Prof Steve Field, chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said parents should take more responsibility, starting even before conception. Cot deaths are linked to mothers smoking while pregnant and evidence from America shows that more children are killed from the effects of parental smoking than by accidents, he said. Yet when the Royal College called for a ban on smoking in cars carrying young children, the idea was attacked as a ... Jump to full article >>

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Is the Obama Administration serious about enforcing our gun laws? It is now beyond doubt that the Administration is determined to say as little as possible about the plague of gun violence that inflicts death and injury on 300 Americans every day. When forced to comment on proposals to strengthen our anemic federal gun laws, the President and his representatives typically fall back on the gun lobby’s canard, “We don’t need new g ... Jump to full article >>

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Jail is making a philosopher out of Lil Wayne. The rap star said in a radio interview that he’s done a lot of reflecting since being tossed into Rikers in March on a gun charge. “Everybody says that you’re here for a reason,” he told Hot 97 from jail on Tuesday. “I search for that reason every day.” The multiplatinum “Lollipop” singer said he has learned from the crime that landed him behind bars. [ ... Jump to full article >>

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If you just happen to have watched adult film clips on the Internet lately — “Teens Love to Experiment,” “2 Glamorous Women and One Lucky Guy,” perhaps? — you might have stumbled across a very unusual advertisement: a trailer for the new movie “Middle Men.” Hollywood has cooked up all sorts of unusual marketing buys in recent years — giant billboards that envelop skyscrapers, newspaper ads that look like ... Jump to full article >>

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A leading health expert has called on the West Australian Liberal Party to “quit” tobacco company donations after figures revealed they received $70,000 in the past five years. Donation figures published on the Australian Electoral Commission website show tobacco heavyweights Philip Morris and British American Tobacco Australia contributed $44,000 and $26,017 respectively to the state Liberal Party since 2004. Other major political pa ... Jump to full article >>

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The big tobacco companies are fighting back against the Government’s plans to introduce plain cigarette packaging by funding small retailers in a massive advertising campaign timed to coincide with the final weeks of the election campaign. The Alliance of Australian Retailers (AAR) has taken out full-page advertisements in tomorrow’s papers criticising the plan, which they argue will hurt small business and lead to job losses. The Dai ... Jump to full article >>

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