tobacco market

Read What the Judge Ruled, Then See The Docs Themselves

While the Liggett documents have been the focus of media attention, Gentry said the ``youth documents'' ordered released by Special Master William Rutter will be more damaging ...
Indeed, objective readers can now see for themselves that these documents are not even material to the case at hand, let ...
More specifically, Plaintiffs argue ( and attached persuasive exhibits to its motion) that the Tobacco Institute sought to create a public perception of not wanting youth to smoke in order to ...
If the survey produced adverse results, there was a danger that it could fall into the hands of ...

Why Do U Subsidize the Tobacco Industry?

They're targeting me,'' said the ranking Democrat on the agriculture subcommittee to the Appropriations Committee ...
Porter law firm memorandum regarding a possible public survey to show no need for stronger labelling on ...
said it believed the Liggett documents did not ``remotely fit the description accorded them by the plaintiffs ...
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is smoking mad at the tobacco industry, and is lighting up an effort to fight back against an aggressive industry advertising campaign opposed to higher federal taxes on cigarettes ...
She has introduced a bill to eliminate the tax deductibility of such ad campaigns, though she acknowledged the bill may never get a hearing ...

States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales

If the returns were unfavorable, they could be destroyed and there would be no record in any office ...
The ads, paid for by an informal coalition of cigarette companies, urge citizens to call or write their congressional representatives to protest plans in Washington to raise taxes on cigarettes ...
By 2005, Internet tobacco sales in the United States could exceed $5 billion and states could lose about $1 ...

Big Tobacco Uses Unscrupulous Marketing Strategies

In Illinois, the state boosted cigarette taxes by 40 cents to a total of 98 cents a pack ...
Our Internet search efforts identified 147 Web site addresses for Internet cigarette vendors based in the United States ...

Learn Why This Session Could Be The Most Important

After having considered argument of counsel, the motion and exhibits attached thereto and having reviewed in-camera the documents which are the subject matter of the motion, the following Report and Recommendation is hereby submitted ...
This session, however, could be the most important one of the Conference since it is designed to influence President Clinton's decision regarding the proposed US tobacco deal, and ultimately the deal itself ...
None of the Web sites posted information that indicated the vendors complied with the Jenkins Act,'' the ...
In Illinois, the state boosted cigarette taxes by 40 cents to a total of 98 cents a pack ...

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Wants Big Tobacco to Run Ads Admitting They Misled Smokers

Porter law firm memorandum regarding a possible public survey to show no need for stronger labelling on ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission wants tobacco companies to run advertisements admitting they may have misled and deceived smokers by using the words mild and light on cigarette packets ...
Hatai Chitanondh, Thailand Health Promotion Institute, The National Health Foundation Stephen L ...

ASH Quoted As 2 MI Companies Announce Non-Smoking Policies for Employees

After having considered argument of counsel, the motion and exhibits attached thereto and having reviewed in-camera the documents which are the subject matter of the motion, the following Report and Recommendation is hereby submitted ...
Kalamazoo Valley Community College now refuses to hire smokers for full-time positions ...
The Conference organizers have agreed, and the special session is now scheduled for Wednesday, August 27th ...
Pointing to rising health care costs, two Michigan employers this month announced policies that make non-smoking a job requirement ...
an Okemos-based health benefits administrator, deems tobacco use a firing offense ...

Two New Studies Show: Ads Get Kids to Smoke

Pierce is unable to be here to present his study, but asked me to present the study for him ...
Officials in California estimated a tax loss of approximately $13 million from May, 1999 through September, 2001 because of the failure of Internet cigarette vendors to comply with the federal law ...
The ads, paid for by an informal coalition of cigarette companies, urge citizens to call or write their congressional representatives to protest plans in Washington to raise taxes on cigarettes ...
I take particular offense when these dollars are spent to sway an unsuspecting public and when there is no counterbalance of interests who have the financial power to command equal presence on the airwaves ...
Given all of the evidence that cigarette companies deliberately recruit and addict youth smokers, it is unconscionable to even consider granting these companies immunity from wrongdoing as they are seeking in a Congressional tobacco settlement ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

The advantage of a longitudinal study, in which children are followed over a period of time, is that we can tell which came first: the exposure to the advertising or the initiation of smoking ...
Once you start down that slippery slope, where does the employer end and the employee begin?" But employers have every right to take that route, argues John Banzhaf, executive director of a national anti-smoking lobby known as Action on Smoking and Health ...
Elif Dagli, Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, Marmara University ...
A variety of products have come on the market in recent years, promoted to help people stop smoking or reduce tobacco usage ...

Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

Pierce also determined which of the adolescents had experimented with smoking, meaning that they had at least a few puffs on a cigarette ...
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 ...