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The Delaware Supreme Court ruled Monday that the ads created by the Washington - based American Legacy Foundation did not violate a 1998 agreement between the tobacco industry and the states.»

It also predicted the rejection of the link between tobacco and lung cancer and between HIV and AIDS.

Frederick Seitz had in the 1980s served as principal scientific adviser for cigarette - maker R.J. Reynolds, from which position he challenged the link between tobacco smoke and cancer.

We've seen the same thing with attacks on the link between tobacco and cancer, the ozone hole and the science of HIV.

This is the argument that the tobacco industry used for decades to keep people confused about the link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer (and to keep smokers smoking), and it is the argument that the fossil fuel industry continues to use, and will use as long as they can get away with it, to keep people confused about the link between anthropogenic global warming and extreme weather events (and to keep them burning fossil fuels).

My colleagues and I published a paper recently that found evidence for the involvement of conspiracist ideation in the rejection of scientific propositions — from climate change to the link between tobacco and lung cancer, and between HIV and AIDS — among visitors to climate blogs.

It is important for tobacco control advocates in the USA and internationally, to anticipate and counter Tea Party opposition to tobacco control policies and ensure that policymakers, the media and the public understand the longstanding connection between the tobacco industry, the Tea Party and its associated organisations.

Insertion shown in [brackets] «[Workshop participant Stanton] Glantz did note a fundamental difference between tobacco and climate change, however: while tobacco companies offer no useful product, he explained, «The fact is we do need some form of energy.

She recently participated in a forum held by the discredited, fossil - fuel funded George Marshall Institute, which advocates outright climate denial and has denied the link between tobacco and cancer in the past.

However, the reanalysis of inconvenient results by obtaining the raw data is a known tool in the arsenal of vested interests: Michaels (2008) shows how epidemiological data have been subjected to industry - sponsored re-analysis because of their regulatory implications, such as the link between tobacco and lung cancer or the link between bladder cancer and chemicals used in dye production.

You don't need to think long to find a reason for the tobacco industry and big oil wanting to spread doubt about the science behind the link between tobacco and cancer, and behind greenhouse gases and global warming, respectively.

As a side note, what's interesting with the correlation between tobacco and AGW is that the targeted industry uses innovation to overcome resistance.

His job was to direct a medical research program to confound the links between tobacco and cancer.

Uh, are you trying to say there is no dose response curve between tobacco amounts and various consequences?

«I'm telling you, it's a super sniper,» Isaac (Johnson), says between tobacco spits.

Environmental campaigner Sauven argues: «Some of the characters involved have previously worked to deny the reality of the hole in the ozone layer, acid rain and the link between tobacco and lung cancer.

The interrelationship between tobacco smoking and media representations of the «e» versions examined in this study make clear that portrayal of actions that just look like smoking has an effect on viewers who smoke or used to smoke.»

The strongest connection is between tobacco and alcohol.

Much of this is unstated, but given what on the surface seem to be strange corollaries — say, that between tobacco and pornography — the reader can only be left with further questions in this regard.

She made an analogy between tobacco use in the past and the consumption of pornography in the present.

Not exact matches

Primary among these «relationships» is the one between the two men Miss Mattie becomes engaged with in her effort to bring her father's murderer to justice; the «marshall,» Rooster Cogburn, a debouched man, given to tobacco, liquor, and the occasional opium pipe, and the young, ebullient, but rather efficacious Sharp's rifleman, the Texas Ranger.

He believes that the popularly «conservative» refusal to relate global warming to human activity is like tobacco company executives» denial of a link between smoking and lung cancer.

Australia is already having a painful experience with this type of clause — tobacco company Philip Morris Asia has commenced arbitration against the Australian government over its new plain packaging for tobacco products laws using a similar clause in an investment treaty between Australia and Hong Kong.

The most recent study report described in these same regions decreased tissue levels of 5 - HT and tryptophan hydroxylase, the synthesizing enzyme for serotonin, and no evidence of excessive serotonin degradation as assessed by levels of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid (the main metabolite of serotonin) or ratios of 5 - hydroxyindoleacetic acid to serotonin.30 A recent article described a significant association between a decrease in medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity and specific SIDS risk factors, including tobacco smoking.40 These data confirm results from earlier studies in humans39, 41 and are also consistent with studies in piglets that revealed that postnatal exposure to nicotine decreases medullary 5 - HT1A receptor immunoreactivity.42 Animal studies have revealed that serotonergic neurons located in the medullary raphe and adjacent paragigantocellularis lateralis play important roles in many autonomic functions including the control of respiration, blood pressure, heart rate, thermoregulation, sleep and arousal, and upper airway patency.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

(Teh - wei Hu, et al., 2010) These studies focus on the interaction between politics and tobacco control without touching upon China's politics.

