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| May
31, 2002 The
Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California
Assembly clears Internet tobacco bill; DECK
A bill by Assemblyman Dario Frommer (D-Glendale)
that would require age verification for tobacco
purchases made over the Internet has been passed
by the Assembly with a 52-17 vote. Frommer introduced
the bill after his staff successfully purchased
tobacco over the Internet using the name of
a 2-year-old girl. No age verification was required,
Frommer said. ID# 5440 |
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| May
28, 2002 Alamogordo
Daily Alamogordo, Texas A Scientific Evaluation
of the Anti-smoking Ordinance First,
most facilities are now relatively smoke-free
and/or highly ventilated anyway. Second, the
original smoke-free ordinance ignores many other
substances that also contribute to respiratory
and other disease. Dust storms, dust mites,
fungi, other microbes (microbe-produced chemicals),
as well as non-smoking indoor pollution are
more relevant than smoking to asthmatics.
ID# 5439 |
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| May
30, 2002 The
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Tax hike
could cut into teen smoking If legislators
approve the 50-cent increase in cigarette taxes
Gov. George Ryan has proposed, anti-smoking
activists say one of the benefits will be a
dramatic reduction in youth smoking--even if
the youths themselves have their doubts. According
to research released by the Illinois Coalition
Against Tobacco, the price jump would discourage
some 65,000 Illinois youths from becoming smokers,
with overall cigarette consumption reduced statewide
by 47 million pcks. ID# 5437
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| April
3, 2002 Yahoo
News Virginia airs youth anti-smoking
ad The
nation's sixth-largest tobacco producing state
and home to a major Philip Morris plant is using
some of its national tobacco settlement money
for anti-smoking radio and TV ads aimed at 10-
to 14-year-olds. The seven TV commercials and
eight radio spots, which began airing Tuesday,
feature cartoon characters Lumpy, Addicted Robot
and Ciggie Boy promoting the slogan, "Smoking
sounds stupid and I choose not to be."
The Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation plans
a second phase of the campaign this summer with
concerts, billboards and movie theater ads.
ID# 5319 |
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| April
4, 2002
The Chicago
Tribune Chicago, Illinois Who's behind
those anti-cigarette commercials?
The American Legacy
Foundation played its own April Fool's Day joke.
The Washington, D.C.-based public health group's
faux commercial for "Figment . . . The
World's First 100 Percent Safe Cigarette"
was aired during the "Today" show
Monday morning and the NCAA men's basketball
championship game that night. The spot features
a spokeswoman strolling through a laboratory
full of "scientists" wearing gas masks.
"Get addicted to life," she says.
"This is basically a spoof on the tobacco
industry's claim that they can make a safe cigarette,"
ID# 5318 |
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| April
3, 2002 The
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Teen group
targets tobacco Kayla
Batker, 17, said she started smoking in 3rd
grade and didn't quit until her freshman year
in high school. Now a junior at Crystal Lake
High School, Batker has taken another step,
from non-smoker to anti-smoking activist as
a recent recruit to Leaders of the Pack, a group
that develops ways to educate McHenry County
residents about the health risks of tobacco
use. ID# 5317 |
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April 2, 2002 Yahoo
News Maryland Senate to take up Tobacco Tax
Montgomery County
schools stand to make out with millions if the
Maryland Legislature passes a proposal to increase
the cigarette tax. The Senate is scheduled to
consider a measure Tuesday to increase the tax
by 34 cents a pack to raise more money for public
schools. State Senator Christopher Van Hollen
says the proposal carries a double benefit for
the state's young people. ID# 5312
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April 2, 2002 Reuters
Health Information Report shows slight decline
in US teen smoking More
than 30% of high school seniors say they have
smoked a cigarette in the past month, but the
number of teen-age smokers in the US
is declining, a report published on Tuesday
showed. Raising cigarette prices and aggressive
anti-smoking campaigns both seem to work
to reduce teen smoking--but so far they have
had only a slight effect, the National Cancer
Institute report found. Although just 23% of
the overall US population smokes--defined as
a person having smoked one or more cigarettes
in the past 30 days--smokers make up 32% of
high school seniors, aged between 17 and 19,
the report said.
