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Tobacco News on the Web Archive, Nov. 1996

Tobacco News on the Web

Archive, Nov. 1996

11/96 Blowing Smoke Origin of "stogie," and other cigar words. From the Atlantic Monthly

11/96 Coverage of the Finding of James Fort by Archeology Magazine

11/3/96 DOT Seeks Nationwide Airport Smoking Limits AP, Wash. Post

11/4/96 American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout Site games, prizes, celebrities, news, information, Smokeout Pledge and national petition, links to legislators and other anti-smoking sites, PLUS: 20th Annual Great American Smokeout and Great American SmokeScream events planned for Thursday, Nov. 21. PR Presswire

11/4/96 Hollywood Lights Up Again at the Movies SF Chron's Mich LaSalle glorifies smoking (It is sexy. It is glamorous. It is cool,) but there are some objections.

11/6/96 Preachers on Tobacco Turf Face Devilish Dilemna Knight Ridder

11/7/96 Why Didn't Bill Attack Dole's Character? Of all people to criticize Dole's tobacco connection--Sidney Zion!. NY Daily News

11/7/96 Tobacco Stocks Shoot Up on Republican House Win Philadelphia Inquirer

11/7/96 Tobacco Was Dad's Life--It Also Took His Life Victor Crawford Jr. Speaks! USA Today

11/7/96 Cigarettes Light Up Movies O Romeo, Romeo . . . What are you doing with a cigarette at your lips? First of USA Today's 3-Part Series:

11/7/96 Smoking Could Kill 5 Million Youths: CDC MS/NBC

11/8/96 FIrst Tobcco Sponsorship Hits the Web: Moonlight Tobacco Co. and Soho Arts Festival are part of a "publishing partnership" for "Simon Says," a "Guide to arts related happenings in the downtown scene."

11/8/96 Tobacco Industry Absence Creates a Smoke-free Zone on Web But not for long (see below). WSJ

11/8/96 A Catalog of Horrors The Brooks Brothers' catalog?? Yes, BB: Yet in keeping with the latest fad of these moronic times, the Brooks Brothers catalog puts a cigar in just about everyone's hands. And gives to the smokers expressions of half-in-the-bag self-satisfaction, like Pinnochio's jackass friends on Pleasure Island. WSJ

11/8/96 RJR linked tobacco to cancer in 1953--Report Nando Net

11/8/96 Turkish Parliament Bans Smoking in Most Public Places Nando Net

11/09/96 Gere Covert vs. Shook Hardy Bacon Death, revenge and high-priced lawyers. The Louisiana Jane Covert tobacco liability trial, expertly and richly covered by Matthew Schofield of the Kansas City Star. Here's the 11/11 follow-up

11/11/96 Smoking Hinders Infertility Treatment Your Health Daily

11/11/96 Children from Smoking Homes Need More Oxygen Therapy After Surgery: Study Detroit News

11/11/96 The Gods' Own Medicine Of poverty, pleasure domes and poppy fields. From Asiaweek, a review of a book on opium: Booth aptly calls the marriage of tobacco and opium "one of the most evil cultural exchanges in history," because it spawned an uncontrollable spiral of dependence and exploitation.

11/11/96 Just Another Statistic The personal toll of lung cancer. Washington Post

11/11/96 Smokers Voted for Clinton Among current, past and never-smokers--the most Dole votes were from never-smokers Business Week

11/11/96 MN: Tobacco Industry Attacks Gambling Phil. Inquirer.

11/13/96 Ad Executives Break Ranks Over Tobacco Fighting advertising with advertising, David Milenthal & William Novelli's Initiative on Tobacco Marketing to Children is set to go on ad attack as early as Monday. WSJ. And here's the story from The Washington Post

11/13/96 Genetic Breast Cancer Risk: Smoking Increases Risk of Breast Cancer in Women with Defective Enzyme--Study Washington Post. Here's the story in The New York Times

11/13/96Flaming Success Zippo Lighters. Forbes

11/13/96 CA: SF to Ban Self-Service Displays? SF Chron

11/13/96 Follow the Money It's payback time . . . the biggest single campaign donor this election was Philip Morris, giving a combined $2.7 million to both parties James Ridgeway, Village Voice

11/14/96 Cancer Death Rates Down First Time in a Century. Lung cancer down 6.7% in men, but rose 6.4% in women. Lung cancer rate in 1995 now 129.8 deaths per 100,000. Boston Globe

11/14/96 Marlboro's "Unlimited" Magazine Debuts Phil. Inquirer

11/15/96 Doctors Stay out of Smoking Fray 50% of doctors don't talk about tobacco. Detroit News

11/15/96 VA AG Gilmore Ignites Furor by Joining Tobcos against FDA Regulations Friend of the Court Brief Brings Criticism. Wash. Post

11/15/96 CA: Tobacco Retailers Launch Campaign to Halt Teen Access Oh, really? We'll see. Their record for the last 30 years is not great. Sponsored by the Coalition for Responsible Tobacco Retailing (D.C.), which represents 12 trade groups and 150,000 retailers. Also involved: U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Police Organizations. SF Examiner

11/15/96 Tobcos Use Orange County Suit to Stay SF suit Industry argues the two suits in two courts could yield conflicting judgements; that "exclusive concurrent jurisdiction" requires the SF suit must await the Orange County suit decision.

