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"Drug Ballads Hit Sour Notes" (Anne-Marie
O'Connor, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 30, 2002) --
It was supposed to be the
day the music died. In an elegant hotel salon, the
governor of Baja California gathered with guests of
honor to witness a solemn promise to purge the state's
radio airwaves of "narco-ballads"--songs about
narcotics traffickers--a genre as popular, gory, and
hard to banish as gangsta rap.—
ID# 6015 |
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"With Court Nod, Parents Debate School Drug Tests" (Tamar
Lewin, The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2002) --
In this serene lakeside town, a
group has gathered at the high school each week since
August to try to hammer out a consensus on drug testing
in the schools a pastor, a basketball coach, a sheriff,
a social worker, a superintendent and assorted parents,
teachers, students and school board members.—
ID# 6014 |
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"Williams Seeks Income, Tobacco Tax Increases" (Craig
Timberg, The Washington Post, Sept. 24, 2002) --
Mayor Anthony A. Williams
yesterday proposed raising the city's cigarette tax to
$1 a pack and imposing a temporary income tax increase
on all Washingtonians earning more than $50,000 a year
as he struggled to close a mounting budget gap. The tax
increases are part of a $323 million package of measures
Williams outlined to D.C. Council members in a series of
meetings yesterday. As Congress pushes for a quick
remedy, city officials are scrambling to fix the budget,
racked by the plunging stock market and a tepid economy,
before the fiscal year begins Tuesday.—
ID# 6001 |
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"Study: Alcohol Ads Often Reach Teens" (Helen
Rumbelow, The Washington Post, Sept. 24, 2002) --
Underage drinkers are often
exposed to advertisements for alcoholic beverages,
according to new research. In fact, teenagers are
frequently more likely than adults to see magazine
advertisements for liquor, according to the report by
the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown
University.—
ID# 6000 |
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"Media and Advertising Notes" (The
New York Times, Sept. 24, 2002) --
The
Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems,
Washington, is asking the federal Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms to significantly expand its review
of the marketing practices used to sell the new flavored
malt alcoholic beverages known as malternatives or
alcopops.—
ID# 5999
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"New Jersey Towns Rethink Alcohol Ban" (Iver
Peterson, The New York Times, Sept. 23, 2002) --
For more than 200 years,
from the Methodist settlers who feared the devil to the
post-war suburban pioneers who feared falling property
values to the just plain fearful parents of the recent
past, the people in this town have repeatedly agreed no
liquor. No bars. No package stores. No glasses of beer
served at the two pizza parlors in town, the two Chinese
takeout joints and the single Caribbean cafe.—
ID# 5998 |
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"Survey: Parents, siblings influence teens' drug
use" (Clementine Wallace, Reuters Health, Sept. 19, 2002) --
Good family
communication can help teens stay away from drugs,
alcohol and tobacco, and siblings play an important role
in getting the message across, according to a new survey
by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
(CASA) at Columbia University in New York.—
ID# 5997 |
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"Fewer Teens in Crashes, Study Finds" (Hugo
Martin, The
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 22, 2002) -- Tough
restrictions on new teenage drivers imposed four years
ago have reduced the number of teens involved in
alcohol-related crashes in California, according to a
study by the Automobile Club of Southern California. The
study on the impact of the 1998 graduated driver
licensing program found that alcohol-related accidents
involving 16-year-old drivers dropped 16% in the first
year after it was adopted and 13% in the second year.—
ID# 5994 |
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"Blowing Smoke" (The
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 22, 2002) -- There
was the Mission Viejo City Council, teetering on the
brink of being dangerously silly, before pulling itself
back from the edge. The council was considering a total
ban on smoking in public parks. It's already illegal in
California to light up on a playground; this would have
pushed smokers off the grounds altogether. It's one
thing to ban smoking in enclosed areas such as offices,
public buildings and restaurants. A mountain of evidence
proves the dangers of breathing secondhand smoke
indoors.—
ID# 5993
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"Keep Striving Toward a Rational
Drug Policy" (The
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 21, 2002) -- Mike
Males' "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"
(Opinion, Sept. 15) gives the dangerous and faulty
impression that marijuana is no more harmful for
adolescents than for adults. The "Marijuana Myths,
Marijuana Facts" reference he provides for this
statement is 5 years old. A recent study revealed that
people who begin smoking marijuana before age 17 have
smaller brains and less gray matter than those who start
smoking later in life. Data from adults show no
differences in brain structure between marijuana smokers
and nonsmokers.—
ID# 5992
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"Meth Makers Target Farmers' Fertilizer" (The
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 22, 2002) --
Dale Parmley has lost count
of how many times that thieves have crept onto his
1,800-acre farm to rob him. You might think that he was
mining gold instead of growing corn and soybeans. The
bandits are after anhydrous ammonia, a volatile liquid
fertilizer that can be used to produce methamphetamine.—
ID# 5991 |
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"Many Teens Say a Gun, Alcohol Within Reach at Home" (Reuters
Health, Sept. 19, 2002) --
Many adolescents do not have to sneak
around to gain access to alcohol or even a gun. Study
results suggest that for millions of US teens, alcohol
and guns are within reach in their own home, researchers
report. "Despite current
prevention and intervention strategies, adolescents
report easy access to alcohol or a gun in their
home," Dr. Monica H. Swahn told Reuters Health.—
ID# 5986
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"Study: Most Drug Inmates Not Violent"
(Yahoo News, Sept. 20, 2002) --
Most drug offenders in
state prisons are black males with no history of
violence or high-level drug dealing, an interest group
says. The Sentencing Project, which advocates for
alternatives to incarceration, says that just over half
of these state inmates — 58 percent, or 124,885 people
— are nonviolent offenders. "They represent a
pool of appropriate candidates for diversion to
treatment programs or some other type of community-based
sanctions," the authors wrote.—
ID# 5985 |
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"Governor's wives take aim at childhood drinking" (Todd
Zwillich, Reuters Health, Sept. 20, 2002) --
American policymakers
and law enforcement officials overwhelmingly believe
that drinking among children and adolescents has reached
epidemic proportions in the US, according to a survey
released Thursday by a group of governors' wives. The
group says that more public attention and funding is
needed to restrict the availability of alcohol to
minors. They also want to increase pressure on alcoholic
beverage makers to curtail advertising that makes
drinking attractive to kids.—
ID# 5980 |
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"EU to crack down on chemicals used in illegal
drugs " (Reuters
Health, Sept.
