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AG TALKS: Small Firms Create a Problem

Garrison, managing director of the American Lung Association, in a statement released by the ALA ...
We were not out to endorse their habit, or to preach (although we'd much rather be referring them to the Center for Tobacco Cessation at www ...
Minors who tried to buy single cigarettes from stores in San Bernardino County, California, succeeded 7 ...
It would raise the price of cigarettes, give the FDA full authority to regulate tobacco products, ban advertising aimed at children, and protect tobacco farmers ...

Press Release Provides an Overview

Developing countries face barriers in fight against tobacco industry Lack of resources, competing health problems and difficulty coordinating anti-tobacco efforts are hitting the ability of developing countries and certain ethnic groups to combat the spread of smoking , according to Dr Robert Robinson of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Georgia, USA ...
If they do sell cigarettes, the price includes all applicable local taxes and the cigarette tax, she said ...
One 15-year-old girl was able to buy cigarettes from all sites tested in the House office buildings ...

Series Of Tobacco-Perception Polling Articles From The Public Perspective

The White House supposedly will make its position clear soon after ...
Now will Washington politicians have the courage to insist on something better for all Americans? Big tobacco is afraid to have ...
How do all these changes reflect public attitudes over the years, including the conflict between the risks of smoking and Americans' regard for personal freedom ...
William Sorrell, incoming president of the National Association of Attorneys General, told a group of advertisers and agency reps at an April meeting in Washington that, It's hard to imagine Casablanca's Rick Blaine without smoke swirling around his face as he grows increasingly morose ...

Cigarette Taxes Could Save Lives

They then used economic models and the results of previous smoking cessation studies to estimate the number of deaths that could be avoided by using the three methods around the world ...
William Sorrell, incoming president of the National Association of Attorneys General, told a group of advertisers and agency reps at an April meeting in Washington that, It's hard to imagine Casablanca's Rick Blaine without smoke swirling around his face as he grows increasingly morose ...
We're not trying to put the tobacco companies out of business; we want to put them out of the business of selling cigarettes to kids ...
People in low- to mid-income countries and people between the ages of 15 and 29 would be the most impacted by the price increases, according to the study ...

How Philip Morris, Tobacco Foes Tied the Knot

The White House supposedly will make its position clear soon after ...
Until now, little evidence has supported the theory that tobacco companies use movies as advertising vehicles ...
It's easy to see why: Myers is the president of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, a group dedicated to outlawing smoking ...

New Study: Puffing Even 1 Cigarette in Childhood Increases Odds of Future Smoking

For the third time this year, he took his case to the airwaves, using his weekly radio address today to ...
But the awkward encounter that day belies an uncomfortable alliance between the two men and their organizations that has helped to move the tobacco bill closer than ever before to the president's desk ...
Entitled Seemingly insubstantial increases in the number of cigarettes kids smoke translate into big increases in the probability of habitual smoking by late adolescence, according to a report today in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine ...

RI Attorney General Says Cigarette Manufacturer Violated MSA

The money would also help offset $100 billion in proposed new Pentagon spending over the next six years ...
He said the Kool Mixx campaign violated the settlement because it appropriates hip-hop culture to target teen -agers and young adults ...
While the much-touted national settlement affirms Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate nicotine as a drug, other language could curb ...
As secret documents began to be released and top tobacco executives were deposed, the tobacco companies caved in to Florida's public health demands and settled the case ...

Doctors Seek 'R' Rating for Smoking Scenes in Movies

of violating the tobacco agreement by targeting urban youth with its Kool Mixx advertising campaign ...
Certify in the end credits that no one was paid anything or received anything of value for including cigarette- smoking scenes in the movie ...
The adolescent brain appears to be more responsive to nicotine’s rewarding effects than the adult brain, a UC Irvine Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center (TTURC) animal study has found ...
Even as Clinton offered assurances today that he didn't want to see them put wholly out of business, he made clear that he and like-minded lawmakers hold the upper hand ...

Editorial: Tobacco Buyout is Bad for Everyone

As now proposed, the industry can deduct the cost of the settlement, sticking the taxpayers with roughly one-third of the tab ...
Short of a ban, which would create a whole new set of problems, the agency still can do plenty in the interest of public health, particularly toward preventing teen smoking ...
Ari Fleischer, spokesman for the House Ways and Means Committee, reacted skeptically to the administration proposal, saying it was a part of a pattern of taxing and ...
One cigarette among the three freshmen, passed puff-to-puff as they shivered in the cold afternoon wind across the street from Milwaukee's Riverside University High School ...

Philip Morris Target of Another ‘Light’ Cigarette Suit

Hard times would fall on their suppliers and, in turn, their communities ...
The face-to-face negotiating sessions and conference calls were so sensitive that Philip Morris and the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids refused to tell even their closest allies ...