11/15/96 Mutual Fund Creates Anti-Tobacco Site Socially Responsible Calvert Group (Click on "Know What You Own" ("Investing with Vision") to focus on non-tobacco funds. (Here are the companies they watch out for--including Sara Lee) CNet

11/15/96 Fed Appeals Court Upholds Baltimore's Tobacco Billboard Ban The Fourth Circuit said that government entities could constitutionally impose reasonable restrictions on cigarette and alcohol advertising in order to protect children from being exposed to this type of advertising . . . stressing that the ban complements preexisting state legislation that prohibits the sale of cigarettes and alcohol to minors. The appeals court also noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly held that "children deserve solicitude" when assessing First Amendment arguments "because they lack the ability to assess and analyze fully the information presented through commercial media." Phil. Inq. 11/16/96

What the Decision May Mean for Tobacco John Schwartz, Washington Post. 11/16/96. Get the Full Baltimore Decision from Law Journal's "Decision of the Day'

11/16/96 Tobcos to Pull Cigs from Mass. over Disclosure Law? Boston Globe

11/16/96

Lt.-Gov Breyer Slams Gilmore; Supports FDA Regs Crossfire Spreads Across Virginia. Richmond Times-Dispatch

11/17/96 Pentagon Retreats on Hiring of PR Firm The continuing saga of PM/Cipollone case flack Guy Smith. Wash. Post

11/17/96 U.S. Aided Cigarette Firms In Conquests Across Asia This is the big one--"Big Tobacco's Global Reach: The New Opium War" A documentation of names and dates. The First of Four Parts from Wash. Post.

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SUNDAY: Breaking down Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. All about the USTR, U.S. Cigarette Export Association, "301" complaints, and the roles played by Dole, Gore, Reagan, Quayle, Clayton Yeutter, Jesse Helms, Sandra Kristoff. And in Entertainment: the "Salem Madonna Concert," "Salem Tennis Open," and more tennis players than you can shake a racket at: Pat Cash, Michael Chang, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe.
Monday: How one little country, Thailand, unexpectedly fought back and set off a backlash that helped create a growing tobacco control movement in Asia.
Tuesday: How the companies have set their sights on the ruined economies of the former East Bloc, where they have brought millions of investment dollars and a take-charge enthusiasm to societies as starved for optimism as they are for cash.
Wednesday: How China with its 300 million smokers has become the supreme battleground between the industry and the anti-smoking movement. Don't miss WP's story on the disturbing state of Cigarette Smuggling in China
And an objecting letter to the editor The sale of American cigarettes to Far Eastern countries is clearly a trade issue

