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The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth has awarded a $178,770 grant to the Strong Families/Great Youth Coalition’s Toward No Tobacco program to support and expand tobacco prevention classes for middle school students. TNT is a two-week evidence-based tobacco prevention class taught to seventh-graders in Harrisonburg, Rockingham County and Augusta County by RMH respiratory therapist Ron…
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Virginia failed in its efforts to protect children and curb tobacco-related disease according to the American Lung Association’s State of Tobacco Control 2012 report. The Lung Association’s annual report card on tobacco control monitors progress on key tobacco control policies at the federal and state levels and assigns grades to assess whether laws are protecting…
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Column by Haresh Daswani Submit guest columns: [email protected] To my suppliers of tobacco: I wish to complain the lack of support tobacco companies have to their clients. We smokers have to endure the hardship of understanding the health risk involved in smoking, the social alienation by society, the discrimination on places we can consume…
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It makes sense for the local hospital to tear down its smoking shelter, doesn’t it? You can watch it happen Monday morning, June 1, at 8 a.m., at Augusta Medical Center in Fishersville. AMC will be marking World No Tobacco Day by tearing down the smoking shelter at the atrium circle leading into the main…
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Item by Chris Graham A grant from the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation will give the Central Shenandoah Office on Youth $35,000 to administer a program with area at-risk youths. Specifically, the grant money will be used to open the Office on Youth’s Positive Action program to court-involved youths and youths who have been suspended or…
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A Virginia man was sentenced this week to more than 12 years in prison for a drug trafficking arrest last year.
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Virginia farmers are making critical decisions about the planting season as tariffs create uncertainty regarding the demand for products.
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A Chesterfield man was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison after a series of armed robberies in 2023 in the Richmond area.
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Lawmakers want to make it more difficult for individuals under the age of 21 to purchase assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition.
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UNC let a chance for a Quad 1 win slip away on the road at Pitt on Tuesday, losing 73-65 to the Panthers.
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