Thursday, April 30, 2009

Guilt By Association: The Basis for Anti-Smoking Advocates' Attacks on Kirsten Gillibrand for Professional Misconduct

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A number of anti-smoking advocates have been issuing personal attacks against the ethics and character of New York Senator Kirsten Gillibra...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

American Lung Association Wants to Give Government Seal of Approval to Conventional Cigarettes, But Disallow the Demonstrably Safer Electronic Ones

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In a position that can only be described as absurd, the American Lung Association is seeking legislation that would give a government seal o...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Electronic Cigarettes the Feature of Los Angeles Times Article

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An article published Saturday in the Los Angeles Times discusses electronic cigarettes, and the differing approaches being taken to this n...
Monday, April 27, 2009

SmokeFree Wisconsin Calls Electronic Cigarettes a Ploy by Big Tobacco to Recruit Kids and Supports Call for Their Removal from the Market

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The anti-smoking organization SmokeFree Wisconsin has accused tobacco companies of using electronic cigarettes as a ploy to hook youths on ...
Friday, April 24, 2009

Anti-Smoking Advocates Blast Senator Kirsten Gillibrand for Having Represented Tobacco Companies and Call Her A "Sellout" For Defending Them in Court

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In response to the appointment of former New York state representative Kirsten Gillibrand as the Senator to replace Hillary Clinton, a numbe...
Thursday, April 23, 2009

New Study Shows that Short Term Exposures to Tobacco Smoke, Wood Smoke, and Cooking Oil Fumes All Cause Potentially Damaging Cardiovascular Response

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A study that is scheduled to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Physiological Society concludes that very brief ex...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Dangers of Using Cigarette Taxes to Fund Essential Government Programs: Financial Partnerships Lead to Big Tobacco Bailouts

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Two state legislative committees in Florida yesterday approved measures that would cap the amount of the appeal bonds that tobacco companie...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Citizens' Commission to Protect the Truth Promotes Funding for American Legacy "Truth" Campaign, But Fails to Reveal that It Was Funded by Legacy

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Commission Seeks Voluntary Funding from Tobacco Companies for Anti-Smoking Campaign In a press release issued yesterday, the Citizens' ...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Smoking Continues to Kill 340 Young People a Day?

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According to the SceneSmoking.org web site , run by Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails, 340 young people a day continue to die...
Friday, April 17, 2009

New Book Blasts FDA Tobacco Legislation and Argues that the Anti-Tobacco Movement Was Burned by Philip Morris

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A new book soon to be released by the Democracy Institute provides the most comprehensive analysis and critique of the issue of FDA regulat...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Law Review Article Concludes that FDA Tobacco Legislation Would Be a Public Health Disaster, Making the FDA Complicit in Harming the Public's Health

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An article published in the current issue of Administrative Law Review , published by the American University Washington College of Law, an...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

IN MY VIEW: Anti-Smoking Groups Need to Re-Think Their Knee-Jerk Support for Cigarette Tax Increases

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These Policies are Not a Win-Win-Win Proposition; They are Demonstrably Regressive, May Increase Health Disparities, and May Have a Dispropo...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Washington University to Ban Smoking on Its Entire Campus in Order to Create Healthy Working and Learning Environment

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According its communications department, Washington University in St. Louis will ban smoking and tobacco use on its entire campus, includin...