| Title | Intro | Date |
| State attorney general asks court to throw out tobacco lawsuit |
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- The state attorney general asked Orange County's Superior Court Commissioner on Tuesday to throw out a challenge to a voter-approved initiative earmarking most of the county's tobacco settlement funds for health care. |
01/23/01 |
| Peer Pressure to Drink, Smoke Hardest on Girls |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenage girls may be more susceptible than boys to powerful peer influences that pressure them to take up smoking and drinking, say researchers at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). |
01/23/01 |
| Tobacco prevention spending not up to snuff |
Half a nicotine patch. |
01/22/01 |
| Allocating tobacco payments keeps lawmakers occupied |
FRANKFORT - As any lottery winner can attest, a big pile of money is followed shortly by all kinds of advice on how to spend it. |
01/22/01 |
| West Virginia Medical Monitoring Tobacco Trial Ends in Mistrial |
Wheeling, West Virginia, Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- A lawsuit by healthy smokers seeking to compel Philip Morris Cos. and other U.S. tobacco companies to pay for medical monitoring ended today in a mistrial, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. said. |
01/22/01 |
| Nico-teens: Although fewer kids are smoking, many find it's hard to quit |
Mike Marquardo was 10 when he smoked his first cigarette. |
01/22/01 |
| The National Tobacco Settlement - Facts |
LEXINGTON - The Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), or the National Tobacco Settlement are two sets of words that are commonly heard yet not so commonly understood. |
01/19/01 |
| Money goes to smoking prevention programs |
MONTPELIER - The state Health Department doled out $1.4 million Thursday to 23 communities around the state for efforts to prevent smoking. |
01/19/01 |
| Smoking bans' effects mixed in Wisconsin |
Some restaurants are getting new customers now that nonsmoking ordinances are in full force in eight Wisconsin communities, but others are hurting -- including one that closed after patronage slumped. |
01/19/01 |
| Cigarette Trading Cards Draws Ire |
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Reviving a pastime that all but vanished in the 1940s, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is offering trading cards of all 50 states on packs of Doral cigarettes - a marketing campaign that has outraged anti-smoking groups. |
01/19/01 |
| Clinton says U.S. will try to cut global smoking |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will discourage teen smoking worldwide and publicize the dangers of tobacco consumption, President Clinton said in an executive order Thursday, two days before leaving office. |
01/18/01 |
| State anti-smoking plan targets high-risk groups |
Adult smokers in Hawaii have declined to about 18.4 percent of the population -- the second-lowest rate in the country, after Utah. |
01/18/01 |
