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Would changing the age to buy tobacco really work to curb the numberĀ of teens that start smokingĀ each year?
Rep. Diana DeGette thinks so. Degette recently...
The budget looms
Rep. Tracy Kraft-Tharp, D-Arvada, has a bill, stuck in the appropriations committee, designed to fund a statewide, high-tech fire-and-flood-prediction system. It will...
The same genes that let smokers sleep without nicotine cravings may lead to methods to help them quit.Smokers, even those heavily addicted to nicotine,...
Members of the GLBT community are 40-70 percent more likely than heterosexuals to smoke cigarettes, and advocates in Colorado have been gathering information to...