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Tripling cigarette tax could save 200 million lives
New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Prabhat Jha, a public health professor at the University of Toronto and the director of the Centre for Global Health Research of St. Michael’s Hospital, claims that increasing the tax of...
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One year in, smoking ban creates new norm
Brownsville has been the non-smoking section of the Rio Grande Valley for more than a year now and a city health official suggested that the ban against smoking inside restaurants and bars has now become accepted as the norm here in southern Cameron County....
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Insurance may cost too much for smokers
Eric Jones has an incentive to end his trips to the party store for cigarette tubes and tobacco, the roll-your-own supplies used to fill his pack-a-day habit. The 40-year-old has no health insurance from his $9-an-hour job at an ice-manufacturing plant...
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Smoking ban secondhand news in some housing units
A new push by the state to make public housing complexes smoke-free is old news to some housing authorities in the Lowell area. Gov. Deval Patrick's administration earlier this month released guidelines encouraging all of the state's local housing authorities...
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China bans officials from public smoking
CHINA has banned its officials from smoking in public to set an example to the rest of the country that has the world's largest number of smokers. The official Xinhua News Agency said officials are not allowed to smoke in schools, hospitals, sports venues,...
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Smokers facing new tax hike
Smokers facing another tax increase as 2014 arrives are being urged to use the cost hike as an opportunity to quit. The tobacco tax rises 10 per cent on Wednesday, the latest in a series of consecutive 10 percent tax hikes planned by the Government through...