18, 2002) -- A
new regulation to reinforce controls on the trade of
chemicals that can be used to make illegal drugs was
proposed by the European Union's executive branch on
Wednesday. The European Commission proposal would
toughen the existing rules on substances that have
legitimate uses but can also form the precursors for
drugs such as heroin and cocaine.—
ID# 5974 |
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"Dozens held in date-rape drug probe " (MSNBC
News, Sept. 19, 2002) -- Federal
authorities have arrested dozens of people in 70 cities
on charges that they sold the date-rape drug popularly
known as GHB over the Internet, U.S. officials told NBC
News on Wednesday.—
ID# 5973 |
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"Police discover meth lab near elementary school " (Gene
Maddaus, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 19, 2002) --
Officers conducting a
search found a methamphetamine lab in a house just 30
feet from an elementary school Wednesday morning. In a
simultaneous search at a home in El Monte, officers
found 10 pounds of finished methamphetamine and $1
million in cash, Baldwin Park Police Lt. Michael Davis
said. The cash came from narcotics sales, police said.—
ID#5972 |
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"Study shows television ads drive down youth
smoking " (Reuters
Health, Sept.
18, 2002) -- Preliminary
results from an American Legacy Foundation study show
the anti-smoking group's "truth" campaign is
helping to lower smoking rates among US youth, the
foundation said on Wednesday. According to the group,
smoking prevalence among high school students who have
had "high exposure" to the campaign's
television commercials has declined 29% since 2000.—
ID# 5975 |
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"Pot Advocates face
up to 40 years" (by
Holly Wolcott, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18, 2002)
-- Lockwood
Valley residents Lynn and Judy Osburn, medical marijuana
advocates repeatedly targeted by authorities for growing
pot, have been charged in federal court in a case that
could land them in prison for up to 40 years. A federal
prosecutor said Tuesday he is preparing his case against
the couple following their most recent arrest, in which
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents seized 32
marijuana plants at the Osburns' northern Ventura County
ranch.—
ID# 5968
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| " Firms Still Deny
Harm in Smoking, Report Says" (Henry
Weinstein, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 18, 2002)
-- Several major
tobacco companies are continuing to deny in court
filings that smoking causes disease, even though in
recent years they have publicly acknowledged the health
hazards of their products, a congressional staff report
said Tuesday. Over the last five years, cigarette
makers, struggling to repair their tattered image, have
conceded on their Web sites that there are significant
risks associated with smoking--in some instances making
statements that are hardly different from the views of
their longtime foes.—
ID# 5971
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| "Center comes to
aid of teen addicts" (by
Laura Cruz, El Paso Times, Sept. 17, 2002) -- Serena
Pickman,
administrator at the NCED Mental Health Center, walks
down the center's hallway, which is filled with antidrug
posters. A new treatment program geared toward
adolescents started Monday. El Paso now has a dedicated
residential treatment program for teens who have the
common and difficult combination of a mental-health
disorder and an addiction to drugs or alcohol.—
ID# 5963
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| "Many drunk drivers
not problem drinkers" (by
Charnicia Huggins, Reuters Health, Sept. 16, 2002) -- Many drunk
drivers who are fatally injured in car accidents do not
have a history of problem drinking, according to new
study findings. Therefore, efforts to reduce drunk
driving deaths should target a wide spectrum of alcohol
drinkers, in addition to those who repeatedly drink and
drive, the researchers say.—
ID# 5961
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| "O.C. City Throws
Water on Smoke Ban" (by
Dave McKibben, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 17, 2002) -- After listening
to hours of emotional testimony from residents, the
Mission Viejo City Council on Monday backed down from
adopting a measure that would have been one of the
toughest anti-smoking ordinances in the nation.—
ID# 5960
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| "Know the Score
About Dangerous Drugs Like Steroids" (by
Health Scout News, Yahoo News, Sept. 15, 2002) -- Anabolic
steroids, human growth hormones and nutritional
supplements can be all too tempting for young athletes
trying to maximize their performance. Now, the National
Collegiate Athletic Association has adopted a Web-based
drug education and wellness program for student athletes
to help them make the right decisions.—
ID# 5959
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"Oregonians to Vote
on Cigarette Tax" (by
John Moritz, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2002)
-- Oregon residents
are voting this week on a cigarette tax increase and a
boost in school aid in an effort to stem the state's
budget problems. Votes will be tallied Tuesday for a
measure that would raise the cigarette tax by 60 cents
and another that would take $150 million from a
Lottery-fed education endowment fund to shore up state
school aid. Neither measure faces organized opposition.—
ID# 5958
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| "City May Widen Ban
on Smoking" (by
Mike Anton, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 16, 2002)
-- The Mission
Viejo City Council today will consider a wide-ranging
anti-smoking ordinance that would prohibit people from
lighting up in any city-owned building, vehicle or
public park. If approved, the ordinance would place
Mission Viejo on the cutting edge of anti-smoking
regulations.—
ID# 5955
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| "Drink specials to
end today" (by
Peter Long, The Daily Cardinal, Sept. 13, 2002)
-- The issue
closest to the hearts and livers of UW-Madison students,
staff and administration was again heatedly deliberated
Thursday when the Downtown Tavern Working Group
delivered its new position on the possible ban of drink
specials in Madison.—
ID# 5954
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| "Open-alcohol
tickets leap after ban" (by
John Moritz, The Star Telegram, Sept. 13, 2002)
-- The year-old law
prohibiting open containers of alcohol in most vehicles
has resulted in an average of more than 900 tickets
being issued per month to Texas motorists who have
violated the ban, statistics released Thursday by the
Texas Department of Public Safety show. "We take
open containers of alcohol in vehicles very
seriously," Randall Elliston, the department's
traffic-enforcement chief, said in a news release.—
ID# 5951
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| "Survey Finds
'Denial Gap' on Drug Abuse" (by
Felicity Stone, Yahoo News, Sept. 13, 2002) -- Millions of
Americans habitually smoke pot, snort cocaine and
swallow prescription drugs -- yet many of them deny they
might be addicts in need of help. So say the findings of
a new U.S. government report on drug abuse, which finds
a surprising number of people are unaware that they have
a serious problem.—
ID# 5950
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| "Routine Steroids Testing
for Fighters in New York" (by
Mike Freeman, The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2002)
-- Professional
boxers who fight in New York will now be required to
submit to regular steroid testing, making New York the
first state in the nation to test for the substance
routinely, boxing officials said yesterday. "The
main thing we are trying to do is protect the health of
our fighters since numerous tests have shown that
steroid use can damage the body," said Barry
Jordan, a neurologist and the chief medical officer for
the New York State Athletic Commission. "This is a
significant step in that direction."—
ID# 5949
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| "Potent warning on
smoke" (by
Patrice Jones, The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 13,
2002) -- The young woman
took a long, slow drag from her Hollywood cigarette as
if the act of inhaling sent her cares drifting away in a
trail of curling smoke. Taking a break from university
classes in the warm sun, Sylvania dos Santos looked the
part of the longtime stereotype of Brazilian
women--young and beautiful. She did not seem to notice
at all the graphic color advertisement plastered on the
back of her cigarette pack, which showed a man and woman
in bed, looking depressed.—
ID# 5948
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| "Smoke-free
restaurants are good health policy" (by
Wayne Hanson, The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 13, 2002)
-- The public
health community commends Mayor Richard Daley for being
open to proposals by two Chicago aldermen to ban smoking
in all Chicago restaurants ("Daley open to snuffing
out restaurant smoking," Metro, Aug. 29). Ald.
