• Tobacco watchdogs first became concerned after the publication of one of the Paris preprints, which floated the hypothesis that nicotine might have a protective effect against covid-19. (bmj.com)
  • A neuroscience celebrity and specialist in nicotine receptors, the retired Collège de France professor Jean-Pierre Changeux has a history of receiving funding from the most infamous tobacco industry front group, the Council for Tobacco Research, whose purpose was to fund research that would cast doubt on the dangers of smoking and focus on the positive effects of nicotine. (bmj.com)
  • Since then Farsalinos has championed the "nicotine hypothesis" in a dozen preprints and articles, as well as in tobacco industry circles such as the Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum. (bmj.com)
  • In September 2020 he was a speaker in a panel on "the role of nicotine in the fight against covid-19" alongside the director of scientific research for British American Tobacco, which manufactures Lucky Strike cigarettes. (bmj.com)
  • With half of all tobacco users dying prematurely, the maintenance of the tobacco and nicotine market relies heavily on recruiting new, young users, and tobacco companies employ multiple tactics to gain the trust and interest of young people at an early age. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • Moreover, the production and use of tobacco and nicotine products have a cascading damaging effect on other critical issues such as the environment, mental health, and child labor. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • A novelty device then, it consisted of ingesting nicotine through a battery-powered vaporiser instead of burning tobacco. (indiatimes.com)
  • But many Democrats in Congress have long opposed unregulated vaping devices, which leave out tobacco itself and its carcinogens and instead vaporize a flavored liquid containing nicotine, which is derived from tobacco. (observer.com)
  • However, there is no doubt that she has strong views on issues related to nicotine, tobacco, snus, e-cigarettes and tobacco companies. (vejpkollen.se)
  • Tobacco companies manipulate the sensory characteristics of cigarettes, including menthol content, thereby facilitating smoking initiation and nicotine dependence. (aphapublications.org)
  • In fact, the tobacco industry example, a tobacco farmer who plants, cultivates, and contributes an estimated 84 megatons of carbon dioxide harvests tobacco may absorb as much nicotine per day to the annual greenhouse gas and destroys around 3.5 as found in 50 cigarettes ( 3 ). (who.int)
  • Menthol takes a particularly significant toll on the health of African Americans because of the tobacco industry's long history of aggressively marketing menthol to the African American community. (smokefreecapital.org)
  • The tobacco industry's longstanding links with African American leaders could be interpreted as representing a laudable commitment to civil rights causes, as the industry claims. (bmj.com)
  • Understanding the emergence of the tobacco industry's use of the term tobacco harm reduction in order to inform public health policy. (trc.or.th)
  • Recognizing the tobacco industry's relentless efforts to market its products to vulnerable groups, especially young people, WHO is committed to expose the industry's attempts to weaken health policies and call on policy makers to stand firm against tobacco industry influence. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • Since the 1990s, in line with the industry's corporate social responsibility agenda, tobacco companies, to varying degrees, have espoused what they define as 'appropriate regulation' of their products. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • These country profiles, prepared by the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control, discuss tobacco production (cultivation and curing), marine pollution and waste management costs, tobacco's environmental harms, deaths from tobacco, economic losses from tobacco, the tobacco industry's so-called corporate social responsibility and recommendations on how tobacco companies should pay for their pollution in countries across all six WHO regions. (who.int)
  • The industry's aggressive marketing tactics and the widespread belief in the benefits of sunscreen seem to parallel the big tobacco movement of the 1960s when smoking was heavily promoted and even considered fashionable. (medium.com)
  • In January 1993, the Texas Department of Health conducted a study in the Austin metropolitan area (1990 population: 781,572) to assess 1) minors' access to tobacco products (including smokeless tobacco) not sold in vending machines and 2) tobacco vendors' compliance with the sign ordinance. (cdc.gov)
  • Smokeless tobacco causes cancers of the oral cavity, tobacco and snuff). (cdc.gov)
  • where use of smokeless tobacco is especially common. (cdc.gov)
  • Smokeless tobacco use causes cancers of the oral cavity, smoking every day or some days. (cdc.gov)
  • Current smokeless tobacco esophagus, and pancreas. (cdc.gov)
  • Smokeless tobacco use varies by age, users were defined as respondents who reported having used sex, and education. (cdc.gov)
  • Although current cigarette smoking among working adults was significantly lower in 2010 (19.1%) than in 2005 (22.2%), the both current cigarette smokers and smokeless tobacco users. (cdc.gov)
