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The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up

What has the cigar manufacturers upset is that the new Massachusetts law requires a conspicuous black-and-white health warning label on ...
California and Massachusetts have both enacted laws requiring warning labels on cigars ...
Public-health groups are pointing to a sharp rise in teenage cigar smoking at the same time the industry has increased its advertising ...

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Wants Big Tobacco to Run Ads Admitting They Misled Smokers

And antitobacco congressmen have introduced legislation making cigars abide by the same labeling and advertising rules as cigarettes ...
Actors who puff on the cigars include Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg ...
ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel recently met with tobacco executives and asked them to pay for a community education campaign about the harmful effects of smoking , and to stop using by year's end the terms light and mild ...
Surveys have found that almost 11 percent of men and 2 percent of women smoke cigars ...
It's not clear where the cigar companies stand on federal legislation ...

US News on Secret Tobacco Papers

The tobacco companies said they did not want to make the change until early 2006, when they will be forced to put ...
Surveys have found that almost 11 percent of men and 2 percent of women smoke cigars ...
As more people light up, some US officials are saying cigars should abide by the same rules as cigarettes ...
The new reports spell out with great clarity the remarkable degree to which tobacco company lawyers controlled research into smoking and health, and the measures their clients took to conceal what they knew ...

NJ: After 20 Years, Epic Tobacco Lawsuit Settled

Federal and state officials are taking aim at the rolled-up tobacco leaves, which recent research has found may have an even greater health risk than cigarettes ...
During her own deposition, Haines said, a defense attorney asked if her father ever hit her ...
He kept on smoking after his marriage, the birth of his daughters and during his steady climb up the corporate ladder as a salesman and executive for the makers of Schrafft Ice Cream and later at American Food Labs ...
The tobacco companies said they did not want to make the change until early 2006, when they will be forced to put ...
Surveys have found that almost 11 percent of men and 2 percent of women smoke cigars ...

WHO Report Claims the Poor are the Biggest Victims of the Tobacco Industry

Peter Rossi smoked for 40 years, sometimes as much as four packs a day ...
Haines said her lawyers warned her that the defendants would use all legal means to delay or stifle any resolution ...
Armed with that opinion, Edell's firm began seeking smokers for similar claims against tobacco companies ...
Liggett was one of seven lawsuits filed in the early 1980s as companion cases to one by survivors of Rose Cipollone, the New Jersey smoker whose family won the first ever liability verdict against a cigarette manufacturer ...
The slowdown on the industry would also have minimal harmful effects on farming and labor ...

Safer Cigarettes NOT Safe

Reynolds, Philip Morris and the parent company of Lorillard -- the manufacturers of other brands that Rossi smoked during his life -- as well as the Tobacco Institute, the now-defunct research arm of the cigarette makers ...
Actors who puff on the cigars include Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, and Whoopi Goldberg ...
Saying there is no evidence that smoking can be made safer, they charge that such products could cause people to avoid quitting -- or even to take up smoking ...
Such revelations won't help the embattled business as it tries to fend off continuing attacks on both legal and legislative fronts ...
And antitobacco congressmen have introduced legislation making cigars abide by the same labeling and advertising rules as cigarettes ...

Smoking Around Kids is "Child Abuse"

Such revelations won't help the embattled business as it tries to fend off continuing attacks on both legal and legislative fronts ...
They may appear concerned about the effects of smoking on their children, but not concerned enough to quit ...
They might want a relatively relaxed federal law to preempt states from acting ...

Editorials Condemn Settlement of Tobacco Law Suit

It sought $358,000 in lost income for Rossi, $10,000 for his medical and funeral costs and punitive damages ...
If it's his position that smoking is none of the government's business, let him say so ...
Mr Samuel will also decide in the next few weeks whether the ACCC will launch legal action against cigarette makers for alleged past deceptive and misleading conduct over the issue - potentially starting one of ...
Some parents tell me they only smoke outside or always roll the window down in the car when they smoke ...

Supressed Research On 'Safer Cigs.' Revived

Filed in Newark in February 1984, it passed through the hands of four district judges, three magistrate judges and dozens of attorneys ...
The studies investigated the effects of cigarette smoke on the lungs, and particularly how it led to the lung disease emphysema ...
Some parents tell me they only smoke outside or always roll the window down in the car when they smoke ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

I feel bad for the kids, but I don't miss dealing with their stubborn parents ...
In April 1982, he checked himself into a hospital complaining of recurring neck pain ...
Even when he was near death, on morphine to ease the pain of cancer, Rossi pretended to drag on a cigarette ...
They might want a relatively relaxed federal law to preempt states from acting ...