Tobacco News on the Web Archive, Jan. 1997

Tobacco News on the Web

Archive, Jan. 1997

Note: These articles wink in and out of existence with the frequency of sub-atomic particles. Many links will be dead. In that case, these pages can be approached as bibliographies, both noting the event, and showing where you might look for further information.

  • 01/01/97. Now that "cigar bars are . . . a fixture," a prediction of Other Smokeables for '97 LA Times
  • 01/01/97 ADHD Kids More Likely to Smoke In every case of drug abuse found in teens with [Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder], cigarette smoking precipitated or was initiated with the drug use .Reuters (free registration)
  • 01/01/97 CALIFORNIA: Milpitas Jail Allows Smoking Again Santa Clara County ban had spawned black markets, fights. SF Chron. And the Examiner also has a story about Jail Inmates Hurt in Fight over Cigarette Trade
  • 01/01/97 Flight Attendants to be Notified they can Join SecondHand Smoke Lawsuit 150,000+ to be notified by mail or through union publications for Broin case. Tobcos could mount own notification campaign. AP
  • 01/01/97 PEOPLE: Lew Ayers Refused TV Dr. Kildare Because of Possible Tobacco Sponsorship Phil. Inq.
  • 01/02/97 British Air Expands Nonsmoking Flights 80 of over 1180 still allow smoking. London Times.

  • 01/02/97 Happiness is the key to quitting smoking Harvard study finds miserable people more likely to smoke, and have a harder time quitting. Patches help. London Times
  • 01/02/97 Cigar Merchandizing Opinion. Blackie Sherrod, Dallas Morning News
  • 01/02/97 Tough Year May be in Store for Tobacco Firms Reuters
  • 01/02/97 Lung Cancer Risks Higher for Blacks Reuters Medical News (Free Registration)
  • 01/02/97 Ugh! Bad taste! Disgusting! Opinion on women & cigars. SF Examiner
  • 01/02/97 Tobacco Suit Judge Expected to Allow Punitive Damages Claim Florida racketeering charge may allow state to claim triple damages. What is alleged is so far and all encompassing that if liability is proven, application of RICO civil relief and recovery would undoubtedly be warranted.. POSTNet (expires in 2 days)Bloomberg
  • 01/02/97> Smokers' Home Page Profiled. Nowhere on this extensive site is it mentioned that Bogart died at 56 of lung cancer. . . It may not take a village to make a smoker, but it doesn't hurt to have a Web community on hand for support. Detroit News
  • 01/03/97 INDIA: New Delhi Bans Smoking in Public Places Reuters
  • 01/03/97 Reynolds Tobacco Completes Minnesota Discovery 4.5 million documents given to Minnesota lawyers. Lots of info here, as RJR leaks own docs in their Press Release. Here's AP's story. And in the accused's hometown (Minneapolis is charged with leaking "secret" docs), the Minneapolis Star-Tribune has a nice story on this "truly bizarre" situation.
  • 01/03/97Common Neural Substrates for the Addictive Properties of Nicotine and Cocaine . In the rat model, compulsive self-administration of nicotine and cocaine was associated with overlapping activation maps in the shell and core of the nucleus accumbens, medial prefrontal cortex, and medial caudate-putamen, but not the amygdala, corroborating the view that there is a common neuronal substrate for addiction to these two drugs. Science Magazine Online. For more consumer oriented language, here's the 1/6/97 Washington Post article on Similarities between Nicotine and Cocaine
  • 01/03/97 Clinton's Marlboro Men Ken Starr isn't the only lawyer in Washington with a tobacco connection. Slate
  • 01/04/97 Boston Lawyers Tangle over Bar Association Youth Smoking Seminar for High School December seminar cancelled on objections of bias from tobco law firms. This group of students is the very group that the tobacco industry is targeting with their $100 million campaign. To silence us when we are trying to bring the truth to these kids is just unconscionable. Seminar now slated for Jan. 14 at English High School. Boston Globe
  • 01/04/97 Joe Camel targeted teen-age smokers 1985 RJR Marketing Report filed in Florida Suit. And Bob Kur takes a few bites out of the tobcos in audio clips: So when JC came out it really didn't boost the percentage of grown-up smokers who tried Joe Camel, but it sure did boost the percentage of underage smokers. MSNBC
  • 01/04/97 Tobacco, Health Often Share Lobbyists POSTNet (expires in 2 days)Arizona Republic
  • 01/04/97 "THE LIST" of Tobacco Additives Published Online Tobacco Alternative, a manufacturer of additive- and sometimes nicotine-free cigarettes, spills the beans. First time THE LIST is publicly available. (Yes, in April of 1994, the industry reportedly released the list to the public. That release remains difficult for the public to find.)
  • 01/05/97 More than one-third of parents who smoke refuse to believe their habit may cause illness in their children--National Asthma Campaign (UK). Times of London.
  • 01/05/97PEOPLE Havel Gives Up Smoking, Drinking Reuters. 01/05/97 PEOPLE: Vaclav Havel Marries Actress Times of London. 1/6/97 Shame-Free Zone Havel & DeGaulle used the potential of being shamed by their staff to do what's right. And Clinton and Gingrich . . . ? Opinion, Washington Post.
  • 01/05/97 Scientists Research Tobacco Leaves for Medical Uses Broad leaf is powerful petri dish to grow anti-biotics, enzymes, etc. Lexington Herald-Leader
  • 01/06/97 NicErase Nasal Spray Licensed to Nastech for Development, Testing DynaGen partners with nasal spray delivery company. Reuters
  • 01/06/97 PERU: International Red Cross Bringing Cigarettes for Hostages Report on the mercy mission by Reuters
  • 1/06/97 SPORTS: CRICKET: Pakistan agrees to cover sponsor's logos Tape to cover "Wills Kings" on Bats. Reuters. 01/03/97 Pakistani Cricket Players Use Bats with Tobacco Logos in Australian Match Defies Australian ban on sports advertising to promote Wills. Reuters
  • 01/06/97 Tobacco Companies Seek Congress' Help Bloomberg/POSTNet (Expires quickly)
  • 01/06/97 Health Effects of Marijuana compared with Tobacco Phil. Inquirer.
