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The state has decided not to appeal a judge's decision that allows South Dakota's new smoking ban law to be referred to a public vote in the 2010 election.
Kentucky's flagship public university gave the official heave-ho to tobacco on Thursday, touting the health benefits of a smoke-free policy covering all of its sprawling campus in the heart of burley tobacco country.
Syria's president on Monday issued a decree banning smoking in public places, joining an anti-smoking trend already under way in other Arab countries.
A Maui judge has ordered a 19-year-old man who pleaded no contest to starting a restaurant fire with a flicked cigarette to stop smoking for a year.
Highlights of a study commissioned by the Pentagon and the Veterans Affairs Department to combat tobacco use in the military.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur had his signature corncob pipe. Soldiers got cigarettes in their C-rations during World War II. Even today, America's war on tobacco seems to have largely bypassed the military.
In a world swirling with studies, stories, online health forums, and several thousand pounds of conflicting research, it’s hard to figure out what to do and who to believe when it comes to truly healthy behavior.
A growing chorus of medical professionals, researchers and ordinary citizens contend that the touchy topic of individual responsibility has been ignored in the health reform debate.
We know cigarettes are bad for you, but stars such as Bette Davis in "Now Voyager" and Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca," sure did make smoking look good.
A Malaysian teacher forced a student to smoke 42 cigarettes for four hours as punishment after a cigarette and lighter were found in his locker, a news report said Thursday.
After six years of war and terrorist bombings, Iraq is moving against a different killer in its midst — smoking. Sweeping curbs unveiled by the government Thursday suggest that as the violence subsides, authorities have more time to worry about normal quality-of-life issues. The legislation to go before parliament would ban smoking in public buildings, outlaw sales to under-18s, prohibit advertising, limit tar content and mandate health warnings on cigarette packs.
One plaintiff is a cancer patient. Another is represented by his widow. The third, has emphysema and rolls into the courtroom on a wheelchair with tubes trailing out of his nose. The three Japanese are waging a minnow-vs.-whale battle against Big Tobacco in one of the world's most smoker-friendly countries. But precedent suggests they're likely to lose, and they hope their suit will at least draw attention to the dangers of smoking.
Patrons of a usually smoke-filled hookah bar stepped outside to light up Sunday as Turkey extended a ban on indoor public smoking to bars, restaurants and coffeehouses.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. The Pentagon reassured troops Wednesday that it won't ban tobacco products in war zones. Defense officials hadn't actually planned to eliminate smoking — at least for now. But fear of a ban arose among some troops after the Defense Department received a study recommending the military move toward becoming tobacco-free — perhaps in about 20 years.
A Pentagon-commissioned report urges the Defense Department to ban smoking in the military, even by combat troops in battle zones, a proposal that quickly ignited a controversy among service members.
Two inmates at the Chatham County jail in coastal Georgia got burned by their own smoking habit when they started a fire trying to light a handmade cigarette with a spark from an electrical socket.
Authorities said a man has been charged with domestic battery after he drenched his wife with a garden hose and elbowed her for smoking in the house. An arrest report shows that the 51-year-old husband was charged Saturday. Police said the couple began arguing when the wife began smoking a cigarette in their home.
It fell to President Barack Obama to confirm the gossip that his aides had spent weeks trying to snuff out: He still sneaks an occasional cigarette.
MOREHEAD, Ky. — Late in the morning last New Year's Day, Sam and Lynn Kissick received a devastating phone call that would tear their lives apart.
The White House press secretary says President Barack Obama still struggles with a nicotine addiction, but the spokesman would not say whether the president still smokes cigarettes.
Sen. Dick Durbin was just 10 or 11 when he and his cousin Mike sneaked out behind a garage in East St. Louis, Ill., to have a smoke, Durbin's first. He didn't care much for the taste of the cigarette but, unfortunately, Mike did.
China's corruption watchdog will clamp down on government officials who use public money to buy expensive cigarettes, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday, after one county last month urged its officials to smoke more than a million local cigarettes a year.
Cigarette packages should include images of sickness and suffering caused by tobacco, along with written warnings, the World Health Organization said Friday.
It may be riskier on the lungs to smoke cigarettes today than it was a few decades ago — at least in the U.S., says new research that blames changes in cigarette design for fueling a certain type of lung cancer.
Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids WarrantyUnless you've just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn't good for you. Did you know, that smoking isn't good for your computer, either? It's true, at least according to Apple.
Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteriaCigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.
Chattanooga Times Free Press | Progress slow in choking off smoking ratesSmoking will soon become a crime punishable by imprisonment. All the millions of tax revenue will come from another source and used to house prisoners. I can just see someone giving up cigarettes and walking outside for some fresh air and getting run over by smoky old dump truck.
Smoking, Anesthesia & SurgeryWhy you need to stop smoking now, especially if you're going under.
Great American Smokeout 2009: More Reasons to Quit SmokingNovember 29, 2009 marks the 34th annual celebration of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout.
Vaccine May Help Smokers Kick HabitBOSTON -- Boston researchers are investigating a new approach to help people stay off cigarettes. The experimental drug comes in the form of a vaccine and researchers are looking for healthy smokers over 18 to give it a try.
Drug May Help Smokers Quit...Moving to Phase III TrialsThe NicVAX vaccine prompts the immune system to create antibodies that bind to the nicotine molecules in the blood. The now-larger molecules are prevented by their size from crossing the blood-brain barrier.
"I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?" Denis Leary "Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Oscar Wilde "A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke." Groucho Marx
Couple sue neighbors over backyard smoking Conflict with neighbors was the last thing Donna and Richard Ganguet expected to encounter when they moved into a gated community for people 55 and older.
Oklahoma Smoking Ban Gets New PushOKLAHOMA CITY -- The war on smoking is heading up again in Oklahoma as some health advocates are making a new push for rules that could ban smoking in bars and restaurants.
Twin study reveals secrets to looking younger Sun, smoking, alcohol and stress can all add years to your faceWe are smokers...we obey all the non smoking rules.... One thing they publish is that smokers have low weight babies and a lot of other stuff...
Twisted man who forced girl, 3, to smoke cigarettes is jaileA 31 year old man thought it would be amusing to video tape a 3 year old girl smoking. A neighbor saw the tape and turned him in. The calendar may say e is 31, but his behavior says he is 13!
Man Jailed For Letting 3-Year-Old Girl Smoke CigarettesNewcastle Crown Court heard that the girl asked Graeme Conroy, 31, for a cigarette and when she started smoking it was filmed on a mobile phone. The court heard that the child had smoked three cigarettes before the filming took place.
Canadian trucker fined for smoking on the jobA Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in his vehicle because it is considered his workplace, a police spokeswoman said on Friday.
Soldier died after being given smoker's lungs in transplantA British soldier serving in Iraq died after a hospital transplant gave him a pair of lungs donated by a heavy smoker, a coroner has heard.
BBC NEWS | UK | Newsagents warn Labour over banNewsagents try to blackmail labour over the threat of banning Tobacco on display.
Chicago smoked out of cigarette-tax revenueCity tax stamps are missing on many of the packs of cigarettes sold in the Chicago area. An estimated 75 percent of cigarettes smoked in Chicago come from packs that don't bear city tax stamps. And revenues have been plummeting since the city tax went up in 2001.
Trucker fined for smoking on the job | ReutersA Canadian truck driver has been fined for smoking in his vehicle because it is considered his workplace, a police spokeswoman said on Friday
Smoking Ban OutdoorsVarious cities, states, etc are trying to ban smoking OUTDOORS in different venues.
No smoking in your own apartment!?!Recent court decisions have made it almost criminal to smoke in your apartment, on top of all the other places where smoking has been banned. Is this going too far?
Smoking During Pregnancy Puts Children At Risk Of Psychotic SymptomsSmoking during pregnancy was found to be associated with an increased risk of psychotic symptoms in the children.
Four-year-old boy a heavy smokerSHOCKING pictures have emerged of a boy who is a heavy smoker - at just four years of age. And the Jianghuai Morning Post reports that little Dong Dong, from Banqiao village in China's Anhui province, has been smoking since he was only two.
Smoking in Pregnancy Linked to Psychotic Symptoms in KidsIf women need yet another reason to avoid smoking during pregnancy, researchers now say that tobacco use by expectant mothers may raise the risk that their children will develop psychotic symptoms.
Dallas woman fuming over smoking neighbor at complex In an age when smoking has been outlawed in most public places – government buildings, bars and pool halls – a person's home is one of the few places you can puff in peace.
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