| Title | Intro | Date |
| Experts Recommend Overhaul of 'War on Cancer' |
WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - Congress should implement broad new legislation to recast the government's 30-year-old war on cancer, according to a report issued Wednesday on Capitol Hill. |
10/11/01 |
| One in Four Americans Smokes |
ATLANTA –– The number of American adults who smoke has hardly budged over the past several years, holding steady at roughly one in four. |
10/11/01 |
| Minnesota Stop-Smoking Efforts Leave Room for Improvement |
ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Minnesota is slightly more successful than the rest of the nation at reducing smoking among adults, based on a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report and a Minnesota survey of adult resident |
10/11/01 |
| Judge approves tobacco bond sale |
A judge approved the sale Tuesday of tobacco settlement bonds to give Louisiana up to $1.5 billion in immediate cash. |
10/10/01 |
| Wayne County seeks own tobacco suit |
DETROIT -- The Michigan Supreme Court expressed reluctance Tuesday in deciding whether Wayne County can sue tobacco companies after the state already settled with cigarette-makers. |
10/10/01 |
| Tobacco companies ask La. Supreme Court to throw out jury |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Tobacco companies have asked Louisiana's highest appeals court to throw out the entire jury picked for class-action lawsuit aimed at making the companies pay to monitor the health of current and former smokers. |
10/10/01 |
| Co. Says New Cigarette Safer |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Production of a cigarette that its maker says has fewer cancer-causing ingredients began last week as Durham-based Vector Tobacco geared up for sales expected to start in retail stores later this month. |
10/08/01 |
| Cash Incentive Helps Some Kick the Habit |
If every man has his price, then it must be possible to bribe at least a few smokers to quit. |
10/08/01 |
| Smokers urged to quit for charity |
Smokers across NSW are being urged to put out their cigarettes for the month of November in the first ever Quitathon to raise money for the state's Cancer Council. |
10/07/01 |
| Number of New Teen Smokers Falls |
WASHINGTON –– Higher cigarette prices and a cultural shift away from smoking are contributing to a dramatic drop in the number of teen-agers who pick up the habit, experts say. |
10/05/01 |
| Boyle receives tobacco settlement funds |
Boyle County has received $50,000 from the Kentucky Agency for Substance Abuse Policy in its first disbursement of tobacco settlement funds to address community anti-tobacco and drug needs, Gov. Paul Patton's office announced. |
10/04/01 |
| Risk of lung cancer not proven to start at 5 years |
WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) -- There is no proof that people who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for five years and then quit are at a statistically significant, higher risk of developing lung cancer, but a health expert who testified against the tobacco indus |
10/04/01 |