  • 01/07/96 Tobacco Firms' Secrecy on Tobacco Hazards Assailed " . . . there was information out there that could have helped us in our efforts to keep kids from getting addicted, says Henningfield in Florida suit statement. LA Times
  • 01/07/97Is There a Backlash Against Healthy Living? Cyclical nature of health concerns. Washington Post
  • 01/07/97AUSTRALIA: Tobacco Substitute Leads to Lead Poisoning for Smoker Not a good idea to nosh on electrical cabling to quit.. Reuters
  • 01/07/97 Smoking Modifies Effect Of Beta-Blockers On HDL Levels Possible increased coronary heart disease risk. Reuters Medical
  • 01/07/97 Smoking Stiffens Aorta within one minute after lighting up; lasts 20 minutes or more. Reuters Health eLine (Free Registration0
  • 01/07/97 AUSTRALIA: Advice to Tobacco Companies via "Nick Naylor." Sydney Morning Herald
  • 01/07/97 Richard Durbin (D-IL) Sworn in as Senator Tobacco foe advances from House. Copley POSTNet (expires quickly)
  • 01/07/97 A Bystander Steps in, Tells Ann Landers After 10 years of biting my tongue every time I saw a young person light up, I decided I was going to say something. I looked at him and blurted out, . . .
  • 01/08/97 Nicotrol Promotional Material Withdrawn Doctors' brochure pulled after FDA complains about comparison with SmithKline's NicoDerm CQ. Disputed phrase: "Weaning provides no advantage to quit rates." AP
  • 01/08/97PEOPLE: Swedish Critisism of Royal Smoking Enrages Denmark. "Let the Queen [Margrethe] Smoke in Peace!" Reuters
  • 01/08/97 Ex-BAT Exec Ordered Freed to Avoid Prosecution Under Chinese Law Boston Judge Orders Release of Bribery Suspect Lui; will not be extradited to Hong Kong, which returns to China July 1. Reuters 01/09/97 But Hong Kong Plans to Appeal Bloomberg/POSTNet (Expires quickly)
  • 01/08/97 MAINE: A Lawyer Hires a Private Eye to Throw a Monkey Wrench into the State's Anti-smoking Office Peter T. Dawson [is] an Augusta attorney who recently threw a monkey wrench into Maine's Project ASSIST . . . Dawson wants a copy of every piece of paper generated by the program since it was founded in 1992. . . . If Human Services Commissioner Kevin Concannon is right--and there's plenty of evidence in other states that says he is--Dawson and Randall are the latest pawns in the tobacco industry's nationwide efforts to paralyze the anti-smoking movement with breathtakingly broad freedom-of-information requests. Using FOIA to devour limited resources. By Bill Nemitz, Portland Press Herald
  • 01/08/97 Smokeless Tobacco Sales Up in '95 First time since '91. Bloomberg/POSTNet (Expires quickly) Meanwhile, 01/08/97 Smokeless Tobacco Advertising Rising--FTC Reuters
  • 01/08/97 Philip Morris Borrowed Big in '95 And pays more for debts than non-tobacco companies. Bloomberg/POSTNet (Expires quickly)
  • 01/09/97 Raising a stink with cigars. Opinion by Laura Berman. Detroit News
  • 01/09/97SOUTH KOREA: Tobacco Monopoly Workers May Join Total Shutdown 2-day strike scheduled for Tuedsday. Reuters
  • 01/09/97 Moslem World Prepares For Ramadan Sacred month of fasting begins Friday in many countries. Foreigners in Moslem countries urged to follow rules, too: no smoking, drinking or eating during daylight hours. 01/09/97 AFGHANISTAN: Taleban Issues Ramadan Guidelines You can eat and smoke in your room, but if you do it in public, we will arrest you.
  • 01/09/97 PEOPLE: Two Go on Trial for Kidnapping of Former Tobacco Exec Reemtsma Trial begins in Hamburg, Germany. Reuters
  • 01/09/97 LeBow Seeks Tobacco Pact with Secret Papers Liggett head rattles the cages again. Reuters. Here's John Schwartz' Washington Post Story
  • 01/09/97 BELGIUM: Parliament Bans Tobacco Advertising Due Jan. 1, 1999. Reuters. The Financial Times article says Belgians Back Advertising Ban
  • 01/09/97 CALIFORNIA: American Cancer Society Supports Wilson's Budget Prop. 99 funds fully restored. Reuters
  • 01/09/97 Cigar Craze Spawns New Vending Machine/Humidor: CigarSir PR Presswire
  • 01/09/97 JAPAN Tobacco to Raise Prices 10 Yen a Pack Bloomberg/POSTNet (Expires quickly)
  • 01/09/97Underage Drinker Sues Bar for Auto-Accident Didn't ask for ID. Will Convenience stores be sued for underage tobacco addiction? POSTNet (hot off the wires; expires quickly)
  • 01/10/97 Tobacco Companies Waive Hearing on Punitive Damages Florida Medicaid suit with RICO charge can go ahead in August. Reuters
  • 01/10/97 CALIFORNIA: Judge Clears Way for City of San Francisco Tobacco Suit to Proceed Despite state ban on tobacco liability suits. SF Examiner
  • 01/10/97 INDONESIA: Sampoerna Says 4-hour Strike Didn't Harm Finances Details of strike unvailable. POSTNet (hot off the wires; expires quickly)
  • 01/10/97 CLINTON NOMINATES SHEILA ANTHONY AS FTC COMMISSIONER Cigarette advertising may be explosive issue for FTC in '97. POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/10/97 Liggett's Document Offer Reveals Tobacco Lawyers Liggett Group Inc.'s startling offer to release 30 years of sensitive documents is suddenly thrusting the Committee of Counsel, an obscure panel of top tobacco lawyers, into the spotlight. And now a debate is heating up over whether the committee is a bland legal-discussion group or an influential player at the center of the industry's biggest controversies. WSJ (Sorry! $49 Registration)
