Tobacco Industry: The aggregate business enterprise of agriculture, manufacture, and distribution related to tobacco and tobacco-derived products.Lobbying: A process whereby representatives of a particular interest group attempt to influence governmental decision makers to accept the policy desires of the lobbying organization.Tobacco: A plant genus of the family SOLANACEAE. Members contain NICOTINE and other biologically active chemicals; its dried leaves are used for SMOKING.Public Relations: Relations of an individual, association, organization, hospital, or corporation with the publics which it must take into consideration in carrying out its functions. Publics may include consumers, patients, pressure groups, departments, etc.Marketing: Activity involved in transfer of goods from producer to consumer or in the exchange of services.Propaganda: The deliberate attempt to influence attitudes and beliefs for furthering one's cause or damaging an opponent's cause.Advertising as Topic: The act or practice of calling public attention to a product, service, need, etc., especially by paid announcements in newspapers, magazines, on radio, or on television. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)Industry: Any enterprise centered on the processing, assembly, production, or marketing of a line of products, services, commodities, or merchandise, in a particular field often named after its principal product. Examples include the automobile, fishing, music, publishing, insurance, and textile industries.Smoking: Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of burning TOBACCO.Deception: The act of deceiving or the fact of being deceived.Tobacco Smoke Pollution: Contamination of the air by tobacco smoke.Consumer Advocacy: The promotion and support of consumers' rights and interests.Persuasive Communication: A mode of communication concerned with inducing or urging the adoption of certain beliefs, theories, or lines of action by others.Consumer Product SafetyConflict of Interest: A situation in which an individual might benefit personally from official or professional actions. It includes a conflict between a person's private interests and official responsibilities in a position of trust. The term is not restricted to government officials. The concept refers both to actual conflict of interest and the appearance or perception of conflict.Tobacco, Smokeless: Powdered or cut pieces of leaves of NICOTIANA TABACUM which are inhaled through the nose, chewed, or stored in cheek pouches. It includes any product of tobacco that is not smoked.Taxes: Governmental levies on property, inheritance, gifts, etc.Tobacco Use Disorder: Tobacco used to the detriment of a person's health or social functioning. Tobacco dependence is included.Politics: Activities concerned with governmental policies, functions, etc.Product Packaging: Form in which product is processed or wrapped and labeled. PRODUCT LABELING is also available.Labor Unions: Organizations comprising wage and salary workers in health-related fields for the purpose of improving their status and conditions. The concept includes labor union activities toward providing health services to members.Government: The complex of political institutions, laws, and customs through which the function of governing is carried out in a specific political unit.Mass Media: Instruments or technological means of communication that reach large numbers of people with a common message: press, radio, television, etc.Commerce: The interchange of goods or commodities, especially on a large scale, between different countries or between populations within the same country. It includes trade (the buying, selling, or exchanging of commodities, whether wholesale or retail) and business (the purchase and sale of goods to make a profit). (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed, p411, p2005 & p283)Financial Support: The provision of monetary resources including money or capital and credit; obtaining or furnishing money or capital for a purchase or enterprise and the funds so obtained. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed.)Tobacco Products: Substances and products derived from NICOTIANA TABACUM.Documentation: Systematic organization, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of specialized information, especially of a scientific or technical nature (From ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983). It often involves authenticating or validating information.Plants, Toxic: Plants or plant parts which are harmful to man or other animals.Public Opinion: The attitude of a significant portion of a population toward any given proposition, based upon a measurable amount of factual evidence, and involving some degree of reflection, analysis, and reasoning.Ethics, Business: The moral obligations governing the conduct of commercial or industrial enterprises.Government Regulation: Exercise of governmental authority to control conduct.Food Industry: The industry concerned with processing, preparing, preserving, distributing, and serving of foods and beverages.Public Policy: A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions.United States Government Agencies: Agencies of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT of the United States.Liability, Legal: Accountability and responsibility to another, enforceable by civil or criminal sanctions.Research Support as Topic: Financial support of research activities.Expert Testimony: Presentation of pertinent data by one with special skill or knowledge representing mastery of a particular subject.Drug Industry: That segment of commercial enterprise devoted to the design, development, and manufacture of chemical products for use in the diagnosis and treatment of disease, disability, or other dysfunction, or to improve function.Tobacco Use Cessation: Ending the TOBACCO habits of smoking, chewing, or snuff use.Smoking Cessation: Discontinuation of the habit of smoking, the inhaling and exhaling of tobacco smoke.United StatesDNA Restriction Enzymes: Enzymes that are part of the restriction-modification systems. They catalyze the endonucleolytic cleavage of DNA sequences which lack the species-specific methylation pattern in the host cell's DNA. Cleavage yields random or specific double-stranded fragments with terminal 5'-phosphates. The function of restriction enzymes is to destroy any foreign DNA that invades the host cell. Most have been studied in bacterial systems, but a few have been found in eukaryotic organisms. They are also used as tools for the systematic dissection and mapping of chromosomes, in the determination of base sequences of DNAs, and have made it possible to splice and recombine genes from one organism into the genome of another. EC 3.21.1.Social Responsibility: The obligations and accountability assumed in carrying out actions or ideas on behalf of others.Public Health: Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.Tobacco Mosaic Virus: The type species of TOBAMOVIRUS which causes mosaic disease of tobacco. Transmission occurs by mechanical inoculation.Product Labeling: Use of written, printed, or graphic materials upon or accompanying a product or its container or wrapper. It includes purpose, effect, description, directions, hazards, warnings, and other relevant information.Menthol: An alcohol produced from mint oils or prepared synthetically.Caloric Restriction: Reduction in caloric intake without reduction in adequate nutrition. In experimental animals, caloric restriction has been shown to extend lifespan and enhance other physiological variables.Organizational Policy: A course or method of action selected, usually by an organization, institution, university, society, etc., from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions and positions on matters of public interest or social concern. It does not include internal policy relating to organization and administration within the corporate body, for which ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION is available.Economic Competition: The effort of two or more parties to secure the business of a third party by offering, usually under fair or equitable rules of business practice, the most favorable terms.Consumer Organizations: Organized groups of users of goods and services.Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length: Variation occurring within a species in the presence or length of DNA fragment generated by a specific endonuclease at a specific site in the genome. Such variations are generated by mutations that create or abolish recognition sites for these enzymes or change the length of the fragment.Health Policy: Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.Organizations: Administration and functional structures for the purpose of collectively systematizing activities for a particular goal.Scientific Misconduct: Intentional falsification of scientific data by presentation of fraudulent or incomplete or uncorroborated findings as scientific fact.Social Control Policies: Decisions for determining and guiding present and future objectives from among alternatives.Civil Rights: Legal guarantee protecting the individual from attack on personal liberties, right to fair trial, right to vote, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. (from http://www.usccr.gov/ accessed 1/31/2003)Consultants: Individuals referred to for expert or professional advice or services.Commonwealth of Independent StatesCharities: Social welfare organizations with programs designed to assist individuals in need.Interinstitutional Relations: The interactions between representatives of institutions, agencies, or organizations.Ventilation: Supplying a building or house, their rooms and corridors, with fresh air. The controlling of the environment thus may be in public or domestic sites and in medical or non-medical locales. (From Dorland, 28th ed)Motion Pictures as Topic: The art, technique, or business of producing motion pictures for entertainment, propaganda, or instruction.State Government: The level of governmental organization and function below that of the national or country-wide government.Health Promotion: Encouraging consumer behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care.Policy Making: The decision process by which individuals, groups or institutions establish policies pertaining to plans, programs or procedures.Societies: Organizations composed of members with common interests and whose professions may be similar.History, 20th Century: Time period from 1901 through 2000 of the common era.Air Pollution, Indoor: The contamination of indoor air.Harm Reduction: The application of methods designed to reduce the risk of harm associated with certain behaviors without reduction in frequency of those behaviors. The risk-associated behaviors include ongoing and active addictive behaviors.Interprofessional Relations: The reciprocal interaction of two or more professional individuals.Organizational Objectives: The purposes, missions, and goals of an individual organization or its units, established through administrative processes. It includes an organization's long-range plans and administrative philosophy.International Cooperation: The interaction of persons or groups of persons representing various nations in the pursuit of a common goal or interest.RestaurantsLegislation as Topic: The enactment of laws and ordinances and their regulation by official organs of a nation, state, or other legislative organization. It refers also to health-related laws and regulations in general or for which there is no specific heading.Product Line Management: Management control systems for structuring health care delivery strategies around case types, as in DRGs, or specific clinical services.Tars: Viscous materials composed of complex, high-molecular-weight compounds derived from the distillation of petroleum or the destructive distillation of wood or coal. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)Marketing of Health Services: Application of marketing principles and techniques to maximize the use of health care resources.Nicotine: Nicotine is highly toxic alkaloid. It is the prototypical agonist at nicotinic cholinergic receptors where it dramatically stimulates neurons and ultimately blocks synaptic transmission. Nicotine is also important medically because of its presence in tobacco smoke.Public Health Practice: The activities and endeavors of the public health services in a community on any level.Tobacco Use: Use of TOBACCO (Nicotiana tabacum L) and TOBACCO PRODUCTS.Social Marketing: Use of marketing principles also used to sell products to consumers to promote ideas, attitudes and behaviors. Design and use of programs seeking to increase the acceptance of a social idea or practice by target groups, not for the benefit of the marketer, but to benefit the target audience and the general society.SmokeAerospace Medicine: That branch of medicine dealing with the studies and effects of flight through the atmosphere or in space upon the human body and with the prevention or cure of physiological or psychological malfunctions arising from these effects. (from NASA Thesaurus)Attitude to Health: Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.Newspapers: Publications printed and distributed daily, weekly, or at some other regular and usually short interval, containing news, articles of opinion (as editorials and letters), features, advertising, and announcements of current interest. (Webster's 3d ed)Extraction and Processing Industry: The industry concerned with the removal of raw materials from the Earth's crust and with their conversion into refined products.Chemical Industry: The aggregate enterprise of manufacturing and technically producing chemicals. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)Latin America: The geographic area of Latin America in general and when the specific country or countries are not indicated. It usually includes Central America, South America, Mexico, and the islands of the Caribbean.Foundations: Organizations established by endowments with provision for future maintenance.Research: Critical and exhaustive investigation or experimentation, having for its aim the discovery of new facts and their correct interpretation, the revision of accepted conclusions, theories, or laws in the light of newly discovered facts, or the practical application of such new or revised conclusions, theories, or laws. (Webster, 3d ed)Investments: Use for articles on the investing of funds for income or profit.Human Rights: The rights of the individual to cultural, social, economic, and educational opportunities as provided by society, e.g., right to work, right to education, and right to social security.Health Care Coalitions: Voluntary groups of people representing diverse interests in the community such as hospitals, businesses, physicians, and insurers, with the principal objective to improve health care cost effectiveness.Professional Misconduct: Violation of laws, regulations, or professional standards.Consumer Satisfaction: Customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a benefit or service received.Codes of Ethics: Systematic statements of principles or rules of appropriate professional conduct, usually established by professional societies.Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific: Enzyme systems containing a single subunit and requiring only magnesium for endonucleolytic activity. The corresponding modification methylases are separate enzymes. The systems recognize specific short DNA sequences and cleave either within, or at a short specific distance from, the recognition sequence to give specific double-stranded fragments with terminal 5'-phosphates. Enzymes from different microorganisms with the same specificity are called isoschizomers. EC 3.1.21.4.Science: The study of natural phenomena by observation, measurement, and experimentation.Flavoring Agents: Substances added to foods and medicine to improve the quality of taste.Biomedical Research: Research that involves the application of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to medicine.Federal Government: The level of governmental organization and function at the national or country-wide level.Privatization: Process of shifting publicly controlled services and/or facilities to the private sector.Facility Regulation and Control: Formal voluntary or governmental procedures and standards required of hospitals and health or other facilities to improve operating efficiency, and for the protection of the consumer.Australia: The smallest continent and an independent country, comprising six states and two territories. Its capital is Canberra.Food-Processing Industry: The productive enterprises concerned with food processing.Health Education: Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.Organizational Affiliation: Formal relationships established between otherwise independent organizations. These include affiliation agreements, interlocking boards, common controls, hospital medical school affiliations, etc.Financing, Organized: All organized methods of funding.CaliforniaHistory, 21st Century: Time period from 2001 through 2100 of the common era.Congresses as Topic: Conferences, conventions or formal meetings usually attended by delegates representing a special field of interest.Base Sequence: The sequence of PURINES and PYRIMIDINES in nucleic acids and polynucleotides. It is also called nucleotide sequence.ArgentinaCompensation and Redress: Payment, or other means of making amends, for a wrong or injury.Negotiating: The process of bargaining in order to arrive at an agreement or compromise on a matter of importance to the parties involved. It also applies to the hearing and determination of a case by a third party chosen by the parties in controversy, as well as the interposing of a third party to reconcile the parties in controversy.World Health Organization: A specialized agency of the United Nations designed as a coordinating authority on international health work; its aim is to promote the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples.Textile Industry: The aggregate business enterprise of manufacturing textiles. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)Molecular Sequence Data: Descriptions of specific amino acid, carbohydrate, or nucleotide sequences which have appeared in the published literature and/or are deposited in and maintained by databanks such as GENBANK, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), or other sequence repositories.Plants, Genetically Modified: PLANTS, or their progeny, whose GENOME has been altered by GENETIC ENGINEERING.Workplace: Place or physical location of work or employment.Adolescent Behavior: Any observable response or action of an adolescent.Occupational Health: The promotion and maintenance of physical and mental health in the work environment.Periodicals as Topic: A publication issued at stated, more or less regular, intervals.Occupational Exposure: The exposure to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents that occurs as a result of one's occupation.Publishing: "The business or profession of the commercial production and issuance of literature" (Webster's 3d). It includes the publisher, publication processes, editing and editors. Production may be by conventional printing methods or by electronic publishing.Air Conditioning: The maintenance of certain aspects of the environment within a defined space to facilitate the function of that space; aspects controlled include air temperature and motion, radiant heat level, moisture, and concentration of pollutants such as dust, microorganisms, and gases. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)Organizational Case Studies: Descriptions and evaluations of specific health care organizations.Disclosure: Revealing of information, by oral or written communication.MinnesotaMotivation: Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.Occupational Diseases: Diseases caused by factors involved in one's employment.Research Personnel: Those individuals engaged in research.Internationality: The quality or state of relating to or affecting two or more nations. (After Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed)United States Environmental Protection Agency: An agency in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. It was created as an independent regulatory agency responsible for the implementation of federal laws designed to protect the environment. Its mission is to protect human health and the ENVIRONMENT.World Health: The concept pertaining to the health status of inhabitants of the world.
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... the tobacco industry was able to increase the percent of women smoking. In the 1980s, tobacco industries were made to have the ... In other countries (as in the United States), tobacco manufacturers circumvent advertising restrictions by sponsoring events, ... The suffrage movement gave many women a sense of entitlement and freedom and the tobacco industry took advantage of the ... These methods have proven quite successful for the tobacco industry. Overwhelmingly, in the global market the trends point ...
... but in recent years the tobacco industry has been suffering from the restrictions of smoking in Europe. People also grow ... The most important source of income for the people is the growing of tobacco, ...
The Apartheid government had vested interests in the tobacco industry, and would therefore be reluctant to introduce ... and would further introduce restrictions such as health warnings on advertisements for tobacco products. The bill reemerged in ... restrictions, so she enlisted the help of the civil society Tobacco Action Group, in order to bolster media and public support ... "Health department gets tobacco award". www.hst.org.za. 2000-07-31. Retrieved 2017-04-13. Meyer, Jani (2004-10-10). "The Aids ...
