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Pulling back the curtains on wage-theft enforcement in MN; Trump's latest attack is on RFK, Jr; NM LGBTQ+ equality group endorses 2024 'Rock Star' candidates; Michigan's youth justice reforms: Expanded diversion, no fees.

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Republicans float conspiracy theories on the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge, South Carolina s congressional elections will use a map ruled unconstitutional, and the Senate schedules an impeachment trial for Homeland Secretary Myorkas.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

MA: Smoking Prevention

A new report ranks the Bay State at 36th in the nation, near the bottom among states, for the amount it spends on smoking prevention. (anderson wasser/blogspot)
MA Near Bottom of Barrel in Funding Smoking Prevention

BOSTON — According to a new report, Massachusetts will collect more than $900 million this year from the 1998 state tobacco settlement and …

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A new report says the tobacco industry is outspending the Commonwealth 38-to-1 when it comes to sending messages to young people about tobacco; and like this one, most are at convenience stores where products are right up front. (Mike Clifford)
Near Bottom of Pack: MA Ranks 35th for Protecting Children from Tobacco

BOSTON - More than one in 10 children in the Commonwealth smoke, and a new report predicts that almost 4,000 young people in the state will become …

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PHOTO: Electronic cigarettes, hookah pens, e-hookahs and vape pipes are growing in popularity in Massachusetts, but experts say there isn’t enough science about how safe they are. Credit: Michael Dorausch, Wikimedia Commons.
A Cigarette By Any Other Name: E-Cig Concern in Commonwealth

BOSTON - Electronic cigarettes - also known as e-hookahs, hookah pens and vape pipes - are growing in popularity in Massachusetts. Celebrities in …

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Bay Staters Get Ready for "Great American Smokeout"

BOSTON - Thursday is the 35th annual Great American Smokeout put on by the American Cancer Society, and experts say you can add up to eight years to …

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Stroke – What Everyone Should Know

BOSTON - It's called the silent killer; only heart disease and cancer kill more Americans than does stroke. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel that …

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Environmental Health Risks: Not Just Cancer

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A recent report delivered to President Obama by a special panel appointed by President Bush warned that the risk of cancer from …

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Study: Women's Stroke Risk is Almost Triple Men's

BOSTON - Women ages 35 to 64 had lower blood pressure and better overall blood chemistry than men of the same age, but a new study found the women …

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Bay Staters Are Smoking Less but Eating More and it’s Showing

BOSTON - Bay Staters are like most Americans in that they have been smoking less over the last 15 years, which has resulted in longer life expectancy …

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Resolved to Quit Smoking? If at First You Don’t Succeed…

BOSTON - Nobody likes a quitter - unless of course you are The American Lung Association. Quitting smoking is at the top of many a New Year's …

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