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Two New Studies Show: Ads Get Kids to Smoke

This means that nationally, 700,000 kids each year experiment with smoking because of their exposure to cigarette advertising and promotion ...
In the analysis, the researchers compared the probability that adolescents became susceptible to smoking, experimented with smoking, or ...

NC Doctors Provide Cessation Treatments for Workplace Smokers

During the 3-year study period, about 17% of the adolescents became susceptible to smoking, 30% experimented ...
There are two major questions: (1)Does the tobacco industry specifically target youth in its cigarette marketing? (2)Does tobacco marketing actually cause children to start smoking ...
700,000 kids each year experiment with smoking because of their exposure to cigarette advertising and promotion ...
The Winston -Salem doctors have begun a program aimed at getting workers to stop smoking, betting that Triad businesses will jump at the chance to reduce their employees' smoking breaks, they said ...

MA Tries to Halt Sales of New Flavored Cigarettes

Spangler acknowledged the Triad's long history of tobacco use and sales, but said that the health risks made the program important ...
Under the program, Spangler and Clinch will travel to businesses to provide medication and treatment for as many as 12 tobacco users in each ...

Suit Raises Issue of Liability for Tobacco Retailers

Exposure to cigarette advertising and promotion was based on whether a youth was able to recall the name of the brand of a cigarette they had seen ...
The new program, called the Tobacco Intervention Program Offsite, will take doctors into employee cubicles and offices to counsel them on how to stop smoking, John Spangler, a Wake Forest family-practice doctor, said yesterday ...

Tobacco Makers Want Cigarettes Cut from Films

In addition, they were not considered susceptible to start smoking, meaning that they had no intention to smoke in the future ...
and British American Tobacco PLC's Brown Sweet-flavored cigarettes -- one of the hottest new product categories in the tobacco industry -- are leaving a bitter taste in the mouths of Massachusetts's regulators ...
Pierce and colleagues determined which of the adolescents had become susceptible to smoking, meaning that they now expressed a possible intention to smoke in the future ...
Pierce also determined which of the adolescents had experimented with smoking, meaning that they had at least a few puffs on a cigarette ...

Tobacco Gives Out Free Cigarettes

Reynolds -- maker of Camel, Winston and Salem brands -- show up twice a week to hand out two free packs to anyone willing to show ID, answer a couple of consumer questions, and sign a waiver verifying his or her age ...
In particular, this question is central to the current Congressional debate over tobacco legislation and a possible tobacco settlement ...
But these people aren't waiting for the bar's famous bourbon and Cokes ...
Exposure to family and friends who smoked had only a small effect on whether these adolescents progressed toward smoking, increasing their chances by only 20 ...

Smoking Makes Billions For Tobacco Corps. and Gov'ts

Pierce and colleagues determined which of the adolescents had become susceptible to smoking, meaning that they now expressed a possible intention to smoke in the future ...
Under the program, Spangler and Clinch will travel to businesses to provide medication and treatment for as many as 12 tobacco users in each ...
State officials say the products, with names like Midnight Berry, Mocha Taboo and Mandarin Mint, represent a calculated attempt by tobacco companies to boost market shares by appealing to teenagers and possibly getting them ...

BIDI Petition Filed

This means that nationally, 700,000 kids each year experiment with smoking because of their exposure to cigarette advertising and promotion ...
AP) -- A federal appeals court trying to decide a Mobile lawsuit says it could not find any Alabama case that held retailers that sold cigarettes responsible for smoking-related illnesses ...
It's 9:30 at the Back Door Lounge and the line on this Tuesday night is already 10 deep ...

NC House Gives Industry a $9m Tax Break

Given all of the evidence that cigarette companies deliberately recruit and addict youth smokers, it is unconscionable to even consider granting these companies immunity from wrongdoing as they are seeking in a Congressional tobacco settlement ...
The question of what effect cigarette advertising has on children is an important one ...
This study demonstrates that exposure to cigarette advertising and promotion causes kids to start the process of becoming addicted to cigarettes ...
Reynolds has a three-year contract to produce Winston , Salem and Camel cigarettes for Japan Tobacco ...

Hawaiians Outraged Over Camel's Use of Island Name to Promote New Cigarettes

Finally, Pierce determined which adolescents progressed to become established smokers, defined as those who smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their life ...
Cigarette advertising and promotion was far more important than exposure to family and peers who smoked ...
The advantage of a longitudinal study, in which children are followed over a period of time, is that we can tell which came first: the exposure to the advertising or the initiation of smoking ...