  • Some kids have turned to smokeless tobacco or electronic cigarettes . (medlineplus.gov)
  • Smokeless tobacco ("chew") is addictive and has almost 30 cancer-causing chemicals. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The state was graded in four categories: spending on programs to prevent and control tobacco use statewide smoking restrictions tax levied on cigarettes payment for medications and counseling for Medicaid patients and state employees who are trying to quit smoking Alabama ranked right at the bottom in all four categories. (wikipedia.org)
  • Menthol cigarettes, along with other sweet, fruity and candy flavors in tobacco products, are used by the tobacco industry as a starter kit for kids. (smokefreecapital.org)
  • The increased risks associated with mentholated tobacco use led the NAACP to recently recommend that the FDA ban menthol in cigarettes. (smokefreecapital.org)
  • This aggressive strategy contributes significantly to LGBTQIA+ people using tobacco, including menthol cigarettes, at higher rates than people who are cisgender and straight. (smokefreecapital.org)
  • Yesterday , the Supreme Court ruled in Altria Group v. Good that the federal cigarette labeling statute does not preempt claims that tobacco companies violated state consumer protection laws in their marketing of light cigarettes. (typepad.com)
  • Today we know that tobacco causes 25% of all cancers and kills over 8 million people each year, but the industry persists with marketing what they call 'new' and 'safer' products that we know are harmful to health, while still producing trillions of cigarettes each year. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • This report describes the results of efforts in two states -- Missouri and Texas -- to characterize access of minors to cigarettes and other tobacco products. (cdc.gov)
  • The health department obtained a list of licensed tobacco vendors (excluding stores that sold cigarettes through vending machines only) from the Texas Department of the Treasury for the city of Austin and four nearby rural communities. (cdc.gov)
  • As India cracks down on e-cigarettes, the vaping industry argues that its devices are far safer than cigarettes. (indiatimes.com)
  • Some studies have declared vaping as 95% safer than conventional cigarettes, since it does not contain tar and other harmful chemicals produced by burning tobacco. (indiatimes.com)
  • It is, however, a signatory to the World Health Organization 's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which calls upon countries to regulate the use of e-cigarettes or ban them altogether. (indiatimes.com)
  • On the face of it, the government's crackdown on e-cigarettes seems counter-intuitive, especially when its approach to limit the use of tobacco is greater regulation, not a complete clampdown. (indiatimes.com)
  • As for e-cigarettes, the caution in believing in its benefits over conventional counterparts seems to be driven by the precedents set by the global tobacco industry. (indiatimes.com)
  • In addition, tobacco merchants will test-smoke cigarettes manufactured with tobacco from the new varieties to make sure they deliver the desired flavor. (tobaccoreporter.com)
  • A convergence of interests among these four lies behind the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) announcement on May 5 that e-cigarettes will be regulated as rigorously as tobacco beginning in August. (observer.com)
  • Foes call e-cigarettes an enticement to children that could prove a "gateway" to tobacco. (observer.com)
  • Similarly, tobacco companies, left flat-footed by the growth of the upstart vaping market, also support the FDA rules as they look to shore up market positions in both tobacco and e-cigarettes. (observer.com)
  • We examined whether tobacco manufacturers manipulate the menthol content of cigarettes in an effort to target adolescents and young adults. (aphapublications.org)
  • The tobacco industry attracted new smokers by promoting cigarettes with lower menthol content, which were popular with adolescents and young adults, and provided cigarettes with higher menthol content to long-term smokers. (aphapublications.org)
  • 1 Most of these cigarettes contain imperceptible amounts of menthol (approximately 0.03% of cigarettes' tobacco weight), but tobacco companies promote specific brands as mentholated. (aphapublications.org)
  • He has not received any funding linked "directly or indirectly with the tobacco industry" since the 1990s, he assured us. (bmj.com)
  • In the early 1990s, a longtime tobacco industry consultant, Peter Lee, was hired by Philip Morris to write a review of the scientific literature. (emfacts.com)
  • Harvard's endowment was arguably political when the University decided to divest from the tobacco industry in the 1990s. (thecrimson.com)
  • Democrats' de facto alliance with tobacco and pharmaceutical industry interests began with several halting legislative efforts to regulate tobacco in the 1990s, and gained momentum under President Obama, who initially had a Democratic Congress to work with. (observer.com)
  • Hawaii does not earmark the money for tobacco control or related health programs. (starbulletin.com)
