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New Evidence re Smoking in Movies

paid to "place" Marlboro cigarettes and signage in the first and second "Superman" movies ...
Until now, little evidence has supported the theory that tobacco companies use movies as advertising vehicles ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...

Seeks Protection From Congress

And proposed penalties for failure to cut teen smoking , though innovative, remain wimpy ...
The White House supposedly will make its position clear soon after ...
Now will Washington politicians have the courage to insist on something better for all Americans? Big tobacco ...
Now big tobacco is looking to Congress to pass a global bailout which will prevent other states from holding the cigarette companies accountable for the harm they have caused and reveal more of the truth hidden in the secret ...
And it poured nearly $ 2 million into party coffers in the first six months of this year -- almost 500% more than in the last comparable period ...

Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

As now proposed, the industry can deduct the cost of the settlement, sticking the taxpayers with roughly one-third of the tab ...
Sussman thinks designers of smoking cessation programs should accommodate young smokers' lifestyles ...
No wonder the industry wants the administration and Congress to rubber-stamp a national settlement that would halt most pending lawsuits, supersede state settlements and limit the companies' future liability ...

White House Fighting Uphill On Cig Tax Hike

Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
Cigarette companies raised prices by 45 cents a pack to pay for the settlement with the states, driving the ...
Now will Washington politicians have the courage to insist on something better for all Americans? Big tobacco ...
Now big tobacco is looking to Congress to pass a global bailout which will prevent other states from holding the cigarette companies accountable for the harm they have caused and reveal more of the truth hidden in the secret ...
The White House still hopes to enact federal tobacco legislation that would strengthen regulation of cigarettes while also raising money to pay for anti- smoking campaigns, particularly those aimed at teen -agers ...

Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

As secret documents began to be released and top tobacco executives were deposed, the tobacco companies caved in to Florida's public health demands and settled the case ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path ...

Smoking By Kids Up - Again!

As secret documents began to be released and top tobacco executives were deposed, the tobacco companies caved in to Florida's public health demands and settled the case ...
While the much-touted national settlement affirms Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate nicotine as a drug, other language could curb the FDA's ability to push for development of safer cigarettes -- possibly forever ...
Congressional hearings on the proposed settlement resume after Labor Day ...
Young people ages 16 to 24 interviewed across Southern California say it was often someone in their family who led them down that road, usually a relative they wanted to emulate, or a friend ...
But it was the sharp rise in black youths' smoking rates, which other studies showed to have dropped sharply in the 1970's and 1980's, that experts found most troubling ...

President Pressures Industry on Radio

Ari Fleischer, spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee, reacted skeptically to the administration proposal, saying it was a part of a pattern of taxing and spending that was likely to meet strong opposition on Capitol Hill ...
Now will Washington politicians have the courage to insist on something better for all Americans? Big tobacco ...
President Clinton is stepping up pressure on cigarette makers to go along with a tough Senate bill to protect children and teen -agers from the ``cruel and deadly lure of smoking ...

Why Teenagers Smoke, and Quit

Teen s have their own issues, their own persuasion trigger points, their own pressures ...
We saw parents building futures where their children will be free from want, free from injustice, free from disease, and free to go as far as their God-given talents will allow ...
And it poured nearly $ 2 million into party coffers in the first six months of this year -- almost 500% more than in the last comparable period ...
Congressional hearings on the proposed settlement resume after Labor Day ...
The money would also help offset $100 billion in proposed new Pentagon spending over the next six years ...

EXPERTS BAFFLED BY RISE IN TEEN SMOKING

And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...
The three girls are 14 years old -- they look not a day older -- and have been smoking cigarettes since they were 10 ...
Clinton's comments today closed out a topsy-turvy week of action and threats on Capitol Hill, where the Senate ...
They also are expected to argue that while $206 billion sounds like a large sum, a substantial portion of the proceeds will pay attorneys' fees and the remainder will not cover all the health-care costs ...

Truth TV Ads Continue to Successfully Educate Teens on the Dangers of Smoking

The First Lady and I have just returned, exhausted but exhilarated, from our trip to Africa ...
Some young smokers say they have no intention of quitting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which raised the price of cigarettes by 50 cents a pack, may make them cut back on the amount they smoke ...
Although running scared from some courtrooms, Big Tobacco's persistence and deviousness are alive and thriving ...
Ari Fleischer, spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee, reacted skeptically to the administration proposal, saying it was a part of a pattern of taxing and spending that was likely to meet strong opposition on Capitol Hill ...
The methodology: TV advertising created with the intent of having a credible message that taps into the "in" crowd and tries to make it cool to be anti- smoking ...