ID# 5310 |
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| March
28, 2002 The
Ventura County StarVentura, California High
court says smoking ban amendment can go to ballot
A proposed constitutional
ban on most indoor smoking at work and in restaurants
can go on the November ballot, the state Supreme
Court ruled unanimously Thursday. The measure
deals with a single subject and is fairly explained
by its title and summary, Florida's high court
concluded. Scope and clarity are the only two
issues the justices consider. "It was a
serious setback for the tobacco industry,"
said Edie Ousley, spokeswoman Smoke-Free for
Health, the coalition proposing the amendment.
The group has collected 629,000 signatures,
well more than the 488,722 voter signatures
needed to get on the ballot. So far, elections
workers have verified 362,293, said Ousley.
ID# 5309 |
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| March
29, 2002 Yahoo
News Florida court OKs Proposed Office Smoking
Ban Smoking in the office would be
illegal in Florida under a proposed constitutional
amendment that passed state Supreme Court muster
on Thursday and could go before voters in the
fall. Referendum supporters, who now must collect
enough signatures to put the issue before voters
on Nov. 5, said the 7-0 ruling by the state's
highest court was essential to their efforts
to combat the adverse health effects of second-hand
smoke. ID# 5302 |
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| March
29, 2002 Yahoo
News Study Supports Link Between SIDS
and Smoking In
findings that reinforce the recommendation that
new parents quit smoking, researchers report
that children who die of sudden infant death
syndrome (SIDS) have higher concentrations of
nicotine in their lungs than children who die
of other causes. The report adds evidence to
the theory that exposure to cigarette smoke
boosts the risk of SIDS, a major cause of death
among infants. While it is not clear how cigarette
smoke might lead to SIDS, a yet-unidentified
component of tobacco smoke may affect breathing
during sleep, researchers explain in a recent
issue of The Journal of Pediatrics. ID#
5301 |
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| April
1, 2002 Yahoo
News Depressed Teens More Likely to
Light Up Teens
who are depressed and receptive to the smoke-and-mirrors
of tobacco advertising are more likely to try
cigarettes. That's
the conclusion of a new study by researchers
at the University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown
University Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research
Center (TTURC). "This
is really the first study that has looked at
advertising receptivity and depression combined,"
says the study's senior author, Janet Audrain.
She is an assistant professor at the University
of Pennsylvania's department of psychiatry,
and an investigator with the TTURC. ID#
5300 |
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| March
28, 2002
The Ventura County Star Ventura, California
SF youth group finds it's a snap to buy tobacco
products online A
San Francisco youth group says members are stunned
at how easy it is for minors to order tobacco
products over the internet. The Infusion One
Tobacco-Free Project began its experiment after
members noticed the growth of online sites selling
cigarettes and other tobacco products. ID#
5304 |
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| March
28, 2002 Yahoo
News Florida high court says smoking
ban amendment can go before voters A
proposed constitutional ban on indoor smoking
at many work places and restaurants can go on
the November ballot, the Florida Supreme Court
(news - web sites) ruled unanimously
Thursday. The justices rejected the contention
by the restaurant and hotel industry and tobacco
companies that the ballot measure pushed by
a coalition of health groups was misleading.
ID# 5290 |
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| March
27, 2002 Yahoo
News NJ Budget Increases Tobacco Taxes New
Jersey's governor has proposed higher cigarette
and corporate taxes to avert a $5 billion shortfall
blamed partly on the Sept. 11 attacks and the
recession. Gov. James E. McGreevey won election
in November after pledging not to raise taxes.
After taking office, he said his vow extended
only to the sales tax and income tax. On Tuesday,
he emphasized that his $23.7 billion budget
for fiscal 2003, which represents a 1.5 percent
increase over current spending, did not require
hikes in either. ID# 5289
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| March
28, 2002 The Chicago
Tribune Chicago, Illinois
Non-smokers get limelight
Earlier this month, posters
appeared in Naperville area high schools with
a message "Reality ... 75 percent of your
peers don't smoke." Though
the message may seem simple, the posters reflect
nearly two years of work by local educators
in Districts 203 and 204 and the expertise of
the community outreach group NCO Youth and Family
Services. More importantly, the designers believe,
the posters represent a new approach to substance
abuse prevention, by communicating to 12,000
local teens that they are in the majority if
they make healthy choices.
ID# 5288
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| March
28, 2002 The Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois
Rolling Meadows supports FDA regulation of
tobacco The
Rolling Meadows City Council is backing a proposed
federal law that would allow the Food and Drug
Administration to regulate tobacco and would
require tobacco products to list ingredients.
