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[Virginia] FDA’s tobacco head plans to move quickly on industry issues
“You all make a lawful product,” Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Center For Tobacco Products, told those attending the Tobacco Merchants Association annual meeting in Williamsburg. “Our job is to regulate the manufacture, sale and marketing of the t
May 17, 2013
Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch
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May 17, 2013 10:20
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[Australia] Movie smoking scenes on rise while Queenslanders puff less
ABOUT 22.9% of Mackay young people aged 18-24 are daily smokers, according to the Health of Queenslanders 2012 report. This, coupled with the fact smoking scenes in youth-rated films have doubled between 2010 and 2012, is a concerning statistic for heal
May 17, 2013
Mackay (Q) Daily Mercury (au)
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May 17, 2013 05:34
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[Australia, New Zealand] NZ tops pregnancy smoking list
New Zealand women were the most likely to smoke while pregnant, a large study of births has found. The University of Western Sydney study compared the outcomes of pregnancy and birth for women from eight different nationalities and found that 22.6 per ce
May 17, 2013
The Age (au)
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May 16, 2013 14:41
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[Australia] Brisbane restaurant fined for breaching anti-smoking laws by allowing hookahs and cigarettes in outdoor areas
Customers of Gad's Charcoal Cuisine, at Upper Mount Gravatt in Brisbane's south, were able to hire hookahs - a type of stemmed water pipe often used for smoking herbal tobacco - and allowed to smoke cigarettes in its outdoor dining area. But the restaura
May 17, 2013
Melbourne (Vic) Herald Sun (au)
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May 16, 2013 14:13
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Health Behaviors of Adults: United States, 2008–2010 (PDF)
This chapter provides an overview of key findings related to the prevalence of cigarette smoking among U.S. adults, including both frequency (daily compared with nondaily) and amount (usual number of cigarettes smoked), age of smoking initiation, a
May 16, 2013
National Center for Health Statistics
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May 23, 2013 03:18
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Tobacco Use by Sexual Identity Among Young Adults in the United States [FREE FULL TEXT]
This study highlights the significant disparities in tobacco use behaviors among sexual minority populations and the critical need to conduct surveillance among these groups.
May 16, 2013
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
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May 22, 2013 13:15
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BOSTIC: Philip Morris & IBM IMPROVER project: downplaying links between smoking & disease
the Tobacco Institute closed its doors, after 40 years of obfuscating the science ... The main purpose of IMPROVER seems clear – remuddy the waters on the causal link between tobacco and disease. But they actually get much more. By enticing young researc
May 16, 2013
ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) (us)
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May 22, 2013 08:36
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[Michigan] VIDEO: Unlicensed: The Real Story Behind Teenage Smoking - Part 1
for the other 80 counties in Michigan –licensing cigarettes is illegal. The law which prevents it is the legacy of a strong tobacco lobby in Michigan that, 20 years after passage, still remains on the books.
May 16, 2013
WLNS 6 News (Lansing, MI)
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May 19, 2013 07:03
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[Canada] Day 144: Some unbelievable coincidences
In the course of answering these questions, Mr. Lacoursière revealed much about the influences that helped shape the report and those that were held off. In doing so, he left the impression that his own understanding of the social factors that influence
May 16, 2013
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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May 19, 2013 01:08
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[Virginia] Cigarette smuggling in New York has history of terrorism ties
PIX11 News reported more than eight years ago about links between cigarette smuggling and the financing of terrorism. ... he first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 was said to be partially financed by cigarette smuggling. One of the convicted b
May 16, 2013
WPIX-TV (New York, NY)
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May 18, 2013 07:27