This event will help to expose the truth about tobacco industry marketing and allow youth to experiment with different ways of expressing themselves while also having a good time, said Nicole Sutton, REAL program director with Cancer Research Center of Hawai i, in the release. It s a great chance to meet new people and share our ideas, said Brent Sokei, Kaua i Community College freshman and a member of REAL s statewide youth board, in a press release. Tobacco is affecting our generation...

That law goes back a few hundred years, I'm sure, and was a necessary edict right up until cowboys, chewing tobacco and spittoons went the way of horse-drawn carriages and hoop skirts. The law doesn't hurt anyone by just sitting there in dusty old law books or on metal signs nailed high above the pedestrian traffic. The law is on the books; the sign upholds the law. And I've gotten used to having lunch late in the day if we go to a restaurant on a Sunday, because blue laws still on the...

The American Heart Association announced that it will no longer hold conferences in cities without smoke-free workplace laws as part of an ongoing campaign to reduce cardiovascular diseases related to tobacco use. The Board of Directors approved the policy which represents a significant change in the association's meeting and conference site selection process. Thirty minutes of exposure to secondhand smoke stiffens coronary arteries, slowing the flow of blood to the heart muscle, making a...

Legislators also voted to create a new administrator who could revoke alcohol, tobacco and retail licenses of business where video gambling machines operate. Many bar owners feared the 525 machines the state excise police disabled in Daniels first six months in office would be the beginning of a battle over control of video gambling usually of the Cherry Masters, slot-machine variety. State lawmakers passed a bill Sunday that would add 16 additional excise officers to go after illegal...

Jolie researched social attitudes toward smokers and the tobacco industry in Taiwan by collecting responses to a survey that she wrote. Jolie has traveled to Taiwan twice on her own to educate elementary and high school students about the dangers of smoking. By changing public attitudes and public policies on tobacco, the Campaign strives to prevent kids from smoking, help smokers quit and protect everyone from secondhand smoke. Nationally, tobacco use kills more than 400,000 people and...