Citing the hazards of tobacco
and a local movement to curb youth smoking by
an advisory committee of local residents and
students, the City Council unanimously passed
a resolution Tuesday in support of the proposed
law, which also would require tobacco products
to be safety tested.
ID# 5287
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| March
25, 2002 Yahoo
News 'Light' Smokers Sue Tobacco Industry The
same argument helped survivors of a 53-year-old
Oregon woman who died from lung cancer win a
jury award of $150 million from Philip Morris
Cos. Inc. last week. The class-action lawsuits
name the nation's three largest tobacco companies
Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and
Brown & Williamson Corp. and allege violations
of consumer protection laws. "It's a scam,
because they get people to believe that they
reduce health risks when that is a false statement,"
said Stephen Sheller, a Philadelphia attorney
who began preparing the cases four years ago.
ID# 5257 |
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| March
26, 2002 The
Daily Aztec San Diego, California Doctors
Endorse higher smoking age California
doctors are doing their best to get underage
smokers to "butt" out. In another
step toward making smoking more difficult for
youths, the 35,000-member California Medical
Association announced that they would support
any legislation to raise the legal age of persons
purchasing or using tobacco products. The physicians
association wants to raise the legal age of
purchasing from 18 to 21 years of age. The CMA
House of Delegates also voted to support increased
fines and enforcement efforts to prevent adolescents
from being exposed to tobacco products. ID#
5256 |
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| March
26, 2002
The San Diego Union Tribune San Diego, California
'Smoke Mirrors' Visitors
to the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa
Park will soon be offered the chance to have
themselves digitalized, sucked in and then blown
out. And not only will they survive the experience,
they should be wiser for it, too. It's all part
of a "tobacco-will-kill-you" campaign
targeting teens and young adults. The aggressive
anti-smoking message relies heavily on Internet
computer games played at home and an interactive
"character-driven" virtual-reality
exhibit at the museum.
ID# 5254 |
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| March
25, 2002
The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore, Maryland Lawmakers eye rise
in tobacco tax The
Maryland General Assembly is leaving one of
its toughest decisions for its final days. Legislative
leaders want to give millions of dollars more
to public schools before facing voters this
fall, and they generally agree that the cash
should come from smokers. They increasingly
are talking about raising the tobacco tax, a
prospect that appeared unlikely when the Assembly
session began 11 weeks ago. But what on the
surface seems a straightforward decision - raising
the per-pack tax by 34 cents or more and devoting
some or all of the $100 million to education
- is complicated by sharp differences between
House and Senate leaders over how to distribute
the money. ID# 5242
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| March
25, 2002 Reuters Health Information Tobacco
treaty progresses but differences remain "Progress
has been steady. We are going in the right direction,"
Luiz Felipe de Seixas Correa said of the week-long
fourth round of negotiations on the Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which
ended on Saturday. He said national differences
in constitutions and legal systems made it difficult
to reach a consensus on an advertising ban and
compensation, adding to the already tough task
of marrying public health interests with those
of countries whose economies depend on tobacco.
ID# 5239
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| March
13, 2002 Yahoo
News Turnaround on Tobacco Look
who's after the Marlboro Man The Bush Justice
Department (news - web sites),
which less than a year ago seemed in full retreat
from Clinton-era anti-smoking efforts, is mounting
an assault on tobacco-marketing strategies,
including the use of the ubiquitous cowboy who
turned Philip Morris' Marlboros into the nation's
best-selling brand of cigarettes. ID# 5237
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| March
25, 2002 Reuters
Health Information 'In the Bedroom' wins Hackademy
Award for smoking Overall,
the lung association says, Hollywood garnered
a grade of "C." Half of the movies
reviewed contained "pro-tobacco messages,"
while just 18% were judged to have anti-smoking
messages. In addition, the lead actors smoked
in 56% of the films--although that was down
from 60% in last year's roundup, the group notes.
