Countermarketing Unhealthy Food: An Effective Strategy for Preventing...
Image from Youth Food Educators of East Harlem Countermarketing campaigns use health communications to reduce the demand for unhealthy products by exposing motives and undermining marketing practices...
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Taking the Overseas Blinders Off Corporate Governance
Credit In its annual Good Governance report, writes Fair Observer, the Institute of Directors assesses the United Kingdom’s largest listed companies against indicators that include board...
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Breaking News: Tobacco kills 1,200 Americans a day
Eleven years ago, writes historian Robert Proctor in The New York Times, a Federal District Court judge in Washington concluded after a nine-month trial that cigarette makers had committed fraud and...
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PMI’s Foundation for a Smoke-Free World and the Future of Public Health Research
Dr. Derek Yach at the launch of the Foundation for a Tobacco Free World credit Credit Last September, Phillip Morris International , which calls itself the “world’s most successful cigarette company”,...
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Juul: Does new e-cigarette save or cost lives?
Source The rapid growth of a new brand of e-cigarette known as Juul has attracted media and public health advocates’ attention. According to The New York Times, school officials, struggling to...
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E-cigarette maker Juul targeted teens with false claims of safety, lawsuit says
A Juul in the hand…(credit) When a San Diego-based mother posted an emergency alert on Nextdoor, a community discussion app, she hoped a Good Samaritan could help, according to court filings, reports...
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What rules for e-cig?
Credit Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed new rulesthat would restrict flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco products that have lured young people into vaping and...
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Revealed: the free-market groups helping the tobacco industry
Atlas Network More than 100 free-market thinktanks from North America to Europe and south Asia took positions helpful to the tobacco industry or donations, an investigation by The Guardian shows....
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Big tobacco focuses on the facts to hide the truth
Donald J. Cohn of Webster & Sheffield, a cigarette manufacturer’s counsel, is shown speaking to the jury in Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc., 683 F.Supp. 1487 (1988), in U.S. District Court D in...
View ArticleDeveloping a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity...
Source A new report in BMJ Global Health explores the links between unhealthy commodity industries (UCIs) such as tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy food, and gambling; analyzes the extent of alignment across...
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