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Pregnant Smokers Have Aggressive Kids

Women who smoke when pregnant are more likely to have agressive children ...
The children hit more, they grab toys from other children, and they're antisocial, according to Dr ...
The scentists call on governments to do more to help mothers stop smoking ...

Highlights Serious Flaw in Tobacco Deal

Lauren Wakschlag, of the University of Chicago Hospital's Child Psychiatry Department ...
appears to have had a detailed procedure for passing sensitive research documents through attorneys to protect the cigarette maker against lawsuits, according to a 1985 company memo ...
Women who smoke when pregnant are more likely to have agressive children ...

Highlights Advantages of State Lawsuits Over Flawed Global Deal

Moreover, the companies agreed, in writing, to assist Florida in enacting new laws designed to keep children from smoking ...
The Florida settlement came in the fourth week of jury selection in the case, and less than ...
3 billion over 25 years to settle the state's massive suit against the industry--one of the largest court-approved settlements in U ...

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Wants Big Tobacco to Run Ads Admitting They Misled Smokers

Following are excerpts on the Florida settlement from various news reports ...
Women who smoke when pregnant are more likely to have agressive children ...
ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel recently met with tobacco executives and asked them to pay for a community education campaign about the harmful effects of smoking , and to stop using by year's end the terms light and mild ...
The memo appears to provide a missing link in one of the central accusations against the tobacco industry: that to shield documents from becoming public in court proceedings, companies funneled sensitive research documents through their lawyers, according to Stanton Glantz, an anti-tobacco activist at the University of California who provided the memo to The Washington Post ...

EDITORIAL: Help Keep Children Smoke-Free

Reynolds made key concessions about the possible hazards of their products ...
Why do children smoke? Well, that's the million-dollar question, isn't it? Peer pressure? Bad role models? A belief that it is cool? Mixed messages? A feeling that they are bullet-proof? An inability of the youthful brain to gauge consequences ...
Since we can't stop the adults from smoking , how can we expect to stop the kids ...
The children hit more, they grab toys from other children, and they're antisocial, according to Dr ...
The industry also must remove cigarette-vending machines from any place accessible to children and remove tobacco ...

Med Students Are Not Taught to Counsel Tobacco Using Patients

The companies pledged to remove all their billboards near schools and playgrounds within 45 days and all billboards in the state within five months ...
The two-page memorandum describes a system for ensuring that all but the most noncontroversial documents passing between Brown ...
The Florida settlement came in the fourth week of jury selection in the case, and less than ...
One result is that the rate of cigarette smoking has not declined in the United States in more than five years, with about one in four people still smoking , according to Linda Ferry, a doctor on the faculty of the Loma Linda Schools of Medicine in California ...
That's the conclusion of a report made public at an international conference on aggression in Montreal ...

ASH Quoted As 2 MI Companies Announce Non-Smoking Policies for Employees

The tobacco companies said they did not want to make the change until early 2006, when they will be forced to put new graphic health warnings on packaging, a delay Mr Samuel said was unacceptable ...
Its also will provide classes to help employees stop smoking next month ...
A recent analysis by the Licking County Juvenile Court revealed that Newark's middle-school children on the average smoke more than their counterparts in the rest of the state and nation ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

The industry also must remove cigarette-vending machines from any place accessible to children and remove tobacco ...
A variety of products have come on the market in recent years, promoted to help people stop smoking or reduce tobacco usage ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission wants tobacco companies to run advertisements admitting they may have misled and deceived smokers by using the words mild and light on cigarette packets ...

Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

Where do kids get their cigarettes? Cigarette machines in public places aren't nearly as plentiful as they once were ...
Following are excerpts from the Washington Post report on the memorandum: The Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co ...
That study showed that nearly 30 percent of Newark's sixth-graders and 50 percent of eight-graders have ...

President Pressures Industry on Radio

We would hope that local stores card people before selling cigarettes and other tobacco products ...
Congress to find out just what the tobacco industry is hiding before the flawed tobacco bailout goes any further ...
The Florida settlement came in the fourth week of jury selection in the case, and less than ...
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 ...
This week's progress in the Senate shows that we have real momentum in both parties'' to stop tobacco companies from selling to minors and to protect them from the ``cruel and deadly lure of smoking ,'' he said ...