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[USA] Electronic cigarettes challenge anti-smoking efforts

Anti-smoking campaigners fear the rapid growth of tobacco-free cigarettes could undermine years of successful anti-smoking efforts.
BBC Online
added Dec 6, 2012 09:56
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Can Electronic Cigarettes Challenge Big Tobacco?

Television commercials for NJOY Kings began running nationally in early December, making it the first “cigarette” ad to run since Jan. 1, 1971, when Virginia Slims ran one final commercial a minute before the midnight deadline during “The Johnny Carson S
TIME Magazine
added Jan 8, 2013 10:50
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[UK, USA] Sales of e-cigarettes continue to soar

“We continue to expect consumption of e-cigarettes could surpass consumption of traditional cigarettes within the next decade,” said Bonnie Herzog, tobacco analyst at Wells Fargo.
Financial Times (uk)
added Jan 21, 2013 12:19
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[New York] These Are The Herbal Cigarettes They Smoke On Mad Men

At the Mad Men Q&A at the Paley Center earlier this week, the cast discussed smoking on the show, noting they smoke herbal cigarettes made of "rose petals, marshmallow... no nicotine or tar." It's always been known they aren't puffing down real Lucky Str
The Gothamist [Blog]
added May 7, 2013 14:44
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[California] New anti-tobacco ads for African American market unveiled

California Department of Public Health director and state health officer Dr. Ron Chapman has unveiled new ethnic-market advertisements that will continue to educate Californians on the harmful effects of tobacco use.
San Francisco Bay View
added Jan 14, 2013 11:38
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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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[Illinois] Don Draper's Deadly Habit

A new Northwestern Medicine study shows that smoking during your middle-aged years dramatically increases your lifetime risk of not just getting cancer, but dying from it.
Northwestern University
added Sep 18, 2012 01:26
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[UK] E-cigarettes: Will tighter ad rules send sector up in smoke?

But all that could be about to change when the Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) sets out its proposal for the future regulation of e-cigarettes, including whether tighter restrictions on advertising should be imposed. E-Lites, one
Marketing Week (uk)
added Mar 6, 2013 12:19
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[UK] Advert for e-cigarettes to be shown on TV ($$)

Since 1965, cigarette advertising has been banned on British TV, and slots promoting smoking or tobacco are still outlawed. But because it does not contain tobacco, e-cigarette makers have begun sometimes tortuous marketing efforts to exploit a fast-grow
Financial Times (uk)
added Jan 18, 2013 15:25
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Larry Hagman, Who Played J.R. Ewing in ‘Dallas,’ Dies at 81

The cause was complications of cancer . . . After he kicked a longtime cigarette habit, he became an avid antismoking activist and often carried a battery-powered fan with which he blew smoke back into the faces of offenders.
New York Times
added Nov 25, 2012 17:27
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