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Philip Morris Ordered To Pay $300 Million To Former Smoker

Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Tobacco, Philip Morris, Smoking, Tobacco Litigation, Emphysema, Florida, Altria Group, Business News

MIAMI - CHRISTINE ARMARIO (AP)-- A South Florida jury on Thursday ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million to a former smoker, agreeing that the ...

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Tobacco Companies Using Loophole To Avoid Hundreds Of Millions In Taxes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Child Health Law, Taxes, Big Tobacco, Tax Loophole, Farmers Gold, Irs, Tobacco Companies, Roll Your Own Tobacco, Tobacco, Criss Cross, Pipes, Business News

WASHINGTON — When President Barack Obama signed a law expanding children's health insurance this spring, he slapped tobacco companies with huge ...

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Speak Out Against Ill-Advised Coke-Doctors Partnership

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Conflict of Interest, Big Tobacco, Yoni Freedhoff, www.familydoctor.org, Lori Heim, Coke, Connie-Bennett, End the AAFP and Coca-Cola Collaboration, Aafp, Fructose, Big Soda, Weighty Matters, Sugar, Coca-Cola, Controversy, Health, Soda, Optimal Health Care, American Academy of Family Physicians, Doctors Resign, Living News
Connie Bennett

For a doctors' group to take a six-figure sum from Coke is like accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from Big Tobacco to create a physician-approved website claiming cigarettes are part of a healthy lifestyle.

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Arthur Delaney

Booze, Pot And Peanuts In LobbyBlog's Third-Quarter Lobbying Roundup!

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Pharma, Transparency, Big Tobacco, Lobbying, Disclosure, Alcohol Lobby, Booze Lobbying, Lobbyblog, Tobacco Lobby, Business News

Third-quarter lobbying spending totals are in, and that means it's time to see how much the most special of special interests spent peddling influence...

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Tobacco Giant Crafts D.C. Council Legislation

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Cigarettes, Lobbyblog, Big Tobacco, Transparency, Inside DC, Business News

The Washington Examiner reports Wednesday that lobbyists from the Altria Group, owner of tobacco company Philip Morris, are the principal authors of n...

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Big Tobacco Sets Its Sights On Africa

TIME | JEFFREY KLUGER | Posted 08.25.2009 | World

Read More: Big Tobacco, Philip Morris, Cigarettes, Smoking, Africa, Tobacco, World News

It's easy enough to buy a smoke at Isa Yakubu's grocery store on a busy street in Lagos, Nigeria. Never mind if you don't have much money. Most local ...

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ReThinking Thank You for Smoking: Tobacco's Last Action Hero?

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Thank You for Smoking, Movie Review, Rethink Reviews, The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, Jonathan Kim, Jason Reitman, Smoking, Cigarettes, Lobbyists, Aaron Eckhart, Philip Morris, Tobacco, Health Care, Movie Critic, Big Tobacco, Chris Rock, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

The Obama administration just passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. So Will the Nick Naylors of the world soon become extinct? Not by a long shot.

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Pentagon Won't Ban Tobacco Products In War Zones

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Troops, Tobacco Ban, Smoking, War in Afghanistan, Health, Tobacco Producs, War in Iraq, War Zone, Defense Department, Big Tobacco, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Smoke 'em if you got 'em. The Pentagon reassured troops Wednesday that it won't ban tobacco products in war zones. Defense official...

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150 Years

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Corporate Crime, Bhopal, Alien Tort Claims Act, Exxon, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Victims, Climate Change, Big Tobacco, Exxon Valdez, Business News
Robert Weissman

The 150-year sentence is headline grabbing, but what should surprise us is not that Madoff got such a long sentence, but that other corporate criminals escape with no criminal prosecution at all.

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Obama's Smokescreen

Lloyd Garver | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tobacco, Campaign Promises, Obama Smoking, Obama Cigarettes, Big Tobacco, Barack Obama, Tobacco Bill, Obama Tobacco Bill, Politics News
Lloyd Garver

The president should make his struggle with smoking public. Very public.

