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smoking is bad for your health
| 1 | Antismoking Efforts Should Target Adults Too we really need to use all the methods we can to reduce or prevent smoking ...
Campaign efforts should be directed towards adults instead, they suggest ... |
| 2 | Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of students from other racial/ethnic groups were too small ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
The national YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, used independent three-stage cluster samples for the 1991-2003 surveys to obtain cross-sectional data representative of public and private school students in grades 9-12 in all 50 states and the District of Columbia ...
CrossRef | ISI | MEDLINE Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States ...
1 One of the national health objectives for 2010 is to reduce the prevalence of current cigarette use among high school students to 16% (objective no ... |
| 3 | Study: Strategies to Reduce ETS Exposure to Infants Our results suggest that, independent of major confounding variables, banning smoking in the home significantly reduces infant exposure to environmental tobacco smoke but, as there are no data directly relating cotinine levels to risk of death, it is not possible to predict the likely effect of a reduction of this magnitude on the risk of sudden infant death ...
Campaign efforts should be directed towards adults instead, they suggest ...
T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ...
Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ... |
| 4 | Study: Most States Get Short End of Landmark Tobacco Agreement Rather, the MSA allocates percentage shares, which are purportedly based on each state's smoking population, related health care costs and other considerations ...
CrossRef | ISI | MEDLINE Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States ...
The group we studied was chosen to coincide with the peak age for sudden infant death syndrome ...
smoked cigarettes on 1 of the 30 days preceding the survey), and (3) current frequent cigarette use (i ...
T-tests were used to examine differences in current cigarette use in 2003 by sex, race/ethnicity, and grade ... |
| 5 | Read What the Judge Ruled, Then See The Docs Themselves Porter law firm memorandum regarding a possible public survey to show no need for stronger labelling on cigarette packaging regarding the dangers of smoking , the writers concluded that was a bad idea ...
Second, Plaintiffs argue that if some of the documents actually contain legal opinions of counsel in connection with litigation, then the crime-fraud exception applies ...
Four states made separate deals in the '90s worth roughly $40 billion _ which are combined with the MSA for the purpose of the study ... |
| 6 | Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns The group we studied was chosen to coincide with the peak age for sudden infant death syndrome ...
For each cross-sectional national survey, students completed an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire that included identically worded questions about cigarette use ...
The parents frequently used a combination of measures, making it difficult to determine the extent to which individual practices affect exposure ...
Officials can then establish policies that limit smoking without fear of reducing their revenue from the tobacco settlement ... |
| 7 | The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up Only a small proportion of respondents reported not knowing of any harm reduction measures or knowing of measures but not using them ...
Apparently the tobacco cases are an exception to that rule,'' Weber said ...
Any new rules would come at a time when smoking cigars is on the rise ...
Reducing the exposure of infants to tobacco smoke is likely to be important in preventing sudden infant death as there is a close association between the two ...
The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ... |
| 8 | Cigarette Major Source of Beach Litter leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
Last year, according to the American Lung Association, 38 percent of movies included a cigar scene ... |
| 9 | Tobacco Documents Show Industry Intentionally Discounted Health Risks Indeed, objective readers can now see for themselves that these documents are not even material to the case at hand, let alone evidence that could prove the state's case,'' the statement said ...
Second, Plaintiffs argue that if some of the documents actually contain legal opinions of counsel in connection with litigation, then the crime-fraud exception applies ...
Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of students from other racial/ethnic groups were too small ...
Evidence exists showing that the tobacco industry has intentionally denied or minimized the health risks smoking poses to the public, a Ramsey County district judge has said in a recently unsealed ruling in Minnesota's tobacco litigation ... |
| 10 | Attorneys Attack Youth Smoking Tobacco companies were expected to stall the release of the documents just as they did with the Liggett papers, Gentry said ...
Without this year's tax increases, as many as 20 billion more cigarettes would have been consumed by the end of next year, he estimated ... |
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