  • 01/11/97 CUBA Seeks to Further Increase Cigar Production From 70 million in 1996 to 100 million. Reuters
  • 01/11/97 Celebrating Snuffing Out an Old Habit Reminiscence. Newport Beach (CA) Daily Pilot
  • 01/11/97 France Fumes Over Ban on Smoking NY Times (01/12/97 LINK DEAD)
  • 01/11/97 Socially Responsible Investing Hits Latin America
  • 01/12/97 CAROLINAS Youth: Sold on Smoking
    More teens are using tobacco -- and watered-down laws aren't helping. PART 1 Laws got weaker as teen smoking rose. PART 2 Teens say why they smoke. PART 3 Smoking not a priority for schools. PART 4 Girding for battle in legislature. Jan-12-15, 1997 Series from the Charlotte Observer
  • 01/12/97 Two Lawsuits Filed Against French Tobacco Company AP
  • 01/12/97 PEOPLE: Two Tumors Were Found in Havel's Lung Unmentioned 2nd tumor was benign, removed. Havel rejects smoking's role, claims untreated pneumonia suffered in Communist jails can cause lung cancer. Reuters
  • 01/12/97 MASSACHUSETTS: Gov. Weld Balks at Tobacco Tax for Medicaid Kids Seeks to amend law (passed over his veto) that expands Medicaid coverage to children using a tobacco tax. Reuters
  • 01/12/97 Identical Twins Study Links Smoking and Wrinkles Reuters. Here's the 01/13/97 AP story and a later 01/15/97 Reuters Health story
  • 01/13/97 Advertising Council Mulls Teen Smoking PSA's Public Service Announcements on tobacco to come from the ad industry? Ad Age
  • 01/13/97 TEXAS: State Bans Smoking in Capitol's Public Areas Statehouse and its underground Capitol Extension went smokefree Monday, just before legislature's return. House and Senate are now among the very few places in Austin where public smoking is unrestricted. UPI
  • 01/13/97 VIET-NAM: Hanoi Bans Tobacco and Alcohol Ads Foxnews
  • 01/13/97 DENMARK'S Tobacco-loving Queen Margrethe II Celebrates 25th Anniversary amidst the smoking furor with Sweden. Reuters
  • 01/13/97 MASSACHUSETTS: Tobacco Taxes and Tobacco Politics New England Journal of Medicine Special Report. MA has the 2nd highest cigarette tax in the nation. Another side of the issue may be seen in a Tax Foundation Study on the Economics of Smuggling Cigarettes (01/12/97) TF Study finds smuggling increases with higher taxes. POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/13/97 Need For Changes In How Nicotine Is Regulated Cited at Harvard School of Public Health. Right now...the most toxic, dangerous, addictive form of nicotine delivery is the least regulated and the medicines are the most regulated. So it's easy to get the disease--addiction--but hard to get the medicine.--Henningfield. Reuters
  • 01/14/97 MARYLAND: New Redskins Stadium to be Smoke-Free, not Tobacco Ad-free Chicago Tribune
  • 01/14/97 Teens Say Advertisers Target Them: Poll Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids poll finds that 77 percent of the young people aged 12 to 17 agreed that "cigarette companies advertise and try to sell cigarettes to teens.' Reuters
  • 01/14/97 ALASKA: Tobacco Companies' Preemptive Lawsuit Angers Governor Decides to file Medicaid suit. "We're in the Fight Now." Reuters
  • 01/14/97 ARIZONA: Tobcos Seek Dismissal of State Suit AZ's medicaid suit seeks to ban cigarette sales in the state. The sales ban would eliminate tax revenue that pays for health-care and education programs statewide, industry says. Reuters. Here's the AG's Press Release
  • 01/14/97 Dynagen's Nicotine-usage Test Is Cleared By Federal Regulators NicCheck strip turns pink in urine containing nicotine; NicCheck II on way for checking secondhand smoke exposure. Reuters. Here's the 01/14/97 Dynagen Press Release and the item from Your Health Daily
  • 01/14/97 BUSINESS: Dimon in Talks to Buy U.K. Tobacco Leaf Dealer Intabex Leaf Dealer Dimon could rival champ Universal. Reuters
  • 01/14/97 NEW YORK CITY: Marlboro Man's Outta Shea Stadium Philip Morris declines to exercise contract option. Daily News
  • 01/14/97 BUSINESS: Advanced Gravis Shareholders vigorously pursuing class action and private criminal lawsuit(s) against tobacco and liquor conglomerate American Brands et al for Conspiracy, Rule 10b-5 violations Press Release of shareholders fighting AMB purchase of Advanced Gravis. There's more info on the Techstocks website
  • 01/14/97 PENNSYLVANIA: Lung cancer taking people's breath away More dying by wider margin than any other form of cancer. Phil. Inquirer
  • 01/14/97 PENNSYLVANIA: Political smoking gun It's who you know in city tobacco law compromises When tobacco lobbyists are done, a Philadelphia bill to halt teen access to cigs in stores. "gives them everything they want".
  • 01/15/97 Philip Morris Looks to Music Biz to Promote Virginia Slims Soap star Martha Byrne ("Lily Grimaldi" from "As the World Turns") grabs her "opportunity" to record on PM's new Woman Thing Label. WSJ. (Pay Registration.) For a couple days, the WSJ article can be found at PostNet. Here is the PostNet AP story ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly). And here's the 01/16/97 CNNfn article
  • 01/15/97 AUTO RACING: Dennis Burns Links with Marlboro Past Glories Formula One McLaren/Mercedes team switches cigarette sponsors -- Marlboro for the Reemstma's West brand. London Times
  • 01/15/97 Dr. Weil on Raynaud's Disease Hotwired.
