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Singer Amy Winehouse Found Dead at London Home, Police Say
Associated PressAmy Winehouse, the beehived soul-jazz diva whose self-destructive habits overshadowed a distinctive musical talent, was found dead Saturday in her London home, police said. She was 27. Winehouse shot to fame with the album "Back to Black," whose blend of...Tags: Career and Workplace, Justice System, Health, Newspaper and Magazine, Glastonbury Festival
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Feds: Cigarette Companies Promoting Smokeless Tobacco More
Staff WriterThe nation's top tobacco companies are spending less money on cigarette advertising and promotion and more money on promoting smokeless tobacco products, according to the latest data from the Federal Trade Commission. The data mirrors an industry trend...Tags: Health, Consumers, Marketing, Tobacco Products, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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How To Successfully Break Your Everyday Addictions
PIX11.comWhen we think of addictions, drugs and alcohol usually come to mind; but did you know that soda is the most common everyday addiction in the nation? From soda, to blackberries, to caffeine and more, Interventionist and Author Brad Lamm stopped by with...Tags: Human Interest, Headaches, Health, Behavioral Conditions, Temporomandibular Joint Disorder
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Cigarette packages in medical journals: New look for a new age
![For two decades starting in the 1930s, the respected Journal of the American Medical Assn. (JAMA) ran advertisements for cigarettes. A long-running ad (see it and others <a title="Terrific Stanford gallery of cigarette ads" href="http://lane.stanford.edu/tobacco/index.html" target="_blank">here)</a> proclaimed that "20,679 Physicians say 'LUCKIES are less irritating.'" All these years later, cigarette packages are featured in a leading medical journal--the venerable New England Journal of Medicine. But the latest ones show tobacco's toll: dead bodies, blackened lungs and shattered lives.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-08/63745489-04123916-187105.jpg "For two decades starting in the 1930s, the respected Journal of the American Medical Assn. (JAMA) ran advertisements for cigarettes. A long-running ad (see it and others <a title="Terrific Stanford gallery of cigarette ads\" href=\"http://lane.stanford.edu/tobacco/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here)</a> proclaimed that \"20,679 Physicians say 'LUCKIES are less irritating.'\" All these years later, cigarette packages are featured in a leading medical journal--the venerable New England Journal of Medicine. But the latest ones show tobacco's toll: dead bodies, blackened lungs and shattered lives.")
For two decades starting in the 1930s, the respected Journal of the American Medical Assn. (JAMA) ran advertisements for cigarettes. A long-running ad (see it and others here) proclaimed that "20,679 Physicians say 'LUCKIES are less irritating.'" All...Tags: Tobacco Products, Health, Newspaper and Magazine, American Medical Association, Quitting Smoking
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Smoking Can Be Hazardous To Your Buzz-June 23,2011
If the high price of cigarettes isn't going to stop people from smoking, the gory pictures on the back of the pack won't. A pack of butts now is around $8 in Connecticut. I smoked two packs a day when I was smoking cigarettes, so that would be $16 a day,...Tags: Gold and Precious Material, Metal and Mineral, Connecticut
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After 'DWTS,' Metta World Peace on which Lakers are good dancers
Lakers BlogMetta World Peace acknowledged that he's a horrible dancer, and suggested that some of his Lakers teammates would fare better than he did on "Dancing with the Stars." World Peace said Pau Gasol would be "awesome" on the shows and that Lamar Odom would... -
Help Dad stop smoking for Father's Day
Father’s Day is a day to celebrate dads for who they are and all of the wonderful things they do. It is also a great time for dads to remember the important role they play in influencing the choices their kids make regarding tobacco use.
For many...Tags: Health Treatments, Human Interest, Health, Father's Day, Behavioral Conditions
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End drug prohibition [Most commented]
Opinion L.A.Drug legalization supporters shouldn't compare their plight to Prohibition, writes Kevin A. Sabet in Wednesday's Op-Ed pages. The former senior adviser to President Obama's drug czar says it's too nuanced a situation -- legally, historically and... -
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: Tobacco Products, Health Treatments, Health, Science and Technology, Electronics
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Hooked on treatment: Marylanders pay clinic millions, but diagnoses questionable
Kevin Brown knew he was hooked on crack cocaine. That was obvious each time he set off on another smoking binge. But Brown says he never imagined that he also suffered from a mental illness until he walked into Baltimore Behavioral Health Inc.
A day or...Tags: Heroin, Unemployment, Prisons, Healthcare Policies, Crime, Law and Justice
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People who need people live longer
It's pretty clear that eating a healthy diet, exercising, not smoking and not drinking to excess are factors linked to longevity. Perhaps the most ignored but potentially powerful strategy, however, is being a social butterfly. In a study published...Tags: Obesity, Brigham Young University , Health, Education, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Mind control doesn't work -- even when we try it on ourselves
When it comes to giving up something you crave, you can run but you can't hide from your mind's insistent prodding. In fact, the more forcefully you try to suppress your thoughts about the behavior or object you desire, the more deeply you'll gorge on...Tags: Psychologists, Health, Los Angeles Times, Science, Science and Technology
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