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"Smoking Bill Is Adopted" (Diane
Cardwell, The New York Times, Dec. 19, 2002) --
After months of
negotiations, more than 20 hours of public testimony and
some of the most intense, heated debates of this
administration, the City Council approved Mayor Michael
R. Bloomberg's antismoking bill yesterday at the last of
its voting sessions this year. The bill passed 42 to 7
with 2 abstentions, an unusually large number of
negative votes for a Council that tends to vote in
lockstep with its leaders. It could become law around
the end of March, depending on when Mr. Bloomberg
actually signs it.— ID#
6204
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"Colleges get tough with smokers" (Clarke
Canfield, The
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 15, 2002) --
If you overlook the
"no smoking" signs outside Harlan A. Philippi
Hall, you can't miss the signs at the door "This is
a smoke-free building." The University of Southern
Maine in September banned smoking in its dorms, forcing
smokers to walk at least 50 feet away from the buildings
to light up. Next fall, they'll have to go even farther.
The school is among the growing number of colleges and
universities finding new ways to restrict smoking on
campus. A Harvard University study last year found that
25 percent of U.S. colleges ban smoking in dormitories,
and the number is rising.— ID#
6196
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"Bloomberg Gets Deal to Expand
Smoking Curbs" (Diane Cardwell, The
New York Times, Dec. 12, 2002) --
New York City will enact a
sweeping ban on indoor smoking that will include nearly
all bars and restaurants, under an agreement announced
yesterday between the Bloomberg administration and the
City Council. The deal means that lawmakers have agreed
to one of the toughest antismoking laws in the country,
and it comes at a time when many localities both here
and abroad are either passing or considering similar
legislation.— ID#
6191
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"Smoke signals" (Alison
Neumer, The Chicago Tribune, Dec. 10, 2002) --
A City Council hearing
Tuesday to address an aggressive proposal to ban smoking
in Chicago restaurants and bars attached to restaurants
is expected to draw dozens of foes and supporters. Under
a measure introduced by Health Committee Chairman Ald.
Ed Smith, smoking would be prohibited in all
restaurants, as well as in bars that sell more food than
liquor. Another, more strict proposal being offered by
Ald. Edward Burke, a longtime proponent of anti-smoking
measures, would prohibit smoking in all public places
and the workplace— ID#
6185
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"Federal court nixes Massachusetts
law requiring tobacco companies to list ingredients" (Associated
Press, The San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 5, 2002) --
A federal appeals court
struck down a Massachusetts law that would have required
tobacco companies to reveal the ingredients in their
products, saying the rule essentially destroys trade
secrets. "I simply am not convinced that the
Disclosure Act really helps to promote public
health," Judge Juan R. Torruella wrote for the 1st
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The act, passed in 1996,
would have required tobacco companies to disclose the
ingredients in every brand and product they manufacture.
It was challenged by a group of tobacco companies led by
Philip Morris Inc. immediately after it was passed.— ID#
6171
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"EU Nations to Ban
Tobacco Ads in 2005" (The Associated Press, The
New York Times, Dec. 2, 2002) --
The 15-nation European
Union on Monday outlawed tobacco ads in newspapers and
magazines, on the Internet and at international sporting
events beginning in 2005. The new restrictions were
approved by 13 EU nations, which was enough to push
through the bill drawn up by the EU's executive
Commission after a court struck down an earlier ban.
Britain and Germany opposed them. The rules already were
approved by the EU parliament.— ID#
6161
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"Norway
unveils plan on unprecedented smoking ban" (Reuters
Health, Nov. 29, 2002) --
Norway presented a white
paper on Friday aiming to make it the first country in
the world to ban smoking in all restaurants and bars
nationwide from 2004. "The main purpose of the
legislation is to protect employees, as well as guests
from passive smoking," Health Minister Dagfinn
Hoybraaten said in a statement. Some states and cities
in the United States and Canada have imposed smoking
bans in public places, but Norway would be the first
country to outlaw smokers from restaurants and bars in
the entire country.—
ID#
6160
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"Philip Morris Packages Warn 'Light' Isn't Safer" (Courtney
Schlisserman, The Los Angeles Times, Nov.
21, 2002) -- Philip Morris
Cos., the world's largest tobacco company, is putting
leaflets in its light, medium, mild and ultra-light
cigarette packs saying the products aren't safer than
regular cigarettes. The inserts
will be in about 130 million packs, including Marlboro
Lights, sold in the U.S., to better educate smokers and
encourage finding a new method for determining tar
ratings, the company said.— ID#
6137
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"Riverside college to ban smoking on campus
starting Jan. 1" (Associated Press, The San Diego Union Tribune, Nov.
