Kentucky and Indiana together received an estimated $990 million this year from tobacco settlement money and tobacco taxes — but little of it is being spent on anti-smoking programs, according to a report by public health groups.
The Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) is a lawsuit lounge where food cops and trial lawyers swap strategies to litigate away consumers’ food choices.
We have no idea where the tobacco companies have been in the last two decades, when smoking bans have been passed globally, or why they rolled over in 1998 with the MSA but now they ticked off. <br />
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<p>The Obama administration on Tuesday appealed a U.S. judge’s ruling and injunction that blocked tobacco companies from having to display graphic images on cigarette packs and advertising, such as a man exhaling smoke through a hole in his throat.</p>
Just enacted a smoke free policy outdoors. Many are not happy with this ban, Alyssa Spizzirro, a student at WCC from Katonah, was critical of the school’s decision to prohibit a lifestyle choice.
<p>“I understand that they’re doing it to promote a healthy life, but it’s not really up to them” Spizzirro said. “We’re all adults and we’re all allowed to smoke and if they don’t want people to do that than they should live in a different society,”<br />
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ST. CHARLES COUNTY, MO • The latest push to let voters decide on a countywide smoking ban was extinguished Monday night by the St. Charles County Council. <br />
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The measure rejected Monday would have banned smoking in most indoor public places and workplaces in municipalities and unincorporated areas. The measure had a few exemptions but none for bars or tobacco stores.
<p>"An updated Missoula County Public Schools tobacco policy targets devices that are growing in popularity nationwide as smoking bans take hold everywhere: electronic vapor cigarettes".<br />
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While patches, gums and pills are allowed on school property, e-cigs are not. What is the difference? All are a direct delivery system of nicotine. Simple, they aren’t made by Big Pharma, if they had thought of the idea first it would be a different story!<br />
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Hyprocity at its best!<br />
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<p>If you have high levels of radon in your home, long-term exposure means you have a one-in-20 chance of developing lung cancer. <br />
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A smoker has a one-in-10 chance of developing lung cancer.<br />
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We have written about this before but it is good to remind people that smoking is not the only cause of lung and mouth cancer, other contributors are the HPV virus.</p>
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"HYPOCRITICAL EU politicians are puffing away inside the European Parliament while drawing up laws banning Brits from smoking".<br />
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The MEP’s ordered special sealed smoking rooms to be built at the taxpayer’s expense. The Parliament in Brussels has one large smoking room. And there are smoking booths for smokers dotted around the plush building.
DRINKING and SMOKING may save you from a blood cancer: the myeloma.