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february 2003 articles...
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Articles In The News - February 2003 |
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From Contra Costa County, CA
-- Students crusade against tobacco.
Classmates from Middle College High in Richmond
check up on cigarette sellers to remind them to follow the law.
By Rebecca Rosen Lum.
Posted on the Contra Costa Times.com on Sun, February 2, 2003. |
Go to
ContraCostaTimes.com |
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From 60 Minutes II
-- "Made in the USA". February 12, 2003. |
Go to
CBSNews.com |
From Berkeley, CA
-- "Nothing Sweet About Bidis "--
They look like a marijuana joints
and they taste like jellybeans. Bidi cigarettes come in a variety of
flavors
and can be found in numerous smoke shops throughout the Bay
Area. Published on KTVU.com on February 12, 2003. |
Go to
KTVU.com |
Vancouver, BC
-- Read an interview with Georgina Lovell
in Rendez-vous 151. "Rendez-vous
with . . . Georgina Lovell, about 'You are the Target'". This
interview
transcript was published on Tobacco.org on February
18,
2003. |
Go to
Tobacco.org |
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From Martinez, CA
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"AROUND THE BAY -
Council supports bill to
limit tobacco sales". An article published in the Contra Costa
Times on February 21, 2003 |
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ContraCostaTimes.com |
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From San Francisco, CA
-- "Smoke screen from Big Tobacco on treaty"
- An article by Nancy Pelosi. Published in the San Francisco
Chronicle on February 27, 2003. |
Go to
SFGate.com |
From Reno, CA
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"New limits on smoking eyed" - An article by Don Cox.
Published in the Reno Gazette
Journal on February 28, 2003. |
Go to
RGJ.com |
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From San Francisco, CA
-- Cigarettes are a Big Drag on the States Economy. An
article by David Lazarus. Published by the San Francisco
Chronicle, January 19, 2003. |
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SF Chronicle Article |
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More than 400,000 people die of
tobacco-related illnesses in
the U.S. every year -- more than from AIDS, car crashes,
alcohol, suicides, homicides, fire, and illegal drugs combined...(more) |
| Cigarettes contain over 4,000
chemicals including carbon
monoxide, formaldehyde, arsenic, lead, and hydrogen
cyanide (same gas used in the gas chamber). Almost four
dozen of these chemicals are known to cause cancer....(more) |
| Some information presented on the Tobacco Survivors
United web site requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can
obtain a copy of the reader by
clicking here. |
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