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Health advocates fear Zyn, like e-cigs, may catch on with teens due to its addictive nicotine. Meanwhile, videos of youths popping the pouches have racked up millions of views on social media.
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The agency says the menthol gets people hooked easier and makes it harder for them to break the addiction.
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Florida has three failing grades in the annual State of Tobacco report. About 13% of all Floridians smoke tobacco products.
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Casinos in several states are fighting efforts to ban smoking, and trying to roll back existing anti-smoking laws. One planned facility even moved outside a city’s limits because of voter-approved smoking restrictions.
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Florida is failing when it comes to controlling tobacco and preventing smoking, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.
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A report by state economists pointed to a forecast last month that cigarette sales would decline by 2.5 percent annually over the next decade.
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The court denied the settlement because the couple was not married when the victim was first diagnosed in the 1990s — a time when Florida did not allow same sex marriages.
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Walmart is not the first national retail chain to cut off cigarette sales even on a trial basis, but it is the largest.
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Siding with R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the court said plaintiffs must show that smokers relied on misleading information from cigarette makers to prevail on the claims.
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Sponsor Joe Gruters, R-Sarasota, said the change was made because “cigars and pipe smoking is such a small portion” of the problem.
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Justices on Wednesday will hear an appeal by the estate of a man who died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A Duval County jury awarded $6.4 million in compensatory damages, but an appeals court overturned the decision.
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A jury awarded damages to the estate of Janice Hamilton, a smoker who died of lung cancer. But R.J. Reynolds argued in the appeal that a circuit judge improperly allowed a hearsay statement.