"Smoking is still prevalent in the movies,
especially when actors are trying to act out
rebelliousness, sexiness or coolness,"
the ALA's Kori Titus said in a statement. "Parents
should be concerned that their children are
being influenced to pick up a killer habit every
time they go to the movies." ID# 5240
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| March
21, 2002
The Denver Post Denver, Colorado Hollywood's
cigarette habit At a time
when smoking is declining in society at large,
Hollywood movies are showing more people lighting
up - including important characters in all five
of this year's candidates for the best-picture
Oscar. Filmmakers say they are only trying to
reflect real life, but public health authorities
decry the trend, saying images of tobacco use
encourage smoking by teenagers and undermine
efforts to help adult smokers quit. "Kids
who see smoking on the screen tend to believe
it's normal behavior, when in fact tobacco use
of any kind is not the norm," says Jill
Conley, head of the State Tobacco Education
and Prevention Partnership. ID# 5236
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| March
22, 2002
The San Diego Union Tribune San Diego, California
Increase sought in cigarette tax
California's 4.2
million smokers would have to pony up 65 cents
more per pack under a new measure that would
make the state's tobacco tax the highest in
the nation. The proposal, which appears to face
long odds in an election year, would generate
$750 million to help bridge a $17.5 billion
budget deficit and re-energize the state's anti-smoking
crusade, proponents said. The revenue would
be earmarked for "the minority of the public
that pays the tax," said state Sen. Debra
Ortiz, D-Sacramento, who is carrying the legislation.
More than half of the money, she said, would
go toward medical services for the working poor,
"the community most affected by tobacco
use."
ID# 5234 |
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| March
21, 2002 Yahoo News Indiana
Black Expo Breaks Tobacco Ties Indiana
Black Expo Inc. announced Wednesday that it
will no longer accept sponsorship from tobacco
companies, and will partner instead with an
anti-smoking group. IBE, whose events have been
financially supported by tobacco companies since
1970, said its newest sponsor will be Indiana
Tobacco Prevention and Cessation. IBE's president,
the Rev. Charles Williams (pictured, left),
said his organization made the move partly because
it believes tobacco companies target African
Americans. ID# 5229
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| March
21, 2002 The New York Times New York, New
York U.N. Agency Tells Nations to Use the
Courts to Combat Tobacco As
negotiations resumed this week on a global anti-tobacco
treaty, the World Health Organization asked
nations to use their courts to awaken public
outrage and redress injuries in the fight against
smoking. The United Nations health agency, which
has spearheaded the anti-smoking effort, issued
a report that concluded litigation is a powerful
tool in changing the behavior of tobacco giants
and lowering the number of tobacco-related deaths.
"The law has now become an indispensable
component of the global tobacco control agenda,
and nations in every part of the world are eager
to tap its power," said the report's author,
D. Douglas Blanke, director of the Tobacco Law
Project at William Mitchell College of Law in
St. Paul, Minn. ID#
5228 |
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| February
25, 2002
The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California
Calif. Doctors Urge Higher Smoking Age
A resolution approved
Sunday at the association's annual meeting in
Anaheim directs the group's lobbyists to support
any legislation that would raise the legal age
for buying, possessing or receiving tobacco
products, though no such legislation is pending.
The association, which represents 35,000 physicians,
also wants to make it illegal to sell cigarettes
to those younger than 21. "I am very pleased
that the CMA, in its wisdom, decided to support
this policy," said Dr. Leonard Klay, an
obstetrician-gynecologist from Santa Rosa. He
introduced the measure at the association's
annual meeting, which drew more than 400 delegates.
ID# 5226 |
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| February
27, 2002 Reuters Health Information WHO
says cheap tobacco a growing concern GENEVA,
Feb 27 (Reuters) - Tobacco costs less in developing
countries than it did a decade ago and in some
cases is cheaper than bread or rice, creating
a potential public health disaster, the World
Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday.
The United Nations health agency said tobacco
taxes in developing countries, seen bearing
the brunt of smoking-related deaths in the coming
years, were not high enough to cut consumption
and prevent disease and death in the future.
More than 70% of the 8.4 million smoking-related
deaths WHO predicts will occur in 2020 are likely
to take place in poor nations that lack comprehensive
tobacco control plans. ID#
5225 |
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| February
28, 2002 The San Diego Union Tribune San
Diego, California Connecticut governor signs
off on 61-cent increase in states cigarette
tax Gov.
John G. Rowland signed legislation Thursday
that adds 61 cents to Connecticut's cigarette
tax, making it the third-highest in the nation.
Rowland proposed the tax increase to help close
a two-year budget gap estimated at $1 billion.
