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| Top-level fuss over tobacco billions |
With the control of billions of dollars at stake, Beacon Hill power brokers are engaging in a furious, behind-the-scenes struggle over who will manage the assets, award the lucrative investment contracts, and dole out the high-paying jobs to run the newly |
10/02/00 |
| Weak-willed smokers can blame genes |
Light up, take a puff and blame your parents. Smoking, apparently, is in the genes. In a snub to those who blame peer pressure, rock stars and Formula One, an American study has proved for the first time that the habit of smoking regularly is largely inhe |
10/01/00 |
| 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 0 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 |
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