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| Vitamin E may prevent smoking damage to arteries |
NEW YORK, Feb 01 (Reuters Health) -- Taking vitamin E supplements may help protect the cells that line arteries from damage immediately after cigarette smoking, but do not appear to reverse the long-term arterial damage caused by smoking, Austrian researc |
02/02/00 |
| House gives final approval to tobacco trust fund |
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A plan to deposit billions of dollars from the national tobacco settlement into a trust fund is on its way to the Missouri Senate. |
02/02/00 |
| US adolescents less likely to smoke, watch TV |
NEW YORK, Feb 01 (Reuters Health) -- Overall, adolescents in the US are less likely to smoke, drink and watch TV than their counterparts in many countries around the world, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report released on Monday. |
02/02/00 |
| Missouri bills would ban possession of cigarettes by minors |
JEFFERSON CITY -- As the Missouri House was approving a plan Tuesday to set up a trust fund for money from the state's tobacco settlement, three Democratic lawmakers began a new assault on underage smoking. |
02/02/00 |
| RadioShack Partners With the American Lung Association on the Big Ride Across America |
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- RadioShack, America's largest consumer-electronics retailer has signed on to support the American Lung Association's premier cross-country cycling event. The event, now known as the RadioShack Big Ride Across Amer |
02/02/00 |
| National Complaint Amended Against Tobacco Industry and Political Defendants |
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 2000--The multibillion-dollar complaint against the big five tobacco companies has been expanded in a new First Amended Complaint, filed yesterday in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California. |
02/02/00 |
| Jurors Hear Cancer-Tobacco Case |
MIAMI (AP) - A housewife told lawyers eight months before she died of lung cancer that she started sneaking cigarettes in the seventh grade because she thought smoking was ``cool'' and grown-up. |
02/02/00 |
| Tobacco Ad Restrictions Blocked |
BOSTON (AP) - The tobacco industry, battling state regulations on tobacco advertising near schools, won a minor victory Wednesday when a federal appeals court blocked implementation of the new rules. |
02/02/00 |
| Chase Issues Payments of Over .8 Million to Florida Tobacco Growers |
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 1, 2000-- The Chase Manhattan Bank, lead subsidiary of The Chase Manhattan Corporation announced today that it has issued payments of over .8 million to Florida tobacco quota owners and producers who applied for first |
02/01/00 |
| Teen-age smokers need special help to quit |
Nicotine patches work for adult smokers who want to quit but not for teen-agers, researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have found. |
01/31/00 |
| Philip Morris U.S.A. Introduces Newest Youth Smoking Prevention Ad During Super Bowl XXXIV |
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 31, 2000-- On Sunday, January 30, 2000, Philip Morris U.S.A. introduced its newest youth smoking prevention ad during halftime of Super Bowl XXXIV. The ad, titled 'My Reasons' and aimed at youth ages 10 to 14, is designe |
01/31/00 |
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