"It's going to help us with this huge deficit
we're facing," he said after Thursday's
vote by the state Legislature. The tax increase
is expected to generate $130 million in the
next fiscal year.
ID# 5224
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| March
19, 2002 Reuters Health Information Friends,
family influence teens' smoking habits
Their study of
more than 3,600 students from four geographic
regions in the US found that having a best friend
who smoked was the strongest influence on whether
an eighth-grade student reported smoking
at any time. Students who had a smoking best
friend were more than 6 times more likely than
other students to have ever smoked and more
than 12 times as likely to have smoked in the
past week. And eighth-grade students with a
family member who smoked were more than twice
as likely to smoke than their peers living in
non-smoking homes, according to the report in
a recent issue of the Journal of School Health.
ID# 5221
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| Editorial
March
8, 2002 The Tallahassee Democrat Tallahassee,
Florida Partial ban is reasonable
In the meantime,
two petitions regarding smoking in public places
are in play. One or another and quite likely
both will win voter approval this fall, though
they are incompatible and will likely end up
in court. We favor, by a pinch, the Committee
for Responsible Solutions approach to smoking
in restaurants.
ID# 5196
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| March
18, 2002 The New York Times New York, New
York New Tobacco Reduction Talks Resume
`Every single one
of those four million people who died last year
(of tobacco-related illnesses) could have lived
longer -- five years longer, 10 years longer,
20 years longer,'' World Health Organization
director-general Gro Harlem Brundtland told
delegates from 190 nations. ``It is these lives
and lost years which provide us the answers
to those who will speak to you of profits and
marketing gains, of special concessions and
``reasonable'' campaigns. There is nothing reasonable
about tobacco deaths,'' the U.N. health chief
said. ID# 5194
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| March
18, 2002 The New York Times New York, New
York WHO backs Lawsuits against tobacco giants
The
World Health Organization said Monday it would
offer expertise and advice to countries planning
to take tobacco companies to court over tobacco-related
deaths and diseases. As a new round of talks
began on a global treaty to contain the growth
in tobacco use, the WHO said support and technical
assistance were needed by member states more
used to fighting smoking-related diseases in
the clinics than in the courts. Citing successful
cases in the United States and India, it said
it would gather expertise, encourage collaboration
and help with tasks such as document analysis.
ID# 5193
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| March
14, 2002 Yahoo News Lawmaker urges Bush
administration to take tougher stance on tobacco
at talks set to begin next week Rep. Henry
Waxman (news), a leading critic of the
tobacco industry, is urging the Bush administration
to back worldwide mandatory cigarette taxes
and an international ban on advertising appealing
to children. U.N.-sponsored talks on producing
an international agreement on reducing cigarette-related
deaths resume Monday in Geneva. Waxman, D-Calif.,
wants Bush to reconsider his earlier decision
to roll back the previous administration's positions.
ID# 5180
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| March
11, 2002 The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles,
California Feds Seek Restraints on Big Tobacco
The Justice Department wants to impose
sweeping new restrictions on cigarette manufacturers,
including banning the terms "low-tar"
and "light" and eliminating cigarette
vending machines. Tobacco companies are insisting
only Congress can do that. The government's
proposal, contained in documents sent to tobacco
companies, would require that graphic health
warnings cover 50 percent of cigarette packs
and advertisements. It also would ban cigarette
vending machines and the use of the terms "light"
and "low tar." ID#
5163 |
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| March
12, 2002 Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California
U.S. to pursue Lawsuit to Curb Cigarette
Marketing The
Justice Department is demanding sweeping changes
in tobacco marketing and manufacturing practices
as part of a federal lawsuit that many observers
had expected to be dumped by the Bush administration.
In a document turned over to industry lawyers,
Justice Department attorneys said they would
seek a court order forcing tobacco companies
to reduce levels of nicotine, the habit-forming
substance in their cigarette brands, "to
the greatest extent possible. "They called
for a slew of other anti-smoking measures, including
elimination of cigarette advertising in stores,
use of graphic warning labels filling at least
50% of the space on cigarette packs and print
ads, and a ban on lobbying against ordinances
directed at secondhand smoke. ID#
5162 |
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| March
12, 2002 Reuters Health Information Philip
Morris accused of marketing faulty filters
American scientists accused international tobacco
giant Philip Morris Inc. on Tuesday of marketing
defective filters on cigarettes for 40 years.