Edward Burke (14th) and Ald. Ed Smith (28th) are
sponsoring legislation to make the city's restaurants
smoke-free. The mayor and the aldermen understand that
secondhand smoke kills.—
ID# 5947
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| "ICC to educate
players on doping, list of banned drugs sent to all
member countries" (by
Dilip Ganguly, Yahoo News, Sept. 12, 2002) -- The
International Cricket Council will educate cricketers so
that players using drugs out of ignorance will stop
doing so well before next year's World Cup when such
performance enhancing drugs would be banned. The doping
regime will come into force during the 2003 World Cup
and the ICC believes that, with a majority of cricket
playing nations having no formal doping regulations, it
is the right time to start an education program.—
ID# 5942
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| "3 arrested in Bust
of Major Drug Ring" (The
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 11, 2002) -- Three key
figures in a major Central Coast drug ring have been
arrested by federal agents. Aided by Watsonville police,
the FBI built a case against the three men, who were
arrested Monday and booked for investigation of
attempting to distribute more than 500 grams of
methamphetamine.—
ID# 5935
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| "European court
opinion delivers blow to tobacco companies' campaign
against EU rules" (by
Paul Ames, Yahoo News, Sept. 10, 2002) -- Tobacco
companies received a major setback Tuesday in their
legal efforts to overturn strict new European Union (
news - web sites) regulations on the manufacture and
marketing of cigarettes. The Advocate General of the
European Union's highest court rejected arguments by
British American Tobacco Ltd. and Imperial Tobacco Ltd.
that the new laws were illegal.—
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| "A lamentable two-fer
Starving recovering addicts is stupid" (The
Sacramento Bee, Sept. 10, 2002)
-- Want
to increase the number of desperate people forced to
steal to eat? Want to make it harder for recovering drug
addicts to fully recover or get a job and support their
families? Want to increase the chance that crime rates
will start rising again?—
ID# 5931 |
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| "Kids' Internet
Domain to Follow FCC Rules" (by
Reuters, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 10, 2002)
-- Sex, violence
and foul language prohibited by the Federal
Communications Commission would be banned from a
children's Internet domain. Washington-based NeuStar
Inc., which plans to set up the kid-friendly Internet
zone, said it would rely on existing guidelines for
television and advertising to determine what material
would be appropriate for the ".kids.us"
domain.—
ID# 5929 |
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| "Nevada Ponders
Looser Curbs on Marijuana" (by
Rene Sanchez, The Washington Post, Sept. 7, 2002)
-- As soon as he
took over the nation's only campaign to make even
recreational use of marijuana legal, Billy Rogers laid
down a few firm rules. No stoners hanging out at the
headquarters here. No pot plants either. And no straying
from the core message to voters This is to free cops and
courts from the burdens of petty drug busts, not just to
win the right to get high.—
ID# 5927 |
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| "The myth of 'superweed'
" (by
Clarence Page, The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 8, 2002)
-- The nation's
drug czar is annoyed again. This time it is with me.
Without mentioning me by name, a guest column by John P.
Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy, in the Sept. 1 San Francisco Chronicle held up
one of my columns as an example of how journalists can
be "fed misleading advocacy information that they
swallow whole."—
ID# 5926 |
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| "Five Lose Dorm
Jobs After Holding Parties With Alcohol" (by
Maren Lane, The Daily Californian, Sept. 9, 2002)
-- Several UC
Berkeley resident assistants were fired the night before
move-in day last month for holding parties with alcohol
in their dorm rooms. Five resident assistants—two from
Bowles Hall, one from Unit 1 and two from Clark Kerr
Campus—were fired for hosting parties during which
alcohol was served to minors. Most of the three separate
incidents took place before residents moved into the
dormitories.—
ID# 5925 |
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| "Student drowning
linked to alcohol" (by
Ramon Coronado, The Sacramento Bee, Sept. 9, 2002)
-- A 26-year-old
University of California, Davis, graduate student has
died after an alcohol-related drowning accident, the
Yolo County Coroner's Office reported Sunday. Steven D.
Cannata died Saturday of complications from a swimming
accident several days earlier at an apartment complex.
