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FTC considers backing off nicotine guidance
Associated Press WriterThe Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it no longer considers reliable a test for tar and nicotine used for more than 40 years and touted by the tobacco industry in marketing "light" and "low-tar" cigarettes. The FTC said it may rescind its...Tags: Tobacco Products, Marketing, Government, Addiction, Health Organizations
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Backpacks, supplies being collected for kids
Sentinel Staff WriterRotary International District 6980, with members in Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake and Sumter counties, has joined 22 Office Depot stores in Central Florida and Give a Kid a Backpack Inc. to distribute an estimated 3,000 free, supply-filled backpacks...Tags: Back Packs, Orlando, Leesburg, Office Depot Inc., Rotary International
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Woman's rescuers honored
Sun ReporterAs rough waves of the Chesapeake Bay battered her face, 26-year-old Patricia Morgan did all she could to keep treading water in the dark and hope someone would find her. After nearly three hours in the water on the night of June 7, she was plucked out of...Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Fires, Natural Resource Industry, Energy Resources, Natural Resources
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Quit smoking with a proven approach
I read with interest the open letter from Dr. Brad Rodu to Sen. Obama in the June 22 Perspective section ("Quitting ins't that easy"). In this open letter, Dr.Rodu advocated the use of smokeless and spit tobacco (which I will refer to only as spit...Tags: Tobacco Products, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Addiction
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Cigarette maker ends testing of high-tech filters
Philip Morris USA, the nation's No. 1 tobacco company, said Monday it has ended test markets of Marlboro-branded cigarettes that use a high-technology filter. The operating company of Altria Group Inc. said it pulled the plug on Marlboro Ultra Smooth and... -
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General Motors Corp. is telling dealers it plans to raise prices on 2009 models by an average of 3.5 percent, or about $1,000 per vehicle. But the automaker also will run a sale from Wednesday through June 30 to help clear out high inventories of 2008...Tags: Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, General Motors Corp., Palm Beach International Airport, Easter, UAL Corporation
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Philip Morris USA pulls new filter cigarettes
Philip Morris USA, the nation's No. 1 tobacco company, said Monday it has ended test markets of Marlboro-branded cigarettes that use a high-technology filter. The operating company of Altria Group Inc. said it pulled the plug on Marlboro Ultra Smooth... -
AMA agrees that menthol should not be banned from cigarettes
Associated PressThe country's largest organization of doctors Tuesday refused to challenge a controversial tobacco bill that would ban many flavor additives in cigarettes sold in the United States but exempt menthol flavoring. Under a bill before Congress that gives...Tags: Preventative Medicine, George H.W. Bush, Laws, National or Ethnic Minorities, Minority Groups
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AMA takes no action on tobacco bill challenge
Associated Press WriterIs menthol a flavor that should be banned from cigarettes? That's a tricky question, according to the American Medical Association whose members on Tuesday found themselves opposing some government health heavyweights. Menthol flavoring would not be...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Clubs and Associations, George H.W. Bush, Laws, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Judgment Against Wyeth Appealed To High Court
Vermont musician Diana Levine won a $6.8 million judgment against drugmaker Wyeth after having part of her right arm amputated in 2000 when an anti-nausea drug was improperly injected. But Wyeth has appealed the case to the Supreme Court, setting up a...
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