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Following the American Civil War, the tobacco industry struggled as it attempted to adapt. Not only did the labor force change ... which combined positive health messages with medical assistance to cease tobacco use and effective marketing restrictions, as ... The high European demand for tobacco led to a rise in the value of tobacco. The rise of value of tobacco accelerated the ... The cultivation of Tobacco in America led to many changes. During the 1700s tobacco was a very lucrative crop due to its high ...
This restriction remained in effect until 1990. Starting in 1989, labor and human rights activists began calling attention to ... The tobacco industry promotes the idea that tobacco brings wealth to the small landowners and Malawians, when in actuality it ... The industry has supported and encouraged these beliefs. Compared to other industries, tobacco has one of the more developed ... The 1970s marked several changes for the tobacco industry in Malawi that would have a lasting effect on the industry today. ...
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The tobacco industry is particularly concerned with younger audiences because they constitute the future of smoking and tobacco ... such as restriction of tobacco distribution and restriction of smoking within 20 feet from entrances weren't as effective as ... The tobacco industry agrees that individuals should be able to avoid ETS or SHS, but believe that complete campus-wide bans "go ... According to insider documents from tobacco companies RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris, tobacco companies had several strategies ...
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Conclusions Recent restrictions on tobacco industry incentive programmes for retailers have not ended price differentiation. ... Cigarette pricing 1 year after new restrictions on tobacco industry retailer programmes in Quebec, Canada ... Cigarette pricing 1 year after new restrictions on tobacco industry retailer programmes in Quebec, Canada ... The size of the variance in prices rivals or exceeds the size of tobacco tax increases in Quebec over the past decade. ...
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... to impose severe restrictions on the tobacco industry in the name of children. It is one more weapon in the anti-tobacco ... Tobacco industry youth smoking prevention programs: protecting the industry and hurting tobacco control. Am J Public Health. ... Using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents library, an online collection of previously secret tobacco industry documents, we ... Attempts to undermine tobacco control: tobacco industry "youth smoking prevention" programs to undermine meaningful tobacco ...
Humiliating defeat for tobacco industry: High Court rules that ad restrictions at point of sale are lawful.. Friday 05 November ... Humiliating defeat for tobacco industry: High Court rules that ad restrictions at point of sale are lawful The High Court has ... UK ratifies global tobacco treaty: now is the time for a long term strategy to cut tobacco use. Thursday 16 December 2004 ASH ... Tuesday 16 November 2004 ASH News Release: For Immediate Use - Tuesday 16th November Plans for smoking restrictions in ...
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ALEC has had a long relationship with the tobacco industry. To explore this relationship, we studied publicly-available tobacco ... The documents were made public as a term of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between the states and the tobacco industry. ... tobacco industry documents obtained in the discovery phases of the 46 state attorneys general lawsuits against the tobacco ... industry documents found in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL), an electronic archive created by the University of ...
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Tobacco retail current value sales in the Netherlands recorded a modest decline in 2017, ... Smokeless Tobacco and Vapour Products in the Netherlands: ... This industry report originates from Passport: Tobacco market ... Modest value sales decline in tobacco despite improving economy. Supermarkets experiment with voluntary restrictions as display ... Tobacco in the Netherlands - Industry Overview. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Modest value sales decline in tobacco despite improving ...
For several years New Zealands vape industry has been calling for regulation. It was somewhat frustrating then when Leader of ... Sure, we are an industry fighting back, but its not about stopping restrictions. Rather its about protecting the survival of ... Local vape industry is fighting only to stop tobacco. Thursday, 10 October 2019, 10:39 am. Press Release: Vaping Trade ... With no ties to Big Tobacco, independent Kiwi vape entrepreneurs and retailers have come together not to stop restrictions, but ...
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- Tobacco manufacturers' and retailers' pricing policies continue to provide price-sensitive smokers with ways to avoid the impact of tobacco tax increases. (bmj.com)
- Such a classification will help protect tobacco control measures from being challenged, particularly for developing countries where the bulk of the smokers are," Assunta said. (livemint.com)
- Consumer research and concept testing consistently demonstrated that many smokers feel strong social pressure not to smoke, and this pressure increased with exposure to smoking restrictions. (bmj.com)
- These data suggest that educating smokers about the health dangers of secondhand smoke and promoting clean indoor air policies has been difficult for the tobacco industry to counter with new products, and that every effort should be made to pursue these strategies. (bmj.com)
- Concern about the dangers of secondhand smoke (SHS)-both among smokers and non-smokers-has been critically important to the tobacco industry for decades. (bmj.com)
- 11, 13- 15 At the same time, the tobacco industry launched major product development and marketing efforts to address smokers' and non-smokers' concerns about SHS. (bmj.com)
- The Ministry of Health, Health Promotion Agency, Quitline New Zealand, ASH (Action for Smokefree 2025), and public health leader Hapai Te Hauora all promote vaping as an effective and safe way for smokers to quit tobacco. (scoop.co.nz)
- Reducing exposure to TAPS is important to prevent initiation of tobacco use by youths and young adults and to help smokers quit ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
- To head off this pending disaster, the industry planned to introduce a weak statewide smoking restriction measure "with moderate provisions" that would "institutionalize certain smokers' rights and dramatically weaken one of the strongest statewide GASP organizations in the country. (sourcewatch.org)
- One solution to this is to make the excise on tobacco higher so that large tobacco companies do not have the same impact on young Ukrainian smokers who are attracted by advertising and low prices. (forbes.com)
- As with other forms of smokeless tobacco, big tobacco wants smokers to use e-cigarettes as well as cigarettes, not instead of them. (bmj.com)
- During the first round of arguments Oct. 8, several justices sounded doubtful that Congress intended to let smokers sue tobacco companies in state court over federally required warnings. (chicagotribune.com)
- To a certain extent, the tobacco industry upholds that advertising only improves the market share of a meticulous brand, Devoid of employing new smokers (Bernhard, 1997).Advertising tobacco in lieu of government regulationsEvery major piece of federal legislation approved from the time when the first Surgeon General's account that protects health and safety, has particularly disqualified the cigarette Consumer Products Safety Act, Controlled Substances Act, Federal Hazardous Substances Act. (brightkite.com)
- And the enormous cigarette tax to fund the health care program without doubt means lesser smokers and fewer profits.In recent years California has been the front line of the tobacco wars and the state where the industry has suffered its worst setbacks. (brightkite.com)
- The speakers dwell on the tax revenue generated by tobacco, brag about the economic clout of smokers, and encourage political activity against smoking restrictions. (csmonitor.com)
- A glossy ``Passport to Smokers' Rights'' kit, complete with talking points, draft letters and preprinted postcards to public officials and government agencies, produced by the Tobacco Institute. (csmonitor.com)
- An ``editorial service'' that sends out pro-tobacco editorials to local newspapers and a massive ``American Smokers' Manual,'' both produced by Philip Morris. (csmonitor.com)
- In addition, a new national clearinghouse called the ``Smokers' Rights Alliance'' (SRA) has been created by the tobacco industry to help coordinate the local groups that R.J. Reynolds is setting up. (csmonitor.com)
- But in reality these smokers' rights organizations are little more than an economic tool of the tobacco industry. (csmonitor.com)
- The tobacco industry, stung by the loss, is spending millions of dollars to create its own version of that weapon in the form of a smokers' rights ``movement. (csmonitor.com)
- Tobacco companies are on the defensive as chronically ill smokers begin to sue them for the damage they allege has been caused to their health. (corpwatch.org)
- The deadly tobacco industry increasingly deploys trade charges intended to bludgeon countries from Uruguay to Australia into abandoning policies that keep kids from getting addicted, and help smokers quit, as well documented in the New York Times . (huffingtonpost.com)
- We will get more information over time but this could be a way forward for tobacco companies and smokers. (forbes.com)
- The tobacco industry has side stepped laws banning advertising and promotion by skilfully marketing cigarettes to reel in smokers according to a new Cancer Research UK study* today (Monday). (cancerresearchuk.org)
- Since then the tobacco industry has invested heavily in their packaging, with cleverly marketed new brand names, colours, sizes, shapes and materials to attract new smokers and help keep existing smokers from switching brands. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- Tuesday's announcement is part of a multi-pronged FDA effort that could remake the tobacco industry in the U.S. Last week, the FDA took the first step needed to drastically cut addictive nicotine in traditional cigarettes to make it easier for smokers to quit. (nydailynews.com)
- Reporting on responses to the Responsible Living Program, the Tobacco Institute claimed, "The anti-smokers were speechless. (multinationalmonitor.org)
- The tobacco industry (often referred to as "Big Tobacco") has engaged in a systematic campaign to attract underage smokers for decades and then lied to Congress about it. (aappublications.org)
- 50% of smokers begin by 13 years of age, and 90% of smokers begin by 19 years of age), the industry must recruit young people as smokers. (aappublications.org)
- 3 In the United States, passive smoking has been linked to the deaths of at least 53 000 non-smokers each year, about one non-smoker for each eight smokers that tobacco kills. (bmj.com)
- Faced with mass shortages of Soviet-made brands, angry smokers in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and other Soviet cities staged the protests that became known as the tobacco rebellion. (washingtonpost.com)
- While ENDS may have the potential to benefit established adult smokers if used as a complete substitute for all smoked tobacco products, ENDS should not be used by youth and adult non-tobacco users because of the harmful effects of nicotine and other risk exposures , as well as the risk for progression to other forms of tobacco use. (ishn.com)
- They need to recruit new, younger smokers to replace the 100,000 people who die every year as a result of using tobacco. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- Advertising bans have been very influential in reducing the number of smokers but the tobacco industry has always looked for loopholes so it's no surprise that they may be using social media. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- The evidence summarised in the RCP report shows that e-cigarettes have so far been beneficial to UK public health, both at individual and population level, by providing smokers with a viable alternative to tobacco smoking, write the authors. (kcl.ac.uk)
- Professor Ann McNeill from King's, who co-authored the BMJ editorial, contributed to the report and is a member of the Royal College of Physicians Tobacco Advisory Group, said: "This report stresses the importance of encouraging smokers who cannot stop to switch to less harmful sources of nicotine. (kcl.ac.uk)
- It concludes that e-cigarettes provide a viable and less harmful alternative to smoking tobacco cigarettes which kill one in two long-term smokers. (kcl.ac.uk)
- The tobacco industry has been controlled by the anti-smokers all along, with anti-smoker stooges on the Board of Directors of Philip Morris ( The "Power Elite" Controls Both Sides ), and anti-smokers directing the research funding of the Council for Tobacco Research ( The CTR Was A Lasker Loot-A-Thon ). (smokershistory.com)
- With more than 300 million smokers, China is the world's largest producer and consumer of tobacco. (chinaeconomicreview.com)
- 90% of smokers start smoking in their teen years, and many of them will battle a tobacco addiction that will eventually kill them. (health24.com)
- Most smokers are enticed into nicotine addiction as children, and the American film industry must take assertive action now to ensure that our kids are not lured into using this uniquely lethal product by depictions of smoking in major motion pictures. (health24.com)
- If tobacco were criminalized, smokers would obtain it nevertheless, but I suspect more than a few secretly agree that the tobacco industry must be curbed, that restrictions on smoking are helpful to those attempting to smoke less, and that the medical consequences of our habit need to be compensated through taxation. (observer.com)
- The study, which appears on Feb. 8 in the journal Tobacco Control , shows that rhetoric and imagery evoking the 1773 Boston Tea Party were used by tobacco industry representatives as early as the 1980s as part of an industry-created "smokers' rights'' public relations campaign opposing increased cigarette taxes and other anti-smoking initiatives. (ucsf.edu)
- Ontario health agencies welcome the introduction of legislation to eliminate the sale of flavoured tobacco products designed to attract young smokers. (cancer.ca)
- [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Laws implementing bans on indoor smoking have been introduced by many countries in various forms over the years, with some legislators citing scientific evidence that shows tobacco smoking is harmful to the smokers themselves and to those inhaling second-hand smoke. (thefullwiki.org)
- The processes of nicotine addiction further ensure that many of today's adolescent smokers will regularly use tobacco when they are adults. (cdc.gov)
- These current and future smokers are new recruits in the continuing epidemic of disease, disability, and death attributable to tobacco use. (cdc.gov)
- The average age for smokers starting in the North East is just 15, and evidence shows* children are more likely to be attracted to glitzy, colourful tobacco packaging. (freshne.com)
- In January 2013, bacco policy to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco products and Providence, Rhode Island implemented a comprehensive POS to- limit price promotions that make tobacco products cheaper and bacco policy restricting the sale of flavored tobacco products and more accessible. (cdc.gov)
- We observed a de- flavored tobacco products (excluding menthol), except in legally crease in availability of flavored tobacco products as citations for permitted tobacco bars. (cdc.gov)
- However, we observed little change in the to apply annually for a license, with escalating penalties for policy availability of flavored tobacco products with ambiguous violations up to license revocation. (cdc.gov)
- The same restrictions will apply to mint, wintergreen and fruit-flavored tobacco products. (twincities.com)
- The Food and Drug Administration issued a call Tuesday, March 20, 2018, for more information about flavored tobacco products, with the aim of preventing children and young people from getting hooked on nicotine. (nydailynews.com)
- Ann Arbor, October 24, 2019 - Restricting youth access to flavored tobacco products holds the promise of reducing their overall tobacco use, according to a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine , published by Elsevier. (eurekalert.org)
- The policy restricted the sale of all flavored tobacco products (excluding menthol but including e-cigarettes) to adult-only (21 years or older) establishments such as vape shops, tobacconists, and smoking bars. (eurekalert.org)
- Availability of flavored tobacco products decreased by 70 percent in Lowell when assessed six months after policy implementation. (eurekalert.org)
- Concerns about low cigarette prices were identified by the Quebec government in 2015 when it introduced restrictions on the types of incentives that tobacco manufacturers may offer to retailers. (bmj.com)
- This study sought to explore cigarette prices in Quebec 1 year after these restrictions came into effect. (bmj.com)
- Sajan Poovayya, a senior lawyer representing top Indian cigarette maker ITC Ltd and Philip Morris International Inc.'s Indian partner, Godfrey Phillips, said the industry's legal rights would be severely limited if the court applies the doctrine to tobacco. (livemint.com)
- India's tobacco labelling rules, which mandate 85 percent of a cigarette pack's surface be covered in health warnings, have been a sticking point between the government and the tobacco industry since they were enforced in 2016. (livemint.com)
- To describe tobacco industry consumer research to inform the development of more "socially acceptable" cigarette products since the 1970s. (bmj.com)
- Since the 1970s, tobacco companies developed, tested, and marketed a myriad of cigarette products designed to increase the social acceptability of smoking. (bmj.com)
- Tobacco ads are banned on TV and in magazines, but cigarette ads show up anyway. (tobacco.org)
- Today, the primary argument that the tobacco industry uses to oppose new tobacco control regulations is that they will cause a dramatic increase in cigarette smuggling. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- Growing evidence suggests that these industry-commissioned studies typically grossly overstate the illicit cigarette trade problem. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- Further cooperation between governments and researchers toward studying illicit cigarette trade would provide high-quality estimates to inform the implementation of evidence-based tobacco tax policies and other tobacco control measures. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- In addition to obtaining reliable information on illicit cigarette trade, those who tackle the problem need to understand that the illicit cigarette trade has one powerful and perhaps unexpected ally: the tobacco industry. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- This proportion might seem unbelievable, unless one understands that tobacco companies are among the main actors benefiting from the illicit cigarette trade. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- It is well documented that the tobacco industry's various business strategies to expand tobacco sales facilitated the illicit cigarette trade. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- Today, Malawian tobacco is found in blends of nearly every cigarette smoked in industrialized nations including the popular and ubiquitous Camel and Marlboro brands. (wikipedia.org)
