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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Launch New Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use
today announced an ambitious, three-year collaboration to accelerate progress in reducing tobacco use, the nation's leading cause of preventable death. This new initiative comes as the United States nears the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General
Apr 11, 2013
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK)
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Apr 12, 2013 00:50
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Young Women's Republican Club Photo: Milford, Connecticut Women Smoking Cigars In 1941
Apr 9, 2013
Huffington Post (blog)
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Apr 10, 2013 14:20
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[China] CHELALA: Comparing tobacco fight to the Opium Wars
while the U.S. government has been extremely successful in discouraging smoking at home, its pressure on Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand to break their domestic tobacco monopolies has resulted in their markets being flooded with American cigarette
Apr 9, 2013
Japan Times
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Apr 10, 2013 12:35
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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
Apr 9, 2013
DFNI (uk)
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Apr 10, 2013 08:54
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GRAPHICS: Baseball and Chewing Tobacco: A Strange History
How did this come to pass? Why is it that, for more than a century now, so many heroes of America's Pastime spit toxic waste and look like they have a small mammal stuffed in their cheek?
Apr 9, 2013
Discovery Channel
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Apr 9, 2013 19:33
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[UK] GRAPHICS: Cigarette advertising: The art of marketing harm
A research group at Stanford University in the US is analysing the effects of tobacco advertising, marketing and promotion. Tobacco brands have targeted women and teenagers, using pseudo-science and cultural icons to sell cigarettes. This 1952 advert atta
Nov 13, 2012
BBC Online
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Apr 9, 2013 10:10
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[UK] A History of the World - Object : Cigarette Coupons
In 1904 a shop introduced the first printed cigarette coupons to encourage the public to shop at their store. The original coupons entitled the bearers for discounted packs of cigarettes from a new shop that was due to open up shortly. In 1936 a German c
Apr 9, 2013
BBC Online
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Apr 9, 2013 10:03
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[Virginia] South Boston author remembers 'When Tobacco was Good'
In his recently released book, “Once Upon A Time…When Tobacco was Good,” Mills tells of a time in the not so distant past when being in the business of raising tobacco was a very, prestigious and much sought after way of earning a living. A few proud p
Apr 8, 2013
South Boston (VA) Gazette-Virginian
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Apr 8, 2013 09:23
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[India] 50 years ago: Research on evils of smoking
Smoking might lead to an increase in pressure in the blood vessels in the lungs, according to a study of the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute. In a review of the progress of the Institute, which celebrated its tenth Foundation Day here yesterday, the d
Apr 8, 2013
Deccan Chronicle (in)
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Apr 8, 2013 08:26
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[Asia, China] In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism
Nan Enstad’s book in progress, “The Jim Crow Cigarette: Following Tobacco Road From North Carolina to China and Back,” examines how Southern tobacco workers, and Southern racial ideology, helped build the Chinese cigarette industry in the early 20th centu
Apr 7, 2013
New York Times
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Apr 7, 2013 10:17