| Title | Intro | Date |
| Proposition 28 Defeated In a Landslide |
LOS ANGELES, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- California voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 28, which would have repealed Prop 10 -- the 50-cent tobacco tax passed in 1998. |
03/08/00 |
| American Cancer Society: Big Tobacco Loses Again! |
SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- With today's resounding defeat of Proposition 28 the voters of California have once again handed Big Tobacco a Big Loss. Sustaining the 50-cent tax per pack of cigarettes will decrease youth smoking, maintain th |
03/08/00 |
| Ga. Farmers Ponder Weighty Issues |
ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - Georgia farmers, already plagued by drought and low prices, have to plow through more problems before they begin spring planting this month. |
03/07/00 |
| Company Smoking Ban Discriminatory? |
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - A Canadian company's ban on workplace smoking discriminated against workers unable to give up cigarettes because their heavy nicotine addiction, according to an arbitrator's report released on Monday. |
03/07/00 |
| Philip Morris says labor union cases dimissed in NY |
NEW YORK, March 7 (Reuters) - Philip Morris Cos. Inc. said on Tuesday that a New York Supreme Court justice has dismissed 10 labor union health care reimbursement cases, saying the funds had no legal basis to bring the claims. |
03/07/00 |
| R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company says Dismissal of 14 Health-fund Lawsuits Confirms the Lack of Merit of Third-party Suits |
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., March 7/PRNewswire/ -- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company today said that a New York trial court judge's dismissal of 14 lawsuits brought against the tobacco industry by union trust funds confirms that third- party-payer cases of this type |
03/07/00 |
| Activists try to smoke out a bad habit among teens |
Brian Gist, 16, has no plans to smoke. Ever. A junior at Robinson High School in Fairfax, Brian says two of his grandparents died from smoking-related illnesses. Their deaths cured him of any desire to ever pick up the habit. |
03/07/00 |
| SmithKline Beecham Teams Up with Neuromedia to Help Smokers Kick the Habit Online |
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000-- Neuromedia®, Inc., the leading provider of interactive Web-based solutions for developing and deploying Virtual Representatives (vReps), today announced that SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare (SBCH) wi |
03/06/00 |
| Nabi and the National Institute on Drug Abuse Initiate Toxicity Studies of Nabi(R) NicVAX(TM) |
BOCA RATON, Fla., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Nabi (Nasdaq: NABI - news) announced today that it has initiated animal toxicity studies with Nabi® NicVAX(TM), a nicotine conjugate vaccine, in conjunction with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). If th |
03/06/00 |
| Toxic-Tobacco Law Described in Public Health Journal |
WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The Toxic-Tobacco Law Coalition announced today that the current issue of the Journal of Public Health Policy (Winter 1999;20(4):394-407) contains an article entitled ``The Toxic-Tobacco Law: 'Appropriate Remedial Actio |
03/06/00 |
| New Study Says World Bank Tobacco Control Policies Could Boost Power of Multi-National Tobacco Companies and Shut Out Small Farmers |
LONDON, March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by The International Tobacco Growers' Association:
An independent analysis published today (ISBN 1 872854 09 5) says there are significant flaws in the World Bank's report ``Curbing the Epi |
03/06/00 |
| Philip Morris Denies Marlboro Report |
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's largest tobacco company, Philip Morris Cos. Inc., on Monday denied a newspaper report that it was considering diversifying its Marlboro brand name away from tobacco and into the hotel, media and mobile phone industries. |
03/06/00 |
