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China Bans Indoor Smoking [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsChina has banned public, indoor smoking, effective May 1. Residents will no longer be able to smoke in libraries, shopping malls and restaurants. ...
FDA Panel Suggests Ban on Menthol Cigarettes [VIDEO]
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Cops: Man Refuses to Pay for Cigarettes Because He's 'the King'
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsAs Mel Brooks famously stated, it's good to be the king. That is, of course, when you really are the king. Police in Michigan say one man learned the hard way that you won't get treated like royalty just because you claim to have regal lineage. Officers in Warren say Joseph Lawrence Borowiak tried to yank a pack of cigarettes away from a 7-Eleven clerk after claiming he didn't need to pay for the smokes because he was "the king," according to MSNBC. ...
President Obama Has Quit Smoking; Twitter Exhales
By David Knowles - AOL NewsShe should know. According to first lady Michelle Obama, the president is no longer sneaking a drag here and there. Speaking at a White House luncheon to mark the anniversary of her "Let's Move" initiative to combat childhood obesity, Mrs. Obama said it has been about a year since the president last lit up. "It's been awhile, and I'm very proud of him," she told reporters. "I haven't poked and prodded. When somebody is doing the right thing, you don't mess with them." One of the key factors in his decision to give up cigarettes for good was his daughters, Mrs. Obama said. "He has always ...
President Obama Kicked Smoking Habit, Michelle Says
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFirst Lady Michelle Obama said President Obama finally kicked his smoking habit and has not had a puff for about a year. She revealed that during a lunch interview with ten print reporters who cover the East Wing. The meeting was organized to mark the first anniversary Wednesday of her "Let's Move" anti-childhood obesity campaign. After interviews Wednesday morning on NBC's "Today Show" and "Live with Regis and Kelly," Mrs. Obama travels to Atlanta to deliver a "Let's Move" anniversary speech. Mrs. Obama's session with her press corps touched on a variety of topics. Asked if Obama stopped ...
Smoking French Icons Allowed to Puff on Posters Again
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsFrench politicians have voted to amend a strict anti-tobacco law that snatched cigarettes and pipes from images of some of the country's most famous smokers. Fear of breaking the 20-year-old Evin Law, which banned the direct and indirect promotion of tobacco and alcohol in public places, had led authorities to remove dozens of smokes from historical images. The legislation first sparked public outrage in 1996, when the post office used a photo of renowned author Andre Malraux for a stamp but airbrushed out his ever-present Gauloise. The law was back in the headlines almost a decade later ...
Judge Strikes Down NYC's Gruesome Tobacco Ads
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- The city's campaign to scare smokers with grotesque images of decaying teeth or a diseased lung wherever tobacco products are sold was struck down Wednesday by a federal judge who concluded that only the federal government can dictate warnings that must accompany the promotion of cigarettes. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff handed a victory to the nation's three largest tobacco manufacturers and the retailers who sell their products when he ruled on the legality of a 2009 city Board of Health code change requiring the display of smoking cessation signs where tobacco products are ...
Has Obama Finally Licked His Smoking Habit?
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTwo wars, a jobless recovery and a brutal Election Day might make some folks nervous enough to grab a cigarette. But the hard times have had the opposite effect on President Obama, who hasn't had a smoke in nearly a year, according to his White House spokesman. "I've not seen or witnessed evidence of smoking in probably nine months," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Thursday. "I think he has worked extremely hard. And I think he would tell you, even when, in the midst of a tax agreement and a START [arms] deal and all the other things that accumulate, that even where he might have ...
Feds Want Corpses, Rotting Teeth on Cigarette Packages
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(Nov. 10) -- Images of corpses, rotting teeth and diseased lungs will take up half the space on a pack of cigarettes, under federal proposals unveiled today. The graphic new labels are designed to scare smokers into quitting by showing what can happen to them. The warnings are required under a law passed last year that gave the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products. ...
FDA Proposes Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
By not in system - AOL NewsRICHMOND, Va. (Nov. 10) -- The federal government hopes new larger, graphic warning labels for cigarettes that include images of corpses, cancer patients, and diseased lungs and teeth will help snuff out tobacco use. The images are part of a new push announced by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday to reduce tobacco use, which is responsible for about 443,000 deaths per year. The number of Americans who smoke has fallen dramatically over the past 40 years, but those declines have stalled in recently. About 46 million adults in the ...
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