21, 2002) --
Riverside Community College
approved a plan to ban all tobacco use on its three
campuses after Jan. 1. Tuesday's unanimous vote by
school trustees makes the college one of the first
public institutions in California to prohibit tobacco
use on its campuses. "It's going to be more of an
educational effort than anything else," college
President Salvatore Rotella said. "There are
sanctions, but they are a last resort. The emphasis is
on education." The policy will take effect Jan. 1
at the district's three campuses, which are in
Riverside, Moreno Valley and Norco.— ID#
6135
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"America Online scraps teen shopping" (Stefanie
Olsen, The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2002) --
America Online has banned
teens from its shopping areas, following criticism that
the proprietary online service allowed young adults to
buy pornography, alcohol and tobacco from partner sites.
AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said Monday that as of
last week, customers under the age of 18 cannot shop on
AOL with partner stores, including auctioneer eBay and
retailer Amazon.com. Previously, children ages 13 to 17
who signed onto the service with a parentally controlled
screen name could buy products and services with a
credit card at AOL partner stores.— ID#
6127
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"Pa. town trying to take tobacco from its teens" (Ralph
Vigoda, Yahoo News, Nov. 17, 2002) --
As Randall Gartner tells
it, it was during the summer when Police Chief Wade
Heilman first complained about the large number of
teenagers smoking in this one-stoplight borough 20
minutes west of Reading. Not only was it unhealthy, but
messy. The basketball courts - located behind the
building that houses borough hall and the two full-time
police officers - were littered with cigarette butts.
"He was saying how it's illegal to sell tobacco
products to kids under 18, but it's not illegal to
possess them," said Gartner, Borough Council
president in this town of 2,100. "He felt it's not
right we can't cite them."— ID#
6125
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"Secondhand smoke may cost $70 per person in US" (Alison
McCook, Reuters Health, Nov. 14, 2002) --
Wanna light up? Better ask
your neighbors if they can afford it first. An estimate
of the expenses associated with death and illness
reveals that secondhand smoke may cost people in some US
regions, if not the entire country, $70 a year. The
findings are based on an analysis of the costs
associated with environmental exposure to tobacco for
residents from Marion County, Indiana, according to Dr.
Terrell W. Zollinger of Indiana University in
Bloomington.— ID#
6117
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"Tobacco Sues N.Y. Over Cigarette Tax" (The
Associated Press, Yahoo News, Nov. 12, 2002) --
Tobacco wholesalers sued
over the city's recent cigarette tax increase Tuesday,
calling it a "sham" that is hurting their
businesses and will sap $175 million from government
coffers this fiscal year... The lawsuit, filed Tuesday
in state court, said the taxes have led many to buy
cigarettes on the Internet or the black market, putting
licensed vendors at a disadvantage.— ID#
6111
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"Changing policies mean smoking is still a hot
topic" (Jane Engle, The Los Angeles
Times, Nov. 10, 2002) -- Smoking
is a burning issue this fall in some major tourist
spots. New York's mayor has vowed to snuff it out at the
city's bars and restaurants. Florida voters last week
considered a wide-ranging ban. Even in hang-loose
Hawaii, some islands are starting to limit where you
light up. It might seem as if there's nowhere left to
grab a cigarette. Well, not quite, but the options are
dwindling.— ID#
6104
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"Area restaurants draft smoking ban proposal" (Ben
Sykes, The Daily Cardinal, Nov. 11, 2002) --Madison's
bars and restaurants are attempting to decide the debate
over smoking in their establishments by releasing their
own proposal to curb the harmful effects of secondhand
smoke. Proponents of the measure, drafted by Rick Petri,
the attorney for the Wisconsin Restaurant Association,
said the proposal is closer to a compromise than what
has been coming out of the ad hoc committee developed to
hammer out the details of the original measure proposed
by Ald. Jean MacCubbin, District 11.— ID#
6101
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"Voters favor cash to fight tobacco" (Associated
Press, The Billings Gazette, Nov. 6, 2002) --
Voters rejected lawmaker plans to spend a tobacco
settlement shoring up the state's sagging budget,
endorsing a measure to instead spend the money mostly on
health care and tobacco cessation programs. Montana gets
about $30 million a year from the settlement of the
multistate lawsuit against the tobacco industry, but
only $500,000 goes to tobacco-prevention programs.
