Tobacco Industry

Obama Administration Looks To Be Losing Long-Fought Battle

AP | By NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Obama, Cigarette Labels, Video, Tobacco Industry, Smoking, Cigarettes, Graphic Cigarette Labels, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The federal government fought an uphill battle Wednesday to convince a skeptical judge that tobacco companies should be required to put ...

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Addiction Incorporated: Doing Some Good

Deborah Stambler | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Addiction Incorporated, Dr. Victor DeNoble, Tobacco Industry, Charles Evans Jr., Video, Entertainment News

Addiction Incorporated demonstrates how the power the tobacco industry held over government officials and consumers was slowly chipped away through legal action and journalistic reporting.

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Cigarette Maker Launches Tobacco Rights Website

AP | Posted 01.02.2012

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RICHMOND, Va. -- Cigarette maker Altria Group is giving consumers a new place to find out about tobacco-related public policy issues. The owner of th...

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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

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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Chew on This: The Real Dangers of Smokeless Tobacco

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Chewing Tobacco, Baseball, Health, Smokeless Tobacco, Tobacco Industry, Dr. Glenn Braunstein, Tobacco, Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles News

Whether tucked in a burly athlete's cheek or daintily positioned in a gentleman's lip, smokeless tobacco has long been a public bane.

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The Case For The Post-Meal Cigarette

Gourmet Live | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anthony Bourdain, Food Rules, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Peter Luger, Smokers, Cigarettes, Smoking Ban, Michael Pollen, Tobacco Industry, Top Chef, Food News

It goes back to the dawn of modern agriculture, yet it's never been terribly well documented. It's a widespread and common practice, accessible to eve...

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Massive Tobacco Lawsuit Revived In Illinois

AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Tobacco, Illinois Supreme Court, Edwardsville, Philip Morris, Tobacco Industry, Tobacco, Philip Morris Lawsuit, Edwardsville Illinois, Chicago News

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A lawsuit that led to a $10.1 billion verdict against cigarette-making Philip Morris USA before it was tossed out by the Il...

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FDA: Agency Must Review Tobacco Products

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Personal Health, Fda Regulations, Tobacco Industry, Fda, Tobacco, FDA Policy, FDA Tobacco Regulation, Tobacco Regulation, Home News

RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and Drug Administration says it must review tobacco products that were introduced or changed over the last four years i...

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Big Tobacco Makes Secret Plea To Avoid Payout

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Big Tobacco, Tobacco Industry Lawyers, Tobacco Lobbyists, Tobacco Industry, Elena Kagan, Business News

WASHINGTON — Tobacco industry lawyers met secretly with Solicitor General Elena Kagan in an effort to avoid the government's last-ditch attempt ...

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Pop Quiz: Under Reagan, What Was Peak Unemployment, How Long Before It Began Declining?

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tobacco Industry, Stimulus, Ronald Reagan, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Unemployment Rates, Tax Cuts, Politics News

As good students of history, you recognize that Reagan did not inherit the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And tax rates today are already 14% lower than Reagan's 1981 tax cut.

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Mr. President: Time to Issue a Direct 'Call to Action' to Your Grassroots Supporters

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tobacco Industry, President Obama, John Boehner, Heathcare Reform, Congress, 20 Million, Earth Day, Healthcare Premiums as Taxes, Politics News

It is time for Obama to go "all in" on health care reform. Having declared health care reform the defining mark of his presidency, he has nothing to lose but defeat.

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Senators Who Opposed Tobacco Bill Received Top Dollar From Industry

McClatchy | Halimah Abdullah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Campaign Contributions From Tobacco Industry, Tobacco Industry, FDA Tobacco, McConnell Tobacco Industry, Tobacco Industry Donations, Transparency, Politics News

WASHINGTON - Among the 17 senators who voted against allowing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are some of the top recipients of c...

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A Good Guy at AMA Dies: Dr. Ron Davis, Tobacco Foe

Howard Wolinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Medical Association, Dr. Ronald Davis, Ronald Davis AMA, The Serpent on the Staff, Ronald Davis Dies, Health, Tobacco Industry, Tobacco, Tom Brune, Ama and Tobacco, Chicago News

The AMA ought to apologize for the harm it caused the public health for its collaboration with the tobacco industry. It would be a fitting tribute to the legacy of Dr. Ronald Davis.

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Blacks In Congress Split Over Menthol Cigarettes

New York Times | Stephanie Saul | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blacks and Cigarettes, Edolphus Towns, Congress, Black Caucus, Tobacco Industry, Menthol Cigarretes, Big Tobacco, Business News

Free cigarettes are no longer handed out at Congressional Black Caucus functions. And it has been years since anyone referred to Edolphus Towns, Democ...

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Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Smoking, Cigarettes, Filters, Environment, Green, Environmentalism, Tobacco Industry, Deforestation, Phillip Morris, Simran Sethi, Sarah Smarsh, Green News

Deforestation is the most direct environmental repercussion of the approximately ten gazillion cigarettes smoked in the world daily. Wood is used just about every step in production--to cure tobacco, to wrap the leaves with paper, to box them up with cardboard.

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