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Mitt Romney Crippled Model Anti-Smoking Program In Massachusetts
In the mid 1980s, Massachusetts Department of Public Health official Gregory Connolly began a seemingly hopeless campaign to end smoking in his state. He had no full-time staff and a piecemeal budget. More people complained about his smoking cessation cli
Nov 3, 2012
Huffington Post (blog)
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Nov 4, 2012 01:09
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[UK] Stoptober hailed a success
Government says more than a quarter of a million people pledged to quit smoking during its October campaign
Oct 31, 2012
WebMD
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Nov 2, 2012 14:44
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[California] Red States More Smoker-Friendly with Higher Lung Cancer and Mortality Rates, Says SmartSign.com
SmartSign.com launches new research and accompanying maps today examining smoking by state--in keeping with November's Lung Cancer Awareness Month. The maps show where it may be easiest and hardest to light up. The research examines smoking by state; fro
Nov 2, 2012
Sacramento (CA) Bee
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Nov 2, 2012 14:11
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[Singapore] Images on cigarette packs come to life for the kids
The display, on loan from the National University of Singapore (NUS), includes an ulcerated stomach and two hearts with clogged arteries, all preserved in glass casings. The specimens are part of a new anti-smoking pilot programme initiated by Alexandra
Nov 2, 2012
AsiaOne (sg)
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Nov 2, 2012 12:39
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[UK] Bexley smoking service wins national award
Bexley Stop Smoking service has won a national award for its impromptu flash mob earlier this year.
Nov 2, 2012
Bexley Times (uk)
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Nov 2, 2012 12:35
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[Russia] Putin Wages War on Vodka as Lifestyle Death Toll Mounts
An anti-tobacco law submitted to parliament yesterday will ban smoking in public places, advertising and kiosk sales. That follows measures to curb the world’s fourth-highest alcohol consumption per capita with tax increases and by limiting trade. Smoki
Oct 31, 2012
Business Week/Bloomberg
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Nov 1, 2012 14:09
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[Russia] Smoking after 2015: Expensive and not in fashion
Medvedev says that this law provides for a gradual introduction of a smoking ban in restaurants, cafes, and other commercial outlets ahead of January 1st, 2015. And this will be done in a civilized way as part of the Convention on Tobacco Control of the W
Oct 31, 2012
RUVR Voice of Russia (ru)
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Oct 31, 2012 20:06
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China's Chances of Kicking a Growing Smoking Habit
one feature that sets this group of politicians apart from the early leaders of China -- none of the current members of the most powerful body, the Standing Committee of the Politburo, are smokers and only five in the current 25-member Politburo. Whether
Oct 31, 2012
PBS
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Oct 31, 2012 19:14
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[China] Why Haven’t Chinese Leaders Acted Decisively to Reduce Tobacco Use?
One can only hope that the policy window will open after the dust of power jockeying settles. A silver lining in the cloud: the wife of soon-to-be CCP Party Secretary Xi Jinping is a supporter of tobacco control.
Oct 31, 2012
Council on Foreign Relations blogs
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Oct 31, 2012 18:23
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[UK] Smoking will 'kill up to a billion people worldwide this century'
Governments must do far more to control the global tobacco industry, say cancer experts
Oct 28, 2012
The Independent (uk)
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Oct 29, 2012 15:38