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An image from the DrinkWise TV advertising campaign. Photo: Supplied I T IS not often you see a fight among anti-booze campaigners. But last week a small meeting room in Carlton hosted a doozy...But the evening had everything apart from a punch-up: evidence...
Tags: alcohol industry, Australian Hotels Association, Australian Drug Foundation, DrinkWise TV, tobacco industry, Philip Morris, chief executive, drinking cultures, Simon Chapman, public health, Australia, Sydney, Smoking, Cigarette, Tobacco, Alcohol advertising, Tobacco advertising, Tobacco Institute
Those cited include Favelas, in the 3300 block of North Texas Street; Big Lots, in the 2500 block of North Texas Street; Jack & Linda's Country Café/JWC Sports Bar, in the 2300 block of North Texas Street; Chevron, in the 2900 block of Travis Boulevard;...
Tags: North Texas Street, Vacaville, Cigarette, Alcoholic beverage, Drug culture
The high court was hearing a PIL filed by Amarsinh Z Chowdhry, former member of Parliament, against display of advertisements of gutkha, pan masala and cigarettes on public transportation buses...The bench headed by acting chief Justice MS Shah has advised...
Tags: tobacco production, India, Ahmedabad, Gutka, Cigarette, Business Finance, Gujarat, Tobacco, Tobacco products, Advertising
Minister Jerry Narace is calling on the Members of Parliament to vote on the Tobacco Bill 2009 today. ’This bill is about protecting babies that are born and that are unborn, and that is what I want to do, protect them from the harmful effects of cigarette...
Tags: Jerry Narace, Spain, Madrid, Politics, Cigarette, Tobacco
Smoking deaths in China, home to the world's largest smoking population, will double to two million a year by 2020 if the country does not do more to reduce tobacco use, health experts predict. Raising the price of tobacco products might help discourage...
Tags: China, Mexico, Cancún, Health Medical Pharma, Pulmonology, Tobacco smoking, Rifabutin, Cigarette, Social Issues, Bacterial diseases, Treatment Action Group, Cigar, Smoking, Tobacco packaging warning messages, Tobacco, Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Tobacco advertising, Vaccines, Bacillus Calmette-Guᅢᄅrin, Lung cancer
Scientists measured smokers' levels of cotinine, a by-product of nicotine which has been shown to reflect the risk of developing lung cancer. Waiting until you had eaten breakfast reduced the amount of this chemical. The team from Penn State College says...
Tags: herbal cigarette, Los Angeles, Health Medical Pharma, Nicotine, Tobacco, Tobacco industry, Pulmonology, Tobacco smoking, Tobacco harm reduction, Cigarette, Smoking cessation, Quest, Respiratory disease, Cigar, Smoking, Electronic cigarette, Cotinine, Lung cancer
A four-month-old Saskatchewan child who died from a severe injury at the hands of an adult was in a home that should have been flagged as a high-risk environment by social workers, Saskatchewan's children's advocate says. An industrial plant southeast...
Tags: Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, fire crews, Law Crime, Environment, Colin Thatcher, Animal virology, Child pornography, Crack cocaine, Cigarette, Social Issues, Swine influenza, flu pandemic, Influenza, Alida Saskatchewan, Pandemics, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
Proposed new tobacco control legislation will ban people from smoking in vehicles carrying kids under 16 and prohibit cigarette sales in pharmacies. But the law won’t include a provincewide crackdown on smoking on restaurant and bar patios, an idea Health...
Tags: Saskatchewan Party, Canada, Regina, Smoking, Tobacco, Smoking ban, Tobacco smoking, Habits, Passive smoking, Cigarettes, Cigarette, Cigar, Health effects of tobacco
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has apparently decided to postpone a decision on where to move a U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture until next year out of consideration for one of the coalition partners, which opposes relocating the base as agreed...
Tags: tobacco tax, ruling party, considering raising, Yukio Hatoyama, tax evasion, Japan, Tōkyō, Politics, Social Issues, Business Finance, Tax, Finance, Taxation in the United States, Prime Ministers of Japan, Flat tax, Tax avoidance and tax evasion, Cigarette, Mizuho Fukushima, Toshimi Kitazawa, Public finance, Taxation, Income tax, Japanese yen, Democratic Party of Japan, Income tax in Australia, Tobacco, Haruko Hatoyama, Katsuya Okada, Hatoyama Hall, Tax resistance
Cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. has reached a deal to acquire a Swedish company whose nicotine gum, pouches and spray help people stop smoking, the second-largest U.S. tobacco company said Wednesday. The acquisition will let Reynolds offer products...
Tags: Reynolds American Inc., Richmond, Reynolds American, Business Finance, Nicotine, Tobacco, Tobacco industry, Cigarette, Salem, Camel, Grizzly tobacco, Social Issues, Snus, Smoking cessation, Health Medical Pharma, Smoking, Nicotine gum