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Critics Say Flavored Smokes Cater to Kids
Banzhaf said that, like soft-drink manufacturers, tobacco companies try to secure brand loyalty at a young age ...
Tobacco companies) don't have to tell the government the principal ingredients," Banzhaf told UPI ...
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New Evidence re Smoking in Movies
Until now, little evidence has supported the theory that tobacco companies use movies as advertising vehicles ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...
Banzhaf said that, like soft-drink manufacturers, tobacco companies try to secure brand loyalty at a young age ...
In a sense they are able to use their customers as guinea pigs to find out whether any of these things are toxic ...
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Tobacco Documents Show Industry Intentionally Discounted Health Risks
It adds to the growing evidence showing the tobacco industry deliberately misled the public ...
But Fitzpatrick also noted in his ruling that the tobacco industry has been aware that cigarette smoking is ``probably hazardous to the health of the
smoker
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The judge cited several documents in the 12-page order, including ...
The once-confidential ruling by Judge Kenneth Fitzpatrick, issued in May, was made public Friday after the judge unsealed it ...
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Highlights Advantages of State Lawsuits Over Flawed Global Deal
In 1962, Rodgman wrote: `The amount of evidence accumulated to indict cigarette smoke as a health hazard is overwhelming while the evidence challenging the indictment is scant ...
The settlement is compensation for money Florida spent treating sick
smoker
s and punitive damages for the industry's allegedly fraudulent conduct ...
The judge cited several documents in the 12-page order, including ...
The industry also must remove cigarette-vending machines from any place accessible to children and remove tobacco advertising in sports arenas and on public buses and trains ...
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Med Students Are Not Taught to Counsel Tobacco Using Patients
8 percent of the schools include recommended topics such as the cancer risk of tobacco and the effects of passive smoking ...
CTR and the industry have publicly and frequently denied what others find as `truth ...
Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and disability in the us accounting for half a million premature deaths every year, yet few doctors are trained in helping
smoker
s break the habit, reports CBS This Morning Health Correspondent Dr ...
to avoid seeing vast quantities of its internal documents released at trial -- a sign that cases like his state's, scheduled to begin early next year ...
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ASH Quoted As 2 MI Companies Announce Non-Smoking Policies for Employees
Kalamazoo Valley Community College now refuses to hire
smoker
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3 billion over 25 years to settle the state's massive suit against the industry--one of the largest court-approved settlements in U ...
Senator Hatch needs to be urged to subpoena the relevant documents from Minnesota and make them available to the public ...
In 1970, Helmut Wakeham, head of research and development of Philip Morris Cos ...
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Two New Studies Show: Ads Get Kids to Smoke
But because these are cross- sectional studies, conducted at a single point in time, we cannot tell whether it is the advertising exposure that causes children to start smoking, or whether ...
Following are excerpts from the Pioneer Press report of the unsealing ...
Finally, Pierce determined which adolescents progressed to become established
smoker
s, defined as those who smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their life ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...
A previously sealed order in the Minnesota medicaid case has been unsealed ...
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California: Court Seeks Tobacco Law Clarification for Sick Smoker Suits
The verdict was overturned by a state appellate court last year for reasons unrelated to the issue in Tuesday's ...
Cigarette advertising and promotion was far more important than exposure to family and peers who smoked ...
But California appellate courts have rejected that ruling and allowed suits by ex-
smoker
s who were newly diagnosed with cancer and other illnesses, claimed they were lured by ads and promotions to minors and believed companies' statements that cigarettes were safe ...
Yet these documents are still only the tip of the iceberg according to Minnesota attorneys familiar with the case ...
The women's appeals of the dismissals led to Tuesday's order referring the issue to the state Supreme Court ...
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Vets Fight to Retain Smoking Benefits
Yet these documents are still only the tip of the iceberg according to Minnesota attorneys familiar with the case ...
by repudiation of a causal role for cigarette smoking in general they (the companies) hope to avoid liability in particular cases ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License to Kill ...
In this case, the administration's argument mirrors what the tobacco industry long has argued in court: individual
smoker
s choose to smoke and therefore are responsible for their health problems ...
Cigarette advertising and promotion is the single most important predictor of smoking experimentation ...
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Scotland: Pregnant Women Tested for Smoking
Women identified as
smoker
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NHS Greater Glasgow has introduced the system because it is thought many women lie about continuing to smoke when pregnant because they are embarrassed about their behaviour ...
Today, it is my pleasure to present two new studies, appearing in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, that go a long way toward answering ...
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