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[Asia, Australia, Japan] LETTER: Limits of planning good health

Chris Flynn (May 2 letter, “Australia’s declining smoking rate“) seems to believe I’m a shill for the local agricultural interests here in rural Kumamoto based on my opposition to tobacco restrictions.
Japan Times
added May 15, 2013 13:52
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[Florida] LETTER: Tobacco award sends wrong message

there are no innocent parties in this lawsuit. The $1.2 million award should go toward the treatment and counseling of nicotine addicts who realize their life would be better by not smoking and take the first step to quit
Palm Beach (FL) Post
added May 10, 2013 12:11
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[Canada] LETTER: SHATENSTEIN: Tobacco may be legal, but the deadly poison is still sold to consumers

they knowingly sell deadly poison to consumers and that is both criminal and immoral. But, of course, Mr. Grant can’t make the connection because his Coalition is funded by the tobacco industry and, as author Upton Sinclair famously explained, “It is dif
Windsor (Ont) Star (ca)
added May 13, 2013 08:58
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[Idaho] LETTER TO THE EDITOR: UI tobacco policy

The University of Idaho works to protect the health and safety of its students through various aspects of life on campus but does not protect its students from secondhand smoke.
Moscow-Pullman Daily News
added May 9, 2013 18:03
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[Virginia] LETTER: Ban cigarette filters to help the environment?

Paula Chow was right on the mark concerning the lack of respect for Mother Earth shown by smokers ["Cigarette butts litter our roads, harm wildlife," April 21]. The intersections at either end of the U.S. 1 bridge are clogged with cigarette butts carele
Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star
added May 7, 2013 08:59
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LETTER: Pharmacy Sales of Tobacco

The pharmacies that help explain the use of medications to my patients should explain to them why they promote the premature deaths of my patients by selling them this poison. The very store that sells the medicines for treatment of heart and lung diseas
New York Times
added May 7, 2013 02:14
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[Pennsylvania] LETTER: Second-hand smoke still a threat to some workers

The Pennsylvania Clean Indoor Air Act passed in 2008 did not go far enough. Significant exemptions in the law mean that our citizens and workers are still being exposed to the deadly effects of second-hand smoke. Those exceptions to the Clean Indoor Air
Easton (PA) Express-Times
added May 6, 2013 14:29
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[Minnesota] LETTER: Apartments go smoke-free

Please join me in congratulating the residents, management and staff of Garden Court Apartments in joining the smoke-free housing movement in southwest/south-central Minnesota. We will host a reception from 2-3 p.m. May 15 at Garden Court Apartments to c
Fairmont (MN) Sentinel
added May 6, 2013 13:34
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[UK] LETTER: Plain cigarette packets

As health professionals who engage daily with the consequences of smoking, we were dismayed to learn that David Cameron has abandoned plans to include "plain packs" legislation in the Queen's Speech.
Electronic Telegraph (uk)
added May 6, 2013 12:51
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[California] LETTER: All Indoor Smoking in Shared Housing Should Be Banned in Berkeley

the goal of ensuring clean, healthy air for everyone, even low-income people, in their own homes is getting shipwrecked for the second time in two years by the same dubious concern. The rent board, perhaps out of concern about looking unfriendly to landl
Berkeley (CA) Daily Planet
added May 4, 2013 14:00
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