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Cigarette Maker Launches Tobacco Rights Website

AP | Posted 01.02.2012 | Business
Read More: Business News, Big Tobacco, Video, Tobacco Industry, Altria Group Tobacco Rights Website, Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Tobacco Rights Website, Altria Group, Business News

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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Tobacco Giant Ordered To Pay Millions In Lawsuit

AP | By TIM FOUGHT | Posted 12.03.2011 | Business
Read More: Big Tobacco, Video, Big-Tobacco-Supreme-Court, Business News, Philip Morris Lawsuit, Oregon Supreme Court, Philip Morris, Philip Morris Oregon Lawsuit, Altria Group, Business News

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Tobacco company Philip Morris USA Inc. must pay Oregon 60 percent of a $79.5 million award in a long-running lawsuit filed by the fa...

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We Can't Afford to Wait to Regulate Tobacco

Dan Smith | Posted 11.30.2011 | 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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Amid Budget Woes, State Funding For Tobacco Prevention At Lowest Level Since 1999

AP | By MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 11.30.2011 | Business
Read More: Cigarette Prevention, Tobacco Prevention, Public Health, Big Tobacco, Video, Budget Deficit, Tobacco, State Funding for Tobacco Prevention, State Funding, Business News

RICHMOND, Va. -- States have cut funding for tobacco prevention programs 12 percent this year, to the lowest level since 1999, according to a new repo...

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Australia Ready To Fight Big Tobacco In Court For World's Toughest Cigarette Promotion Laws

AP | By ROD McGUIRK | Posted 01.09.2012 | World
Read More: Tobacco Legislation, Big Tobacco, Tobacco, Australia, Australia Big Tobacco, Video, World News

CANBERRA, Australia -- The Australian government said Thursday it is ready to fight big tobacco companies in court to enact the world's toughest laws ...

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Spending Big On Lobbying May Help Net Bigger Profits

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.17.2011 | Business
Read More: Repatriation, Big Tobacco, Corporate Profits, Lobbying, Corporations, Lobbyists, Occupy Wall Street, Federal Lobbying, Defense Contractors, Strategas, Tax Repatriation Holiday, For-Profit Colleges, Video, Business News

You need to spend money to make money, as the saying goes. It's an idea lobbyists might find particularly resonant: Companies that spend money on appe...

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Judge Rules Against Big Tobacco In Lawsuit

AP | Posted 08.01.2011 | Politics
Read More: Big Tobacco, Smoking Dangers, FDA Cigarettes, Fda, Tobacco Lawsuits, Food and Drug Administration, Cigarettes, Gladys Kessler, Cigarette Smoking, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge has rejected the tobacco industry's latest effort to end a case in which the companies were found to have concealed the ...

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Cigarettes and Sinners

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Confessional, Roman Catholic Church, Cigarettes, Judge Gladys Kessler, Big Tobacco, Tobacco, Smoking, Racketeering, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

Some of the Justice Department proposals as to what the cigarette companies must say in their ads are in the nature of a confession that might be heard by a priest in a confessional.

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Massive Tobacco Lawsuit Revived In Illinois

AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
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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Who Will Fix Food? Obama? Walmart? You?

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Dr. David Wallinga, Wenonah Hauter, Farm Bill, Josh Viertel, Food Politics, Slow Food, Laissez Faire, State of the Union, The Atlantic, Anna Lappe, Andrew Weil, President Obama, Usda, Robert Lawrence, Big Tobacco, Home News
Leslie Hatfield

Those of us who still have jobs pay taxes, so we should care about how our tax dollars influence our food systems. Because the State of the Food Union is not strong. But it could be.

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The Billion-Dollar Smoking Problem In China

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Addiction, Stop Smoking, Tobacco Companies, Anti-Smoking, China Tobacco, Big Tobacco, Home News

BEIJING — China's addiction to huge revenues from its state-owned tobacco monopoly is hindering anti-smoking measures, potentially costing milli...

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Cell Phone Industry Lobby Threatens City of San Francisco

Elaine Shannon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Big Tobacco, Cell Phone Radiation, Brain Cancer, Cellular Telephone Industry Association, SF Board of Supervisors Votes for Cell Phone Radiation, CTIA Threatens San Francisco, Ctia, Green News
Elaine Shannon

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted 10-to-1 to require that cell phone retailers post the radiation output of various cell phones.

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Supreme Court Denies Cigarette Companies And Obama Administration In Tobacco Case

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Smoking, Big Tobacco Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Tobacco Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Tobacco Legal Case, Tobacco, Smoking Supreme Court, Tobacco US Supreme Court, Big Tobacco, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has rejected appeals by the Obama administration and the nation's largest tobacco companies to get involved in a ...

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Fans Get Kelly Clarkson to Do the Right Thing

Matthew L. Myers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Jakarta, Alicia Keys, Philip Morris, Indonesia, Kelly Clarkson, Tobacco, American Idol, Big Tobacco, Idol, Tobacco-Free Kids, Entertainment News
Matthew L. Myers

All members of the music and entertainment industry, including performers and promoters, should follow Clarkson's lead in rejecting all tobacco sponsorships and promotions.

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Closing BP's Escape Routes

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Bp, Big Tobacco, Bhopal, Gulf Gusher, Bankruptcy, Fine, Gulf Oil Spill, Pollution, Liability, Exxon Valdez, Green News
Robert Weissman

BP generates enough cash to absorb its liabilities from the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. But that doesn't mean it will.

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The Good and the Bad of the Tobacco Suit

Elliot Wineburg MD | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Big Tobacco, Marlboro Cigarettes, Tobacco, Camel Cigarettes, New York News
Elliot Wineburg MD

While the city's efforts have been valiant and any initiatives to get individuals to quit smoking should be applauded not challenged, they don't often work and can be dangerous.

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Are Tech Device Companies Destined for the Same Class Action Hell as Big Tobacco?

Damien Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Big Tobacco, Apple, Ipad, Class Action, Technology News
Damien Hoffman

Last night I was watching Apple's (AAPL) slick promo video for the iPad. That thing is so sexy, I reached for my wallet. Then, while watching a scene ...

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Philip Morris Ordered To Pay $300 Million To Former Smoker

Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Arthur Delaney

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 Companies Using Loophole To Avoid Hundreds Of Millions In Taxes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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Big Tobacco Makes Secret Plea To Avoid Payout

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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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Speak Out Against Ill-Advised Coke-Doctors Partnership

Connie Bennett | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy 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, Healthy 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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Tobacco Giant Crafts D.C. Council Legislation

The Huffington Post | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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David Chang: the Porcine Prince Respects the Circle of Life and Worries about the Future of Food

Louise McCready Hart | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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 Hart

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

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | 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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