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Tobacco Companies

What Big Soda Learned From the Marlboro Man

Michael F. Jacobson | Posted 03.20.2013 | Healthy Living
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Michael F. Jacobson

Food isn't tobacco. And Coca-Cola isn't Philip Morris. But the playbook is the same, and we ignore it at our peril.

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Judge Delivers Bad News To Big Tobacco

AP | FREDERIC J. FROMMER | Posted 01.27.2013 | Business
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoki...

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The Government's Latest Anti-Smoking Idea

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE | Posted 04.01.2012 | Business
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WASHINGTON -- Tobacco companies will be required to report the levels of dangerous chemicals found in cigarettes, chew and other products under the la...

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Obama Administration Appeals Cigarette Pack Ruling

AP | By NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 01.29.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is appealing a judge's order blocking a requirement that tobacco companies put graphic images warning about the...

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Tobacco Companies Sue Federal Government Over Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels

AP/The Huffington Post | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 10.16.2011 | Business
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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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The Billion-Dollar Smoking Problem In China

AP | GILLIAN WONG | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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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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Tobacco Companies Using Loophole To Avoid Hundreds Of Millions In Taxes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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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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The Irony in the Tobacco Companies Suing So That They Can Tell the "Truth"

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Judge H. Lee Sarokin

If history is any teacher, I can think of no industry more deserving of scrutiny and strict government regulation, consistent with their free speech rights, than the tobacco industry.

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States Selling Addiction: "Why Not? We Need the Money!"

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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Stanton Peele

Our financial and emotional needs now dictate that state governments sedate their citizens, while picking their pockets, from California to Kansas to the Mid-Atlantic.

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Supreme Court Opens Floodgates For New Cigarette Lawsuits

New York Times | DAVID STOUT | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Tobacco companies suffered a defeat in the Supreme Court on Monday when the justices ruled that the companies can be sued by smokers who contend they ...

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FTC Tosses Guidance, "Will Not Be A Smokescreen For Tobacco Companies"

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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WASHINGTON — The cigarette industry for 42 years has made factual claims about tar and nicotine levels based on machine testing blessed by the F...

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Cigarette Scientists: "Cigarettes Cure Lung Cancer"

236.com | 23/6: News You Can Misuse | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
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An October 2006 lung cancer study published in the "New England Journal of Medicine" was discovered to have been funded by a cigarette company, the "N...

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