IN THE MAIL: Money, not children, motivates state
Grand Forks Herald - The local and national communities are pointing the way to prevention of a major public health hazard: second-hand smoke. Our City Council members led the way last year by strengthening the state law with a local ordinance. Perhaps, we can begin to
Challenge to smoking ban dismissed
State Journal-Register - The “smoking ban” doesn’t mean a smoker is banned from smoking, it means the risk associated with second-hand smoke will be significantly reduced. If you smoke, you can still smoke in your bedroom, your bathroom, your kitchen, basement, garage
A history lesson for Koizumi
Taipei Times - If Nakasone, who now urges Koizumi to stop the Yasukuni pilgrimage, were to respond to Aso, he might simply extend the analogy: it is not in Japan’s national interest to continue to inhale Koizumi’s second-hand smoke. Wenran Jiang ( D M ) is
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Orlando Sentinel - According to INTERHEART researchers, all forms of tobacco triple the increase in heart attack risk. The global study looked at smoking, chewing tobacco, sheesha, beedies and second hand smoke, and found there is no safe tobacco use when it comes to
Judge Drops Gavel on Tobacco Companies
Retail Wire - lied, misrepresented and deceived the American public, including smokers and the young people they avidly sought as ‘replacement smokers,’ about the devastating health effects of smoking and environmental tobacco smoke (second-hand smoke
Cigarette makers lose racketeering case
Monsters and Critics - She also ordered the defendants to issue corrective statements in various media about how dangerous cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke is and how the industry designed cigarettes to be as addictive as possible. Kessler said the case ‘was about an
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Monsters and Critics - She also ordered the defendants to issue corrective statements in various media about how dangerous cigarette smoking and second-hand smoke is and how the industry designed cigarettes to be as addictive as possible. Kessler said the case ‘was about an
Group behind smoking ban withdraws
Farmington Daily Times - However [t]hese provisions affect employees with the smallest voice and the greatest exposure to second-hand smoke. These are the employees that we are trying the hardest to protect,” according to the statement. One amendment, suggested by City