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Tobacco companies target girls
Jan 30, 2009 |
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Tobacco marketing in South Korea has been deliberately aimed at girls and young women. Research published in the open access journal Globalization and Health has shown that transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) are using ...
Tobacco companies paid movie stars millions in celebrity endorsement deals
Sep 25, 2008 |
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Tobacco companies paid the Hollywood A-listers of the 1930s and 1940s millions of dollars in today's money to endorse particular brands of cigarette, under contract, reveals research in Tobacco Control.
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FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs
Nov 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online.
Imperfections aside, smoking regulation bill long overdue, tobacco control expert says
Jun 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After nearly a decade of waiting, the U.S. Senate is expected Monday to pass a bill giving the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco, and despite controversies over the involvement ...
Researches link tobacco industry's marketing to youth smoking
Aug 21, 2008 |
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The National Cancer Institute (NCI) released a report, co-edited by University of Minnesota professor Barbara Loken, that reaches the government's strongest conclusion to date that tobacco marketing and depictions of smoking ...
Lighting up the powerful global smoking lobby
Jan 17, 2008 |
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Global public health efforts to reduce smoking are at odds with the interests of the tobacco industry. According to a case study published in the online open access journal Globalization and Health, competing tobacco compan ...
Tobacco use will continue, possibly grow, during recession, expert says
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Even though tobacco use is expected to kill 6 million people worldwide and drain $500 billion from the global economy each year — according to a new report co-authored by a Georgia State University tobacco expert — the recession ...
Tobacco smuggling is killing more people than illegal drugs
Oct 10, 2008 |
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Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year—four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together—but the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem, claim ...
Study: Tobacco companies changed design of cigarettes without alerting smokers
Jun 19, 2009 |
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As President Obama prepares to sign a bill giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of the tobacco industry, a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers shows that tobacco manufacturers ...
Rodent smoke screen
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Rats passively exposed to tobacco smoke become dependent on nicotine, according to a new study by Dr. Adrie Bruijnzeel and colleagues from the University of Florida in the US. Their findings of how rats' brains respond to ...
Social Smokers: Turning the Tables on Big Tobacco
Jun 16, 2009 |
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The tobacco industry knows exactly what makes social smokers tick. Now, researchers want to use that once-secret information to help them quit.
Health, life insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks
Jun 03, 2009 |
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More than a decade after Harvard researchers first revealed that life and health insurance companies were major investors in tobacco stocks - prompting calls upon them to divest - the insurance industry has yet to kick the ...
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