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Thursday, 27 November 2008 at 4:20 pm Posted by smp

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FTC tosses guidance on tar, nicotine in cigarettes (AP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2008 06:09 AM CST

Cigarettes burning in an ashtray. Delegates from 160 countries agreed Saturday on new guidelines to block the tobacco industry from interfering in state health policies and the implementation of a global anti-tobacco treaty.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)AP - The cigarette industry for 42 years has made factual claims about tar and nicotine levels based on machine testing blessed by the Federal Trade Commission.

Calls for national infant formula recall spread (AP)

Posted: 26 Nov 2008 11:02 PM CST

Michael Filigenzi, a chemist at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory, displays a vial of liquefied pet food that was tested for the industrial chemical melamine at the lab at the University of California, Davis, campus in Davis, Calif., Monday, Nov. 18, 2008. Traces of melamine have been detected in samples of top-selling U.S infant formula.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)AP - Disclosure that laboratory tests have detected traces of contamination in several major brands of infant formula generated concern and confusion Wednesday, with a national consumer's group and the Illinois attorney general demanding a Food and Drug Administration recall and the federal agency saying it had released inaccurate information on what chemicals were found in which top selling products.

India's hijras spread safe sex message in life or death AIDS fight (AFP)

Posted: 27 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST

A member of the Indian hijra community -or commonly called eunuch- waits for costumers at her place in Madanayakana Halli on the outskirts of Bangalore on November 18, 2008. The spread of HIV in India is in part due to unsafe sexual practices among India's 7.7 million truckers who contract the virus after sex with prostitutes, passing it on when they sleep with their unsuspecting wives back home.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)AFP - Savitha was born a boy but became a girl at the age of 16. Nine years on, she sells cheap sex to lorry drivers at a dusty truck stop outside the southern Indian city of Bangalore.

Women Smokers Lose 14.5 Years Off Life Span (HealthDay)

Posted: 27 Nov 2008 06:03 PM CST

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 27 (HealthDay News) -- During Lung Cancer Awareness Month in November, female smokers should take advantage of available resources, pick a quit day, and start taking steps toward kicking the habit, urges The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).

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