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[Pennsylvania] U Penn's head of smoking treatment says no-hire rule for smokers is 'regressive'
Dr. Frank Leone, director of Penn's Comprehensive Smoking Treatment Program, doesn't think it will improve health or cut down on healthcare costs.
Feb 21, 2013
WHYY (Philadelphia, PA)
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Feb 21, 2013 19:07
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[Pennsylvania] Philadelphia Inquirer (blog) From the medical side, arguing for smokers' rights
The problem is that these policies are inherently discriminatory (and, as a result, have been prohibited by 29 states, including New Jersey, and the District of Columbia). What is it about someone smoking at home that makes him or her less worthy of empl
Feb 21, 2013
Philly blogs
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Feb 21, 2013 10:30
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[New Jersey, Pennsylvania] Penn Medicine decision not to hire smokers part of a controversial trend
Penn Medicine's decision to hire only nonsmokers starting July 1 is part of a slow-moving trend that goes back decades and that is still controversial even among public health workers, who often see tobacco as enemy No. 1. "I'd be much more enthusiastic
Feb 21, 2013
Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer
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Feb 21, 2013 10:27
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[New Jersey, Pennsylvania] UPenn health system to stop hiring tobacco users, except at NJ facilities
The University of Pennsylvania's health system says that beginning this summer people who use tobacco products will no longer be hired. A notice on the Philadelphia-based health system website's career page says that as of July 1, the system will cease
Feb 19, 2013
AP - Associated Press
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Feb 19, 2013 19:20
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[Pennsylvania] ADAMS: Smoke, smoke that cigarette
Smoking isn't good for anyone's health. You don't need a medical study to learn that. Just read the police logs. -- In Lancaster, a man was cited for harassment after he struck a female taxi driver on the head. The man, who was 80 years old, was upset t
Feb 17, 2013
Lancaster Online (Lancaster Newspapers)
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Feb 18, 2013 11:18
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[Pennsylvania] Bumper tobacco crop allows growers to cash in
This is the time of year when tobacco leaves, which have been air-cured for months on hundreds of Lancaster County farms, start going to market. For Reiff, 2012 has been a good year. Not only did his crop do well, the prices are good too.
Feb 10, 2013
Lancaster Online (Lancaster Newspapers)
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Feb 10, 2013 23:30
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[Pennsylvania] Pa. man charged with risking catastrophe for allegedly smoking cigarette in coal mine
Pennsylvania prosecutors say a coal miner risked a catastrophe and the lives of his co-workers by smoking a cigarette inside a mine. The state attorney general's office on Thursday announced charges against 51-year-old Donald Adams Jr. of Spraggs for the
Feb 8, 2013
AP - Associated Press
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Feb 8, 2013 12:51
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[Pennsylvania] Coal miner charged with smoking in the mine
A coal miner was charged Thursday with risking a catastrophe and the lives of his co-workers by smoking a cigarette inside a mine. The state Attorney General's Office filed charges against Donald D. Adams Jr. for an August incident inside the Emerald Min
Feb 8, 2013
Wilkes Barre (PA) Times Leader
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Feb 8, 2013 12:16
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[Pennsylvania] Pa. boy held on charges he killed over cigarette
-A 14-year-old western Pennsylvania boy has been ordered to stand trial on charges he fatally shot a woman after she told him to "get a job" when he tried to bum a cigarette off her boyfriend.
Jan 23, 2013
AP - Associated Press
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Jan 23, 2013 14:19
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[Pennsylvania] Pa. Gets 2 Fs on Tobacco Report Card
Jan 22, 2013
Patch.org
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Jan 26, 2013 07:06