With the growing number of smoking bans in restaurants and bars driving smokers outside, researchers in Athens, Georgia, are hoping to find out whether secondhand smoke from smokers clustered outside these establishments is posing a health hazard of its own. With the growing number of smoking bans in restaurants and bars driving smokers outside, researchers in Athens, Georgia, are hoping to find out whether secondhand smoke from smokers clustered outside these establishments is posing a...

We have made the decision to end our direct involvement in various flue-cured growing projects in Africa and are taking the necessary steps to right-size the operations. Those charges, which totaled about $31 million, were primarily composed of impairment charges on long-lived assets and Company-managed farming operations in Africa and, combined with related tax effects, reduced net income by $24. The current quarter reflected about $3 million in provisions for farmer receivables compared...

It's a computerized cigarette case with a built-in smoking cessation program, which monitors cigarette consumption. Lifetechniques is one of a handful of medical device makers in San Antonio that are starting to create momentum and to attract other biomedical companies to the city, she said. As the population ages, people will need intelligent devices to help them monitor their health care remotely and to provide timely information to their doctors, Brue said. The portable device beeps...

As tobacco farming declined he turned his attention to the Taylor wood stoves and grape harvesting machines. Later, Oren designed and holds several patents for tobacco harvesting equipment that he built. Together, the Taylor brothers and the rest of the family built Taylor Manufacturing, a string of diverse enterprises that includes making farm equipment and innovative wood stoves. As the tobacco farming market faded, they expanded into wine making and stock car racing. Ron is the talker...

Finley described the work of MHS SWAT youth in promoting tobacco-free campuses and reducing youth access to tobacco, and exposing deceptive tobacco marketing practices. AP content may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published May 23, 2007 11:59 pm - Local student speaks against tobacco use Muskogee High School junior Ariel Finley spoke May 18 at the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust board of directors meeting in Tulsa. She told the board how SWAT has...