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Fire-safe cigarettes may ease one risk of smoking in Oklahoma
NewsOK.com, OK - Dec 29, 2008
Cigarette manufacturing representatives have told him the tobacco and paper used in the fire-safe cigarettes are the same, so the taste shouldn?t change, ...

Tobacco case set to resume Monday
BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - Jan 4, 2009
... contends that Reynolds has marketed Eclipse, a cigarette that heats rather than burns tobacco, as safer than conventional cigarettes despite having no ...

East Grinstead traders hit out at tobacco display plans
thisiseastgrinstead.co.uk, UK - Jan 5, 2009
A BAN on the display of cigarettes in shops will do nothing to stop under-age smoking, the town's tobacconists believe. Retailers in East Grinstead say the ...

Proposed Tobacco Tax
The Ledger, FL - 16 hours ago
Anti-tobacco zealots have a new cause bringing them out of the woodwork - the $1 per pack tax. For the record, I am not a smoker. Remember the smoking-ban ...

Smoking Down In Iowa, Tobacco Sales Up In Nebraska
KCAU, IA - Jan 3, 2009
But for some it's a hard habit to kick, and for one Iowa business its hard to believe that less people are smoking. Cashier Traci Heath says tobacco sales ...

State Journal

2009 Is a Tough Year to Quit Smoking
eFluxMedia - 10 hours ago
However, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health?s Office of Tobacco Control, the most important element in the equation is to also seek ...
You can stop smoking in 2009 Natchez Democrat
West Virginia Failing to Snuff Out Smokers' Addiction State Journal
Smokers' struggle to quit is even harder during tough times HeraldNet
The Wenatchee World Online - Jack County Herald
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Butts out at Brevillier
GoErie.com, PA - Jan 5, 2009
Brevillier Village is banning smoking on its property, inside and outside. The nursing home is just the latest health-care facility to prohibit tobacco use ...

Washington Times

STIER/RODU: To stop going up in smoke
Washington Times, DC - 18 hours ago
The bill ignores science-based tobacco harm reduction involving substituting safer smokeless tobacco products for cigarettes. Tobacco harm reduction has ...

Hospital Starts Smoking Ban
Tampa Tribune, FL - Dec 31, 2008
For 24 years, Siver had been puffing a pack of cigarettes a day. Her children, Gabby, 12, and Jordan, 9, were her stop-smoking inspiration. ...
When the smoke clears, you'll feel healthier Ithaca Journal
Get Help To Stop Smoking For The New Year MSNBC
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Need a smoke indoors? This might be the fix
Southtown Star, IL - Jan 4, 2009
Because they don't involve burning tobacco and there's no secondhand smoke, the e-cigarettes don't violate Illinois' indoor smoking ban, said Melanie Arnold ...

Fresh News

Bar owner: Smoking ban doesn't legally apply to cigarettes
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Dec 30, 2008
And, Brown said, the smoking ban specifically applies only to tobacco products. "I want them to enforce the language as it's written, which means we would ...
Smoking no longer allowed at Utah bars Daily Herald
Bars take hit as noose tightens on smoking in public Calgary Herald
Smoking in Utah bars to be outlawed at midnight LocalNews8.com
KUTV - ABC 4
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BBC News

Warning over 'third hand smoke'
BBC News, UK - 14 hours ago
When you smoke - any place - toxic particulate matter from tobacco smoke gets into your hair and clothing. There is plenty of evidence that "second-hand" ...
Third-Hand Smoke: Dangerous For Health eFluxMedia
"Third-Hand" Smoke Latest Find as Cigarettes Present yet Another ... Associated Content
Third hand smoke dangerous for children KLTV
MedHeadlines - NHS Choices
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Greene County Daily World

Eastern Greene student wins tobacco prevention poster contest
Greene County Daily World, In - Jan 5, 2009
They actually get to see how tar gets into a lung from smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for a year," she explained. The program also involved some ...

Tax increase on cigarettes contributes to decrease in smoking
Oshkosh Northwestern, WI - Dec 28, 2008
Now one year after the tax increase, statistics show a considerable growth in state revenue brought in by tobacco products. Even with revenue growth, ...
Prepared to quit: A family success story Reporter-Times
How he kicked a 3-pack-a-day habit Muncie Star Press
$1 cigarette tax not forcing as many to quit as hoped Hudson Star Observer
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Smoking ban irks some
Clackamas Review, OR - 7 hours ago
Carolyn Tomei spent six years trying to pass the bill By Matthew Graham Bar patrons and restaurateurs had to stamp out their cigarettes for good last week ...

READERS RESPOND
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription), IL - 5 hours ago
I?ve just been smoking 4 cigarettes a day. I am committed to stopping smoking, but I just keep putting off the day. I?m having trouble setting the date ...

No smoking: Teen smoking rates drop. Time for legislation to help ...
FayObserver.com, NC - Jan 1, 2009
... an additional $124.3 billion in taxes from tobacco sales. The more cigarettes that companies like Philip Morris sell, the more money the states take in. ...

John Gaines/The Hawk Eye
Burlington Hawk Eye,  United States - Jan 4, 2009
He said he puts out cigarettes, even when strangers ask him to stop smoking in their vicinity. "You'll find a lot of people are not as courteous as that," ...

TORLAKSON NEW CIGARETTE TAX WOULD RAISE $2 BILLION FOR CALIFORNIA ...
SanFranciscoSentinel.com, CA - 8 hours ago
The money would go toward education, children?s healthcare and programs to help people stop smoking. ?As we confront the difficult decisions facing us ...

Butting out
Fort Saskatchewan Record, Canada - 10 hours ago
A local tobacconist says the province has dropped the ball with their rules on tobacco sales considering many retailers can sell cigarettes without ...


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