- Survey questions regarding direct tobacco marketing asked whether participants noticed cigarette advertising in five marketing channels during the previous 30 days: 1) television or radio, 2) newspapers or magazines, 3) billboards or public walls, 4) Internet, and 5) point-of-sale in stores. (cdc.gov)
- citation needed] Spud brand menthol cigarettes went on to become the fifth most popular brand in the U.S. by 1932, and it remained the only menthol cigarette on the market until the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company created the Kool brand in 1933. (wikipedia.org)
- Compared to tobacco blends for non-mentholated cigarettes, a menthol cigarette will tend to have more flue-cured than burley tobacco, and less oriental tobacco. (wikipedia.org)
- A menthol ban or other restriction on the flavored cigarettes would fall heavily on Lorillard Inc., whose Newport brand is the top-selling menthol cigarette in the U.S., with nearly 38 percent of the market. (yahoo.com)
- After the tobacco is spray dried, it is then applied to cigarette paper. (newswiretoday.com)
- The global e-cigarette industry is expected to reach $53.4 billion by 2024, making it clear that it is here to stay despite early issues. (forbes.com)
- One could argue that even corruption has allowed the world's biggest corporations to use Ukraine's lawmakers to lobby for pro-tobacco and e-cigarette policies. (forbes.com)
- According to the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS 2017), 40.3% of children have tried to smoke electronic cigarettes, and every fifth teenager is now a regular electronic cigarette smoker. (forbes.com)
- Big tobacco is not investing in e-cigarettes to wean itself off cigarette sales. (bmj.com)
- The issue before the Supreme Court is whether the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, which mandates cigarette health warning labels, shields tobacco companies from awards such as the one the Cipollones won. (chicagotribune.com)
- And the cause is, the tobacco industry has money, and it's got a lot of money.Hundreds of cities and towns have approved laws limiting cigarette smoking. (brightkite.com)
- As a result, California has seen a 27 percent reduction in cigarette utilization, the most success of any state in dipping tobacco's poisonous toll.Philip Morris is combating back these bans and restrictions all the way through a California PR firm called the Dolphin Group. (brightkite.com)
- I will attempt to deconstruct a few ads from the many tobacco/cigarette advertising campaigns we see daily through magazines, television, and other media.One cigarette advertisement I'll first look at is one by Doral Lights. (brightkite.com)
- Something has to get a non-tobacco user to try his/her first cigarette, cigar, chew, or whatever it may be. (brightkite.com)
- In addition to radio and TV ads, there are many tobacco industry-sponsored billboard advertisements which promote cigarette smoking while also giving warnings against cigarette smoking. (biomedcentral.com)
- The government (Ministry of Health) has imposed some very partial or passive bans on the tobacco industry such as making them put warning signs on each cigarette pack. (biomedcentral.com)
- New national bans on vending machine sales of cigarettes, free samples, tobacco company sponsorship of sporting events and even full-color cigarette ads are all part of the rules issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (drugs.com)
- The industry is not trying to upend the entire law or the government's right to regulate cigarette contents. (nytimes.com)
- Extra attention will fall on menthol, the only cigarette flavor permitted by Congress under the 2009 law that brought tobacco under FDA regulation. (nydailynews.com)
- Estimating the effect of creating smoke-free workplaces on total cigarette consumption is important because many places are implementing tobacco control programmes with money from dedicated taxes 9 - 18 or with funds from the settlement of lawsuits against the tobacco industry. (bmj.com)
- In addition to raising the minimum smoking age, it defines e-cigarettes as tobacco products - an attempt to address the tripling of e-cigarette use among middle and high school students from 2013 to 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. (csmonitor.com)
- The tobacco industry's aggressive marketing of e-cigarette gadgets and candy flavors is jeopardizing the health of our young people," said Karen Smith, California Department of Public Health director and state health officer, in a telephone press briefing Thursday. (csmonitor.com)
- The report, further, asserted that the long-term health hazards of vaping are "unlikely to exceed 5 percent of the harm from smoking tobacco" - in line with a 2013 study that found that "the levels of potentially toxic compounds in e-cigarette vapor are [nine-fold to] 450-fold lower than those in the smoke from conventional cigarettes. (dailynews.com)
- In some encouraging news, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced on Friday that the FDA will be delaying by several years regulations that would have effectively killed the e-cigarette industry, and put forth a tobacco and nicotine regulatory plan that would provide "an appropriate balance between regulation and encouraging development of innovative tobacco products that may be less dangerous than cigarettes. (dailynews.com)
- Santa Rosa's plan to expand its smoking ban to private residences is getting support from health advocates but also blowback from e-cigarette users who say the increasingly popular nicotine vaporization devices are a healthier alternative to tobacco that should be exempt from new restrictions. (pressdemocrat.com)
- While not as toxic as tobacco smoke, there are still a host of toxins that have been found in e-cigarette aerosol, including acetic acid, acetone, isoprene, formaldehyde and acetaldehyde, said Terese Voge, a health program manager for the Sonoma County Department of Health Services. (pressdemocrat.com)
- Cigarette companies have long targeted low-income and minority communities with aggressive promotions and advertisements, but it is less understood how Big Tobacco is shifting its strategy in today's diverse product landscape. (columbia.edu)
- While other Western industries hung back, scared off by Ukraine's formidable bureaucracy, chaotic laws and unstable currency, Philip Morris Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Reemtsma, the giant German tobacco conglomerate, moved in quickly, buying up shares in the new nation's five largest cigarette factories and capturing 75 percent of its manufacturing capacity. (washingtonpost.com)
- Both Senators expressed that the motivation for this bill was twofold: To address the high cancer and other tobacco-related disease rates in their states and to curb the staggering explosion of e-cigarette use nationwide by youth. (courierpress.com)
- The tobacco industry (including Juul Labs, the e-cigarette heavyweight) supports Tobacco 21 legislation. (courierpress.com)
- The legislation is supported by big tobacco companies, who are moving into the e-cigarette sector with new offerings and aggressive marketing campaigns. (mlive.com)
- Products that contain nicotine, whether they're traditional tobacco products or new e-cigarette products that contain tobacco-derived nicotine, are for adults and adults only," said David Sutton, senior manager of corporate communications for Altria, whose subsidiaries include Marlboro and MarkTen e-cigarettes. (mlive.com)
- Many states have moved to ban e-cigarette sales to minors by adopting industry-backed legislation, but Davis and Steward suggested Michigan could find a more appropriate model in Minnesota , where lawmakers are considering broader legislation that would treat the nicotine-delivery devices like traditional tobacco. (mlive.com)
- The report recognises that tobacco industry acquisition of many formerly independent e-cigarette producers and importers is a cause for concern, but says that advertising restrictions due to be implemented in May 2016 "go some way towards alleviating these concerns. (kcl.ac.uk)
- What we've seen work most effectively in getting kids to stop smoking are a combination of programs that are in place over time--really good public education programs,' prohibitively high cigarette prices, and policing of tobacco sales to minors. (edweek.org)
- As a revised version of the 2001 Directive, this becomes national law next year and includes an increase in the size of graphic health warnings, a ban on certain flavourings, restrictions on the size and shape of cigarette packs, and regulation of e-cigarettes. (bath.ac.uk)
- If the FDA utilizes the definition of vapor product going forward, IQOS and other heat-not-burn products could avoid cigarette marketing and advertising restrictions, prohibitions on characterizing flavors, and other rules set forth by the FDA. (webwire.com)
- It is likely that cigarette companies will be further able to overcome advertising restrictions by finding loopholes in tobacco legislation unless the decision makers ban it comprehensively as evident in other countries. (merlot.org)
- The research uncovered the tobacco industry's ongoing opposition to health care reform, dating back to a major campaign waged against President Bill Clinton's proposed 75-cent cigarette tax to help finance it. (ucsf.edu)
- In 2002, before the mainstream media widely discussed Tea party politics, Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), a nonprofit funded in part by cigarette companies since 1987 to support a pro-tobacco political agenda, started its US Tea Party project. (ucsf.edu)
- Tobacco retail inspections include ensuring that the clerk checks the photo ID of everyone under age 27 who tries to buy tobacco products we regulate (cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco, and smokeless tobacco). (fda.gov)
- And they may not sell flavored cigarettes or flavored cigarette tobacco (other than menthol flavored products). (fda.gov)
- In addition, the Justice Department said it will seek to end tobacco trade promotions and giveaways and eliminate all cigarette vending machines. (californiahealthline.org)
- In the twentieth century tobacco use, especially cigarette smoking, continued to expand in the United States. (thefreedictionary.com)
- Subsequently, extensive research linked cigarette smoking and tobacco chewing to many serious illnesses. (thefreedictionary.com)
- Thousands of municipalities across the United States currently have smoking restrictions in place, and many states have passed laws requiring cigarette makers to use fire-standards compliant (FSC) paper in their products. (rjrt.com)
- Cigarette companies control the impact and delivery of nicotine in many ways, including designing filters and selecting cigarette paper to maximize the ingestion of nicotine, adding ammonia to make the cigarette taste less harsh, and controlling the physical and chemical make-up of the tobacco blend. (rjrt.com)
- Although the organization's name makes it sound like an anti-tobacco organization, CSSR was actually bankrolled by big tobacco interests, which spent more than $18 million in their effort to persuade voters to support the initiative. (sourcewatch.org)
- Anti-tobacco campaigners argue that profitable alternatives to tobacco exist but have received little attention. (corpwatch.org)
- State lawmakers announced six anti-tobacco bills Thursday as part of the Legislature's special session on public health. (latimes.com)
- The measure by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) is one of six anti-tobacco bills announced Thursday as part of the Legislature's special session on health. (latimes.com)
- even with some who were strongly anti-tobacco. (sourcewatch.org)
- Release of the documents - memos and notes from meetings of tobacco industry lawyers going back to 1964 - was sought by anti-tobacco activists and by the state of Florida, which wanted the material for use in its lawsuit seeking reimbursement for tobacco-related health care costs. (dailypress.com)
- The researchers cite the introduction of picture warnings on packs as an example of where they believe pack design has been altered to undermine the anti tobacco images . (cancerresearchuk.org)
- The tobacco industry's key strategy to challenge anti-tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (TAPS) policy is arguing against comprehensive bans. (who.int)
- Anti-tobacco" redirects here. (wikipedia.org)
- However, growth will be moderate as initiatives from anti-tobacco organisations and the government will continue to have an impact on smoking prevalence. (euromonitor.com)
- Settlement proceeds will also be distributed to local nonprofit anti-tobacco groups and to bolster state and local efforts to keep cigarettes, cigars, and chewing tobacco from minors, according to Chuck Wolfe, Gov. Chiles' director of external affairs and anti-tobacco coordinator. (edweek.org)
- Although he conceded that neither he nor the experts the state has consulted can be certain of which aspects of the anti-tobacco campaign will be most effective in curbing teenage smoking, or even if the program will be a success, he said that Florida will draw on the experience of other states that have embarked on the same mission. (edweek.org)
- The state's 76-cent-a-pack tax on cigarettes--the second-highest in the nation, behind Washington state's 82.5 cents--underwrites one of the country's largest anti-tobacco campaigns. (edweek.org)
- Since the anti-tobacco campaign began in 1993, an estimated 100,000 adults have quit smoking in Massachusetts, according to the state health department. (edweek.org)
- Policymakers have been stymied by a research void on what actually curbs teen tobacco use, according to William Novelli, the director of the National Center for Tobacco Free Kids, a nonprofit anti-tobacco organization in Washington. (edweek.org)
- Most anti-tobacco programs have been based more on intuition than hard data, he said. (edweek.org)
- And in February 2016 it was reported that South Africa is ahead of the pack where it comes to anti-tobacco ratings. (health24.com)
- Representatives from 190 nations met last week in Geneva for the fourth-round of World Health Organization -sponsored talks to craft the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, an anti-tobacco global treaty. (californiahealthline.org)
- The premise of Bass' opinion regarding the sudden change in the smoking cessation remedy from $130 billion to $10 billion is that "anti-tobacco activists, newspaper ediotrialists, and leading Democratic Party figures have called for an investigation into the DOJ's actions, and the DOJ inspector general has reportedly begun looking into the matter. (blogspot.com)
- The outlook for the Polish smokeless tobacco market is one of a steady decline in sales. (reportbuyer.com)
- A proposed comprehensive tobacco control act in California/RIIPP: Memo to Smokeless Tobacco Council, Committee of Counsel. (cdlib.org)
- Basically, consumers are now getting approximately double the nicotine in smoking and smokeless tobacco than had previously. (brightkite.com)
- 1143 words - 5 pages Smokeless tobacco is presented as an alternative to smoking cigarettes, although smokeless tobacco has some benefits over smoking cigarettes, it also causes harm to the user. (brightkite.com)
- There are different forms of smokeless tobacco such as chewing tobacco that come in the forms of as Plug/Twist, Verb Use (consider revising). (brightkite.com)
- The new FDA rules limit the sale of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to people 18 and over, adding to rules already in place in many states. (drugs.com)
- Also, cigarettes and smokeless tobacco cannot be sold in vending machines or self-service displays, except in very special circumstances, the FDA said. (drugs.com)
- The rule also prohibits giving away sample cigarettes and limits the distribution of smokeless tobacco such as "chew. (drugs.com)
- The rules also prohibit giving gifts in exchange for buying cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and prohibit the sale or distribution of tobacco brand logo items, such as hats and T-shirts. (drugs.com)
- Over 300 million people use smokeless tobacco, and the use of other alternative tobacco products, like water pipes, is growing. (healthcanal.com)
- While categories such as smokeless tobacco are mainly concentrated in tobacco specialists and in the Sanborns chain, cigarettes are distributed via a wider range of channels. (euromonitor.com)
- Since 1964, substantial changes have occurred in scientific knowledge of the health consequences of smoking and smokeless tobacco use. (cdc.gov)
- The onset of tobacco use occurs primarily in early adolescence, a developmental stage that is several decades removed from the death and disability that are associated with smoking and smokeless tobacco use in adulthood. (cdc.gov)
- Preventing smoking and smokeless tobacco use among young people is critical to ending the epidemic of tobacco use in the United States. (cdc.gov)
- Objectives Over the past 15 years, tobacco companies operating in Canada abandoned their long-standing unitary price model in favour of price differentiation. (bmj.com)
- The French also proposed removing an exception that had permitted tobacco companies to continue to sponsor sporting events in France, even after the Loi Evin had initially been enacted. (sourcewatch.org)
- The Indian government is pushing the Supreme Court to apply a rarely used doctrine that would strip the $11 billion tobacco industry's legal right to trade, an effort aimed at deterring tobacco companies from challenging tough new regulations. (livemint.com)
- 28 projects to develop more socially acceptable cigarettes were identified from Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, British American Tobacco, and Lorillard tobacco companies. (bmj.com)
- Tobacco companies attempted to develop more socially acceptable cigarettes with less visible sidestream smoke or less odour. (bmj.com)
- 8- 12 Tobacco companies also promoted "accommodation programs" as an alternative to clean air policies, which had some success in delaying clean indoor air legislation in some parts of the world. (bmj.com)
- 16 In the late 1990s, tobacco companies started to offer "potentially reduced exposure products" (PREPs) which claimed to offer benefits to the non-smoker as well as the smoker, such as Omni (which claimed fewer carcinogens in its mainstream and sidestream smoke) or Eclipse (which claims potentially reduced harm, less sidestream smoke, and no lingering odour). (bmj.com)
- After UNICEF's corporate engagement guidelines were loosened in 2003, tobacco companies successfully engaged with UNICEF directly and via front groups, including the Eliminating Child Labour in Tobacco Growing Foundation. (aappublications.org)
- The retail environment or point(s) of sale (POS) is currently the PEER REVIEWED primary venue where tobacco companies market their products in the United States. (cdc.gov)
- A large body of evidence demonstrates that tobacco companies use a wide range of tactics to interfere with tobacco control. (who.int)
- Smuggling helps these companies generate higher profits by enabling them to pay tobacco taxes in jurisdictions with lower levies, or to not pay taxes at all. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- Worldwide, transnational tobacco companies have been found guilty of organizing illicit tobacco trade, and have paid billions of dollars in penalties. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- International tobacco manufacturing companies identified Malawi in the 1970s as possible ally for fighting against tobacco control. (wikipedia.org)
