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[Pennsylvania] Our View: Make public housing smoke-free

Their logic is perplexing: Second-hand smoke is dangerous enough to ban smoking among future residents. Yet second-hand smoke is not so dangerous that it should be banned for existing tenants. ... The Redevelopment Authority Board should be ashamed of it
Carlisle (PA) Sentinel
added Jan 20, 2013 10:37
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[Pennsylvania] LETTER: Site-limited smoking ban is unfair

The Monroe County Correctional Facility ... The employees of the correctional facility are not allowed to take smoking breaks nor even step outside of the facility during their 8.25-hour shift. There are plenty other places in the county at which employ
Pocono Record
added Jan 17, 2013 09:40
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[Pennsylvania] Sales of flavored tobacco products soar

Bossard, co-owner of the Anthracite Newstand ... has seen the sales of flavored tobacco products skyrocket ... younger customers and women are the primary buyers. ... Bradford is a prime example of why Pennsylvania and other states are failing when it com
Wilkes Barre (PA) Times Leader
added Jan 17, 2013 07:41
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[Pennsylvania] Carlisle residents complain about smokers in public housing complex

The Cumberland County Redevelopment Authority Board was approached by residents at one of its senior housing apartments calling for increased smoking restrictions. Smoking was banned last year in the One West Apartments in Carlisle.
Carlisle (PA) Sentinel
added Jan 15, 2013 13:03
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[Pennsylvania] Nobel Prize Winner Says Tobacco, Not Marijuana, Is The 'Gateway Drug' On The Heels Of Legalization Bill In Pa.

Dr. Henry David Abrahams, during an interview with Test Country, said smoking cigarettes during adolescence is more likely to lead to drug or alcohol abuse later in life than using marijuana. ... “Cigarettes are a gateway and also a modeling behavior fo
International Business Times
added Jan 11, 2013 09:13
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[Pennsylvania] Rochester man charged with punching infant

Jeannette Northington, no age given, told police that she and Finch were arguing over her not giving him money for cigarettes when he began choking her ... Darren Finch also is accused of punching Northington’s 6-year-old daughter, Vivianna Battista, in
Beaver County (PA) Times / Allegheny Times
added Jan 7, 2013 13:59
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[Pennsylvania] Dark secret, plot impacting tobacco industry affect retiree in fictional account

Genetti is harboring a dark secret that has driven him to decide to commit suicide, and while on the journey he stumbles across a plot impacting one of the largest industries in the country - the tobacco industry - putting his life in jeopardy.
Pottsville (PA) Republican
added Jan 7, 2013 07:20
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[Pennsylvania] Hospitals' tobacco ban going smoothly

New tobacco policies went into effect on Tuesday at hospitals across the region, but officials say education and awareness programs helped reduce backlash. Conemaugh and Altoona Regional health systems’ smoking policies target employees, visitors and v
Johnstown (PA) Tribune-Democrat
added Jan 4, 2013 10:24
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[New Jersey, Pennsylvania] Inquirer Editorial: Stop diverting money from antismoking efforts

The latest annual report card on state spending to prevent teens from first lighting up and help smokers quit should put heat on elected officials in both Harrisburg and Trenton - because their budgeting priorities make it appear that the lives of nearly
Philadelphia (PA) Inquirer
added Dec 28, 2012 04:32
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[Pennsylvania] Roll-your-own cigarette shops move to form private smoking clubs

Owners of several tobacco shops that charged customers to use $35,000 cigarette-rolling machines until changes in federal law made the practice illegal are looking to establish private smoking clubs. Like other fraternal organizations, the nonprofit smo
Pittsburgh (PA) Tribune-Review
added Dec 27, 2012 12:31
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