| Title | Intro | Date |
| County allocates tobacco money |
The estimated $17 million a year Alameda County will receive will go for health-related capital projects, health initiatives for children and indigent people and on public health. |
11/29/00 |
| Tobacco Firm's Gift Viewed as a Marketing Smoke Screen |
Philip Morris Cos. has fired up tobacco critics by mailing 13 million free illustrated book jackets to schools nationwide. |
11/29/00 |
| Tobacco smuggling at record level |
Customs officers expect to seize a record 2bn smuggled cigarettes this year as organised gangs using giant containers increasingly take over an illegal trade once dominated by bootleggers and white van man. |
11/29/00 |
| Mentally Ill Make Up Nearly Half Of U.S. Tobacco Market And Are Twice As Likely To Smoke As Non Mentally Ill Americans |
Boston, Ma.- Harvard medical researchers have concluded that Americans with mental illness are nearly twice as likely to smoke cigarettes as people with no mental illness. The study, appearing in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA |
11/29/00 |
| Californians Drink Up Smoking Ban |
MONDAY, Nov. 27 (HealthScout) --Smoke-filled taverns are about as hard to find in California these days as a set of snow tires. But nearly three-fourths of California bar-goers seem to like it that way, claims a new poll. |
11/28/00 |
| Tobacco's Secondhand Science of Smoke-Filled Rooms |
Organizations such as the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society estimate that direct smoking kills about 400,000 people per year in the United States--or, if you use the World Health Organization's estim |
11/27/00 |
| Tobacco Legal War Shifts to Brooklyn |
NEW YORK (AP) - A lawsuit filed with little fanfare three years ago in Brooklyn has emerged as the lastest flashpoint in the high-stakes legal battle between the tobacco industry and opponents who claim it conspired to conceal the dangers of smoking. |
11/26/00 |
| Court Reinstates Smoker's Award |
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The state Supreme Court reinstated a $750,000 award for a former smoker against the nation's third largest cigarette maker. |
11/22/00 |
| Study: Many Smokers Have Mental Problems |
TUESDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthScout) -- The more you smoke, the more likely you are to have an emotional disorder, says a new study. |
11/22/00 |
| Advertising: Campaigns For and Against Cigarettes Share a Single Space |
It is not every day that ads praising and attacking cigarette smoking are posted opposite each other in the same room, but that unusual juxtaposition is the basis of a current exhibit that is intended to offer a new perspective on tobacco marketing. |
11/22/00 |
| USA gets tobacco payment |
The 1998 nationwide settlement with cigarette-makers paid its first dividend for the University of South Alabama when Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman presented USA President Gordon Moulton with a $2 million check earlier this month. |
11/20/00 |
| New Jersey Youth Take On Tobacco |
MCAFEE, N.J., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- REBEL -- Reaching Everyone By Exposing Lies -- an initiative developed by and for teens to combat tobacco industry marketing tactics, was launched on November 18-19 at a youth summit in McAfee, NJ. More than 300 teens |
11/19/00 |
