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Smoking Bans Reduce Hospitalizations: Study
Significant cuts seen in heart attacks, strokes, asthma
Oct 29, 2012
HealthDay [HealthScout]
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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
Oct 30, 2012
New York Times Blogs
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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.
Oct 24, 2012
Oroville (CA) Mercury-Register
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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
Oct 21, 2012
Fairbanks (AK) Daily News-Miner
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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
Oct 20, 2012
Saudi Gazette Online (sa)
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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.
Oct 19, 2012
Kingman (AZ) Daily Miner
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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.
Oct 14, 2012
Parsippany (NJ) Daily Record
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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.
Oct 13, 2012
Laney Tower (Laney College - Oakland, CA)
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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.
Oct 12, 2012
The Daily Helmsman (TN)
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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.
Oct 3, 2012
Alaska Dispatch
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Oct 8, 2012 05:01