| Title | Intro | Date |
| Delaware tobacco money may be set aside |
WILMINGTON - Two-thirds of the $18.2 million Delaware has received from the nation's leading tobacco manufacturers should be set aside in an endowment fund for the future.
That's the recommendation being offered to Gov. Thomas R. Carper and members of th |
01/12/00 |
| Philip Morris Says It Has a Safer Paper |
The Philip Morris Companies is expected to announce today that it has developed technology that might reduce the number of fires started by cigarettes, a move that comes more than a decade after lawmakers and fire safety experts said the tobacco industry |
01/11/00 |
| High Court Rejects Union Suits Against Tobacco Firms |
The Supreme Court refused yesterday to revive three closely watched lawsuits by union health funds against the tobacco industry to recover their costs of treating sick smokers. |
01/11/00 |
| Governor proposes using tobacco money to hire school nurses, discourage smoking |
ATLANTA - Gov. Roy Barnes unveiled plans Monday to use some of the state's tobacco settlement to put nurses in every school and to discourage smoking. |
01/11/00 |
| Governor Glendening will ask lawmakers to approve spending $1 billion to reduce smoking and fight cancer |
The governor will ask lawmakers to approve spending the first $1 billion from the state's share of the national tobacco settlement to reduce smoking and fight cancer, and will propose expanding the state's health care program for uninsured children to add |
01/11/00 |
| State Cracks Down on Young Who Use Tobacco and Liquor |
TRENTON, Jan. 10 -- In a burst of prohibitive zeal aimed at New Jersey's youth, state lawmakers voted today to make it illegal for people under 18 to buy or possess tobacco products, or for those under 21 to drink alcoholic beverages on private property. |
01/11/00 |
| U. Nebraska interactive CD guides smokers to quit |
This year, smokers trying to kick the habit can get a little more help in keeping their resolutions because of a new program.
The University of Nebraska Medical Center has created the "Guide to Quitting: Facts about Smoking Cessation," an anti-smoking |
01/11/00 |
| Kids desire to quit |
Jan. 11 - They come into schoolbased clinics coughing, with yellow fingers and stinky clothes. They smoke but want to quit. |
01/11/00 |
| One cigarette shortens life by 11 minutes |
SMOKING a cigarette will take 11 minutes off your life, according to new research. |
01/10/00 |
| Addressing social pressures helps teens say no to smoking |
NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters Health) -- Lectures on the dangers of smoking are commonly used to try to stop teens from taking up the habit. But new study findings suggest that an active participation program aimed at helping teenagers resist peer and social |
01/10/00 |
| Death toll from smoking expected to soar |
Deaths related to smoking will more than triple worldwide in the next 25 years, and teen-age smoking in the United States is on the rise, according to a recent report from the American Heart Association. |
01/09/00 |
| Smoking on the rise in N.C. schools |
Participants at the "Governor's Summit to Prevent Teen Tobacco Use: Too Cool to Smoke or Spit" got a grim picture of the lack of progress in efforts to reduce teen smoking. Statistics disclosed at the meeting indicated that smoking is increasing in N |
01/08/00 |
