Big Tobacco: Role Model or Pariah for the Pharmaceutical Industry?
By Nicholas Freudenberg for the Symposium of the Geneesmiddelenbulletin on June 30th 2016 in Leiden ’Science and Economy’. It was also translated and published in the Bulletin. In the last two decades,...
View ArticleWhy the Tobacco Lobby Doesn’t Provide a Blueprint to Defeat the Gun Lobby
The uptick in mass shootings over the past few years has led to widespread calls for gun reform and the defeat of pro-gun lobbyist groups opposing it. Since the gun lobby currently employs many of the...
View ArticleUK court rejects tobacco companies’ appeal on plain packaging
A UK court has dismissed an appeal brought by some of Britain’s largest tobacco companies over the government’s new plain packaging rules, reports Reuters. In the decision, the court dismissed all...
View ArticleWorking Around the World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit
Ten years ago, writes Kelly Henning from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Health program in the Health Affairs blog, the world was a different place when it came to tobacco. Fewer than twenty...
View ArticleWhy Many Tobacco-Friendly Business Groups Are Now Switching Sides
The local chamber of commerce is usually a reliable ally in battles against regulation. But when it comes to smoking rules, many business groups have decided they would rather switch than fight,...
View ArticleNew York City Is Oversaturated with Licensed Tobacco Retail Outlets
For more than a decade New York City has led a historic and successful effort to reduce smoking, driving down smoking rates to historic lows. Despite these efforts, about 950,000 people still smoke and...
View ArticleCountermarketing 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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