Obama's Other Big Challenge: Cigarettes
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Giving up cigarettes is tough, even if you're not running for president.
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NEW YORK - Television stations in Ghana carry a hip-hop contest sponsored by British American Tobacco. On Mexican billboards, drivers can still see the Marlboro Man, Philip Morris&#39;s masculine image of a smoker.
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Ontario is set to ban cigarettes from being displayed at store counters, raise taxes and will require all work placed to be smoke-free within two years.
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Clinton and Obama advocate similar visions for what has become the biggest issue for voters.
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A range of measures is needed to encourage people to quit smoking, Health Secretary John Reid said today. Dr Reid was speaking ahead of publication of the Government
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With health care the top domestic issue among voters as the nation heads into the 2008 elections, the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease asked presidential candidates Tuesday to focus on ways to prevent, treat and manage chronic diseases that account for more than 75 cents of every dollar spent on health care.
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WASHINGTON/SCOTTSDALE, Arizona  - The tobacco wars are back in the U.S. Congress, but the battle lines have shifted and anti-smoking forces are no longer facing a monolithic tobacco industry and loyal legislators.
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Today is the American Cancer Society&#39;s 28th Great American Smokeout. The event is certainly a smoke-out -- clean air laws kick smokers outdoors for their nicotine fixes.
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A new tax on cigarettes, that would be used to fund children's health insurance, is opposed by the administration, which fears insurance costs will pass to the government.
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Health Canada is proposing substantial changes to current requirements for the labelling of tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers, the federal department said today.
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There is another election this week. The issues are not war, taxes, morals or international credibility. They are microbes, diseases, data and international credibility.
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Thursday, the American Cancer Society will mark the 28th annual Great American Smokeout, an effort to focus on the dangers associated with tobacco use and to encourage smokers to quit for a lifetime by starting with just one day.
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Barack Obama wants to hear about the challenges facing rural communities.
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Mayor Anthony A. Williams will propose today that the city dedicate at least $245 million in tobacco settlement funds to an array of major health initiatives, from cancer prevention to new comprehensive clinics east of the Anacostia River to significant improvements in hospital emergency care.
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The U.S. isn't the only country cutting back on public smoking
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For Barack Obama, the millions of dollars he's raised can't quite paper over the nagging doubts and growing pains.
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GREENSVILLE, S.C.--When reporters filed onto Barack Obama's press plane after his acrimonious debate with Hillary Rodham Clinton last week, one thing was noticeably missing amid the wine and snacks on the Boeing 737. There was no high-level campaign spinner to argue that Obama had gotten the better...