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 march 2003 articles...

 



 
Articles In The News - March 2003
From Colorado State University -- "Pets and Secondhand Smoke" - An article by Linda Lechler.  Published in the Rocky Mountain Collegian on March 18, 2003. Go to RockyMountainCollegian.com
From Edwardsville, Ill -- "Altira Hit with $10 Billion Damage Award" - An article by William Spain and Carolyn Pritchard.  Published on CBS Market Watch on March 21, 2003. Go to CBS Market Watch

                                                                        


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)

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