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October 23, 2007,
Columbia
University
Report links teen smoking, depression and drug abuse!
Based on data from
a government drug use survey, researchers concluded that teens who
smoke are nine times more likely to abuse alcohol and 13 times more
likely to abuse illegal drugs than teens who don't smoke.
(read more)
June 14, 2007, Durham, N.C.
Test marketing new smokeless-tobacco.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has chosen
Raleigh as one of five new test markets for its Camel Snus smokeless
products, beginning July 1 -- “We’ve determined that Camel Snus is a
viable product concept that we will now make available in several
thousand retail outlets in the seven test markets,” Dunham said.
Reynolds is not the only U.S. tobacco manufacturer testing snus
products. Philip
Morris USA Inc. said Friday that it plans to introduce a Marlboro
Snus product in August in the Dallas/Fort Worth market.
(read more)
January
17, 2007, Washington D.C.
Nicotine
increasing in cigarettes!
Researchers
at the Harvard School of Public Health say they have
confirmed a study by the state that found nicotine
levels in cigarettes increased from 1997 until 2005.
Health department officials said that the higher
nicotine levels made it easier to get hooked on
cigarettes and harder to quit.
July
10, 2006,
Washington
D.C.
Tobacco could kill 1 billion
people this century!
If current trends hold, tobacco
will kill a billion people this century, 10 times the toll it took
in the 20th century, public health officials said Monday.
Reducing tobacco use would have the greatest affect on global cancer
rates, health officials said.
July 6, 2006,
Atlanta,
Georgia
(CNN)
Smoking rate among high school
students remains constant!
Nearly one in four high school students were smokers last year, a
rate that has not budged in several years, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said Thursday.
The CDC's National Youth Risk Behavior Surveys said last year's
figure of 23 percent is the most current available.
November
22, 2004, Durham, N.C.
Smoking's
real cost reaches $40 per pack over lifetime, study concludes!
An average smoker spends over $1,500 a year on their cigarettes
alone, and that doesn’t include all other related costs. A Duke
University study puts the true cost of lifetime smoking at $40 a
pack – that’s about $15,000 a year that could be used to provide
food, education, healthcare and fun activities for their family.
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