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Utah Senator Mitt Romney argued that flavored e-cigarettes and vaping juices like “unicorn poop” should be banned because of their attractiveness to children. President Donald Trump hosted a lively discussion at the White House about the benefits and dangers of vaping flavors. The president spent over an hour listening to supporters for banning vaping flavors as well as vape industry advocates who have sharply criticized the president’s proposed ban. Senator Mitt Romney participated in the discussion in support of a ban on flavored vaping. He argued that most adults were not using vape flavors, earning a strong reaction from vape...

Last month, New York Mayor Bloomberg proposed a ban on outdoor smoking in and on 1,700 parks, plazas, and beaches. The City Council in Cambridge, Massachusetts recently followed New York's lead (Chronicle 10/4/10), joining a number of college campuses and California cities. This radical intrusion into private lives is rationalized as a public health measure to protect citizens from secondhand smoke. It's therefore worth reviewing the debate from the past decade when it became the accepted view that secondhand smoke is a public health risk. Anti-smoking activists state with assurance that "the science is settled"; secondhand smoke murders 3,000 or...

<p>Some patrons take their business -- and cigarettes -- to Pa.</p> <p>When Phil Leary opened the doors to his newly renovated Kirkwood pub in June, he never thought he'd lose about 40 percent of his business to the Keystone state.</p>

Nicotine Nic May 22, 2003 HER face has graced the covers of hundreds of fashion magazines worldwide and she is regularly voted one of the most beautiful women. But the world glimpsed uglier images of Nicole Kidman at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday when she smoked her way through an international press conference. Her actions have outraged health lobbyists and anti-smoking advocates, who described it as "priceless publicity for the tobacco industry". Australian Democrats Senator Lyn Allison also weighed in on the issue, urging Kidman to use her position to discourage smoking. In doing so, Senator Allison added that tobacco...