He and a group of friends had been drinking alcohol
earlier in the day and then decided to go into a hot tub
Thursday morning, initial reports show.—
ID# 5924 |
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| "Naperville amends
liquor license rules" (by
Barbara Sherlock, The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 6, 2002)
-- The Naperville
City Council this week approved amendments to the city's
criteria for granting liquor licenses, changing the
definition of a restaurant and including which hours a
full menu must be available to patrons. Terms of the
seven Liquor Commission members also were amended to
four years, to coincide with the term of the mayor who
has sole authority for members' appointment.—
ID# 5919 |
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| "Denial gap' fuels
drug abuse" (by
Shira Kantor, The Chicago Tribune, Sept. 6, 2002)
-- Far more
Americans could benefit from drug abuse treatment than
previously thought, but the vast majority of them don't
believe they need help, according to an annual study
released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human
Services. "The denial gap is one of our biggest
treatment problems," said John Walters, director of
National Drug Control Policy.—
ID# 5918 |
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"Meth Lab's Dump
Found in Canyon" (by
Vivian Letran, The Los Angeles Times, Sept. 6, 2002)
-- The state
Justice Department said it has uncovered a
methamphetamine dump site in Black Star Canyon.
Officials said Wednesday that they discovered 20 black
trash bags along a private road. The bags contained
toxic chemical waste, glassware, antifreeze containers
and other materials.—
ID# 5915 |
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| "Southeast Asian
countries call for ban on tobacco advertising" (By
Uamdao Noikorn, Yahoo News, September 5, 2002)
-- Alarmed by
rising numbers of juvenile and female smokers in
Southeast Asia, government representatives from across
the region called Wednesday for tougher anti-tobacco
regulations including a total ban on advertising. The
call was made at the end of a three-day meeting in
Bangkok of officials from 10 Southeast Asian countries
to forge a common stand ahead of negotiations for a
global anti-tobacco treaty.—
ID# 5914 |
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| "Critics protest
anti-drug tactics" (By
Donna Leinwand, Yahoo News, September 5, 2002)
-- In drug-plagued
neighborhoods of Wilmington, Del., it's become a
nighttime routine Police ''jump out'' squads descend on
a street corner, round up a few suspected dealers and
cart them off to jail. But then the cops go a step
further They detain others in the area for up to two
hours, take digital photographs of them, get their names
and other details, and then put the information in a
database to use in future investigations.—
ID# 5913 |
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| "Marketing at
Philip Morris" (By
Dow Jones, The New York Times, September 5, 2002)
-- Philip
Morris USA will increase promotional spending in the
second half of the year in the face of overall retail
share declines in the first six months of the year.
Philip Morris USA, the domestic tobacco operating unit
of the Philip Morris Companies, said it would expand its
promotional presence at the retail level for four
brands.—
ID# 5912 |
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| "Our Appetite for
Drugs" (By
Joan Mistretta, The New York Times, September 5, 2002)
-- Re "U.S. to
Step Up Spraying to Kill Colombia Coca" (front
page, Sept. 4) It seems typical of American arrogance
that it is our drug use that creates and sustains the
drug trade, and yet our solution is to take aim at the
farmers of Colombia. What difference will it make if we
kill all the coca crops in Colombia?—
ID# 5911 |
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| "University May
Soon Lift Greek System Alcohol Ban" (By
Ben Barron, The Daily Californian, September 5, 2002)
-- UC Berkeley's
fraternities and sororities received a proposal
yesterday that may end the university's ban on the
consumption of alcohol at all Greek social events. —
ID# 5910 |
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| "Grace Magazine
Says No to Tobacco, Loss-Weight Ads" (By
Reuters, Yahoo News, September 3, 2002) -- Grace,
the recently launched magazine for full-figured women,
on Tuesday said it will not carry weight-loss and
tobacco-related advertising since it opposes their
message to readers, but said it does not see a negative
impact on its revenue.—
ID# 5905 |
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| "Asian Americans
Targeted for Tobacco Promotion" (By
Bob Burton, Yahoo News, September 2, 2002) -- Their
findings in the September 2002 edition of 'Tobacco
Control', published by the British Medical Journal, add
to revelations that the tobacco industry developed
detailed strategies for other specific groups including
African Americans and the homosexual community.—
ID# 5898 |
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| "Makeover planned
on Michelob image" (By Michael McCarthy,
USA Today, August 29, 2002) -- Michelob A-B
plans a sexy, $50 million ad campaign to try to change
the classic American brand — the first U.S.
super-premium brew — into a high-end import fighter.
"This brand is trying to get young and urban and
have ethnic appeal," says Bob Lachky, vice
president of brand management. "It was starting to
lose its relevance with contemporary beer
drinkers."—
ID# 5897 |
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| "Alcohol Ban Still
in Effect on Fraternity Row" (
By Mike Meyers, The Daily Californian, September
3, 2002) -- Although Cal's
football team crushed their Texas opponent Saturday, the
only things crushed on Fraternity Row were soda cans.
Traditional pre-game barbecues, where fraternity alumni
return to their houses and socialize with current
members, fell victim to the moratorium which many hoped
would apply only to nighttime parties.—
ID# 5896 |
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| "For some, 'yaba'
becoming a drug of choice" (By
Steve Wiegand, The Sacramento Bee, September 2, 2002)
-- But whatever you
call it, law enforcement officials say the highly
addictive tablet has become the drug of choice among
drug users in Sacramento's burgeoning Southeast Asian
community, and has the potential to spread elsewhere as
it becomes more prevalent. "We are seeing it in
pretty significant numbers," said Sacramento County
Undersheriff John McGinness. "We are going to see
it at problem levels, there's no doubt about it."—
ID# 5895 |
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| "Scientists say
long-term effects of Ecstasy unclear" ( By Patricia
Reaney, Reuters
Health, September 3, 2002) -- The party drug
Ecstasy may be dangerous and could cause brain damage,
but its long-term effects are still unclear, a team of
researchers said on Monday. The dance clubbers' favorite
drug has been linked to psychological and memory
problems but scientists in Britain and the United States
said results of studies of Ecstasy may have been
misinterpreted and sensationalized by the media.—
ID# 5894 |
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| "Police Get Grant
to Help Curb Teen Drinking" (The
Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2002) -- The Santa Paula
Police Department will receive a state grant next week
to aid in efforts to curb underage drinking in the city.
