FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Lillian Landry always said she wasn't afraid to die. So when death came last week, the 99-year-old was lying peacefully in a hospice with no needles or tubes. Her final days saw her closest friend at her side and included occasional shots of her favorite whiskey, Canadian Mist.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dr. Christine Daniel promised to her patients what many considered the improbable -- the chance to cure cancer through an herbal treatment.

GENEVA (AP) -- The World Health Organization on Tuesday drastically reduced the amount of radon from natural sources that countries should allow to accumulate in buildings, given the fatal lung cancer it can cause.

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Smoking causes cancer, emphysema and heart disease. It's no secret that smoking deteriorates one's health, yet kicking the bad habit remains a difficult task. New research reveals how your own memories may make quitting even harder.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Four years after the government severely restricted its use, the lung cancer drug Iressa may be poised to make a comeback: A study concludes it can slow the deadly disease better than standard chemotherapy in certain patients.

(USA TODAY) -- Asking nurses to reach out to people who have advanced cancer -- even if only by phone -- can improve patients' mood and quality of life, a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association reports.

WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) -- Pentagon health experts are urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates to ban the use of tobacco by troops and end its sale on military property, a change that could dramatically alter a culture intertwined with smoking.

(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- All Vermont workplaces become smoke free today as a new state law goes into effect, banning the designated smoking areas that were allowed under the previous law.

(McClatchy-Tribune Information Services) -- Is the tobacco tin half full or half empty?

(USA TODAY) -- The government's latest snapshot of air pollution across the nation shows residents of New York, Oregon and California faced the highest risk of developing cancer from breathing toxic chemicals.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Marijuana smoke has joined tobacco smoke and hundreds of other chemicals on a list of substances California regulators say cause cancer.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- There's more troubling news about hormone therapy for menopause symptoms: Lung cancer seems more likely to prove fatal in women who are taking estrogen-progestin pills, a study suggests.

ATLANTA (AP) -- The U.S. cancer death rate fell again in 2006, a new analysis shows, continuing a slow downward trend that experts attribute to declines in smoking, earlier detection and better treatment.