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1. Health partnership attempting to combat obesity in New Jersey
(Health/Healthquest)

... promotes walking and biking. The program is a federally funded effort that promotes physical activity, nutrition and tobacco-use prevention among students. A new 2009 Women, Infants and Children food ...

2. UMDNJ gets $2.1 million to develop new method to survey young adults on tobacco use
(Health/Healthquest)

... to improve knowledge about tobacco use by young adults. The announcement was made Monday in New Brunswick. Researchers will attempt to develop ways to people ages 18-25, who have the highest smoking ...

3. Insurance industry not shy about investing in fast food
(Money/Economy)

... tracked the insurance industry's even greater investments in tobacco products. In June 2009, they found the insurers held $4.4 billion in tobacco investments. But the researchers' characterizations overlook ...

4. Soda tax moving closer to reality
(U.S./Nation)

... push on soda taxes is part of a broadening movement among states to treat unhealthy foods in much the same manner as tobacco and liquor — as vices to be discouraged through the tax code. Another big area ...

5. Cost of prescription drugs to rise sharply for N.J. seniors
(Health/Healthquest)

... funding for programs such as grants for cancer research, tobacco prevention and family planning. "While making tough and painful choices, we've been able to strengthen the health care safety net through ...

6. legalization of marijuana
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... down grow tobacco.Us americans are too lazy.Legalizing will only hurt the ones growing illegal now.They make thousands of dollars a month from selling to the streets they don`t care how old you are(the ...

7. Regulation over prohibition
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... to death with cannabis. You can with tobacco over long term use, but cannabis is actually being used to treat lung cancer as one of many ailments being treated with the use of cannabis in the state of ...

8. New Jersey takes part in National Public Health Week
(Health/Healthquest)

... problems if people take steps to reduce their risks — get more exercise, adopt better eating habits, avoid tobacco and limit alcohol consumption. The DHSS has a number of programs aimed at preventing, ...

9. What world does Mary Pat live in???
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

My God, with the ridiculous and dangerous easy availability in New Jersey of heroin, cocaine, roxocet, oxycontin, xanax, alchohol and tobacco, marijuana is the much less of many evils health wise. New ...

10. Why does health insurance cost so much in the U.S.?
(Health/Healthquest)

... also plays a major role in the high cost of healthcare. These statistics are staggering: In the United States, obesity results in $117 billion in health care costs each year. Tobacco use costs America ...

11. marijuana is far less harmful than alcohol tobacco
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... else in american can go out and get messed up on the drug ALCOHOL (ethanol) and tobacco, both of which are far more addictive, but somebody growing a plant to relieve this pain, has to go to prison for ...

12. The Truth
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

...  Did you know that tobacco was illegal at one point and people like you existed, pointing fingers and utilizing wrong information for the wrong reasons. Not only will the legalization of marijuana boost ...

13. N.J. youth baseball league rejects gun dealer's sponsorship
(N.J./State)

... was unfair because other team sponsors have been sellers of tobacco and alcohol, for instance. But league organizers, who voted 8-1 against a Constitution Arms-sponsored team, feared repercussion by ...

14. med MJ
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... in usage should be viewed as more ammo for taxing and regulating it as the Netherlands (amsterdam) has lower rates of teen use than we do, and following that route has led to a drop in teen tobacco smokers ...

15. Coal-fired power plants becoming an endangered species
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... health, farm, and community organisations. Despite a heavily funded ad campaign to promote so-called clean coal (one reminiscent of the tobacco industry's earlier efforts to convince people that cigarettes ...

16. Assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini is correct; deserves our thanks
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... that leads her to the conclusion teen use is on the increase. The marijuana bill is more about a "tobacco road" to legalization than medical compassion. The question is simple: Since when is there ...

17. Assemblywoman Angelini grossly misinformed on marijuana reform
(Opinion/Commentary)

... marijuana isn't caused by laws that let sick and dying patients use it, it's caused by a failed policy of prohibition that prevents the sort of sensible regulation we apply to tobacco and alcohol. Ms. ...

18. Joe A.
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... are you when one your guards are caught bringing in cell phones, drugs, tobacco, etc.? You state that CEC mistreats the inmates..... what do you call guards who physical and verbally abuse inmates ...

19. New Jersey scene of 332 murders this year, a 10 percent drop from 2008
(N.J./State)

... Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) strengthened its partnership to track the movement of illegal guns into New Jersey and prosecute illegal gun traffickers. Twelve people were indicted in July for ...

20. Electronic Cigarettes
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... the e-cig. If you consider yourself a good person, why don't you first knock down the evil tobacco companies before attacking an alternative for smoking to smokers? The venom that spews from those unfamiliar ...