- JT or ' the company' ) is one of the leading international tobacco companies. (reportbuyer.com)
- 4) Getting employees of Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds tobacco companies to flood city hall with calls against the ordinance. (sourcewatch.org)
- Litigation and the value of tobacco companies ," Journal of Health Economics , Elsevier, vol. 24(3), pages 427-447, May. (repec.org)
- Historically, these lower prices have sparked a high consumption of tobacco that has been supported by transnational tobacco companies given the scale. (forbes.com)
- The court could have decided the case on a 4-4 vote, but that simply would have affirmed the appeals court ruling in favor of the tobacco companies and not set a national precedent on the issue. (chicagotribune.com)
- The case involves the eight-year court battle between the family of longtime smoker Rose Cipollone, a New Jersey woman who died of lung disease in 1984, and three tobacco companies that made the brands of cigarettes she smoked for 42 years. (chicagotribune.com)
- Critics of the tobacco industry argue that the companies downplay the hazards of smoking and undermine the warnings through ads showing healthy, happy people smoking. (chicagotribune.com)
- Tobacco companies have thoughtfully provided community ashtrays in the few areas where smoking is still allowed. (wisegeek.com)
- These restrictions on tobacco companies' ability to market their products to children and young adults will eventually have a major impact on smoking. (nga.org)
- Simply put, the master settlement agreement negotiated between the Attorneys General and the tobacco companies is separate and distinct from the agreement that was proposed in the 105th Congress. (nga.org)
- 1457 words - 6 pages made in an attempt to reveal lies or facts tobacco companies don't reveal in their ads. (brightkite.com)
- Because of free trade liberalization, there are transnational tobacco companies aggressively marketing cigarettes, like the DIMON Incorporated from the US http://www.dimon.com/about/wo.htm , which is the world's second largest independent leaf tobacco professor and merchant and which even provides money to help local tobacco growers continue to produce tobacco. (biomedcentral.com)
- These companies are increasingly encouraging more tobacco growing and are also targeting youths, adolescents and women (Jacobson et al, 1996). (biomedcentral.com)
- The rules, which go into effect June 22, "will help our kids stay healthy by making it harder for tobacco companies to target them with harmful and addictive products," Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, said during an afternoon press conference. (drugs.com)
- Despite a ban on direct marketing to young Americans, tobacco companies have still found ways to reach out to them," she said. (drugs.com)
- The new federal rules should "make it harder for companies to advertise tobacco products and harder for kids to buy them," Sebelius said. (drugs.com)
- No longer will tobacco companies be able to use product brand names to sponsor any "athletic, musical, or other social or cultural event, or any team or entry in those events," according to the FDA. (drugs.com)
- The American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network said in a news release that "tobacco companies will continue to feel the unwelcome impact of federal regulation of their industry, as landmark FDA restrictions on marketing tobacco products to children and teens were announced today. (drugs.com)
- It didn't take long for tobacco companies to try to evade tough new restrictions on their ability to market to young people. (nytimes.com)
- Less than three months after a landmark federal law granted the Food and Drug Administration power to regulate tobacco products, several of the industry's biggest companies filed suit in tobacco-friendly Kentucky. (nytimes.com)
- In a 2006 opinion based on company documents, Federal District Judge Gladys Kessler found that tobacco companies had marketed to young people "while consistently, publicly, and falsely, denying they do so. (nytimes.com)
- The influence of transnational tobacco companies on policy processes in Russia has so far impeded a full implementation of the FCTC mandates. (biomedcentral.com)
- As has been suggested previously [ 8 ], data include not only published academic sources, but also important policy documents and other reports from government and public institutions in Russia, from international organizations, as well as from transnational tobacco companies and Russian industry lobby organizations. (biomedcentral.com)
- Yes, I know that is very different than everything I spoke about above, but cannabis offers a tremendous opportunity for tobacco companies. (forbes.com)
- In the meantime, I would argue that cannabis offers a rare path for tobacco companies to reverse 50 years of losses and turn these cash cows into cash producing growth companies. (forbes.com)
- Tobacco companies are experienced in operating under significant restrictions on distribution and marketing with high excise taxes. (forbes.com)
- While several tobacco companies have taken their complaints to the High Court, PMA has also been able to pursue its case in international arbitration (where it has a greater chance of success) through an investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) clause in a bilateral investment treaty signed between Australia and Hong Kong in the early 1990s. (mja.com.au)
- For years, tobacco companies have claimed that they neither market to teenagers nor depend on them for decades of future profits. (multinationalmonitor.org)
- The tobacco documents used in the Minnesota State Attorney General's lawsuit against the companies and other documents that were released as a result of that suit disprove both of those claims. (multinationalmonitor.org)
- Through the Tobacco Institute, the companies published a booklet for parents and their teenagers entitled "Helping Youth Decide. (multinationalmonitor.org)
- Tobacco companies also seek to maximize profitability through continuous cost management. (valueline.com)
- If the tobacco companies lose the BC case and other provincial lawsuits against them, they will be responsible for paying billions of dollars in damages, just as they should be. (cancer.ca)
- In similar legal battles in the United States, tobacco companies agreed to out-of-court settlements of US$245.5 billion payable to state governments over 25 years. (cancer.ca)
- Or perhaps they are so blinded by their hatred of the tobacco industry - which, seeing the rise of e-cigarettes and the fall in tobacco products, has increasingly gotten into the e-cig market - that they are willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater to punish the tobacco companies, even if it means eliminating many small businesses selling a less harmful product that helps people to stop smoking. (dailynews.com)
- Tobacco companies "have marketed and sold their lethal product with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and without regard for the human tragedy or social costs that success exacted" - Judge Gladys Kessler, United States District Court, 2006. (who.int)
- Tobacco companies target governments and finance ministries with "studies" claiming exaggerated and inaccurate economic impacts from higher taxes. (who.int)
- Transnational tobacco companies mobilize the hospitality industry, downplay the dangers of tobacco smoke and provide donations, political contributions and funds for so-called corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities that can influence policy-makers and enforcers. (who.int)
- The edict echoes a similar vote from 2000 that restricted researchers who received funding from tobacco companies. (medscape.com)
- The approach harkens back to the 1960s and 70s, when big tobacco companies funded scientific research that suggested smoking was not as harmful to human health as it is now known to be. (medscape.com)
- When the tobacco companies went to the thriving but closed markets of East Asia in the 1980s, they went as invaders, using the full weight of the U.S. government and the threat of trade sanctions as a weapon to force their way in. (washingtonpost.com)
- These critics argue that the companies are using their advertising and marketing skills to addict a new generation of young people while riding roughshod over the fledgling tobacco control movements that are struggling to take root throughout the region. (washingtonpost.com)
- A new study suggests that tobacco companies may be using online video portals, such as YouTube, to get around advertising restrictions and market their products to young people. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- Many tobacco companies signed up to a voluntary agreement to restrict direct advertising on websites by the end of 2002, although there is little actual regulation in place. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- Robin Hewings, Cancer Research UK's tobacco policy manager, said: "Tobacco companies will use every means at their disposal to advertise their deadly products. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- Tobacco companies would no longer have the same kind of brand images to promote on the internet or elsewhere. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- Among the top six transnational tobacco companies - accounting for 85% of all cigarettes smoked globally - profits have reached US$44.1 billion or around US$7,000 for every tobacco-related death, up from US$6,000 per death when the last edition of The Atlas was published in 2012. (healthcanal.com)
- Increasing prices above and beyond taxes in 146 countries between 2008 and 2012 so consumers blame governments for higher prices while tobacco companies profit. (healthcanal.com)
- Following a historic settlement with tobacco companies, Gov. Lawton Chiles has begun a two-year, $200 million war against Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man. (edweek.org)
- This is particularly pertinent considering evidence that British American Tobacco, with other companies producing products damaging to health, were instrumental in pushing the Smart Regulation agenda in the EU, anticipating that it would make it more difficult to pass public health legislation. (bath.ac.uk)
- A questionnaire captured information about any incentives from tobacco companies for advertisement and promotion was administered to the vendors who agreed to participate. (merlot.org)
- We noted that a majority of 67% (84 vendors) stated that they had been approached by tobacco companies to place the signages during the past 5 years post COTPA came into effect. (merlot.org)
- 79 vendors (65 %) admitted to being paid by the tobacco companies. (merlot.org)
- Nonprofit organizations associated with the Tea Party movement have longstanding ties to tobacco companies, and continue to advocate on behalf of the tobacco industry's anti-tax, anti-regulation agenda," said senior author Stanton A. Glantz, PhD , director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (CTCRE) and a UCSF professor of medicine and American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor in Tobacco Control. (ucsf.edu)
- From previously secret tobacco industry documents available at the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library , IRS filings and other publicly available documents, the study authors traced a decades-long chain of personal, corporate and financial relationships between tobacco companies, tobacco industry lobbying and public relations firms and nonprofit organizations associated with the Tea Party. (ucsf.edu)
- The tobacco companies funded one of the main Tea Party predecessor organizations, CSE, as well as other conservative organizationsā¦to support the companies' broader economic and political agendas. (ucsf.edu)
- The New York Attorney General described the arrangement as "an industry-wide scheme perpetrated by some of the nation's largest health insurance companies to defraud consumers. (prwatch.org)
- Obama said the law would curb the ability of tobacco companies to market their products to children. (democracynow.org)
- Obama, who is an occasional smoker himself, said the law would limit the power of the tobacco lobbyists on Capitol Hill and curb the ability of tobacco companies to market their products to children. (democracynow.org)
- Accusing the Administration and high-ranking DOJ officials of political interference certainly makes a nice story, but I think anti-smoking groups should be careful before jumping to conclusions about the reasons for the DOJ's reduction from $130 billion to $10 billion in the amount requested for a national smoking cessation program it proposes as a remedy should it prevail in the RICO-based lawsuit against the tobacco companies. (blogspot.com)
- Second, it makes no sense for the Administration or senior DOJ officials to intervene on behalf of the tobacco companies by demanding that the lawyers prosecuting the case present a more narrowly tailored remedy that has a greater chance of passing muster with the D.C. Court of Appeals. (blogspot.com)
- Several well-established carcinogens have been shown by the tobacco companies' own research to be present at higher concentrations in secondhand smoke than in mainstream smoke. (thefullwiki.org)
- The intentional tort claims included the allegation that the tobacco companies had fraudulently misrepresented that smoking was safe through their advertising and conspired to keep the public from learning about the Scientific Evidence that clearly demonstrated the health hazards of smoking. (thefreedictionary.com)
- 4 - 6 The CRC also complements the 2005 World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which is the UN tobacco control treaty. (aappublications.org)
- Thursday 16 December 2004 ASH news release: For immediate release:Thursday 16th December 2004 Today the UK has joined the growing list of countries that have now formally ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - the first global health treaty which commits governments to enact strict tobacco control measures. (ash.org.uk)
- Wednesday 01 December 2004 ASH news release: For immediate release Peru has become the fortieth country to ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the international tobacco treaty negotiated under the auspices of the World Health Organisation. (ash.org.uk)
- III.Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. (who.int)
- Russia's approval of a "National Tobacco Control Concept" and draft for a comprehensive tobacco control bill increasingly align national legislature with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). (biomedcentral.com)
- These recommendations should be incorporated into WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. (nih.gov)
- 3 Strong tobacco control policies such as Australia's tobacco plain packaging laws are consistent with a substantial body of scientific literature and the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, but they can be challenged under international trade and investment agreements, which are driven by economic rather than public health goals. (mja.com.au)
- These findings show that tobacco advertising and promotion continue to be actively present, even though they are completely banned under the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control which has been signed and endorsed by virtually all countries around the world. (who.int)
- The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control can curb the tobacco epidemic. (who.int)
- Countries that are Party to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control have an obligation to ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and to adopt additional measures that counter tobacco use and marketing, exposure to secondhand smoke and numerous other activities. (who.int)
- As per Article 13 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, Parties are obliged to adopt and implement the needed measures to ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship to protect the public from the tobacco industry's marketing activities. (who.int)
- Tobacco control is a priority area for the World Health Organization ( WHO ), through the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control . (wikipedia.org)
- These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control , and the first article of the first edition of the Tobacco Control journal suggested that developing as a diffusely organised movement was indeed necessary in order to bring about effective action to address the health effects of tobacco use. (wikipedia.org)
- Governments should also consider implementing Framework Convention on Tobacco Control requirements on the internet, to further reduce such pro-tobacco content. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- 90% of the world's population live in countries that have ratified the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), but only 10% are covered by comprehensive tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) bans and only 16% by comprehensive smoke-free laws. (healthcanal.com)
- The researchers took account of the impact of Article 5.3 of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which seeks to curb the influence of the tobacco industry on public health policy, and European regulatory reforms known as 'Smart Regulation', which aim to reduce red tape and boost business competitiveness. (bath.ac.uk)
- British American Tobacco and Philip Morris, two of the largest purchasers of Malawian tobacco, issued labor policy statements in the early 2000s which stated their position against child labor. (wikipedia.org)
- At that time, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which is the world's leading authority on CRC implementation, was working with the WHO to promote tobacco control from a children's rights perspective, and was involved in FCTC negotiations. (aappublications.org)
- Wednesday 10 November 2004 ASH news release: Embargo: 00:01 Thursday 11th November 2004 More damning evidence released today reveals how the world's biggest tobacco company set up a special research unit to investigate the health impact of active and passive smoking but concealed the findings. (ash.org.uk)
- As of 2010, Malawi was the world's leading producer of burley leaf tobacco. (wikipedia.org)
- It is the world's most tobacco dependent economy. (wikipedia.org)
- Tobacco is one of the world's most controversial crops. (corpwatch.org)
- Among agricultural products, tobacco is the developing world's eighth largest export earner. (corpwatch.org)
- The increase in tobacco users in the world's most populous countries is outpacing the global impact of tobacco control. (healthcanal.com)
- The Department of Justice is amending current regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to remove the requirement that common or contract carriers taking possession of explosive materials for delivery to a licensee or permittee complete ATF Form 5400.8 (Explosives Delivery Record) prior to taking possession of explosive materials, regardless of whether they are hired by the distributor or by the distributee. (atf.gov)
- The Department of Justice is amending the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (''ATF'') to delegate to the Director of ATF the authority to serve as the deciding official regarding the denial, suspension, or revocation of federal firearms licenses, or the imposition of a civil fine. (atf.gov)
- The Department of Justice is amending the current regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to require licensed importers to identify by marking all explosive materials they import for sale or distribution. (atf.gov)
