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Tobacco and the Legal Age of Smoking

03/16/2016
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Will California’s Move Cause Other States to Raise the Legal Smoking Age? The phrase “Go west, young man,” in American jargon can be traced back to the mid-1800s, when westward expansion began .  And for raising the legal smoking age in the United States, like manifest destiny, the American West […]

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Did the Tobacco Companies Prevent Cessation Aids?

12/1/2015
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Luckily, for addicted smokers, there are multiple stop smoking aids available in 2015.  Whether it by prescription or over-the-counter, and whether nicotine replacement therapy or non-nicotine medications, there are a growing number of cessation aides available today.  Some people even believe that e-cigarettes are a smoking cessation aid.  Sadly though, […]

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Florida Class action: American Spirit Cigarette Maker

10/12/2015
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Florida lawyers are once again at the forefront of litigation against Big Tobacco, as last week a class action lawsuit against the maker of American Spirit cigarettes, and its parent company, was filed in Federal Court in Miami. American Spirit cigarettes are made by Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company (SFNTC), […]

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Tobacco Executives and Their Top 10 Quotes

09/17/2015
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The college football season kicked off this past weekend, beginning the daily sports-talk radio and water-cooler discussions about which teams should be ranked in the top 20 and where those teams should be ranked. College football is, happily, a part of American culture, both past and present.  However, tragically, the […]

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Eunice Kennedy — A most special lady

08/3/2015
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“Enough” said Eunice Kennedy Shriver, when, in 1960 two local Bethesda, MD women called Eunice and told her that they were having trouble finding summer camps for their children with intellectual disabilities, because the “mainstream,” “normal” camps would not accept their children. At the time, Eunice – one of nine […]

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Tobacco Industry — Fraud, Deception and Harm

09/21/2012
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Do cigarette manufacturers know their customers, or do cigarette manufacturers know their customers? A recent article in the New York Times found that “low-income smokers in New York spend 25% of their income on cigarettes.” While statistics like this might come as a surprise to regular folks like you and […]

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