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Could text messages help you quit smoking?

A smoking habit is so hard to break that it doesn’t seem possible that a series of simple encouraging text messages could help in any significant way. But a study of wannabe quitters published by the Lance...
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Tobacco sales to minors at record low

Tobacco sales to minors fell to an all-time low in 2010 after increasing in 2009, a new report shows Retailers in the USA sold tobacco to minors 9.3% of the time, the report by the Substance Abuse and Me...
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Texas government to defund Planned Parenthood

The Texas Legislature approved a bill Monday that would both compel the state to push the Obama administration to convert Texas’s Medicaid program into a block grant and defund abortion providers like Plann...
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Next-gen iPhone enters final testing phase

It's looking more and more like that September next-generation iPhone (4S or 5) September launch is pretty solid, as is the fact that we're not going to see a June refresh of Apple's smartphone. The next-ge...
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Japan city to give radiation counters to children

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's Fukushima city said Tuesday it would hand radiation measuring devices to 34,000 children to gauge their exposure from the crippled nuclear power plant about 60 kilometres (40 miles) ...