The Engle class itself only includes smokers who came down with a cigarette-related disease between 1992 and 1996, Baumberger said.
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The class action was cleverly constructed to consist only of Louisiana smokers, and sought money for smoking-cessation programs instead of individual cash payments.
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But the place is so superbly ventilated that you can only wonder at the smokers, not smell them.
Steve Humphries, British Heart Foundation professor of cardiovascular genetics at UCL, said: "Men who carried the E4 type are at higher risk of heart disease, but only if they are smokers".
When you go to the pubs, not only are the non-smokers happy but one of things that has surprised me is that even the smokers welcome it.
It only helped about a third of smokers--albeit a significant improvement over the placebo--quit.
The latest survey said this was "maintained" in the 2011 survey, with only 8% of non-smokers being affected.
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The state is tempted to step in, not only because of the harm that smokers, lushes, spendthrifts and gluttons may do to others, but because of the harm they are doing to themselves.
Or do people tend to be only one of the two, either smokers or obese?
It revealed that only 10% of all non-smokers had no measurable cotinine.
For those 450, 000 American smokers who die each year, clearly, an abstinence only approach has not worked.
Like the attorneys-general, these cases suffer from the weakness that the insurers can, in theory, claim money only if the tobacco firms are liable for smokers' illnesses (a responsibility that has rarely been established).
Not only have attitudes towards smoking changed, the profile of smokers has changed, too.
Only if the government continues to collect higher taxes from millions of smokers who remain hooked on nicotine does the reduction in smoking reduce the deficit, the authors conclude.
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So far, only one person has received any cash from the billions awarded to sick smokers by US courts over the past few years, with the remaining cases mired in the lengthy appeals process.
The government granted an extension to these smokers' havens after heavy lobbying by the country's 30, 000 tobacco bars, the only point of sale for cigarettes in France.
Electronic cigarettes, first sold outside China only over the past seven years or so, have few solid studies attesting to their benefits for helping smokers quit.
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