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New Evidence re Smoking in Movies

And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out ...
Until now, little evidence has supported the theory that tobacco companies use movies as advertising vehicles ...

Seeks Protection From Congress

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 ...
Now big tobacco is looking to Congress to pass a global bailout which will prevent other states from holding the cigarette companies accountable for ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out ...
And proposed penalties for failure to cut teen smoking , though innovative, remain wimpy ...
Congressional hearings on the proposed settlement resume after Labor Day ...

Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

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 ...
No wonder the industry wants the administration and Congress to rubber-stamp a national settlement that would halt ...
Sussman thinks designers of smoking cessation programs should accommodate young smokers' lifestyles ...
Now will Washington politicians have the courage to insist on something better for all Americans? Big tobacco is afraid to have ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...

White House Fighting Uphill On Cig Tax Hike

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 ...
But the White House has long signaled its intention to seek more money from tobacco, and officials confirmed a report in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that Clinton will propose the tobacco tax, which is now at 24 cents, as part of a package of tax increases and loophole-closings that ...
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 ...
Now big tobacco is looking to Congress to pass a global bailout which will prevent other states from holding the cigarette companies accountable for ...

Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

The states are also likely to object to an attempt to claim any of the money they won from the tobacco companies, saying that the federal government had no role in the litigation that led to the settlement ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
The White House supposedly will make its position clear soon after ...
The new tax, if enacted, would raise $8 billion a year over the next five years and would be ...

Smoking By Kids Up - Again!

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 ...
As now proposed, the industry can deduct the cost of the settlement, sticking the taxpayers with roughly one-third of the tab ...
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 ...

President Pressures Industry on Radio

paid to "place" Marlboro cigarettes and signage in the first and second "Superman" movies ...
Just this week the Centers for Disease Control released a disturbing report that found that more than a third of teen agers in the United States now smoke, even though it's illegal ...
Let's remember -- this is not about politics or money, or seeking revenge against the tobacco industry ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...
An industry spokesman said the tobacco companies would vigorously contest the tobacco increase ...

Why Teenagers Smoke, and Quit

While white high school students smoke at nearly twice the rate of blacks, the gap has narrowed steadily in the 90's and some experts predict that it will close in the next decade ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
How can a teen be convinced to stop smoking --or persuaded never to take up the habit at all? Those questions became even more crucial last week, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that tobacco use among teen agers increased by nearly one-third in the last six years ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path to nicotine addiction ...

EXPERTS BAFFLED BY RISE IN TEEN SMOKING

Even though smoking is known to cause disease and early death, the growing number of teen smokers baffles experts seeking ways to stamp out cigarette and tobacco use among youth ...
Let's remember -- this is not about politics or money, or seeking revenge against the tobacco industry ...
The White House supposedly will make its position clear soon after ...
Above all, we need to put in place tough penalties that will cost the tobacco industry ...

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

As now proposed, the industry can deduct the cost of the settlement, sticking the taxpayers with roughly one-third of the tab ...
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 of treating tobacco-related illnesses ...
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 ...
Leveraging peer pressure is an important way to reach a demographic in which Chief Executive Cheryl Healton says ...