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Stop Big Food From Using the Playbook of Big Tobacco

Paula Crossfield | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Usda, Big Tobacco, Big Food, Food Inc., Fda, Lobbying, Health, Food Safety, Obesity, Health Care, Surgeon General, Campaign Finance Reform, Farm Subsidies, Green News
Paula Crossfield

While millions still die of smoking related illness every year, it's not too late to lift the veil from Big Food, and in doing so, save lives and public health for years to come.

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The Real Danger of Tobacco Legislation

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 07.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Big Tobacco, Reform, Tobacco, Legislation, Monty Python, Comedy News
Jeff Kreisler

"Mr. Pringle, you claim your product's not addictive, but didn't you sign this memo: 'Once you pop, you can't stop'?"

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FDA Regulation Provides Another Smokescreen for Marlboro Man

Howard Wolinsky and Alan Blum | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Tobacco, FDA Cigarettes, Cigarettes, Fda, Philip Morris, Tobacco, Marlboro Cigarettes, Politics News
Howard Wolinsky and Alan Blum

The new FDA legislation would serve as a Marlboro Preservation Act. The tobacco industry will be footing the bill for the alleged regulation of its own products. The foxes will be guarding the henhouse.

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Taking A Lost Case to the Supreme Court-- Three Times?

Rob Kall | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Altria, Supreme Court, Big Tobacco, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Oregon, Politics News
Rob Kall

It is outrageously wrong that Altria/R.J. Reynolds tobacco could, because of its immense wealth and deep pockets, delay and abuse the Supreme Court system.

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David Chang: the Porcine Prince Respects the Circle of Life and Worries about the Future of Food

Louise McCready | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Esquire Magazine, Chefs, Ferran Adria, Big Tobacco, Small Business, Andre Soltner, Cooking, Ruth Reichl, Restaurants, Food, Alice Waters, Momofuku, Wylie Dufresne, Sustainable Farming, New York, David Chang, Green News
Louise McCready

David Chang: I'm not an economist, so I'm not the one to say anything about this, but it's going to be very difficult to feed everybody when America doesn't produce food anymore

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Big Tobacco Companies Accused Of Illicit Tactics To Expand Asia Sales

AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 01.23.2009 | World

Read More: British American Tobacco, Philip Morris, World Health Organization, Cigarettes, Smoking China, Tobacco Companies Expand Asia Markets, Tobacco Companies Illegal Action, Asia, Smoking Thailand, Philip Morris Asia, Big Tobacco, World News

BANGKOK, Thailand — Two of the world's largest tobacco companies, seeking to expand sales into Asia, worked to undermine anti-smoking policies i...

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Will Waxman the Big Tobacco Fighter Take on Big Oil?

Kevin Grandia | Posted 12.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Big Tobacco, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, Waxman Hearings, Environment, Green News
Kevin Grandia

Waxman is now in a position to haul the energy executives onto to the floor and expose this campaign just like he did with Big Tobacco.

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Blacks In Congress Split Over Menthol Cigarettes

New York Times | Stephanie Saul | Posted 08.02.2008 | Business

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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We Can't Afford to Wait to Regulate Tobacco

Dan Smith | Posted 07.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Tobacco, Cigarettes, Smoking, Fda, Cancer, Tobacco, Smoking Cancer, Tobacco Regulation, Politics News
Dan Smith

More than 40 years following the first surgeon general's report linked smoking to cancer, a simple list of ingredients is still not required for tobacco products.

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Justice for Sale: How Big Tobacco and the GOP teamed up to crush Democrats in the South

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bob Riley, Big Tobacco, Karl Rove, Paul Minor, Don Siegelman, Haley Barbour, US Attorney Scandal, Doj, Politics News
Larisa Alexandrovna

Part VII of the Permanent Republican Majority Series by Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane Almost immediately after his appointment as US Attorney...

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Congress Seeks Major Federal Tax Increase On Cigarettes

AP | Charles Babington | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Big Tobacco, Cigarettes, Cigarette Ban, Tobacco Lobbyists, Cigarette Tax, Business News

Congress is taking new whacks at the cigarette industry, banning tobacco sales in Senate buildings and -- more importantly -- seeking a significant fe...

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