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Data from a 2005 task force report show that the direct and indirect costs associated with drug and alcohol addiction in Oklahoma outpace the entire cost of running the state government.

Attention: Health/Medical Editor, News Editor OTTAWA--(Marketwire - July 31, 2008) - Today's announcement by the government of Canada that it had settled with two of the three multinational tobacco c...

HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 31 (HealthDay News) -- In the past 17 years,there has been an overall decrease in risky sexual behaviors among U.S.teens, a new government study shows.

Trading: TSX: ROC TORONTO, July 31 /CNW/ - Rothmans Inc. announced today that an agreement has been reached with the government of Canada and the governments of all ten provinces that resolves the...

MONTREAL, July 31 /CNW Telbec/ - Imperial Tobacco Canada today announced that it has reached a resolution with the federal and all ten provincial governments with regards to the ongoing investigatio...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An emergency dose of government stimulus helped the economy grow at a 1.9 percent annual rate in the second quarter, a soft pace but enough to take it off a path perilously close to recession.

The Glenorchy Mayor, Adriana Taylor, suggests people power might change the government's mind on where a new Royal Hobart Hospital should be built.

The State government will begin independent monitoring of pollution levels in Mount Isa in north-west Queensland.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Diabetic women who get pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with birth defects than other women, according to new government research....

The bill goes to the Senate, where a similar measure is awaiting action.Its fate, however, is uncertain because Senate Republicans, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are blocking action on bills as they press for votes on expanding domestic energy production. . . .The legislation is opposed by the Bush administration, which said in a position statement released yesterday that the federal government this year will spend almost $700 million to combat smoking. . . . Few tobacco companies have factories in Kentucky. But there are an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 tobacco farms in the state, said Roger Quarles, president of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association in Lexington.He said the tobacco control bill 'in proper form could be beneficial to our producers.'The legislation currently does not allow easy introduction of new tobacco products that are less harmful -- something Quarles said he would like the Senate to fix.