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The Pittsfield, Massachusetts Board of Health is considering new tobacco regulations to ensure that the city’s current controls address gray areas in state laws.
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Advocates continue to call on the tobacco industry to stop adding flavorings to all products.
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At the end of April, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced proposed product standards to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and prohibit all characterizing flavors, other than tobacco, in cigars. Activist groups are cheering the move.
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The New York State Department of Health has released new statistics showing a large percentage of cancer survivors continue to smoke, putting their lives…
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New tobacco control measures are now in effect across New York.On July 1st some big changes came to New York state tobacco regulations, the result of a…
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Legislators and activists joined forces Monday at the state capitol in Albany to promote legislation that would ban the sale of all flavored tobacco…
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Just as New York raised the minimum age to buy tobacco and electronic cigarettes to 21 from 18, a local Albany County law that would have banned flavored…
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We live in an age in which it seems we’re surrounded by government mendacity, incompetence, and corruption. Of course, there are legitimate reasons we all…
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The fight against tobacco use is global: approximately 1 person dies from a disease caused by tobacco use every six seconds around the world. New York…
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It wasn’t long ago when it seemed that the tobacco lobby’s stranglehold over New York policymaking was finally broken. In addition to federal court…