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  • “These mutations are a bit like Russian roulette. Most of the time you will hit an empty chamber and cause a passenger mutation. But every now and again you will hit a bullet and cause a tumour.”
    Professor Peter Campbell, who led the team that examined genetic mutations in lung cancer cells.
    » British scientists crack killer cancer code , Electronic Telegraph (uk) (Thursday, December 17, 2009)
  • “The characters and plots would lack depth and expressive force without the hovering smoke on stage, the poignant exhale of a puff of smoke and even the ability or inability to smoke.”
    Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs, who in his dissenting opinion called alternative smoking devices "untenable and even laughable" and wrote that onstage smoking is critical to setting mood and developing characters.
    » Colorado Supreme Court upholds ban of smoking on stage , Denver (CO) Post (Tuesday, December 15, 2009)
  • “Aspire to contribute to society/Tobacco helps you become a talent.”
    Slogan on a board at "Tobacco Project Hope Primary School," which was built with money from China Tobacco.
    » EDITORIAL: Harmful donation?, China Daily (cn) (Monday, December 14, 2009)
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    » ESSENMACHER: State smoking based on a moral that neglects personal freedom, Valley Vanguard (Saginaw Valley State University) (Monday, December 14, 2009)
  • “The [tobacco] industry understood that the public is in no position to distinguish good science from bad. Create doubt, uncertainty and confusion. Throw mud at the anti-smoking research under the assumption that some of it is bound to stick. And buy time, lots of it, in the bargain.”
    David Michaels, the epidemiologist at George Washington University who is President Obama's nominee to head OSHA, writing about Hill & Knowlton's tobacco strategy in his book "Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health."
    » EDITORIAL: The doubt industry, Brattleboro (VT) Reformer (Saturday, December 12, 2009)
  • “Quitting sucks. Nicorette Makes It Suck Less.”
    GlaxoSmithKline's $15 million ad campaign that will break on prime-time TV networks ABC, CBS this Monday.
    » Nicorette Puffs $15 Million Into Ad Blitz, Forbes (Monday, December 7, 2009)
  • “It's my fault. I'm a smoking machine. Hell, sometimes I wake up 10, 15 times a night to smoke a cigarette. The moral of my story is that 80 cigarettes a day and a cholesterol level of 300 is like a loaded gun.”
    Rocker John Mellencamp, after his 1994 heart attack. Now his son Speck, born the next year, has called on the world's Facebook fans to help him convince his dad to stop smoking.
    » John Mellencamp - Mellencamp's Son Asks Facebook Fans For Help, ContactMusic.com (uk) (Wednesday, December 2, 2009)
  • “The commercially-available cigarettes that we tested were chock full of bacteria, as we had hypothesized, but we didn't think we'd find so many that are infectious in humans. If these organisms can survive the smoking process -- and we believe they can -- then they could possibly go on to contribute to both infectious and chronic illnesses in both smokers and individuals who are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke.”
    Lead researcher Amy R. Sapkota, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland's School of Public Health, on the study that will appear in an upcoming edition of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
    » Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteria, ScienceDaily (Thursday, November 19, 2009)
  • “I wanted to do an over-the-top, walk-through exhibit. I’m not going after individual pharmacies as much as the chains that own them.”
    Prof. Alan Blum, on his Buffalo, NY, ad exhibit that explores the role that drugstores have played in keeping America smoking.
    » Clearing air on cigarette ads , Buffalo (NY) News (Thursday, November 19, 2009)
  • “Your Cancer and Drug Store: One-stop shopping: prescriptions, cigarettes, urgent care and chemo.”
    Alan Blum's mock-drug store: an exhibition on tobacco advertising that opens today in the Buffalo Museum of Science.
    » Clearing air on cigarette ads , Buffalo (NY) News (Thursday, November 19, 2009)
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