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Smoking Bans Reduce Hospitalizations: Study

Significant cuts seen in heart attacks, strokes, asthma
HealthDay [HealthScout]
added Nov 2, 2012 15:42
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[Minnesota] Smoke-Free Workplace Leads to Fewer Heart Attacks

A new study has found the strongest evidence yet that smoke-free workplace laws that reduce secondhand smoke inhalation can lead to reductions in heart attacks. The research, carried out by scientists at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., found a 33 p
New York Times Blogs
added Nov 2, 2012 15:33
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[California] Letter: Smoking laws should be challenged

Under federal and state law, tobacco and cigarettes are legal. Bad habit or not, justice should be served. Use of the abstract term "second-hand smoke" allows no personal defense depriving smokers of due process.
Oroville (CA) Mercury-Register
added Oct 24, 2012 11:52
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Alaska Native groups join forces to fight tobacco use

Now, with that support of the Alaska Federation of Natives, they’re trying to cut into the state’s high rate of tobacco use by Alaska Natives by persuading individual tribes to stop their employees from smoking at work. They’ve been particularly successf
Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner
added Oct 22, 2012 06:16
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[Saudi Arabia] EDITORIAL: Smoke and mirrors

Increased business, not less, could come from smoke-free public places. The smoking ban could also help shift social norms away from the acceptance of smoking in everyday life while giving smokers an incentive to quit. That is perhaps the ban's biggest p
Saudi Gazette Online (sa)
added Oct 21, 2012 22:31
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[Arizona] Kingman Letter: Send smokers to 'smoker's park'

The city administrators do not get the problem here. Smoking is a dirty, filthy habit and to allow them to continually put everyone, especially children, in danger from secondhand smoke is ridiculous.
Kingman (AZ) Daily Miner
added Oct 19, 2012 17:02
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[New Jersey] Featured letter: Visitor fired up about smoking in Rockaway

thank goodness that my township totally prohibits any smoking on the fields, in the concession areas, and in the parking lots. Shame on you, Rockaway. You should do the same.
Parsippany (NJ) Daily Record
added Oct 14, 2012 02:19
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[California] Campus smoking ban still cloudy

Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate bill AB 795 on Oct. 10, 2011, and while it was supposed to move California college students forward into cleaner air, Laney College students have seemed to stand still in a cloud of smoke and confusion.
Laney Tower (Laney College - Oakland, CA)
added Oct 13, 2012 16:59
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[Tennessee] WHITTEN: Hatred for habit leads to more smoke

Managing Editor Christopher Whitten smokes outside the Edward J. Meeman journalism building Thursday. He said while the new limited-use tobacco policy might mean well, little has been accomplished by it.
The Daily Helmsman (TN)
added Oct 12, 2012 10:36
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[Alaska] Palmer goes smoke-free, with 61.5 percent voting for ban

A proposed smoking ban in the city was approved by voters on Tuesday, according to Palmer election results, passing with 61.5 percent of voters supporting a ban on smoking in public places.
Alaska Dispatch
added Oct 8, 2012 05:01
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