| Title | Intro | Date |
| School Board Ups Demerits For Tobacco, Members Also Increase Penalty For Violation Of ID Policy |
The penalties for using tobacco at Harrisonburg Public Schools will now be tougher. |
12/07/05 |
| D.C. Council Votes to Expand Smoking Ban |
WASHINGTON -- Lighting up in restaurants and bars would become illegal in the nation's capital under a smoking ban approved Tuesday by the city council, a move the mayor warned would send residents and tourists across the Potomac River to dine in more len |
12/06/05 |
| N.J. could increase legal tobacco-buying age to 19 |
The legal age to buy cigarettes could rise from 18 to 19 in New Jersey under a measure released by the state Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee Monday. |
12/06/05 |
| Forum says tobacco, H5N1 equally threatening |
At the opening of the 2005 Global Forum for Health Leaders on Monday, prominent medical experts from over 14 countries said that tobacco is one of the leading threats to global health and therefore deserves as much attention as avian flu prevention measur |
11/29/05 |
| Teens Turning to Cigars |
MONDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- The next time you walk by a group of teenagers surrounded by tobacco smoke, don't assume they're puffing away on Marlboros or Virginia Slims. |
11/28/05 |
| Too Many Cancer Patients Continue to Smoke |
MONDAY, Nov. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer patients would receive better care if doctors did more to help patients quit using tobacco after they're diagnosed with cancer and if researchers monitored patient tobacco use during clinical trials of new cancer |
11/28/05 |
| Tobacco Tariffs |
Charging smokers more a new health care tactic |
11/27/05 |
| A vaccine in tobacco plants |
Ms Molina defended her PhD thesis, The plastidial transformation of tobacco for the production of an amphigenic vaccine against parvovirus canino at the Public University of Navarra. |
11/27/05 |
| Tobacco loses top place to soybeans in Virginia |
Tobacco, historically Virginia's top cash crop, has lost its crown to soybeans. |
11/26/05 |
| Great American Smokeout Arrives Thursday |
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Organizers hope that millions of U.S. smokers will try kicking the habit for at least a day to mark the American Cancer Society's 29th annual Great American Smokeout on Thursday. |
11/16/05 |
| Smoking ban will snuff out hookah bars, too |
Voter-approved measure makes no exception for Mideast tradition |
11/16/05 |
| Numbers of students smoking cigarettes plummet in Maine,
Higher tax, education efforts credited |
AUGUSTA - A sharp increase in cigarette taxes coupled with targeted and comprehensive public awareness campaigns were credited Tuesday with producing an overall decline of more than 60 percent in smoking rates among Maine students. |
11/16/05 |