  • Disclaimer: The information and views set out on this website are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), the Parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products, or the Secretariat of the WHO FCTC. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization worried that decades of tobacco control could be undermined. (bmj.com)
  • The tobacco industry established relationships with virtually every African American leadership organisation and built longstanding social connections with the community, for three specific business reasons: to increase African American tobacco use, to use African Americans as a frontline force to defend industry policy positions, and to defuse tobacco control efforts. (bmj.com)
  • Helping groups anticipate such efforts, confront industry co-optation, and understand the hidden costs of accepting tobacco industry largesse should be part of worldwide tobacco control efforts. (bmj.com)
  • Although some have suggested that African Americans lack interest in tobacco control, 7 an increasing number of tobacco control programmes are being implemented by and for black communities. (bmj.com)
  • 4, 8 This paper analyses internal tobacco industry documents to show how deeply embedded ties between African American leadership groups and the industry normalise tobacco use and industry presence, influence African American voices in the tobacco control policy process, and obstruct or weaken tobacco control efforts. (bmj.com)
  • Opportunities for coverage of newly published research are limited when other tobacco control issues are 'live' and already gathering media attention. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • Tobacco control efforts often attract significant news media attention 8, 16-18 and aggregated news coverage sometimes outweighs even the most intensive exposure gained through paid anti-smoking campaigns. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • 19 Quit Victoria has estimated, for instance, that its 40 media mentions on average per week between January 2007 and December 2010 resulted in an additional 9,000 stories in the Australian media that mentioned smoking or tobacco control. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • Studies of news coverage of tobacco control issues often examine the tone of the story. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • The studies typically note a predominantly positive or neutral tone (in favour of tobacco control), and that stories that feature more pro-tobacco control sources tend to be more positive, and vice versa. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • What is the role of tobacco control advertising intensity and duration in reducing adolescent smoking prevalence Findings from 16 years of tobacco control mass media advertising in Australia. (trc.or.th)
  • The tobacco industry tries to interfere with countries' right to protect people's health by taking governments to court, or offering financial and in-kind incentives to be able to influence tobacco control policies, even at the upcoming WHO FCTC Conference of Parties. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • WHO supports countries in defending evidenced based tobacco control measures in the face of industry interference. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • There are 183 Parties to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that have committed to do this under the global health treaty. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • The tobacco industry invests enormous amounts of money in lobbying against tobacco control policies and funds organizations that promote its interests. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • If shown to be effective in one part of the world, tobacco control legislation is often replicated in other jurisdictions. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • Early examples in Australia of resistance to tobacco control measures relate to the introduction of restrictions on advertising 2-4 and later, health warnings on tobacco packages. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • The Conference of Parties to the WHO FCTC Article 5.3 has published guidelines that are designed to help governments protect themselves from tobacco industry interference in the development, implementation and enforcement of tobacco control legislation to protect public health. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • Authors: The Tobacco Control Senior Editorial Team (listed in alphabetical order): Joaquin Barnoya, Joanna Cohen, Coral Gartner, Lisa Henriksen, Sarah Hill, Ruth E. Malone, Richard O'Connor Tobacco Control has a normative focus: we strive to publish the best research that informs and advances public health and policy. (bmj.com)
  • In a landmark report on the economics of tobacco and tobacco control, the WHO and the US National Cancer Institute concluded that smoking costs the global economy more than $1 trillion yearly. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • They show how tobacco control, through heavy taxation can save lives while generating revenues for health and development. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • In 2009, the FDA won the power to regulate tobacco when Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. (observer.com)
