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The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up

Public-health groups are pointing to a sharp rise in teenage cigar smoking at the same time the industry has increased its advertising ...
Last year, according to the American Lung Association, 38 percent of movies included a cigar scene ...
What has the cigar manufacturers upset is that the new Massachusetts law requires a conspicuous black-and-white health warning label on the top 25 percent of any package of cigars or in ads for them ...
As more people light up, some US officials are saying cigars should abide by the same rules as cigarettes ...

Senate Committee to Hold Hearing on Smoking in Movies

Actors who puff on the cigars include Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg ...
But anti- smoking activists argue that 60-plus years after that classic movie was made—long before the Surgeon General issued a warning on the dangers of tobacco —it's time for movies to lose the smoke ...
Surveys have found that almost 11 percent of men and 2 percent of women smoke cigars ...

Congress Urges American Film Industry to Reduce Smoking in Movies

They might want a relatively relaxed federal law to preempt states from acting ...
Over the past five years, the cigar industry has told the American public to light up a cigar to celebrate good times ...
lawmakers are warning the American film industry to reduce the amount of smoking in movies ...
The popular television show, says Jeff Stier, associate director of the group ...
William Sorrell, incoming president of the National Association of Attorneys General, told a group of advertisers and agency reps at an April meeting in Washington that, It's hard to imagine Casablanca's Rick Blaine without smoke swirling around his face as he grows increasingly morose ...

UK: Activist Groups Push for Beach Smoking Bans

Dartmouth University pediatrician Madeline Dalton sees a link between these statistics ...
The figures represent only a tiny fraction of the total number of dog ends which litter Britain's 1,400 beaches ...
In the same time period, cigar sales jumped from $ 613 million to $ 876 million, representing the purchase of 4 ...
Smoking bans on beaches seem a sensible policy,' said Amanda Sandford, spokeswoman for the health organisation, Ash ...
Wildlife groups say the butts, containing a form of plastic called cellulose acetate, can last for up to 100 years and pose serious risks to animals ...

The Lancet Blasts World Bank Over Smoking

Wildlife groups say the butts, containing a form of plastic called cellulose acetate, can last for up to 100 years and pose serious risks to animals ...
In a bid to curb the damage smokers are doing to sealife the campaign group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) has started distributing makeshift ashtrays to beach-goers ...
less-developed regions, Gwatkin et al's calculation What should be the priorities of those planning global public-health policies? In August, 1999, Davidson Gwatkin and colleagues published work in The Lancet that aimed to "give a more accurate picture of changes in attributable mortality among the world's poor than do the global averages in current use ...

Tobacco Makers Want Cigarettes Cut from Films

Marlboro maker Philip Morris USA didn't request the plug, but it would seem to be a welcome publicity windfall, particularly now that cigarettes can no longer be advertised on billboards, television or through product placements ...
A recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study found that between 1996 and 1997, the number of cigar brands increased from 207 to 319 ...
The Lancet's columns from Srinath Reddy at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences ...
An authoritative survey of the nation's beaches reveals that over the past year there has been a sharp rise in the number of cigarette butts being discarded, with potentially fatal consequences for birds, mammals and fish ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

Marlboro maker Philip Morris USA didn't request the plug, but it would seem to be a welcome publicity windfall, particularly now that cigarettes can no longer be advertised on billboards, television or through product placements ...
Surveys have found that almost 11 percent of men and 2 percent of women smoke cigars ...
Actors who puff on the cigars include Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg ...
Last week, several cigar manufacturers went to federal court to block the Massachusetts law, which was supposed to go into effect Aug ...

IL Restaurant and Bar Owners Say Business Increased After Going Smoke-free

Actors who puff on the cigars include Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg ...
7 every kilometre, suggesting more and more smokers are failing to clean up their litter ...
Smoking bans may have a neutral or positive effect on business, a 2003 study by the New York City Health Department showed ...

Doctors Seek 'R' Rating for Smoking Scenes in Movies

Figures published by the Marine Conservation Society show that last year there was a 25 per cent rise in the number of discarded butts collected by its volunteers, an increase that has alarmed the charity ...
What has the cigar manufacturers upset is that the new Massachusetts law requires a conspicuous black-and-white health warning label on the top 25 percent of any package of cigars or in ads for them ...
California and Massachusetts have both enacted laws requiring warning labels on cigars ...
Certify in the end credits that no one was paid anything or received anything of value for including cigarette- smoking scenes in the movie ...
Their argument was that infectious diseases caused almost 60% of death and disability in the world's poorest 20% of population ...

Editorial: Tobacco Buyout is Bad for Everyone

The previous year the society collected around 11,000 butts, or 86 ...
In the same time period, cigar sales jumped from $ 613 million to $ 876 million, representing the purchase of 4 ...
In fact, now is the time to push ahead with a buyout plan that is fair to taxpayers, achieves some additional regulatory control over cigarette sales, and provides a cushion against the long decline of the tobacco industry for those whose livelihoods have been locked in to tobacco production ...
7 every kilometre, suggesting more and more smokers are failing to clean up their litter ...
The popular television show, says Jeff Stier, associate director of the group ...