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Tobacco Firms Aware of Dangers of Cigarette Smoke But Hid Evidence
A study by UCLA researchers claims that tobacco companies had known for decades that cigarette smoke was bad for the health, but continues to hide that information from the public
Tobacco tax pits Lance Armstrong against RJ Reynolds - Chicago Daily Herald
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Chicago Daily Herald
AP file photo By Bloomberg News SAN FRANCISCO β Lance Armstrong, the cycling champion and cancer survivor, is putting $1.5 million behind a ballot measure to add $1 a pack to California's cigarette tax, even as the tobacco industry has put up most of ...
California tobacco tax measure risks going up in smoke
Taxing tobacco: Clearing some smoke, or, vote Yes on Proposition 29
Pro Prop 29 Ad Lampoons Tobacco Industry
Tobacco giants cower behind smokescreen - Herald Sun
Herald Sun
And yet the tobacco industry is constantly attempting to thwart efforts by governments to reduce the devastating impact of smoking on the community. The World Health Organisation has singled out tobacco industry interference as one of the greatest ...
'How tobacco firms are hurting our health system'
The tobacco conundrum
Scotland stalls in bid to cut smoking
Report: State tobacco prevention funding lacking - BusinessWeek
National Post
BusinessWeek
Many also have raised tobacco taxes in order to increase revenue and supplement funds provided by the tobacco industry. About 46 million Americans smoke, while more than 3 percent of American adults use smokeless tobacco, according to the CDC.
States Use Only Fraction of Tobacco Revenues to Fight Smoking, Study Finds
DoctorsHealthPress.com Reports on Study Measuring the Effectiveness of Anti ...
Smokers support increased regulation of tobacco industry
Tobacco taxes are great, but Proposition 29 stinks - Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The supporters of Proposition 29 have made much of the fact that the tobacco industry has gone all in to defeat it, as though that in itself attests to its wisdom. The opposition forces, led by the tobacco companies Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds, ...
California tobacco tax measure risks going up in smoke
California tobacco tax measure risks going up in smoke - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Health-conscious Californians may mostly oppose smoking for its costs to public health and the economy but an aggressive tobacco industry campaign and general anti-tax sentiment may block a measure to raise taxes on smokers.
Young smokers fuel tobacco case - Canada.com
BBC News
Canada.com
It is a rare attempt of its kind to constrain a tobacco industry which looks to the world's fourth most populous country and its growing appetite for cigarettes to replace dwindling sales elsewhere. The suit against tobacco companies and the Indonesian ...
Forcella: Young people share views on cigarette taxes
High cigarette taxes won't work in Pennsylvania: too many roads
Memorial Day E Cigarette Sale Gives Free E Liquid at E Cigarettes National
Australia says big tobacco aiding WTO challengers - Reuters
FRANCE 24
Reuters
By Stephanie Nebehay | GENEVA (Reuters) - The tobacco industry is providing legal advice to Ukraine and Honduras in their challenges to Australia's new tobacco packaging rules at the World Trade Organization, Australian Health Secretary Jane Halton ...
Australia defiant on WTO cigarette challenge
Illegal tobacco business incurring huge losses to national exchequer - Pakistan Observer
Pakistan Observer
IslamabadβIllegal tobacco business in the country has incurred huge losses to the national exchequer during the fiscal current year. The illegal business has swelled to 11 % while sale of smuggled cigarettes has increased by more than 66% from Rs. 1 ...
'Tobacco Taxation in Pakistan': WHO urges FBR to restore 'supervised clearance ...
10 percent price rise decreases consumption by up to 8 percent of cigarette: WHO
Ad for cigarette-tax initiative attacks tobacco industry - San Jose Mercury News
East County Magazine
San Jose Mercury News
"Tobacco companies will continue to deceive and lie to the public about what this measure will do," said Jim Knox, a lobbyist for the American Cancer Society, one of the backers of Proposition 29. "That's why our ad focuses on who the opponents are, ...
TOBACCO INDUSTRY SPENDS BIG TO OPPOSE PROP 29
Industry raises millions to fight tobacco tax
Commentary: Big Tobacco gets an unlikely ally for California ballot initiative
Beware of 'amendments' to sin tax bill - Philippine Star
Philippine Star
Government must keep vigilant in its position to reform the current structure on sin taxes in the light of the continuing lobby of the industry's mega monopoly partners Philip Morris and Fortune Tobacco to keep the status quo.
The bottom line: health
tobacco industry news - Google News
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