Tobacco in The News

California Stop-Smoking Campaign Saved $86 Billion: Report
CHICAGO (Reuters) - California's large-scale tobacco control campaign has saved $86 billion in health care costs in its first 15 years, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Cancer Survivor Tells Students in Utah About Dangers of Chew
CLEARFIELD - As the handsome star of his high school baseball team in the small town of Stewardson, Ill., Gruen Von Behrens always had a date come Friday night. But after four years of chewing up to half a can of Copenhagen per day, he would soon hear children ask their mothers why "that man looks like a monster."

Spanish Study Shows Smoking-Sport Link
GRANADA, Spain, Aug. 26 (UPI) - Spanish researchers say they have found a direct relation between sports and cutting adolescent tobacco usage. Samplings of 3,000 adolescents ages 13 to 18 found 80 percent of those who played a sport did not smoke.