«A delicate diplomatic situation»:
tobacco industry efforts to gain control of the Framingham study.
Not exact matches
County lawmakers voted narrowly Monday to be the first in New York to block the sale of
tobacco products in any retail stores that also contain licensed pharmacies — a ban that survived the supermarket
industry's
efforts to stamp it out.
By casting doubt on the science, the need for behavior change is blunted — an approach the
tobacco industry successfully employed throughout the 1980s and»90s to delay
efforts to warn the public of smoking's dangers.
Gregory N. Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health says FDA should focus on reducing
tobacco use, rather than regulating the
industry's
efforts to develop «safer» cigarettes.
He yields to no one in his accomplishments and in his
efforts to bring all the resources of the nation to bear in fighting cancer and other diseases, to reigning in the
tobacco industry, and to extending health insurance coverage to all Americans, especially the most vulnerable among us.»
In addition, investors have made
efforts to uphold their moral values by for example, rejecting companies involved in the
tobacco, illegal weapon
industry or investing in undemocratic regimes.
The Washington - based National Center for
Tobacco - Free Kids, which is to be up and running in June, is intended to go toe to toe with the
tobacco industry, countering its promotional messages and legislative
efforts.
Just as Congress investigated the
efforts of the
tobacco industry to dupe the public into believing its products were harmless, we need a full and open inquiry into the conduct of ExxonMobil and the other institutions whose misinformation campaigns about science have delayed our
efforts to address climate change.
The
effort to create a scientific defense for secondhand smoke was only one component in the
tobacco industry's multi-million-dollar PR campaign.
A leaked
tobacco company memo pushing «Doubt is our Product» was a key bit of evidence in those complaints, but
industry efforts to hoodwink the general public were arguably ineffective since a slang term for cigarettes had been «coffin nails» for multiple decades.
The document - and Heartland's own self - celebrating promotional
efforts - make absolutely clear that Heartland is a lobbyist, and given that its favourite client through the years has been the
tobacco industry, we know for sure it's a lobbyist with no particular standards.
The amendment evokes the history of notorious anti-science
efforts by the
tobacco and lead
industries to avoid accountability for the damage caused by their products, focusing similar ire on the fossil fuel
industry's decades - long climate cover - up.
And the old religions are creating new sins: http://www.3news.co.nz/Fossil-fuels-An-
industry-of-sin/tabid/1160/articleID/311233/Default.aspx «Fossil fuels: An
industry of sin» «The church already makes an
effort not to invest in
industries it sees as unethical, such as pornography, gambling,
tobacco and armaments.
In her book, Global Spin, author Sharon Beder noted that past Bonner clients have included
tobacco companies Philip Morris and U.S.
Tobacco Co.; the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; the utility trade group Edison Electric Institute; military contractor McDonnell Douglas; nuclear
industry and military services giant Westinghouse; chemical companies Monsanto and Dow Chemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional
efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in the 1990s).