  • May of Altria did not confirm such secret talks but said, regarding the 2009 legislation, "there was a variety of stakeholders from public health, tobacco control and manufacturers who gave input. (observer.com)
  • The first time that protection to achieve the public health goal, as WHO FCTC guidelines of nonsmokers was included as a exposure to SHS was not eliminated on protection from exposure major goal for a tobacco control and at best reduced (Siegel, 2002). (who.int)
  • FCTC), for implementing effective to the WHO FCTC recommended in tobacco control including cross- smoke-free public health policy and guidelines and others that partially do. (who.int)
  • These examples for tobacco control. (who.int)
  • It is therefore essential to step up tobacco control of the tobacco industry to "greenwash" their reputation action through the adoption of evidence-based policies and products by increasingly portraying their activities and effective implementation of these policies. (who.int)
  • As the tobacco industry expands its global reach, public health advocates should anticipate similar industry efforts to exploit the vulnerabilities of marginalised groups. (bmj.com)
  • Health advocates aiming to raise awareness of health issues by generating news coverage (which can in turn lead to support for and actual policy changes), 9 need a good understanding of how smokers receive, hear and see tobacco news, how the news media works, 8, 9 and how to attract media attention. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • An analysis of this news coverage attributed this predominately neutral coverage to robust efforts by public health advocates to counter tobacco industry misinformation. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • Meet the strange bedfellows against vaping: drug and tobacco companies, health advocates and Democratic lawmakers. (observer.com)
  • Vaping advocates say the cost of FDA approvals will bankrupt an industry that might vastly improve public health. (observer.com)
  • The BMJ can today also report on undisclosed financial links between certain scientific authors and the tobacco and e-cigarette industry in a number of covid research papers. (bmj.com)
  • This law requires cigarette sales outlets to post signs stating the illegality of tobacco product sales to persons aged less than 18 years and that merchants convicted for such violations can be fined a maximum of $200. (cdc.gov)
  • And I think I speak for most of us here that we used to be smokers at some point," he added, referring to the informal group of e-cigarette distributors called the India Vape Industry Association (InVIA), one balmy July afternoon. (indiatimes.com)
  • For all its overt anti-tobacco moves, the government continues to own about 28% stake in ITC, a company which accounts for nearly 85% of the cigarette market in India. (indiatimes.com)
  • Despite the economic power, exemplified by the sponsorship of the most expensive of sports, Formula 1 racing, the tobacco industry could not resist and, slowly, the cigarette is being banned from acceptable social habits all around the globe. (bvsalud.org)
  • Assessing tobacco regulation: moving beyond economists. (trc.or.th)
  • In these troubled economic times, as the nation is still trying to come to terms with the enormous damage done by the deregulation of the mortgage industry, the national mood is turning strongly toward greater regulation. (typepad.com)
  • 1 Conversely they say, regulation that gains the support of major tobacco companies is rarely likely to be a serious threat to the industry. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • regulation and disclosure of death, disease and disability" (WHO, exemptions, based on any other tobacco products and its contents, 2005). (who.int)
  • Professor McGowan has published six books that focus on variety of topics that included gambling, tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana. (bc.edu)
  • 12 Political lobbying is deemed to be particularly problematic in the case of tobacco, alcohol and gambling industries, and some political parties have adopted policies not to accept funds from such companies. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • This special edition of MonitorACT focuses on the alcohol industry and its intersection with the tobacco and ultra-processed food industries. (actbr.org.br)
  • Mariana Pinho e Victória Rabetim highlight the addictive substances added to these products in From tobacco to alcohol: the power of additives to addict new consumers. (actbr.org.br)
  • The newest trend in the alcohol industry is trying to adapt their products to the search for a healthier lifestyle. (actbr.org.br)
  • Pot shops could not sell tobacco or alcohol. (cannabisnews.com)
  • Therefore, while the tobacco is historically recent in the human history, alcohol is part of it since the beginning of humanity. (bvsalud.org)
  • Besides these aspects, while the health damages from tobacco are numerous, more direct and easily identified, the health damages caused by alcohol, in many ways, are indirect and more complex to be perceived by the population. (bvsalud.org)
  • An ounce of prevention : strategies for solving tobacco, alcohol, and drug problems / Don Cahalan. (who.int)
