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Health minister, senators want ban on tobacco 1 Citation Minister of Health, Professor Babatunde Osotimehin has described the economic argument for the production of tobacco in Nigeria as making nonsense of the risk it portends to the people. Prof. Osotimehin, who stated this at an interactive dinner, organized by Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora in conjunction with Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, to support the ?National Tobacco Control Bill?, said the time has come for Nigeria to do everything possible to ban tobacco productio, technorati.com
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Health Care Industry Adopts Big Tobacco?s PR Tactics 1 Citation At first look, one might not think that the health insurance industry has much in common with the tobacco industry. After all, one sells a product that kills people and the other sells a product nominally aimed at putting people back together. But when it comes to deceitful public relations techniques, the health insurance industry has been learning well from Big Tobacco, which employed a panoply of shady but highly successful public relations tactics to fend off changes to its business for gene, technorati.com
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ATF Agents Closing In On Nation?s Most Notorious Cigarette Bummer 1 Citation WASHINGTON?A spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives announced Tuesday that the agency has intensified its manhunt for an individual suspected of bumming more than 75,000 cigarettes nationwide. ATF agents, who have tracked the elusive cigarette moocher for nearly four years, claimed they could be just days away from apprehending the ?single greatest , technorati.com
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Tobacco is Not Totally Safe Product 1 Citation Cigarette smoke affects the whole planet as well as the smokers? lungs. Unfortunately smokers can?t change the smoking effects. While there?s nothing the smokers can do for to totally absolve all cigarette damages, there are a few things to keep in mind. Tobacco is not a totally safe product. Because it?s very sensitive to disease, it needs a lot of pesticides. For example in the United States, tobacco farmers use 27 million pounds of the stuff every year. And a very small proportion of the 1., technorati.com
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Key Ministries to review FDI policy in tobacco sector 1 Citation Senior officials of Ministries of Health, Commerce and Industry, and Finance will meet on Friday to discuss and review the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in the tobacco sector. They are expected to deliberate on whether foreign investment in tobacco sector should be prohibited or not.Health factorThe current policy allows 100 per cent FDI in cigar and cigarettes manufacture on a case to case basis, but there has been a growing opposition against encouraging investments including FDI into, technorati.com
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Baptists promote tobacco legislation 1 Citation Landmark legislation approved June 11 by the Senate gives the Food and Drug Administration authority to effectively regulate the manufacture, marketing and sale of tobacco products. Curtis RamseyLucas, National Ministries? national coordinator of Public and Social Advocacy of the American Baptist Church, was involved in introducing the legislation to Congress earlier this year through his involvement , technorati.com
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Judge dismisses Nisqually cigarette sale lawsuit 1 Citation A federal court judge has upheld an arrangement between Washington state and the Squaxin Island Tribe that allows cigarette sales at Frank?s Landing, a small Indian community between Fort Lewis and Olympia.For years a smoke shop at Frank?s Landing illegally sold untaxed cigarettes. But after federal agents raided it in 2007, the community agreed to lease the shop to the Squaxins, who had authority to tax cigarette sales and use the money for local projects.Gov. Chris Gregoire formalized the arra, technorati.com
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Cyprus bans smoking at work and play 1 Citation The Cyprus parliament voted by a large majority on Thursday to make the Mediterranean holiday island the latest EU country to ban smoking in bars, restaurants, nightclubs and workplaces.The bill, which tightens up existing legislation that has gone largely unenforced, was carried by 27 votes to three in the 56-seat parliament with one abstention.The sweeping changes come into effect from January 1, 2010 so as to give establishments, and smokers, time to adjust, although amendments can be made to, technorati.com
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Turks Support Smoking Ban, Doubt Its Enforcement 1 Citation Ninety percent of Turks support a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants that will come into force this month, a poll showed.More than half the respondents also said that they were concerned the July 19 ban won?t be properly enforced, according to the poll of 600 people by Istanbul-based Quirk Global Strategies published today.About 35 percent of all adult Turks smoke, including more than half the men in the country of 72 million. Philip Morris International Inc. and British American Tobacco Plc, technorati.com
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Health grant pays for tobacco prevention education in county 1 Citation The Quit Doc Research and Education Foundation has been awarded a state health grant to provide free tobacco awareness and prevention programs in Martin County. The focus is to reduce the number of teenagers who start smoking each year, to decrease the number of tobacco related deaths and to provide information on appropriate methods to quit smoking. ?Tobacco use is the single biggest public health problem in the United States,? reports Dr. Barry Hummel, a pediatrician who co-founded the non, technorati.com
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