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...looking for communities to build momentum that could someday lead to action from the state. Tobacco Free Future, an anti-smoking group in the southeastern Minnesota city of New Prague, is struggling to enact a similar ban. Member Karen Kubes said...
...sense of the hypocritical and the phony. It can only be hoped they don't regard this tack as manipulation. Anti-smoking groups will have plenty of opportunity to experiment with ways to discourage smoking among the young. The Minnesota Legislature...
HIBBING (AP) - The Minnesota Smoke Free Coalition criticized the city of Hibbing for hiring lobbyists who also work for a tobacco company.
ROCHESTER (AP) - Hospitality business owners have asked the Olmsted County attorney to review lobbying by anti-smoking advocates who helped persuade the county board to ban smoking in restaurants.
...initiatives such as restaurant smoking bans without regard for their financial status. That tactic allowed some local anti-smoking groups to pressure city and county leaders to impose bans. And it led critics to charge that MPAAT, which was formed...
...National Youth Advocate of the Year Award from the campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and helped to start a Kick Butts anti-smoking group in his community. He also is an academic achiever and workaholic. He is class president at Pierz Healy but takes...
...lollipops illegal Wednesday, saying the type of nicotine druggists were adding had not been tested for safety. Anti-smoking groups had urged the government to halt sales of the lollipops, arguing they could hook children on nicotine and possibly...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A district judge should appoint a new entity to run stop-smoking programs that are funded by Minnesota's 1998 settlement with tobacco companies, the state said Thursday in a court filing.
...company's annual meeting drew an angry blast from anti-smoking groups, who said the claims could prompt more people to...smoking-related disease. Health officials and anti-smoking groups have long maintained that tobacco ads are steeped...
...commercial speech to "advance a substantial government interest" such as protecting public health. The state and anti-smoking groups also noted that the tobacco companies have already agreed to forgo most outdoor advertising as part of their 1998...