by admin | Apr 24, 2007 | Health / Medicine
A state-run smoking cessation program is being expanded to offer a little something extra to low-income or needy Missourians. It’s the Missouri Tobacco Quitline, started in 2005, which offers advice to those looking for help to kick the habit. Nanci Gonder with...
by admin | Dec 7, 2006 | Health / Medicine
A coalition of public health organizations has blasted Missouri and four other states for spending no public money on programs encouraging children not to smoke. The State Health Deparment gets some federal money for anti-youth-smoking efforts, but the Legislature has...
by admin | Nov 16, 2006 | Uncategorized
It’s local data researchers are going after in the latest plan to study tobacco in Missouri. So the state’s Foundation for Health is giving 1.4-million dollars to the Department of Health and Senior Services to get that more localized data. Project Coordinator Janet...
by admin | Oct 31, 2006 | Politics / Govt
Election Day is less than a week away, and the sides in Amendment 3 – the tobacco tax ballot initiative – are intent on campaigning right up to the time the polls close next Tuesday. The Missouri Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association is one...
by admin | Oct 29, 2006 | Politics / Govt
A poll of voter opinion on the Stem Cell Research initiative finds a majority of Missourians surveyed would vote in favor of the proposal, but the majority is slim. The Research 2000 survey, conducted last week for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and KMOV TV, finds 51...