  • 01/15/97 CHINA: Tobacco Firm to Back Clean Air Forum Healthy buildings in China. Reuters
  • 01/15/97 Measures Help "Sick Building"--Study Improved ventilation, separate smoking areas alleviate allergies, eye irritation, stress. Reuters
  • 01/15/97 PHILIPPINES: Cigar Smoking Catches On Reuters
  • 01/15/97 CALIFORNIA: Lt. Gov. to Join Tobacco Lawsuit Dem. Davis to join Orange County suit alleging deceptive business practices. Could be issue in Gov. race if Davis battles AG Dan Lungren, who has refused to sue. LA Times
  • 01/15/97 CALIFORNIA: Judge Backs Student's Political Website Cal State Northridge can't block site that featured animation that transformed [ Cathie Wright (R-Simi Valley)]'s face into a grinning skull to highlight what [CSUN senior Christopher] Landers called her ties to "the tobacco industry's merchants of death." -- LA Times ( Wright won the race Here's a 10/06/96 article on the race, the site, and the $75,000. And here's Wright's 1995 Environmental Score--15%)
  • 01/15/97 PR Veep to be Chastized for Male Smoking Fetish Newsletter Re: "The Smoke Exchange -- A Newsletter for Hot Men with a Cigarette" Gossip from NY Daily News
  • 01/15/97 NEW YORK: Erie County Sues Tobcos First county outside California to file Medicaid suit. As in CA, NY state (AG--Dennis Vacco) has not sued. POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly) Here's the 01/16/97 LA Times item
  • 01/15/97 Special interests kick in big bucks for the inaugural sideshows RJR financing tribute to Conservative Dems ("Blue Dogs") POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/15/97 NEW YORK: Supreme Court Allows SEITA to Sue Brit Subsidiary of Salomon Bros on Derivatives POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/15/97 UK: "Booze Cruises" Even More Rewarding under Clarke Budget Details of costs of Calais cigarettes. Financial Times (free registration)
  • 01/15/97 New Offerings Could Expand Quit-Smoking Market As different methods appeal to different smokers, market could reach $1B within a few years. Your Health Daily)
  • 01/15/97 What Doctors Don't Know About Women's Bodies Female smokers triple their risk of cervical cancer and undergo menopause up to two years earlier than nonsmokers. Your Health Daily/Lady's Home Journal, Feb. 1997
  • 01/16/97 FLORIDA: Gov. Chiles Intensifies Attack on Tobacco Asks Legislature for higher taxes, harder access for teens, penalties for underage possession. UPI
  • 01/16/97 WISCONSIN: Sen. Kevin Shibilski, D-Amherst Proposes Toughest Teen Anti-smoking Bill in Wis. History UPI
  • 01/16/97 Mainstream Sites Accept Ads Selling X-Rated Fare AOL, Lycos, Hotwired, Starwave do not accept tobacco ads. WSJ (Registration Fee) Here's a Wire version POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/16/97 MARYLAND: Gov. Glendening Proposes 72-cent/pack Cigarette Tax Washington Post
  • 01/16/97 Lawyers Seeking Secondhand Smoke Claimants Broin suit looks for airline personnel. CNNfn. A little more detail on the Broin flight attendant case in the 01/16/97 Reuters Story
  • 01/16/97 VIRGINIA: Governor George Allen and state Attorney General Jim Gilmore Report Owning Tobacco Stock Say Their Tobacco Portfolio Did Not Influence Pro-tobacco Decisions. Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • 01/16/97 Tobacco Leaves Could Provide Hepatitis Test Japanese researchers look for vaccine in tobacco. Reuters
  • 01/16/97 MINNESOTA: Lawmakers Propose Cig Tax for New Stadium Press Release
  • 01/16/97 ITALY: Philip Morris Denies it Owes Back Taxes POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly). UPI's story head is Philip Morris Fumes over Italian Tax Laws
  • 01/16/97 Two Cigarette Dealers Busted in Smuggling Ring B&W Louisiana-to-Canada case. POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/17/97 Smoking & Tourette's Syndrome Report in Psychiatry in Practice suggests smokers benefit. Times of London. Also,
  • 01/13/97 Researchers Investigate (Horrors!) Nicotine's Potential Benefits Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorders, ulcerative colitis, Tourette's syndrome are among conditions possibly helped with nicotine. Scientists delving further to fully understand nicotine's effects on the body and brain. POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly) Here's Tuesday's 01/14/97 New York Times article
  • 01/17/97 Clinton Administration Spearheading Teen Anti-Smoking Ads Gov. agencies, marketers, health groups get serious about marketing. Christian Science Monitor
  • 01/17/97 Tobacco Interests Blast USDA Office Ban Agriculture Dept. ban is nationwide--including Kentucky. Lexington Herald Leader
  • 01/17/97 FLORIDA: Tobcos Dealt Setback by Report Validating State's Need to See Documents Florida Prosecutors met a burden of proof to show there's evidence of fraud and crime, says report. Documents that may indicate tobcos used pseudo-science, a PR campaign and attorneys to hide the deadly effects of smoking and addictiveness of nicotine may lose their confidentiality. NandoNet.
  • 01/17/97 Joe Camel Gets Cooler--Goes to Menthol NY Times. Here's the 01/17/97 AP story and here's the Phil. Inquirer story And Ad Age
  • 01/17/97 MINNESOTA: Tobacco Lobby Proves To Be Drag On State Of "fetcher bills" like the 10 cent/pack cig tax hike, and how the tobacco lobby seems to be transforming Minnesota, of all places, into its own turf.. St. Paul Pioneer Press. You have to subscribe (pay), but you can get Dave Beal's column on the increasing influence of the tobacco lobby on Minnesota for a day or so at POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly).
