Teens blamed for smoking surge from promotions
A CDC study links rising teen smoking in the 1980s to increased tobacco marketing and giveaways. Melanie Petzold, 16, illustrates how ads and free items from Marlboro and Joe Camel promos drew youths to smoking, while adults quit at a slower pace.
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Hostetler Associated Press
Tlanta
Melanie Petzold
Joe Camel
Melanie
Staten Island
N.Y
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Federal
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
CDC
Federal Trade Commission
RJ. Reynolds
Ical
FTC
Wall of Fame Adds Physician Carter at Ransom Memorial
Milton Sampson coordinates the Physicians Emeritus Wall at Willard G. Ransom Jr. Memorial Fund to honor doctors who practiced and retired at Ransom. John Carter, once unavailable, has now been pictured. Surviving relatives and estates supplied photos. others were enlarged from existing images.
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Ansom
Bevin
John Carter
Ransom
Milton Sampson
Carter
Sampson
Anne Ransom
Willard Ransom
Joseph R. Henning
Ransom Memorial Launches Vial for Life Nationwide
Ransom Memorial launches the Vial for Life initiative nationwide to aid emergency responders. Participants complete a medical fact sheet detailing essential health information on a vial to be kept with the patient for rapid identification and care.
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Ransom Memorial
Dole releases medical report to counter age claim
Senate leader Bob Dole released June and July medical results from Walter Reed showing clear lungs, normal heart, stable conditions, and normal blood pressure and cholesterol. Doctors said he remains in excellent health for a man turning 72, with exercise, diet, and ongoing checks for cancer recurrence, aiming to reassure voters about fitness for the presidency.
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Ashington
Senate
Bob Dole
White House
Kansas
Capitol
John Eisold
Clinton
Bill Clinton
Nelson Warfield
Dole
Charles Peck
Peck
Nathan Billig
Georgetown University
Billig
Car seat safety tips for child travel in Kansas City
Public service column from The Children's Mercy Hospital offers practical car travel safety guidance for families. It covers proper car seat use by age and weight, sun protection, securing luggage, rear seat placement, airbag cautions, and avoiding driver distraction. The piece notes KICK, started with Children's Mercy and funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and KC Community Foundation, aims to reduce injuries among Kansas City children.
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Ummer
Patti Bauer
Children's Mercy Hospital
Kansas City Injury Coalition For Kids
KICK
Children's Mercy
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Greater Kansas
Kansas City
Franklin County
United Way
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K. Michael Cummings
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
New York
Cummings
Surce
Melissa Hoyt
The
Willard G. Ransom Jr. Memorial
Memorial Fund
Robert A. Gollier
C.W. Henning
Harold J. Terrill
Frank Trump
Louis N. Speer
David G. Laury
Frank J. Barr
James E. Wallen
Victor J. Lofgreen
Sylvia Lofgreen
Briscoe Drus
Ottawa
Meeakai
Franklin County Health Dept. and Home Health Agency
Pere Healy
Southview Homecare
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