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10 Reasons I Quit Smoking

Therese Borchard | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Smoking, Bad Habits, Recovery, Nicotine, Cigarettes, Prevention, Addiction and Recovery, Well-Being, Health, Addiction, Quitting Smoking, Cancer, Cigarette Tax, Wellness, Living News
Therese Borchard

You're almost there. You want to quit. In fact, 80 percent of your brain is sure you can. But 20 percent insists that you can't. How do you make it over to the other side without falling SPLAT on your face?

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Cigarette Butts' Toxicity Kills Fish

news.discovery.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Sustainability, Marine Life, Cigarettes, Animals, Cigarette-Butts, Fish, Green News

Even with a small amount of unburnt tobacco clinging to it, a single cigarette butt soaked for a day is enough to turn a liter of water a sickly yello...

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Stamp Out Smoking: Take Action Today

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Smoking, Cigarettes, Great American Smokeout, Center for Disease Control, Tobacco Prevention, Tobacco, Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, Tobacco Health, Tobacco Regulation, Politics News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

There's a killer at large in our communities linked to 1 out of 5 deaths. The killer is tobacco, the leading preventable cause of death in the United States.

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Tobacco Company Reynolds In Talks To Buy Company For Quitters

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Stop Smoking, Chewing Tobacco, Grizzly, Nicotine, Grizzly Chewing Tobacco, Smokers, Smoking, Camels, Public Health, Cigarettes, Smoking Rates, Niconovum AB, Camel Cigarettes, Quit Smoking, US Tobacco, Reynolds, Tobacco, Smoking Bans, Sweden, Business News

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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Best Places For Smokers Traveling Abroad: A Top-10 List

LA Times | Mark Milian | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

Read More: Smokers, Smoking, Serbia, Smoking Rules, Laos, Travel, Balkans, No Smoking, Boznia Herzegovina, Lung Cancer, Belarus, Cigarettes, Health, Russia, Smoking Permitted, Samoa, Cancer, Smoking Allowed, Tobacco, Austria, Greece, Nauru, World News

With so many places around the world instituting smoking regulations, increasing taxes and, quite literally, kicking smokers to the curb, it's getting...

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Caution: Health Insurance May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Cigarettes, American History, Health Care, Health, President Obama, Politics News
Jeffrey Feldman

The health insurance industry does not make obscenely huge profits by selling health insurance that keeps us healthy, but by selling us the idea that health insurance keeps us healthy.

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Tobacco Giant Crafts D.C. Council Legislation

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Cigarettes, Lobbyblog, Big Tobacco, Transparency, Inside DC, Business News

The Washington Examiner reports Wednesday that lobbyists from the Altria Group, owner of tobacco company Philip Morris, are the principal authors of n...

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Smoking: Messages On Cigarette Packs May Be Counterproductive

Mother Jones | Tom Jacobs | Posted 11.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Lung Cancer, Smoking, Cigarettes, Health, Addiction, Cigarette, Obama, Philip Morris, Warning, Cigarette Tax, Wellness, Mark Zuckerberg, Living News

In June, President Obama signed a law requiring tobacco companies to post large, graphic warnings on cigarette packs. However, new research suggests t...

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Criminalizing Smoking Is Not the Answer: Bans on Cloves and Outdoor Smoking Will Backfire!

Tony Newman | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Drug Policy Alliance, Mayor Bloomberg, Cigarettes, Drug War, Banning Menthol Cigarettes, Marijuana, Cloves, Smoking-Banned-in-Public-Places, Fda, New York City, Living News
Tony Newman

While I support many restrictions on public smoking, such as at restaurants and workplaces, I believe the outdoor smoking ban and prohibition of cloves will lead to harmful and unintended consequences.

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Cloves Banned: FDA Bans Fruit, Candy-Flavored Cigarettes

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cigarettes, Smoking, Smoking Bans, FDA Ban, Health, Fruit-Flavored Cigarettes, Regulation, Candy-Flavored Cigarettes, Tobacco, Health Care, Smoking Laws, Cloves, Politics News

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 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Cigarettes, Cardiology, Smoking, Smokers, Smoking Bans, Health, Non-Smokers, Smoking Ban Effects, Smoking Laws, Secondhand Smoke, Heart Disease, Heart Attacks, Living News

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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Obama's Retirement Plan Needs More Nerve

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: 401(K), Retirement Plans, Barack Obama, Behavioral Economics, Income Tax, Ira, Cigarettes, Smoking, Economics, Behavior, Campaign Finance, Savings Bonds, Retirement Account, Contribution, Business News
Eric Schurenberg

The president announced a handful of new initiatives designed to make it easier for American workers to save more for retirement, that makes use of behavioral economics.

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Poospatuck Tribal Reservation May Be Barred From Selling Cigarettes To Non-Members

Newsday | August 26, 2009 | Posted 09.27.2009 | New York

Read More: Black Market, Long Island, New York, Harry Wallace, Cigarettes, Mastic, Poospatuck Tribe, Unkechaug, Cigarette Sales, New York News

In a decision that could put a significant crimp in untaxed cigarette sales from the Poospatuck tribal reservation in Mastic, a federal judge has gran...

