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Altria, Reynolds Sued for ‘Light’ Cigarette Marketing (Update2) - Bloomberg.com.
Altria Group Inc., the largest U.S. tobacco producer, and Reynolds American Inc. were accused in a consumer lawsuit of fraudulent marketing by claiming “light” cigarettes were less harmful than regular cigarettes.
The suit filed by three Tennessee residents on behalf of smokers who bought “light” or “ultra-light” cigarettes in the state since Jan. 1, 2005, seeks class-action, or group, status.
Smoking bill won't really help anyone | dailyrecord.com | Daily Record.
The newspapers praised President Barack Obama for signing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. They say the bill will prevent more than 2 million of our nation's young people from starting to smoke, thus saving 700,000 of them from deaths related to smoking.
Smoking Cessation Harder For Women Than Men - baltimoresun.com.
Women appear to have a tougher time quitting smoking than men, according to researchers at Women's Health Research at Yale.
While the percentage of men nationally who have given up cigarettes between 1965 and 2006 was 54.5 percent, the rate of decline among women was less steep, at 47.5 percent.
Consequently, the gap in the percentages of male and female smokers has narrowed. In 1965, slightly more than half of all men smoked, while about a third of women did. Today 23.3 percent of men smoke, compared to 18.6 percent of women.
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