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Time to Die! (Oops, I Mean Time To Quit!)

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Depression, Drugs, Cigarettes, Smoking, Medication, Health Care, Chantix, Living News
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The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.

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Bootlegged Cigarettes On The Rise As Price With Taxes Approaches $10 A Pack

New York Magazine | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Cigarettes, Cigarette Tax, Matthew Anderson, Business News

When Matthew Anderson, a burly 35-year-old senior state tax investigator, walks into a cluttered grocery store in Kensington, Brooklyn, he knows to fo...

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Cigarette Scientists: "Cigarettes Cure Lung Cancer"

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 04.14.2008 | Home

Read More: 23/6: News You Can Misuse, Tobacco Companies, Tobacco Scientists, Cigarettes, Cigarette Scientists, 236.Com, Home News

An October 2006 lung cancer study published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" was discovered to have been funded by a cigarette company, the "N...

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California OKs First Step For Higher Cigarette Tax

Reuters | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Cigarettes, CA Cigarette Sales Tax, Cigarette Sales Tax, California Legislature, Business News

Supporters of a California measure that would impose an additional sales tax of 75 cents on a pack of cigarettes may begin collecting signatures to qu...

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Cigarette Company Funded Lung Cancer Study

New York Times | Gardiner Harris | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Liggett Group, Cancer, Lung Cancer, Cigarettes, Liggett Select, Vector Group, CT Scans, Lung Cancer Studies, Lung Cancer Deaths, Lung Cancer Foundations, Lung Cancer Cigarettes, Cigarette Brands, New England Journal of Medicine, Business News

In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College jolted the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deat...

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Philip Morris Plots Aggressive New Product Blitz

Wall Street Journal | VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Cigarettes, Altria, Nicotine, Smoking, Philip Morris, Marlboro Intense, Altria Group, Marlboros, Business News

Sitting in his office overlooking Lake Geneva, Philip Morris International Chief Executive André Calantzopoulos takes a long drag from an unusually s...

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Congress Seeks Major Federal Tax Increase On Cigarettes

AP | Charles Babington | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Tobacco, Cigarettes, Cigarette Ban, Tobacco Lobbyists, Cigarette Tax, Business News

Congress is taking new whacks at the cigarette industry, banning tobacco sales in Senate buildings and -- more importantly -- seeking a significant fe...

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Vanity Fair Is A Crack-Waxing Tease

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Graydon Carter, Crack Waxing, Christopher Hitchens, Four Seasons, Vanity Fair, Cigarettes, Scotch, Media News

When October's Nicole Kidman cover appeared online, the bottom headline was reason alone to run and buy the issue. "Christopher Hitchens Gets A Really Extreme Makeover" with pictures? Genius. And they italicized "really", so it must be extreme.

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