The Master Settlement Agreement is a $ 10 billion settlement between various governments and the five largest tobacco companies related to the impact of tobacco use on public health.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, between 2011 and 2016, the number of high school students who reported smoking tobacco in the last 30 days declined by more than 15 percent to about 8 percent.

With two weeks to go until a crucial state Senate special election in Nassau County, Democrat Todd Kaminsky's campaign's latest ad hits Chris McGrath over the fees his law firm received for its work on the early 2000s settlement agreement between states and tobacco companies.

Between January 14, 2014 and April 30, 2016, the defendant, owner of M&J Tobacco Wholesale, significantly under reported the amount of tobacco products imported by his company on his tax returns.

Between 2003 and 2008 tobacco duty rates were increased in line with inflation.

An agreement ending a decadelong dispute between New York and major tobacco companies will deliver $ 550 million to the state, New York City and other counties, Schneiderman is expected to announce today.

According to the 2015 Tobacco Control Act, it is prohibited to promote or advertise tobacco or tobacco products except between a manufacturer, retailer and consenting persons above 18 years of age.

With two weeks to go until a crucial state Senate special election in Nassau County, Democrat Todd Kaminsky's campaign's latest ad hits Republican Chris McGrath over the fees his law firm received for its work on the early 2000s settlement agreement between states and tobacco companies

The new policy designates the Central Library entrance ramp, which faces Lafayette Square (Washington Street between William and Clinton Streets) as «Smoke Free» meaning the smoking of cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smokeless electronic cigarettes or tobacco products on the entire entrance ramp and no closer than 10 feet to the side of any point of entry to the downtown Library property is strictly prohibited.

An agreement ending a decadelong dispute between New York and major tobacco companies will deliver $ 550 million to the state, New York City and other counties, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is expected to announce on Tuesday.

Between 2002 and 2010 the Labour Government banned tobacco advertising and sponsorship, prohibited smoking in all enclosed «public» places (including private members» clubs), introduced graphic warnings and passed legislation banning the display of tobacco in shops and outlawing tobacco vending machines.

A coalition of nearly a dozen health groups, led by the American Cancer Society, is targeting Senate Republicans with petition drives, phone blitzes and social media posts asking them to «pick a side» between public health and big tobacco.

The District Attorney's Office said between Jan. 14, 2014, and April 30, 2016, Mohamed Alabadi, 55, significantly underreported the amount of tobacco products imported by his company on tax returns.

The District Attorney's Office said between Jan. 14, 2014, and April 30, 2016, Mohamed Alabadi, 55, significantly underreported the amount of tobacco products imported by his co...

Organizations worried about climate change have long drawn comparisons between the petroleum and tobacco industries, arguing that each has minimized public health damages of its products to operate unchecked.

It also is part of a push from environmental groups to make the legal case that fossil energy companies have lied for decades about global warming risks, just as tobacco companies lied about the connection between smoking and cancer.

«On August 9, one day after purchasing [between $ 1000 and $ 15,000 of] stock in global giant Japan Tobacco, she toured the CDC's Tobacco Laboratory, which researches how the chemicals in tobacco harm human health,» Politico reported.

In his new study, Dr. Blecher drew comparisons between taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks, using South Africa as a case study.

«The public health message about the link between cannabis and psychosis has been a difficult one to communicate, but the evidence still points to the benefits of regulations that seek to advise on the greatest potential health risks, which currently arise due to tobacco use.»

The new questionnaire also allows for cross-comparisons between different nicotine and tobacco products.

Among American high schoolers, vaping reportedly increased by 900 percent between 2011 and 2015, and Murthy says this sharp uptick in e-cigarette use places a new generation at risk of addiction to nicotine, and tobacco - related disease.

In her letter on lab - grown meat, Ingrid Newkirk makes a false comparison between eating meat and using tobacco, when she says that meat eaters, «like smokers trying to quit tobacco, find it very hard to give up the stuff» (24 September, p 39).

Despite numerous adverse health effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), an association between periodontitis and this «second - hand smoke» in non-smokers remains questionable.

Association between receptivity to tobacco advertising and progression to tobacco use in youth and young adults in the PATH study.