  • 01/17/97 OBIT: Oscar Auerbach, 92, Definitively Linked Smoking To Cancer Your Health Daily 01/16/97 NY Times article From 01/18/97 LA Times
  • 01/17/97 UST Named in Suit Seeking Class Action Status Castano attorneys going after smokeless tobacco. Bloomberg. POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/18/97 On the other hand, Artery Clogging Linked to Alzheimer's
  • 01/18/97 Cigar Smoking Causes Debate about Health Risk vs. Style CNN Transcript
  • 01/18/97 Czech Republic: Wife Stubs Out Habit Times of London
  • 01/18/97 MASSACHUSETTS: Tobacco firms move against disclosure law: Seek to block implementation hearings Jan. 30, 31 public hearings on implementing the new law would attract national attention, prominent scientists. The firms are claiming the so-called rulemaking hearings are forcing them to choose "between two irreparable harms": either participate and disclose what they feel are vital trade secrets or forgo protecting their rights during the rulemaking hearings. Boston Globe
  • 01/18/97 INDONESIA: Rigors of Ramadan in Jakarta I can manage not to eat, but not to smoke is so hard it makes me dizzy Sydney Morning Herald
  • 01/19/97 Inaugural Planners Avoid Direct Corporate Contributions Companies such as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco and pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb have leased suites and ballrooms in the hotels that line the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route, hoping to attract elected officials and their aides to brunches, receptions and parade viewings. Chicago Tribune
  • 01/19/97 NORTH CAROLINA: B&W Donating Land, Cash to Area Hard Hit by American Brands Purchase Fed required plant be sold. Upstart Commonwealth Tobacco bought it, but could only hire 1/4 the workers. B&W will donate $1.5 million in cash and property to Reidsville and Rockingham County over the next four years to help the area attract new businesses and create jobs. "Basically, our view is that companies have more responsibility than just operating in a community, or not operating in a community." AP--Lexington Herald-Leader Here's the B&W Press release
  • 01/19/97 Fingerprints Reveal Nicotine Use? Fingerprint chemicals found indicators of disease, nicotine. Forensic-science experts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory examined residues that make up fingerprints--a mixture of fatty acids, salts and amino acids. Nicotine was identified in the print of an adult who had stopped smoking a fortnight earlier, although it may have come from the nicotine gum that he chewed. Times of London
  • 01/19/97 Smoking Stars in Movies and TV The product placement department (yes, it actually exists) is very clever about putting certain products in the hands of actors and actresses in a way that appears to be uncontrived. Meanwhile, the tobacco industry is hard at work behind the scenes. Ann Landers gets blunt. Phil. Inquirer. On the other side of the Atlantic, Much Ado About Smoking in Shakespeare 01/19/97 Times of London
  • 01/20/97 Schizophrenia and Smoking: Focus on Chromosome 15 Inherited information-filtering gene is linked to site of alpha7-nicotinic receptor. Smoking may give "a few minutes" of relief, and may be the reason 75-80% of schizophrenics smoke. Dr. Robert Freedman of the University of Colorado School of Medicine led a multicenter genetic analysis of nine families with multiple cases of schizophrenia: Article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences AP Fox. Here's the Reuters story Left to their own devices, many will smoke three or four packs a day, they'll smoke until it makes them nauseous . Now we realize that they were trying to self-medicate. The cleanest, clearest news report is the 01/21/97 Reuters Medical News story
  • 01/20/97 DOC uses new prescription to battle tobacco giants' smoking campaigns xum Started by Tobacco Control Organization. Chip Jones, Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • 01/20/97 HEALTH: Study Finds More Evidence That Nonsmoking Women Married to Smokers Have Higher Lung Cancer Death Rates 100,000+ epidemiological study by Michael Thun, M.D., published in the January issue of the journal 'Cancer Causes & Control.' ACS Press Release
  • 01/20/97 Pinkerton Group Inc. Changes Name to Swedish Match North America Inc. Name now reflects company's foreign ownership. Makes Red Man, Work Horse chewing tobacco. [Owensboro, KY] Messenger-Inquirer. POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/20/97 Philip Morris' Inaugural Events A foreign diplomats' brunch, and 2 parties Sunday night--one for the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and another for elected officials and business people from tobacco-growing states. AP POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly) And UST cosponsors the Dems' Friday night "The Absolutely Unofficial Blue Jeans Bash" MSNBC
  • 01/20/97 INDONESIA: PT HM Sampoerna 1996 Sales Up 31% POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/20/97 CigarSir Vending Machine to Debut at Non-smoking DC Restaurant Galileo in February. Times of London
  • 01/21/97 BUSINESS: Rechargeable Electronic Cigarette Lighter to be marketed in US MiniPoplite (Creative Marketing, Dallas) uses no gas and no flame. BusinessWire
  • 01/21/97 BUSINESS: Roche Holding to Market Viracept in Europe Viracept is an anti-HIV drug co-developed by Agouron Pharmaceuticals and Japan Tobacco. Reuter.
  • 01/21/97 HEALTH: Oral Cancer Diagnostic Test More Than Doubles Detection Rates--Study Zila's toluidine blue rinse sequence test touted in Press Release
  • 01/21/97 OHIO Will Not Sue Tobcos Bottom-line-conscious AG Betty Montgomery says, . . . there may come a time when having our state expend literally millions of dollars and countless hours in state government resources will be justified by the real possibility of a monetary return to the state treasury and reform of the industry. . . . But, as things stand today, it's a risk I'm not willing to take with tax dollars. [Other states'] battles . . . and early rulings that courts make may allow Ohio to take advantage of any developments without incurring any cost.' UPI
  • 01/21/97 Boston Bar teams up with English High to let students learn firsthand about law, public policy through studying `tobacco wars' Boston Globe
  • 01/21/97 HEALTH: Smoking Increases Homocysteine Levels: Study Amino acid linked to higher risks of heart attack, associated with birth defects, miscarriages and low-birthweight babies. Norwegian study of 1600 published in January issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Chicago Tribune.
