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Dima Br - ArticlesNicotine Addiction Slashed in Test of New Cigarette Smoking StrategyScientists are reporting the first successful strategy to reduce smokers’ nicotine dependence while allowing them to continue smoking. The study provides strong support for proposals now being considered in Congress to authorize FDA regulation of cigarette smoking, according to the research team. The Lake Show: Salisbury Man Wins Yankee Classic Bodybuilding CompetitionBodybuilding has come a long way since strongman-turned-professional muscle displayer Eugen Sandow first flexed his way into prominence, helping mold a pre-depression era society America into a biceps-loving, spring-pulley-stretching nation that eventually celebrated Sandow's bulky hamhogs and bodybuilding's rise in popularity in the Oscar-winning 1936 film "The Great Ziegfeld." As the World Marks African Traditional Medicine Day on SundayAs the world marks African Traditional Medicine Day on Sunday, patrons of herbal medicines are on the rise in Nigeria.A check by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), at various markets in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, where herbal and traditional medicines are sold, indicate good patronage, regardless of the proliferation of western drugs. Cigarettes Tax Plan May Push Limit for VotersCalifornia's growing majority of nonsmokers has been easily persuaded in the past to raise taxes on cigarettes products - first by 25 cents a pack in 1988 and then by another 50 cents in 1998. Tobacco Industry Deceit ClaimedCigarette makers tried to undermine evidence that secondhand smoke causes cardiovascular disease, according to a review by a UC Davis physician of scores of once-secret tobacco industry documents. Cigarette Industry Plots to Hook More WomenThe authors of the study, published in the June issue of the journal Addiction, said it provides compelling evidence that the tobacco industry has conducted extensive research on female smoking tastes and habits over the years and has intentionally modified product design to lure women smokers. What is Tobacco Bag Stringing?In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, families throughout the tobacco-growing regions of North Carolina and Virginia earned much-needed income by sewing drawstrings into cotton tobacco bags. Film Smoking Warning Doesn't Go Far Enough, Critics SayThe decision by the Motion Picture Association of America last month to begin using its rating system to warn parents when movies "glamourise" smoking was Hollywood's first - and to some critics of the industry, long overdue - acknowledgement of the powerful role movies play in creating thousands of new smokers every year.
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