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Cigarette Major Source of Beach Litter

Now, antitobacco activists have joined with coastal environmentalists to battle the problem of cigarette butts fouling beaches, play area s and estuaries ...
Like cigarettes and matches, burned-out butts and sand-filled ashtrays, the connection was so obvious nobody noticed - until recently ...

The "Bidi Buzz" Continues

Bidis are widely available in area tobacco stores, but a spot check failed to find them for sale at area convenience, grocery and other stores that sell tobacco products ...
The nicotine wallop they pack can produce the dizzy, light-headed, vaguely intoxicated sensation dubbed a said Dr ...
The Marlboro Man and Joe Camel probably don't feel threatened, but an Indian cigarette that is wrapped in a leaf and sold in enough flavors ...
They are also linked to the same health problems, including lung and oral cancers as regular cigarettes ...
Bidis are small, but federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials reported they release three to five times more tar and nicotine than regular cigarettes ...

Highlights Advantages of State Lawsuits Over Flawed Global Deal

It also shows how reluctant the industry is to have the truth about the lethal dangers of tobacco come out in a court of law ...
The industry, meanwhile, avoided the massive negative publicity generated by a trial that would have opened up 40 years of damaging internal documents to a jury in a case that was set to be televised live while Congress and the White House were considering the national deal ...
Moreover, the companies agreed, in writing, to assist Florida in enacting new laws designed to keep children from smoking ...
They are also linked to the same health problems, including lung and oral cancers as regular cigarettes ...

Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

The nation's cigarette companies on Monday agreed to pay Florida $ 11 ...
Like cigarettes and matches, burned-out butts and sand-filled ashtrays, the connection was so obvious nobody noticed - until recently ...

US News on Secret Tobacco Papers

It's like having four witnesses to an armed robbery instead of just two," said John Coale, a plaintiffs' lawyer specializing in tobacco litigation ...
Florida's historic victory demonstrates the significant public health gains that can be achieved through the individual state medicaid suits without having to give the tobacco industry major concessions such as those contained in the flawed global bailout now before Congress ...
The new reports spell out with great clarity the remarkable degree to which tobacco company lawyers controlled research into smoking and health, and the measures their clients took to conceal what they knew ...

Bill Takes Aim at Delivery of Tax-Free Cigarettes in Mail

McHugh, a Republican who represents upstate New York and who serves as a chairman of the House's Special Panel on Postal Reform and Oversight, would declare cigarettes ...
It's like having four witnesses to an armed robbery instead of just two," said John Coale, a plaintiffs' lawyer specializing in tobacco litigation ...
Bidis are small, but federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials reported they release three to five times more tar and nicotine than regular cigarettes ...

Smoking Around Kids is "Child Abuse"

I'd like to see what six months in a non- smoking foster home would do for the breathing of some of my pediatric asthma 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 Marlboro Man and Joe Camel probably don't feel threatened, but an Indian cigarette that is wrapped in a leaf and sold in enough flavors ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

Some parents tell me they only smoke outside or always roll the window down in the car when they smoke ...
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 industry also must remove cigarette-vending machines from any place accessible to children and remove tobacco advertising in sports arenas and on public buses and trains ...
And in one sense, the 39,000 tobacco industry documents released last week for all the world to see simply reinforced the impression of a business many Americans have come to despise ...

Cheyenne to decide fate of public smoking

CHEYENNE—The City Council tonight will decide whether Cheyenne becomes the second Wyoming town to ban smoking in public buildings ...
They are also linked to the same health problems, including lung and oral cancers as regular cigarettes ...
If we had the courage to do that, I'd be making fewer late-night trips to the emergency department and my littlest patients would be breathing easier ...
But the latest cigarette papers, which were subpoenaed and posted on the Internet by Virginia Republican Rep ...
McHugh, a Republican who represents upstate New York and who serves as a chairman of the House's Special Panel on Postal Reform and Oversight, would declare cigarettes ...

Mexico City's Smoking Population on the Rise as City Implements Tough Anti-Smoking Law

While smoking is losing popularity in the United States, it's on the rise in Mexico, where more than one-fourth of the population Mexico City passed a tough new no- smoking law, which says they can't light up in banks, hospitals, public buses, city offices, movie houses or concert halls ...
I see a scene like this unfold nearly every day in the office or hospital ...
I feel bad for the kids, but I don't miss dealing with their stubborn parents ...
The Florida settlement,therefore, should strengthen the resolve of other states and the U ...