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Big Tobacco Sets Its Sights On Africa

TIME | JEFFREY KLUGER | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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 ...

Pentagon Won't Ban Tobacco Products In War Zones

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

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

150 Years

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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.

Obama's Smokescreen

Lloyd Garver | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lloyd Garver

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

Stop Big Food From Using the Playbook of Big Tobacco

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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.

The Real Danger of Tobacco Legislation

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
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'?"

FDA Regulation Provides Another Smokescreen for Marlboro Man

Howard Wolinsky and Alan Blum | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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.

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

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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.

Big Tobacco Companies Accused Of Illicit Tactics To Expand Asia Sales

AP | MICHAEL CASEY | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

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

Will Waxman the Big Tobacco Fighter Take on Big Oil?

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
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.

Blacks In Congress Split Over Menthol Cigarettes

New York Times | Stephanie Saul | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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

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

Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Larisa Alexandrovna

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

Congress Seeks Major Federal Tax Increase On Cigarettes

AP | Charles Babington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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