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Japan sets target for smoking reduction

The government of Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda set the country's first national target to reduce the smoking rate in a program that seeks to reduce the rate from 19.5 per cent of adults to 12 per cent by April, 2023, the Kyodo newswire reported.
Tobacco Journal International
added Jun 8, 2012 14:21
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[Japan] ASCO: Novel Chemo Drug Flops in SCLC

The novel anthracycline amrubicin has an advantage over irinotecan when added to cisplatin (Platinol) chemotherapy for extensive-disease small cell lung cancer (SCLC), but it also hurts outcomes, Japanese researchers found.
MedPage Today
added Jun 8, 2012 06:23
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Nomura on shortlist to underwrite Japan Tobacco $6 bln sale

Nomura Securities is among four Japanese and five foreign brokerages short-listed to underwrite the government's sale of shares in Japan Tobacco
Reuters
added Jun 5, 2012 15:05
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Insider trading probe casts shadow on Japan Tobacco offering

A widening probe of insider trading that has ensnared Japan's largest brokerage now also threatens to complicate a plan to raise as much as $6 billion to fund reconstruction efforts after the March 2011 earthquake
Reuters
added Jun 3, 2012 23:34
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[Japan] Chemotherapy and radiation given together could help elderly patients with lung cancer live longer

new research published Online First in The Lancet Oncology shows that giving a daily low-dose of the chemotherapy drug carboplatin at the same time as radiotherapy significantly prolongs survival in elderly patients compared with radiotherapy alone.
Medical Xpress (PhysOrg.com)
added Jun 1, 2012 03:23
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[Japan] April cigarette sales increase by 42%

Yomiuri Shimbun.
added May 21, 2012 18:50
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Japan seeks bankers to manage $5.4 bln Japan Tobacco sale

Reuters
added May 18, 2012 10:57
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Japan's lower house cafeteria finally imposes smoking ban

Mainichi Daily News (jp)
added May 17, 2012 13:30
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[Japan] Public to be surveyed on drinking, smoking age changes

Japan's National Police Agency is preparing to conduct a survey of the public about whether the legal age for drinking and smoking should be lowered from the current 20 years old.
Japan Update
added May 11, 2012 18:02
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[Japan] NPA to poll public about letting 18-, 20-year-olds drink, smoke

Japan Times
added May 5, 2012 09:13
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