Posts tagged smoking

• Should Smoking Be Banned in Public Housing?

  Mike Ferrara | June 16, 2010 9:57 PM | 10 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Toxic Substances
  

  In the state of Maine, it has been illegal since 2008 to smoke in a car carrying passengers less than 16 years of age. The rationale is that children strapped into a smoke-filled car are...

• Altria Group to Pay $13.8 Million to Family of Smoker, Lung Cancer Victim

  Mike Ferrara | August 26, 2009 8:18 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Toxic Substances
  

  A California jury has ordered Altria Group, the parent company of Marlboro cigarette maker Philip Morris USA, to pay $13.8 million in punitive damages to the daughter of woman who died in 2003 of...

• Quit Smoking in New Jersey!

  Mike Ferrara | June 27, 2009 10:50 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Toxic Substances
  

  According to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), about 17% of New Jersey adults are smokers. About 76% of smokers want to quit, but only about 10% successfully quit...

• Congress: the FDA Will Now Control Cigarettes

  Mike Ferrara | June 11, 2009 9:15 PM | 14 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Toxic Substances
  

  The Senate voted today and the House is expected to vote tomorrow to pass The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, a critical piece of legislation that will allow the FDA to regulate...

• Federal Appeals Court May Overturn Tobacco Preemption Case, Siding with Cigarette Companies

  Camryn Hansen | October 14, 2008 8:48 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Toxic Substances
  

  At issue in the case of Altria v. Good is the question of whether state consumer-fraud laws may be used to sue cigarette companies for labeling certain brands “light,”...

• Smoking May Pose Greater Risk to Women’s Hearts than Men’s: Quitting Smoking Now Can Save Your Life

  Mike Ferrara | September 09, 2008 3:54 PM | 0 CommentsCherry Hill, NJ Category: Toxic Substances
  

  A recent study in Norway has revealed that smoking may be much more damaging to women’s hearts than to men’s. As it turns out, women who smoke have heart attacks an average of fourteen years...