- In realism, proposal 188 was a pro-tobacco referendum, which, if approved, would have definitely damaged and destabilized 270 existing local anti-smoking regulations in California cities, as well as the state's new statewide smoke-free place of work law. (brightkite.com)
- It was expected that the government would come down hard with regulations heavily restricting advertising along the lines of the tobacco industry. (mondaq.com)
- The regulations being announced today are designed to prevent our children from becoming the next generation of Americans to die early from tobacco-related illness. (drugs.com)
- I am inspired by the Legislature's bold move to prevent tobacco-related diseases, reduce smoking among youth and renew the call for statewide regulations on electronic cigarettes," Leno said in a statement. (latimes.com)
- The analysis was based on secondary data on supply and demand sides of the Russian tobacco epidemic, tobacco-related economic and health effects during Russia's economic transition, and compliance of Russian tobacco policy with international standards and regulations. (biomedcentral.com)
- The tobacco industry continued to face a number of challenges in 2018 not least of which were the stringent regulations governing marketing activities and advertising, limiting opportunities to promote market growth. (euromonitor.com)
- e-cigarettes from other traditional tobacco regulations. (mlive.com)
- Danny McGoldrick of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said that Michigan should regulate e-cigarettes on public health terms, not tobacco company terms, suggesting the industry has a long history of supporting youth-access restrictions in an attempt to avoid additional regulations. (mlive.com)
- The tobacco industry accessed the highest levels of EU political and legal power to water down new tobacco products regulations, our research has revealed. (bath.ac.uk)
- Creating this type of classification and avoiding these regulations would benefit the tobacco industry. (webwire.com)
- Abstract Introduction: The Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertising and Regulations of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act 2003 (COTPA) set out a number of stringent regulations to address tobacco promotion, some of which were revised in 2004. (merlot.org)
- The Private Members' Bill, introduced today by Nickel Belt MPP France GƩlinas, will strengthen existing regulations in the Smoke-Free Ontario Act that will further serve to eliminate the marketing of flavoured tobacco products, and prevent new tobacco products from entering the market. (cancer.ca)
- The Food and Drug Administration announced this morning tough new regulations on the entire U.S. tobacco industry, including the segment that makes and markets premium, handmade cigars. (cigaraficionado.com)
- The cost and burdens of onerous regulations threaten the entire industry. (cigaraficionado.com)
- CTP's rigorous compliance and enforcement program aims to ensure that the tobacco industry follows the law and regulations designed to reduce the health burden of tobacco use. (fda.gov)
- Since March 2011, CTP has been hosting live, public webinars to help educate those who must comply with federal tobacco law and regulations. (fda.gov)
- Smoking bans are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations , which prohibit tobacco smoking in workplaces and/or other public spaces . (thefullwiki.org)
- The purpose of the Pathway to Independence Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K99/R00) is to increase and maintain a strong cohort of new and talented independent investigators conducting research that will inform the development and evaluation of regulations on tobacco product manufacturing, distribution, and marketing. (nih.gov)
- R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company launched the first menthol filter-tip cigarettes in 1956 under the Salem brand. (wikipedia.org)
- Menthol cigarettes raise critical public health questions," Mitch Zeller, director of the Center for Tobacco Products, said in a conference call with reporters. (yahoo.com)
- Zeller said there's "no holdup" on the FDA proposing restrictions on menthol but that there are still "some important questions" that need to be answered. (yahoo.com)
- A 2011 FDA advisory panel report, which was mandated under the 2009 law giving the agency the authority to regulate tobacco, made many of the same findings, and said that removing menthol cigarettes from the market would benefit public health and highlighted greater use among minorities, teenagers and low-income people. (yahoo.com)
- The industry also has raised concerns that restrictions on menthol would lead to a black market for the cigarettes. (yahoo.com)
- The St. Paul City Council voted 6-1 on Wednesday to approve new restrictions that limit sales of menthol tobacco products to adults-only tobacco shops and liquor stores. (twincities.com)
- Menthol opponents have said the tobacco industry has heavily targeted African-Americans for years through menthol ads and free samples. (twincities.com)
- FILE - In Dec. 8, 2009 file photo, Newport cigarettes, a Lorillard Inc. brand, are displayed at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. Federal health officials are taking a closer look at flavors in tobacco products that appeal to young people, particularly menthol-flavored cigarettes, which have escaped regulation despite nearly a decade of government scrutiny. (nydailynews.com)
- WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials are taking a closer look at flavors in tobacco products that appeal to young people, particularly menthol-flavored cigarettes, which have escaped regulation despite nearly a decade of government scrutiny. (nydailynews.com)
- Ms. Kingsley noted that some municipalities have started to include menthol flavoring in FTRPs to counter the tobacco industry's targeting of communities of color, LGBTQ communities, low-income communities, and youth overall. (eurekalert.org)
- Flavor restriction policies that include menthol may have an even greater impact on youth tobacco use than seen in our study," she added. (eurekalert.org)
- Accessible Version: www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2019/18_0614.htm demonstrate that POS tobacco policies are effective. (cdc.gov)
- A task-force report on electronic nicotine delivery, recently issued by the ERS tobacco control committee ( Eur Respir J . 2019;53:1801151 ), does not recommend population-based harm-reduction strategies for tobacco cessation. (medscape.com)
- This legislation will reduce youth initiation of tobacco and vaping, lower smoking prevalence by 12 percent, and decrease premature deaths among those born between 2000 and 2019 by 223,000. (courierpress.com)
- Feldman: Tobacco 21 legislation a much-needed step forward This legislation will reduce youth initiation of tobacco and vaping, lower smoking prevalence by 12 percent, and decrease premature deaths among those born between 2000 and 2019 by 223,000. (courierpress.com)
- In the late 1990s, UNICEF saw its role in tobacco control as a children's rights obligation and called for tobacco advertising bans, 9 , 10 raising tobacco taxes, and health education 11 and initiated joint youth smoking prevention (YSP) projects with the WHO. (aappublications.org)
- By Richard J. Durbin , Rep. Richard J. Durbin (D) of Illinois, co-chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Tobacco and Health, is the original author of the federal law that bans smoking on airline flights of two hours or less. (csmonitor.com)
- Evidence shows that comprehensive bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship help reduce tobacco use," says Dr Ala Alwan, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean. (who.int)
- There have been numerous local bans and restrictions as well. (dailynews.com)
- Funding and promoting misleading research regarding measures like plain packaging, display bans, pack size restrictions, smoke-free laws, and tobacco taxes. (healthcanal.com)
- Mary Assunta, a long-time tobacco control advocate and a senior policy advisor at the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance, said she had never heard of a country applying the "res extra commercium" doctrine to tobacco, but hoped India would set a precedent. (livemint.com)
- This makes the Convention on the Rights of the Child a potentially powerful tobacco-control tool and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), which oversees the convention's implementation, a potential leader in tobacco control. (aappublications.org)
- UNICEF actively supported tobacco control initiatives in the late 1990s, but since the early 2000s UNICEF's role in tobacco control has been minimal. (aappublications.org)
- We found that from 1997 to 2000, when UNICEF was actively promoting tobacco control to support children's rights, the tobacco industry saw children's rights and UNICEF as potentially powerful threats to business that needed to be closely monitored and neutralized. (aappublications.org)
- The industry then positioned itself as a partner with UNICEF on youth smoking prevention initiatives as a way to avoid meaningful tobacco control measures that could save children's lives. (aappublications.org)
- This was part of an overall tobacco industry strategy to improve its corporate image, infiltrate the United Nations, and weaken global tobacco-control efforts. (aappublications.org)
- 2 The serious and widespread impact of tobacco use on children's health, the tobacco industry's exploitative marketing practices, and the use of child labor in tobacco growing 3 make the CRC a potentially powerful tobacco control tool, as acknowledged by several public health and human-rights advocates. (aappublications.org)
- 12 , 13 Children's rights were a theme in international tobacco-control meetings, 14 - 18 and in 2001, the WHO and UNICEF published a joint report on tobacco and children's rights in which they emphasized the need to protect children from smoking initiation, secondhand smoke exposure, tobacco marketing, and labor on tobacco farms. (aappublications.org)
- They contained no information from government-funded public health agencies like the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control or the U.S. Surgeon General's office, or from non-profit groups with decades of experience fighting tobacco-related illnesses, like the American Cancer Society , American Lung Association or American Heart Association . (prwatch.org)
- Advancing Tobacco Control Through in Providence and elsewhere in the United States. (cdc.gov)
- Evaluations of local POS tobacco control policies to pre- vent and reduce youth smoking are still at early stages. (cdc.gov)
- Collectively, these findings courts by the tobacco industry, but the court ruled in favor of the The opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)
- Most cigarettes traded illicitly are products of legitimate tobacco manufacturers that profit from selling these cigarettes to smugglers and use illicit trade as a counterargument against tobacco control policies. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions (CSSR) was a front group set up in 1994 to promote Proposition 188 , an unsuccessful tobacco industry 1994 ballot initiative in California that would have overturned California's local tobacco control ordinances. (sourcewatch.org)
- The title, "Proactive Legislation," refers to laws that the tobacco industry drafts and pushes through state legislatures in order to stop public health tobacco control activity at the local level. (sourcewatch.org)
- The goal is to control tobacco use and reduce smoking. (forbes.com)
- Tobacco use in California: An evaluation of the Tobacco Control Program, 1989-1993. (cdlib.org)
- Tobacco Control 1995;4:139-144. (cdlib.org)
- 4. Tobacco Control Section, California Department of Health Services. (cdlib.org)
- Tobacco Control 1997;6:41-54. (cdlib.org)
- 1174 words - 5 pages In spite of the national tobacco control policies, Yunnan also held conferences to control over smoking. (brightkite.com)
- In 2009, "Pioneers for Health" and other organizations held a Health and Development Conference in Kunming, where tobacco control was emphasized. (brightkite.com)
- The theme of the conference was "Tobacco Control for the Creation of a Healthy Lifestyle. (brightkite.com)
- The situation in Tanzania is worrisome as far as tobacco control strategies are concerned. (biomedcentral.com)
- Strong tobacco control measures need to be instituted by the Tanzanian government by involving the Ministries of Health, Agriculture, Finance, Economic and Planning, Finance, National Education and Higher Education, and Science and Technology before tobacco related diseases reach an alarming situation in the country. (biomedcentral.com)
- The rules take effect less than a year after the passage of the landmark Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which authorized the FDA to regulate the manufacture, marketing and sale of tobacco products. (drugs.com)
- The Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH) has systematically documented how tobacco industry trade challenges threaten public health's rights to implement tobacco control measures. (huffingtonpost.com)
- Legal analysis from Georgetown [R. Stumberg, Safeguards for Tobacco Control: Options for the TPPA. (huffingtonpost.com)
- The purpose of this study is to analyze past and current trends of the tobacco epidemic in the Russian Federation, review current tobacco control policy responses, and identify areas of opportunity for policy priorities. (biomedcentral.com)
- We used a policy triangle as analytical framework to examine content, context, and processes of Russian tobacco control policy. (biomedcentral.com)
- Russia's tobacco control efforts need to target women and youths specifically to efficiently counter industry efforts. (biomedcentral.com)
- Given the immense burden of smoking and tobacco use in Russia, the goal of this review is to conduct a policy analysis in order to provide an understanding of current tobacco control responses in Russia and identify areas of opportunity for effective tobacco control policies. (biomedcentral.com)
- We use the policy triangle analysis methodology [ 7 ] to examine Russia's tobacco control policy content, context, actors and processes in a conceptual framework. (biomedcentral.com)
- The tactics used by the tobacco industry to resist government regulation of its products include conducting public relations campaigns, buying scientific and other expertise to create controversy about established facts, funding political parties, hiring lobbyists to influence policy, using front groups and allied industries to oppose tobacco control measures, pre-empting strong legislation by pressing for the adoption of voluntary codes or weaker laws, and corrupting public officials. (nih.gov)
- Governments and organizations must counter the deceptive and misleading tobacco industry tactics that undermine tobacco control activities. (who.int)
- Our core message on this World No Tobacco Day," says Dr Alwan "is for governments, parliamentarians and civil society to comprehensively ban all forms to tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and to counter the tobacco industry's efforts to undermine tobacco control. (who.int)
- Jean King, Cancer Research UK's director of tobacco control, said: "Marketing tobacco hasn't stopped simply because we don't see cigarettes advertised in our magazines and on billboards or TV. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- A quantitative comparison of the effects of these interventions would enable public health policy makers to make maximum use of the (usually limited) funds available for tobacco control. (bmj.com)
- so politicians are less frightened of them, and they work," says Stanton Glantz, director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. (csmonitor.com)
- The tobacco industry repeats the same tactics in multiple jurisdictions to interfere with tobacco control. (who.int)
- While the industry aggressively promotes its new products under the guise of offering solutions, some of the hard-fought, life-saving tobacco control measures currently in place are being undermined. (who.int)
- Whether selling its new products or traditional cigarettes, the tobacco industry uses the same tactics to create barriers to lifesaving tobacco control measures. (who.int)
- Article 5.3 of the WHO FCTC is an overarching obligation requiring that, in setting and implementing public health policies with respect to tobacco control, governments act to protect these policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry in accordance with national law. (who.int)
- I am sad to see that the tobacco-control community - many members of which have dedicated their lives to combating tobacco and saving people's lives - is now divided on the topic of e-cigarettes. (medscape.com)
- For the medical journal, see Tobacco Control (journal) . (wikipedia.org)
- Tobacco control is a field of international public health science, policy and practice dedicated to addressing tobacco use and thereby reducing the morbidity and mortality it causes. (wikipedia.org)
- References to a tobacco control movement may have either positive or negative connotations, both briefly covered here. (wikipedia.org)
- The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. (wikipedia.org)
- The tobacco control movement has also been referred to as an anti-smoking movement by some who disagree with the movement, as documented in internal tobacco industry memoranda. (wikipedia.org)
- The industry has always denied advertising on the internet, but a new study in the journal Tobacco Control , conducted by scientists at the University of Otago in New Zealand, indicates that online videos containing tobacco brand images or words are commonplace. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- The industry concurrently works aggressively in states to weaken or defeat tobacco-control measures. (courierpress.com)
- and the latest products and tactics being used by the industry to protect its profits and delay and derail tobacco control. (healthcanal.com)
- Strong tobacco control laws have led to reductions in smoking prevalence but much remains to be done. (healthcanal.com)
- The new study from our Tobacco Control Research Group , published in the BMJ journal Tobacco Control , found that industry lobbying tactics were deployed on a 'massive' scale on the introduction and implementation of the 2014 European Union Tobacco Products Directive. (bath.ac.uk)
- Semi-structured interviews were also carried out with tobacco control experts and members of European Parliament. (bath.ac.uk)
- The demand is in response to a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found there has been no progress in reducing the number of tobacco scenes in youth-rated movies. (health24.com)
- Trent Lott, the Senate majority leader, announced the death of a landmark tobacco control bill. (observer.com)
- This information will help the public and those who work with CTP understand what FDA's Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) is doing to ensure compliance with the Tobacco Control Act. (fda.gov)
- CTP's Office of Small Business Assistance gives technical assistance to small tobacco product manufacturers and retailers to help them understand their responsibilities under the Tobacco Control Act. (fda.gov)
- Chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force of the American Association of Public Health Physicians. (democracynow.org)
- We speak with Dr. Joel Nitzkin, chair of the Tobacco Control Task Force of the American Association of Public Health Physicians. (democracynow.org)
- Research projects must address the research priorities related to the regulatory authority of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) as mandated by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), Public Law 111-31. (nih.gov)
