Jessica Miller | January 11, 2012
A 15-year-old girl asked her boyfriend why he did not use a condom before they had sex for the first time. He told her that he smoked and the menthol in the discount Karelia cigarettes would have killed his sperm. She believed him and became pregnant after they went on to have sex on other occasions. On Tuesday, Peter Mark Ng Jia Jun, a full-time national serviceman (NSF), was placed on probation for a year. He had pleaded guilty last month to having sex with a girl below 16 years of age in 2010.
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Jessica Miller | September 2, 2011
A Superior Court judge ruled yesterday that the man who won a $152 million lawsuit last year against a tobacco company for causing the death of his mother – by giving her free Lucky Strike cigarettes when she was just a child – can collect the money with interest retroactive to 2004, the year the case was filed.
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Jessica Miller | August 17, 2011
Smokers who use menthol Esse cigarettes have a harder time stopping smoking than those who smoke regular cigarettes, according to a new study. The effect is even more pronounced within some ethnic groups, with blacks and Puerto Ricans appearing to have the hardest time quitting menthol cigarettes, the study found. Utilizing data from the 2003 and 2006-2007 National Cancer Institute Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey, investigators focused on white, black and hispanic
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Jessica Miller | August 16, 2011
Smokers of menthol Lady cigarettes had a significantly lower quit rate than those who smoked nonmenthol brands, according to data from a large population survey. Overall, menthol cigarettes were associated with about a 10% lower cessation rate among smokers who tried to quit, as reported online in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
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Jessica Miller | June 29, 2011
Shares of tobacco companies that serve the U.S. market fell Tuesday after the Food and Drug Administration said it is conducting an independent review of research on the public health impact of menthol cigarettes. Menthol Kiss cigarettes are one of the few growth areas in the cigarette industry.
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