes

They also are expected to argue that while $206 billion sounds like a large sum, a substantial portion of the proceeds will pay attorneys' fees and the remainder will not cover all the health-care costs of treating tobacco-related illnesses ...
By now, overwhelming evidence shows that smoking ravages your body, encourages fatal disease and shortens your life ...
We're not trying to put the tobacco companies out of business; we want to put them out of the business of selling cigarettes to kids ...

Loosies Still a Big Problem

White students were the most likely to become daily smokers after their first puff, at nearly ...
Whereas animals initially show no preference for either of two distinct compartments, they will later choose to spend more time in an environment in which they received a drug that has rewarding effects ...
While the much-touted national settlement affirms Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate nicotine as a drug, other language could curb ...
A teen also was able to buy cigarettes in Senate office buildings and the Capitol building ...
Tobacco use is one of the nation's leading health problems, killing more than 430,000 Americans and costing more than $38 billion in taxpayer dollars each year ...

Bidis Prove To Be A Serious Health Threat

Bidis (pronounced beedies), with their arresting aromas and frequently lower prices, have become the latest smoking fad among teen s and young adults, first in San Diego and Los Angeles and now Atlanta, Boston and other major cities ...
He leaned forward and placed his mouth on the filter of a lit cigarette encased in a network of glass tubes and wire ...
Now will Washington politicians have the courage to insist on something better for all Americans? Big tobacco is afraid to have ...
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; their comments here come from both sorts of contacts ...