11/18/96 Stop-Smoking Pill Research Can Continue FDA approves further clinical testing/research of cotinine-based pill Reuters
11/18/96 The X-Files' "Cancer Man" Profiled People Magazine, 11/25/96
11/18/96 Zippo: Flaming Success Everything old is new again. Forbes Magazine
11/18/96 Tobacco's Proponents and Opponents on the Web NY Times
11/18/96 An Elephant's Tale Moonlight Tobacco's "Jumbos" get the Herbert treatment.NY Times
11/19/96 Cancer is a mostly preventable disease that can be avoided through shunning smoking, eating well and exercising regularly, according to a sweeping new Harvard School of Public Health report [which distilled] virtually the entire body of research into cancer's causes Boston Globe
11/2/96 Canadian Manufacurers Amend Voluntary Ad Restriction Code Ad Age International
11/20/96 Most investors would favor funds without tobacco stocks Detroit News
11/20/96 Two views of court decision on Washington's Medicaid Suit:
- WA AG's Office: Attorney General Chris Gregoire is delighted with today's King County Superior Court ruling allowing the majority of the state's lawsuit against the tobacco industry to proceed.
- RJR: Claims of special duty, unjust enrichment and consumer protection brought by the State of Washington against the tobacco industry were dismissed today
11/20/96 Smokescreens: Three Ann Arbor smokers kick the habit and crow about it on national TV ads Detroit News on the Nicotrol campaign
11/20/96Montgomery County Snuffs Another Smoking Curb Last week it was the (Friendship Heights) outdoor smoking ban; now the restaurant smoking ban. Wash. Post
11/20/96 Pharmacy Partnership Releases Dave Thomas "Spokespharmacist Poster Business Wire
11/20/96 Study says smoking can sharpen memory 24 college students in study on short-term memory. AP, thru Phil. Daily News
11/21/96 CANADA: Tobacco Industry Lighters Unsafe?? This is a press release.
11/21/96. GREAT AMERICAN SMOKEOUT is TODAY!!
- Great American Smokeout WebSite
- November 21, 1996, 7-7:30 PM EST on HBO: TV: Smoke Alarm: The Unfiltered Truth About Cigarettes Read the Press Release: on how the program will be informing kids about tobacco advertising that lures them to smoke.
- 11/21/96 An Online Adaptation of "Smoke Alarm' Pathfinder
- 11/12/96 When the Smoke Clears Washington Post
- 11/21/96 S.F. Bars Join Today's Smokeout SF Chronicle
- 11/21/96 Smoke Alarm': A Spoof With Sobering Message for Teens. NY Times
- 11/21/96 Teens Debate Smokeout Wash. Post
- Pharmacists Join Fight No more "Pharmacist in Back, "Harm-assist in Front" for the members of the Pharmacy Partnership?
- 1 Million Stop Smoking Calendars Distributed by HealthPartners, a managed care org, to members and in Minn. newspaper inserts. It unfolds to 3-feet, includes tips/time-oriented warnings.
  Here's what others faced yesterday, and how they dealt with it:
- Successfully Stomping out the Smoke You can contribute to MS/NBC's ongoing dialog
- 11/22/96 The Great American Smokeout on the Web NY Times
- 11/21/96 Advertising from Both Sides Greets Great American Smokeout
- 11/22/96 How About those San Francisco Bar Patrons? Unhappy Hour for Smokers. SF Chron.
11/22/96 China Plans Nationwide Tobacco Ad Ban Ad Age International
11/22/96 Congress to Hold Public Hearings on Liquor/Tobacco Ads on Web House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and FInance. Wired News
11/22/96 Successfully Stomping out the Smoke You can contribute to MS/NBC's ongoing dialog
11/22/96 The Great American Smokeout on the Web NY Times
11/22/96 Philip Morris Polled Teens in 1974 to see why they were beginning to smoke Kool, not Marlboro. USA Today
11/24/96 Two State Medicaid Trial Dates Set Florida, Texas. NY Times
11/24/96 College President Fined +$1,000 for Smoking in Her Office Fined for violating MD's workplace smoking law. Takes fine seriously. "I realize that smoking is not good for anyone's health . . . I would never encourage anyone to take it up, and I wish I had never started." Wash. Post
11/25/96 Information on people's health habits is mostly self-reported. Just how truthful are they? Phil. Inq.
11/25/96 Tobacco Foe from Kentucky Wins House Seat Ann Northrup, maverick Republican and tobacco control advocate, squeaks a win in tobacco country. Richmond Times-Dispatch
11/26/96 Kessler to Leave FDA NY TImes.
Move Stuns White House NY Newsday. Here's John Schwartz' typically thorough Wash. Post story
11/26/96 To smokers, addiction is a cloudy issue Letter-writers critique MSNBC Opinion Editor Philipp Harper's column denying power of nicotine addiction. Smokers and ex-smokers agree with Philipp Harper that nicotine is different from other addictive drugs. But some think it�s better and others think it�s worse. Whatever that means. But so runs the introducing page. Everybody always seems to agree with M. Harper, no matter what they say. MSNBC
11/26/96 Canadian Gov't in Tobacco Advertising Quagmire Financial Times (free registration required)
11/18/96 White House Finds Anti-Tobacco Pledge Not So Easy to Keep Admin begins trying to untangle the Gordian Knot. Washington Post
11/27/96 Tobacco Foe Loses Court Bid to Force OSHA Smoking Rules Washington Post. Here's the Law Journal article
11/27/96 Canada Raises Taxes, Proposes Massive Ad Ban in Broad Attack on Tobacco Arts groups save sponsorships. Detroit News
11/28/96 MN Supreme Court Orders Disclosure of Cig Formulas "Trade secrets" to remain sealed from public. MSNBC. Here's the AP story
11/28/96 CANADA: Dingwall Proposes Strong Tobacco Curbs High Provincial Taxes, Ingredient Lists to be Required; Billboards, Clothing, Sports & Events Sponsorships to Get Axed? Wash. Post. Here's the take from Ad Age
11/29/96 Odds are the "Cuban" cigar is a Fake `Illegal' cigars the butt of joke. Houston Chronicle (free registration)
11/30/96 Lousiana's "Cancer Alley" is Due to Cigarettes, not Refineries--Study Houston Chronicle
11/30/96 Turkey, of All Places, Has Gone SmokeFree Someone Tell the Turks! NY Times
11/21/96 NEW! Send a letter to the USTR EZ Mail, set up by smokescreen and sponsored by Americans for Non-Smoker's Rights.

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