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UIC to go tobacco-free this summer
RedEyeStudents, faculty and other employees of the University of Illinois at Chicago will have to kiss their tobacco products--and their electronic cigarettes--goodbye this summer thanks to a new tobacco-free campus policy that will go into effect July 1....Tags: Electronics, Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology, Teaching and Learning, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago
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Critics revive past promises to knock Obama budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...
Tags: Philip Morris USA, American Cancer Society, Medicare, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics
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Picking on smokers to help preschoolers
The conventional wisdom among lawmakers is that if you're going to propose a new program, you should also propose a way to pay for it. That's more fiscally responsible than simply dipping deeper into the Treasury and worrying about the consequences later....
Tags: Barack Obama, Schools, National Institutes of Health, Personal Income, Government Health Care
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Obama's budget eyes health costs, cigarette tax
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next year under the health care law the GOP has bitterly fought to repeal. But the...
Tags: Medicare, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Insurance
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Cigarette labels may educate about bladder cancer
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Graphic warning labels on packs of cigarettes may convince some people that smoking ups the risk of bladder cancer, says a new study from Canada. A survey of 291 people at doctors' offices in Toronto found less than half...Tags: Toronto (Canada), American Cancer Society, Lung Cancer, Tobacco Addiction, Science and Technology
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Subpoenas Show Federal Probe At State Capitol Is Expanding
The Hartford CourantA federal bribery and conspiracy investigation that grew out of efforts to kill a tobacco tax at the state legislature has widened in recent months to include how the state appropriated tens of millions of dollars through bonding. The direction of the...Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Career and Workplace, Middletown, Prosecution
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E-cigarettes primarily used to quit tobacco: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although the long-term health effects of electronic cigarettes are unknown, a new survey finds people who use the devices think of them as a safer alternative to tobacco and a means to break the smoking habit. Researchers from...Tags: Health, Science and Technology, Quitting Smoking, Health Treatments
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Flame retardants: California hearing weighs new safety rule
— California officials vowed Tuesday to move forward on a new fire safety rule that could eliminate the use of toxic flame retardants in household furniture and baby products sold nationwide. At a public hearing on the proposed standard, what was...
Tags: Chicago Tribune, Michael Hawthorne, Chemical Industry
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Government changes course on graphic cigarette warnings
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The government has dropped its push for cigarette labels to carry images of diseased lungs and other graphic health warnings, and will craft new anti-smoking ads that do not run afoul of free speech rights. In a letter to...Tags: John Boehner, Consumers, Politics, Justice System, Eric Holder
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Indiana's tobacco control funding pitiful
It's a sad story. In 1999, the General Assembly displayed great wisdom in enacting legislation that allocated $35 million annually from Indiana's portion of the National Tobacco Settlement for a comprehensive state tobacco- prevention program. The...
Tags: Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Insurance Cost, Diseases and Illnesses
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U.S. to revise cigarette warning labels
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and...
Tags: Philip Morris USA, Reynolds American Incorporated, Politics, Justice System, Eric Holder
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Bloomberg's new plan: hide cigarettes
NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-smoking advocates and health experts hailed proposals from Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would keep cigarettes out of sight in New York City stores, while tobacco companies and smokers called it an overreach. The ban, which...
Tags: Philip Morris USA, American Cancer Society, Michael Bloomberg, Public Officials, Politics
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Mar 19, 2013
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Mar 21, 2013
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Mar 20, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
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