The $43,931 grant from the Department of Alcohol
Beverage Control will be presented to Police Chief Bob
Gonzales and other city officials at the City Council
meeting Wednesday.—
ID# 5892 |
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| "Vice Fund Hopes
Cigarettes, Booze Pay Off" (By
Kathie O'Donnell, The Los Angeles Times, September
3, 2002) -- Vanguard Group
has a ship as its logo. T. Rowe Price Group Inc. uses a
bighorn sheep. To represent its new Vice Fund,
Mutuals.com chose a cigarette, a martini, dice and a gun
sight. Vice Fund, which begins trading today, will be
the first open-end mutual fund focused on "socially
irresponsible" investments, buying shares of
companies such as Philip Morris Cos., Anheuser-Busch
Cos., Harrah's Entertainment Inc. and Lockheed Martin
Corp., said co-manager Dan Ahrens.—
ID# 5891 |
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| "Police arrest
Mexican man accused of heading up Texas drug gang" (
Yahoo News, September 2, 2002) -- Police arrested
the alleged leader of a powerful Texas-based gang that
distributed loads of cocaine across the United States,
the Mexican attorney general's office said in a
statement Saturday. Authorities said Juan Heriberto
Carrillo Olivas, a Mexican citizen, headed up a gang in
El Paso, Texas, that used a fleet of tractor-trailers to
transport cocaine to other U.S. cities, according to the
statement.—
ID# 5887 |
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| "Fourth of July
alcohol sales ban doesn't make sense for Newport" (By
Paul James Baldwin, The Los Angeles Times,
September 1, 2002) -- The Fourth of
July in Zooport, I mean Newport, has always been a time
for partying, especially along Seashore Drive
("Fourth of July craziness on council radar,"
Wednesday). As long as anyone can remember, these
festivities have always brought problems. Now there is
discussion of not selling alcohol on the Fourth of July.
That has to be the stupidest idea since someone sold
Dennis Rodman a house on Seashore.—
ID# 5882 |
|
| "Bill OKs Free Sale
of Syringes" (By
Charles Ornstein, The Los Angeles Times, August
31, 2002) -- The Legislature
gave its final approval Friday to a measure that would
allow pharmacies to sell up to 30 syringes, or
hypodermic needles, to an adult without a prescription.
Supporters say over-the-counter syringe sales would
reduce the spread of HIV and infectious hepatitis among
drug users, saving millions of dollars in medical costs.—
ID# 5881 |
|
| "Tougher Laws
Aren't the Only Way to Stop DUIs" (By
Lourdes Gutierrez, The Los Angeles Times,
September 1, 2002) -- Tougher laws
could be the best antidote to drunk drivers. But while
waiting for such laws to be passed, let us make other
life-saving environmental prevention strategies, which
have been proved to reduce the number of alcohol-related
crashes, work for our health and safety. Driving under
the influence checkpoints, where police randomly stop
cars and look for intoxicated drivers, send a clear
message to the public that law enforcement is watching
out for impaired drivers.—
ID# 5880 |
|
| "Passive smoke
worse in workplace than in home" (By
Alison McCook, Reuters Health, August 30, 2002)
-- Nonsmoking
women who are exposed to tobacco smoke in the workplace
may have a higher risk of developing lung cancer than
those who live with a smoking spouse, German researchers
report.—
ID# 5871 |
|
| "White House pushes
for more drug testing in schools" (By Todd Zwillich,
Reuters
Health, August 30, 2002) -- Capitalizing on
a recent US Supreme Court decision, Bush administration
officials on Thursday encouraged more of the nation's
public school districts to consider implementing random
drug testing of students. White House drug policy
officials released a new booklet they said is designed
to help middle schools and high schools decide if and
how they should begin testing students for drug use.—
ID# 5870 |
|
| "Internet tobacco
bill goes to Gov. Davis" (The
Los Angeles Times, August 30, 2002) -- Legislation that
would crack down on people selling cigarettes to
children over the Internet won support from both houses
of Congress with a 51-15 vote. The bill now requires the
approval of Gov. Gray Davis.—
ID# 5869 |
|
| "Daley open to
snuffing out restaurant smoking" (The
Chicago Tribune, August 29, 2002) -- Daley,
who has been reluctant to support far-reaching
anti-smoking measures, told reporters he has an open
mind on a proposal sponsored by Ald. Edward Burke (14th)
and Ald. Ed Smith (28th) that would go beyond the
current restaurant requirement to set aside a certain
percentage of tables in designated no-smoking areas.—
ID# 5867 |
|
| "Living the campus
high life" (The
Chicago Tribune, August 29, 2002) -- The
rankings published by a private college-preparation
company are the result of an annual survey of university
students all over the country who graded their schools
on everything from quality of campus life to the
political ideology of the student bodies. The poll made
its biggest splash, though, with rankings in the
category for the wildest party atmosphere, stirring up a
minor controversy among critics who say the assessment
ends up glamorizing binge drinking and substance abuse.—
ID# 5866 |
|
|
"Government to pay
farmers to switch from coca to trees" (The
Chicago Tribune, August 29, 2002) -- Colombia
will spend $300 million over the next four years to
persuade peasant farmers growing raw materials for
cocaine and heroin to switch to forestry instead, a
senior official said Wednesday. The project will replace
Plan Colombia, implemented under then-President Andres
Pastrana, which had mixed results in encouraging
peasants to swap coca leaves and opium poppies for legal
crops.—
ID# 5865 |
|
| "Study links
second-hand smoke to heart disease" (Reuters
Health, August 29, 2002) -- Being
exposed to other people's cigarette smoke dramatically
increases the risk of heart disease, researchers in
Greece show in a study published Thursday. The study in
the British Medical Association's quarterly specialist
journal Tobacco Control suggested banning smoking in the
workplace was the best way to protect smokers from
giving their non-smoking colleagues heart attacks.—
ID# 5862 |
|
| "14 percent of
world youth smoke, survey finds" (Reuters
Health, August 29, 2002) -- Fourteen percent of
teens aged 13 to 15 smoke worldwide, but two-thirds of
them want to quit, a survey released on Wednesday finds.
