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ASH NEWS ITEMS FOR APRIL 1999

Cancer Down Because Smoking is Down - See Rates [04/20-8]

OH Refuses to Certify Smokers as a Class [04/20-7]

States and Senators Urge Fed to Let States Keep $'s [04/20-6]

Grape Juice May Help Minimize the Tobacco ETS Effects [04/20-5]

Pipes and Cigars as Dangerous as Cigarettes [04/20-4]

Nabi Press Release: New Drug May Be a Nicotine Vaccine [04/20-3]

Children Likely to Do as Their Parents Do [04/20-2]

Industry Settlement Strategy Backfired [04/20-1]

Louisiana To Consider No-Smoking Bills [04/19-5]

Debate: Should Smokers Be Allowed to Indulge During Office Hours? [04/19-4]

Midnight Thurs. All Tobacco Billboards Must Be Down [04/19-3]

The Earlier in Life One Starts, the More Genetic Damage Later On [04/19-2]

Friend or Faux: B&W Debut Web Site Acknowledge Health Risks [04/19-1]

ALERT/UPDATE on Hutchinson Amendment [04/16-2]

AGs Hire Flack Exposed by ASH's Banzhaf [04/16-1]

High School Student in MA Drafts Bill that Restricts Smoking [04/15-5]

AZ County Pushing Restaurant Smoking Ban [04/15-4]

Students Design Antitobacco Billboards in Maryland [04/15-3]

Three Lawsuits Filed Against Industry in Australia [04/15-2]

UST Accused of Breach of Settlement By RI AG [04/15-1]

Teen Cigarette Brand Preferences [04/14-8]

Smoking's Protective Effects for Women "A Mirage" [04/14-7]

Smoking Lawsuits: Banzhaf Says Results Encouraging [04/14-6]

Smoking Me Be Deadlier for Women [04/14-5]

OH: Judge Refuses to Certify Smokers as a Class [04/14-4]

Tobacco Spends $100M on Lobbying and Ads [04/14-3]

TF-OH Gives Grant for African American Smoking Prevention Program [04/14-2]

MO Hospital Ask Court to Clarify Effect of National Settlement [04/14-1]

MD Raises Cigarette Tax $.30, But Where Will the Revenue Go? [04/13-6]

U.S. v. Industry: Both Sides Getting Ready [04/13-5]

Expectant Mothers Exposed to ETS Expose fetus [04/13-4]

Smoking Causes Permanent Molecular Damage [04/13-3]

Good News Concerning ETS [04/13-2]

New Study Confirms Dangers of Cigarette Smoking [04/13-1]

ALERT: Help Defeat Hutchinson Amendment [04/12-6]

2nd Circuit Dismisses Health Fund Suit [04/12-5]

NY May Hold Up Settlement Payments [04/12-4]

Frmr. US Surg. Gen. Koop on HA & the Tobacco Settlement [04/12-3]

New Study: Parental ETS and Respiratory Disease in Children [04/12-2]

Behavior In Grade School Effects Emotional Problems in High School [04/12-1]

CBS TV Exposes Kid Targeting - MONDAY [04/10-1]

Merger Approval Makes BAT/Rothman Second to PM [04/09-9]

Spotlight on the Kids for National 'Kick Butts' Day [04/09-8]

Key to Decreasing Youth Smoking Is to Decrease Smoking in General [04/09-7]

Gary Black Report on Litigation and Stocks [04/09-6]

Heated Battle Over FDA Regulation Headed to the Supreme Court [04/09-5]

Industries Deep Pockets Hit Washington Hard [04/09-4]

Cigarette Price Increases Decrease the Number of Smoking Mothers [04/09-3]

Judge to Decide Fate of Menthol Cigarette Class Action [04/09-2]

Antitobacco Fears the Worse Use of Settlement $$'s [04/09-1]

Report Says Drug and Tobacco Use Up in the 9-12 Age Group [04/08-8]

NC Ready to Enforce Its Youth Antitobacco Laws [04/08-7]

PM Asked to Turn Over Its Anti-Smoking Campaign Funds [04/08-6]

Report on DNA Ramifications for Smoking Youth Alarms Maine [04/08-5]

OK Making Tobacco Users and Others Accountable for Their Litter [04/08-4]

MD Fillibuster Threatens Cigarette Tax Increase [04/08-3]

New Billboards Go up in MO [04/08-2]

Industry Charged With Civil Rights Violations in Marketing [04/08-1]

Industry Pays for Academic's Testimony Before the New Zealand Gov. [04/07-6]

Henley's Exemplary Damages Reduced to $25M [04/07-5]

Nation's Largest Antitobacco Media Campaign in the Works [04/07-4]

Feds Hire MN Law Firm to Consult on Tobacco Suit [04/07-3]

Effects of ETS May Be Partly Reversible, But Some Damage Remains [04/07-2]

Genetic Damage from Smoking More Pronounced In Youth [04/07-1]

PA Legislature Wrestles With Cleaning Up Years of Smoking Damage [04/06-6]

MD Legislature Heats Up Over Tobacco Tax [04/06-5]

New Web Page Graphically Illustrates Effects of Smoking on Lungs

Documents: Story of Deceit and Infiltration to Cover-up ETS Harms [04/06-3]

An Appropriations Rider Calls for Medicaid Waiver of Settlement $$'s [04/06-2]

Debunked: Smoking And Alzheimer's Effects Minimization [04/06-1]

Union Health Funds Lawsuit Proceeds in Utah [04/05-5]

Fight Continues on Freedom of Information and Research [04/05-4]

Future of Foreign Lawsuits Against Industry In 1 Judge's Hands [04/05-3]

ENGLE: Banzhaf "An [Industry] Loss Could Be Devastating" [04/05-2]

Prenatal Smoking Linked to SIDS [04/05-1]

CT Legislature Takes Up Regulating Tobacco As a Drug [04/02-6]

MD House Passes Bill to Ban Cigarette Vending Machines [04/02-5]

Researchers Identify Poison Bacteria in Tobacco [04/02-4]

 Lawsuit Arising from Neighbor's ETS Filed in Utah [04/02-3]

Statistical Breakdown of FL Teen Tobacco Use [04/02-2]

President's Statement on FL's Youth Anti-Smoking Campaign [04/02-1]

U of CA - San Francisco Posts Industry Documents on Net [04/01-11]

Times of London Says Industry Risks "Ruin" [04/01-10]

PM Sunk By Its Own Documents Say Jurors [04/01-9]

Industry MD Witness Admits "Right to Warn People About Smoking" [04/01-8]

Industry Stocks Plummet [04/01-7]

New Cooperation Takes Shape in Congress on Antitobacco [04/01-6]

Japan Airlines Bans Smoking on Its Int'l Flights [04/01-5]

Opening the Science Files on Clove and Vegetable Cigarettes [04/01-4]

Industry Braces to Face Wall Street/ Banzhaf "Blood in the Water" [04/01-3]

Williams' $81m Judgment: Analysis of an Appeal [04/01-2]

MA. Poll Shows Support for Using Settlement $$'s on Antitobacco [04/01-1]
 

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