WATIMA: Why the tobacco debate is heating up

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WATIMA: Why the tobacco debate is heating up

Globally, tobacco is the leading cause of preventable deaths and illnesses.

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[Monitor] Kampala -- Economists and leading international Tobacco Harm Reduction experts, drawn from Africa and Europe, have advised smokers in Uganda to turn to oral nicotine products saying it is least 90 per cent safer than smoking.

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readers adapting well to lockdown life despite frustration over regulations - poll

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Anti-Smoking Groups File Suit Against FDA | The Orlando Advocate

TheAfricanAmericanTobaccoControlLeadershipCouncil(AATCLC) andActionOnSmokingAndHealth(ASH) Join Forces toProtectThousandsofAfricanAmericansFromTobacco-RelatedDeaths TheAfricanAmericanTobaccoControlLeadershipCouncil(AATCLC)andActiononSmokingandHealth(ASH)heldavirtualpressconference today to announce

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WATIMA: Will Africa access Covid-19 vaccine easily?

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South Africa: Can We Solve Hunger in South Africa?

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John Parker patents "Parker Pulverizer"

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(1884) William H. Crogman, “Negro Education: Its Helps and Hindrances”

? William Henry Crogman, a native of the West Indian island of St. Martin, was educated at Pierce Academy in Massachusetts immediately after the Civil War. In 1868 he was named to the English faculty of newly organized Claflin College in South Carolina. By 1870 Crogman returned to college, ente

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(1951) Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Addresses the NAACP National Convention

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