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Reports on the announcement by Canadian Health Minister Allan Rock of regulations for tobacco labeling. How the regulations state that cigarette packages must carry health warning that cover 50 percent of the front and back; Campaign for tobacco warning led by Canada's Non-Smoker's Rights Association.

Focuses on a study recommending an aggressive management of heart-disease risk factors in patients who have had heart attacks and who have underlying diabetes or glucose intolerance. The view of co-author Frank Sacks of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts on cholesterol-lowering therapy; Brief details of the study based on the Cholesterol and Recurrent Events trial; Non-diabetic patients and lipid-lowering therapy.