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Judge had tobacco interests, L.A. paper says
July 11th, 2008
Associated Press, Monday, September 9, 2002
Los Angeles — A federal judge who helped hand the tobacco industry one of its biggest legal victories in recent years represented a tobacco company as a...
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Quick test for TB
July 11th, 2008
Reuters News Agency, Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Leicester, England - British scientists have developed a quick test that can detect tuberculosis in two or three hours instead of weeks.
It uses DNA...
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Shortage of respiratory therapists
July 11th, 2008
By Betty Ann Adam, Saskatoon StarPhoenix, September 10, 2002
A Saskatoon respiratory therapist says patients are being left in critical condition because of the shortage of workers in his field....
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Anti-tobacco conference
July 11th, 2008
Canadian Press Monday, September 16, 2002
Montreal — Not long ago, the idea of holding an international anti-tobacco conference in Montreal would have been a joke.
But this week more than 400 experts...
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Funding Cut for Canadian Council for Tobacco Control
July 11th, 2008
(see CCTC response below)
By...
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Another Big Tobacco Smoke Screen
July 11th, 2008
By JOHN WILDGUST, The Globe and Mail
Tuesday, September 17, 2002, Print Edition, Page A17
To hear the stories told by the antitobacco lobbyists, you would think that Canadian tobacco companies were...
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patch and gum no magic bullet
July 11th, 2008
By ANNE MCILROY, The Globe and Mail
Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - Print Edition, Page R8
OTTAWA -- Smokers who want to kick the habit may not get the help they expect from the nicotine patch or gum. New...
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Tobacco must remain hidden
July 11th, 2008
Judge upholds provincial law
Darren Bernhardt
Saskatchewan News Network; Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Thursday, September 26, 2002
SASKATOON -- Tobacco giant Rothman's Benson & Hedges Inc. has lost its...
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Canada, U.S. to crack down on tobacco smugglers
July 11th, 2008
POSTED AT 11:29 PM EDT Wednesday, September 25
Canadian Press
Toronto — Police on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border have joined forces to put an end to smuggling cut-rate...
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Steroid-inhaler use cuts hospital stays
July 11th, 2008
The study quoted in the following article is by Drs. Samy Suissa, Pierre Ernst and Abbas Kezouh, “Regular use of inhaled corticosteroids and the long term prevention of hospitalisation for asthma” which was published...
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