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Consumer Confidential: GM sales rise, IKEA powers down, 'safer' smokeless tobacco
Money & CompanyHere's your tone-it-down Tuesday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: -- Maybe what's good for General Motors is good for America after all. The formerly bankrupt carmaker says U.S. vehicle sales rose 6.3% last year, thanks to a...... -
Times Past: Doing our part to recycle
L.A. at HomeFrom the Los Angeles Times archives: West magazine, Feb. 20, 1972 An inspired West magazine cover â the recycling issue â had Angelenos pegged: environmentalist car-lovers with a sense of whimsy. Inside were other amusing recycling ideas, includi... -
Much heated puffing among minority groups over menthol cigarette ban
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe FDA's deliberations over a possible ban on menthol cigarettes have touched off a firestorm of debate within the African American community, and among public health groups divided about how to wean black consumers from their heavy dependence on...Tags: Tobacco Addiction, Crimes, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Behavioral Conditions, Law Enforcement
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'Desperate Housewives' actress Kathryn Joosten diagnosed with recurrence of lung cancer
The Dish RagKathryn Joosten, best known for her feisty old lady roles on "Northern Exposure," "West Wing" and "Desperate Housewives," has had a recurrence of the lung cancer that she beat back in 2001. But Kathryn is as tough as her characters...... -
Feds ban candy- and fruit-flavored cigarettes
California ConsumerThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration launched a ban on cigarettes with fruit, candy or clove flavors today. The ban, authorized by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, represents a national effort by the FDA to reduce an...... -
FDA bans flavored cigarettes
Booster ShotsThe Food and Drug Administration said this morning that it is, effective immediately, banning cigarettes with fruit, candy or clove flavors because they lure adolescents into smoking. "Almost 90% of adult smokers start smoking as teenagers. These flavored... -
Free speech for tobacco companies, or truth in advertising?
Money & CompanyA federal judge in Kentucky earlier this week overturned two of the marketing restrictions in the new federal tobacco law, including a ban on color and graphics in most tobacco advertising. Several tobacco makers sued in August to block the...... -
Donât hold your breath for the 2009 tobacco control report
Booster ShotsThe American Lung Assn.âs 2009 report: People smoke, close to the same rate as they did last year, and six states do nothing to help Medicaid recipients quit. Funny, that sounds a heck of a lot like some of the...... -
L.A. earns 'C' grade for tobacco-control policy; California fails in tobacco-fighting spending
L.A. NOWThe American Lung Assn. has given Los Angeles an overall âCâ for its tobacco-control policies and an âFâ for failing to pass ordinances that would keep secondhand smoke out of homes, particularly multi-unit housing. The grades came out in the........ -
Lingerie ad and smoking endorsement woes in 'Idol'-land
Idol TrackerAs a family-friendly show, "American Idol" obviously strives to maintain a pretty clean image. (Remember the Alex Lambert bleep earlier this season?) Of course, that's not always so easy -- for "Idol" or its former contestants -- especially when it... -
John O'Quinn dies at 68; Texas personal-injury lawyer
Associated PressFlamboyant lawyer John O'Quinn, who won billions in verdicts against makers of breast implants, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products, died Thursday in a traffic wreck. He was 68. Police said O'Quinn and a passenger were killed when the sport-utility...Tags: Bristol Myers Squibb Company, Lawyers, Trials, Justice System, Don Henley
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Stricter smoking ban expected soon as anti-tobacco fervor sweeps Middle East
Babylon & BeyondThe United Arab Emirates may breathe easier under a strict ban on smoking, the details of which are still being hammered out five months after the actual bill was signed by President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi-based......
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