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Tobacco Companies Required To Report Levels Of Dozens Of Chemicals
The Food & Drug Administration says there are more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco and tobacco smoke. And now the FDA says consumers have a right to know about the levels of 93 harmful or...
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Would $81 For A Pack Of Cigarettes Put An End To Smoking?
While lawmakers here in the U.S. have developed a habit in recent years of raising taxes on cigarettes as a way to curb smoking while increasing tax revenue from those who continue to inhale, officials...
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Supreme Court Agrees: Cigarette Warning Labels Don’t Violate Big Tobacco’s...
For the last several years, the tobacco industry has been fighting a federal law that requires, among other restrictions, cigarette manufacturers to place graphic warning labels on packaging. Big...
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Los Angeles Might Treat Sale Of E-Cigarettes Like Regular Smokes
Jenny McCarthy, the latest sorta-famous person from the ’90s to shill for electronic cigarettes.It’s not just has-been actors like Stephen Dorff and Jenny McCarthy who smoke electronic cigarettes. They...
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Walmart To Pay Out $25 Million Over Exploding Gas Cans
(Carbon Arc)Even though Walmart does not manufacture plastic gasoline cans, it does sell more of the cans than any other retailer in the country and it has been named as a defendant in dozens of...
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50 Years After First Surgeon General’s Report, Smoking Still Leading...
(SA_Steve)Back in 1964, 42% of American adults smoked tobacco. That same year, the U.S. Surgeon General’s office issued a landmark report about the link between smoking and lung cancer. Since then,...
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Massachusetts Town Decides Against Banning Tobacco Sales After Outcry
(AmateurX)After floating the idea of possibly banning all tobacco sales within city limits, a Massachusetts town’s Board of Health has decided to give up the proposal after some residents protested the...
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Will The FDA Ever Get Around To New Warning Labels For Cigarettes?
In June 2009, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act became law, directing the Food and Drug Administration to not only create larger health warnings, but to include graphic images in...
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FDA Regulation Of E-Cigarettes Would Only Help Big Tobacco, Say Vaping Startups
(Mike Mozart)If you go into a convenience store to buy cigarettes, you might have a wide variety of smokes to choose from, but most of those brands are made by three or four huge tobacco companies. But...
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Pediatricians, American Cancer Society Take FDA To Court Over Delayed Graphic...
It’s been more than seven years since the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act became law, directing the Food and Drug Administration to bolster warnings on tobacco labels and to create...
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