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Tobacco Products

Is Your Child Taking This Drug?

Posted to the web 11 October 2008 Lydia Namubiru Kampala A highly addictive, intoxicating drug is being openly sold in Ugandan shops and supermarkets. The drug, sold under the brand name 'Kuber', is disguised as a mouth...

Get parents to stop smoking

THE proposal to have plain cigarette packages and stop displaying them openly in stores is a laudable move. However, I believe these are short-term measures. So much effort has been put into curbing smoking among youths without...

Cigars Vs. Snuff: When One Form Of Tobacco Beat Out Another

The history of technology is littered with those ideas that didn't quite make it. HD DVD got beaten out by Blu Ray last year, just as DVD has, with time, supplanted VHS tapes like a better equipped predator hunting another...

Tobacco smuggling is killing more people than illegal drugs

Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year_four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together_but the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem.

City Room: Big Tobacco’s Spin on Women’s Lib

An exhibit of old smoking ads went on display this week at the Science, Industry and Business Library at 34th Street and Madison Avenue. This sometimes overlooked piece of history has surfaced again because of an exhibit of...

Africa: Cancer Kills 20 Million People Annually

Posted to the web 10 October 2008 Masahudu Ankiilu Kumateh Cancer is set to become the newest epidemic in the developing world. The Head of AfrOx, a global anti-cancer non-governmental organisation (NGO), Prof. David Kerr,...

Tobacco Fraud Case Before The Supreme Court

LEARN MORE Altria Group v. Good Britney, Palin, Paris, and Pre-emption (Part One) Britney, Palin, Paris and Pre-emption (Part Two) Wyeth Takes On Diana Levine And Preemption Issue In U.S. Supreme Court Case InjuryBoard on Tort...

The Science Of Smoking: How Smell Works

One of the worlds largest and most valuable jewel collections, the Imperial Crown Jewels of Persia, or Crown Jewels of Iran, consists of a mind boggling number of treasures. On display at the Museum of The Treasury of National...

Smuggled tobacco causes 4000 deaths a year in UK [Health News]

One Million People Will Die Anuually From Tobacc... One million people will die from tobacco smoking in India annually accounting for nearly one in every 10 deaths from 2010, researchers said Wednesday. The New England Journal...

Taskforce 'will cut Indigenous health gap'

The Federal Government's preventative health taskforce says tackling diseases caused by obesity, tobacco and alcohol will help to reduce the 17-year gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

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