A quarter of all kids who smoke started by the age of
10, the report, by the US Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, the World
Health Organization and the Canadian Public Health
Association found.—
ID# 5861 |
|
| "Pot smoking in
youth tied to more drug use later" (Reuters
Health, August 29, 2002) -- People who first try
marijuana early in life may be more likely than others
to abuse or become dependent on illegal drugs later on,
US government researchers said on Wednesday. They found
that 62% of adults ages 26 or older who first started
using marijuana before they were 15 had also tried
cocaine at some point. More than 9% reported they had
used heroin, and more than half had used prescription
drugs for recreational purposes.—
ID# 5860 |
|
| "Teens' Tobacco
Addiction Faster Than Once Thought" (by Thomas
Maugh, The Los Angeles Times, August 29, 2002) --
Police
arrested nine current and former McIntosh College
students on drug charges Tuesday after a raid on a
college dormitory that the police chief called "an
open-air drug market like we've never seen in the
city." Chief William Fenniman said police would
push to close the dorm, where most of the suspects
lived, under a federal law aimed at crack houses.—
ID# 5858 |
|
| "Ohio's Top Court
Bars Local Smoking Bans in All Public Places"
(Associated Press, The Los Angeles Times, August
29, 2002) -- Local health boards are not allowed to
ban smoking in all public places when the Legislature
specifically exempted bars and restaurants from such
bans, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
Anti-smoking groups said that they would continue their
crusade and take their pleas for smoking bans directly
to the voters.—
ID# 5857 |
|
| "Old Enough to Vote
but Not Smoke? Whatever" (by Susan Carpenter, The
Los Angeles Times, August 29, 2002) -- The
19-year-old art major, who began smoking as "a form
of venting," is old enough to vote, work and go to
war. But if a bill pending in the California Legislature
gets an eleventh-hour burst of energy, he would no
longer be old enough to buy cigarettes. The bill calls
for raising the minimum legal age for purchasing
cigarettes in California from 18 to 21--the highest in
the country. While 18 remains the standard in most
states, Alabama, Alaska and Utah have raised their
minimums to 19.—
ID# 5856 |
|
| "Police raid
college dormitory, arrest nine; chief wants dorm
forfeited under federal drug law" (by Stephen
Frothingham, Yahoo News, August 28, 2002) -- Police
arrested nine current and former McIntosh College
students on drug charges Tuesday after a raid on a
college dormitory that the police chief called "an
open-air drug market like we've never seen in the
city." Chief William Fenniman said police would
push to close the dorm, where most of the suspects
lived, under a federal law aimed at crack houses.—
ID# 5852 |
|
| "Smoke Ban on
Menu for City" (by Sabrina Miller, The Chicago
Tribune, August 28, 2002) -- The City Council's
anti-smoking crusaders are teaming up again to try to
ban patrons from lighting up in Chicago restaurants.
Following a similar proposal that New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg introduced earlier this month, Ald. Ed
Smith (28th) and Ald. —
ID# 5851 |
|
| "City seizes
237, 000 Black-Market Cigarettes" (by Times
Wire, The Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2002) -- But
smoker advocates say black-market sales will only grow
in New York, where a tax increase has pushed cigarettes
to $7.50 a pack and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is waging
a policy war against smoking.—
ID# 5849 |
|
| "Deal is Reached
on Drug Testing" (by Ross Newhan, The Los
Angeles Times, August 28, 2002) -- As
Commissioner Bud Selig was preparing Tuesday to leave
Milwaukee on his private plane today to participate in
the final attempts to reach a bargaining agreement and
avoid baseball's ninth work stoppage in 30 years,
negotiators for the players and owners removed one
obstacle when they reached what a union lawyer confirmed
is a virtual agreement on steroid testing.—
ID# 5848 |
|
|
August 26, 2002 —Yahoo
News—
Alcohol Lobbies Press for Sin Tax Cut— The alcoholic beverage
industry is pressing Congress to lower the federal
excise tax on beer, wine and liquor — just as several
states are considering raising their "sin"
taxes to help close budget deficits. Already, more than
200 lawmakers seeking re-election — many beneficiaries
of the industry's political largesse — have signed on
to tax cut proposals.—
ID# 5847 |
|
|
August 27, 2002 —The
New York Times — New York, New York—
A Jubilant Barroom Toast to Smoke-Free Air— Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg's proposal to extend New York's smoking ban to
all offices, bars and restaurants — even pool halls,
bowling alleys and bingo parlors — would not make the
city the first to have such a law. California and dozens
of towns and counties already have similar laws. But
with all eyes on New York, a new law would send a strong
message to the many cities and states that lag on this
important health measure.—
ID# 5846 |
|
|
August 27, 2002 —The
New York Times — New York, New York— Baseball's Drug Plan
Lacks Muscle— Along
with copies of the drug-testing plan that's being worked
out, baseball should send players samples of anabolic
steroids, human growth hormone, andro and other
testosterone-boosting supplements. They'll be free to
use them, anyway.—
ID# 5845 |
|
|
August 27, 2002 —The
Chicago Tribune — Chicago, Illinois—
Smoking remains a prop in films— In reality, smoking is a
nasty addiction linked to a bevy of medical problems.
Yet in Hollywood, tobacco products remain a favorite
prop. In scripted scenes, they serve as accent marks and
exclamation points. For actors, they are as
character-defining as a lisp or a way of walking -- try
to imagine Humphrey Bogart without a cigarette dangling
from his lips.—
ID# 5844 |
|
|
August 26, 2002 —
Reuters Health— Thais consider vomit
fix to stop drug abuse—
Thailand is considering
manufacturing fake speed pills that cause headaches and
vomiting to stop people abusing drugs, Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra said on Monday. "I want the
public health ministry to talk to psychiatrists and
chemists on whether the government should produce drugs
that give people headaches and nausea," Thaksin
told a drugs seminar.—
ID# 5843 |
|
|
August 23, 2002 —The
New York Times — New York, New York—
The N.B.A. Regretfully Cancels a Lorillard Sponsorship—
THE National Basketball
Association and the Lorillard Tobacco Company are
blaming anti-tobacco activists for the decision to
remove the cigarette maker's Youth Smoking Prevention
Program as a sponsor of a popular youth basketball
tournament. The decision was disclosed by the league and
Lorillard yesterday, three weeks after the league
quietly canceled a contract with Lorillard, a division
of the Loews Corporation , to be a sponsor of the
N.B.A.'s Hoop-It-Up three-on-three basketball
tournament.—
ID# 5840 |
|
|
August 23, 2002 —The
New York Times — New York, New York—
Nassau May Follow City's Lead on Antismoking Proposal—
Democratic lawmakers
in Nassau County introduced tough new antismoking
legislation today that would mirror the strict ban on
smoking in all New York City restaurants and bars
proposed this month by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Nassau legislators said they also hoped to reach
agreement with Suffolk and Westchester Counties, which
have been considering their own tougher laws, to create
an eight-county no-smoking zone across lower New York
State.—
ID# 5839 |
|
|
August 26, 2002 —The
Chicago Tribune — Chicago, Illinois—
MIT freshmen now must live on campus—
The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology is assigning all freshmen to on-campus
housing for the first time in its 137-year history, a
move that comes five years after a freshman drank
himself to death at a fraternity initiation. Since Scott
Krueger's 1997 death, MIT parents have called for more
housing supervision.—
ID# 5838 |
|
|
Editorial
— August 24, 2002 —The
Chicago Tribune — Chicago, Illinois—
Clearing the air— Bravo to the Tribune
for taking a decisive stand to protect the health of
Illinoisans through its support of stronger clean indoor
air laws in Illinois ("New York's squeeze on
smoking," Editorial, Aug. 19). Your editorial makes
crystal clear the many health dangers of secondhand
smoke and demystifies some of the arguments against
better clean indoor air laws.—
ID# 5837 |
|
|
Editorial
— August 25, 2002 —The
Chicago Tribune — Chicago, Illinois—
Get with the program— Cocaine
is not merely a recreational drug. It is an illegal drug
that is highly addictive. Cocaineor st use can result in
seizures, cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest roke.
