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Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

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U.S. Surgeon General Releases Comprehensive Report on Smoking and Health

and Chuck Burson, who was formerly president of NAAG, now the Vice President Counsel ...
Carmona today released a new comprehensive report on smoking and health, revealing for the first time that smoking causes diseases in nearly every organ of the body ...

France Likely to Classify Alcohol and Tobacco as "Dangerous Drugs"

Mothers-to-be will undergo a 40-minute session with a doctor who will effectively order them to stop smoking , while doctors prescribing the birth-control pill will have to give their patients a similar talking-to ...
Doing so will release vast sums of government money to suppress the consumption of two legal ...
clinics are to be established in hospitals, and 3,000 doctors nationwide are to be given special training in anti-tobacco counseling ...
Some 5 million French men and women can be classified as excessive drinkers and 2 million as alcoholics ...
and Chuck Burson, who was formerly president of NAAG, now the Vice President Counsel ...

Nicotine Yes, Tobacco No

Then in 1991 he kicked the habit with the help of nicotine gum, which his doctor told him would help him over the biggest hurdle: the crucial first weeks when the vast majority of would-be quitters relapse ...
Seven years after he traded two or three packs of cigarettes each day for a dozen pieces of the gum called Nicorette, the retired paper mill manager finds himself saddled with another habit he'd like to break ...
per cigarette For 55 years, Clarence Heidemann couldn't imagine life without cigarettes ...
and Chuck Burson, who was formerly president of NAAG, now the Vice President Counsel ...

Washington Post: Smoke Gets in Their Eyes

Martin Jarvis, professor emeritus of health psychology at University College London's department of epidemiology and public health, has spent 27 years trying to figure smokers out; he published his You see them huddled against the wind outside office buildings, cupping hands to protect tiny flames ...
Nicotrol Nasal Spray: Each dose consists of 1 spray per nostril and contains 1 mg ...
And these facts are well publicized, indeed unavoidable: Well-funded anti- smoking campaigns have succeeded in painting the once-glamorized habit as dirty, smelly, costly and unsexy ...
Seven years after he traded two or three packs of cigarettes each day for a dozen pieces of the gum called Nicorette, the retired paper mill manager finds himself saddled with another habit he'd like to break ...

Series Of Tobacco-Perception Polling Articles From The Public Perspective

Contemporary opposition to the growth of government, including tax hikes, together with long-standing commitments to individual choice and individual responsibility, came together, then, to make the tobacco bill anything but a winner in the court of public opinion ...
I don't think I'm addicted to it," said Heidemann, who chomps on the bitter, dun-colored gum every day ...
Results of both governmental and private medical research on smoking have led to increased public awareness of the risks involved, and to increased government restrictions on the sale and use of tobacco ...

Poll Shows Smokers Want to Quit

Shortly after cigarette ads were banned on TV and radio in 1969, two-thirds of Americans in a Louis Harris and Associates survey rated Congress' work in this area as legislatively, but that's where American opinion is vis-a-vis the tobacco industry - ...
The survey included 862 current smokers interviewed by telephone between July 14 and August 12, 1998, and repeated many of the same questions asked of a random sample of 1,032 smokers five years earlier, between July 10 and August 10, 1993, in order to examine the change in attitudes and behaviors in smokers over the period between surveys ...
An additional 287 former smokers (quitters) were interviewed during the July- August 1998 period ...
Of those interested in quitting, 18 percent say that concern that their children will start smoking is the most important reason that they want to quit (compared to 13 percent in 1993 ...
Of quitters polled, 59 percent quit 'cold turkey,' while 11 percent used nicotine replacement therapy (including OTC patch and gum, and prescription patch and gum ...

FCTC Off to Good Start

21 — In an atmosphere of unexpected harmony, officials representing nearly 150 governments laid the groundwork this week for a new global treaty that aims to control tobacco use and stamp out adolescent smoking ...
In many ways, the political community's misunderstanding of public views on the tobacco bill is an exact replay of its misreading of opinion ...
Results based on the full sample of smokers has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points ...
A public information program will be unleashed, targeting pregnant women and teenage girls ...

New Maine Cigarette Tax Increase Predicted to Drop Sales

Doing so will release vast sums of government money to suppress the consumption of two legal ...
Then in 1991 he kicked the habit with the help of nicotine gum, which his doctor told him would help him over the biggest hurdle: the crucial first weeks when the vast majority of would-be quitters relapse ...
Nicotrol Nasal Spray: Each dose consists of 1 spray per nostril and contains 1 mg ...
Smokers are also concerned that their children will pick up the habit ...

Kids Working Hard to Make Difference

Of quitters polled, 59 percent quit 'cold turkey,' while 11 percent used nicotine replacement therapy (including OTC patch and gum, and prescription patch and gum ...
SWAT members and others in the battle against tobacco use hope that efforts to expose the dangers of smoking in the intervening months will have a positive effect ...
Results based on the full sample of smokers has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points ...