| Title | Intro | Date |
| Nicotine patch rules condemned |
Health campaigners have attacked "myopic" regulations over the use of nicotine replacement therapies. |
12/12/01 |
| Internet Poses New Problems for Tobacco Control |
LONDON (Reuters) - Sales of cigarettes on the Internet are expected to soar in the coming decade and will pose new problems for tobacco controls to curtail underage smoking, researchers said on Monday. |
12/10/01 |
| Surprise may vote to ban smoking in public buildings |
Surprise is the latest Valley city to enter the war against secondhand smoke. |
12/09/01 |
| Counties' tobacco-prevention grades improve |
COMMITMENTS to tobacco-prevention programs by lawmakers in Ulster, Greene and Columbia counties have earned them passing grades in the American Lung Association's second annual tobacco settlement report cards. |
12/07/01 |
| Counties faulted on use of tobacco cash |
The regional chapter of the American Lung Association has given Washington County a failing grade on a "report card" assessing how counties are using money from the settlement of a multistate tobacco lawsuit. |
12/07/01 |
| Big Tobacco Accused of Destroying Evidence |
The tobacco industry illegally destroyed hundreds of thousands of documents that might have proved damaging in court, according to allegations in internal industry documents that were made public yesterday. |
12/07/01 |
| Recipients of tobacco funds set |
Programs to improve the health of minorities and children, plus raise Lincoln's readiness to address bioterrorism, will be funded from the local share of tobacco settlement money, Mayor Don Wesely said Monday. |
12/05/01 |
| Changes proposed in state's clean indoor air rules |
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has published a set of proposed changes to state rules that govern smoking in public places and places of work, opening a 30-day period for public comment on the new rules. |
12/05/01 |
| Health Group Targets Pregnant Smokers |
WASHINGTON –– It is estimated that at least 13 percent of pregnant women smoke, but health advocates hope a new ad campaign will help them kick the habit. |
12/04/01 |
| Smoking Has a Rapid Effect on Unborn Babies |
A pregnant woman's cigarette habit produces ill effects on her unborn baby so quickly that fetal "breathing" movements, easily measured by doctors, are reduced within five minutes after tobacco smoke enters the mother-to-be's lungs. |
12/04/01 |
| Scientists find gene linked to lung cancer |
A GENE has been identified that may help scientists understand the biology of lung cancer, it was disclosed yesterday. Although triggers such as tobacco tar and radioactive radon gas are known to be linked to lung cancer, little is understood of the genet |
12/04/01 |
| A View of Their Lung Damage May Help Smokers to Quit |
TOBACCO IS the single most avoidable cause of death. Yet by the end of this century, smoking, if unchecked, will kill a billion people. |
12/04/01 |
