second hand smoke legislation

President Pressures Industry on Radio

Once the politically popular bill cleared its first hurdle Wednesday, tobacco companies balked and warned that the added costs could bankrupt the industry ...
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 ...
Today, thanks to these efforts and the persistence of state attorneys general, the public health community, and leaders in Congress, we have the best opportunity ever to pass comprehensive anti-smoking legislation that will save millions of our children from a premature, painful, and very preventable death ...

CA Assemblyman Proposes Statewide Beach Smoking Ban

Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood) announced Monday that he would immediately introduce a bill to prohibit smoking on public coastal beaches along California’s 1,200-mile coastline ...
The new legislation will be inserted into AB 1583, a Koretz bill currently inactive on the Senate Floor ...
10 per pack by 2003 and force changes in cigarette advertising practices ...

South African Cig. Sales Decline

10 per pack by 2003 and force changes in cigarette advertising practices ...
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 ...
The Economics of Tobacco Control Project report said the decrease could be attributed to rapid hikes in the price of cigarettes and the creation of an environment, through legislation , in which smoking is no longer seen as socially acceptable ...
Reducing youth smoking must be everybody's bottom line,'' the president said ...
We want to put them out of the business of selling cigarettes to kids ...

New Law Would Ban Smoking

Assemblyman Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood) announced Monday that he would immediately introduce a bill to prohibit smoking on public coastal beaches along California’s 1,200-mile coastline ...
The bill, retooled right up until its unveiling and ultimately approved 19-1, is much tougher on the industry than the proposed settlement negotiated with 40 state attorneys general last June ...
The First Lady and I have just returned, exhausted but exhilarated, from our trip to Africa ...
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 ...

Editorials Condemn Settlement of Tobacco Law Suit

Tougher tobacco law on the way Johannesburg - Cigarette consumption in South Africa has decreased by about a third since the early 1990s, a study by the University of Cape Town's school of economics revealed on Monday ...
This week's progress in the Senate shows we have real momentum in both parties to do just that ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

The bill, retooled right up until its unveiling and ultimately approved 19-1, is much tougher on the industry than the proposed settlement negotiated with 40 state attorneys general last June ...
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 ...

Mexico City's Smoking Population on the Rise as City Implements Tough Anti-Smoking Law

Once amended it will be referred to a policy committee in the Senate for consideration ...
The First Lady and I have just returned, exhausted but exhilarated, from our trip to Africa ...

Remarks by Andre Calantzopoulos, President and Chief Executive Officer, Philip Morris International Inc.

This morning, I want to report on the progress we're making in our country to free children from two of the greatest health and safety dangers they face: the cruel and deadly ...
Let's remember -- this is not about politics or money, or seeking revenge against the tobacco industry for past practices ...
I know that many of you traveled along with us day by day through television and the Internet, but I wish every American could have seen up close the renewed hope and restored pride that is evident in the six countries we visited ...
s adult smoke rs outside the USA that we will seek to persuade to switch to our products, I believe that PMI has great potential to continue to expand volume, share and profitability going forward ...

New Flavored Cigarettes Anger Health Activists

If it's his position that smoking is none of the government's business, let him say so ...
I know that many of you traveled along with us day by day through television and the Internet, but I wish every American could have seen up close the renewed hope and restored pride that is evident in the six countries we visited ...
and a claim that the regulations violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution ...
Once the politically popular bill cleared its first hurdle Wednesday, tobacco companies balked and warned that the added costs could bankrupt the industry ...

Series Of Tobacco-Perception Polling Articles From The Public Perspective

By overwhelming majorities, we say that ultimately the decision to smoke or not should be a personal one that adults are free to make ...
If it is to some extent the government's business, what does he intend to do about it? His policy thus far has been to ...
I may not want to do something, but I shouldn't stop someone else from doing it unless his/her doing it clearly confounds the ...