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[North Carolina] FDA names new head of tobacco governance group

What could make Zeller’s appointment controversial is he currently serves as an executive with Pinney Associates, a pharmaceutical consulting firm that does work for GlaxoSmithKline, the top seller of nicotine-replacement therapy products. He also worke
Winston-Salem (NC) Journal
added Feb 23, 2013 21:55
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[Illinois] 16 children hospitalized after eating anti-smoking lozenges

Sixteen children were taken to hospitals this morning after they ate nicotine lozenges they thought were candy at a Far South Side elementary school, according to authorities.
Chicago Tribune
added Feb 20, 2013 23:36
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[Minnesota] Nicotine Lozenges, Tobacco-Free Snuff Help Smokeless Tobacco Users Quit, Mayo Clinic Finds

Smokeless tobacco users who said they didn't want to quit changed their minds or significantly cut back when given nicotine lozenges or tobacco-free snuff in a Mayo Clinic study. The findings are published in the February issue of Addictive Behaviors.
Mayo Clinic
added Feb 20, 2013 16:38
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[Arizona] New push at Capitol to outlaw electronic cigarettes for kids

SB 1209, authored by Senate Majority Whip Adam Driggs, R-Phoenix, would add electronic cigarettes to a list of products including cigars, cigarettes and chewing tobacco that are illegal for minors to possess.
Arizona Capitol Times
added Feb 12, 2013 12:48
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Where There's Smoke There's Worse Asthma

The researchers used data from 2,250 kids and teens, aged 4 to 19, who had asthma during the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys in 1988-1994, 1999-2004 and 2005-2010. The researchers measured the levels of cotinine - the chemical that nic
DailyRx
added Feb 11, 2013 20:12
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[Australia] Government could control taste of cigarettes, raise taxes in battle against smoking

THE flavour and ingredients of cigarettes would be regulated, smoking in movies controlled and the cost of tobacco would sky-rocket under a radical Government blueprint to stop one million Australians smoking. The five-year war on smoking would also see
News Interactive Network/News Limited/News.com (au)
added Feb 10, 2013 11:02
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[Massachusetts] EDITORIAL: Targeting nicotine

we urge the Dennis Board of Health to reconsider its position on this important issue. If issuing permits to local retailers is an unfair burden, why is it that all 14 other Cape towns issue the permits? And why is that 279 of the state's 351 municipaliti
Cape Cod (MA) Times
added Feb 7, 2013 08:42
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UCSF to Present Latest on Tobacco Research and Education

Postdoctoral Fellow to Explain Tobacco Industry's Ties to Tea Party at Symposium
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
added Feb 6, 2013 06:59
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22nd Century Group Subsidiary, Goodrich Tobacco, Applies for Federal License to Manufacture Tobacco Products

Until now, Goodrich Tobacco has contracted with independent federally licensed tobacco manufacturers to produce its proprietary commercial products, RED SUN®, MAGIC® and SPECTRUM®. Goodrich Tobacco has always supplied its contract manufacturers with its o
Business Wire
added Jan 31, 2013 18:24
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Those times when you NEED a cigarette, explained: Circumstance has a lot to do with it

Smokers crave a cigarette at times they know they can have one, not just when their bodies are running low on nicotine, a new study says. Researchers were able to curb cravings by applying magnetic fields to certain parts of the brain.
New York Daily News
added Jan 31, 2013 17:46
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