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SMOKING & TOBACCO ISSUES
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| Tuesday, 14-Oct-2008 07:53 EDT |
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Cigarette packages to show graphic photos
LONDON, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Health officials say cigarette packages sold in Britain will soon carry photos of throat cancer, rotting teeth and a corpse in a morgue.
U.S. bill gives FDA tobacco regulation
WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. House of Representatives has approved landmark legislation empowering the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco for the first time.
S.F. considers cigarette sale restrictions
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29 (UPI) -- Major retailers are closely watching a measure in San Francisco that would ban pharmacies from selling cigarettes, The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday.
FTC wants to end tar-nicotine statements
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is proposing rescinding statements concerning cigarette tar and nicotine yields that are based on a 1966 test.
Heart attack rates drop after smoking ban
LONDON, June 14 (UPI) -- Heart attack admissions at England's hospitals have significantly decreased since a public-smoking ban was enacted, government records indicate.
Court to review tobacco case a third time
WASHINGTON, June 9 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed for the third time to take a look at a huge punitive award against Philip Morris USA over the death of a smoker.
Caterpillar smoking ban riles workers
EAST PEORIA, Ill., May 31 (UPI) -- Union leaders at Caterpillar Inc.'s U.S. manufacturing plants say a new smoking ban violates their contract.
Stores face hidden cigarettes deadline
TORONTO, May 30 (UPI) -- Retailers in the Canadian province of Ontario face a weekend deadline to take down or cover up displays of cigarettes or face hefty fines.
Study: Smoking hurts popularity
BOSTON, May 22 (UPI) -- People who quit smoking in tandem and those who still smoke form separate "cliques" that shift to the periphery of their social network, U.S. researchers said.
Tobacco seller charged for having tobacco
KENTVILLE, Nova Scotia, May 13 (UPI) -- A tobacco store operator in Canada's eastern province of Nova Scotia was charged Tuesday for storing tobacco and displaying it for sale.
Some U.S. retailers and tobacco part ways
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 (UPI) -- U.S. retailers are dropping out of the cigarette business and finding a supportive reaction from customers, retailers say.
Study: Restaurant tobacco bans influence teen smoking
BOSTON - A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers. Youths who lived in towns with strict bans were 40 percent less likely to become regular smokers than those in communities with no bans or weak ones, the researchers reported in the May issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Study: Restaurant tobacco bans influence teen smoking
BOSTON - A Massachusetts study suggests that restaurant smoking bans may play a big role in persuading teens not to become smokers. Youths who lived in towns with strict bans were 40 percent less likely to become regular smokers than those in communities with no bans or weak ones, the researchers reported in the May issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Appeals court dismisses cigarette lawsuit
WASHINGTON, April 4 (UPI) -- A U.S. federal appeals court dismissed an $800 billion lawsuit involving smokers who say they were unfairly told that light cigarettes had health benefits.
Big tobacco a test for McCain
WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- Presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain previously backed a huge tax on cigarettes but he's balked at a bill regulating the industry, an adviser says.
Israel bans smoking on military bases
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Israel has banned smoking at all military bases, police stations and prisons.
Expanded smoke ban passes in Turkey
ANKARA, Turkey, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- The Turkish parliament has passed a bill that would extend a ban on smoking in public places.
French smoking ban prompts cultural fears
PARIS, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A number of French citizens are concerned that the implementation of a wider smoking ban could threaten one of France's cultural loves.
Internet tobacco case may gut state laws
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has heard argument in a case that could affect dozens of state laws regulating Internet sales of tobacco or any dangerous product.
Less nicotine in cigarettes cut smoking
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- U.S scientists report they have found a way to reduce smokers' nicotine dependence while allowing them to continue smoking.
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