  • 01/21/97 HEALTH: Smoking Appears to Accelerate Kidney Deterioration Study by Dr. Frederick C. Goetz of the University of Minnesota printed in American Journal of Epidemiology. Reuters Medical News
  • 01/21/97 HEALTH: Smoking a Major Risk Factor for Diabetes Study by researchers from Gifu University School of Medicine in Japan printed in American Journal of Epidemiology. Reuters Medical News
  • 01/22/97 CALIFORNIA: Health Groups Petition California Supreme Court to Preserve Prop. 99 Funds ALA, AHA, ACS in new legal action in Cig Tax wars. Business Wire. Here's the SF Examiner story
  • 01/22/97 ARIZONA: Tuscon Clerks Cited UPI Briefs
  • 01/22/97 COLORADO: Denver Legislature Considering at Least 4 Tobacco Control Measures UPI Briefs
  • 01/22/97 Cigarette Lighters as Collectibles Reuters
  • 01/22/97 BUSINESS: Mafco to Sell 4M Shares of Consolidated Cigar LA Times
  • 01/22/97 HEALTH: Smokers Reach Menopause About 1.5 Years Earlier Than Nonsmokers: Study Dr. Joyce T. Bromberger, University of Pittsburgh, study of 185 healthy women in their 40s. Reuters Medical News
  • 01/22/97 UK: Free Beer, Cigarettes for Students in 2-year, 60-student Swansea University study of why drinkers like smoking. Electronic Telegraph
  • 01/22/97 Orthodontists Urged to Discourage Teen Smoking Your Health Daily
  • 01/23/97 COLORADO: NCI Extends ASSIST Tobacco Control Program One Year Business Wire
  • 01/23/97 MISSISSIPPI: A Philip Morris Lobbyist Causes Controversy Henry Turner testifies that PM asked Mississippi business groups to help pay for Gov. Kirk Fordice's effort to derail his state's lawsuit against the tobacco industry. WSJ (pay registration). Here's the AP story
  • 01/23/97 BUSINESS: Marketing VP Ove Sorensen Leaving RJR Ex-liquor marketer brought in to revitalize RJR brands leaves abruptly. Oversaw repositioning of Winston line, launching of new brands. He was there to do a specific thing and he did it--RJR WSJ (pay registration)
  • 01/23/97 ADVERTISING: $41 million Nicotrol Account To Go from DDB Needham to Saatchi's Healthcare Connection SmithKline Beecham's NicoDerm CQ outsells McNeil Pharmaceutical's Nicotrol almost 2-to-1. James Garner ads to be gone soon.
  • 01/23/97 HEALTH: Why Beta Carotene May Aggravate Smokers' Risk of Lung Cancer Low levels of Vitamin C allow build-up of carotene free radical. Study by Dr. George Truscott of Keele University in England published in this week's Journal of the American Chemical Society. Boston Globe
  • 01/23/97 Tobacco Industry on Ropes? Not on These Kentucky Farms Christian Science Monitor
  • 01/23/97 Addictive Behaviour: Molecules to Mankind; Perspectives on the Nature of Addiction Edited by Adrian Bonner and James Waterhouse. 312 pp. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1996. $59.95.. NewEngland Journal of Medicine
  • 01/23/97 Tobacco Litigation as Cancer Prevention: Dealing with the Devil. Third-Wave Class-Action Suits. New England Journal of Medicine
  • 01/23/97 Political Gifts Get Results For Lobbyists--Study NY Times. Here's the AP story from MSNBC
  • 01/23/97 FRANCE: Nonsmokers Sue for Clean Indoor Air Railway stations not enforcing 1991 law come under legal pressure. PR release from John Banzhaf of ASH
  • 01/23/97 HEALTH: Smoking a Risk Factor for Stroke Before Age 60 Helsinki study of 500+ finds smoking an independent risk factor. Your Health Daily
  • 01/23/97 MINNESOTA: State Says Philip Morris Hid Documents in Foreign Unit PM asks state to protect Philip Morris International files--including those from INBIFO labs--from review. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  • 01/23/97 Vatican Calls for Ban on Smoking The behaviour that leads to addiction cannot be corrected, if the products that strengthen such behaviour are put on open sale. Aimed at Catholics worldwide. Outrages some Italians. Green Party, Communist Refoundation pols attack. Electronic Telegraph
  • 01/23/97 SPORTS: Marlboro Sign Won't Be Shown During SuperBowl Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act prohibits cigarette advertising on television. Acceeding to Justice Dept. warnings, PM will remove sign in New Orleans Superdome; 2 smaller, remote signs will stay. "Philip Morris has repeatedly and consistently demonstrated that it has no interest in having its stadium signage seen on television," the lawyers wrote, noting that the company does not control what network television camera show--PM lawyers. AP Nandonet
  • 01/24/97WOODY HARRELSON Happy with Hemp Victory Says hemp could be alternate crop for tobacco farmers. CNN
  • 01/24/97 FLORIDA: Tobcos' Medicaid Suit Rejoinder: State Made its Own Cigarettes, & Sold or Gave Them to Prisoners & Health Units the State itself was engaging in precisely the same activity for which it so loudly vilifies the tobacco companies State prison at Raiford a manufactory. Tobco Press Release. Here's the AP story from Fox News. Here's the 01/27/97 Wall St. Journal article
  • 01/24/97 HEALTH: Smoking & Diabetes Men who smoke 16-25 cigarettes per day, or more, have a . . . 3.27 times higher risk of developing non-insulin-dependent diabetes. Smoking a major risk factor for NIDD according to .8 year study in Japan of 2,300+ men. Published in January 15 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology. Reuters Medical News
  • 01/24/97 HEALTH: Smokers' Wives Risk Lung Cancer 20% greater chance of lung cancer death, according to study by Dr. Victor M. Cardenas of Emory University School of Public Health in Atlanta. Researchers analyzed data from an American Cancer Society study launched in 1982 involving almost 300,000 people. Report in the journal Cancer Causes and Control. Reuters Medical News.
  • 01/24/97 HEALTH: Pot Lung Damage Differs from Tobacco Doesn't appear to damage lung function, or lead to COPD. There still is extensive airway tissue damage. Study by Dr. Donald Tashkin, professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine examined 400 healthy young people. Reuters Medical News.
  • 01/24/97 Mike Moore Presents Case for Medicaid Suits The state's claim for injunctive relief is aimed at stopping the industry from targeting children, in advertising and promotions, and from selling cigarettes to minors. The industry is creating successive generations of addicted smokers, many of whom will ultimately get sick and create a health care crisis for, and a tremendous burden on, the state. The industry's promotion of the sale and distribution of cigarettes to minors appeals to them in violation of law. An excerpt from the ABA article (see below), noted "For the Record" by the Washington Post.
