Tobacco
SC colleges look at on-campus tobacco bans
Campus-wide bans against smokers could spread to several South Carolina universities. The State newspaper of Columbia reports (http://bit.ly/110zJ7i) that at least 10 South Carolina colleges have gone tobacco free and at least five others are considering it in the country's fifth-largest tobacco-growing state. University of South Carolina President Harris Pastides ...
City snuffs smoking ban expansion
The McComb Board of Selectmen has voted down a proposed ordinance that would ban smoking in all public workplaces in the city. The Mississippi Tobacco Free Coalition had proposed the ordinance. The Enterprise-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/16DZZac ) that the board voted 5-0 this week against the ordinance. The city already has ...
FDA tobacco chief speaks at industry meeting
Changes in the marketplace have forced the public health community to wrestle with the idea that some tobacco products may pose less of a health risk than others, the new head of the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco control efforts told an industry group on Thursday. Mitch Zeller, who took ...
W.Va. tobacco case plaintiffs win 1 of 6 claims
A jury has found that plaintiffs in a West Virginia mass litigation tobacco trial proved only one of six claims. The Charleston Gazette (http://bit.ly/181W44U ) says a Kanawha County jury on Wednesday found that the plaintiffs proved their claim that all ventilated filter cigarettes manufactured and sold between 1964 and ...
Health advocates oppose NC Senate smoking bill
Health advocates say a North Carolina Senate bill would repeal hundreds of local and community college rules restricting smoking outdoors. The Senate Environment Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would prohibit local governments and community colleges from enacting smoking bans that are stricter than state law. Sen. Buck Newton, R-Wilson ...
Dayton, Minn. DFL leaders reach budget deal
Gov. Mark Dayton and the Legislature's top Democrats announced an agreement Sunday to raise taxes on Minnesota's wealthier residents and cigarette sales and to spend the extra money on public education and to relieve pressure on local property taxes. Dayton and DFL leaders held a rare Sunday news conference to ...
Morgantown lounge grandfathered into smoking ban
There's only one hookah bar in the state of West Virginia, and after a recent Wheeling-Ohio County Board of Health meeting, it appears it will stay that way. In March, Wheeling resident Trey Santorine asked Ohio County health board members to relax the county's smoking ban to allow for a ...
Trial set in Charleston against tobacco makers
A mass litigation trial against the nation's largest tobacco manufacturers will be decided in a Charleston courtroom. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin next week before Ohio County Senior Judge Arthur Recht in the cases filed on behalf of about 700 plaintiffs who claim they were harmed by tobacco use. ...
U of M poised to ban smoking on Twin Cities campus
The University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus is on the verge of going smoke-free, even outdoors. The University Senate, which includes faculty, students and staff, voted last week in favor of the ban. That resolution still needs the formal approval of University President Eric Kaler, who said he supports a ...
Roundup of Oklahoma editorials
Here are excerpts from recent editorials in Oklahoma newspapers: The Oklahoman, May 5, 2013 Medicaid proposal by two Oklahoma GOP lawmakers has some appeal, but Obamacare still a bad idea Inspired by an Arkansas initiative, two Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma want to use federal dollars intended for Medicaid expansion to ...
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