- Jim Clark | August 31, 2009 10:34 AM | Pinellas, FL
Category:
Miscellaneous
The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act passed easily in both the House and Senate and was signed into law on June 22 of this year. The bill creates greater restrictions on the sale...
- Armand Rossetti | July 24, 2009 10:00 AM | West Palm Beach, FL
Category:
Defective & Dangerous Products
The FDA has alleged that one of several E-cigarette distributors in the United States, Smoking Everywhere, Inc. (SE), has marketed a product that is both an unapproved drug (nicotine) and an...
- C. Todd Alley | July 21, 2009 12:00 PM | Pinellas, FL
Category:
FDA & Prescription Drugs
Chantix has become the leading prescription to help smokers kick the habit. Pfizer, Manufacturer of Chantix, has reported skyrocketing sales since its introduction in 2006. Sales totaled $101...
- John Hopkins | April 29, 2009 10:04 AM | West Palm Beach, FL
Category:
Toxic Substances
The legislators in the house and in senate, in the Great State of Florida intend to do something unprecedented in the next few days. They intend to protect a special class of Corporate America...
- Eddie Farah | February 28, 2009 12:20 AM | Jacksonville, FL
Category:
Defective & Dangerous Products
A new campaign is revolting, even for the tobacco industry.
The American Cancer Society is warning teen girls that they are being targeted with a new campaign dressed in pink.
Don’t be...
- Eddie Farah | December 06, 2008 11:57 AM | Jacksonville, FL
Category:
Wrongful Death
Florida used to rank 41st in states in terms of health, now that number has dropped.
Florida was No. 45 in the latest America’s Health Ranking. That represents a partnership between United...
- Eddie Farah | December 03, 2008 1:50 PM | Jacksonville, FL
Category:
Wrongful Death
Stuart Hess of Cooper City, Florida died of lung cancer at the age of 55 in 1997.
His widow, Elaine, says Stuart tried to quit smoking. He tried Nicorette gum and hypnosis. He tried to quit cold...
- Armand Rossetti | November 16, 2008 3:43 PM | West Palm Beach, FL
Category:
Defective & Dangerous Products
In May 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer’s Chantix (varenicline tartrate), a smoking cessation drug. Reportedly under priority review, the FDA had cut the usual...
- John Hopkins | August 24, 2008 6:28 PM | West Palm Beach, FL
Category:
Toxic Substances
Ever heard of “Polonium 210”? Think Alexander Litvinenko; the Russian dissident we all watched slowly die in 2006 after he was exposed to a toxic substance. The toxic substance to which he was...
- Eddie Farah | May 08, 2008 10:50 PM | Jacksonville, FL
Category:
Defective & Dangerous Products
The state of Florida is spending about 58 million to get you to kick the habit.
Any Floridian who qualified because of income can obtain the stop smoking aids for up to eight weeks. Call...