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Uncontrolled hypertension can lead to heart disease, strokes and death
Considering how many people eat too much and exercise too little, it's not surprising that nearly 67 million Americans have high blood pressure. But here's the asterisk: 36 million of them do not have it under control, even though most know they have...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Death, Diseases and Illnesses, Disease Prevention, Health and Medical Professionals
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Cutting through the smoke
James R. Adams, a giant on Madison Avenue during the years immediately after World War II, once said that advertising is the "principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the Earth." Surely, the three weeks prior to an election give further...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Media Industry, Laws, Justice System, MTV (tv network)
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Feds seek full court review of graphic cigarette warnings
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is asking a federal appeals court to rehear a challenge to a requirement that tobacco companies to put large graphic health warnings on cigarette packages. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Justice System, U.S. Department of Justice, Crime, Law and Justice
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Quinn signs bills to reduce health care, raise tobacco tax
Gov. Pat Quinn signed a package of bills into law Thursday that will slash health care coverage for the poor and hike cigarette taxes by $1-a-pack to help pay for the struggling Medicaid program.
The $1.6 billion in cuts to the program come amid the...Tags: Illinois Governor, Prescription Drugs, Health, Pat Quinn, Chicago Tribune
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Roanoke Valley resident leads national fight against cigar regulations
ReporterWhen the owners of Milan Tobacconists recently celebrated the shop's 100th anniversary, Glynn Loope was front and center. The Executive Director of the group Cigar Rights of America lives in Botetourt County. "Done 28 states in the last 24 months, and...Tags: Food and Drug Administration
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Md. tobacco tax will save lives
As Gov.Martin O'Malleysigns into law the revenue measure passed during the recent special session, most of the attention will be on the income tax changes in the bill. Also in the new law will be an historic and life-saving increase in our state's tax...Tags: Executive Branch, Politics, Government
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Illinois House approves $1-a-pack cigarette tax increase
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD --- The Illinois House today approved a $1-a-pack cigarette tax hike to generate money for health care coverage for the poor. The 60-52 vote by the House, which has in the past rejected cigarette tax hike proposals, came a day after lawmakers...Tags: Elections, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Democratic Party, Barbara Flynn Currie
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Cigar Retailers Worry Regulations Could Burn Business
doug.magditch@cw33.com, Follow Me @DougMagditchKids: time to hang up your smoking jackets. The FDA is looking to regulate premium cigars. The reason? It says manufacturers market to kids. Local cigar retailers say the regulations could burn up their businesses. "We like to smoke cigars for stress...Tags: Food and Drug Administration
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ANTIQUES: Hidden value found in art tiles
Bargain-priced American art pottery vases are hard to find. But, art pottery tiles made by important companies still are inexpensive, because they have had little publicity. Tile collectors in England and Holland pay high prices for tiles made in their...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, World War I (1914-1918), Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Summer Olympics, Library of Congress
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Alleged $100M customs fraud scheme uncovered
SAN DIEGO -- The head of a San Diego-based border trade agency faces federal charges, along with seven other people and three international trade companies, involving an alleged multimillion-dollar customs-fraud scheme, federal officials announced...
Tags: Salmonella Infection, Punishment, Medina (Saudi Arabia), Economy, Business and Finance, Justice System
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Elon Musk of SpaceX: The goal is Mars
As shipments go, it was routine — about half a ton of supplies — except it was delivered by the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. SpaceX partnered with NASA in this new model, the brainchild of Elon Musk, who's behind...
Tags: Space Programs, Startups, Mining, PayPal, Inc., Economy, Business and Finance
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Cigarette use down, other tobacco up, CDC says
Cigarette consumption has gone down since 2008, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But other tobacco use has gone up. That includes use of pipe tobacco for roll-you-own cigarettes and cigarette-like cigars, the agency...
Tags: Quitting Smoking, Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of the Treasury, McAfee, Inc.
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