Initiative 146 earmarks about $18 million for
tobacco-prevention programs and children's insurance
programs.— ID#
6098
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"Voters Back Tougher Smoking Restrictions" (Associated
Press, The Los Angeles Times, Nov. 7, 2002) --
Voters in Nevada's two most populous counties told
lawmakers in the state with the largest percentage of
smokers in the nation that they don't want kids and
cigarettes in the same building. Clark and Washoe
counties approved virtually identical advisory measures
Tuesday to toughen local restrictions on smokers beyond
state law and ban smoking entirely in places children
are likely to be. Both issues will be submitted to the
next Legislature.— ID#
6095
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"Tobacco companies are blowing smoke" (E'Louise
Ondash, The North County Times,
Nov. 6, 2002) -- The poor
tobacco companies are upset because of the vicious
nature of recent anti-tobacco ads. These ads, directed
at teens and younger, show body bags piling up at the
Philip Morris headquarters; portray a pitch for dog
urine, which contains urea, also found in cigarettes;
and feature gasping rodents, because cigarettes contain
ammonia, also found in rat poison.— ID#
6092
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"Cigarettes Portrayed as Currency of Crime" (Michael
Hiltzik, The Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 5, 2002) -- Once a month for many years, a
group of travelers bribed their way into Colombia via a
remote border crossing from Venezuela, met with their
contacts and then bribed their way home, the better to
leave no record of the trip in their passports. The
illicit commodity they were trading was not cocaine, as
might be expected, but cigarettes. So contends a lawsuit
filed last week in a U.S. court by the European Union.
According to the suit, the clandestine travelers were
employees of companies affiliated with R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co. Their goal, the EU says, was to receive cash
for their products without revealing that the source of
the money was the narcotics trade.—
ID# 6089
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"Companies Pressed to Halt Youth Smoking Prevention
Campaigns" (Jim Lobe, Yahoo News, Oct. 25, 2002) --
The world's leading cancer,
heart, and lung associations have called on the major
tobacco companies to immediately halt their youth
anti-smoking campaigns which they said not only have
failed to reduce smoking but may actually be encouraging
young people to smoke. In a letter to the major
companies, including Philip Morris International (PMI),
British American Tobacco (BAT), and Japan Tobacco
International--the three companies which have most
touted their youth anti-smoking initiatives--the
presidents of the International Union Against Cancer,
the International Union Against Tuberculosis & Lung
Disease, and the World Heart Federation characterized
the initiatives as a "deceit" which should be
halted "without further delay."—
ID# 6069
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"Study: Tobacco
affects policy" (Peter N. Long, The Daily
Cardinal, Oct. 24, 2002) --
Recent discoveries prove
Wisconsin resident's lungs are not the only things
endangered by the smoldering reach of tobacco industry.
In a report released Wednesday, the UW-Madison
Comprehensive Cancer Center found the tobacco industry
has had a significant influence over Wisconsin's public
health polices. The 100-page study details the influence
the tobacco industry has wielded in state politics in
past years, and how their policy agenda has contributed
to the degeneration of the overall public health in
Wisconsin.— ID# 6066
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"Campaigners United States blocking
progress on anti-tobacco treaty" (Jonathan
Fowler, Yahoo News, Oct. 24, 2002) -- The
United States is frustrating efforts to draft an
international tobacco control treaty by ducking behind
the Constitution and blocking compromise proposals on
advertising restrictions — the most contentious part
of the accord — campaigners said Thursday. Washington
has consistently resisted calls from the World Health
Organization (news - web sites) and many other countries
for a total advertising ban, saying it would be
unconstitutional.—
ID# 6063
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"University smoking policy could change" (Melinda
Walker, Daily Aztec, Oct. 24, 2002) --
University presidents now
have the authority to set stricter smoking regulations
on campuses. In September, the California State
University board of trustees approved a policy which
allows presidents to decide on smoking rules and
requires them to consider the views of faculty, staff
and students before changing smoking regulations. The
policy was a result of requests from various CSU
students to create more restrictive smoking policies.—
ID# 6062
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"Tobacco Ad Ban to Become Law" (Associated
Press, Yahoo News, Oct. 22, 2002) --
Lawmakers have passed
legislation banning tobacco advertising in a bid to cut
smoking related illnesses and deaths in Britain. The
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Bill cleared its final
Parliamentary hurdle on Monday night, as it passed
through the House of Commons unopposed. The government
hopes the bill will be enacted by the end of the year.
