teen smoking law

New Evidence re Smoking in Movies

And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License ...
And the Cigar Association announced it will halt product placement ...

Seeks Protection From Congress

And proposed penalties for failure to cut teen smoking , though innovative, remain wimpy ...
paid to "place" Marlboro cigarettes and signage in the first and second "Superman" movies ...
No wonder the industry wants the administration and Congress to rubber-stamp a national settlement that would halt most pending lawsuits ...
As now proposed, the industry can deduct the cost of the settlement, sticking the taxpayers with roughly one-third of the tab ...
Now big tobacco is looking to Congress to pass a global bailout which will prevent other states from holding the cigarette companies accountable for the harm they have caused and reveal more of the truth hidden in the secret documents ...

Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

While the much-touted national settlement affirms Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate nicotine as a drug, other language could curb the FDA's ability to push for development of safer cigarettes -- possibly forever ...
And lawmakers learned a year after the fact that, in 1988, the same company shelled out $350,000 to showcase Lark cigarettes in the James Bond film, "License ...
Congressional hearings on the proposed settlement resume after Labor Day ...
Sussman thinks designers of smoking cessation programs should accommodate young smokers' lifestyles ...

White House Fighting Uphill On Cig Tax Hike

paid to "place" Marlboro cigarettes and signage in the first and second "Superman" movies ...
Clinton plans to discuss in the State of the Union address next week his administration's efforts to reduce smoking by teen agers, including the proposed tax increase to make cigarettes too expensive for some potential smokers ...
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 ...

Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

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 ...
But the White House has long signaled its intention to seek more money from tobacco, and officials confirmed a report in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that Clinton will propose the tobacco tax, which is now at 24 cents, as part of a package of tax increases ...

Smoking By Kids Up - Again!

The maximum penalty -- $ 2 billion -- represents just a few pennies a pack, small change since each new addict produces more than $ 500 a year in revenue ...
But it was the sharp rise in black youths' smoking rates, which other studies showed to have dropped sharply in the 1970's and 1980's, that experts found most troubling ...
Some young smokers say they have no intention of quitting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which raised the price of cigarettes by 50 cents a pack, may make them cut back on the amount they smoke ...
The new tax, if enacted, would raise $8 billion a year over the next five years and would be used to help pay for a host of new social initiatives the president has announced over the past ...
The states are also likely to object to an attempt to claim any of the money they won from the tobacco companies, saying that the federal government had no role in the litigation that led to the settlement ...

President Pressures Industry on Radio

This week, in an historic and resounding 19 to 1 vote, a key Senate committee gave its stamp of approval to comprehensive legislation sponsored by Senator John McCain, a Republican, and Senator Fritz Hollings, a Democrat, that would cut youth smoking by half over the next decade ...
No wonder the industry wants the administration and Congress to rubber-stamp a national settlement that would halt most pending lawsuits ...
No surprise that tobacco spent more than $ 10 million trying to influence the 1996 election ...
The Clinton administration plans to propose a federal tax increase of 55 cents a pack on cigarettes to help pay for new domestic ...
But the White House has long signaled its intention to seek more money from tobacco, and officials confirmed a report in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday that Clinton will propose the tobacco tax, which is now at 24 cents, as part of a package of tax increases ...

Why Teenagers Smoke, and Quit

The new tax, if enacted, would raise $8 billion a year over the next five years and would be used to help pay for a host of new social initiatives the president has announced over the past ...
This week's progress in the Senate shows we have real momentum in both parties to do just that ...
Teen s have their own issues, their own persuasion trigger points, their own pressures ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
While white high school students smoke at nearly twice the rate of blacks, the gap has narrowed steadily in the 90's and some experts predict that it will close in the next decade ...

EXPERTS BAFFLED BY RISE IN TEEN SMOKING

Now big tobacco is looking to Congress to pass a global bailout which will prevent other states from holding the cigarette companies accountable for the harm they have caused and reveal more of the truth hidden in the secret documents ...
For the third time this year, he took his case to the airwaves, using his weekly radio address today to argue once more that the tobacco industry should not be doing business with American kids ...
Even though smoking is known to cause disease and early death, the growing number of teen smokers baffles experts seeking ways to stamp out cigarette and tobacco use among youth ...
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 ...

Truth TV Ads Continue to Successfully Educate Teens on the Dangers of Smoking

Three years ago, appalled by how many children were becoming addicted to cigarettes every year, the Vice President and I committed this administration to ...
While white high school students smoke at nearly twice the rate of blacks, the gap has narrowed steadily in the 90's and some experts predict that it will close in the next decade ...
We're not trying to put the tobacco companies out of business; we want to put them ...
The group's "Truth" ad campaign tries to show teen s the dark side of smoking by exposing the marketing tactics of tobacco companies ...