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He has advanced lung cancer

A Shepherd woman is being treated for head trauma at Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids after leaping from a pickup because her husband refused to stop for her to purchase cigarettes about 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Isabella County sheriff’s officials said.Jacklin Faber suffered head injuries and was transported to Central Michigan Community Hospital and later airlifted by helicopter to Blodgett Hospital in Grand Rapids for treatment.

The House of Representatives votes 298-to-112 to approve sweeping legislation to bring tobacco under control of the Food and Drug Administration for the first time. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/02/house-approves-plan-fda-regulatory-power-tobacco/

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Governor Tim Kaine was joined by health advocates, legislative patrons and other stake holders in Virginia Beach Monday as he signed legislation banning smoking in restaurants and bars throughout Virginia. < snip > Kaine worked for years for a total ban of smoking in all restaurants. Generally, the bill requires any restaurant that allows smoking to limit it to an area separated from nonsmoking patrons by a wall and a door and a ventilation system that doesn't mix secondhand smoke with fresh air. The ban will take effect Dec. 1.

It is one thing to raise cigarettes taxes to discourage people from smoking, especially the poor for benefits to their health. I guess the democrats figure they can raise cigarette taxes and people will keep smoking so the government can afford to give these working poor people Health Insurance for their children. (Let’s not get into the 2nd hand smoke stuff). Is this making sense? Maybe I read the press release wrong!

A tree grows in San Francisco no longer, but not before a team of tree surgeons and a small group of neighbors began mixing it up in the middle of 25th Street on Wednesday and four police officers had to be summoned to restore order. At times, the name calling and nasty language seemed capable of drowning out the roar of the chain saw. The dispute involved a 45-foot-tall valley oak in the front yard of a small apartment complex on 25th just west of Potrero Avenue. Months ago, the landlord had sought approval to remove it, saying it leaned...

Peter Jennings' lung cancer, which he disclosed Tuesday on ABC World News Tonight, may be in an advanced stage, a local expert on the disease says. Most patients don't have their conditions diagnosed until the cancer is "so advanced that it can't be cured by surgery, and the patient has a poor chance of long-term survival," says Rita Axelrod of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's Kimmel Center. Details of Jennings' condition haven't been disclosed, but his hoarse voice and the fact that he isn't having surgery immediately "suggests he could be in at least stage III" of lung cancer, says Axelrod,...