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Mankato Free Press - 1) A researcher at the Minnesota Cancer Center reported in January finding amounts of the carcinogen NNK, most likely from tobacco smoke, in toenail clippings of smokers (and nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke). (2) A researcher writing in the
Bill seeks to ban smoking in bars
Bismarck Tribune - STERLING - Paul Reed doesn’t smoke while he’s on the job digging water wells. But when the workday is done, he enjoys spending time in a bar with a beer and a pack of cigarettes. Reed, 48, of Moffit, doesn’t appreciate that the Legislature might
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WSTM - laws are not going to make them quit. –Don -I support a ban on smoking in cars where children are present. If someone forced his or her child to smoke cigarettes, the law would likely consider this to be child abuse. We know that second hand smoke
Good work, Denise
Pahrump Valley Times - Agreed, you and approximately 20 percent of the population have lost your smoking freedom in places where it affects people who have medical problems and for other reasons, such as we just can’t stand second-hand smoke. But the other 80 percent of the
Wonderlust looks at airborne toxins
Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Second hand smoke, coal bed methane, burning tires, mining and industrial pollution arouse strong feelings. Is it possible for us to separate the facts from hysterical political rhetoric? Can we trust our state and national government to monitor
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Victorville Daily Press - remember, signed on a long time ago to banning smoking in public places (which are owned, theoretically, by all citizens, smokers and abstainers alike, and thus should be free of dominance by the fringe left s paranoia about second hand smoke
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MediaChannel.org - Singer has also been a spokesperson for the tobacco industry and has written op-ed pieces on the junk science of second-hand smoke hazards. The other guest was Dennis Avery. Avery is probably best known for his misleading claim that organic