Leading Physician in UK Calls Smoking in Cars with Children a Form of Child Abuse
Dr. Steve Field, a UK physician who is the chairman of the Royal College of General Physicians, has stated that smoking in a car with a child is a form of child abuse
Major Health Care Cuts for the Poor Necessary Due to Smokers Not Smoking Enough
According to an article in the Scranton Times-Tribune , declines in smoking are resulting in health insurance cuts for low-income Pennsylvanians, due to reduced tobacco settlement payments to the state as a result of the lower cigarette consumption.
Smoking in the car is child abuse
Parents who smoke in cars in front of small children are “committing a form of child abuse”, a leading GP has said.
Agency probing menthol cigarette risk
GREENSBORO — Pierre Lorillard could hardly have imagined that the small tobacco company he started 250 years ago in New York City would ship 36.3 billion cigarettes a year in the 21st century, 87 percent of which would be flavored with menthol. But the little ingredient found naturally in mint oils poses a serious threat to his legacy: a $3.8 billion cigarette colossus that employs 1,800 people in Greensboro.
