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NYC tobacco policy would most curb youngest teens: researcher
New York City officials, with the blessing of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, announced Monday that they will seek to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products in the city’s five boroughs from 18 to 21 years of age. Although the proposed rule...
Tags: University of California, Irvine, Health and Safety at School, Michael Bloomberg, Health
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Smoking and the right to dumb choices
As thoroughly awful as everyone knows cigarettes to be — still the No. 1 cause of premature death in this country — public officials walk a blurry line when they try to reduce smoking's terrible toll. As long as they lack the will to ban...
Tags: Advertising, Marketing, Tobacco Products, Michael Bloomberg, OxyContin (drug)
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EMILY's List creates independent group to boost Greuel candidacy
EMILY’s List, a political organization dedicated to electing pro-choice Democratic women, has created an independent expenditure committee and seeded it with $400,000 to buoy Wendy Greuel’s bid for Los Angeles mayor, according to documents...
Tags: Politics, Elections, Local Elections, Wendy Greuel, Government
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6 New York officials charged in political corruption scandal
A lawmaker was so eager to be New York City’s next mayor that he tried to buy his way into the election, prosecutors alleged on Tuesday, as they announced charges of bribery, extortion and fraud against the legislator as well as a New York City...
Tags: Malcolm Smith, Elections, Republican Party, Political Corruption, Michael Bloomberg
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L.A. mayoral hopeful Wendy Greuel wins backing of Emily's List
L.A. NOWLos Angeles mayoral hopeful Wendy Greuel announced the backing of Emily's List.... -
An NYC-style sugary-soda ban in D.C.?
Several Washington, D.C., lawmakers say they're considering a ban on large sugary drinks mirroring the one recently approved by the New York City Board of Health. District of Columbia Councilwoman Mary M. Cheh said on Twitter that she is "open to...
Tags: Children's Health, Obesity, Radio Industry, Vincent Gray
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The sugar battle: Cereal companies cut sweets; soda industry sues
The food and beverage industry has made some major moves in recent days in the struggle over super-sweet products. Major cereal-makers Nestle and General Mills pledged to cut sugar and salt content in children's breakfast cereals abroad, while soda and...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Sales, Obesity, Michael Bloomberg, Business
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Morning Fix: Kids and Hollywood hustles! Janet Jackson on 'X Factor'?
Company TownKids who want to be stars in Hollywood may learn some hard lessons. Silicon Valley is invading Madison Avenue. MSNBC has a new star -- Ed Schultz.... -
For Murdoch, media has often been about friends and influence
Company TownIn 1996, the teenage son of a prominent political figure in Washington, D.C., got suspended from his tony prep school. Not wanting to see himself, his family or his boss embarrassed by his son’s actions, the father scrambled to keep...... -
1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the 'birthplace of hip-hop,' saved by government loan
Pop & HissImperiled by a potential sale from private investors, 1520 Sedgwick Ave., often labeled the "birthplace of hip-hop," has been saved by a $5.6-million loan from the city of New York's New Housing Marketplace plan, a program intended to aid multifamily........ -
Joel Stein: Finally, Some Prime-Time Racism
I'VE NEVER BEEN interested in "Survivor," but the new, racist "Survivor" — that, I was psyched about. If "Battle of the Network Stars" made good TV, weekly competitions between poorly fed "tribes" of African Americans, whites, Asians and Latinos...Tags: Racism, Minority Groups, National or Ethnic Minorities, Campbell Soup Company, Justice and Rights
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Jose Torres dies at 72; former light heavyweight world champion
Jose Torres, a former light heavyweight world champion and Olympic silver medalist, died Monday of a heart attack at his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico, said his wife, Ramonita. He was 72. Torres won the light heavyweight title in 1965 by stopping Willie...Tags: Muhammad Ali, Heavyweight, 2016 Olympic Games, Sports, Ku Klux Klan
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