  • 01/31/97 Peace Talks in the Tobacco Wars? 2/10/97 Business Week says it has inside info on debates raging among state AGs over a possible settlement. One proposal by Hubert Humphrey III would give industry some liability protection, in return for FDA regulation, 10% of revenues to health programs, and disbanding of Tobacco Institute-type orgs. Here's the chart
  • 01/24/97 Company Receptionist Sniffs Out Smokers Kimball Physics' 3-year-old policy pleases employees, owner. Philadelphia Inquirer. Same story is at Detroit News
  • 01/25/97 VIRGINIA: ABC Agents as Tobacco Enforcers? Anti-FDA Republican AG Gilmore revives, tobcos' 3-year-old plan. Allows, does not require ABC to enforce youth sales regs; no additional funding provided Richmond Times-Dispatch. Here's the 01/28/97 Washington Post story
  • 01/25/97 MINNESOTA: 'Shield' For Documents Alleged State charges decades-long "corporate Shell Game." Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • 01/25/97 CALIFORNIA: RJR Stockholders Pressured to Halt Joe Camel Assemblyman Don Perata, D-Oakland, and East Bay community introducing resolution in state legislature to influence spring RJR shareholders meeting; also plan to pressure CPERS pension funds. SF Chronicle
  • 01/25/97 Can't Wait For Cigar Chic To Go To Pot San Franciscan in cigar-smoking New Orleans. Opinion. SF Examiner
  • 01/26/97 Zippo Comes Home Going to Vietnam, buying war-era zippos, and trying to return them to their owners. Chicago Tribune
  • 01/26/97 TEAM OF TEENS READY TO ROUST TOBACCO SALE VIOLATORS Chicago area sting operation.Chicago Tribune
  • 01/26/97 How States Are Dealing with Youth Access $25,000 fines, strict licenses, 800 numbers, classes and jail: A helpful roundup of "ideas from afar;" plus an in-depth look at Virginia's youth sales Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • 01/26/97 VIRGINIA: Tobacco Bills Before General Assembly Richmond Times-Dispatch
  • 01/26/97 Ailing French Smoker Challenges Law, Culture Profile of Richard Gourlain, who brought landmark case against SEITA. LA Times
  • 01/26/97 Every week I find dozens of cigarette butts on the road near my house. I am now finding discarded Nicorette packets as well. Letter to the editor/sign of the times. LA Times
  • 01/26/97 CALIFORNIA: Grass-roots, Community-based Youth Access Programs Can Work Placentia, CA provides a model. LA Times
  • 01/26/97 Conference to Honor Anti-Tobacco Efforts Tobacco Wars: Past Present Future conference to be held Monday in Camarillo, CA. LA Times
  • 01/26/97 INDIA's Most Radical Anti-smoking Law Implemented The New Delhi advertising, public smoking ban goes into effect today. NandoNet. Here's the UPI story
  • 01/26/97 CZECH REPUBLIC: Havel's Cancer Fight Stirs Czech Concerns But not, apparently, about smoking-related illnesses. Washington Post
  • 01/27/97 Philip Morris Goes After The Youth Market By Starting Its Own Record Label Of Martha Byrne, Lily Grimaldi and Woman Thing Music. Time Magazine
  • 01/27/97 $250,000 to Republican committees Buys Donors "Best Access to Congress" Magic figure donors now known as "season ticket holders." Tobacco interests, under siege in Washington, donated heavily. Philip Morris gave $2.5 million; RJR Nabisco, $1.15 million; Brown & Williamson, $635,000; United States Tobacco, $539,000; and the Tobacco Institute, $436,000 . . . The Republican National Committee has scheduled its "Winter National Meeting" next month at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., for its Team 100 donor club, which has more than 300 members. NY Times. Here's the London Times Story
  • 01/27/97 MINNESOTA: District Judge Fitzpatrick on Top of Tobacco Case Profile of judge in Medicaid suit. Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • 01/27/97 BUSINESS: Philip Morris Earnings Expected to Rise on Global Growth Bloomberg POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/27/97 New York State Sues Tobacco Industry Conservative Republican AG Vacco springs surprise. Suit (in state court, not federal) charges racketeering, "illegally luring teen-agers." Suit is first to try to dissolve two industry orgs--the trade org, Tobacco Institute (DC) and research arm, Council for Tobacco Research USA (NYC)--claiming they're nothing but PR fronts. Vacco claims to have had settlement talks with industry. NY is the 20th state to sue, and the biggest medicaid player yet. NY Times. Here's Newsday's story, the AP item from Fox, the Reuters story and Washington Post.
    01/28/97 Tobacco Shares Drop on News Reuters
  • 01/27/97 HEALTH: Smokers Need Vitamin C to Offset Beta Carotene New study of free radicals in Journal of the American Chemical Society by Dr. George Truscott of Keele University in England. Your Health Daily.
  • 01/27/97 PEOPLE: DAN RATHER: 15 Years, 15 Lessons 8. Never chew tobacco on the David Letterman show. Chewing tobacco is a filthy, dangerous habit -- and I got a bushel of mail reminding me of the fact, including some very stern communication from the office of the Surgeon General. What's more, Dave nearly choked on his chaw. I'll never do it again. TV Guide
  • 01/28/97 BUSINESS: RJR: Worldwide Tobacco Volume Up 5% 4Q Domestic vol. down 3%, Int'l vol. up 10%. Reuter. Here's RJR's Business Wire PR
  • 01/28/97 2/3 of Americans Want Federal Tobacco Tax Hike for Medical Research, Health Care Programs--Poll ACS Press Release. Here's the Reuters Medical News item
  • 01/28/97 VIRGINIA: Welcome to Richmond (cough) Airport Smoke won't be cleared till smokers' lounge is built. Richmond Times-Dispatch article also includes address for comments; must be sent to DOT by Wed..
  • 01/28/97 BUSINESS: Imperial Tobacco Buys Rizla (Rolling Papers) for L$168M ($273M US) Reuters
  • 01/28/97 BRAZIL: Smoking-Related Diseases Take Toll Heart Disease #1 cause of death by illness. Cancer #2; lung cancer most prevalent cancer. Reuters
  • 01/28/97 HEALTH: Maternal Smoking, Drinking Elevate Fetal Blood Lead Levels. Drs. Marc Rhainds and Patrick Levallois of Universite Laval in Quebec found ...cigarette smoking during pregnancy can raise cord blood lead levels in a dose-response fashion, but did not observe a significant, independent association between passive smoke exposure and cord blood lead levels. Reuters Medical News
  • 01/28/97 HEALTH: Which Came First, Low Self-Esteem or Smoking? They're related, but how? University of Wisconsin (Madison) study reported in Archives of Family Medicine.
