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Denver -
There was some confusion at Denver International Airport on Tuesday morning when a woman caught illegally smoking a cigarette at the departure gate stripped naked in the full view of everyone, as though she thought officials had asked for a strip search.
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Niceville -
A Florida man is recovering at a burn center after an electronic cigarette he was smoking exploded in his mouth, blowing out his teeth and part of his tongue, and starting a fire inside his home.
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Toronto -
A single cigarette started one of the largest fires of 2010 in Toronto that left 1,200 people homeless. While no one died from the flames 17 people including five children had to be treated in hospital due to injuries.
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Washington -
The FDA has unveiled nine new graphic warning labels that must appear on all cigarette packaging and advertising in the US beginning in the fall of 2012, in the most dramatic change to cigarette packs since the Surgeon General's warning was added in 1965.
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Bristol -
Three RAF servicemen, who were involved in smuggling cigarettes into the UK from the Middle East on military flights, were sentenced to time in jail.
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Canadian health groups are pleased with the new warnings that will appear on cigarette packs in Canada. There are a set of 16 warnings that will circulate on both the front and back of all cigarette and little cigar packs.
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Tobacco Company Lorillard was ordered to pay the family of a dead smoker $81 million dollars in damages, after allegedly giving out free cigarettes to entice African American children to smoke in a poor Boston neighborhood in the early 1960s.
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Washington -
The federal government hopes new larger, graphic warning labels for cigarettes that include images of corpses, cancer patients, and diseased lungs and teeth will help snuff out tobacco use.
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The tax on cigarettes in Japan went up 40 per cent today. The government hopes the increase will encourage more people to quit smoking.
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Australian cigarette packaging is set to undergo world first changes, according to the Rudd government, with bright colours, slogans and logos being replaced with plain packaging.
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Health campaigners are asking for more substantial rises in cigarette duty in this month's Budget.
A prison fire in Honduras that killed 360 inmates was accidental and may have been started by a discarded cigarette, officials say.
A ban on cigarette vending machines comes into force in Wales to make it harder for young people to buy tobacco.
The Australian government accuses tobacco firms of directly targeting vulnerable teenagers with a new budget brand of cigarettes.
The government is considering plans to strip all branding from cigarette packs sold in England in a bid to make smoking appear less attractive.
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The Tobacco Control Act requires that the nine graphic health warnings appear on the upper portion of the front and rear panels of each cigarette package and comprise at least the top 50 percent of these panels.
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