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STAFF BLOG CAPITOL CHATTER Legislative notebook: Legislature approves freezing college tuitions
By Danielle Killey and Don Davis A bill funding Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and the University of Minnesota systems freezes tuitions. Senators passed the bill 44-22 and the House 76-56 ...
Posted on 5/17/13 at 8:45 PM
HEALTHBEAT Tobacco tactics: too graphic?
The images grab your attention, to say the least: A toe tag dangling from a body in the morgue. A man lying in a coffin. A smoker exhaling through atracheotomy in his neck. Under a new campaign, anno...
Posted on 11/12/10 at 12:52 PM
REGGIE TALES Feel Good Story of the Year
You may recall back in June my obsession with the two-year-old Indonesian boy who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day: Smoking Toddler Well, in what has to be the most heart-warming and feel good ...
Posted on 9/8/10 at 8:40 PM
STAFF BLOG THE N.D. CAPITOL AND BEYOND Cigarette smoking among adults
The Centers for Disease Control released a report today regarding adult smoking prevalence and secondhand smoke. Here are some highlights from the report: Results: In 2009, 20.6% of U.S. adults aged...
Posted on 9/7/10 at 2:19 PM
THE VIEW FROM THE EDGE OF TOWN this Is Dumber Than A Truck Load Of Hair
A good friend of mine sent me these interesting "realities" that we in this great country have simply come to accept as the norm. That is, until you see them in print and you have a &q...
Posted on 8/5/10 at 5:49 AM
Cigarette ignites small fire at GF home 
A stray cigarette started the front of a Grand Forks house on fire Wednesday afternoon, Battalion Chief Rick Coulter said.
By Archie Ingersoll , April 28, 2010
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Group: CDC smoking report shows ‘major gap’ in N.D.
The report, released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shows the smoking rate among ages 12 to 17 topped the national average in both North Dakota and Minnesota.
By Mike Nowatzki , April 28, 2010
What's in a cigarette?
U.S. to study ingredientsThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is working to lift the smokescreen clouding the ingredients used in cigarettes and other tobacco products.
By Michael Felberbaum , January 18, 2010
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Campaign aims to crack down on cigarette butts
On Tuesday, the city of Fargo will launch a “Don’t Flick It” public awareness campaign, developed by Anderson’s company, to encourage smokers to dispose of their cigarette butts in receptacles instead of littering.
By Mike Nowatzki , January 15, 2010
Study shows pot more popular among teenagers than smoking, binge drinking
Smoking marijuana is becoming even more popular among U.S. teens and they have cut down on smoking cigarettes, binge drinking and using methamphetamine, according to a federal survey released today.
By David N. Goodman , December 14, 2009
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- Monitor the future
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- A new study on teen alcohol and drug use is out. What aspects of teen drug and alcohol use concern you most?
- A recent study shows marijuana is more popular among teens while cigarette-smoking, binge-drinking or methamphetamine use has dropped. What is your reaction to this?
Maker of Camels to buy cigarette replacement company
American tobacco company Reynolds American is buying a Swedish company for its nicotine gum as part of an effort to market cigarette alternatives.
By Michael Felberbaum , December 02, 2009
Mom's cigarette ignites oxygen supply; son charged
A western Pennsylvania man has been charged with neglecting his disabled mother who weighed just 70 pounds when she died of burns caused when her cigarette caught her oxygen supply on fire.
By Associated Press , October 16, 2009
Details of N.D. tobacco panel’s plans to cut smoking
Details of a North Dakota anti-tobacco committee’s plans for reducing tobacco use in the state over five years
By Associated Press , July 07, 2009
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No-tobacco plan includes tripling tax
A five-year plan for reducing tobacco use in North Dakota would more than quadruple the state’s cigarette tax to $2 a pack, ban smoking in bars and renew efforts to prohibit tobacco in schools and on campuses.
By Dale Wetzel , July 07, 2009
Obama, citing his smoking woes, signs tobacco law
Lamenting his first teenage cigarette, President Barack Obama ruefully admitted on Monday that he’s spent his adult life fighting the habit. Then he signed the nation’s toughest anti-smoking law, aiming to keep thousands of other teens from getting hooked.
By Philip Elliott , June 22, 2009
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Court upholds most of landmark ruling that cigarette makers lied about health hazards
A federal appeals court today agreed with the major elements of a 2006 landmark ruling that found the nation's top tobacco companies guilty of racketeering and fraud for deceiving the public about the dangers of smoking.
By Nedra Pickler , May 22, 2009
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Study links cigarette changes to rising lung risk
It may be riskier on the lungs to smoke cigarettes today than it was a few decades ago — at least in the U.S., says new research that blames changes in cigarette design for fueling a certain type of lung cancer.
By Lauran Neergaard , May 18, 2009
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Senate gives final OK to Bismarck energy center
Over the protests of a Grand Forks legislator who called it “reinventing the wheel,” the state Senate gave final passage to a bill Wednesday that could give $5 million in state funds to a new “Great Plains applied energy research center” in Bismarck.
By Janell Cole , April 08, 2009
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OBIT: Alan Landers, 68, former Winston cigarette model
Alan Landers, the handsome model who posed for Winston cigarette ads in the 1960s and 1970s and later tried to fight the tobacco industry in court, has died after battling throat cancer. He was 68.
By Sarah Larimer , March 03, 2009
Chinese e-cigs gain ground
With its slim white body and glowing amber tip, it can easily pass as a regular cigarette. It even emits what look like curlicues of white smoke.
By Associated Press , February 27, 2009
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