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2 hrs ago | Red Deer Advocate

Alberta passes bill allowing it to sue tobacco companies for health costs

Health groups are celebrating after a bill was passed allowing the Alberta government to sue tobacco companies for health-care costs associated with tobacco-related diseases.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health

6 hrs ago | News-Messenger

Fewer Ohioans lighting up than in past

Confronted with a public smoking ban, higher sin taxes and more anti-smoking efforts, fewer Ohioans are lighting up.

4 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Ohio, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

10 hrs ago | Gouverneur Times

Ky. universities expand smoking, tobacco bans

The tobacco ban at the University of Kentucky includes outdoor areas and applies to chew, pipes, cigars and snuff as well as cigarettes.

6 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY, University of Louisville, Pikeville College

14 hrs ago | The Indianapolis Star

Purdue modifies smoking ban

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University has backed away from a total ban on smoking on its main campus and instead will limit it to specific areas while prohibiting smoking in university motor vehicles.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, West Lafayette, IN, Lafayette Metro, Purdue University, Ball State University

18 hrs ago | Science Daily

Study raises concerns about outdoor second-hand smoke

The study, thought to be the first to assess levels of a nicotine byproduct known as cotinine in nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke outdoors, found levels up to 162 percent greater than in the control group.

7 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, University of Georgia, Nicotine, NicoDerm, Nicotine (generic), Medication

Thu Nov 19, 2009

CBS4

Fla. Jury Awards $300 Million In Ex-smoker's Suit

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Related Topix: Fort Lauderdale Metro, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Miami Metro, Medicine, Health

ClipSyndicate

IHC Hospitals ban smoking

MURRAY, Utah - The signs are proudly displayed all over Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.

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Related Topix: Murray, UT, Medicine, Health, Video

KansasCity.com

Tobacco state Ky.'s biggest university bans leaf

The largest university in the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky and home to a tobacco research center is banning all smoking on campus.The University of Kentucky imposed a strict tobacco-free policy Thursday that applies everywhere on the sprawling campus in Lexington.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, University of Kentucky, Agriculture, Science

Cw56.com

Study: Mass. program helps poor stop smoking

A state Public Health Department study shows that smoking rates among low-income Massachusetts residents who participated in a state program to treat tobacco addiction dropped dramatically.

1 comment

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

WXYZ

Great American Smokeout

November 19 is the American Cancer Society's "Great American Smokeout". The day is set aside to help people quit using orbacco products for at least one day in the hope that they will continue and be successful in quitting for good.

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Related Topix: Michigan, Michigan Government, Medicine, Health, Lung Cancer

Wed Nov 18, 2009

National Post

Toddlers, obese children most at risk from second-hand smoke: study

Researchers have found that risks to the health of obese children and toddlers from second-hand smoke are far greater than for other groups of children.

9 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Health

WSMV-TV Nashville

Quit Smoking Line Helps 33,000

State health officials said more than 33,000 calls have been received at a toll-free line created more than three years ago to help Tennesseans quit smoking.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Tennessee, Tennessee Government

KPDX-TV Beaverton

Smokers More Likely To Suffer Seizures

People who smoke are more likely to have seizures than those who don't, while caffeine and alcohol do not increase the chances, according to a new study.

3 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Nursing

WLS-TV Chicago

Cancer study seeks smokers, ex-smokers

Chicago researchers are seeking current and former smokers for a study on early detection of lung cancer.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Chicago Metro, Lung Cancer, Rush University

The Redmond Reporter

Great American Smokeout planned for Nov. 19

As the official sponsor of birthdays, the American Cancer Society marks the 34th Great American Smokeout on Thursday, Nov.

4 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Charitable Organizations, Lung Cancer

KIVI-TV Nampa

Help your teen quit smoking

The sooner you help your teenager to quit, the better. Smoking in the teenage years causes dramatic and lifelong DNA damage in the lungs, according to one study.

2 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Lung Cancer

Tue Nov 17, 2009

The Orlando Sentinel

Did $1-a-pack tax get smokers to quit - or get more creative?

Did $1-a-pack tax get smokers to quit - or get more creative? Was the $1-a-pack tax increase on cigarettes a good idea? Sales of cigarettes have plunged since the state's tax increase took effect.

22 comments

Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Florida State University, Coconut Creek, FL, Miami Dade County, FL, Volusia County, FL

Newswise

Smoking Cessation Program Offers Childhood Cancer Survivors Help to Quit the Habit

As smokers nationwide struggle to quit the habit, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is offering assistance to those childhood cancer survivors who need help with smoking cessation.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry

Physics Blog

Bladder cancer risks increase over time for smokers

Risk of bladder cancer for smokers has increased since the mid-1990s, with a risk progressively increasing to a level five times higher among current smokers in New Hampshire than that among nonsmokers in 2001-2004, according to a new study published online November 16 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, bladder cancer, Charitable Organizations, Bethesda, MD, Nicotine, NicoDerm, Nicotine (generic), Medication, University of South Carolina

Conservative News Service

Tobacco Companies Find A Way Around Democratsa Plan to Sock Them With Much Higher Taxes

With a simple marketing twist, tobacco companies are avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxes by exploiting a loophole in President Barack Obama's child health law.

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Related Topix: Marketing, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Albany, NY, Medicine, Health

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