The Burlingame Police Department together with the San Mateo County Tobacco Prevention Program, Breathe California and the Youth Leadership Program distributed information about tobacco laws and penalties to grocery stores, liquor stores and gift shops that could potentially sell tobacco to minors. San Mateo County is battling teen smoking through education not just for minors but for merchants that sell tobacco. The Burlingame Police Department together with the San Mateo County Tobacco...

O'Malley said this summer that he wants to expand Medicaid, but yesterday he said he has reservations about using an increase in the tobacco tax to pay for the expansion. The House of Delegates approved a $1-a-pack increase to the tobacco tax this spring as part of a plan to expand Medicaid, but the measure died in the Senate. Martin O'Malley said yesterday that the state is likely to raise its tobacco tax - perhaps by another $1 a pack - to help solve its budget woes. A $1 a pack increase...

About half of throat cancer and mouth cancer occur in smokers and almost all particularly aggressive mouth cancers occur in people who chew tobacco. Bladder cancer is also associated with tobacco use and other cancers have been implicated. And the threats of tobacco smoking and the burden it superimposes on our health requires a string of reforms to revert the trend. Although, the number of cancers seen each year is slightly above average for an old industrial urban state, the death rate...

Printer-Friendly Version Email This Story Haymore meets with area ag leaders By REBECCA BLANTON Register & Bee staff writer September 1, 2007 Todd Haymore, second from left, commissioner for the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, listens to audience members' concerns about agriculture at the Institute on Friday. Printer-Friendly Version Email This Story Haymore meets with area ag leaders By REBECCA BLANTON Register & Bee staff writer September 1, 2007 Todd Haymore,...

Home:News:Opinion:Editorials Editorials More work to be done 09/10/2007 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly Smoking among teenagers in New York has declined by 45 percent since 2000, a welcome trend that places the Empire State well above the national average, according to the state Department of Health. Home:News:Opinion:Editorials Editorials More work to be done 09/10/2007 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendly Smoking among teenagers in New York has declined by 45...

By Jennifer Brown Denver Post Staff Writer Article Last Updated:09/08/2007 11:12:38 PM MDT Pitches for new and increased taxes are stacking up, setting off criticism from fiscal conservatives and a vow from the governor's office to limit the number of proposals presented to voters in 2008. By Jennifer Brown Denver Post Staff Writer Article Last Updated:09/08/2007 11:12:38 PM MDT Pitches for new and increased taxes are stacking up, setting off criticism from fiscal conservatives and a vow...