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Blacks seen as targets of menthol
Eighty years after a man named Lloyd "Spud" Hughes, as legend has it, accidentally mixed his tobacco with menthol crystals, Congress is fighting over whether to ban these popular flavored cigarettes.
Full story at chicagotribune.com
Newly Discovered Air Pollutants May Cause Lung Problems
Recently discovered so-called free radicals that are attached to small particles of air pollution could cause lung damage and perhaps even lung cancer, researchers report.
Full story at healthday.com
Smoking rule fires up residents
On Oct. 1, that space she and about a dozen others smokers occupied will be the sole location where residents at the public housing complex will be allowed to smoke -- a rule that is outraging smokers here and dividing this 138-person complex.
Full story at thetimesherald.com
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