  • Centre for Combating Tobacco (CCT), Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo and Presidential Task Force on Drug Prevention, Sri Lanka. (who.int)
  • Hans Jürgen Eysenck , född 4 mars 1916 i Berlin , död 4 september 1997 i London , var en tyskfödd psykolog med huvuddelen av sin karriär i Storbritannien . (wikipedia.org)
  • Additional information av ailable at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/quest_data_ to 18.8% in mining industries, and by occupation from 1.3% related_1997_forward.htm . (cdc.gov)
  • 7 It is important to understand which tobacco issues are most likely to be covered across each of the different news media channels, 10, 11 the nature of the coverage 12, 13 and the role the information disseminated by the news media has in shaping smokers' beliefs, intentions and behaviours. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • The future of the tobacco industry depends on maintaining current users and recruiting new users to replace older smokers who quit or die from tobacco-related diseases. (aphapublications.org)
  • It is not known whether tobacco companies have systematically altered menthol content in brands to target and recruit new smokers. (aphapublications.org)
  • Member States can do so at the 27th session of ways that tobacco cultivation, production, distribution, the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the consumption, and post-consumer waste threaten the Parties, which will convene in November 2022 in Egypt. (who.int)
  • In addition to the more than 8 million lives lost to The tobacco industry contributes to climate change tobacco every year globally ( 2 ), this year's campaign reveals and reduces climate resilience by wasting resources and the risks tobacco cultivation poses to human health. (who.int)
  • Moreover, tobacco farmers may of tobacco on the environment should be of particular experience increased concentration of aluminum and importance to Member States in the EMR, given that arsenic in their blood due to exposure to pesticides used about 90% of all tobacco production is concentrated in in tobacco cultivation ( 3 ). (who.int)
  • An appeals court on Friday dealt a major blow to the government's attempt to hold the &to=http:// english.pravda.ru/economics/2001/11/09/20559.html ' target=_blank>tobacco industry accountable for decades of alleged deceit about the dangers of smoking, ruling the Justice Department can't seek $280 billion in penalties. (pravda.ru)
  • Smoke fags, save lives," encouraged Christopher Snowdon, director of lifestyle economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, an industry sponsored think tank supported by the tobacco industry. (bmj.com)
  • Den skarpaste debatten blev den över vilken roll genetik har för IQ -skillnader (se Intelligenskvot ), vilket ledde till att Eysenck slogs i ansiktet av en kvinnlig demonstrant under ett samtal vid London School of Economics . (wikipedia.org)
  • As we are mainly involved in the science/rights issue of the tobacco wars, we do not claim to be experts in tobacco economics. (forces.org)
  • Review and analysis of over 700 previously secret internal tobacco industry documents available on the internet. (bmj.com)
  • J. M. Kreslake collected and analyzed data from internal tobacco industry documents, coordinated laboratory analysis, and conducted the analysis on the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. (aphapublications.org)
  • When California voters in 2016 supported the legalization and decriminalization of cannabis, we did not anticipate children would become collateral damage from an improperly regulated industry that prioritizes profit over children's health…As a pediatrician, I urge the Senate and Gov. Gavin Newsom to place the priority of children's health over cannabis industry profits and support this bill without watering down its effectiveness. (gettingitrightfromthestart.org)
  • LA Times Editorial: Yes on Proposition 64 Posted by CN Staff on September 16, 2016 at 14:44:32 PT Los Angeles Times Editorial Source: Los Angeles Times California -- Six years ago California voters were asked to make recreational marijuana legal under state law and they declined to do so. (cannabisnews.com)
  • the approval and implementation people from exposure to SHS by In addition, the WHO FCTC has of smoke-free legislation should be law and not by means of voluntary provisions regarding il egal tobacco based on the fol owing principles agreements. (who.int)
  • The 2022 World No-Tobacco Day campaign focuses on In the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), tobacco's threat to the environment ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • Since Hawaii has raided money from its share of a federal lawsuit against tobacco companies, which was supposed to be used for health programs, state officials should consider returning some of the tax revenues for those purposes. (starbulletin.com)
  • However, tobacco and health education are still necessary. (starbulletin.com)
  • A decrease in tobacco sales would mean smaller tax assessments, but better health and quality of life for Hawaii's citizens. (starbulletin.com)
