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Tobacco Industry

E-Butts: The Marlboro Man Plugs in.

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.07.2013 | Healthy Living
Tom Alderman

You may have seen the recent flurry of stories about a supposed alternative to cigarette addiction called the electronic cigarette. E-butts are a mov...

When Will the FDA Stand Up to Big Tobacco?

Michele Simon | Posted 04.29.2013 | Business
Michele Simon

You might also think that debates over having tobacco industry representatives involved in public health decision-making would be a thing of the past, but not so.

Joy Resmovits

These States Don't Fund School For Littlest Learners

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics

President Barack Obama's 2014 budget pits education activists against the tobacco industry by proposing to help fund a new early childhood education p...

Lucky Strikes

Don Ringe | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics
Don Ringe

It's hard to watch as Medicare is offered up for cuts while taxes are increased on virtually everything but tobacco. I agree with my politically conservative friends. Let's not raise taxes on tobacco.

Marijuana Legalization Proponents Deny Health Harms Just Like the Tobacco Industry Did

Sue Rusche | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics
Sue Rusche

Sooner or later, marijuana legalization proponents will have to take responsibility for grossly misleading the public about the health harms of pot. To persuade people to legalize, they have to perpetuate the myth that marijuana is harmless.

False Spontaneity of the Tea Party

Al Gore | Posted 04.16.2013 | Green
Al Gore

A new study funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health reveals that the Tea Party Movement was planned over a decade ago by groups with ties to the tobacco and fossil fuel industries.

Smoke and Mirrors: Obama DOE Fracked Gas Export Study Contractor's Tobacco Roots

Steve Horn | Posted 03.31.2013 | Green
Steve Horn

With easily apparent deep-seated roots dating back to the halcyon days of Big Tobacco, the DOE's NERA selection raises the question: Can one view the NERA/Obama DOE economic findings on LNG exports as anything but a deeply cynical PR ploy?

Time For LGBT Communities To Stop Being Such Easy Targets For The Tobacco Industry

Scout, Ph.D. | Posted 02.11.2013 | Gay Voices
Scout, Ph.D.

Today and every day, new LGBT youth will pick up cigarettes for the very first time, desperately looking for some way to fit in. I hope we can stop having that momentary isolation play itself out in decades of profits for the tobacco industry, at the direct expense of our communities' health.

5 Ways Parents Can Help Stop Their Kids From Smoking

Claire McCarthy, M.D. | Posted 02.04.2013 | Parents
Claire McCarthy, M.D.

For every person who dies from smoking -- about 1,200 a day -- two youths or young adults become smokers. Ninety percent of these "replacement" smokers have their first cigarette before they are 18 years old. One of them could be your kid.

'Lower-Risk' Cigarettes On The Horizon?

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 06.26.2012 | Business

In response to declining cigarette sales, some tobacco industry companies are planning to unveil a range of new tobacco products to entice new custome...

Too Close To Call

AP | HANNAH DREIER | Posted 08.06.2012 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Big Tobacco's success in branding a proposed California cigarette tax as a government boondoggle sent a message that could echo in...

Obama Administration Looks To Be Losing Long-Fought Battle

AP | By NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 04.02.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The federal government fought an uphill battle Wednesday to convince a skeptical judge that tobacco companies should be required to put ...

Addiction Incorporated: Doing Some Good

Deborah Stambler | Posted 03.14.2012 | Entertainment
Deborah Stambler

Addiction Incorporated demonstrates how the power the tobacco industry held over government officials and consumers was slowly chipped away through legal action and journalistic reporting.

Cigarette Maker Launches Tobacco Rights Website

AP | Posted 01.02.2012 | Business

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...

Move Over Joe Camel -- Plastics Lobby Targets Kids in Textbooks

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 10.26.2011 | Green
Lisa Kaas Boyle

What do cigarettes and single-use plastics have in common? Most cigarettes have a single-use plastic filter -- so smokers get a dose of petrochemical...

Chew on This: The Real Dangers of Smokeless Tobacco

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 06.18.2011 | Los Angeles
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

Whether tucked in a burly athlete's cheek or daintily positioned in a gentleman's lip, smokeless tobacco has long been a public bane.

The Case For The Post-Meal Cigarette

Gourmet Live | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

It goes back to the dawn of modern agriculture, yet it's never been terribly well documented. It's a widespread and common practice, accessible to eve...

Massive Tobacco Lawsuit Revived In Illinois

AP | JIM SUHR | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

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...

FDA: Agency Must Review Tobacco Products

AP | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and Drug Administration says it must review tobacco products that were introduced or changed over the last four years i...

Big Tobacco Makes Secret Plea To Avoid Payout

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON — Tobacco industry lawyers met secretly with Solicitor General Elena Kagan in an effort to avoid the government's last-ditch attempt ...

Pop Quiz: Under Reagan, What Was Peak Unemployment, How Long Before It Began Declining?

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Abrams

As good students of history, you recognize that Reagan did not inherit the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And tax rates today are already 14% lower than Reagan's 1981 tax cut.

Mr. President: Time to Issue a Direct 'Call to Action' to Your Grassroots Supporters

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Paul Abrams

It is time for Obama to go "all in" on health care reform. Having declared health care reform the defining mark of his presidency, he has nothing to lose but defeat.

Senators Who Opposed Tobacco Bill Received Top Dollar From Industry

McClatchy | Halimah Abdullah | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON - Among the 17 senators who voted against allowing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are some of the top recipients of c...

A Good Guy at AMA Dies: Dr. Ron Davis, Tobacco Foe

Howard Wolinsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Howard Wolinsky

The AMA ought to apologize for the harm it caused the public health for its collaboration with the tobacco industry. It would be a fitting tribute to the legacy of Dr. Ronald Davis.

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...