Cocaine addiction saps financial resources, destroys
relationships and renders professional athletes unable
to compete.—
ID# 5836 |
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|
August 23, 2002 —Reuters
Health—Teen
drinkers think friends drink much more: study— US high school boys who
binge drink may justify their alcohol use by grossly
overestimating the amount their friends drink,
researchers report. "If you ask students how much
they drink, lots of times you'll hear tagged on to the
end of what they tell you '...but I have friends who
drink a lot more,'" said Dr. Dan Segrist of
Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville.—
ID# 5835 |
|
|
August 23, 2002 —Reuters
Health—
Alcohol tied to resky sex among HIV+ men: study— HIV-positive men who see
alcohol as a way to enhance their sex lives may be more
likely to have unprotected sex, according to
researchers. Their study of about 200 men with HIV found
that those who connected alcohol and sexual pleasure
were more likely than others to have had unprotected sex
in the past 3 months.—
ID# 5834 |
|
|
August 23, 2002 — The
Los Angeles Times— Los Angeles, California—
Marijuana court ruling may open door to abuses— Here's a decision
that will keep criminal defense lawyers like me busy for
a while. The California Supreme Court recently put
marijuana use for medical purposes on the same plane as
any other prescription drug. This all goes back to
Proposition 215, passed by the voters in California in
1996, which allows people to grow and use marijuana if
they are doing so for medical purposes.—
ID# 5832 |
|
|
August 23, 2002 —USA
Today—U.S.
Seizures of narcotic shrub on the rise— Khat, a narcotic leaf
that has long been popular in East Africa and on the
Saudi Arabian peninsula, is becoming increasingly
prevalent in the USA, largely because of an influx of
immigrants from nations such as Somalia and Yemen, U.S.
officials say.—
ID# 5831 |
|
|
August 21, 2002 — Reuters
Health—
New York smokers fired up over proposed smoking ban—
As bartender Ciaran Hegarty
mixed cocktails at the Times Square watering hole
Langan's, it wasn't the city's sweltering summer that
got him heated, but a plan to ban smoking from all local
bars and restaurants. "You get rid of the smoking
and next will be the drinking, then the
conversation," predicted Hegarty, himself a smoker.
"It's another small freedom disappearing, that's
what it is."—
ID# 5829 |
|
|
August 23, 2002 —
Reuters Health—Escape
from loneliness may drive Ecstasy Use— Many young people drawn to
the "party drug" Ecstasy may use it as a way
to banish feelings of loneliness, according to new
research. "Given the subjective effects of Ecstasy
in promoting 'togetherness,' it is likely taken by
people who feel socially isolated and perhaps unable to
feel a sense of belonging in other ways," said
researcher Dr. Ami Rokach, of York University in
Toronto, Ontario.—
ID# 5828 |
|
|
August 22, 2002 — El
Paso Times— El Paso, Texas—Teen
Caught smuggling cocaine— A 17-year-old boy from
Juárez was caught trying to smuggle 114 pounds of
cocaine, worth over $5 million, on the Bridge of the
Americas Tuesday evening in a pickup, officials of the
U.S. Customs Service said. The seizure blows away the
previous record for largest cocaine load -- 87.5 pounds
on April 22, 1999 -- but also illustrates what officials
say is a sad trend teenagers being used to smuggle
drugs.—
ID# 5826 |
|
|
August 15, 2002 — Yahoo
News—
Alcohol's Mind-Bending Toll— Two
new studies about alcohol and alcoholism confirm what
clinicians and some researchers have long suspected
Drinkers with a family history of alcoholism are more
likely to develop a tolerance for alcohol, and
detoxified alcoholics are likely to have difficulties
with memory and problem-solving. —
ID# 5825 |
|
|
August 22, 2002 — The
Los Angeles Times— Los Angeles, California—Smoky
View of Libertarianism— Smoking crusaders like to
think of themselves as big libertarians. "It's my
right to puff where I like," they rave. "What
I do with and to my body is none of the government's
business." That is the same tired, specious bit of
civics they flung at then-New York City Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani in January 1995 when he signed into law the
Smoke-Free Air Act, which prohibited smokers from
lighting up in the dining areas of all restaurants
seating more than 35 and confined smoking to bar areas.—
ID# 5823 |
|
|
August 22, 2002 — The
Los Angeles Times— Los Angeles, California—2
Ex-Officers Sent to Prison for Drug Theft— Two former police officers
were sentenced to prison Wednesday for their roles in a
ring that stole 650 pounds of cocaine from an evidence
locker. Michael Wilcox, 42, a former California Highway
Patrol officer, received a 63-month sentence after
pleading guilty in Los Angeles federal court to
conspiring to distribute cocaine and to structuring a
bank deposit to avoid federal reporting requirements.—
ID# 5821 |
|
|
August 20, 2002 — The
Chicago Tribune— Chicago, Illinois— Underage
drinkers will lose licenses—A
new law designed to discourage minors from buying
alcohol will target teenagers' most prized possessions
their driver's licenses. The law, signed by Gov. George
Ryan on Monday, will let the state revoke or suspend for
one year the license of any person under 21 caught
trying to buy alcohol or drinking at a bar or nightclub,
regardless of whether the person has a fake ID. The law
will take effect Jan. 1.—
ID# 5819 |
|
|
August 21, 2002 — The
Sacramento Bee— Sacramento, California— 10
arrested on drug-import charges—Ten
people have been arrested after being indicted by a
federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy to import
methamphetamine pills known as Ya Ba. —
ID# 5818 |
|
|
August 19, 2002 — The
Los Angeles Times— Los Angeles, California—Annual
Teen Drug Study Finds Mixed Results— Nearly two-thirds of
teenagers say their schools are drug-free, according to
a survey released Tuesday. But it's good news, bad news
