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Big Guns Behind Kansas Smokeless Tobacco Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Lung Cancer, Big Tobacco, Video, Cigarettes, American Cancer Society, Kansas Politics, Julie Hein, Tobacco Cancer, Paul Davis, Smokeless Tobacco, RJ Reynolds, Ron Hein, Chewing-Tobacco-Cancer, Tobacco, Derek Hein, Sean-Gatewood, Oral Cancer, Politics News

Kansas lawmakers are considering a resolution that would require state health officials to conduct a study about the health effects of smokeless tobac...

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Astoria Characters: The Survivor Who Speaks Her Mind

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Tamoxifen, Astoria, Vietnam War, Tumor, Breast Cancer, Mastectomy, P.S. 122, Chemotherapy, R.J. Reynolds, Ukraine, Shareing & Careing, Mammogram, Purple Heart, Anna Kril, Ny Impact, Cancer, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

An unexpected lump in Anna Kril's left breast gave her a crash course in cancer survival. Spunky and savvy, she was appalled at the lack of resources in Queens for breast cancer sufferers like herself.

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Move Over Joe Camel -- Plastics Lobby Targets Kids in Textbooks

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 10.26.2011

Read More: Plastic Pollution, Joe Camel, Cigarettes, R.J. Reynolds, Single Use Plastics, Plastic Bag Fees, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Acc, Plastic Bag Ban, Tobacco, Plastic Bags, The American Chemistry Council, Plastic, Tobacco Industry, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

What do cigarettes and single-use plastics have in common? Most cigarettes have a single-use plastic filter -- so smokers get a dose of petrochemical...

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Tobacco Companies Sue Federal Government Over Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels

AP/The Huffington Post | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Tobacco Companies, Rj-Reynolds, Nicotine, Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, Smoking, Slideadbigshot, Fda, Commonwealth Brands, Cigarette Warning Labels, The-Family-Smoking-Prevention-and-Tobacco-Control-Act, Video, Cigarettes, Lorillard, Liggett-Group, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Health and Human Services, Tobacco, Food and Drug Administration, Altria Group, Phillip Morris, Business News

COLUMBIA, S.C. (Associated Press)-- Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new graphic cigarette lab...

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Reframing the Debate to Make Insurers Look Poor

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rj-Reynolds, Uninsured, Unitedhealth, Wall Street, Obamacare, Ahip, Forbes Magazine, Sally-Pipes, Health Insurance, Cigna, Aetna, Health Reform, Humana, Barack Obama, Wellpoint, Business News
Wendell Potter

The next time you hear the health insurance industry complain about its "measly" profit margins, don't buy it. Their "reframing" is nothing more than an attempt to take your mind off the tragedies they cause for so many Americans.

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Weekly Pulse: The New Hunger Epidemic, Making CPCs Come Clean, and Smoking Hipsters

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Court, New York, Smoking, RH Reality Check, Ec, Washington Monthly, Cpc, change.org, Feministing, Choice, Emergency Contraception, Williamsburg, Colorlines, Hipster, RJ Reynolds, Tobacco, Crisis Pregnancy Center, Center for Reproductive Rights, Nyclu, Home News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger As some Americans obsess over whether to brine or deep-fry their Thanksgiving turkeys, others are goi...

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The Tobacco Leopard

Joseph A. Califano Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rj-Reynolds, Lorillard, Cigarettes, Smoking, Smoking Ban, Michael Bloomberg, Smoking Warnings, Public Health, Tobacco, Cigarette Tax, New York News
Joseph A. Califano Jr.

We are both veterans of the tobacco wars and so are not surprised at the industry's attempt to block Mayor Bloomberg's most effort to remind citizens of the grim dangers of smoking.

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My Life With Oreos

Ben Cohen  | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rj-Reynolds, Nabisco, Mint Chocolate Cookie, Ice Cream, Ben Cohen, Oreos, Food, Ben & Jerry's, Ben and Jerry's, Ben and Jerry's Mint, Food News
Ben Cohen 

Long ago, we received our first letter from Nabisco informing us that Oreo was their most valued trademark, and that we would not be able to call our flavor Oreo Mint. We could however, they said, call it "Mint with Oreos."

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Losing Smith Bagley

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dubai Forum, US-Cuba Embargo, R.J. Reynolds, Lanny Davis, Democratic Party, Hendrik Hertzberg, Nancy Bagley, Nicole Bagley, Philanthropy, Elizabeth Bagley, Charles Kaiser, Progressive Causes, Musgrove Estate, Smith Bagley, Jimmy Carter, Brand Dubai, Judith Miller, Arca Foundation, Politics News
Steve Clemons

His money and his advocacy of fairness and civil rights helped push political and policy needles, and like the great, massive, history-laden trees at his old family estate of Musgrove, Smith Bagley will be impossible to replace.

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