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Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bans Public Smoking

Global Post | Posted 09.07.2009 | World

Read More: Sao Paulo Smoking Ban, Smoke, Brazil Smoking Ban, Smoking, Cigarettes, Smoking Ban, Brazil, Smoking Cigarettes, Sao Paulo, Cigarette Ban, World News

By Seth Kugel SAO PAULO, Brazil -- As part of a campaign to promote the state of Sao Paulo's wide-reaching new "anti-smoking" regulations, an ad ru...

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Small Good News: Bringing Big Tobacco To Its Battery-Powered Knees

Karen Stabiner | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Addiction, Food and Drug Administration, Drug Delivery Devices, Smoking, Tobacco, Electronic-Cigarettes, Nicotine, Cigarettes, Living News
Karen Stabiner

In the name of transparency, yes, my late father lit one cigarette off the end of another from the time he was twelve until nine months before he...

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Big Tobacco Sets Its Sights On Africa

TIME | JEFFREY KLUGER | Posted 08.25.2009 | World

Read More: Big Tobacco, Philip Morris, Cigarettes, Smoking, Africa, Tobacco, World News

It's easy enough to buy a smoke at Isa Yakubu's grocery store on a busy street in Lagos, Nigeria. Never mind if you don't have much money. Most local ...

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ReThinking Thank You for Smoking: Tobacco's Last Action Hero?

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Thank You for Smoking, Movie Review, Rethink Reviews, The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, Jonathan Kim, Jason Reitman, Smoking, Cigarettes, Lobbyists, Aaron Eckhart, Philip Morris, Tobacco, Health Care, Movie Critic, Big Tobacco, Chris Rock, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

The Obama administration just passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. So Will the Nick Naylors of the world soon become extinct? Not by a long shot.

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China Counterfeit Cigarette Industry Soars

Slate | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Cigarettes, Foreign Affairs, China Knock Off Cigarettes, China Counterfeit Cigarettes, China, Advocacy, World News

On first approach, Yunxiao seems like any other Chinese backwater caught in an uneasy industrial transition. Faded advertisements line the downtown st...

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NYC Anti-Smoking Campaign May Get Down And Dirty

New York Times | CLYDE HABERMAN | Posted 07.31.2009 | New York

Read More: Nyc, Cigarettes New York, Cigarettes, New York Anti-Smoking Campaign, New York City, Anti-Smoking Campaign, New York Anti-Smoking, Anti-Smoking, Smoking Lungs, New York, Lungs, New York News

Before too long, you may be forced to stare at a photo of blackened lungs, oozing decay, every time you go to the bodega for a quart of milk. ....

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The Rise and Fall of the Cigarette

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Food and Drug Administration, Tobacco, Cigarettes, Tobacco Regulation, Richard Burr, Cigarette Advertising, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Philip Morris, Mitch McConnell Kentucky, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

It was a tough week for the cigarette, and also for Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and three of his colleagues, who received huge campaign contributions from cigarette makers.

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Jason Linkins

Rep. Steve Buyer Warns Of The Dangers Of Smoking Lettuce

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cigarettes, Smoke, Marijuana, Steve Buyer, Tobacco, Media Monitors, Media Monitor, Politics News

[Via Media Monitor Jon] Speaking of that landmark cigarette law, wending its way to the President's desk: Not everyone is in favor of it. Some, in fa...

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Jason Linkins

Menthol Fight Underreported In Landmark Cigarette Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Philip Morris, Cigarettes, Media Criticism, New York Times, Menthol, Cigarette Bill, Media News

As the New York Times reports this morning, a bill allowing the Food and Drug Administration to "impose potentially strict new controls" on the tobacc...

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Senate Passes Historic Anti-Smoking Bill

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Anti-Smoking, Tobacco, Anti-Tobacco, Cigarettes, Fda, Federal Drug Administration, Congress, Philip Morris, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Senate struck a historic blow against smoking in America Thursday, voting overwhelmingly to give regulators new power to limit ...

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Sen. Tom Coburn Is Unlikely Supporter Of Tobacco Ban

The Hill | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Tom Coburn, Senate, Family Smoking Prevention Tobacco Control Act, Tobacco Ban, Cigarettes, Smoking, Coburn, Tobacco, Smoking Ban, Politics News

A Republican senator who is also a doctor is calling for a new era of Prohibition -- outlawing cigarette smoking and other tobacco use....

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Cigarette Smuggling Gang Indicted, Europe's Biggest Operation In Years

The Montenegro Connection | Posted 07.04.2009 | World

Read More: Smuggling, Montenegro, Cigarettes, Tobacco Smuggling, Foreign Affairs, Cigarette Smuggling, Italy, Mafia, Europe, Advocacy, World News

"My little cat ... I'm going crazy without you .... You have repeatedly betrayed me, I think .... Little cat, when are you coming? ... I love you, lit...

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