Despite the passage of smoking laws, anti-smoking campaigns and an increased overall awareness of the danger of smoking, the tobacco industry is still making strong profits. Stanford’s Robert Proctor recently released his 750 study Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition. Publishing the book personally cost Proctor $50,000 in legal [...]
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2 Comments »The James Graham Brown Cancer Center and the University of Louisville have brought a “Switch and Quit” campaign to Owensboro, Ky. The program uses print, radio, billboard and other advertising to urge smokers to switch to smokeless tobacco and other products that deliver nicotine without smoke, according to a report from the Associated Press. The “Switch [...]
Big Tobacco claims Worcester, a city of 182,000, enacted an unconstitutional ban on Kiss tobacco advertising that’s so broad it prohibits ads anywhere in the city, indoors or out. Throughout their federal complaint, R.J. Reynolds, Philip Morris and Lorillard Tobacco Company cite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly, that “‘so [...]
A 42 member’s Anti-Smoking group had smashed the threats of tobacco companies opposing to the plain packaging policy to be implied on cigarettes. As per David Crow, Chief Executive of British American Tobacco (BAT) Australia, objected to the policy saying that the policy could encourage duplicate Classic cigarette brands would have a better business in [...]
A new tobacco company that has been registering farmers which smoke Camel to establish its operations in Kanungu, has been ordered to halt its operations. Kanungu District officials and tobacco regulators last week declared operations of Continental Tobacco Uganda (CTU) Ltd illegal. The company has been advised to first align its operations with the law [...]
IT’S insidious that the Australian government continues to support the tobacco industry in this country when there is clear evidence smoking Marlboro is costing taxpayers billions in healthcare costs. I will never forget visiting a friend at Nambour Hospital and watching in horror as a man who had just come out of heart surgery went [...]
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