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[Connecticut, New York] LETTER: Rally the voices of the community

(“On guns, Obama should follow Bloomberg’s lead”) ... As a New Yorker, I found the inconvenience of smoking in the cold was not enough to make me quit. It was the disappointment of a friend’s six-year-old son and my wife’s look of disgust when I came to b
Financial Times (uk)
added Dec 20, 2012 20:37
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[Connecticut] Conn. clubs slowly move to snuff out smoking

Members-only private clubs are experimenting with non-smoking areas, nine years after the Connecticut General Assembly exempted the organizations from a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants.
AP - Associated Press
added Nov 29, 2012 16:17
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[Connecticut] Members-only clubs curb hours when smoking is allowed

Shift reflects declining number of smokers
Waterbury (CT) Republican-American
added Nov 29, 2012 16:17
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[Connecticut] Moffa admits disguising tobacco shop donations to speaker

One year ago, David "Buffalo" Moffa was hatching a conspiracy in a Waterbury tobacco shop to violate campaign finance laws and corrupt the state legislature. Moffa pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in New Haven to participating in the illegal scheme
Waterbury (CT) Republican-American
added Nov 4, 2012 12:27
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[Connecticut] Yale study: Smoking bans may help curb problem drinking

in states with bans, 61 percent of problem drinkers had changed their ways from one interview period to the next. The researchers also found that, in states with public smoking bans, there were 4 percent fewer new cases of alcohol use disorder from one in
Darien (CT) News
added Oct 1, 2012 02:04
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[Connecticut] COLLINS: Cigarettes: the killer that won't die

As long as corporate greed continues to infect us, smoking will undoubtedly keep killing hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. But you’d think the 50 states might show a little more interest in doing something to protect their people from our na
Fairfield (CT) Minuteman
added Sep 20, 2012 07:45
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[Connecticut] South Windsor Considers Banning Cigarette Sales in Pharmacies

When the South Windsor town council meets on Monday night, they will consider an ordinance that would ban the sales of tobacco products at CVS. In July Town Councilor Dr. Anwar Saud, who specializes in lung diseases and critical care medicine, proposed
NBC Connecticut
added Sep 18, 2012 00:43
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[Connecticut] READER SUBMITTED: No Ifs, Ands or Cigarette Butts: S&S Going Smoke-Free

Can going smoke-free make a company safer, cleaner, healthier and more productive? S&S Worldwide is about to find out. A 100 percent tobacco-free campus policy goes into effect Oct. 1.
Hartford (CT) Courant
added Sep 13, 2012 01:00
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[Connecticut] Milford Schools Smoking Ban Aimed at Adults

The proposed policy would update the language of the current no smoking rule, which was adopted in 1999.
Patch.org
added Aug 25, 2012 12:00
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[Connecticut] Blumenthal Statement On CDC's New Report About Youth Smoking

"Today, the CDC has released new evidence that proves we must redouble our efforts against big tobacco. Declines in cigarette smoking among our youth are only buffered by increases in other forms of tobacco use - like flavored cigars,"
Senator Richard Blumenthal - United States Senator for Connecticut
added Aug 12, 2012 17:24
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