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[Minnesota] HUMPHREY: A Clearer View: Tobacco settlement made state healthier

the 15th anniversary of Minnesota’s tobacco settlement. Those of us involved in the trial will never forget it. In 1994, as Minnesota attorney general, I joined forces ... when I see an ad directing smokers to QUITPLAN or to dine in a smoke-free restaura
Duluth (MN) News-Tribune
added May 13, 2013 03:05
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[California] Lowell Bergman, Reporter Who Investigated the Tobacco Industry, Talks About His Film, The Insider

Infamous investigative reporter Lowell Bergman, whose investigation of the tobacco industry in the '90s was dramatized in the motion picture The Insider tells us about his experience ... The Insider is screening tonight at 8:30 as part of the San Francisc
San Francisco Weekly
added May 9, 2013 00:37
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[USA] C Everett Koop

has died aged 96 ... His most significant impact, however, was on smoking. ... enraging not only the powerful American tobacco industry but also the lawmakers of Washington, DC (grateful recipients of the industry's generous campaign funds), with his ins
Electronic Telegraph (uk)
added May 7, 2013 22:47
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New Mexico State University's Next President May Be A Climate Science Denier

From 1993 to 1998, Carruthers was the chairman of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC), a tobacco industry-funded lobby group that claims that the health risks of smoking and the threat of global warming are "junk science."
Think Progress (blog)
added May 6, 2013 05:15
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[UK] Tobacco control efforts in Europe

grounds for optimism are provided by progress in implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and in the development of a new generation of nicotine-containing devices that could enable more widespread adoption of harm-reduction stra
The Lancet (uk)
added May 7, 2013 08:27
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Tobacco control in Asia

Tobacco control is being restructured in Asia. It has moved from being isolated, individualistic, and ad hoc, to a mainstream public health approach.30 One new challenge is the integration of tobacco control in the framework of prevention of non-communic
The Lancet (uk)
added May 7, 2013 08:25
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[New Mexico] State reps rap Carruthers over tobacco, climate change views

Four Las Cruces state representatives have "serious reservations" about New Mexico State University presidential candidate Garrey Carruthers due to his work for a tobacco-backed group and his climate change views. The four representatives -- Rep. Phillip
Las Cruces (NM) Sun-News
added May 4, 2013 11:52
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[New Mexico] Dona Ana County Legislators Express Serious Reservation About Gary Carruthers for NMSU President (PDF)

“As elected officials, we must express serious reservations regarding the consideration of Garrey Carruthers as the next President of New Mexico State University. We are very troubled by recent information that for five years Mr. Carruthers was the Chair
Las Cruces (NM) Sun-News
added May 4, 2013 11:57
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[New Mexico] Carruthers led effort backed by tobacco firm

Carruthers, Republican governor of New Mexico from 1987 to 1990 and currently one of five finalists for the presidency of New Mexico State University ... Carruthers, 73, downplayed his role as the public head of TASSC and distanced himself from Philip Mo
Albuquerque Journal
added May 3, 2013 01:41
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[UK] Students' controversial smoking play to run at Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre

SMOKING is a controversial issue, so when a group of students wrote a play about the history of tobacco as a commodity, it was bound to grab attention. And their script was so gripping that Cheltenham's Everyman Theatre decided to produce the play for a
This Is Gloucester
added Apr 30, 2013 11:52
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