Displaying items 49-60 of 340
» View wsbtradio.com items only
< Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-29
Next >
-
California lawmakers head to Hawaii, Australia for post-election events
PolitiCalCalifornia lawmakers head to Hawaii... -
Snuffed out: Clark Regional Medical Center on board with Great American Smokeout
The Great American Smokeout is a national cessation day held every year by the American Cancer Society, and 2012 marks its 37th year. The day is selected to raise awareness on the dangers of tobacco. Tobacco use remains the single most preventable cause...
Tags: American Cancer Society, Hospitals and Clinics, General Practitioners, Health Organizations
-
Do not confuse antique tobacco jars with cookie jars
The first U.S. Surgeon General warning on tobacco products was required in 1964. Tobacco was labeled as bad for your health. Americans were soon using fewer tobacco products, like cigarettes, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco and cigars. In the late...Tags: Donald Duck (fictional animal), World War II (1939-1945), Stan Musial, Otto Graham, Japan
-
Marvin Woodrum:żOct. 29, 2012
Marvin Woodrum, 73, husband of Mary K. Woodrum, died Monday, Oct. 29, at the Hospice Care Center, Saint Joseph Hospital. Born in Liberty, he was a son of Mary F. Woodrum of Wilmore and the late Arthur Lee Woodrum. He retired from RJ Reynolds Tobacco...
Tags: David Gibson
-
Tobacco Ban on UCLA Campus Coming This Spring
KTLA NewsWESTWOOD, Calif. (KTLA) -- UCLA is preparing to snuff out smoking with a campus-wide ban on tobacco products. Chancellor Gene D. Block said in a letter that all tobacco products -- including cigarettes, cigars, oral tobacco and electronic cigarettes --...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles
-
Alcohol companies target African-American youth
It is no secret that for decades, tobacco companies have filled disadvantaged communities with advertising and marketing attracting generations of young people of color to the products they peddle. A new report from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Diseases and Illnesses, High Blood Pressure, Marketing, Heart Disease
-
Price of little cigars more costly because of tax
A tax increase on small cigars and other tobacco products popular with teenagers has resulted in a bump in the prices of these products just as health advocates had hoped. The Maryland Health Care for All! Coalition will release a study today showing... -
Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to heart disease, strokes and death
Considering how many people eat too much and exercise too little, it's not surprising that nearly 67 million Americans have high blood pressure. But here's the asterisk: 36 million of them do not have it under control, even though most know they have...
Tags: Atenolol (drug), Internists, Pharmaceuticals, Weight, Physical Fitness and Exercise
-
Cutting through the smoke
James R. Adams, a giant on Madison Avenue during the years immediately after World War II, once said that advertising is the "principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the Earth." Surely, the three weeks prior to an election give further...
Tags: Human Rights, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Media Industry, Human Interest
-
Feds seek full court review of graphic cigarette warnings
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is asking a federal appeals court to rehear a challenge to a requirement that tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Food and Drug Administration
-
Quinn signs bills to reduce health care, raise tobacco tax
Gov. Pat Quinn signed a package of bills into law Thursday that will slash health care coverage for the poor and hike cigarette taxes by $1-a-pack to help pay for the struggling Medicaid program.
The $1.6 billion in cuts to the program come amid the...Tags: Pat Quinn, Prescription Drugs, Medicaid, Chicago Tribune, Drugs and Medicines
Nov 14, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Nov 15, 2012
|Story| Winchester Sun
Nov 9, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
Oct 31, 2012
|Story| Jessamine Journal
Oct 31, 2012
|Story| KTLA-LTV
Oct 22, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 24, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 17, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Oct 16, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 11, 2012
|Story| Winchester Sun
Oct 9, 2012
|Story| AP Broadcast
Jun 14, 2012
|Story| WGNTV-LTV
Original site for Tobacco Products topic gallery.