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Barbara Brenner, Breast Cancer Iconoclast, Dies at 61
Breast Cancer Action gained respect for its policy, developed by Ms. Brenner, of not accepting donations ... from drug, oil, tobacco or chemical companies, or from cancer treatment centers or health insurers. That policy freed the group to hold such compa
May 21, 2013
New York Times
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May 21, 2013 01:13
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[Indiana] Man Dies After Setting Himself On Fire While Smoking Pipe
An 86-year-old man from northwestern Indiana died after setting himself on fire while smoking a pipe, police said. Lowell Fire Department assistant chief Charles Scott says James Johnson suffered extensive burns in the Monday afternoon accident at a hom
May 16, 2013
WBIW 1340 AM (Bedford, IN)
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May 16, 2013 14:38
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[USA] C Everett Koop
has died aged 96 ... His most significant impact, however, was on smoking. ... enraging not only the powerful American tobacco industry but also the lawmakers of Washington, DC (grateful recipients of the industry's generous campaign funds), with his ins
May 6, 2013
Electronic Telegraph (uk)
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May 7, 2013 22:47
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‘Deep Throat’ porn star Harry Reems dies at 65 after losing battle with pancreatic cancer
Mar 20, 2013
New York Daily News
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May 2, 2013 16:52
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Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88
Opinion was but one area in which Mr. Starker allowed himself joyful immoderation; cigarettes and alcohol were others. He adored Scotch and by his own account consumed it with abandon. For much of his life he smoked 60 cigarettes a day, though in old age
Apr 30, 2013
New York Times
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Apr 30, 2013 05:35
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[Washington] Smoker who made death-bed plea against tobacco dies at age 53
Gallagher, who suffered from bronchitis and emphysema caused by his years as a 3-pack-a-day smoker, told friends and family that his dying wish was to convince other smokers to quit. On March 20, Gallagher asked a Daily News reporter and photographer to
Apr 29, 2013
Longview (WA) Daily News
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Apr 29, 2013 01:58
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TC Tso, USDA tobacco scientist
T.C. Tso, 95, a senior research scientist and tobacco expert with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, died April 9 of heart disease at his home in Silver Spring. ... After retiring from the Department of Agriculture in 1984, Dr. Tso worked as an indepen
Apr 25, 2013
The Washington Post
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Apr 26, 2013 06:09
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[Florida] Margarita Dosal, tobacco company president, dies - Obituaries
Margarita Chavez Dosal, the flamboyantly fancy, gleefully generous matriarch of a family that reestablished its Cuban tobacco company in Opa-locka after fleeing the Castro regime, died Monday night at her Miami Shores home of complications from diabetes.
Apr 19, 2013
Miami (FL) Herald
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Apr 19, 2013 14:29
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[New York] Artist dies in E. Village fire
died in a fiery apartment blaze sparked by smoking in bed, a police source said yesterday. Mary Lincoln Bonnell, 84, had showcased her prodigious work in SoHo galleries.
Apr 18, 2013
New York Post
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Apr 18, 2013 20:49
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[Europe, Italy] In memoriam: Giovanni Invernizzi (1948-2013) |
On March 31st, Giovanni Invernizzi passed away due to a myocardial infarction. Giovanni was a physician committed to public health and tobacco control. He specialized in immunology and spent most of his working life at the Istituto dei Tumori (Milan)
Apr 11, 2013
TobaccoRelated.org (Tobacco Control Unit of the Catalan Institute of Oncology)
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Apr 13, 2013 16:54