Smoking Bans

Smokers Need Not Apply At This Pennsylvania Hospital

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 01.05.2012

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Smokers in the medical field now have another reason to quit as a Pennsylvania hospital has said it will no longer hire smokers and is introducing nic...

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Clearing the Air: Why Smoking Bans Are Bad for Business

Audrey Silk | Posted 03.04.2012

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The CDC announced last month that it would be undertaking a study on the economic effects of smoking bans. It's being funded with a grant from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Behold the partnership of ideology and profits.

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Smoking Bans Have No Connection To Heart Attack Rates: Studies

Posted 11.14.2011

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Studies with data from seven states with smoking bans show no correlation between the bans and heart attack rates. Reason points out a study lookin...

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'Thirdhand Smoke' Poses Health Risks Too

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.26.2011

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Before this week, employees at the Indiana University Health medical center were free to step off the nonsmoking campus and light up a cigarette. Sure...

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Cigarette Displays BANNED In This Country

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — The cigarette packs piled into prominent displays behind store counters and supermarket checkouts in England can't be missed. They occu...

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U.S. Smoking Bans, State By State

Posted 05.25.2011

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Smoking bans are big news these days; most recently, New York City's new law forbidding residents from lighting up in parks, beaches and public plazas...

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CUNY Bans Smoking

Posted 05.25.2011

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Count the City University of New York's 23 campuses among the latest to go smoke-free. The school system's board of trustees voted this week to outla...

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Tobacco Company Reynolds In Talks To Buy Company For Quitters

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011

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RICHMOND, Va. — Reynolds American Inc., maker of Camel cigarettes and Grizzly smokeless tobacco, is in talks to buy a Swedish company that helps...

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Cloves Banned: FDA Bans Fruit, Candy-Flavored Cigarettes

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011

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RICHMOND, Va. — The new federal ban on flavored cigarettes took effect on Tuesday, marking one of the first visible signs of the Food and Drug A...

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Heart Attack Rates Fall 17% After Smoking Bans Enacted: Analyses

USA Today | Liz Szabo | Posted 11.17.2011

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Two separate analyses released Monday each found that heart attack rates fall 17% within a year after smoking bans take effect. One analysis, which in...

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