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NET Website BEST OF 2012: Smoking key to closing racial gap in lung cancer

"When we talk about lung cancer, we have to talk about smoking," Clanton said. The most recent smoking data seem to show the origins of the disparity between white and black lung cancer rates. From 2009 to 2010, 22 percent of African Americans in Nebras
Nebraska Educational Telecommunications
added Dec 26, 2012 01:25
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[California] Videos: New Anti-Tobacco Ads Target Calif. Ethnic Groups

The release of new ads this week targeted at blacks, Hispanics and Asians coincides with the publication of a report on tobacco trends in the state.
KQED (San Francisco, CA)
added Dec 14, 2012 18:24
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[Saudi Arabia] Killer attributes fatal shooting to smoking

Manama: A Saudi national arrested in a mosque-storming operation for twin murders has reportedly said that he killed the first man for smoking and the second for being unfit to lead prayers.
Gulf News (ae)
added Dec 12, 2012 12:59
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[Massachusetts] Tobacco company challenges $152m award in case of Newport cigarette smoker

In his oral argument to the Supreme Judicial Court, attorney Paul F. Ware Jr. said there was no evidence presented at a Suffolk Superior Court civil trial that directly linked the giveway of Newport cigarettes in the Orchard Park neighborhood to the smok
Boston (MA) Globe
added Dec 4, 2012 13:47
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[Massachusetts] Tobacco company challenges $152m award in case of Newport cigarette smoker

Boston (MA) Globe
added Dec 6, 2012 09:53
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[Massachusetts] Tobacco company seeks wrongful-death retrial

A tobacco company that claims it didn't get a fair trial will ask the state's highest court this morning to reverse a $116 million wrongful-death judgment awarded two years ago on behalf of a Dorchester lawyer who lost his mother to her nicotine addictio
Boston (MA) Herald
added Dec 4, 2012 13:45
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[New York] Making Room to Breathe / A Case Study of Smoke-Free Housing in NYC (PDF)

A Report by Asian Americans for Equality, Inc.
New York City Coalition for a Smoke Free City
added Mar 31, 2013 22:17
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[Georgia] Burning a hole in how cigarette ads used blacks

Hank Willis Thomas' primary focus in the Trois Gallery exhibition "Believe It" is the kind of 1970s-era cigarette ads featuring stylish black women and hyper-confident black men that appeared in magazines such as Ebony.
Atlanta (GA) Journal-Constitution
added Dec 1, 2012 11:43
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[Massachusetts] WILLIE EVANS vs. LORILLARD TOBACCO COMPANY & others: CALENDAR & DOCKET

FUTURE CALENDAR Monday, December 3rd 2012, 9:00 AM Presiding: Ireland, C.J., Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, JJ. John Adams Courthouse, Courtroom One, Second Floor, Pemberton Square, Boston, MA 02108
Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court of Massachusetts
added Nov 30, 2012 19:34
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Lung Cancer And African Americans: Know The Facts

Fortunately, there is also some good news: because of changes in smoking patterns, the rate of lung cancer has been declining among African American men since the mid-1980s and has been stable among African American women since 1990.
PR Newswire
added Dec 4, 2012 07:14
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