Junior health minister Hazel Blears said a ban would
lead to a cut in smoking, especially among young people.
She said tobacco was a "dangerous and lethal
substance" that had killed "thousands and
possibly millions of people worldwide."—
ID# 6057
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"Doctors call for strong anti-tobacco treaty" (Reuters
Health, Oct. 21, 2002) --
Medical associations
representing 10 million doctors in 117 countries urged
governments Monday to agree on a strong international
treaty to curb tobacco use. The World Medical
Association and other groups meeting in Geneva were to
present the so-called "Doctors' Manifesto for
Global Tobacco Control" to Dr. Gro Harlem
Brundtland, director-general of the World Health
Organisation (WHO). The WHO, a United Nations agency, is
hosting two weeks of talks on a proposed Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control. The first international
public health treaty, the accord is due to be agreed to
by the WHO's 192 member countries by May 2003.—
ID# 6056
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"World Health body urges sharp tobacco price rise" (Reuters
Health, Oct. 14, 2002) --
The World Health
Organization (WHO) urged governments Monday to raise
cigarette and tobacco prices by at least five percent
after inflation, saying this could save millions of
lives. Citing a report by the World Bank, the United
Nations agency said a 10% price hike would induce 40
million people worldwide to give up smoking and millions
more never to start. "This price increase would
save 10 million lives. Nine million of the premature
deaths avoided would be in developing countries,"
the WHO said.—
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"Tobacco money has regained influence in state,
report says" (Louise Chu, The San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 17, 2002) --
Tobacco money in the state
Capitol is no longer the political taboo it once was,
says a report released yesterday by California Common
Cause. Political spending by the tobacco industry has
increased dramatically over the last five years, while
tobacco interests have enjoyed major legislative
victories, including a defeat of a proposed cigarette
tax increase.—
ID# 6050
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"U.S., Germany, Japan Rebuff Ban on Tobacco Ads" (Reuters
Health, The New York Times, Oct. 16, 2002) --
The United States, Germany
and Japan Wednesday firmly rejected demands that a
proposed global anti-smoking treaty include a call to
ban advertising. Member states of the World Health
Organization (WHO), which backs an advertising ban, are
meeting in Geneva to discuss an accord to wean the world
off a habit that leads to millions of deaths every year.—
ID# 6046
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"Schools use testing to smoke out
tobacco use" (Greg
Giuffrida, The Chicago Tribune, Oct. 8, 2002) --
Breath mints won't cut it
anymore for students who have been smoking in the
bathroom. Some schools around the country are
administering urine tests to teenagers to determine
tobacco use. Opponents say such testing violates
students' rights and can keep them out of
extracurricular activities they need to stay focused on
academics. But some advocates say smoking leads to more
serious drug use.—
ID# 6034
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"Canada Hopes Photos Will Coax
Smokers To Kick the Habit" (Richard
Pretorius, The
Washington Post, Oct.6 , 2002) --
The picture warnings -- the
first of their kind, with Brazil since adopting them as
well -- are part of the Canadian government's expanding
campaign against smoking. It includes $320 million over
a five-year period for education and prevention. The
pictures have also caught the attention of U.S.
lawmakers. A bill has been introduced in the House of
Representatives that would require similar pictures on
the packaging of cigarettes sold in the United States.
But a spokesman for Rep. James V. Hansen (R-Utah), one
of the bill's sponsors, said the legislation probably is
on the "deep back burner."—
ID# 6031
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"Students lead charge against smoking" (Gary
Moskowitz, The Los Angeles Times, Oct. 4, 2002) --
A new anti-smoking and
tobacco- awareness program at Roosevelt Middle School
will break the mold of typical interventions by allowing
students to run the show themselves, officials said.
Project ABCD, which will start this fall for seventh-and
eighth-graders at Roosevelt, includes four major
elements -- "Analyze" and "Beware"
of pro-tobacco messages from peers and the media,
"Create" short animated films with
anti-smoking messages and "Disseminate" the
anti-smoking message throughout Glendale Unified.—
ID# 6028
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"Smoke-free week off to slow start" (Adam
Kaye, The North County Times, Oct.2, 2002) --
Gray weather has made it
tough to tell if people are observing a voluntary
smoking ban this week at local beaches and parks.
"Since I've put the banner up, I haven't seen
anyone with a cigarette," said Del Mar Lifeguard
Chief Pat Vergne, "but today there's only four
people on the beach."—
ID# 6022
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