| Title |
Intro |
Date |
| State Legislatures Focus on Children, Health Care With Tobacco Settlement Monies |
WASHINGTON, March 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- More than 400 bills
aimed at managing and allocating state tobacco settlement funds
have been filed in state legislatures across the country.
According to a recently released National Conference of State
Leg |
03/10/00 |
| States' Plans for Tobacco Funds |
WASHINGTON (AP) - Most states plan to spend their share of the 6 billion in tobacco settlement money on health care initiatives, from expanding insurance programs for low-income families to subsidizing prescription drug costs. |
03/09/00 |
| 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LOS ANGELES, March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- California voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 28, which would have repealed Prop 10 -- the 50-cent tobacco tax passed in 1998.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 |
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