Residents&#39; smoking split seems not so cut and dried
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At first glance, the story seemed straightforward. There was a vulnerable victim, a threat to her health and a violation of her rights.
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BLUEMONT, Va. Outside Barbara Holland's little house in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a cold drizzle falls through a thick fog. Inside the house, it's warmer and drier and the fog isn't water vapor; it's cigarette smoke.
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By Jeff Overley, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Sep. 14--Eventually, the marine layer might be the only haze hanging over  Orange County beaches.    County health and environmental officials are pursuing a plan to stamp  out cigarettes on all seven miles of county sand.
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A law that would ban smoking nearly everywhere in Ontario but in people&#39;s homes isn&#39;t going down well among smokers on London&#39;s busiest bar stretch.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- City Council members may have come up with a compromise to protect homes from business encroachment without stifling development.
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BURLINGTON, Vt. The Health Department is aiming its latest anti-smoking campaign at 18- to 25-year-old Vermonters. About 30 percent of the people in that age group smoke.
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Although some studies have found that smoking paradoxically improves the outcome after heart attack, this was not the case in a multinational study involving more
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Researchers from the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh looked at how the cognitive abilities of smokers and non-smokers changed over time.
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People who find it difficult to clear nicotine from their body may be more vulnerable to getting hooked on smoking.
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By Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun. 17--MANSFIELD -- Maybe Mansfield is finally getting tired of its filthy neighbor.   Civic leaders talked this week about cleaning up dirty smokestacks in Midlothian for the sake of fresh air and families' health.
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THE Government&#39;s plans for a partial ban on smoking in public places seems to have fallen far short of what has been proposed by Liverpool City Council.
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NEW YORK  - Younger smokers trying to quit are less likely than older smokers to use effective strategies like patches or medication to help them kick the habit, a new study shows.
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A spokeswoman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the overall smoking rate among adults was 22.1 percent last year, a decline of just one percentage point from the previous year.
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One in 10 people keep their smoking habits from loved ones, doctors or employers, a survey suggests.
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Smoking is forbidden in nearly three out of four U.S. households, a dramatic increase from the 43 percent of homes that prohibited smoking a decade ago
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Smoking-related heart attacks are not just the preserve of the older tobacco addict, according to new World Health Organisation research.
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The American Cancer Society&#39;s Great American Smokeout took place yesterday, the third Thursday of November, challenging smokers to smoke less or quit smoking for that day.