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FDA intends to regulate e-cigs like tobacco

What are electronic cigarettes? Are they smoking devices marketed for delivering nicotine pleasure without all the chemicals in regular cigarettes, or are they drug-delivery devices designed to help...

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Is backlash looming on outdoor smoking bans?

I’m about as anti-smoking as anyone, being the child of two people who’ve smoked virtually their entire adult lives. But this prof at Boston University makes a lot of sense. Photo: "Untitled," posted...

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Tobacco shops exempt from smoking bill

Smokers gather at the Red Cloud Fine Cigars Tobacco in Fullerton. Photo by Leonard Ortiz, the Register. The California Senate has approved a bill to tighten restrictions on smoking in the workplace...

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Will seeing dead people curb smoking?

CLICK TO VIEW A GALLERY OF THE LABELS. And we have some winners! The FDA on Tuesday unveiled its nine choices for imagery that will go on packs of cigarettes by next year. The best of the lot — or the...

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Top 10 least-helpful texts to quit smoking

Photo by Matt Cardy, Getty Images. This study showing the value of text-messaging as a tool to help smokers quit is fascinating. It seems to prove that smokers, like a lot of us, need human...

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Only 53 took county’s free quit-smoking drugs

Smoking really isn’t that big a problem in Orange County. Less than 11 percent of adults in the county smoke, well below the state average of 13.1 percent, which is an all-time low. The national...

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State smoking rate hits record low

AP photo California’s adult smoking rate has hit another record low. The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that 11.9 percent of adults in the state were regular smokers in 2010,...

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Secondhand smoke may cause kids’ hearing loss

One of the proposed FDA warning labels for cigarette packages that didn't make the final cut, although I like it and it seems appropriate here. Yeah, you could say I’m anti-smoking. This is a blog,...

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Tobacco companies sue over graphic warnings

When you get knocked on your rear, get back up and try again. That’s the goal of five big tobacco companies who are suing over the FDA’s power to put nine graphic warning labels on cigarette packaging...

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Some stores still dumb enough to sell kids smokes

Illegal sales of tobacco to min Photo posted to Flickr by Matt Whitlock. ors has dropped to yet another record level. During the state’s annual sting operation undercover compliance check of stores in...

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