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MARTENS: IRS Sleuths Were on the Right Track: Big Tobacco Created Tea Party in 1994

Big Tobacco not only created the Tea Party, it has promoted it over decades, pumped millions into marketing it, and pulled it out of its magic hat every time it needed to produce an overnight, spontaneous “grassroots” movement.
DeSmogBlog.com (ca)
added May 23, 2013 03:50
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[Canada] London health unit clamps down on convenience store cigarette marketing campaign

The Middlesex-London Health Unit is throwing the book at local convenience store operators supporting an in-store marketing campaign that goes against the Smoke-Free Ontario Act. The campaign’s focal point is a petition, displayed on an electronic t
Metro (ca)
added May 23, 2013 02:45
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Tobacco Advertising, Promotion Rises

FTC release new reports on cigarette, smokeless tobacco marketing
Convenience Store/Petroleum (CSPNet)
added May 22, 2013 20:24
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Cigarette Marketing Increases as Tobacco Use Declines

Cigarette volumes have been declining for several years, but that has not stopped tobacco companies from opening their wallets for advertising and promotion dollars. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the largest cigarette companies spent $
Convenience Store News
added May 22, 2013 19:47
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[UK] Trading Standards swoop after cigarettes offered as game prizes at Liverpool funfair

Cigarettes were seized from a Liverpool funfair where they were being offered as prizes in arcade games. The packets were on offer alongside scratchcards and teddies in coin machines and in ‘grabber’ machines in an arcade at the Blackpool Comes to Live
Liverpool Daily Post & Echo (uk)
added May 22, 2013 12:19
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[UK] Retailer prosecuted for selling 'cheap white' cigarettes

In the first case of its kind, a UK convenience store owner has been found guilty of selling dangerous ‘cheap white’ cigarettes, following a prosecution by Lincolnshire Trading Standards.
Convenience Store (uk)
added May 22, 2013 12:15
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[New Jersey] EDITORIAL: Smoking at Revel / Disappointing, but ...

Arguably, Revel could have promoted its smoke-free policy better. But the struggling casino is now in a position that requires it to try everything. Regrettably - for the nonsmoking public and, most of all, for Revel's employees - that includes allowing s
The Press of Atlantic City
added May 22, 2013 08:51
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sbv IMPROVER Quote Sheet

Manuel C. Peitsch, Ph.D. VP, Biological Systems Research, Philip Morris International (PMI), Research & Development “It has been wonderful to see how sbv IMPROVER has captured the attention of the scientific community.
sbv IMPROVER (PMI/IBM)
added May 22, 2013 08:49
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About sbv IMPROVER

Systems Biology Verification combined with Industrial Methodology for Process Verification in Research. This approach aims to provide a measure of quality control of industrial research and development by verifying the soundness of the methods used. sbv I
sbv IMPROVER (PMI/IBM)
added May 22, 2013 08:43
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BOSTIC: Philip Morris & IBM IMPROVER project: downplaying links between smoking & disease

the Tobacco Institute closed its doors, after 40 years of obfuscating the science ... The main purpose of IMPROVER seems clear – remuddy the waters on the causal link between tobacco and disease. But they actually get much more. By enticing young researc
ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) (us)
added May 22, 2013 08:36
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