- Visits were made to tobacco retailers in four Quebec municipalities in the autumn of 2017. (bmj.com)
- Heupink & Bloemen Tabak, which specialises in cigarillos and fine cut tobacco, remained one of the few domestic manufacturers still present in cigarettes in 2017. (euromonitor.com)
- Retail current value sales of cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco saw a decline in 2017, after a slight rebound in 2016. (euromonitor.com)
- Global Tobacco Market, Historic Market Size, 2013-2017, $ Billion The chart and table below shows the year-on-year growth of the global tobacco market during 2017 - 2021. (reportbuyer.com)
- Changes in any flavored and non-flavored tobacco use between baseline and six-month follow-up: Lowell and Malden, MA, 2016 and 2017. (eurekalert.org)
- Using data collected from tobacco retailers and high school youth in 2016-2017, the study assessed the impact on youth access to and use of tobacco products six months after the policy was implemented in Lowell, MA. (eurekalert.org)
- With an aim to curb tobacco consumption-which kills more than 900,000 people each year in India-the government has in recent years raised tobacco taxes, started smoking cessation campaigns and introduced laws requiring covering most of the package in health warnings. (livemint.com)
- Our study suggests that with rigorous enforcement, flavor restriction policies have the potential to curb youth tobacco use in as little as six months," explained lead investigator Melody Kingsley, MPH, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. (eurekalert.org)
- Although the use of tobacco was condemned on occasion in the past, not until the latter half of the twentieth century were concerted efforts made to curb tobacco use in the United States. (thefreedictionary.com)
- In 1995, Jim Ramsay , a Philip Morris (PM) speechwriter, wrote in a weekly activity report that he had drafted a letter to be sent from ALEC to then-President Bill Clinton expressing ALEC's opposition to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of tobacco. (prwatch.org)
- For several years New Zealand's vape industry has been calling for regulation. (scoop.co.nz)
- Tobacco Regulation through Litigation: The Master Settlement Agreement ," NBER Working Papers 15422, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
- Conventional tobacco products are under severe regulation as they can't be advertised in the media, sold to minors, smoked in public places. (forbes.com)
- The industry has to deal with ever-tightening regulation. (valueline.com)
- The tobacco industry uses corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to access policy-makers, and utilizes its advertising budget to entice the entertainment and media sector to support voluntary codes or self-regulation. (who.int)
- The Atlas reveals the extent of the tobacco industry's expanding and well-resourced array of tactics to preserve its profits, to hide the truth from the public and to influence or derail regulation. (healthcanal.com)
- Fortunately, the industry's legislative strategy continues to be implemented, including language recently adopted by the Appropriations Agricultural Subcommittee disallowing any funding of FDA regulation of premium cigars and negating the arbitrary predicate date of February 2007, after which any tobacco product would be considered new, and have to go through an expensive and time consuming compliance process. (cigaraficionado.com)
- There is extensive regulation of the tobacco industry and the products it produces at every level of government. (rjrt.com)
- Moreover, while regulation of consumer products is typically left to federal agencies, Congress itself has stepped in to oversee the tobacco industry in many areas. (rjrt.com)
- Others would close loopholes in smoke-free workplace laws that allow smoking in break rooms and parts of hotel lobbies, increase the minimum age for those buying tobacco products to 21, require all schools to be tobacco-free and allow cities and counties to tax tobacco products. (latimes.com)
- It appears that Congress will accomplish what the Indiana General Assembly could not: Increasing the legal age for the purchase of tobacco products to 21. (courierpress.com)
- The American Heart Association issued the following statement regarding the Stopping Consumption of Tobacco by Teens (SCOTT Act), a bill to raise the minimum legal sales age for tobacco products to 21 nationwide, introduced by Representatives Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) and Juan Vargas (D-Calif. (webwire.com)
- Conclusions Recent restrictions on tobacco industry incentive programmes for retailers have not ended price differentiation. (bmj.com)
- Tobacco 21 wants to see Texas enforce a law that suspends or revokes the retailers' privilege to sell rather than go after teens. (khou.com)
- Traditional formats, such as forecourt retailers and tobacco specialists, by contrast, have been falling out of favour with Dutch consumers. (euromonitor.com)
- With no ties to Big Tobacco, independent Kiwi vape entrepreneurs and retailers have come together not to stop restrictions, but to constructively advocate for the survival of something we passionately believe in. (scoop.co.nz)
- Providence requires city tobacco retailers violations increased. (cdc.gov)
- For some small retailers, tobacco sales form a majority of their profits. (twincities.com)
- The study found that the implementation of a flavored tobacco restriction policy (FTRP) in one Massachusetts community was associated with reduced availability of flavored tobacco in retailers and youth use of both flavored and non-flavored tobacco within six months of the policy's implementation. (eurekalert.org)
- This presentation will highlight results from a photo-documentation project that captured tobacco advertising in nearly 1,000 retailers across all 5 boroughs in NYC. (columbia.edu)
- Federal, state and local governments have a virtual monopoly on tobacco profits, collecting more money from the sale of tobacco than retailers, wholesalers, farmers and manufacturers combined. (rjrt.com)
- At the request of council member Amy Brendmoen, the restrictions will take effect in a year - on Nov. 1, 2018 - instead of within 90 days, giving street-corner stores more time to adjust. (twincities.com)
- Cigarettes, by far the largest and most significant category in the tobacco market, posted a contraction in volume sales in 2018. (euromonitor.com)
- EMAILWIRE.COM, November 20, 2018 ) The "Global Solar Cell Materials Market Analysis to 2025" is a specialized and in-depth study of the solar cell materials industry with a focus on the global market trend. (emailwire.com)
- EMAILWIRE.COM, November 20, 2018 ) Smoking has traditionally been widespread, tax increases driving up prices, and increased restrictions on public smoking. (emailwire.com)
- The letter demands that the film industry meet a 1 June 2018, deadline to stop depicting smoking in movies rated acceptable for children. (health24.com)
- The federal health ministry says stringent health warnings on packages help reduce consumption of tobacco by making people aware of its ill-effects. (livemint.com)
- Fine cut tobacco retained a very strong position in tobacco, with per capita consumption in the Netherlands still amongst the highest globally. (euromonitor.com)
- The promotion of tobacco is a root cause of continued consumption even after highlighting the effects. (biomedcentral.com)
- World production of tobacco exceeded consumption in 1992 and 1993. (corpwatch.org)
- Legal restrictions on consumption, advertising, and sales have been put in place. (forbes.com)
- If all workplacesbecame smoke-free, consumption per capita in the entire population would drop by 4.5% in the United States and 7.6% in the United Kingdom, costing the tobacco industry $1.7 billion and £310 million annually in lost sales. (bmj.com)
- 7 In 1992 Phillip Morris Tobacco Company privately estimated that if all workplaces were smoke-free, total consumption would drop about 10%, through a combination of quitting and cutting down. (bmj.com)
- A serious economic slowdown will lead to a drop in consumption, since in many countries tobacco products are heavily taxed, pushing up prices, and consumers have limited discretionary income. (valueline.com)
- The old-school approach of denial has a 1960s tobacco-industry feel, but the Sugar Association has been successful so far in derailing restrictions on sugar consumption in past dietary guidance, the last of which came out in 2010. (newsobserver.com)
- Although more and more is known about tobacco industry tactics, a systematic, comprehensive guide is needed to assist regulators and policy-makers in combating those practices. (who.int)
- 2923 words - 12 pages PAGE Tobacco Advertising in Today's SocietyTable of ContentsiExecutive Summary 1Introduction 2Tobacco Advertising throughout the Years 2Reforming the Target Market 4Current Marketing Tactics 7Anti-tobacco Advertisements 9Freedom of Speech 10Conclusion wORKS cITED 11APPENDIX 11Executive SummaryThe practice of marketing tobacco products has been a sensitive issue for many years and is yet to be resolved. (brightkite.com)
- It's been a long time coming, and it's reinforcing what we've known for decades, which is that these products are harmful and that this industry has used deceitful tactics to keep people using their product, which they know is causing harm,' he said. (tobacco.org)
- Tobacco industry tactics for resisting public policy on health. (nih.gov)
- Yet only six countries of the Region are fully protected from exposure to the tobacco industry advertising, promotion and sponsorship tactics. (who.int)
- To dominate the market for e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products, the tobacco industry is re-using tactics that successfully targeted youth and misinformed the public about product safety in the past. (who.int)
- The analysis revealed that industry lobbying tactics were deployed on a 'massive'scale. (bath.ac.uk)
- The aim of the study was to monitor the industry tactics at the point of sale with advertising and promotion of tobacco product in Mumbai. (merlot.org)
- Although the civil society and various non-governmental organizations has casted voice against the industry tactics but ineffective enforcement of the law is a major hurdle. (merlot.org)
- An examination of tobacco industry tactics can help show what the health insurance industry might do next to scuttle reform of the U.S. health care system. (prwatch.org)
- ALEC provides the tobacco industry with valuable services like drafting and circulating pro-industry editorials in specific states, creating and disseminating pro-industry reports to legislators, and serving as a credible third-party mouthpiece who helps " bring pressure to bear on targeted individuals " (lawmakers) to vote the industry's way on legislation. (prwatch.org)
- In Colorado, the tobacco industry noted that widespread sentiment existed for a statewide smoking law, and that even the industry's usual ally, the Colorado Restaurant Association, favored such legislation. (sourcewatch.org)
- Stan Boman, Tobacco Institute Proactive Legislation Memorandum. (sourcewatch.org)
- 29. Du Melle F, Davis A, Ballin S. "Alert on tobacco industry-initiated clean indoor air legislation and/or amendments. (cdlib.org)
- During 2011, the Australian Government introduced legislation requiring tobacco products to be packaged in plain paper (with graphic health warnings, but minimal branding). (mja.com.au)
- Philip Morris Asia (PMA) - a subsidiary of Philip Morris International (PMI) - has launched an investor-state dispute against the Australian Government over its tobacco plain packaging legislation. (mja.com.au)
- All 10 provinces and Nunavut have adopted legislation to facilitate a medicare cost-recovery lawsuit against the tobacco industry. (cancer.ca)
- To date 14 states and 470 localities have passed "Tobacco 21" legislation. (courierpress.com)
- We appreciate the intent of the SCOTT Act, and have long urged raising the sales age of tobacco to 21, including support for federal legislation introduced in the last Congress by Sen. Brian Schatz and Rep. Diana DeGette. (webwire.com)
- We are willing and ready to work with both sides of the aisle to develop thorough and effective legislation that can help us stop the next generation from becoming addicted to tobacco. (webwire.com)
- The Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division applaud the introduction of legislation to eliminate the sale of flavoured tobacco products. (cancer.ca)
- The tobacco industry has found a new way to target our youth and we are grateful to Ms. GƩlinas for proposing legislation that strengthens Ontario's tobacco laws and protects our young people from dangerous flavoured and new tobacco products," said Rowena Pinto, Senior Director, Public Affairs, Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division. (cancer.ca)
- Legislation may also define smoking as more generally being the carrying or possessing of any lit tobacco product. (thefullwiki.org)
- The industry's relationship with ALEC showed its worth quickly after ALEC provided Tobacco Institute members with face-to-face access to highest-level federal elected officials. (prwatch.org)
- The same elected officials who blather on about executing drug dealers are quietly coddling tobacco profiteers. (observer.com)
- Called "This Is Our Watch," the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products' (CTP) program is broken up into several components, most of which are available online. (tobacco.org)
- 1 The industry responded with efforts to undermine the science on the dangers of SHS, 2- 7 campaigns to fight clean indoor air policies, and efforts to portray those who wished to address secondhand smoke from a public health perspective as extremists. (bmj.com)
- Therefore more than 300 million Americans, including 70 million children, live in states in which non-users of these products can be involuntarily exposed to either secondhand smoke from cigarettes and other smoked tobacco products or ENDS aerosol. (ishn.com)
- The EPA's ETS page, "Setting the Record Straight: Secondhand Smoke is a Preventable Health Risk," (EPA Document Number 402-F-94-005, June 1994) fixates on the tobacco industry's weak so-called criticisms because these are an anti-smoker straw man. (smokershistory.com)
- In a conference call to the media early this afternoon, Mitch Zeller, J.D., Director, Center for Tobacco Products for the FDA, said the FDA intended to also target flavored cigars, including flavored premium cigars. (cigaraficionado.com)
- Analysis of previously secret tobacco industry documents. (bmj.com)
- Using the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents library, an online collection of previously secret tobacco industry documents, we sought to uncover information on the tobacco industry's ties with UNICEF. (aappublications.org)
- The cases also resulted in more than 40 million pages of secret tobacco industry internal documents becoming public, and in new restrictions on industry marketing. (cancer.ca)
- Since as early as the 1980s the tobacco industry has recognised that smoke-free workplaces have a major effect on cigaretteconsumption. (bmj.com)
- A 1991 public relations plan (created by the PR company Ruder Finn for Philip Morris France) discusses how the company can work around a "difficult national situation," specifically a French law called " loi Evin ," which prohibits "all propaganda or publicity, direct or indirect, in favor of tobacco or tobacco products as well as their free distribution. (sourcewatch.org)
- Seeking to apply the doctrine to tobacco, the government argued it should have the power "to regulate business and to mitigate evils" to safeguard public health, the court filing showed. (livemint.com)
- Tuesday 16 November 2004 ASH News Release: For Immediate Use - Tuesday 16th November Plans for smoking restrictions in workplaces and enclosed public places in today's public health White Paper will be a big step forwards for public health, Action on Smoking and Health said today. (ash.org.uk)
- The documents were made public as a term of the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between the states and the tobacco industry. (prwatch.org)
- ALEC has functioned both as a particularly potent front group and an ostensibly credible public relations conduit for the industry, by facilitating communication between the industry and legislators, and working to influence legislators' opinion in the industry's favor. (prwatch.org)
- Memo to State Executives, State Public Issue Staff, Tobacco-Free America. (cdlib.org)
- Amid the feverish embrace of electronic cigarettes, come several statements by the tobacco industry that should cause public health proponents of such products to get a grip. (bmj.com)
- Two major programs in the settlement are dedicated to reducing teen smoking and educating the public about tobacco-related diseases. (nga.org)
- An additional $1.45 billion was utilized to create a National Public Education Fund to counter youth tobacco use and educate consumers about tobacco-related diseases. (nga.org)
- In the secretive, rarified world of trade negotiations, even when public health succeeds in getting a proposal to the negotiating table on an issue like tobacco, it is subject to be traded away at any moment by a trade minister who views it primarily as a bargaining chip for deals on more important concerns, like sugar, cars, or financial derivatives. (huffingtonpost.com)
- Medical and public health leaders in the U.S. and worldwide have echoed the call to "carve out" tobacco from trade agreements. (huffingtonpost.com)
- On public health grounds, the tobacco industry does not deserve much latitude to promote its deadly products with colorful images, as opposed to black-and-white text. (nytimes.com)
- Trade associations and other industry groupings established to deceive the public should be disbanded. (nih.gov)
- later equally as faithfully, he served the cellular mobile phone industry when they faced growing public concerns about the possible brain effects of microwave radiation from the proximity to the head of the early high-powered pulse-transmission (GSM) mobile phones. (sourcewatch.org)
- At this time only 500 tobacco documents had been released in the public domain -- but many had a focus on Germany. (sourcewatch.org)
- However, with the tobacco industry circumventing the articles of the Convention, full implementation can often be derailed and efforts to protect the public from the dangers associated with tobacco - which kills nearly 6 million people every year - hindered. (who.int)
- Contrary to the public pronouncements of the tobacco industry, the pack is an important promotional tool that is being used more aggressively and effectively as other channels are removed and health warnings are strengthened. (cancerresearchuk.org)
- As calls for restrictions on print advertisements, sampling and sports sponsorship became more frequent, the industry cooked up various public relations schemes to rebut compelling charges that it was marketing to kids. (multinationalmonitor.org)
- To the public, the industry tried to portray its efforts as purely altruistic, with concern for children and parents at the fore. (multinationalmonitor.org)
- While the tobacco industry resisted the restrictions on some fronts - winning an exception for active-duty military personnel, for instance - the effort to cast tobacco as a public-health issue continues to gain momentum. (csmonitor.com)
- Public relations - the industry promotes misinformation, either directly or through front groups, to exaggerate the economic importance of the industry and its positive role in society. (who.int)
- The industry aims to ensure that tobacco products remain affordable, while protecting their own profits - at the expense of public health. (who.int)
