Showing posts with label Big Tobacco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Tobacco. Show all posts
Monday, October 20, 2014

The End of Combusted Tobacco?

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With E-cigarettes, a mixed bag of possible outcomes. E-cigarettes represent a controversial and uncertain future for nicotine addict...
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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Why the CDC Director Hates E-Cigarettes

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The pros and cons of getting your vape on. Last month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began a new era—regulating e-cigarettes. ...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Built-In Advantages Give Big Tobacco an Edge in E-Cigs

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The Big Three are now in it to win it.  If there was ever any doubt that major tobacco companies have designs on the emerging elect...
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Friday, May 31, 2013

Big Tobacco Hasn't Given Up On Smoking. Have You?

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World No Smoking Day.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Six Arguments For the Elimination of Cigarettes

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Prohibition and the “tobacco control endgame.” Despite all our efforts in recent years to reduce the percentage of Americans who smoke ...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Big Tobacco Easily Evades “Light” Cigarette Ban

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Color coding allows smokers to easily identify their former brands. The tobacco industry has once again made a mockery of the Food and ...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Science, Academia, and Tobacco

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A review of The Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition Part III Academic collaborations come...
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Saturday, May 26, 2012

The Tobacco Industry as Disease Vector

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A review of The Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition Part II The famous Surgeon General’s ...
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Friday, March 2, 2012

The Black Bag: Odds and Ends

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Drug news from the world of science and medicine. --How Marijuana Impairs Memory Mo Costandi at the UK Guardian expands on his Natur...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Update on Smoking Bans Around the World

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The noose tightens. Smoking bans are everywhere. But what does the global picture look like as 2011 gets underway? Herewith, a brief rundo...
Monday, November 15, 2010

New Warning Labels for U.S. Cigarettes; Big Tobacco on the Rampage

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Philip Morris Intl. sues Uruguay and Brazil. Lots of developments on the nicotine front these days. On opposite ends of the news spectrum...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

The Death of “Low Tar” Cigarettes… Or Maybe Not.

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Is this the best the FDA can do? Lots of cigarette news lately. To begin with, cigarette manufacturers will no longer be able to ma...
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Tobacco Settlement Turned Upside Down

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“Tobacco bonds” link state budgets to cigarette sales. Bob Sullivan of MSNBC reports that ten years after a group of states wrestled Big To...