Researchers at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute
in Buffalo, New York, said the filters release
potentially harmful filter fibers and carbon
particles while people smoke. "The filter
of today's cigarette is defective; Philip Morris
Inc. has known of this filter defect for more
than 40 years," Roswell's Dr. John Pauly
said in a report in the journal Tobacco Control.
But Philip Morris, one of the world's leading
manufacturers of cigarettes, said the filters
do not increase the health risks of cigarettes
and the company has not tried to hide the issue
from scientists. ID# 5160
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| March
12, 2002 Reuters Health Information Big
Tobacco still a feature in Hollywood films-report
Two
California researchers are concerned that Hollywood
and cigarette makers are still pursuing product
placement deals in order to land major roles
for cigarettes on the big screen. While there
is no proof that the cigarette industry is ignoring
its own voluntary ban on using entertainment
programming to advertise its products, the investigators
point to increasing use of tobacco in films
in the 1990s and a long history of product placement
deals between the two industries. Many health
experts are concerned that the use of tobacco
in movies is increasing, reinforcing a misleading
presentation of smoking as a widespread
and socially desirable activity. ID# 5158
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| March
12, 2002 Reuters Health Information
More affordable cigarettes threaten world's
poor There
is plenty of room for slapping additional taxes
on packs of cigarettes sold around the world,
according to a new analysis of price information
by researchers at the World Health Organization
(WHO). A price hike of just 10% on cigarettes
would likely reduce demand for tobacco products
by about 4% in high-income countries and 8%
in low- and middle-income countries, research
suggests. This would help 42 million smokers
worldwide to kick the habit, and prevent a minimum
of 10 million tobacco-related deaths. "These
conclusions have tremendous implications for
public health," Dr. G. Emmanuel Guindon
and colleagues report in the March issue of
the journal Tobacco Control. ID# 5157
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| March
11, 2002 Reuters Health Information US to
propose new cigarette restrictions-paper The
US Justice Department will ask a federal judge
to place tough new restrictions on the marketing,
manufacture and sale of cigarettes, in the latest
development in the government's 3-year lawsuit
against the industry, The Wall Street Journal
reported on Monday. The government will ask
the court to limit all cigarette advertising
to black-and-white print ads, with half the
ad space dedicated to "graphic health warnings,"
the newspaper said, citing new pretrial documents.
ID# 5155
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| March
8, 2002 The Morning Call Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Program to fight smoking fortified Puffed
up by $2.16 million in state tobacco settlement
money, Allentown health officials on Thursday
announced plans to snuff out smoking in Lehigh
County. ID# 5144
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| March
7, 2002 Reuters Health Information/Yahoo News
Convenience Store Tobacco Ads Reach Teens
Displays promoting tobacco in convenience
stores may encourage teens to smoke, especially
since three out of four teens shop at these
stores at least once a week, according to researchers
at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(news - web sites) (CDC). In the
March 8th issue of the Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report, the CDC authors describe the
amount of tobacco advertising present in about
3,000 retail outlets in communities with schools
across the US, including convenience stores,
gas stations and liquor stores. The investigators
found that some form of tobacco promotion was
present in more than 90% of the stores. Promotions
they looked at included signs on the inside
or exterior of stores, self-service cigarette
displays, multipack discounts, items with tobacco
brand-names on them and vending machines.
ID# 5166
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| March
2, 2002 The New York Times New York, NY
Cigarette Tax Would Cost State Million, Critic
Says Topping the list of things Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg is asking for from Albany
this year is permission to raise the cigarette
tax to $1.50 per pack, a budget-balancing measure
that the city is touting as pain-free for the
state. ID# 5145
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| February
21, 2002 Ventura County Star Ventura County,
California Doctors to consider idea to raise
smoking age LOS ANGELES Members
of the California Medical Association are seeking
to raise the state's smoking age from 18 to
21, which would be the highest in the nation
ID# 5148
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| January
20, 2002 Ventura County Star Ventura County,
California Lighting Up could be a hazard to
wallet A new law that took effect
in California Jan 1, bans smoking near playgrounds.
The state is the first in the nation to curb
smoking near playgrounds and prohibit smoking
of any tobacco-related material within 25 feet
of sandboxes, playgrounds, swings, tot toys,
or pre-teen play areas. ID#
5147 |
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