for parents, because the survey group of a thousand
12-to 17-year-olds also says that marijuana is as easy
to get as tobacco and even easier to buy than alcohol. —
ID# 5815 |
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|
Editorial
— August 18, 2002 — The
Chicago Tribune— Chicago, Illinois— Bid Farewell to
the Cigarette Century— Some of my smoking pals in
New York City feel outraged and betrayed at the apparent
perfidy of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-smoking
crusade. Then, at a time when the city already was hot
enough to melt a landlord's heart, he drops this
bombshell He is asking the New York City Council to
extend the city's
anti-smoking law to include all restaurants and bars.—
ID# 5803 |
|
|
August 19, 2002 — The
Chicago Tribune— Chicago, Illinois— New
York's squeeze on smoking—Cigarette
smoking, like all addictions, sustains itself by myriad
rationalizations. It's sexy, rakish and a tad
continental, n'est-ce pas? Or it's a matter of
individual rights If I want to impersonate James Dean on
a Harley without a helmet, Chesterfield dangling from my
mouth, whose business is it but mine? Or just plain
business If a busload of frantic, chain-smoking Japanese
tourists walks into my bar, why should I turn them away?—
ID# 5802 |
|
|
Editorial
— August 19, 2002 — The
Sacramento Bee— Sacramento, California— Smoking is a
bad habit, but so is basing budget on a tax gimmick—Smoking
cigarettes is a dirty, expensive, extremely unhealthy
and, therefore, really stupid practice, and fortunately
for themselves and the rest of us, about 80 percent of
California's adults don't do it. That said, even
nonsmokers should be leery about the current Democratic
proposal to nearly triple state taxes on cigarettes,
raising them to $3 a pack, as a means of relieving
pressure on a deficit-ridden state budget. It's
suspection several levels, including social equity and
fiscal good sense.—
ID# 5801 |
|
|
Editorial
— August 19, 2002 — Reuters Health— Fewer
US teens may be smoking, using drugs: survey—US
high school students have an easier time buying
marijuana than cigarettes and beer, according to a
national survey of public school students. At the same
time, more public schools are drug free than in the past
7 years. The researchers found that the roughly one
third of teenagers surveyed who said they had an easier
time buying marijuana were 1.5 times more likely than
their peers to use drugs.—
ID# 5799 |
|
|
August 19, 2002 — The Los
Angeles Times— Los Angeles, California— Philip
Morris Trial Set to Begin—A
Newport Beach woman who contracted lung cancer after
decades of smoking is headed for trial against Philip
Morris Cos. in a case that could determine whether new
rules of evidence in California tobacco cases can help
cigarette makers halt a string of disastrous courtroom
losses.—
ID# 5798
|
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Editorial
— August 19, 2002 — The Los
Angeles Times— Los Angeles, California— Here's
a Pitch: Blow the Cigarette Smoke Back kin Hollywood's
Face—"My
hands are bloody; so are Hollywood's," declares
Hollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas in a recent
commentary piece in which he also acknowledges he has
throat cancer. "My cancer has caused me to attempt
to cleanse mine," he adds. In the piece, in the New
York Times, the multimillionaire screenwriter literally
begs his Hollywood colleagues to stop using alluring
images of cigarettes, which, according to the federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, kill 440,000
Americans annually. The CDC also says that every day
almost 5,000 under the age of 18 try their first
cigarette.—
ID# 5797 |
|
|
August 16, 2002 — The Los
Angeles Times— Los Angeles, California— AMA
Urges En of 'Party School' Grades—The
Princeton Review should stop publishing an annual
ranking of top "party schools" because it
ignores the risks of heavy drinking and offers a skewed
view of college life, the American Medical Association
says. The college admissions and test-preparation
company "should be ashamed to publish something for
students and parents that fuels the false notion that
alcohol is central to the college experience," said
Richard Yoast, director of the AMA's Office of Alcohol
and Other Drug Abuse.—
ID# 5796
|
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|
August 16, 2002 — Yahoo
News — Eight
men, one woman executed in western Mexico; police say
killings may be drug related—Eight
men and a woman were lined up against a wall and gunned
down with assault rifles and pistols at a ranch in the
western state of Michoacan in what reports published
Sunday said may have been a drug-related massacre. The
victims' bodies were found Saturday, and the
execution-style killings — each victim was found
face-down and shot in the head — probably occurred
sometime Friday, Michoacan state police told local
media.—
ID# 5804
|
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Editorial
— August 16, 2002 — The Los
Angeles Times— Los Angeles, California— Sex,
Muscle and Smokes—What
are the tobacco barons to do? Cancer and heart disease
are killing off their best customers, every year more
people are giving up cigarettes or, wisely, choosing not
to start, and steady tax hikes are making a pack of
smokes more expensive for those still puffing away. The
folks who make cigarettes are getting desperate to hang
on to the dwindling number of customers.—
ID# 5790
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|
August 15, 2002 — The
New York Times— New York, New York— Bum
a Smoke? At This Price?—Valerie
Lee was smoking down her drinks at the Bowery Bar. For
each dry vodka martini, there was another Virginia Slim.
But she said she was going to have to change her pace.
"I will probably go to one smoke for every other
drink," she said. "I just can't do $7.50 a
pack." As Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who quit
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