  • In 2008, a student group called Students Working Against Tobacco (SWAT) received $28,000 from the Alabama Department of Public Health to spread their message. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Youth Empowerment Program is a peer-teaching model that provides anti-tobacco messages to more than 58,000 teens according to Alabama's state health officer Don Williamson. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Auburn CARES Coalition and the Alabama Department of Public Health encourage young people to make healthy tobacco-free choices and for those using chewing tobacco to quit. (wikipedia.org)
  • The decision comes in the midst of a trial in U.S. District Court on the government's lawsuit contending that the industry knew about the health dangers of smoking but hid that information from the public. (pravda.ru)
  • The tobacco industry has been highly influential in the African American community for decades, providing funding and other resources to community leaders and emphasising publicly its support for civil rights causes and groups, while ignoring the negative health effects of its products on those it claims to support. (bmj.com)
  • The apparent generosity, inclusion, and friendship proffered by the industry extract a price from groups in the health of their members. (bmj.com)
  • Compared to other racial/ethnic groups, African Americans bear the greatest health burden from preventable tobacco related diseases, 1- 5 which kill approximately 45 000 African Americans yearly. (bmj.com)
  • To find out if the startling claim was true -- that Seitz "directed a 45M tobacco industry effort to hide health impacts of smoking" -- I called him at his apartment in Manhattan. (populartechnology.net)
  • 8 Australian adults are potentially exposed to a significant amount of tobacco-related news coverage and smoking has long been a leading health news focus in Australia. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • WHO 's campaign aims to amplify youth voices, expose tobacco industry tactics and increase public awareness on the need to defend health policies and protect the health of future generations. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • WHO stands with young people globally who have demanded governments protect them against a deadly industry that targets them with new harmful products while outright lying about the health impacts. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • We call on all countries to safeguard health policies from this deadly industry by not letting them have a seat at the policy-making table," said Dr Ruediger Krech, Director of Health Promotion, WHO . (hippocraticpost.com)
  • These tobacco tactics, when left unchecked, inflict immeasurable harm on public health. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • The sale of tobacco products to persons aged less than 18 years has been prohibited by law in Texas since September 1989 (Texas Health and Safety Code, Title 2, Sections 161.081-161.082). (cdc.gov)
  • Bruna Kulik Hassan analyzes the new "healthier life" trend brought on by the sugary and alcoholic drinks industries, which is incompatible with the health consequences caused by their products. (actbr.org.br)
  • Researchers at UCSF reviewing once-secret industry documents have detailed an elaborate effort by a leading tobacco company to raise doubts among doctors and public health officials about the well-established link between secondhand smoke and sudden infant death syndrome. (emfacts.com)
  • The analysis is based on once- confidential tobacco industry documents that were made public as a result of a landmark 1998 settlement of lawsuits brought by 46 states to pay for the costs of smoking-related health care. (emfacts.com)
  • Sullivan, who had no previous experience in SIDS research, had participated in tobacco industry efforts to downplay the health effects of secondhand smoke, the UCSF researchers show. (emfacts.com)
  • Tobacco is not just harming your health and the health of those around you but also damaging our environment. (who.int)
  • Throughout its lifecycle, tobacco pollutes the Earth and damages the health of people everywhere. (who.int)
  • Tobacco: Al the Facts, Legislation, and How it Affects Your Health. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • Health Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton says he along with stakeholders will be evaluating the call by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for heavy taxation on the tobacco industry. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • According to Tufton, Jamaica, which is a member of the WHO board, shares the concerns about the financial costs to treat tobacco-related illnesses and the associated cost to public health, globally and nationally. (cleartheair.org.hk)
  • The cannabis industry (is) putting profit before children's health by marketing… edibles that mimic kids' favorite candy, soda & snacks… It's time for the Legislature & the Governor to end this outrageous practice before more children are harmed. (gettingitrightfromthestart.org)
  • Before that, tobacco had been regulated by state and congressional measures, notably the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement under which states settled lawsuits against the tobacco industry over tobacco-related health-care costs. (observer.com)
