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Starbucks bans smoking within 25 feet of stores

"Personally, it makes no difference to me, other than I'd rather be next to someone with a cigarette than a gun. But the absolute hypocrisy is incredible.
Starbucks gossip (blog)
added May 31, 2013 13:13
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[Australia] DUGGAN: Promotion ban will help stub out habit

Stopping the display of tobacco products is a key step, writes Kath Duggan.
Newcastle Herald (au)
added May 30, 2013 17:44
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Dear Abby: Money spent to keep kids from smoking is no bribe

Dear Abby: I was surprised to see you equate a concerned grandmother’s creative solution to smoking with bribery ... Oh me, oh my, did I get clobbered for my response to that letter. Out of the hundreds of letters and emails received, only one person agre
Lubbock (TX) Avalanche-Journal
added May 23, 2013 02:41
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[Australia, UK] DAUBE/CHAPMAN: Cameron’s cave-in on plain packaging is a boost to industry

When Australia’s former health minister Nicola Roxon was asked about the need for action at the launch of the report that recommended plain packaging, she said, “By not acting we are killing people.” The UK prime minister and his colleagues would do well
British Medical Journal
added May 19, 2013 11:27
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[Connecticut] O'FLAHERTY: Clear benefit to higher cigarette tax

Rarely is an issue so clear cut. Increasing the cigarette tax will reduce smoking, save lives, save money by reducing tobacco-related health care costs and increase revenue to balance the state budget and fund critical programs. This should be an easy cal
Connecticut Post
added May 16, 2013 09:19
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[UK] STACEY: Senior Tories distance themselves from Crosby | Westminster blog

Even Tories are getting involved ... Sarah Wollaston MP Are alcohol & tobacco lobbyists the real 'barnacles' that need to be scraped off the Ship of State?
Financial Times blogs
added May 9, 2013 14:22
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Dr. Judson Brewer: Should We Ban Smokers? Some Companies Are

Smoking is a diagnosable psychiatric disorder. It even has a code in our little book (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM). This means that, similar to major depressive disorder, we psychiatrists recognize nicotine dependence as a psychiatric di
Huffington Post (blog)
added May 4, 2013 11:34
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[Colorado] RAMSEY: Yes! Smoking departs Security Service Field

Starting Thursday, those who smoke will have their own special place outside Security Service Field, home of the Colorado Springs Sky Sox. Comfortable chairs and plentiful ashtrays await smokers, but notice I said their special place is outside the stadi
Colorado Springs (CO) Gazette
added Apr 4, 2013 07:51
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[UK] LAURANCE: It is not daft to suggest that smokers need psychiatric help

Faced with those figures doctors would be remiss if they did not consider whether a patient’s fag habit disguised an untreated mental disorder.
The Independent (uk)
added Mar 28, 2013 16:10
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[Indiana] FELDMAN: BURNED OUT? Funding for state's tobacco prevention program cut

Aren't our children worth a few million dollars more to help assure their future health? In the past, I've called our pitiful tobacco-control funding unconscionable, shameful, irresponsible, and short-sighted. Now I just call it sad.
Muncie (IN) Star-Press
added Mar 24, 2013 23:51
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