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Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Launches 'Field to Table' Program

The program is designed to help local farmers focus on sustainability while providing food for those in need.
National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS)
added Jan 21, 2013 16:04
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[India] Kerala : Court annuls ban on tobacco sale

Justice A.M. Shaffique ordered that State and Commissioner of Food Safety had no right to take any action against tobacco or tobacco products as 'chew tobacco' was not a food product as defined under the FSS Act.
The Hindu Online (in)
added Jan 1, 2013 12:52
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[Canada, UK] Mothers who smoke during pregnancy 'put children at risk of obesity later on'

Dr Amirreza Haghighi, of the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, who led a new study, said 'Prenatal exposure to maternal cigarette smoking is a well-established risk factor for obesity, but the underlying mechanisms are not known. 'Preference
The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
added Sep 4, 2012 08:53
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[New York] The Bloomberg Way

everybody is resistant to change. Today, you’d be hard-pressed to find anybody that was opposed to the smoking ban … All of western Europe followed New York City. Many of the states around here did. Every major city, including in the tobacco-growing state
The Atlantic Monthly
added Oct 26, 2012 04:20
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[New York] STATEMENT BY SMOKERS' RIGHTS GROUP ON SODA BAN HEARING HELD TODAY BY NYC DEPT. OF HEALTH

First they came for the smokers...
MMD Newswire (Mass Media Distribution LLC)
added Jul 24, 2012 12:18
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Overindulgence May Lower Life Expectancy

concept of a "microlife," defined as 30 minutes of life expectancy, researchers suggested. * Note that people lose a microlife for every two cigarettes they smoke, for being 11 pounds overweight, for having a second or third alcoholic drink of the day, a
MedPage Today
added Dec 19, 2012 06:12
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Being Inactive Kills as Many as Cigarettes

Note that the global mortality burden of physical inactivity is similar to that of cigarette smoking (>5.3 million deaths/year versus 5 million deaths/year).
MedPage Today
added Jul 18, 2012 11:07
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WALTON: We Quit Smoking, But Now We're Obese. What's Next?

What are you thoughts on how we function, and why we do what we do? What’s the real problem that drives our health “epidemics”?
Forbes
added Jul 11, 2012 15:50
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[Canada] TOYONOGA: How I lost 85 pounds: no smoking, exercise 5 days a week

Alice Toyonoga 31, Toronto POUNDS DROPPED: 85
Globe and Mail (ca)
added Nov 8, 2012 13:16
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SIMON: Big Tobacco Shills Trying to Stop GMO Labeling in California

why are the same consultants who have worked for the tobacco industry now shilling for Big Food, opposing the ballot initiative that would require labeling of all foods containing GMO ingredients?
Huffington Post (blog)
added Aug 14, 2012 15:55
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