Ex-Atty Charged In Fla. With Embezzling Bankruptcy Funds ($$)

Josiah Ewing Hutton Jr., 60, of Winter Haven, faces up to five...wrongdoing related to a client named Patricia Regan, who the documents said received the funds from a tobacco...

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Tobacco Cos. Cleared at Trial Over Smoker’s Respiratory Disease

Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds prevailed Friday at trial in a suit brought by the widow of a Florida smoker, after jurors found the smoker did not meet a class action suit’s requirements. Dubinsky v. Philip Morris, 2014-CA-026783. The 18th Circuit Court

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VIDEO: Queens Co-op Celebrates Smoke-Free Ban

The North Shore Towers is banning cigarette smoke in its nearly 1900 units and 110-acre property. It’s the largest private cooperative in the nation to do so. "We are a prime example of what can happen when people come together and work together," says r

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Tobacco Cos. Hit With $19M Verdict In Business Prof’s Death ($$)

jury on Monday slammed R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris USA Inc. with a total of $13.5 million in punitive damages over the heart and lung disease death of a popular University of Florida business professor, bringing the total awarded in the case to more t

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TOC: December 2016, Volume 25, Issue e2: Kids and Tobacco

Qualitative study of Singaporean youths’ perception of antismoking campaigns: what works and what does not / Effects of plain package branding and graphic health warnings on adolescent smokers in the USA, Spain and France / Early symptoms of nicotine d

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MALONE: Editorial Why care about kids?

the most effective youth campaigns have had broader social engagement and focused on exactly what the Singaporean study suggested: increasing youth autonomy... Can this generation ‘finish it’?15 Only time will tell, but creating policy environments that m

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Qualitative study of Singaporean youths’ perception of antismoking campaigns: what works and what does not [FREE FULL TEXT]

Participants expressed a preference towards antismoking messages that were less authoritative, and perceived a distinct lack of support for their intentions to quit smoking. There is room for incorporating suggestions by participants in future antismoking

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