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Companies flout law on tobacco in tooth care products
Up to 68% of adolescents in India use dental products containing tobacco, despite a law barring manufacturers from using tobacco as an ingredient in any toothpaste or toothpowder, reveals a study in this week's BMJ. view more (2004-02-05)
Tobacco companies engineer high addiction cigarettes with additives
Tobacco companies have added chemicals to cigarettes to increase the addictiveness of nicotine and keep smokers hooked. A new joint report by ASH, Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the US State of Massachusetts reveals over sixty tobacco industry documents dealing with the use of additives in cigarettes [1]. Over 600 tobacco additives are... view more... (1999-07-14)
Tobacco industry concealed its role in refuting important study
In 1981 an influential Japanese study showed an association between passive smoking and lung cancer. Using internal tobacco industry documents, researchers in this week’s BMJ describe how the industry tried to hide its involvement in refuting this study. view more (2002-12-11)
Explosion in corporate tobacco sponsorship
Corporate sponsorship by tobacco companies in the USA has rocketed, shows research in Tobacco Control. Between 1995 and 1999, tobacco company sponsorship amounted to a minimum estimated $365 million, with motor sports taking the lion's share. But tobacco dollars also funded many small, community based projects, many of them part of the public... view more... (2001-09-04)
Lighting up the powerful global smoking lobby
Global public health efforts to reduce smoking are at odds with the interests of the tobacco industry. According to a case study published in the online open access journal Globalization and Health, competing tobacco companies co-operate via a global network of national and regional manufacturing associations to undermine public health measures to... view more... (2008-01-17)
U of M scholar and colleagues link tobacco industry's marketing to youth smoking
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) released a report today, co-edited by University of Minnesota professor Barbara Loken, that reaches the government's strongest conclusion to date that tobacco marketing and depictions of smoking in movies promote youth smoking. view more (2008-08-22)
Tobacco promotions have increased dramatically, especially in areas where strict tobacco control programmes exist
Tobacco companies are employing heavy spending on slotting fees (that is, payments to obtain space to display products) and promotions to encourage retailers to create more tobacco friendly environments. Furthermore, these promotions are more pervasive in states with comprehensive tobacco control programmes, conclude two studies in Tobacco Control. view more (2001-12-07)
Tobacco smuggling is killing more people than illegal drugs
Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year-four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together-but the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem. view more (2008-10-10)
Tobacco industry hires experts to undermine Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
The tobacco industry has employed PR experts to gather inside information in a bid to weaken anti-tobacco campaigns, policy, and legislation, finds research in Tobacco Control, due to be published in June. view more (2002-03-14)
Study finds that tobacco companies changed design of cigarettes without alerting smokers
As President Obama prepares to sign a bill giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of the tobacco industry, a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers shows that tobacco manufacturers have continually changed the ingredients and the design of their cigarettes over time, even if those changes have exceeded... view more... (2009-06-22)
Tobacco Industry Strategies For Influencing European Community Tobacco Advertising Legislation (pp 1264, 1323)
A public-health article in this week's issue of THE LANCET highlights how the tobacco industry lobbied individual member states of the European Community to prevent the introduction of a total ban on tobacco advertising in 1998. Restrictions on tobacco company advertising and sponsorship are effective parts of tobacco control programmes... view more... (2002-04-10)
Parents are the main source of tobacco for underage smokers
Parents and other older relatives are the primary sources of tobacco for underage smokers living in communities with strong enforcement of tobacco sales laws, finds a study in Tobacco Control. These results suggest that many current laws are too weak to reduce the availability of tobacco to minors effectively. view more (2001-12-07)
UK government should act now to regulate tobacco
Cigarettes are the deadliest form of nicotine delivery available on the market, yet are the least regulated. An editorial in this week's BMJ argues that the British government should act now to level the regulatory playing field for tobacco and nicotine. It is no coincidence that cigarettes have so far managed to escape regulation, writes... view more... (2003-01-16)
Tobacco use will continue, possibly grow, during recession, Georgia State expert says
Even though tobacco use is expected to kill 6 million people worldwide and drain $500 billion from the global economy each year - according to a new report co-authored by a Georgia State University tobacco expert - the recession will most likely do nothing to reduce use. view more (2009-03-13)
Seeing smoking in films encourages teenagers to try smoking
The more smoking teenagers see in films the more likely they are to smoke, finds a study in this week's BMJ, providing powerful new evidence that depictions of smoking in films influence adolescents to smoke. James Sargent and colleagues surveyed 4,919 schoolchildren in the United States (aged 9-15 years) about the amount of smoking they had seen... view more... (2001-12-12)
Hollywood guilty of colluding with tobacco industry
Hollywood has been colluding with the tobacco industry for years, and continues to do so, despite a voluntary agreement to curb indirect tobacco advertising in films. Product placement of cigarettes and cigars is back to levels it was before the agreement was introduced in 1990, the evidence shows. view more (2002-03-07)
Tobacco industry efforts to derail effective anti-smoking campaigns
Anti-smoking ads that reveal the tobacco industry's deceptive practices have been aggressively quashed through various methods found Temple University Assistant Professor Jennifer K. Ibrahim, co-author of an analysis in the August issue of the American Journal of Public Health. view more (2007-07-12)
Growing evidence of marijuana smoke's potential dangers
In a finding that challenges the increasingly popular belief that smoking marijuana is less harmful to health than smoking tobacco, researchers in Canada are reporting that smoking marijuana, like smoking tobacco, has toxic effects on cells. view more (2009-08-06)
Telephone 'quitlines' may help dental patients stop smoking
Dentists may be able to help their patients stop smoking by referring them to tobacco-use telephone "quitlines," according to a pilot study published in the May issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA). view more (2007-05-29)
Tobacco should be excluded from free trade agreement
Tobacco should be excluded from free trade agreements to protect health, argue researchers in this week's BMJ. Their call comes in the week that the European Union and the South American trading bloc Mercosur will continue negotiations towards a free trade agreement. Every day, doctors see the deadly effects of tobacco, write the authors. While... view more... (2004-03-03)
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