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Cigarette labels may educate about bladder cancer
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Graphic warning labels on packs of cigarettes may convince some people that smoking ups the risk of bladder cancer, says a new study from Canada. A survey of 291 people at doctors' offices in Toronto found less than half...Tags: Lung Cancer, Quitting Smoking, Bladder cancer, Medical Research, Toronto (Canada)
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Do school programs keep kids from smoking?
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain school-based programs that aim to keep kids from smoking cigarettes seem to work, according to a fresh look at some past research. After examining over a hundred "gold standard" studies, researchers found that school-...Tags: Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School, Research, Education, University of Oxford
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State program helps Floridians quit smoking
Florida voters have given lifelong smokers such as Jack Ferrara new reason to breathe easy. After a number of tries with nicotine patches, acupuncture and hypnosis failed him, the Hollywood retiree finally snuffed out his 58-year cigarette habit —...
Tags: Osteopathic Medicine, Hollywood (Broward, Florida), Online Advertising, Quitting Smoking, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Police Files
AREA 1 North Coast Highway: A caller reported patrons at the Crescent Bay Inn refused to leave in the 1400 block at 11:46 a.m. Friday. Wave Street: A woman reported her medication and purse were stolen from a vehicle in the 200 block at 6:03 p.m....Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Data Collection, Politics, Theft
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House passes ban on pipes, bongs
TALLAHASSEEThe House passed a measure Wednesday to send hookahs and bongs up in smoke. The bill (HB 49) passed 112-3 and bans all pipes made of metal, acrylic, plastic, ceramic, glass or stone along with smoking devices such as hookahs and bongs. The bill...Tags: West Palm Beach, St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida), Politics, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Elections
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E-cigarettes will get FDA oversight as tobacco products
The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it will act to ensure the government's right to impose marketing, manufacturing and safety restrictions on "electronic cigarettes," a nicotine delivery device widely billed as an alternative to...Tags: Science and Technology, Food and Drug Administration, Health Treatments, Electronics, Manufacturing and Engineering
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How much do you know about agriculture?
Take the quiz to see how much you know about agriculture. For each item, circle the answer you think comes closest to defining these agricultural terms. The correct answers are at the end of the quiz. 1. PRRS a. A manual for repairing sensor-...Tags: Mental Health, U.S. Congress, Farms
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U.S. to revise cigarette warning labels
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and...
Tags: Reynolds American Incorporated, Politics, Justice System, Judges, Altria Group, Inc.
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Harford fifth-graders pledge never to try smoking
Thousands of fifth-graders around Harford County have pledged never to try tobacco by signing their names on banners that will be exhibited on National Kick Butts Day March 20. Harford County Health Department's Cigarette Restitution Fund Tobacco Program...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Demographics, Woodbridge, Edgewood, Health
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C. Everett Koop dies at 96; former U.S. surgeon general
In the mid-1980s, the emerging AIDS epidemic was a high-profile target of vocal conservatives. Politicians and the religious right called for sweeping measures against those diagnosed with AIDS, including quarantine of patients, mandatory screening of...
Tags: AIDS, Politics, Brooklyn (New York City), Heroin, World War II (1939-1945)
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C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general. Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the...
Tags: AIDS, HIV, Bruce Springsteen, Health Care Reform (2009), Quitting Smoking
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Ex-Surgeon General C. Everett Koop dies
C. Everett Koop, who raised the profile of the surgeon general by riveting America's attention on the then-emerging disease known as AIDS and by railing against smoking, has died in New Hampshire at age 96. An assistant at Koop's Dartmouth institute,...
Tags: AIDS, HIV, Health Care Reform (2009), Heroin, Bill Clinton
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