| Title | Intro | Date |
| Supervisors Weigh In on Tobacco Funds |
Despite concerns from members of an advisory panel, a majority of Ventura County supervisors back a proposal to give county-run health care programs most of $8 million in tobacco settlement funding to be distributed this year. |
07/04/01 |
| Advertising: Competing Views on Tobacco Ruling |
A ruling by the Supreme Court that overturned efforts by Massachusetts to restrict tobacco advertising is being hailed by the trade associations that represent agencies and major marketers, which have long pressed to have commercial speech more fully prot |
07/03/01 |
| Study Does Nothing to Patch Up Nicotine's Reputation |
July 2, 2001 -- For smokers who try to quit using a nicotine skin patch or nicotine gum, it sounds like damned if you don't, and damned if you do. A new study in the July issue Nature Medicine suggests that nicotine by itself can stimulate the growth of n |
07/03/01 |
| World Cup May Be No-Smoking Event |
GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization hopes Japan will join South Korea in banning tobacco from next year's World Cup. |
07/03/01 |
| Nicotine Makes New Blood Vessels Grow: Study |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In findings that suggest a new theory on how smoking causes disease--and raise concerns about long-term use of nicotine replacement therapy--California scientists have discovered that nicotine can trigger the growth of new bloo |
07/02/01 |
| Single cigarette has damaging effect on heart |
Smoking just one cigarette is enough to impair the function of the heart so that it has to work harder -- a phenomenon doctors at East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine witnessed for the first time using an ultrasound technology called echocard |
07/02/01 |
| Tobaco settlement allocation to benefit Pa. medical centers |
Pennsylvania's recent allocation of $11 billion in tobacco settlement money will be a boon to Franklin and Fulton county medical centers and their patients, hospital officials said. |
07/02/01 |
| Tobacco prevention education praised |
HATTIESBURG — Tobacco prevention teacher education programs have contributed to a dramatic decrease in smoking among Mississippi youth, anti-tobacco advocates contend. |
07/02/01 |
| R.J. Reynolds Foundation Pledges $1 Million to Technology Initiative |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., July 2 /PRNewswire/ -- A $1 million pledge from the R.J. Reynolds Foundation to the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools' K-12 technology initiative, announced today, will help bring the school of the future closer to reality. |
07/02/01 |
| Cigarette-Makers Use TV Motor Sports to Advertise |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Circumventing a US federal ban on TV advertising of both cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, major American tobacco companies have increasingly turned to corporate sponsorships of motor sports events to keep a high public profile |
07/02/01 |
| Justices Limit Rules on Tobacco Ads |
WASHINGTON, June 28 -- The Supreme Court today placed significant limits on the ability of state and local governments to regulate tobacco advertising in a case from Massachusetts that also appeared to invalidate a similar law in New York City. |
06/29/01 |
| Councilman Hopes L.A. Law Survives |
The Supreme Court's ruling Thursday on tobacco advertising might not affect a Los Angeles law aimed at eliminating tobacco and alcohol ads from billboards and other signs. |
06/29/01 |