- Public health officials contend the industry is preying upon a set of supine and vulnerable societies still recovering from the collapse of the Soviet empire, selling a product that kills more people than any other in the world. (washingtonpost.com)
- The more appealing bipartisan bill, winning the endorsement of many public health groups, is the Tobacco To 21 Act. (courierpress.com)
- By defining e-cigarettes as tobacco products, the state could also move to regulate indoor use in public spaces and apply existing taxes, according to Matthew Davis, chief medical executive for the Michigan Department of Community Health. (mlive.com)
- The tobacco industry hijacked the public consultation and used numerous third parties to lobby on their behalf. (bath.ac.uk)
- The fact that the tobacco industry enjoyed this level of access and influence indicates that the EU has failed in its duty under the FCTC, the first global public health treaty developed by the World Health Organisation, to protect public health policies from tobacco industry influence. (bath.ac.uk)
- The tobacco settlement agreements brought about the kind of meaningful change that governments and the public health community had long sought in the tobacco business. (altria.com)
- Among other things, the MSA mandated that certain internal industry documents be made easily available to the public and imposes restrictions on Participating Manufacturers from lobbying on certain youth-related matters. (altria.com)
- Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration Ling Chengxing took aim at proposed curbs on smoking in public indoor areas, saying controls on tobacco should not take an "absolutist" or "expansionist" direction, Reuters reported, citing an interview with the party paper Study Times . (chinaeconomicreview.com)
- The coalition, which includes 17 public health and medical groups, sent a letter to film industry leaders in response to the CDC report. (health24.com)
- Other members include the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the American Public Health Association. (health24.com)
- The McCarthyite baiting of anyone who suggests that these public health problems are all related serves only as a cover for the tobacco business. (observer.com)
- Those two groups, say the authors, have since waged campaigns to turn public opinion against tobacco taxes, smoke-free laws and health care reform in general. (ucsf.edu)
- While it is well known that corporations can influence policy, the study "demonstrates the extent to which a particular industry has leveraged its resources to indirectly affect public policy,'' the authors write. (ucsf.edu)
- As the Center for Media and Democracy's Wendell Potter , former public relations executive for Cigna and Humana , has written, the insurance industry is taking these and other flim-flams straight from the tobacco industry 's playbook. (prwatch.org)
- Not only is the tobacco industry a pioneer in manipulating public opinion and perception, it doesn't hesitate to stoop low to achieve its goals. (prwatch.org)
- The public health movement against tobacco use will be successful when young people no longer want to smoke. (cdc.gov)
- Fresh works with the regional media to ensure that the benefits of quitting, the harm of smoking, and tobacco issues are kept in the public eye all year round. (freshne.com)
- A Hartlepool MP and Director of Public Health are backing proposed new restrictions on tobacco promotion this World No Tobacco Day (May 31). (freshne.com)
- Hartlepool MP Iain Wright and Director of Public Health Louise Wallace are supporting a campaign for tobacco products to be sold in standardised packaging to help make smoking history for more children. (freshne.com)
- 1189 words - 5 pages Tobacco Tobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States. (brightkite.com)
- Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide, claiming 6.3 million deaths a year, including 1,200 Americans daily, and draining almost $200 billion a year in U.S. health care costs and lost productivity. (huffingtonpost.com)
- Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the United States, and treating tobacco-related illnesses costs California taxpayers billions of dollars," the two leaders said in a joint statement. (latimes.com)
- By 2030, more than 80% of the preventable deaths associated with tobacco will be among people living in these countries, including countries of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. (who.int)
- Tobacco products are the leading preventable cause of disease and death in Canada, killing 37,000 Canadians annually. (cancer.ca)
- Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, and it's to blame for nearly 500 000 deaths a year. (health24.com)
- The caution is partly in recognition that governments were slow to react to the smoking epidemic, and the tobacco industry made early claims about cigarettes being good for you, she said. (pressdemocrat.com)
- The resulting examination of the advertising and promotional activities of the tobacco industry, as well as the review of research on the effects of these activities on young people, marks an important contribution to our understanding of the epidemic of tobacco use in the United States and elsewhere. (cdc.gov)
- Mr Wright said: "I thoroughly support plain packaging of tobacco products and I am glad to support Fresh's Smoke Free North East campaign. (freshne.com)
- State Tobacco 21 laws are apt to contain provisions, aggressively pursued by the tobacco industry, which block other state actions to reduce tobacco and vaping use, benefiting the tobacco industry's special interests. (courierpress.com)
- The laws signify the continuing potency of the sea change in attitudes around tobacco that started in the 1980s. (csmonitor.com)
- The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed increasing restrictions on the sale of flavored tobacco nationwide as well. (eurekalert.org)
- If big tobacco succeeds with any of these ambitions, e-cigarettes may cause a net increase in population harm. (bmj.com)
- Every tobacco company in every market should publicly disclose what it knew about the addictiveness and harm caused by tobacco, when it obtained this information, and what it did about it. (nih.gov)
- Vestbo said he worries that marketing and industry-funded science will prevail, as it did with big tobacco, especially because e-cigarettes are seen as a harm-reduction tool. (medscape.com)
- Reviewing a new report by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) on the role of e-cigarettes in tobacco harm reduction, Professor Ann McNeill , Professor John Britton and colleagues argue that e-cigarettes and other non-tobacco nicotine products "offer the potential to radically reduce harm from smoking in our society. (kcl.ac.uk)
- But the new RCP report argues that, whilst not absolutely safe, the hazard to health arising from long term vapour inhalation from the e-cigarettes available today is unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco. (kcl.ac.uk)
- Professor John Britton at the University of Nottingham and his colleagues point out that nicotine causes little if any harm on its own and that it is the carcinogens, carbon monoxide, and thousands of other toxins in tobacco smoke that kill. (psychcentral.com)
- E-cigarettes represent an important means to reduce the harm to individuals and society from tobacco use," they conclude. (psychcentral.com)
- They should continue to be supported by government and promoted as a tobacco harm reduction strategy. (psychcentral.com)
- THURSDAY, March 18 -- U.S. health officials issued new federal rules Thursday cracking down on the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to children and teens. (drugs.com)
- President Obama signed into law a bill last week that gives the US government broad regulatory power over cigarettes and other tobacco products. (democracynow.org)
- Instead, ALEC provided legislators with favorable articles about the economic impact of the tobacco industry, a Tobacco Institute-produced book about the tax burden imposed on tobacco by governments, and information about Philip Morris' Accommodation program , which started the decades-long trend of instituting smoking and non-smoking sections in restaurants. (prwatch.org)
- Tobacco use may kill a billion people this century, 4 largely because of tobacco's historic treatment as an unexceptional item of commerce and, later, decades of glacial action by governments failing to regulate this dangerous consumer product. (bmj.com)
- Decades ago the tobacco industry tried to fool us into believing that filtered cigarettes were a healthier alternative to traditional cigarettes, and now they're making the same claims about e-cigarettes. (latimes.com)
- During the next few decades, the tobacco industry would fight to lower those age restrictions as part of efforts to market their products to children, the report found. (csmonitor.com)
- Even the new FDA tobacco law took decades to come about, even though the Surgeon General officially declared cigarettes harmful back in 1964. (prwatch.org)
- An estimated 2.5 million Kenyans - over 11 percent of the country's adult population - currently use tobacco, according to the first Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) ever conducted in Kenya. (tobacco.org)
- To assess progress toward elimination of TAPS and the level of awareness of TAPS among persons aged ā„15 years, CDC used data from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) collected in 14 countries during 2008-2010. (cdc.gov)
- A summary of findings on worksite and household policies: California Adult Tobacco Survey. (cdlib.org)
- The tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) was reached on behalf of the Attorneys General of forty-six states, five commonwealths and territories, and the District of Columbia on November 23, 1998. (nga.org)
- The foundation, created in 1998 as part of the national tobacco settlement, promoted the fictitious cigarettes, called "Figment," as a "fake April Fools' Day 'product launch. (californiahealthline.org)
- tobacco company officials are claiming that the Justice Department's demands "go well beyond" restrictions outlined in the 1998 national tobacco settlement, and the industry has begun "fighting them aggressively. (californiahealthline.org)
- Evaluation of point of sale (POS) policies that restrict the sale of flavored heavily marketed in convenience stores, places that adolescents tobacco products is a new area of research and evidence of its effective- visit at least once per week (4). (cdc.gov)
- Malawi relies heavily on tobacco production and sales to support its economy. (wikipedia.org)
- The earlier young people begin using tobacco, the more heavily they are likely to use it as adults, and the longer potential time they have to be users. (cdc.gov)
- Tobacco products are some of the most heavily taxed consumer products in the United States. (rjrt.com)
- The Food and Drug Administration today has taken a crucial step in exercising its new authority to regulate tobacco products by issuing rules restricting tobacco industry marketing and sales to youth," Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said in a news release. (drugs.com)
- This weak enforcement of laws and the delay in responding to the new and fast-growing non-traditional media, such as social networks - which are difficult to regulate - has opened up a new window of opportunity for the tobacco industry to further promote its deadly products. (who.int)
- She said the effort to regulate e-cigarettes is far less significant if their definition is not changed to tobacco products, and she worried that sending both bills to the Assembly would give the tobacco industry leverage to kill the tougher restrictions of SB 140. (sacbee.com)
- According to the 2012 Report of the U.S. Surgeon General , exposure to tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship (TAPS) is associated with the initiation and continuation of smoking among young persons ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
- Studies have shown that tobacco promotion substantially increases smoking initiation by children and adolescents," Dr. Howard K. Koh, HHS assistant secretary for health, said during the press conference. (drugs.com)
- The policy may also begin to impact and reduce other tobacco-related outcomes, such as initiation on flavored tobacco, as exposure to flavored tobacco among young people continues to decline. (eurekalert.org)
- The tobacco industry uses "accommodation policies", such as designated smoking areas, to promote the "social acceptability" of smoking and encourage smoking or smoking initiation. (who.int)
- The Economic impacts of the tobacco settlement ," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 21(1), pages 1-19. (repec.org)
- The Economic Impacts of the Tobacco Settlement ," NBER Working Papers 7760, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
- The settlement agreement also has a significant number of restrictions on advertising and promotion. (nga.org)
- The settlement prohibits targeting youth in tobacco advertising, including a ban on the use of cartoon or other advertising images that may appeal to children. (nga.org)
- The settlement also prohibits all outdoor tobacco advertising, tobacco product placement in entertainment or sporting events, and the distribution and sale of apparel and merchandise with tobacco company logos. (nga.org)
- Further, the settlement places restrictions on industry lobbying against local, state, and federal laws. (nga.org)
- No wonder the industry is now interested in a national settlement ending litigation in exchange for restrictions on tobacco. (dailypress.com)
- The settlement requires the state to spend $200 million 'for general enforcement, media, educational, and other programs directed to the underage and potential underage users of tobacco products' by Sept. 15, 1999. (edweek.org)
- Gov. Chiles began outlining his plans for the tobacco settlement late last year. (edweek.org)
- The tobacco settlement agreements created fundamental changes in how tobacco products are advertised, marketed and sold in the United States. (altria.com)
- These agreements with the Previously Settled States, combined with the MSA, are collectively referred to as the state tobacco settlement agreements. (altria.com)
- The tobacco settlement agreements include strict enforcement provisions and the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) helps coordinate the implementation and enforcement of the agreements on behalf of the State Attorneys General. (altria.com)
- PM USA remains committed to the state tobacco settlement agreements we signed with the Attorneys General. (altria.com)
- The substantive provisions of the tobacco settlement agreements are complex and broad in scope. (altria.com)
- The summary on this page highlights some of the important provisions of the tobacco settlement agreements, but is not intended to cover everything and is not intended to alter, interpret or supersede any of the terms of the tobacco settlement agreements. (altria.com)
- And the smoking-cessation aspect of e-cigarettes pits scientists and clinicians against one another, even though they are all "on the same side," said Filippos Filippidis, MD, PhD, from Imperial College London, who will discuss novel tobacco and nicotine products during the session that Vestbo will cochair. (medscape.com)
- To explore this relationship, we studied publicly-available tobacco industry documents found in the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL), an electronic archive created by the University of California San Francisco that contains 70+ million pages of previously-secret, internal tobacco industry documents obtained in the discovery phases of the 46 state attorneys general lawsuits against the tobacco industry. (prwatch.org)
- Undermining Popular Government: Tobacco Industry Political Expenditures in California 1993-1994 Report describing tobacco industry activities with respect to Proposition 188. (sourcewatch.org)
- By means of this deceiving name, NSA members collected names to put a referendum on the California poll in November 1994, which the Dolphin Group endorsed with billboards reading, "Yes on 188--Tough Statewide Smoking Restrictions. (brightkite.com)
- California became the second state to raise the minimum legal age to buy tobacco to 21, showing the continuing momentum for laws that target youth smoking. (csmonitor.com)
- Glendale, Calif. - Selling tobacco to anyone under age 21 became illegal in California on Thursday, marking a milestone in an ongoing shift in American policies on tobacco use. (csmonitor.com)
- As recently as 2014, the industry poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into both Democrat and Republican campaigns in California, the Sacramento Bee reported . (csmonitor.com)
- Both Massachusetts and California have effective media campaigns that are large and sustained and that mock tobacco use,' Mr. Warner said. (edweek.org)
- If SB 151 is approved by the Assembly and Gov. Jerry Brown, California would be one of the first states in the country to raise its legal tobacco purchase age to 21. (sacbee.com)
- Poll: Would raising the legal age to purchase tobacco in California have much impact? (sacbee.com)
- By now, you've heard that starting Sept. 1 anyone under 21 won't be able to walk into the store and buy cigarettes or any other tobacco product. (khou.com)
- Philip Morris, whose IQOS product can be purchased without any restrictions in almost any store, is particularly rapidly developing this new Ukrainian market. (forbes.com)
- Tobacco product advertising. (brightkite.com)
- What is it that makes a tobacco-user keep on buying the product? (brightkite.com)
- The meeting demonstrated a shrewd new tactic by the tobacco industry to defend the product and its profits. (csmonitor.com)
- The industry contends that these and other restrictions limit its ability to convey "truthful information" about a lawful product to adult consumers, not just to young people. (nytimes.com)
- Facing increased marketing restrictions, the tobacco industry dedicates nearly all of its promotional budget to product advertising at the point-of-scale. (columbia.edu)
- It's to shield the industry from threatened FDA actions, including additional vaping product restrictions and even product removal from the market because of its past promotion to youth. (courierpress.com)
- One such product is IQOS, a tobacco product from Philip Morris International that is currently undergoing FDA review. (webwire.com)
- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a final guidance for industry entitled "Premarket Tobacco Product Applications for Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, Guidance for Industry. (federalregister.gov)
- Given the relatively new presence of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) on the U.S. market and FDA's final rule deeming these products to be subject to the tobacco product authorities in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), FDA expects to receive premarket tobacco product application (PMTA) submissions from manufacturers of ENDS. (federalregister.gov)
- All submissions received must include the Docket No. FDA-2015-D-2496 for "Premarket Tobacco Product Applications for Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, Guidance for Industry. (federalregister.gov)
- Establishing a federally mandated minimum of 18 years for the purchase of any tobacco product, including sales made online, and age verification made by photo ID. (cigaraficionado.com)
- The FDA has said this new product verification will be done "under staggered timelines, the FDA expects that manufacturers will continue selling their products for up to two years while they submit-and an additional year while the FDA reviews-a new tobacco product application. (cigaraficionado.com)
