Tobacco Industry

Blacks In Congress Split Over Menthol Cigarettes

New York Times | Stephanie Saul | Posted 07.25.2008 | 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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Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

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

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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McCain's Cronies: Charlie Black And Big Tobacco

Christy Hardin Smith | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Tobacco, John McCain, McCain Tobacco, McCain's Cronies, Tobacco Industry, Tobacco Lobbyists, Tobacco, Charlie Black, Politics News
Christy Hardin Smith

How exactly does senior campaign advisor Charlie Black divorce his tobacco lobbyist insider knowledge from his political advisor campaign guru self?

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Big Business Is Even More Unpopular Than You Think

Robert Weissman | Posted 01.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Hmos, Oil Industry, De-Regulation, Lobbying, Corporations, Regulation, Corporate Power, Tobacco Industry, Business, Business News
Robert Weissman

New findings on attitudes toward regulation show that the business campaign against regulation as an abstract concept has been very successful.

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A Harvest of Shame

Baldemar Velasquez | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics

Read More: Day of the Dead, Labor, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, R.J. Reynolds, Backbone Campaign, Tobacco Industry, Harvest of Shame, Tobacco, Labor Unions, Dia De Los Muertos, Edward R. Murrow Harvest of Shame, Politics News
Baldemar Velasquez

The union that I represent, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee will be rallying a protest in Winston-Salem at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company over some deadly serious matters.

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