Sidney Crosby practiced on Sunday without a jaw protector and will play without
it when the Pittsburgh Penguins open the Eastern Conference Final against the
Boston Bruins.
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captain was cleared by team doctors to skate without the safety precaution,
which has been attached to his helmet since he returned to play on May 3. He was
hurt on March 30 when he was hit in the face by a deflected puck and suffered a
broken jaw and lost several teeth. "The (doctors are) comfortable with it coming
off, being hit and things like that," Crosby told NHL.com. "Thats what it came
down to. "It doesnt really change anything. Its nice to see a little bit
better." Having the jaw protector on has not affected Crosbys performance in the
post-season. He has seven goals and eight assists in 10 playoff games, and he
netted a hat trick on May 17 against Ottawa. The 25-year-old says it will take a
bit of time to adjust to having the protector off, since he got used to playing
with it for several weeks. "It feels weird, but much better. Seeing is much
better," Crosby explained. "It might take a few days. I wont be sticking my head
in front of the net as much as I would with a full-face on. But a few practices
and I should be back to normal." Crosby will have a few more days, at least, to
get used to playing without the extra equipment. The Eastern Final will not
begin until both Western Conference semifinal series have been completed.
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President and General Manager of the Carolina Hurricanes, announced Wednesday
that the team would assign Swedish forward Elias Lindholm to his nations team
for the upcoming tournament.
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Garber and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez also will attend the session,
which was announced Monday. The league has discussed placing its next two
expansion teams in Miami and Atlanta.
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. 31, the CFL club announced Monday. The team also has yet to decide on the
future of Doug Berry, who began the season as a consultant to the head coach but
took over the offensive co-ordinators duties in July. SAN DIEGO -- Smoking has
dropped to historic lows nationwide, dramatically decreasing revenue from
tobacco taxes. In search of funds, a growing number of states are taxing
electronic cigarettes -- a trend that is sparking a fierce public health debate
over whether it will deter smokers from switching to a safer
alternative.California became the seventh state to tax e-cigarettes with the
overwhelming approval of a Nov. 8 ballot measure. Proposition 56 also will add a
$2 per pack state tax to cigarettes onto the already existing 87 cents per pack
tax.State officials are still calculating the new tax structure. The vaping
industry estimates the tax could hike up the price of the battery-operated
devices and liquids by more than 60 percent, making it more expensive to vape
than smoke, even with the additional per-pack tobacco tax.California just made
the most attractive option unattractive for many smokers, and unaffordable, said
Gregory Conley of the American Vaping Association, which advocates for
electronic cigarettes as an alternative to tobacco. Some may never make an
attempt to quit.The taxation of e-cigarettes has split the public health
community between those who support e-cigarettes being treated the same as
tobacco and those who see them as an important tool in the fight against
smoking, the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States.Theres no
scientific consensus on the risks or advantages of vaping.Its one of the
nastiest debates Ive ever seen in the public health community, and Ive been
researching tobacco control policies for 40 years, University of Michigan public
health professor Kenneth Warner said. The momentum, if you will, is in the
direction against e-cigarettes, for sure, and it is unfortunate in a big way,
because we may be missing out on a potential intervention that could reduce the
toll of smoking by a lot.E-cigarettes heat a nicotine liquid into a vapor,
delivering the chemical that smokers crave without the harmful tar generated
from burning tobacco.Britain promotes the devices for smokers. Its leading
physicians organization said it found the devices were 95 percent safer than
cigarettes, but some U.S. researchers dispute that.E-cigarettes emit chemicals
known to cause cancer, birth defects or other harm, and there is concern over
the long-term impact that nicotine has on adolescent brain development,
according to Californias Public Health Department. Use among young adults ages
18 to 29 has tripled in the state.The evidence is piling up very fast that
e-cigarettes are more dangerous than people thought, ssaid Stanton A.
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professor of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research
and Education at the University of California San Francisco.Stanton said the
universitys analysis of more than three dozen studies also found only a fraction
of smokers quit after switching to e-cigarettes and that many end up smoking and
vaping, which could be worse.Concern over the jump in youth users was a driving
force behind taxing e-cigarettes, Stanton said.If we could snap our fingers and
have all smokers become e-cigarette users -- and not change anything else --
that would be better, he said. The problem is all the other complicated things
going on.Representatives from around 180 countries participating in the World
Health Organizations global tobacco control treaty negotiations, including the
United States, adopted a declaration earlier this month in which they vowed to
prohibit or regulate the sale of e-cigarettes. The declaration comes months
after the U.S. announced its first federal regulations of e-cigarettes.The $3
billion vaping industry fears taxes coupled with regulations will shut down many
small shops.Scott Drenkard of the nonpartisan Tax Foundation said the products
potential to help smokers is losing out to the rush to recover eroding tobacco
tax revenues, which make up as much as 2 percent of state budgets. More than two
dozen states have considered taxing e-cigarettes since 2015.In California,
tobacco tax revenue dropped by 44 percent between 1989 and last year, from $1.6
billion to roughly $830 million. The state has the nations second-lowest smoking
rate, behind Utah.State officials estimate Proposition 56 will raise more than
$1 billion in the first year for California, with much of the money earmarked
for health care for the poor.Public health experts, like Warner, favor a
staggered system that applies a heavy tax on tobacco cigarettes, a lighter tax
on e-cigarettes and keeping no tax on nicotine replacement therapies that have
been determined to be relatively risk-free. That would deter young people from
vaping the liquids that come in candy flavors and provide a financial incentive
for smokers to switch, they say.North Carolina adds a tax of 5 cents to each
milliliter of nicotine liquid compared with 45 cents per pack for traditional
cigarettes.With no consensus on the health impact, some say it makes sense for
states to follow Californias lead and not tax them differently.
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