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New Maine Cigarette Tax Increase Predicted to Drop Sales

In recent years, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and other cities have enacted sweeping bylaws restricting tobacco use, and Nunavut is following suit ...
Today, the Italian brothers are grossing about $100 million (?83 million) in annual sales and stoking the ire of both Big Tobacco and the Big Apple ...
Teenagers have long been regarded as the age group most vulnerable to the addictive lure of cigarettes, and a new report compiling five years of studies from a UC Irvine tobacco research program provides details why this is very likely true ...

Study: Passive Smoking Sickens Students

Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path ...
A study of almost 2,000 pupils at schools in southern California showed some were up to four times more likely to miss classes due to respiratory illness than those from smoke -free homes ...
Supporters said a beach smoking ban was needed to limit litter and prevent wildlife from eating toxic cigarette butts ...
The bill by Assemblyman Paul Koretz, D-West Hollywood, passed the Senate Natural Resources Committee, 6-3, after it was amended to allow local governments more flexibility ...

Faith Leaders Urge Congressional Candidates To Support Legislation to Grant FDA Authority Over Tobacco

Now the cigarette industry and the city are trying to snuff out the Messinas' business model ...
At the start of the ``Brainstorming'' session on April 11, 1980, Dr ...
and deceived the American public, including smoke rs and the young people they avidly sought as 'replacement smoke rs,' about the devastating health effects of smoking and environmental tobacco smoke ...
Taking the reader inside the once-impregnable industry, the papers disclose ...
com, an online cigarette shop run out of a duty-free zone in the Swiss Alps ...

Message of Sympathy for War-Stricken Lebanese

The official later conferred with Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, a Hezbollah chief in southern Lebanon ...
Head of the Center for Women and Family Affairs Zohreh Tabibzadeh Nouri arrived in Beirut to discuss with high-ranking ...
Tabibzadeh Nouri was also to visit houses, hospitals and other places ruined in the course of missile and bomb strikes against that country ...
The center’s chief held direct talks with families of those martyred, wounded and displaced during the Israeli invasion ...

Smoking Bans Going Global

Also in health-conscious California, communities are starting to consider bills that would ban smoking in outdoor public places such as parks and beaches ...
The Health Ministry definitely favors the ban, warning that smoking kills 66,000 Frenchmen prematurely every year ...
The latest ASH newsletter states: "Restrictions on smlking to guarantee smoke free air for non smoke rs are spreading and are proving to be very effective and well-received ...
Nor have most European countries, though Ireland, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Norway, and Sweden have enacted restrictions and France is trying to follow ...

More cities may copy Dublin rule

That viewpoint smacks of paternalism to Sullum, one of his chief objections to anti-smoking laws ...
Beleaguered smoke rs, forced to extinguish their cigarettes on planes, in restaurants and bars — and increasingly, even on streets and in parks — until recently could at least count on relaxing with a smoke once they got home ...
Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health, a Washington, D ...
In common law, a nuisance interferes with public health or a person's safety, peace or convenience ...

Chesy schools hope to nix tobacco

Some people think we are starting in the schools and then we are going to try to move into people's homes ...
Chesapeake schools have been awarded a three-year grant by the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation for a study to examine what needs to be done to make a tobacco-free campus a possibility ...
We think that starting with the youth can be a positive influence on adults ...
Research shows that children learn and retain information better in non-smoking environments, said Molly Stevens, prevention coordinator at the Family Guidance Center, who administers the state smoke -free grant locally ...

Tobacco's billion-dollar empire

The shares, the shareholders It's a long, long way from the tiny smoke stands at Six Nations to the German army ...
Based on that figure, it suggests Grand River Enterprises has sold at least $1 billion worth of tobacco products over the past decade as a licensed ...
Montour stated in a court affidavit that he would receive 50 per cent of the net profits of the Nebraska tobacco facility in exchange for providing ...
He pointed out that a number of shareholders or their family members had built up about $14 million in accounts receivable by 2004, a figure that had grown substantially from 2002 ...
Hill, the company's senior marketing officer, and Jerry Montour, the CEO, are the two principal founding partners of GRE, and they now describe themselves in a legal document as the company's controlling shareholders ...

Gay/Lesbian sexual orientation increases risk for cigarette smoking and heavy drinking among members of a large Northern California health plan

First, despite the fact that our study had relatively large samples of lesbians and gay men compared with previous random sample population-based surveys, the numbers of ...
Otis MD, Skinner WF: The prevalence of victimization and its effect on mental well-being among lesbian and gay people ...
However, after adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, and education (see Table 2), lesbians were significantly more likely to be smoke rs (OR: 1 ...