| Title | Intro | Date |
| Girls, 12, smoke and drink alcohol |
SMOKING and drinking among 12-year-old girls is on the rise, a large-scale survey of New South Wales high schools has revealed. |
10/31/04 |
| Focusing on New Targets in Lung Cancer |
Although lung cancer gets less attention than other, more treatable cancers, it has touched the lives of most people. One million cases of lung cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year, and patients and doctors have had few advances in lung cancer treatme |
10/29/04 |
| About half China's non-smokers breathe second-hand smoke |
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Almost half of China's nonsmokers breathe secondhand smoke at home or at work, a new survey finds. |
10/29/04 |
| The good fight against teen smoking |
Unhappily, it is safe to say that the teenage smokers at Monument Mountain Regional High School profiled Tuesday are hardly unique to that school. |
10/27/04 |
| Smoking By Young Gays At 'Alarming' Level |
(Rancho Mirage, California) The percentage of young gays and lesbians who smoke is nearly double the national average among teens. |
10/26/04 |
| Cigarette companies have lost touch with reality |
Last month, pharmaceutical giant Merck voluntarily stopped selling an arthritis and pain medication, Vioxx, because new data found it doubled patients' risks of heart attacks and strokes. |
10/26/04 |
| Asthma risk 'greater for smokers' |
People who smoke are 33% more likely to develop asthma than those who do not, researchers from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health have said. |
10/25/04 |
| Smoke gets in pet's eyes and lungs |
IF you're a smoker and pet owner, you might want to think twice before you light up that cigarette. |
10/23/04 |
| Smokers' genetic arthritis risk |
People genetically prone to arthritis who also smoke are storing up trouble for the future, researchers warn. |
10/23/04 |
| Smoking causes every seventh death in EU - EC |
BRUSSELS- One in seven deaths in Europe are caused by smoking, with the Czech Republic exhibiting higher smoking-related deaths than average, a study by the European Commission released today states. |
10/22/04 |
| Ministry proposes ban on sale of duty-free cigarettes |
PETALING JAYA: There may be no more tax-free cigarettes sold at duty-free shops nationwide as part of the Government’s efforts to snuff out the smoking habit. |
10/05/04 |
| No FDA regs for cigs in tax bill |
WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- A proposed compromise designed to reconcile competing versions of a key corporate tax bill would allow for a federal buyout of subsidized tobacco growers, but strikes Senate-approved language that would give the Food and Drug Admini |
10/04/04 |