- In an industry where new products are an important part of the market, product verification and government approval prior to release would radically slow the process of getting new product to store shelves, as well as adding to the cost of business. (cigaraficionado.com)
- The source of this is the tobacco industry which sells and promotes an addictive product. (freshne.com)
- Perhaps no other product is regulated in so many ways, or by so many agencies, as tobacco products. (rjrt.com)
- Tasks listed include "Restore Smoker Confidence," "Reverse Health Perception," "Establish/Maintain/Exploit Smoker Clubs," "Resist Smoking Restriction" and others. (sourcewatch.org)
- New Delhi has for the first time asked the top court to classify tobacco as "res extra commercium", a Latin phrase meaning "outside commerce," according to a Reuters review of previously unreported court filing by the health ministry on 8 January. (livemint.com)
- It will be a fillip to this drive against tobacco," said government lawyer R. Balasubramanian, who is acting on behalf of the ministry of health in pursuing the designation. (livemint.com)
- Tobacco is not destructive to health. (livemint.com)
- The manufacture, use, and marketing of tobacco present a serious threat to children's right to health. (aappublications.org)
- Health Assembly resolution 54.18, which urges Member States to be aware of affiliations between the tobacco industry and members of their delegations, and urges WHO and Member States to be alert to any efforts by the tobacco industry to continue its subversive practice and to assure the integrity of health policy development in any WHO meeting and in national governments. (who.int)
- The federal agency released the independent review on Tuesday and is seeking input from the health community, the tobacco industry and others on possible restrictions on the mint-flavored cigarettes. (yahoo.com)
- It is seeking input from the health community, the tobacco industry and others on possible restrictions on the minty smokes. (cnbc.com)
- In fact, the problem is so alarming that the World Health Assembly approved nine voluntary global targets to help decrease tobacco prevalence by 30% among people older than 15 by 2025. (forbes.com)
- As with any emerging industry, it is important that government and health organizations make a quick and calculated decision to help reduce harmful activities. (forbes.com)
- After joining the World Health Organization's efforts to stop tobacco use in 2004, smoking in Japan became much more difficult, but it is not illegal. (wisegeek.com)
- For the sake of the public's health, we hope this suit is the last gasp of an industry that has a long, sorry history of pretending to market only to adults while surreptitiously targeting young people. (nytimes.com)
- These bills will help to keep tobacco out of the hands of our youth while also helping to increase the overall health and wellness of Californians. (latimes.com)
- He was both a boardroom Director of the tobacco industry's Verband and its Research Director at a time when the Verband was actively involved in creating misleading scientific papers and circulating disinformation about the health consequences of passive smoke ( ETS or Environmental Tobacco Smoke). (sourcewatch.org)
- This article explores the potential for the TPPA to constrain Australia's national health policy space through two illustrative case studies: tobacco plain packaging and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). (mja.com.au)
- And there should be one, but the terms, aside from protecting people's health, should impose harsh financial penalties on a deceitful industry. (dailypress.com)
- More money is spent advertising tobacco than any drug-an estimated $15 billion per year, 15 almost half of what the National Institutes of Health spends each year to study all aspects of health ( www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm ). (aappublications.org)
- Health concerns, which have fostered legal and regulatory pressures, limit the growth prospects of this mature industry. (valueline.com)
- Concerns regarding the health effects of tobacco usage have led to a steady decline in demand in the developed world. (valueline.com)
- The Supreme Court of Canada today unanimously decided that if the tobacco industry is forced to pay damages to the BC government for tobacco-related health care costs, the federal government will not be required to reimburse the tobacco industry for those damages. (cancer.ca)
- The BC government has filed a lawsuit against the tobacco industry for billions of dollars in compensation for health care costs attributed to smoking. (cancer.ca)
- The Canadian Cancer Society praised the Supreme Court judgment, noting that it will also assist other provincial governments seeking compensation from the tobacco industry for health care costs. (cancer.ca)
- The Society has for many years urged provincial governments to sue the tobacco industry for tobacco-related health care costs. (cancer.ca)
- This industry has long tried to shift the blame to others for the enormous health burden caused by smoking, but the Supreme Court has rejected industry arguments. (cancer.ca)
- The first attempts to respond to the health consequences to tobacco use followed soon after the introduction of tobacco to Europe. (wikipedia.org)
- This support is clearly not a sincere reflection of industry concern for the health of children. (courierpress.com)
- The Tobacco Atlas, Fifth Edition ("The Atlas"), and its companion mobile app and website TobaccoAtlas.org, were unveiled today by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation at the 16th World Conference on Tobacco or Health. (healthcanal.com)
- The latest Monitoring the Future Study, an annual report on nationwide teenage drug, tobacco, and alcohol use by the University of Michigan and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, showed that tobacco use among the nation's 8th graders may be leveling off or even declining. (edweek.org)
- The process for revision took over five years, and was beset by controversy, amid claims of tobacco industry interference, forcing the resignation of the Health Commissioner John Dalli and being described as "the most lobbied dossier in the history of EU institutions. (bath.ac.uk)
- At all times, the tobacco industry has slavishly adhered to the health establishment's dogmas of the primary emphasis on blaming lifestyle and chemical carcinogenesis, and its hostility to the infection hypothesis. (smokershistory.com)
- From marketing to underage tobacco prevention, from industry lobbying to communications about the health consequences of smoking, the agreements impose restrictions on the Participating Manufacturers. (altria.com)
- A group of America's leading health organisations is now demanding that any movie that depicts smoking or tobacco use should come with an "R" (restricted) rating. (health24.com)
- By voluntarily implementing policies that require R ratings for smoking, the film industry can avert 1 million tobacco deaths among today's children, according to estimates from the CDC," the coalition of health groups said in the statement. (health24.com)
- The revised R rating guidelines spelled out in the letter would apply to all movies with smoking except those that "exclusively portray actual people who used tobacco [as in documentaries or biographical dramas] or that depict the serious health consequences of tobacco use," the coalition said. (health24.com)
- For example, we have raised awareness about our strategic goals, extended critical outreach to important groups and provided trainings at regional and national Synar workshops, the National Conference on Tobacco or Health and the Food & Drug Law Institute Conference . (fda.gov)
- In the meantime, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week that it will attempt to impose "broad restrictions" on tobacco advertising, including restricting ads to black and white, text-only formats with at least half the space devoted to "graphic health warnings. (californiahealthline.org)
- The World Health Organization considers smoke-free laws to have an influence to reduce demand for tobacco by creating an environment where smoking becomes increasingly more difficult and to help shift social norms away from the acceptance of smoking in everyday life. (thefullwiki.org)
- It underscores the seriousness of tobacco use, its relationship to other adolescent problem behaviors, and the responsibility of all citizens to protect the health of our children. (cdc.gov)
- Both the duration and the amount of tobacco use are related to eventual chronic health problems. (cdc.gov)
- Over 60,000 people nationwide have now put their names to a national Government consultation on whether plain, standardised packaging of tobacco would make packs less attractive to young people and make the damage to health much more obvious. (freshne.com)
- A Federal Court has ordered R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Philip Morris USA, Altria, and Lorillard to make this statement about the health effects of smoking. (rjrt.com)
- Read our story, 'Despite Heat on Tobacco Producers, Some Schools Still Permit Smoking,' Oct. 29, 1997. (edweek.org)
- We've never argued that vaping is harmless, but we do point to international research that confirms it's 95% less harmful than tobacco. (scoop.co.nz)
- Bills H.R. 662 and S. 441, exempting premium cigars and pipe tobacco, continue to gain co-sponsors as we pursue a legislative solution to unneeded and harmful government intrusion. (cigaraficionado.com)
- I feel strongly that the Government needs to do more to protect young people from the harmful effects of tobacco marketing. (freshne.com)
- A Federal Court has ordered R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Philip Morris USA, Altria, and Lorillard to make this statement about low tar and light cigarettes being as harmful as regular cigarettes. (rjrt.com)
- While tobacco use prevalence among males has been very high in the Russian Federation for the last 50 years, it has increased during the economic transition following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. (biomedcentral.com)
- Progress made in de-normalizing smoking may be reversed by the increasing prevalence of e-cigarettes and other alternative tobacco products. (healthcanal.com)
- Cairo, 29 May, 2013 - The Global Youth Tobacco Survey found high levels of exposure in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to advertising on billboards and in newspapers and magazines. (who.int)
- In addition, exposure to PG-13- and R-rated movies at an early age may be a major factor in the onset of adolescent tobacco and alcohol use. (aappublications.org)
- The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a ban on all tobacco advertising in all media, limitations on alcohol advertising, avoiding exposure of young children to substance-related (tobacco, alcohol, prescription drugs, illegal drugs) content on television and in PG-13- and R-rated movies, incorporating the topic of advertising and media into all substance abuse-prevention programs, and implementing media education programs in the classroom. (aappublications.org)
- Much more is also known about programs and policies that encourage nonsmoking behavior among adults and protect nonsmokers from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. (cdc.gov)
- Such policies might be undermined by the to- posure to retail tobacco marketing encourages youth smoking bacco industry's increased marketing of products with ambiguous flavor descriptions. (cdc.gov)
- The tobacco flavor remains "pure" because indirect fired air heaters do not contaminate the airstream with the by-products of combustion. (newswiretoday.com)
- The industry started lowering the tar in cigarettes to create a smoother flavor. (brightkite.com)
- The Food and Drug Administration issued a call Tuesday for more information about flavored cigars and electronic cigarettes, which currently have no flavor restrictions. (nydailynews.com)
- The documents and interviews suggest that the tobacco industry continues to conduct a sophisticated campaign against conclusions that second-hand smoke causes lung cancer and other diseases, subverting normal scientific processes. (nih.gov)
- This campaign illustrates a telling weakness of the tobacco lobby. (csmonitor.com)
- Leno's previous bill, which would have designated electronic cigarettes as tobacco products, was gutted and blocked July 8 in the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee, which is dominated by business-friendly members who have accepted large amounts of campaign contributions from the tobacco industry. (latimes.com)
- And when the country's small but active anti-smoking movement persuaded parliament to pass a ban on tobacco ads, the industry responded with a well-financed lobbying campaign that recently overturned the ban. (washingtonpost.com)
- In that same can-do spirit of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," the Sugar Association industry lobby has stepped up its campaign to convince Americans and their government that sugar is good for us. (newsobserver.com)
- I believe the UK should follow Australia's lead and require all tobacco products to be sold in plain packaging and that is why I am supporting this campaign. (freshne.com)
- So far in Tanzania, there are no national tobacco programs targeting urban and rural communities. (biomedcentral.com)
- Starting in 1989, labor and human rights activists began calling attention to the use of children in Malawian tobacco production. (wikipedia.org)
- In 2010, the rainfall patterns were not favorable to tobacco growing. (wikipedia.org)
- The then-governor of Colorado (2003), Bill Owens, was identified in the document as "a friendly member of the House Local Government Committee (consistently favorable to tobacco interests)" who could "offer a substitute bill with desireable provisions with a good chance of having it adopted and passed out of committee. (sourcewatch.org)
- Under the new law, Chadwick said local governments aren't allowed to pass their own age restriction policies. (khou.com)
- Because the industry's illicit trade estimates cannot be trusted, governments need to seek for other rigorous and industry-independent estimates. (tobaccoatlas.org)
- as a result, governments of developing countries may be under an illusion that tobacco is benefiting the economy when the reverse is true. (corpwatch.org)
- But governments in the South often find it hard to tackle the powerful tobacco industry with multi-million marketing budgets. (corpwatch.org)
- Provincial governments are to be congratulated for their leadership and determination in taking on the tobacco industry," adds Cunningham. (cancer.ca)
- The evidence is mounting that e-cigarettes help people quit smoking, so why do state and local governments keep banning them or regulating them like tobacco products? (dailynews.com)
- Law - the industry uses lawyers and front groups to aggressively lobby for pro-industry measures, influence the political and legislative process, and intimidate governments with the threat of litigation. (who.int)
- To understand the tobacco industry's strategy on the IARC study we analysed industry documents released in US litigation and interviewed IARC investigators. (nih.gov)
- The industry estimates 45.7 million people in India depend on tobacco for their living. (livemint.com)
- India is a tobacco growing country and there's a need to look at the interest of those people who are already in the sector," Poovayya said. (livemint.com)
- NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Cincinnati, OH, United States, 2011/07/19 - In 2000, the United Nations' Food and Agricultural Organization estimated that there are 2298.8, 595.4 and 520.7 thousand tons of tobacco produced in China, India and Brazil, respectively - StelterBrinck.com . (newswiretoday.com)
- The five largest tobacco producers are China 3.16mt, US 0.76mt, Brazil 0.58mt, India 0.58mt and Turkey 0.32mt, Between them they account for nearly two-thirds of global output. (corpwatch.org)
- This compares unfavorably even with the highly exploitative agricultural practices of Brazil and India, which formally prohibit children under the age of 18 from working on tobacco farms. (wsws.org)
- The increasingly restrictive retail environment for tobacco products, especially the ban on advertising, has seen leading international brands Marlboro, Camel, L&M, Pall Mall and Lucky Strike claim a growing share of retail volume sales during the review period. (euromonitor.com)
- Nevertheless, chewing and smoking tobacco became increasingly popular. (thefreedictionary.com)
- Rigorous enforcement of Providence, Rhode Island's flavored tobacco re- strictions and price discounting resulted in increased citations of policy vi- of e-cigarettes is attributed, in part, to the sale of these products in olations over 2 years. (cdc.gov)
- Lack of sustained funding for the first city in the United States to restrict tobacco price discount- enforcement has been challenging. (cdc.gov)
- This is of concern because the 2012 Surgeon General's Report found that industry-supported "youth access bills" have contained provisions that undermined efforts to prevent youth from starting to use tobacco products, such as local preemption of stricter policies and weak enforcement requirements. (ishn.com)
- Rather than being a purely grassroots movement that arose spontaneously in 2009, the Tea Party developed in part as a result of tobacco industry efforts to oppose smoking restrictions and tobacco taxes beginning in the 1980s, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco. (ucsf.edu)
- 104 countries, 77 of them developing countries, produced 8.043 million tonnes (mt) of tobacco in 1992. (corpwatch.org)
- From 1976 to 1992 Prof. Adlkofer worked for various industries, including the tobacco industry. (sourcewatch.org)
- 2608, 120 L. Ed. 2d 407 (1992), was the first case in which a former smoker recovered monetary damages against the U.S. tobacco industry. (thefreedictionary.com)
- Tobacco industry interference has been particularly strong against efforts to increase tobacco taxes. (who.int)
- The Philip Morris tobacco company feared that the study (and a possible IARC monograph on second-hand smoke) would lead to increased restrictions in Europe so they spearheaded an inter-industry, three-prong strategy to subvert IARC's work. (nih.gov)
- Dolphin CEO Lee Stitzenberger used a half-million dollars from Philip Morris to put up a fascia grouping called "Californians for Statewide Smoking Restrictions. (brightkite.com)
- Philip Morris International, through its Mexican subsidiary, continues to be the leading company in tobacco. (euromonitor.com)
- A Federal Court has ordered R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Philip Morris USA, Altria, and Lorillard to make these statements . (rjrt.com)
- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Philip Morris USA, Altria, and Lorillard intentionally designed cigarettes to make them more addictive. (rjrt.com)
- Una Corte Federal ha ordenado a R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Philip Morris USA, Altria, y Lorillard a realizar la siguiente declaración sobre los efectos del tabaquismo para la salud. (rjrt.com)
- In 2001 the Supreme Court overturned rules in Massachusetts prohibiting outdoor advertising of tobacco products within 1,000 feet of schools and playgrounds because, while aimed at protecting children, the restrictions interfered unduly with messages aimed at adults. (nytimes.com)
- While roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco dominates, make-your-own (MYO) tobacco has become more popular, accounting for around one quarter of retail volume sales in 2016. (euromonitor.com)