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  • Inmates at the Russell County, Alabama, jail have something new to puff.
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  • The Trending Channel
  • It's not the kind of sign you usually see at a park: "''Our deer don't smoke in your backyard. Please don't smoke in theirs."
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california, smoking, trending
  • Dewey Beach is starting to enforce a new beach smoking ban, but town lifeguards are taking a soft approach.
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smoking, delaware, local/state
  • Click play to watch the report from Action News
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philadelphia, smoking, philadelphia school district, local/state
  • Mayor Michael Nutter is hoping to save the schools and save a few lives along the way.
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philadelphia, smoking, philadelphia school district, local/state, david henry
  • No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City under a proposal unveiled Monday to make the city the most populous place in America to set the minimum age that high.
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new york city, new york, smoking, national/world
  • The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit.
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  • Outdoor smoking has been banned on town property in Princeton.
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new jersey, princeton, mercer county, smoking, local/state, nora muchanic
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  • Another New Jersey community is considering a plan to ban smoking in public areas.
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  • Plus, Burger King jumps in the coffee business
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6at4, stock market, smoking, burger king, business/finance
  • New Castle County has reversed a ban that prohibited smoking near three office complexes where most of the county's 1,400 employees work.
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new castle county, smoking, delaware, local/state
  • Thursday is the 37th annual "Great American Smokeout."
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smoking, cancer, healthcheck, ali gorman, r.n.
  • Redbox streaming service; ciagarette taxes and more!
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6at4, stock market, iphone, apple, movies, taxes, smoking, business/finance
  • Smoking ban proposal in Lansdale, Pa.
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  • Smoking ban proposal in Lansdale, Pa.
  • Public property in Lansdale, Pa. could soon be smoke-free.
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pennsylvania, smoking, montgomery county, local/state
  • Tobacco companies won't have to place new warning labels on cigarette packs and an update on West Nile Virus cases.
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smoking, healthcheck, ali gorman, r.n.
  • Residents of public housing in one eastern Pennsylvania city will have to light up outside beginning this week as a smoking ban goes into effect, only the second such ban by a public housing authority in the commonwealth.
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allentown, lehigh county, pennsylvania, smoking, local/state
  • Some non-smokers will have to join smokers outside one western Pennsylvania county courthouse - if they want to huff and puff on electronic cigarettes that emit water vapor.
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pennsylvania, smoking, bizarre bazaar
  • A Michigan detective can credit legwork, luck and one man's bad habit for his latest arrest.
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  • Tobacco companies will now be required to report the levels of dangerous chemicals found in cigarettes, chew and other products.
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  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is releasing a very graphic new campaign that aims to get people to quit smoking.
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cancer, smoking, heart health, health care, healthcheck, ali gorman, r.n.
  • Tobacco taxes and smoking bans haven't budged the U.S. smoking rate in years. Now the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with a graphic nationwide advertising campaign.
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  • Cape May officials have rejected plans to ban smoking on its public beaches.
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new jersey, cape may county, smoking, jersey shore, local/state
  • A Tennessee police department says it has fired an officer after 17 years on the force because he repeatedly smoked cigarettes inside the precinct in violation of the city's no smoking policy.
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tennessee, smoking, bizarre bazaar
  • A northwestern Pennsylvania tobacco shop is turning the image of the jovial, pipe-smoking Santa on its head by having Saint Nick huff on a hookah.
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pennsylvania, holidays, illegal drugs, smoking, bizarre bazaar
  • Click play to watch Ali Gorman's report
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  • Stress-busters, discount patches & gum help nicotine withdrawal for workers, visitors
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smoking, health care, healthcheck, ali gorman, r.n.
  • November is lung cancer awareness month.
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pennsylvania, cancer, health care, smoking, healthcheck, nydia han
  • Cape May is moving forward with plans to ban smoking on its beaches and the oceanfront Promenade.
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  • Action News
  • A federal judge is expressing doubts about whether the government can force tobacco companies to post graphic images on their cigarette packages showing the health effects of smoking.
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  • A captive orangutan often spotted smoking cigarettes given to her by zoo visitors is being forced to kick the habit, a Malaysian wildlife official said Monday.
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smoking, wildlife preservation, animals
  • Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the warnings violate their free speech rights and will cost millions of dollars to print.
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smoking, fda, national/world
  • FDA releases new smoking warnings
  • The FDA released nine new warning labels that depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use.
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  • FDA releases new smoking warnings
  • The FDA released nine new warning labels that depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use.
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  • "What's up your butt?"
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  • Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But one Cuban man is hoping that a 268-foot super-stogie he rolled is something more: a world record.
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cuba, smoking, bizarre bazaar
  • Pittsburgh police say a 32-year-old man shot a teenage girl in the knee after she refused to lend him her last cigarette.
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  • A New Jersey woman was stabbed in the face with a pen on a New York City subway train after she tried to stop a man from lighting a cigarette.
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new jersey, new york, new york city, smoking, stabbing, local/state
  • States are hoping to increase revenue by attracting smokers from neighboring states.
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new jersey, new hampshire, massachusetts, smoking, taxes, inside politics
  • Police say a car theft suspect was found in a western Pennsylvania office building's crawl space after his cigarette smoke gave away his hiding place.
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  • Where there's smoke, there are $2,000 fines in one New York City apartment building.
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new york, new york city, smoking, lawsuit, bizarre bazaar
  • Rehoboth Beach officials are discussing the possibility of an outdoor smoking ban in certain public areas.
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delaware, rehoboth beach, smoking, local/state
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  • Temple University has launched a program geared towards helping the unemployed stop smoking.
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pennsylvania, philadelphia, temple, smoking, healthcheck, ali gorman, r.n.
  • President Barack Obama finally has kicked the habit, Michelle Obama said Tuesday.
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  • An official in Portland, Ore., says a house fire that caused $30,000 in damage was apparently started by tenants who were using a hole in the floor as an ashtray.
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oregon, fire, smoking, bizarre bazaar
  • No puffing while you're walking in a Long Island village.
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new york, smoking, health care, bizarre bazaar
  • Nicoderm
  • Click play to watch Ali Gorman's report.
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philadelphia, smoking, healthcheck
  • Think the occasional cigarette won't hurt? Even a bit of social smoking - or inhaling someone else's secondhand smoke - could be enough to block your arteries and trigger a heart attack, says the newest surgeon general's report on the killer the nation just can't kick.
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