  • Godshall said Altria "secretly negotiated" over the new regulatory regime with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a public health advocacy group that also publicly supported the legislation. (observer.com)
  • Does the measure put cannabis-industry profits ahead of public health? (cannabisnews.com)
  • We analyzed data from tobacco industry documents describing menthol product development, results of laboratory testing of US menthol brands, market research reports, and the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. (aphapublications.org)
  • What's worse, they want to be "in good" with "public health", and try to make pitiable "compromises" with an institution that must destroy their industry by mandate. (forces.org)
  • Numbers start to show economic losses, beyond health, due to tobacco, such as expenses from more and more costly treatments. (bvsalud.org)
  • Besides the undeniable economic power of the beverage industries, the social, cultural and religious aspects, all historical, render difficult the actions of health professionals in this area. (bvsalud.org)
  • among U.S. workers, especially those in certain industries (e.g., gov/cps/files/occupation%20codes.pdf , and ftp://ftp.cdc.gov/pub/health_ statistics/nchs/dataset_documentation/nhis/2008/naics_sectors_and_ mining) and occupations (e.g., construction and extraction) subsectors08.pdf . (cdc.gov)
  • Development Goals challenges Member States to impact not only on human health, but also on the envi- achieving the stipulated 30% reduction in tobacco use by ronment and the planet ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • Tobacco has an immensely pesticides results in several health effects, including birth uneven impact on different socioeconomic groups ( 6 ). (who.int)
  • Tobacco & health 1990 : the global war, proceedings of the Seventh World Conference on Tobacco and Health, 1st-5th April 1990, Perth, Western Australia / editors, Betty Durston, Konrad Jamrozik. (who.int)
  • Towards a smoke-free health service : report of a seminar, London, UK, on World's 2nd No-Tobacco Day, 31 May 1989. (who.int)
  • Engaging top-rung law firms and public relations agencies to develop sophisticated multi-faceted strategies to resist or weaken legislation, tobacco companies have invested considerable resources into influencing policy and political processes at local, national and global levels. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • The fallout from the failed 2008 legislation onto the cowardly Norfolk Virginia City Council which has gone from supporting smoking bans in Norfolk restaurants (October, 2007) to huge exceptions that only a tobacco executive could support. (gasp.org)
  • For more than 30 years, major tobacco companies have tried to present themselves as allies to LGBTQIA+ communities through representation in tobacco ads, sponsorship of Pride events, and financial support to HIV/AIDS organizations. (smokefreecapital.org)
  • In the process, they forged ties with organisations-including tobacco companies-that offered resources when allies were few. (bmj.com)
  • In the 20th century, tobacco companies in the US funded several "studies" claiming there was no link between smoking and cancer. (indiatimes.com)
  • The tobacco companies "have this strategy to exert a subtle but very important influence over the research. (emfacts.com)
  • Disclosure is not unprecedented: Last month, after intense pressure, University President Lawrence S. Bacow disclosed that Harvard's private investment in companies tied to the prison industry totalled $18,000 . (thecrimson.com)
  • Liberals work with tobacco companies to stop the vaping industry. (observer.com)
  • The 2009 law centralized the regulatory regime, allowing the FDA to impose costly requirements and marketing and advertising restrictions on tobacco companies. (observer.com)
  • This led to a multibillion-dollar industry, with companies marketing their products as essential for preventing skin cancer and premature aging. (medium.com)
  • I do not want tobacco companies making money off of me. (medlineplus.gov)
  • British American Tobacco (BAT)'s US bio-tech subsidiary, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), is developing a potential vaccine for COVID-19 - which is now undergoing preclinical testing. (technologynetworks.com)
  • Meanwhile, the UCSF report says, the tobacco industry has waged a long campaign to undermine research linking second- hand smoke with a variety of diseases, starting in the 1980s when the industry was fighting a proposal to ban smoking on commercial airlines. (emfacts.com)
  • The lung goodbye : tactics for counteracting the tobacco industry in the 1980s / Simon Chapman for AGHAST, a program of the International Organization of Consumers' Unions. (who.int)
  • The law, which went into effect in January 2001, makes it easier for the state's tobacco-enforcement unit to spot untaxed products. (starbulletin.com)
  • That is mainly due to the tobacco world's own internal lack of vision and unity, as well as short vision and parochial attitudes. (forces.org)
  • 12 While the amount of coverage may vary considerably across states/territories and across a given year, 12 one estimate put this exposure at one tobacco-related news article every week from 2001 to 2006-comparable with or higher than the level of paid advertising. (tobaccoinaustralia.org.au)
  • Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry, Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., July, 2001. (bc.edu)
  • and the intensive use of tobacco began only 200 years ago, in the last two centuries (the 19th and 20th centuries). (bvsalud.org)
  • In front of his peers, funders and potential future employers, other contributors posted messages accusing Siegel of taking money from the tobacco industry. (newscientist.com)
  • They try to discourage tobacco usage by working to create smoke-free environments and advocating an increase of tobacco taxes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The state funds community groups to educate people about the dangers of second-hand smoke and to encourage young people to reject tobacco use. (wikipedia.org)
  • Evaluation of the circumstances of her death and her medical history concluded that her death was from acute asthma due to environmental tobacco smoke at work. (gasp.org)
  • This death dramatizes the need to enact legal protections for workers in the hospitality industry from secondhand smoke. (gasp.org)
  • 100% Smoke-free environ- secondhand smoke exposure economical y viable alternatives to ments, not smoking rooms - The - The guidelines emphasise that tobacco. (who.int)
  • Smoke ring : the politics of tobacco / Peter Taylor. (who.int)
  • CONCLUSIONS: We found evidence of significant differences in the proportionate distribution of SARS-CoV-2 infection by occupation and industry among respondents in a multistate, population-based survey, highlighting the excess risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection borne by some worker populations, particularly those whose jobs require frequent or prolonged close contact with other people. (cdc.gov)
  • Tobacco destroys forests, harms the soil, This is the first time the Region will host this conference, making it an opportune platform for Member States to affects water supply, pollutes the air, and contributes to shed some light on the threat tobacco exacts on human other types of unsustainable environmental damage ( 2 ). (who.int)
  • The tobacco transformation plan aims to boost production without expanding the farmer base or laying claim to significantly more farmland (see interview with Minister of Agriculture Anxious Masuka ). (tobaccoreporter.com)
  • Maybe this fact, added to the evidence that there are only negative consequences to tobacco use, has helped to change people's habits, considering all the economic power of tobacco industries, which have always sponsored sports and leisure activities, like car races and cinema. (bvsalud.org)
  • To help the government achieve its objectives, the Tobacco Research Board (Kutsaga) (TRB) is developing improved seed varieties, innovating to reduce post-harvest losses and creating education programs for tobacco growers. (tobaccoreporter.com)
  • Tobacco growers are not always keen to plant trees on land that could be used for other crops. (tobaccoreporter.com)
  • The initiative with the schools has gotten a lot more traction than working directly with tobacco growers," says Magama. (tobaccoreporter.com)
  • In the spirit of the destruction of a time-honoured industry, antismoking operatives in the European Commission want to bankrupt the European tobacco growers by decreasing their subsidies. (forces.org)
  • The farmers and workers say the proposed cut of half their subsidies from 2010 will result in massive job losses across the industry. (forces.org)
  • Action Groups to Halt Advertising and Sponsorship by Tobacco. (who.int)
  • According to the Surgeon General, raising the price of tobacco products is one of the most effective strategies for preventing young people from starting, reducing the amount of tobacco used, and increasing the number of people who quit. (smokefreecapital.org)
  • We are extremely pleased that the appellate court agreed with our long-held belief that disgorgement is not an appropriate remedy," said Charles Blixt, executive vice president and general counsel of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco. (pravda.ru)
  • According to Seitz, the CEO of RJ Reynolds -- the tobacco company -- was on the board of Rockefeller University while Seitz was a full-time employee there. (populartechnology.net)
  • While it was opposed at the time by tobacco giants RJ Reynolds and Lorillard, it was publicly supported by Altria, the parent of Philip Morris, America's largest tobacco company-"to build a constructive working relationship" with the FDA, said an Altria spokesman, Brian May. (observer.com)
  • Youth groups around the world called on countries to "…adopt decisions that shield us from the manipulative practices of tobacco and related industries. (hippocraticpost.com)
  • Among adults age 35+ years, over 7,600 died as a result of tobacco use per year, on average, during 2000-2004. (wikipedia.org)
  • The editorial noted that until this case, the Supreme Court's recent rulings 'have made it harder for ordinary Americans to hold corporate wrongdoers accountable. (typepad.com)
  • Whatever the intended purposes, the normalised, pervasive presence of tobacco within African American communities has had deadly effects. (bmj.com)