  • 01/28/97 BUSINESS: RJR to License Eclipse Technology to JAPAN Tobacco Airs will be test-marketed in Japan in Feb. Article mentions that HI Q is the German version.) Bloomberg POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/28/97 Random House to Include "Tobacco Nazi" in Dictionary Industry PR campaign gets Victor Crawford term in dictionary. Anti-Defamation League applauds editor's suggestion that "nazi" not be used "jocularly" [T]he forthcoming edition of the Random House Webster's College Dic.tionary will include the added definition of "Nazi" as "a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity, practice, etc.: a jazz nazi who disdains other forms of music; tobacco Nazis trying to ban smoking." (By the above definition, of course, a "tobacco Nazi" would be just the opposite--one "who is fanatically dedicated to" tobacco..) US Newswire POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
    You can visit the Random House Website and even write the editors
  • 01/28/97 HEALTH: Heart Disease Signs Show up Early in Smokers, Fatty Food Eaters Dramatic difference in fatty deposits in arteries found in study of young people who died of accidental causes. Autopsies performed on 1,079 men and 364 women between the ages of 15 and 34. Confirms soldier studies; first large study to include women. Heart, Lung and Blood Institute study published in this month's Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. AP
  • 01/29/97 BUSINESS: Philip Morris Cites Tobacco, US Food Gains Reuters
  • 01/29/97 BUSINESS: Philip Morris, RJR Have Strong 4Q Earnings CNNf
  • 01/29/97 FRANCE: Court Condemns Philip Morris on Ads PM claimed the "How far will they go?" (in restricting smoking) ads were political commentary; court ruled they "encouraged smokers to consume tobacco." in violation of French law. Reuters
  • 01/29/97 MAINE: Gov Proposes Doubling Cig Tax Reuter
  • 01/29/97 MICHIGAN: Retail Associations to Launch Statewide Campaign Thursday Michigan Food and Beverage Association, largest food and beverage trade association in the state, has the press release.
  • 01/29/97 SPORTS: BASKETBALL: NJ Nets Take Stand Against Tobacco After Jacksonville Jaguars (NFL), second pro team with an anti-smoking program. Nets president Michael Rowe's mother had lung cancer. Team runs anti-smoking advertisements in every game program, the fan magazine, the message board and the rotating sign board. They have enrolled their coach, John Calipari, and their center, Shawn Bradley, to make commercials and have offered 50 tickets for some games to young people who work in anti-smoking campaigns. NY Times
  • 01/29/97 MINNESOTA: Gov Seeks to Repeal Cigarette Price Supports Could decrease cig prices, increase consumption. Minneapolis Star-Tribune
  • 01/29/97 ILLINOIS: Health Groups Hit State's Tobacco License Plan Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco protests AG Jim Ryan's plan to license tobacco retailers because it would preempt tougher regulations. . Chicago Sun-Times
  • 01/29/97 SPORTS: HOCKEY: Stairwells Filled with Smoke at Flyers' CoreStates Center Declare the building non-smoking. Timothy Dwyer, Philidelphia Inquirer
  • 01/30/97 Cigarette Makers May Understate Tar Levels . . . most of the 10 brands tested delivered twice as much tar as their makers say, and 46% to 98% more nicotine. Most popular brands tested. Mass. officials hire Labstat Inc. of Kitchener, Ontario to perform study. Wall St. Journal (Pay Reg) Lab Has Disturbing News for "Light" Smokers Your Health Daily Smokers May Get More Tar and Nicotine Fox News. Study Blasts Tar, Nicotine Levels MSNBC. Boston Globe

  • 01/30/97 BUSINESS: RJR Tries New Cigarettes When Old Ones Fail Of Winstons, Salems, endless Camel varieties and Moonlight TC. Bloomberg
  • 01/30/97 Cigarette Sales Steady in 1996 As Young Find the Habit Hip One factor behind the surprising numbers: a new generation of smokers in their late teens and early 20s who are embracing the dangerous habit as hip. Wall St. Journal (Pay Reg)
  • 01/30/97 FUNNY PAPERS: Jay Leno on NY Suit New York became the 20th state to sue the tobacco industry, saying tobacco is the No. 2 killer of New Yorkers. Adds Jay Leno, "The No. 1 killer of New Yorkers is other New Yorkers." LA Times
  • 01/30/97 CALIFORNIA: Great Minds Think (and Sing) About Drugs Kevin Crysle and the Overture Co. of Opera Pacific tour anit-drug "The Not-So-Great Escape" to SoCal schools. LA Times
  • 01/30/97 Pharmacia & Upjohn's Gum, Patch to be Marketed Over-the-Counter in Japan by Takeda Chemical Industries Marketing agreement on Nicotrol, Nicorette. Reuters Medical News
  • 01/30/97 Lott Says Any Tobacco Settlement Best Left to States Senate Republican leader indicates Congressional liability bill unlikely. POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly). Here's the LA Times item
  • 01/30/97 BUSINESS: RJR's New Cigs List of brands tested or introduced since 1995: Camel Menthol, Eclipse, Hogshead, Carolina Gold, Red Kamel/Kamel Menthe, Winston reformulation, Moonlight brands: Sedona, B's, Politix, City, Jumbos, Metro Lights, North Star, Planet and Icebox. POSTNet ("hot off the wires"--expires quickly)
  • 01/30/97 ANN LANDERS Attacks Movie Smoking Again Cigars get hit. Writer: Maybe you saw "Independence Day." It is obvious that the tobacco industry bought commercial time in that movie.
  • 01/31/97 FLORIDA: Tobacco Divestitute Hinges on One Vote $900M worth of stock at stake in state pension fund battle. Gov. Chiles reported pressuring swing vote on 5-person board. Reuter
  • 01/31/97 Kicking the Habit--with Help Good Housekeeping on cessation aids.

  • 02/01/97 Licorice Safe to Eat, Dangerous to Smoke Reuters
  • 01/31/97 MASSACHUSETTS Survey Backs Up Tar, Nicotine Criticisms Smokers ignorant of the variations possible.
  • 01/31/97 Hearings Challenge the "Light" in Cigarettes Reuter.
  • Boston Globe on the "contentious" hearings. Previous stories:

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