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The state’s convenience store owners and wholesale marketers and distributors say raising taxes on tobacco to $5.35 cents a pack — which would be the highest rate in the nation — and banning flavored cigarettes would have unintended consequences.
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September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and a Syracuse urologist is worried there could be an uptick in patients with prostate cancer because men,…
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American Cancer Society Says There Is Room For Improvement in New York's Smoking Prevention ProgramsNew York measures up pretty favorably against other states when it comes to a number of measures to treat and prevent cancer. But WAER’s Chris Bolt…
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How is New York State ranking on its Cancer-Fighting Public Policies? The American Cancer Society recently released a progress report on State Legislative…
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County Health Commissioner, Others Call for More Regulation of E-cigs after Surgeon General's ReportOnondaga County’s health commissioner and the American Cancer Society say a recent report issued by the U.S. Surgeon General confirms that more teens are…
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New York State scored five out of a possible ten in getting behind suggested policies and aggressively passing laws to reduce cancer deaths and suffering.…
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A range of businesses and health care institutions is teaming up to cut the number of colo-rectal cancer cases in half. Crouse Hospital, Upstate Medical…
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New York Cancer prevention officials are recognizing the 50th anniversary of the study that began decades of trying to get people to either quit – or…
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There might be tens of thousands fewer smokers in Central New York thanks to county and state policies that have proven to curb tobacco use. Today is the…