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California Considers Adding Meat To Cancer-Alert List

California is examining new World Health Organization findings to determine whether to add red meat and foods like hot dogs, sausages and bacon to a cancer-alert list, setting the stage for a potential battle with the meat industry over warning labels.The inclusion of meat and processed meat on the list could reduce consumer demand, hurting…

More U.S. high school students smoke only pot, not cigarettes

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – As fewer U.S. high school students exclusively smoke cigarettes and cigars, more of them are using marijuana, a recent study suggests. Overall, the proportion of teens in grades 9 through 12 who only smoked traditional tobacco products declined to 7.4 percent of students in 2013 from 20.5 percent of students in 1997, the study found. While concerted public health efforts to prevent cigarette use

Phil Collins plans new album, comeback tour

The former Genesis singer and drummer, who has not released an album of new material since 2002, said in an interview published Wednesday that he is installing a studio in his home in Miami and will begin work on a new album in about a month. “I’m no longer officially retired,” he told Rolling Stone magazine. Collins, 64, announced his retirement in 2011 but is planning to return to the