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Facebook Banning Electronic Cigarette Fanpages

E Cig Cabin’s (http://enterthecabin.com) Tyler Bullock reports that a number of electronic cigarette fanpages have recently reported that Facebook removed their entire fan page without a warning and with very little explanation.
PR Web
added Sep 5, 2012 02:23
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Tobacco firms use apps to push smoking message

The report, by a team working in Tobacco Control, says there are a rising number of smartphone apps which portray smoking in a positive way - breaching World Health Organization rules banning the advertisement of goods containing tobacco. The researcher
Press Association (uk)
added Oct 22, 2012 06:41
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[Australia, Uruguay] Treaty Shopping: How Philip-Morris Cherry-Picked Worst Case BITs

a closer look reveals a broad collection of older treaties that do not contain exceptions in modern treaties that could have avoided this situation. As a multinational-enterprise, Philip-Morris has attempted to evade these exceptions by going through sub
infojustice.org (Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property - American University Washington College of Law)
added Dec 3, 2012 00:04
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Scientists create new tools for battling secondhand smoke

Dartmouth researchers have taken an important step in the ongoing battle against secondhand tobacco smoke. They have pioneered the development of a breakthrough device that can immediately detect the presence of secondhand smoke and even third-hand smoke
EurekAlert
added Mar 21, 2013 16:13
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Do We Get Sick Like Rats? A New Philip Morris Prize Asks the Crowd

In partnership with computational biologists at IBM’s Watson Research Center, Philip Morris’s so-called sbv IMPROVER project creates open challenges to encourage scientists to augment traditional peer reviews of research data. On Monday, Philip Morris la
Techonomy
added May 2, 2013 06:51
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[New Zealand] Cigarette giant denies aggressive campaign

Cigarette giant Philip Morris is denying carrying out an aggressive campaign by setting up a website for its customers.
NZCity (nz)
added Jul 20, 2012 11:24
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[Belgium] Tobacco lobby inside the European Parliament

Just before last Wednesday’s midday briefing for journalists at the European Commission, one of New Europe journalists received a phone call and an email from inside the European Parliament, suggesting that we ask a ‘helpful’ question for the tobacco lobb
New Europe
added Oct 22, 2012 06:47
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[North Carolina] Delivering an e-cigarette with a jolt

That’s why electronic cigarettes aren’t as effective as they could be, he says, at least, until now. He and his team have come up with an iPhone-sized device that aims to correct that flaw, offering up nicotine to a smoker at between one and three micron
Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area
added Mar 17, 2013 14:20
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[Australia] Government could control taste of cigarettes, raise taxes in battle against smoking

THE flavour and ingredients of cigarettes would be regulated, smoking in movies controlled and the cost of tobacco would sky-rocket under a radical Government blueprint to stop one million Australians smoking. The five-year war on smoking would also see
News Interactive Network/News Limited/News.com (au)
added Feb 10, 2013 11:02
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[Canada] Carl V Phillips - TobaccoTactics

Phillips is a former Associate Professor of the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Alberta (Canada). He now runs his own private research consultancy, Populi Health Institute. Phillips has received funding from the tobacco industry
TobaccoTactics
added Sep 8, 2012 13:16
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