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Surgeon General testifies on combating smoking
• Tobacco & Marijuana • May 04 05
More needs to be done to combat Smoking and the disease burden it inflicts on society, U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona testified on Tuesday…
Youths risk mental health with pot use
• Tobacco & Marijuana • May 04 05
The earlier a young person uses marijuana the greater the risk for mental health problems later in life, the director of National Drug Control…
German lawmakers want to ban smoking for drivers
• Tobacco & Marijuana • May 03 05
Several German lawmakers want to ban Smoking while driving, saying it’s hazardous.
“The dangers of causing an accident rise drastically when you smoke and…
Smoking moms-to-be may do well to take vitamin C
• Tobacco & Marijuana • May 02 05
If an expectant mother can’t quit cigarettes, she might counter some of the bad effects by taking extra vitamin C, if an…
Spain to clamp down on smokers
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 22 05
Spaniards, among Europe’s heaviest smokers, will soon be banned from lighting up in most public places, barred from buying tobacco until they…
Abnormal CT scan may encourage smokers to quit
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 11 05
A health scare can focus the mind on dealing with bad habits, it seems. Smokers who have a chest CT scan and…
Tobacco CEO testimony self-serving
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 11 05
A federal judge on Monday discounted as “self-serving” the testimony of Philip Morris USA Chief Executive Officer Michael Szymanczyk in the government’s racketeering case…
Cannabis compound slows artery disease in mice
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 06 05
An active ingredient in cannabis can ease inflammation and slow the progression of coronary artery disease in mice, and possibly humans, researchers…
Oral cannabis induces psychosis at low levels
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Apr 01 05
Even in clinical situations where cannabis is administered orally at low doses, psychotic reactions can occur, Swiss researchers report the current issue…
Lenient parents tied to teenage ecstasy use: study
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 31 05
Teenagers are more likely to experiment with the ecstasy drug if they have grown up with lenient, indulgent parents, according to a study on…
Ireland celebrates success of smoking ban
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 29 05
Ireland’s pioneering Smoking ban has won widespread support despite fears it would put pubs out of business, antismoking group ASH said on Tuesday.
Heroin use hits poorest in Ugandan slums
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 28 05
John Mirembe has stolen his father’s expensive four-wheel-drive Land Cruiser and is selling it piece by piece to fund his heroin-Smoking addiction.
…Chewing tobacco may stress heart, blood vessels
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 25 05
Chewing tobacco may be smokeless, but it could be far from harmless to the heart and blood vessels, a small study suggests.
U.S. in talks to settle with tobacco companies
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 22 05
U.S. government lawyers have begun talks with cigarette makers to try to settle the government’s racketeering case against the industry, a source close to…
Court rejects Philip Morris $9 million award appeal
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 21 05
The U.S Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by Altria Group Inc.‘s Philip Morris USA in a California case involving $9 million in…
UK seeks cannabis health checks
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 21 05
The British government said on Saturday it had asked for an assessment of its decision to ease the rules on cannabis after…
Bangladesh bans smoking in public
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 14 05
Bangladesh has banned Smoking in public places, in line with a United Nations treaty on tobacco control.
Parliament passed a law implementing the…
Tobacco still being used by athletes, coaches
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 10 05
Many student athletes, particularly football and baseball players, in Mississippi’s junior and senior high schools, use tobacco - as do their coaches -…
Use Afghan opium crops to make morphine, NGO says
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 09 05
Opium from Afghanistan, the world’s biggest source of heroin, should instead be used to legally produce morphine and codeine, a drugs think tank…
Heroin cheap and easy in remote Afghan North
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 09 05
In war-battered Afghanistan, finding heroin - a derivative of opium, the country’s main cash crop - is both cheap and easy.
Singapore widens smoking ban to more public spots
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 08 05
Singapore said on Tuesday it would widen its ban on smoking to include bus shelters, public toilets, swimming complexes, stadiums and community clubs…
UK has one of Europe’s worst drugs problems - UN
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 02 05
Britain ranks in the top three for heroin and ecstasy abuse in Europe and has the biggest amphetamine problem in the region, a United…
Smoking may be greater kidney risk than thought
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 02 05
The link between smoking and kidney cancer may be stronger than experts have appreciated.
Pulling together data from 24 studies conducted since the 1960s,…
Passive smoking blamed for 10,000 UK deaths a year
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 02 05
Britain’s doctors and nurses on Wednesday redoubled demands for smoking to be outlawed in enclosed public places as a new study showed that passive…
Smoking Ban Takes Hold in Rhode Island
• Tobacco & Marijuana • Mar 01 05
Bars, restaurants and businesses became smoke-free early Tuesday, making Rhode Island the seventh state in the nation to ban puffing in most indoor public…