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GODELNIK: The New Tobacco Wars with Joe Chemical and New Yorkers for Beverage Choices

Cigarettes have never been more popular. Well, at least on drawing board of two advocacy campaigns trying to shape public perception on controversial issues. The first is a print ad campaign run by EDF and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families (SCHF), showin
Triple Pundit
added Jul 6, 2012 12:53
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[California] LEON: A Brief History of Smoking Bans

San Francisco boasts some of the country’s most stringent anti-smoking laws. but one unintended consequence is burdening business owners.
San Francisco Chronicle blogs
added Jun 5, 2012 15:34
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[West Virginia] A look back at WV tobacco litigation

More than a decade in the making and it's not over yet for West Virginia's tobacco litigation cases. A Kanawha County jury recently returned a verdict finding in favor of the defendant tobacco companies in all but one of six claims.
Charleston (WV) State Journal
added May 23, 2013 13:28
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[Latin America, Mexico, South Africa] JTI celebrates Camel centenary

Japan Tobacco International (JTI) will begin celebrating Camel's the 100th anniversary in Latin America this month. Events will take place at duty-free locations such as Mexico City International airport in Dufry outlets, Cancun airport in World Duty
DFNI (uk)
added Apr 10, 2013 08:54
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Yabba Dabba Cough! Flashback to When The Flintstones Shilled Cigarettes

In 1970, Congress passed an Act banning the advertisements of cigarettes on television and radio. Although they never actually showed Barney getting lung cancer, in 1986, the Flintstones did a PSA for the American Cancer Association. In fact, when the se
Advertising Age
added Apr 3, 2013 13:34
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INFOGRAPHIC: milestones in FDA's work on tobacco product regulation (PDF)

Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
added Mar 27, 2013 05:23
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VIDEO: Rachel Maddow Show: Big Tobacco models disinformation, distraction strategy

Morton Downey Jr. … always carried a lit cigarette … and became spokesman for something called the 'National Smokers' Alliance' . . . but then he got sick … the NSA ... was dreamed up by the PR firm Burson Marsteller.
NBC
added Mar 7, 2013 23:31
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A History of the Knowledge--and Ignorance--of Harms from Cigarettes in Canada, 1950-2000 (PDF)

Expert Report submitted by Robert N. Proctor, Stanford University, for Letourneau vs. Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., et al. and Conseil Québécois sur le Tabac et la Santé vs. JTI-Macdonald Corp. et al.
Conseil québécois sur le tabac et la santé (Quebec Council on Tobacco and Health) (ca)
added Jan 15, 2013 11:43
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[Russia] Jason Linkins: Mitt Romney's Bain & Company Timeline: Let's Get It Straight, Shall We?

She caps it off thusly: "Perhaps Cherkis and Carter have direct evidence that Mitt was actually controlling things while she was nominally in charge, but if so, I don't think they made it clear in the article." Well, golly, let's make it all clear, then
Huffington Post (blog)
added Oct 11, 2012 15:49
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[Canada] Day 67: Under foreign influence

Mr. Hoult is a former heavy-weight in the former RJ-Reynolds empire. He is the one-time marketing boss for RJR-Macdonald (1979-1983), president of RJR-Macdonald (1987-88) and executive vice president for RJ-Reynolds USA operations (1988-89).
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Oct 6, 2012 18:18
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