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CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - A new poll shows that a majority of Kentucky residents favor a smoking ban in public places, a law which the Kentucky legislature is considering. According to the 2011 Kentucky Health Issues Poll (KHIP), 54 percent of Kentuckians say they would support such a law; 43 percent are opposed to this law; and 4 percent had no opinion. This is an increase from 2010, when Kentuckians were split about the law at 48 percent in favor and 48 percent opposed. "Secondhand smoke exposure poses significant health risks, and smoke-free environments are the only way to fully...

Anti-smoking groups have charged that tobacco companies, particularly Reynolds American Inc., are luring teenagers into the smoking habit by offering flavored cigarettes and advertising them in magazines with heavy adolescent readership like Rolling Stone, Glamour and Elle.

Nymox's TobacAlert Product Attracts World-Wide Attention Thursday February 5, 11:33 am ET MAYWOOD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2004--Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ: NYMX - News) announced today that its TobacAlert(TM) product has garnered attention from the press and news services around the world, including in the U.S., Great Britain, France, Italy and Canada, following a January 19, 2004 story about TobacAlert(TM) by Avram Goldstein in the Washington Post and a subsequent January 25 story by Charles Laurence in the Sunday Telegraph in London. TobacAlert(TM) offers concerned individuals an accurate and cost-effective method of determining whether a person has been exposed to second-hand...