[ Posted in: Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco on January 14th, 2009 | ]
Research released in the American Journal of Public Health found evidence that the tobacco industry has manipulated menthol levels and created new cigarette brands with the intention of luring young adults and adolescents into cigarette smoking.
The article, Tobacco Industry Control of Menthol Cigarettes and Targeting of Adolescents and Young Adults, compiled data and tobacco industry documents that reveal the tobacco industry’s intention to vary strengths of menthol flavors in cigarettes, appealing to young people.
The research was conducted by the Division of Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health and funded in part by the American Legacy Foundation.
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[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco on December 23rd, 2008 | ]
Plain cigarette packaging is set to be the next battleground for anti-smoking groups in Australia, after they won another series of victories yesterday.
VicHealth chief executive Todd Harper said anti-smoking groups would lobby the Federal Government next year to legislate for plain cigarette packaging, which would show nothing but a large, graphic health warning and the name of the brand.
The State Government yesterday announced bans on smoking in cars containing children and in schoolyards. Retailers will also have to put cigarettes in a cupboard or under the counter, announced only by a plain sign and a price board.
Mr Harper said packaging would be the next focus: "The packet is where the tobacco industry positions a lot of the image and attributes that they want to appeal to existing and new smokers."
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[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco, Smoking Ban on December 21st, 2008 | ]
A San Francisco Superior Court judge threw out a Walgreens lawsuit Friday that attempted to stop San Francisco’s ordinance banning tobacco sales by pharmacies.
The ordinance, which went into effect Oct. 1, is the first ban of its kind in the country.
Attorneys for the Deerfield, Ill.-based pharmacy chain had argued San Francisco’s ordinance violated equal protection laws because the ban exempts supermarkets like Safeway and "big box" retail stores like Costco, which also contain pharmacies and sell cigarettes.
Pharmacies such as Walgreens, which operates more than 50 stores in San Francisco, and Rite Aid, are included in the ban, as well as smaller independently owned pharmacies.
San Francisco Health Department policymakers have defended the exemption, arguing pharmacies, as health-promoting businesses, should not implicitly endorse cigarette smoking, considered the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. The larger stores do not explicitly market themselves in the same way, they said.
But they have also stated that broadening the ban on tobacco sales could be considered in the future in San Francisco.
Philip Morris has appealed the ruling.
On Dec. 1, the Boston Public Health Commission approved a similar law, banning tobacco sales in pharmacies and drug stores, as well as hospitals and colleges. The law is set to take effect in February.
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[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco on December 16th, 2008 | ]
Financial analysts estimate that Philip Morris spends about $100 million a year on research to help them create the cigarette of the future - one, that a smoker would not want to stop smoking, of course…
They are looking at different fibers and gels, and even plastics and metals to put into the cigarettes!
And their research efforts also include finding alternatives to getting people into the nicotine habit without actually burning any tobacco.
Click below for all the details.
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[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco on December 15th, 2008 | ]
I have warned here many times about Big Tobacco’s misleading claims regarding so-called "light cigarettes".
The Supreme Court now ruled that smokers can sue tobacco companies for their allegedly deceptive marketing of those products. Needless to say, any existing claims by ex-smokers against tobacco companies will experience a strong support from this ruling.
The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that smokers can sue Altria and other tobacco companies for allegedly deceptive marketing of "light" or "low tar" cigarettes.
The high court said such lawsuits are allowed under federal law in a 5-4 decision that will add weight to massive claims filed by ex-smokers against Altria, whose Philip Morris unit is best known for Marlboro cigarettes, and other big tobacco producers.
The case involved three residents of the northeast state of Maine who puffed on Marlboro Lights and Cambridge Lights for 15 years and had argued they had a right under state law to sue the companies for allegedly deceiving smokers that light cigarettes were healthier.
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[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco on December 14th, 2008 | ]
It’s a exhibit of print advertising that is as filled with stunning creativity as it is with pure horror: Santa Claus hawks cigarettes. Doctors recommend cigarettes as cures for various ailments. Dentists urge their patients to smoke. Babies endorse the cigarettes their "daddies" smoke.
The display -covering ad agency output from the 1920s to the 1950s- fills the walls at the Science, Industry and Business branch of the New York Public Library.
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[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco on December 14th, 2008 | ]
New data from the federal government show that cigarette consumption in the U.S. has decreased by an estimated 28 percent, or 135 billion cigarettes, over the past decade, which marks a major milestone in public health and tobacco control, according to the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) and the American Legacy Foundation® – the nation’s largest public health foundation dedicated to reducing tobacco use in the U.S.
Ten years after the state Attorneys General negotiated the landmark 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with tobacco companies, cigarette consumption has continued to decline and the landscape around tobacco use has shifted significantly.
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[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco, Smoking Women, Smoking Cessation, Secondhand Smoke on November 9th, 2008 | ]
Reason To Stop Smoking: Cigarettes Are Unreasonably Dangerous, Tobacco Lawyer Admits
While Alvin Davis, lawyer for Ligget Group Inc (maker of Chesterfield cigarettes) admits that "cigarettes are unreasonable dagerous", he also believes that "the question is whether that alone is a sufficient basis to hold the manufacturer liable"!
Reason enough for Davis to ask the Florida Supreme Court to reverse a $545,000 product liability verdict Thursday because the ailing smoker who won the judgment wasn’t required to prove the company could have made a safer cigarette!!!
WHAT???
Find the whole unbelievable story below.
- Franc Tausch, PhD, CCHT
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[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco, Smoking Ban, Smoking Women, Secondhand Smoke on November 8th, 2008 | ]
Reasons To Stop Smoking: San Francisco - Judge Denies Bid To Stop Ban On Cigarette Sales In Drug Stores
A federal judge denied a motion by Philip Morris USA Inc. for a preliminary injunction that would have put on hold San Francisco’s ban on tobacco sales by pharmacies until the cigarette company’s lawsuit against the city is resolved.
The ordinance is the first of its kind in the nation. It was approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in July, signed by Mayor Gavin Newsom in August and went into effect Oct. 1. Read my post on that.
Philip Morris, the nation’s largest cigarette company, argued in court filings that the city’s regulation violates the First Amendment because it effectively forces tobacco companies to pull the advertising that accompanies its products in drug stores.
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[ Posted in: Reasons To Quit Smoking, Big Tobacco, Smoking Ban, Smoking Cessation on October 2nd, 2008 | ]
As of today, drugstores in San Francisco can no longer sell cigarettes.
While this basically sounds like a good idea, it is limited to drugstores only! Meaning: Any grocery store with a pharmacy in it can actually continue to sell cigarettes in San Francisco!!!
Lawmakers argue that sick folks shouldn’t be confronted with cancer-causing products when getting their medications at drugstores. – So what about the masses of people who get their prescriptions at a pharmacy at Safeway’s or CostCo?
Needless to say, the Walgreen’s chain and Philip Morris have filed lawsuites against San Francisco, contending this distinction violates the law.
Believe me, I am all for that kind of ban - but it should make more sense than what the city came up with thus far.
- Franc Tausch, PhD, CCHT
Click below for a complete article on this topic from the San Francisco Chronicle
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