| Title | Intro | Date |
| Smoke--Even Secondhand--Impairs Fertility |
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Smoking, or even exposure to secondhand smoke, can make it more difficult for a woman to conceive a child, British researchers report. |
09/29/00 |
| D.C. Man Sues Tobacco Firms |
A D.C. man with lung cancer has filed a $300 million lawsuit against three tobacco companies and the neighborhood market that sold him cigarettes, according to D.C. Superior Court records. |
09/29/00 |
| S. Africa Adopts Anti-Smoking Law |
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - South Africa adopted strict new regulations Friday that ban tobacco advertising, limit smoking in the workplace and force bars and restaurants to build separate smoking sections. |
09/29/00 |
| Ethnicity, maternal weight gain, and stress linked with postpartum smoking relapse |
African-American women who stop smoking during their pregnancies are one-and-a-half to two times more likely than their Caucasian counterparts to relapse and resume smoking within a few months of giving birth, according to new research. |
09/28/00 |
| State tobacco control policies may result in lower teen smoking rates |
A preliminary state-by-state analysis suggests that state tobacco policies may have a measurable effect on teen smoking rates. |
09/28/00 |
| Anti-smoke laws usher in drastic lifestyle changes |
Johannesburg – The lifestyle of millions of South Africans is set to change drastically on Friday when new smoking regulations, that bans smoking in public places, comes into effect. |
09/28/00 |
| Tobacco Stocks Climb After Court Ruling |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tobacco stocks rose across the board Thursday after a federal judge dismissed two key parts of a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit that seeks to recover billions of dollars spent treating sick smokers. |
09/28/00 |
| Judge Dismisses Parts of Govt. Tobacco Case |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed two key parts of the U.S. Justice Department's landmark lawsuit seeking to recover billions of dollars spent by the federal government on smoking-related illnesses, but allowed two remaining rac |
09/28/00 |
| Carrier says "nyet" to U.S. flight smoke ban |
MOSCOW, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The health concerns of the anti-smoking U.S. public have gone too far for Aeroflot , the flagship airline of a country with one of the highest rates of tobacco use in the world. |
09/27/00 |
| Anti-Smoking Activists Feel Shortchanged |
As Illinois property owners have begun receiving tax rebates for as little as $1, funded by the state's tobacco settlement, some politicians and health-care advocates on Tuesday revived their call to allocate more of the tobacco money toward anti-smoking |
09/27/00 |
| Smokers' lawsuits target tobacco funds |
Tennessee and other states are violating federal Medicaid law by not sharing their portion of a multibillion-dollar tobacco settlement with low-income smokers whose health has been ruined by their nicotine addictions, their lawyers say. |
09/27/00 |
| Med Students Give Kids Inside Story on Drugs, Smoking |
FRANKFORT -- Medical students visiting 6th-grade classes at Hickory Creek Middle School in Frankfort last week presented compelling evidence in the case against substance abuse. |
09/27/00 |
