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Ruling on Cigarette Pack Warnings Stirs Free Speech Debate
11:45AM 11/08/2011
A court ruling Monday stubbed out an FDA attempt to plaster extremely graphic warning labels on cigarette packs. The decision has reignited a debate over which right trumps which: The right of the government to warn Americans about the health risks of smoking, or the First Amendment rights of tobacco companies.
Do Smokers Know How Much They Spend on Cigarettes?
6:30AM 6/22/2011
Cigarettes have only gotten more and more expensive over the past decade as nearly every state has pushed taxes upward. But the habit hits our wallets in a series of small purchases: Are smokers really aware of quite how much they spend a year? We hit the streets of Manhattan to ask.
Tobacco giant Philip Morris International has just bought the rights to a new technology for delivering nicotine in a aerosol spray. The upside: Nicotine addicts get their fix without all the toxins associated with smoking. The downside: It'll be at least three years before it hits the market.
A Judge Snuffs Out New York City's Gruesome Antismoking Ads
12:25PM 12/30/2010
A New York City health code regulation set to go into effect on Jan. 1 would have added some disturbing images to the Big Apple's glittering background of advertising: Hideously accurate ads depicting the results of smoking. But a federal judge this week killed the city's anti-smoking campaign before it could begin.
Big Tobacco's Courtroom Winning Streak Ends in Florida
11:50AM 11/17/2010
The industry just lost an $80 million verdict to a smoker's daughter. After losing about a dozen earlier cases, tobacco had won the eight decisions right before this one, suggesting that it had figured out how to win. But the latest plaintiff victory dispels that notion.
Today's warnings on cigarette packs are one element that has driven down the percentage of Americans that smoke. Still, 23.5% of American men are puffing away, as well as 17.9% of women. The new Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 takes the warning requirement much further,...
Smoking Everywhere, the largest distributor of electronic cigarettes in the U.S., has agreed not to market its product to minors or claim they're a safe alternative to smoking under a settlement with the California Attorney General.
The settlement comes two months after the state reached a similar...
A new study from Columbia University finds that the reasons America is lagging other countries aren't the commonly cited obesity, smoking, traffic fatalities and homicide. Rather, the problem has been poor health care, or rather, a poor health care system.
True, not everyone needs life insurance, but if anyone else depends on you to bring home a paycheck, you need it. Luckily, now's a great time to buy. Finance expert Jean Chatzky tells you what you need to know.
Novartis's New Lung Disease Drug Trumps GSK's Advair in Study
12:36PM 9/20/2010
Company News, Health Care, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Stocks in the News
Shares of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis were up about 1.5% in morning trading Monday following its announcement over the weekend that its Onbrez Breezhaler was found to be more effective at treating lung disease than a standard medicine from GlaxoSmithKline.
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