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PATIENTS have hit out at Lincoln County Hospital rules which mean they have to leave their sickbeds and make their way outside the building just to have a smoke. Heath bosses have no legal powers to stop patients and visitors smoking at Lincoln ...

Patients' anger at hospital smoking rules - Lincolnshire Echo

Researchers have dubbed checkout displays the silent salesman Campaigners and researchers have urged minister to take a tough stance on the sale of tobacco, dubbing point-of-sale displays the "silent salesman". Cancer Research UK said banning vending ...

Call to curb tobacco marketing - BBC News

After Medivation, I moved onto the Orexigen presentation. It's a company I profiled at when it had data on one of its fat-fighting drugs at last year's diabetes conference, so I wanted to check up on its progress. It was SRO at the main and breakout ...

Orexigen And Its Obesity Bets - CNBC

COHOCTAH TWP. - Brianna Svoboda wants to make a difference. The 12-year-old Cohoctah Township resident wants to help her mother stop smoking cigarettes, but she doesn't think she can do it on her own. Her solution: ask the president of the United ...

Girl, 12, goes to the top for help, gets letter from Bush - Lansing State Journal

David Ford, a Materials Associate at Newport Hospital, smokes a cigarette on Friendship Street during his lunch break Wednesday. Ford has worked for the hospital for 35 years. He has smoked for almost 40 years, but says he is looking forward to the ...

GENERAL INTEREST HEADLINES - Newport Daily News

Staff planning their office Christmas party may have to think again before ordering all the trimmings and mince pies. The boss could be expecting them to step on the scales the morning after. Weight Watchers plans to get nine-to-fivers fit by selling ...

Bosses hire Weight Watchers to help staff lighten the load – and ... - Times Online

Mr X from Canada writes: Canadian troops just took part in bringing in a huge turbine that will generate electricity for 1.9 million people in Afghanistan. Of course this news doesn't get reported in Canada however it highlights the good work that ...

Inside the Taliban's deadly ambush - Globe and Mail

WEST BURLINGTON - Larry Duncan, owner of Aunt Bea's and Otis Campbell's in West Burlington, still has not been fined for allowing smoking in Otis Campbell's. (Aunt Bea's has been smoke free for years.) But that isn't stopping the Iowa Attorney ...

State threatens to revoke Duncan's liquor license - Daily Gate City

McCain Speech React: I predicted McCain's would be a good speech. Wrong again. That makes two successful conventions ending with weak final acts. 1) McCain screwed up what was potentially the most effective part of the speech, where he blames his own ...

All About Him - Slate

T HE 1956 SUEZ Canal war, known in our part of the world as the Tripartite Aggression, was one of Egypt’s many military debacles of the twentieth century. More than others, however, its consequences for the nation’s social diversity and culture ...