By Don Sapatkin, Inquirer Staff Writer A half-century after a U.S. Surgeon General’s report raised the alarm on tobacco, most Americans know that smoking may eventually cause lung cancer. Far less appreciated is what can happen just minutes – 60 seconds, according to some research – after taking in a breath of smoke, even secondhand. […]
By Patricia Kime Staff Writer Summertime refused to cede to fall Thursday in Falls Church, Va., as temperatures soared to 90 degrees and the Pentagon’s top doctor led a shorts-clad group on a fast-paced 1-mile run at the future Defense Health Agency headquarters. The sweaty PT session marked the kickoff of the facility’s participation in the […]
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem announced today that an arbitration panel unanimously determined that North Dakota complied with its obligations under the 1998 tobacco settlement. At stake for North Dakota was a potential loss of up to $23 million withheld by the tobacco companies from their 2003 annual payment due under the settlement agreement. The arbitration […]
By: JAMES MacPHERSON , The Associated Press BISMARCK — An arbitration panel has sided with North Dakota in a dispute over payments from a 1998 multistate settlement with tobacco companies, ending a decade-long legal fight, Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said Thursday. Tobacco companies had withheld $2.6 million from North Dakota’s 2003 annual payment, saying the state did […]
By: Peter Passi, Associated Press New restrictions soon will confront users of electronic cigarettes in Duluth. A series of ordinances passed Monday night by the Duluth City Council will subject people using e-cigarettes to the same restrictions faced by smokers puffing on conventional cigarettes. The ordinances also will prevent hookah bars from doing business in the […]
By Anthony Rivas British American Tobacco (BAT), the maker of Lucky Strike, Dunhill, and Pall Mall cigarettes, has recently spent some time promoting its smokeless tobacco brands, saying that snus, a moist tobacco that’s typically placed under the upper lip, is “at least 90 percent less harmful than smoking cigarettes.” But new research, meant to serve as information […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 9, 2013 Statement from Tobacco Free North Dakota Bismarck, ND — Today, national news stories reported the findings of a New Zealand study testing the effectiveness of electronic cigarettes in helping smokers quit, comparing results to that of smokers who attempted to quit using nicotine patches. Results of this study showed […]
Maggie Fox, NBC News A graphic, deliberately shocking, anti-tobacco campaign starring former smokers — including a woman who lost her voice box to throat cancer — helped 100,00 Americans kick the habit permanently, government researchers say. And an estimated 1.6 million people at least tried to quit smoking after seeing the first national mass media […]
Wendy Koch, USA TODAY The CDC survey comes as the federal government is expected to announce, as early as October, its plan to regulate these battery-powered devices as tobacco products. Now chic among celebrities, electronic cigarettes are gaining favor among U.S. teenagers as new data show a recent doubling in usage. Last year, 10% of […]
By SABRINA TAVERNISE WASHINGTON — The share of middle and high school students who use e-cigarettes doubled in 2012 from the previous year, federal data show. The rise is prompting concerns among health officials that the new devices could be creating as many health problems as they are solving. One in 10 high school students […]