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Toledo man smoking cigarette dies after apartment fire
An accidental fire turned deadly for one smoker at a west Toledo apartment Saturday. 41-year-old Jamar Allen died in an apartment fire in the 2500-block of Greenway just before 11 a.m. Authorities said Allen was smoking while carrying a gas-powered push-lawn...
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Assemblyman Wants Cigarette Butts Banned In California
A Monterey assemblyman wants to ban all cigarette butts in the state of California, because of the environmental risk they pose to the state’s wildlife and fish. Assemblyman Mark Stone (D) says he’s not only trying to be a trailblazer in California, but...
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US senators slam ‘glamorisation’ of e-cigarettes at Golden Globes
A group of US senators is taking the Golden Globes to task for showing celebrities puffing on electronic cigarettes at this year’s awards show, complaining such depictions glamorise smoking. Beverly Off Road “The Golden Globes celebrates entertainers...
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Letter: Smoking causes, worsens diabetes. Time to quit now
Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes and the number is rising daily. Since 1980, the percentage of people under 45 with diabetes has increased by 167 percent. There are many risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. Many of these, like family history, can’t...
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Careless smoker left mom in burning Pa. home
A man who police contend has a history of careless smoking while drinking has been charged with endangering his mother after a cigarette caused a small fire in their eastern Pennsylvania home. Lower Southampton Township police, who said in police reports...
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Bans on smoking gain momentum
Smokers are quickly running out of places to light up. Earlier this week, Rehoboth became the last of Delaware's major ocean resorts to ban smoking on its beaches, adding in a boardwalk ban for good measure. On the same day, the University of Delaware...
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Stupid Teens Reportedly Smoking Coffee for the Caffeine High
Rolling coffee up into "caffeine sticks" and smoking it is a hot new trend, and it's turning America's teens into "bean-heads," according to one specious local news report. According to Las Vegas ABC affiliate KTNV and one unnamed, seemingly random old...
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Smoking marijuana may cause heart complications
A new study has found that both young middle-aged people that smoke pot have a slight increased risk for heart-related illness/complications. This study was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. According to CBS News, 2 percent of...
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Celebrities join the electronic cigarette revolution
A growing number of celebrities have been spotted using electronic cigarettes recently including fashionista Alexa Chung, supermodel Kate Moss, Robbie Williams and One Direction’s Zayn Malik. Robert Pattinson has been seen vaping in the past few months...
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Can anti-smoking tactics solve obesity crisis?
New guidelines from the National Obesity Forum suggest using "harder hitting" anti-obesity campaigns, akin to anti-tobacco campaigns, in the UK. The debate about whether to treat obesity like smoking is one that has played out in the US, with researchers...
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Nicotine Patches Deemed Ineffective for Pregnant Smokers
Use of nicotine patches, compared with placebo patches, does not increase the smoking cessation rate among pregnant women, according to research published March 11 in BMJ. FRIDAY, March 14, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Use of nicotine patches, compared with...
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Popularity Of Menthol Cigarettes Climbs Among Young Adults
While bans on cigarette smoking are more widespread than ever, and taxes on tobacco products continue to rise, young adults are embracing mentholated cigarettes more than ever, according to a new study in the journal Tobacco Control. “Our findings indicate...
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Opinion: The smoke behind e-cigarettes
Electronic cigarettes are designed to look, feel and taste like cigarettes and are being aggressively promoted as a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes that doesn't produce secondhand smoke. It is true that, because e-cigarettes deliver nicotine —...
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Smoking ban helps profits, air quality and health
For smokers in North Carolina restaurants and bars, the news of an indoor smoking ban in 2010 came as a disappointment. However, many North Carolina restaurants and bars, including establishments on Hillsborough Street, have become more profitable since...
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Bar owner charged with second-degree murder
A Nashville bar owner has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of singer-songwriter Wayne Mills. Christopher Ferrell told police he fatally shot Mills in self-defense in the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 23 after the two got into an argument...
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Massachusetts to curb smoking in public housing
The Patrick Administration is moving to stamp out smoking in public housing. The Department of Housing and Community Development on Thursday issued guidelines to all 240 local housing authorities urging them to develop smoke-free housing policies within...
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FDA: No Surprises Planned for E-Cigarette Regs
When the FDA finally issues its proposed regulations on electronic cigarettes, which may be as soon as the end of the month, what will they look like? Probably pretty familiar, experts said. The first step is likely to be just bringing the nicotine-vapor...
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Buying Cigarettes Online Is Cheap Until NYC Asks for Millions
New York City is going after 32 people for buying thousands of cartons of cigarettes online and reselling them illegally to get around the city's astronomical tax on anything that feels good. The city filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, which also targets the...
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Durbin to Hollywood Actors Puffing E-Cigs: You’re Killing Your Fans
A day after spearheading a letter calling on the Golden Globe Awards to stop showing celebrities using electronic cigarettes, Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin blasted “red hot actors and actresses” for “killing” their fans. The Illinois Democrat came to...
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Give me three good reasons for smoking, dad?
Fast Facts · The child of a parent who smokes is twice as likely to smoke as the child of a non-smoker · Children from smoking households miss an extra six days of school a year · Smoking by dads can be bad for an unborn fetus/increases risk of early...
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High Indiana smoking rates persist 50 years later
A lot can happen in 50 years. Half a century ago, man hadn't walked on the moon, the Internet hadn't been invented, and more than 40 percent of Americans smoked. Then, in January 1964, the U.S. surgeon general released the first government report saying...
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Smoking linked to 13 types of cancer
It's been well established that smoking can lead to heart disease and lung cancer and is the number one preventable cause of premature death. A new U.S. Surgeon General Report out Friday links smoking to 13 types of cancer plus a host of other health...
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Smoking materials caused mobile home fire that killed 2 near Loveland, authorities say
Smoking materials ignited a fire that killed two people in a mobile home near Loveland early Thursday, authorities said. Hazel Piper, 70, and Harvard Preston Thomas, 50, died when the mobile home they shared burned just after midnight Thursday morning,...
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Let’s end smoking in Nevada casinos
A recent journal article by a senior scientist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“Secondhand smoke and smoking restrictions in casinos: a review of the evidence,” published online in Tobacco Control on March 7) should be a wake-up...
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Anti-smoking measures being heralded
Stricter measures to prevent young people from using tobacco will bolster the work being done by the Lethbridge and Area Tobacco Reduction Coalition. Bill 33, the Tobacco Reduction Amendment act, has been introduced in the legislature while Bill 206,...