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A Closer Look at the FTC's Cigar Report

Congress should enact legislation mandating health warnings on cigar labeling and advertising and prohibiting cigars ads on television and radio, a Federal Trade Commission report released today states ...
The FTC produced the report on the cigar industry's 1996 and 1997 sales and advertising and promotion expenditures in response to the dramatic increase in U ...
There also were substantial increases reported in almost every category of advertising and promotional spending for the same time period: conventional advertising (51 percent); magazine advertising (49 percent); and newspaper advertising ...
cigar consumption and increasing concern among health authorities about the risks of cigar smoking ...
The agency's recommendation would require cigars be subject to the same statutory scheme as cigarettes and smokeless tobacco ...

Movie Stars Smoking On Screen Encourages Teen Smoking

They then re-interviewed teens three years later, to see how many had started smoking ...
The researchers reviewed the stars' movies during the past 3 years, and counted them as smokers if they puffed during at least two films ...
When Pierce and his team first contacted teens in 1996, the most popular stars among teen girls were Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock and Leonardo DiCaprio ...

The women's cancer you don't know about

No one knows if my occasional smoking caused my cancer, but in my darkest moments I do blame myself ...
The agency has collected and publicly reported similar information from the cigarette industry since the 1960s and from the smokeless tobacco industry since the mid-1980s ...
They encouraged that indulgence, and I felt reasonably sane for the first time in days ...
Or they dragged me outside, in the cold, harsh light of day, to walk in the park ...
In 2000, I made a pact with a friend at work; we both quit for about a year ...