The Public Health Association (PHA) conference was today told that teens who regularly visit dairies, supermarket and service-stations with tobacco displays are twice as likely to be susceptible to smoking than those who visit less than once a week.

WASHINGTON -- The campaign to reduce teenage smoking has stalled, new federal data show, dismaying federal health officials and anti-smoking advocates who said that one of the nation's most important public health priorities is faltering.

The South Health District sponsored its seventh consecutive Public Health Awareness Day at Southeast Elementary School on Saturday. Beginning at 9 a.m., activities, including blood pressure screenings and cholesterol checks, were offered while children en

2007 figures confirm youths using tobacco is no longer declining WASHINGTON -- The campaign to reduce teenagers' smoking has stalled, new federal data show, dismaying federal health officials and anti-smoking advocates who said that one of the nation'

BLOOMINGTON -- A former residential counselor accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl at Chestnut Health Systems was sentenced Monday to 30 months probation and ordered to complete sex offender treatment.