Don’t Let Progress on Tobacco Evaporate
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this month that the adult smoking rate in the United States has fallen to a new low, a testament to the decades of education about the dangers of...
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‘It’s the Wild West out there.’ E-cigarette advertising reaches 70 percent of...
E-cigarette marketing has become so ubiquitous, reports the Washington Post, that it now reaches more than two-thirds of U.S. middle and high school students, according to a new US Centers for Disease...
View ArticleJudge Criticizes Cigarette Makers, Adopts New Warning Statements
The Wall Street Journal reports that the federal judge presiding over government litigation against tobacco companies in a Monday opinion blasted cigarette makers for continuing to fight her court...
View ArticleInsufficient tobacco tax increase proposals undermine public health
In response to proposed plans that inadequately increase Missouri’s lowest-in-the-nation tobacco tax, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, and several other...
View ArticleFrom new Lethal but Legal Afterword: The World That Is Possible
This week Oxford University Press releases a new paperback edition of Lethal but Legal Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public Health with a new Afterword by the author. An excerpt is below....
View ArticleReducing the Role of the Food, Tobacco, and Alcohol Industries in...
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) impose a growing burden on the health, economy, and development of South Africa. According to the World Health Organization, four risk factors, tobacco use, alcohol...
View ArticleChanging Corporate Practices to Reduce Non-Communicable Diseases and...
In presentations on “Changing Corporate Practices to Reduce Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries: A Promising Strategy for Improving Global Public Health?” at Edinburgh University and University of...
View ArticleThe Potential That Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Can be a Disruptive...
A new study evaluates the reasons for use and acceptance of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) among current and former cigarette smokers to assess if ENDS may become a satisfying alternative...
View ArticleThe FCTC Turns 10: Lessons From the First Decade
The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) stands as a landmark approach to addressing a global health problem. It represents the first time the World Health Organization (WHO) used its...
View ArticleCigarette packs are being stripped of advertising around the world. But not...
Cigarette packs have long served as portable advertising for tobacco companies, with smokers conveniently disseminating branding and imagery wherever they go, writes Vox Science and Health. Packaging...
View ArticleSupreme Court Sides with R.J. Reynolds in RICO Case
The New York Times reports that the Supreme Court sided with the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company earlier this week in a lawsuit filed by European countries accusing it of complicity in an international...
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Assessing the health impact of transnational corporations: its importance and...
A framework for assessing health impact of transnational corporations. Source. The adverse health and equity impacts of transnational corporations’ (TNCs) practices have become central public health...
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In hard-hitting ad campaign, Philly targets tobacco industry marketing practices
“Our children are not replacement smokers!” a protest leader cries in a radio spot, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. “We have the power!” the crowd responds – which is exactly the point of this...
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Philip Morris gets its ash kicked in Uruguay; where will it next blow smoke?
Philip Morris International just lost a six-year battle to block Uruguay’s strong cigarette warning labels, which cover 80 percent of the front and back of cigarette packs, including graphic photos of...
View ArticleMoral Jeopardy: What are the risks of accepting money from the alcohol,...
In his new book, Moral Jeopardy: Risks of Accepting Money from the Alcohol, Tobacco and Gambling Industries (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Peter Adams examines the ethical issues that arise when...
View ArticleEvidence Suggests the Oil Industry Wrote Big Tobacco’s Playbook
“Exxon and its allies have dismissed comparisons to Big Tobacco as baseless”, writes Smoke and Fumes, a project of the Center for International Environmental Law. “Our research in more than 14 million...
View ArticleNew Book on Corporations and Global Health Governance
Case Studies on Corporations & Global Health Governance, edited by Nora Kenworthy, Ross MacKenzie and Kelley Lee, presents interdisciplinary case studies on how corporations influence global health...
View ArticleE-cigarette Policymaking by Local and State Governments: 2009-2014
A new report in The Milbank Quarterly concludes that passing e-cigarette regulations at the state level has become more difficult since cigarette companies have entered the market. While state...
View ArticleCountermarketing Unhealthy Food: Lessons from Tobacco
Thirty years of research in tobacco control has shown that countermarketing has been effective in reducing tobacco use, especially among teenagers and young adults. This policy brief by investigators...
View ArticleWhy Tobacco Companies Are Spending Millions To Boost A Cigarette Tax
For many Missouri health advocates, an increase in the state’s tobacco tax is long overdue. But, according to the California public radio station KCLU, onlookers might be surprised to hear that tobacco...
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