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Critics Say Flavored Smokes Cater to Kids

In a sense they are able to use their customers as guinea pigs to find out whether any of these things are toxic ...
Tobacco companies) don't have to tell the government the principal ingredients," Banzhaf told UPI ...
He said it is no coincidence Camel 's flavored blends appeared after the 1998 settlement that banned tobacco companies from marketing to young people ...
Banzhaf said that, like soft-drink manufacturers, tobacco companies try to secure brand loyalty at a young age ...

Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

A DRI-Wefa forecast released in January was based on expectations of fewer state tax increases, said Jim Diffley, group managing director at the Eddystone, Pennsylvania, firm ...
Advocates of tobacco bonds say they permit local governments faster access to the settlement funds while shifting the risk of default to investors ...

Big Tobacco Uses Unscrupulous Marketing Strategies

4 billion in municipal bonds, has sold all the tobacco settlement bonds it once owned, based on expectations they would lag other bonds ...
In a sense they are able to use their customers as guinea pigs to find out whether any of these things are toxic ...

The "Bidi Buzz" Continues

4 billion in municipal bonds, has sold all the tobacco settlement bonds it once owned, based on expectations they would lag other bonds ...
Tobacco companies) don't have to tell the government the principal ingredients," Banzhaf told UPI ...
The Marlboro Man and Joe Camel probably don't feel threatened, but an Indian cigarette that is wrapped in a leaf and sold in enough flavors to stock a modest candy store is building a Mid-South clientele ...

Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

Bidis are widely available in area tobacco stores, but a spot check failed to find them for sale at area convenience, grocery and other stores that sell tobacco products ...
That positive health news may have negative implications for investors in tobacco bonds ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...
The settlement was reached with the top four cigarette makers, including Philip Morris Inc ...
The payments, mandated by a 1998 legal settlement, are based on annual sales of cigarettes in the U ...

Two New Studies Show: Ads Get Kids to Smoke

Exposure to family and friends who smoked had only a small effect on whether these adolescents progressed toward smoking, increasing their chances by only 20 ...
Given all of the evidence that cigarette companies deliberately recruit and addict youth smokers, it is unconscionable to even consider granting these companies immunity ...

Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

This is the first longitudinal study to examine whether exposure to cigarette advertising and promotion actually causes children to ...
Thus, owning or being willing to use a tobacco promotional item tripled the risk of progression toward smoking ...

EXPERTS BAFFLED BY RISE IN TEEN SMOKING

Sussman thinks designers of smoking cessation programs should accommodate young smokers' lifestyles ...
Pierce and colleagues determined which of the adolescents had become susceptible to smoking, meaning that they now expressed a possible intention to smoke in the future ...

Regulate Tobacco Aiming Directly at Kids

Pierce and colleagues followed a large sample of California adolescents over a three-year period to determine which children started smoking and whether their initial exposure to cigarette advertising and promotions was related to the probability of starting to smoke ...
Theresa, and below them an assortment of American cigarette packs ...
Reynolds' Camel brand released in Poland, which featured a carload of smiling teenagers smoking cigarettes ...

Industry Bankruptcy Threat May Be a Bluff

though it has declined over time, says Clive Bates, director of London-based ASH, or Action on Smoking and Health ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
tobacco companies are marketing directly to children, Palmer produced a recent advertisement for R ...
taxpayers, should not be a part of any deal to underwrite or subsidize the export of deadly products overseas,'' said Durbin, who as a congressman ...
But if that conjures up images of Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man rushing into bankruptcy court, don't hold your breath ...