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The lowdown on smoking on World No Tobacco Day
The member states of the World Health Organisation (WHO) created World No Tobacco Day in 1987. In the past twenty years, the day has been met with both enthusiasm and resistance across the globe from governments, public health organizations, smokers, gro
May 30, 2013
EuroNews
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May 31, 2013 11:36
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[Canada] Day 148: Raymond Duch and public polling
Mr. Duch's mandate from JTI-Macdonald was to focus not on what information Quebecers were exposed to through the media, as the historians had done, but rather to review polling results to assess what the public remembered hearing and what they believed a
May 27, 2013
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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May 28, 2013 11:20
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[Connecticut] The Rebirth Of A 143-Year-Old Tobacco Shed To Be Subject Of Glastonbury Historical Society Presentation
"The History, Preservation and Reconstruction of the Relocated Oak Street Shed" will be presented by Joseph Green, the society's facilities chair, at 7:30 p.m. The program will be held at the First Church Congregational, 2183 Main St. The free presentati
May 24, 2013
Hartford (CT) Courant
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May 24, 2013 12:16
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FOLEY: Study shows tea party sprouted on 'Tobacco Road'
Given the murky nature of the tea party’s provenance and finances, IRS interest in its tax exempt claims may well be justified. “Nonprofit organizations associated with the Tea Party have longstanding ties to tobacco companies, and continue to advocate
May 24, 2013
Marietta (GA) Daily Journal
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May 24, 2013 05:25
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[Missouri] PION: St. Charles city and county need smoke-free air
Recently scheduled public hearings regarding a possible St. Charles city Smoke-Free Air Act appear motivated not to further public health but to counter efforts by St. Charles County Councilman Joe Cronin, who has twice tried to get a countywide smoke-fre
May 24, 2013
St. Louis (MO) Post-Dispatch
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May 24, 2013 05:05
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[Canada] Day 147. History will be kind to them, for they intend to write it
in the report he wrote and in the book The Golden Holocaust he is writing what a British reviewer called advocacy history... I am disappointed, to say the least, that he seemed to pay no attention to the work that I did but had the temerity to dismiss it
May 23, 2013
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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May 25, 2013 12:56
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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.
May 23, 2013
Charleston (WV) State Journal
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May 23, 2013 13:28
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[Canada] Day 146. A tale of two crises
knowledge of the city-wide boil advisory ... soon there were signs on every water outlet in the building, and the drinking fountains were blocked by plastic covers. (What's more, no one was saying the risks were not proven, the controls were excessive, or
May 23, 2013
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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May 23, 2013 12:19
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Supplement / Death and taxes: using the latter to reduce the former
Taxation has become a First Principle of tobacco control worldwide, hailed by the World Bank's 1999 ‘bible’ of international tobacco control, Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control,1 and embodied in Article 6 of the Framewo
May 22, 2013
Tobacco Control
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May 23, 2013 13:41
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[Canada] Day 145: Four Seasons later, David Flaherty returns
He never once published his research findings outside of his reports to the tobacco companies. He explained today that this was because "I knew that eventually I would get to be an expert witness."
May 21, 2013
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
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May 22, 2013 13:22