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News Briefs for August 2, 2012
Downtown stores plan sales Heart of Danville’s Downtown Lemons and Leftovers Sale will take place Friday and Saturday. With 13 downtown stores participating, merchants will offer sales and savings on items that may not have sold well or that need...
Tags: Movies, Health Treatments, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Business
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Bulletin Board for Aug. 5
Deadline for submitting information to the Bulletin Board is noon Thursday. There is no charge for this service. Items run as space permits. Mail information to The Advocate-Messenger, P.O. Box 149, Danville, Ky. 40423- fax to (859) 236-9566 or call 236-...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Alzheimer's Disease, Healthcare Provider, Potatoes, YMCA
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Cigarette use down, other tobacco up, CDC says
Cigarette consumption has gone down since 2008, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But other tobacco use has gone up. That includes use of pipe tobacco for roll-you-own cigarettes and cigarette-like cigars, the agency...
Tags: McAfee, Inc., Disease Prevention, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tobacco Products
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Battling Her Lung Cancer And Everyone Else's
The Hartford CourantThe stigma surrounding lung cancer bothers Diane Legg. "Most often the first question asked is, 'Did you smoke?'" she said. "No other disease, nobody asks such an in-your-face question. Most people who have a heart attack, they don't ask if they smoked....Tags: Lung Cancer, Human Interest, Cancer, Lungs and Airways, Heart Attack
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Theater review: "Sordid Lives" at Theatre Downtown
Orlando Sentinel theater criticPeople are people, the platitude goes, and in Del Shores' comedy Sordid Lives, we peer into a family similar to many: Sisters squabble, an aunt struggles to quit smoking, a gay son worries about coming out. Oh, there is a gay-transvestite brother locked...Tags: Music, Tammy Wynette, Potatoes, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Theater Downtown
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Insight: What if baby boomers don't live forever?
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - What if the generation that once rocked out to The Who's "hope I die before I get old" line actually does? Most retirement plans and federal budget projections assume baby boomers -- those Americans born between 1946 and 1964 --...Tags: Breast Cancer, Social Sciences, Economy, Business and Finance, Pete Townshend, Health Organizations
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Art Callaham: Let's talk stadium
Even though I promised lots of people that I was going to remain mostly silent about stadium issues here in Hagerstown, one trip to see the O’s play the Nats in Baltimore hooked me again. My wife says this is worse than all those times I quit...Tags: Washington Nationals, Baseball, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Politics, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Time for the feds to raise the cigarette tax
At $2 per pack, Maryland has one of the highest cigarette taxes in the nation — and has reaped considerable benefits from it. With every tobacco tax increase over the last 13 years, smoking rates in the state have declined, not only among children...
Tags: Cancer, Health Insurance Cost, Social Security, Human Rights, Politics
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York Housing Authority Proposes Smoking Ban; Community Members have Mixed Feelings
A proposed smoking ban at York Housing Authority building, including apartments, has some residents on edge. After learning about smoking statistics as they relate to preventable diseases, the Authority decided to draft a smoking ban policy. The...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Laws, Interior Policy, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning
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Local bar owners, patrons file lawsuit against city for smoking ban ordinance
A dozen Indianapolis bars have consolidated individual lawsuits into one challenge in federal court against the city's new smoking ban. In less than two weeks, bar owners claim business is down and employees have been laid off. "Our business has been...
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Laws, Trials, Justice System
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Quinn signs Medicaid cuts, cigarette tax hike
Tribune reporterGov. Pat Quinn signed a package of bills into law Thursday that will slash health care coverage for the poor and hike cigarette taxes by $1-a-pack to help pay for the struggling Medicaid program. The $1.6 billion in cuts to the program come amid the...Tags: Pat Quinn, Health Insurance, Illinois Governor, Prescription Drugs, Drugs and Medicines
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U.S. Surgeon General holds town hall at UW to hear anti-smoking ideas
Q13 FOX News reporterU.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin held a town hall meeting Thursday at the University of Washington to discuss with young adults from the Pacific Northwest how best to prevent smoking among the young. “It’s hard,” Benjamin told...Tags: University of Washington, Regina Benjamin, Lung Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, University of Oregon
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Jun 13, 2012
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