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By tossing out a $145-billion punitive damage award against the nation’s tobacco companies, the Florida Supreme Court set a number of things right.
The court ruling will be a caution for plaintiff’s lawyers who have pushed to enlarge the size of class action lawsuits to stratospheric levels in search of a huge payday. The court subtly [...]

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http://www.examiner.com
I am writing concerning the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors’ highly touted plan to eliminate the personal property decal. While I am not at all sad to see the decal fee disappear, I believe that this short-sighted plan will result in significantly reduced tax revenues.
The crux of the issue lies in the use of the [...]

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http://www.usatoday.com
America’s deadliest habit is making a comeback.
And teens, who are most vulnerable to its lure, are leading the way.
A nearly decade-long decline in youth smoking has halted among high school students, according to a national survey released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 23% of high school students reported lighting [...]

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http://www.cbsnews.com
urbing tobacco use and taking other steps to eliminate some of the most common risk factors for cancer could save millions of lives over the next few decades, health officials said Monday.
Tobacco alone is predicted to kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took in the 20th century, if current trends [...]

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http://hot-cigs.com/news/Jul-14-2006/More-staff-to-help-smokers-give-up.1075.html
THE NUMBER of Fifers stubbing out their smoking habit has doubled since the smoke ban was imposed across Scotland in March. The specialist teams working within Fife NHS “have never been busier” and have brought in more staff since referrals from would-be quitters rocketed.
Smoking cessation services in Fife cover the Glenrothes and north-east Fife area, [...]

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http://smokker.com/news/12-07-06/Breathing-still-uneasy-in-N-H.1069.html
The same week the U.S. Surgeon General stated unequivocally that secondhand smoke kills and that the only way to stop the killing is to ban all smoking in workplaces, the state of Maine proudly unveiled its new highway sign slogan: “Breathe easy, you’re in Maine. All indoor public places are smoke-free.”
New Hampshire had its own [...]

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http://us-cigs.com/news/12.07.06/Haze-over-latest-smoking-report.1020.html
To hear the latest Surgeon General’s report, and its impact on a proposed Lenawee County business smoking ban, one might think the secret of life had been discovered. Unfortunately, the report produced more smoke than light.
Secondhand smoke is a definite health hazard, the report found. It can kill people, and there’s no “safe” level. This, [...]

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http://hot-cigs.com/news/Jul-12-2006/City-may-go-smokeless.1051.html
WAUKEGAN — The ranks of county muncipalities that ban smoking in public places might soon include Waukegan as officials study ordinances enacted by communities from Buffalo Grove to Lindenhurst.
“We are the only city right right now that has not addressed this problem,” said 1st Ward Ald. Sam Cunningham at Wednesday’s City Council meeting, repeating statements [...]

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http://www.boston.com
Massachusetts can no longer set a minimum price for cigarettes, and retailers are free to charge whatever they want for Marlboros and Kools, according to a lawyer who successfully challenged the state’s cigarette pricing regulations.
“People are going to start shopping for the lowest price cigarettes the same way they shop for anything else,” Joseph P. [...]

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http://news.galvestondailynews.com
Published July 12, 2006
Smokers who use so-called “light” cigarettes believing they are reducing their health risk are less likely to be able to quit, according to a national study.
As a result, the light cigarette smokers actually increase their risk of disease. According to the study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, smokers who [...]

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