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A Closer Look at the FTC's Cigar Report

There also were substantial increases reported in almost every category of advertising and promotional spending for ...
According to the report, the data collected from five leading domestic cigar manufacturers show a dramatic increase in cigar sales and revenue from 1996 to 1997 ...
cigar consumption and increasing concern among health authorities about the risks of cigar smoking ...
In addition, the report reveals that over 75 percent of the cigar industry's marketing expenditures were for nonconventional forms of advertising and promotion about which information was previously unavailable ...
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

To investigate whether watching stars smoke on-screen influences teens to do the same, Pierce and his colleagues asked 3104 never-smokers between the ages of 12 and 15 to name their two favorite female stars and two favorite male movie stars ...
The researchers reviewed the stars' movies during the past 3 years, and counted them as smokers if they puffed during at least two films ...
Investigators found that girls who said their favorite celebrity was someone who had smoked in at least two recent movies were almost twice as likely to start smoking within the next three years as girls whose favorite stars did not smoke in films ...
It therefore recommends legislation banning cigar advertising on television, radio, or any other electronic media regulated by the Federal Communications Commission ...
More than 40 percent of girls and 30 percent of boys had favorite stars who smoked ...

The women's cancer you don't know about

The researchers reviewed the stars' movies during the past 3 years, and counted them as smokers if they puffed during at least two films ...
My boyfriend, Al Baker, and one of my closest friends, Sylvia Adcock, came with me ...
No one knows if my occasional smoking caused my cancer, but in my darkest moments I do blame myself ...
This attitude is always unfair, but particularly so for nonsmokers like my friend Amy Beck, 35, an executive chef from Farmingdale ...
The agency's recommendation would require cigars be subject to the same statutory scheme as cigarettes and smokeless tobacco ...