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- India's 'King Khan' promises to quit smoking
- MUMBAI AFP — Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has decided to quit smoking for the sake of his young family, according to a report Monday. India's health minister has issued numerous appeals to Hindi cinema's most bankable star to quit smoking, saying his cigarette habit was a bad influence...
- Research articles 2008-08-04
- Congress finally attacks USA's Number 1 killer
- In 1987, a small band of lawmakers tried to push a measure in Congress to regulate tobacco. The bill went nowhere. Now, 21 years later, 45 million Americans are smoking, smoking-related illnesses kill 400,000 a year and lawmakers are still trying to reduce the carnage. On...
- Research articles 2008-07-31
- Australian state toughens anti-smoking laws
- SYDNEY AFP — Smokers in Australia's biggest city, already hounded out of bars and restaurants, will now be banned from smoking in their own cars if children are passengers, authorities announced Wednesday. Shops will also be forced to keep cigarette packets out of sight under a tough new anti-smoking...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Painter fuming over fine for smoking in own van
- LONDON AFP — A painter and decorator has been fined for breaching Britain's smoking ban -- by puffing on a cigarette in his own van, he said Friday. Gordon Williams, 58, of Llanafan in west Wales, was told by officials that his van was classed as a workplace and...
- Research articles 2008-07-25
- FTC wants to curb tar-nicotine claims in cigarette ads
- Tobacco companies could no longer imply government approval when they advertise cigarettes as "light" or "low-tar" under a proposal announced Tuesday. The Federal Trade Commission wants to bar manufacturers from using a test known as the "FTC method" to say a cigarette is low in tar...
- Research articles 2008-07-09
- Imperial Tobacco will axe 2,440 jobs
- LONDON AFP — Britain's Imperial Tobacco said on Thursday that it would cut about 2,440 jobs, including 1,060 positions in France, as it restructures after the group's takeover of French-Spanish rival Altadis. Imperial Tobacco bought Altadis earlier this year in a deal worth 12.8 billion euros (18.8 billion dollars),...
- Research articles 2008-06-19
- Commonwealth Club Hosts Smoking Cessation Summit "End the Epidemic"
- SAN FRANCISCO -- The Commonwealth Club:[TABLE OMITTED] The CDC's Dr. Julie Gerberding and NBC's Medical Expert Dr. Nancy Snyderman headline a panel on why people continue to smoke cigarettes despite the fact it is commonly known tobacco is hazardous to one's health. After 30 years of anti-tobacco measures...
- Research articles 2008-06-13
- Japanese lawmakers want to triple cigarette prices
- TOKYO AFP — A group of Japanese lawmakers on Friday called for a tripling of cigarette prices to nearly 10 dollars a pack in a bid to cover swelling social security costs. The proposal would put heavy-smoking Japan in line with other developed countries, which nearly all impose heftier...
- Research articles 2008-06-06
- Sean Penn leads Cannes revolt against French smoking ban
- CANNES, France AFP — US actor and director Sean Penn lit up and led a minor revolt at the Cannes film festival against France's draconian new anti-smoking laws. Penn, the head of the jury that will pick the best films, pulled out a cigarette and puffed on it at...
- Research articles 2008-05-14
- What would improve Newcastle for you? WE TAKE TO THE STREETS TO ASK HOW pounds 15M SHOULD BE SPENT
- Byline: By LAURA JONES and VICKY ROBSON PLANS for multimillion-pound facelift for Newcastle city centre were unveiled yesterday. The scheme will aim to make the city's streets cleaner, greener and safer and is being backed by Newcastle United Football Club as well as university, hospital and council chiefs....
- Research articles 2008-05-07
- Egyptians despair as duty increases cancel out pay rises
- CAIRO AFP — Already stunned by skyrocketing prices, Egyptians voiced despair on Tuesday after the government raised duties on fuel and cigarettes in a bid to pay for a promised public sector wage increase. "Cigarettes don't matter -- you can live without them. But, for the rest, it's impossible,"...
- Research articles 2008-05-06
- Egypt to raise fuel, diesel prices amid public anger
- CAIRO AFP — Egypt's ruling party on Monday proposed a set of tax and duty increases including on fuel, diesel and cigarettes amid public anger at price hikes and the state of the economy. According to a text of the proposal obtained by AFP, the price of diesel --...
- Research articles 2008-05-05
- Egypt raises fuel and diesel prices amid public anger
- CAIRO AFP — Egypt's parliament on Monday voted in favour of a set of tax and duty increases including on fuel, diesel and cigarettes amid public anger at price hikes and the state of the economy. According to the proposal presented by the ruling National Democratic Party, the price...
- Research articles 2008-05-05
- Smoking tortoise found in China
- BEIJING AFP — A tortoise that smokes and appears to be addicted to nicotine has been discovered in China's northeastern province of Jilin, state media reported on Thursday. The animal is the pet of a man, identified by his surname Yun, who is himself a smoker, Xinhua news agency...
- Research articles 2008-03-27
- Australia to bottle up binge-drinking: minister
- SYDNEY AFP — Australia's Health Minister Nicola Roxon Monday said the government was considering placing graphic warning labels on alcoholic drinks to combat the nation's urge to drink heavily. The newly elected Labor government has already made fighting binge drinking among young people a priority, with Prime Minister Kevin...
- Research articles 2008-03-23
- Italy's Autogrill buys airport shops for 1 bln euros
- MILAN AFP — Italy's Autogrill announced Monday deals worth one billion euros (1.5 billion dollars) to buy airport shops and restaurants, which the company said would make it the world's biggest airport retail group. The Milan-listed company, an operator of motorway restaurants in Italy, said it had agreed to...
- Research articles 2008-03-10
- CPSC To Announce New Strategies at the Ports.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 March 2008-CPSC: CPSC To Announce New Strategies at the PortsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05032008 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - Each year, hundreds of millions of toys, fireworks, cigarette lighters, clothes and other consumer products are imported into the United States....
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- CPSC Public Calendar.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 March 2008-CPSC: CPSC Public CalendarC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05032008 Vol. XXXV No. 21 March 5, 2008 U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Washington, DC 20207 Commission Agendas There...
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- Cigarette Smoking Drops to Lowest Level in 25 Year Trend
- Thirty Seven Million Adults Still Smoke ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Efforts to reduce the number of cigarette smokers have been ongoing for many years, but it has proved very difficult to reduce the numbers of young people who start to smoke and to break the addiction of smokers. So a...
- Research articles 2008-03-05
- India's smoking epidemic will kill a million a year: study
- CHICAGO AFP — India is in the midst of a smoking epidemic which will kill about a million people annually, accounting for nearly one in every 10 deaths from 2010, researchers said Wednesday. Some 70 percent of those people will die before they reach the age of 70, according...
- Research articles 2008-02-13
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