Nine F-M businesses fail tobacco compliance check

By: Forum staff reports, INFORUM FARGO – The Fargo and West Fargo police departments, with assistance from Fargo Cass Public Health, conducted tobacco compliance checks Wednesday. In Fargo, 63 businesses were checked and seven failed, and in West Fargo, 11 businesses were checked and two failed. Business that failed in Fargo were: Petro Serve USA, 2903 […]

House Dems call for cigar, e-cigarette regulations over 'kid-friendly' products

By Julian Hattem A group of House Democrats is calling on the Obama administration to issue new rules for cigars and electronic cigarettes. In a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday, the lawmakers asked regulators “to act quickly” with new rules for the products, over which the federal government currently has […]

Top New York chefs want to ban 'tacky and intrusive' e-cigarettes from their restaurants

By MARGOT PEPPERS As electronic cigarettes become more and more widely used, restaurant owners and chefs are having to take a definitive stance on the use of them in their own establishments. While some fine dining eateries allow the glowing cylinders, others have banned them for various reasons, like the notion that they bother other patrons, […]

Woman in graphic anti-smoking ad dies from cancer

Associated Press – CBS News A North Carolina woman featured prominently in a graphic government ad campaign to get people to stop smoking died Monday of cancer. Terrie Hall died at a hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., federal officials said. She was 53. “She was a public health hero,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the […]

Study: Kids of smokers are more likely to smoke

Written by:  HealthDay Teens of a parent who smoked — even if the mother or father quit before the teen was born — are more likely to smoke than those whose parents are nonsmokers, a new study finds. Having an older brother or sister who smokes also raises the odds that a teen will pick […]