Sentences with phrase «big tobacco companies»

This shifted about two decades ago, when high carbon producers hired the same public relations team that worked with big tobacco companies.

«This precedent - setting decision not only upholds Uruguay's public health measures, but sends a strong signal to other countries that they can move forward with strong tobacco control regulations without fear of intimidation by big tobacco companies like Philip Morris,» said Reichler.

More and more distributors began carrying their products and Solace started making nicotine salt liquid for a couple of big tobacco companies.

The food industry has become the focus of plaintiff - side lawyers that once targeted big tobacco companies.

Like big tobacco companies who paid pretend scientists to make up pretend research to fight back against the scientific body of evidence linking tobacco smoke to cancer, there is now a well - documented history of coal and oil companies paying unqualified experts to attack climate science research with the goal of stalling climate change policies that would impact their bottom lines.

So it's no surprise that Boehner now sits on the board of Reynolds American (rai), the second biggest tobacco company in the country.

It's also about understanding how big tobacco companies target queer people.

At least superficially, this movie tells us that big tobacco companies tell lies and that major media outlets have been corrupted by corporate capitalism.

Big tobacco companies come under attack in the film adaptation of John Grisham's novel Runaway Jury.

Moreover, e-cigarette advertising is stoked by big tobacco companies.

Yesterday, in a much anticipated decision, the California Supreme Court reversed two lower court decisions, ruling that a class - action suit for deceptive advertising can go forward against a consortium of big tobacco companies (including our old friends at Altria).

Courts ruled 11 years ago that big tobacco companies had misled the general public about the health effects of smoking — and that they should pay a price for it.

The whole thing is quite consciously modeling itself on the decades - long battle that activists and lawyers waged on the big tobacco companies, arguing that Big Tech is knowingly selling the public an addictive, harmful product.

Big tobacco companies, shockingly, weren't as happy.

«Given the sophistication of cigarette marketing in the past and the exponential increase in advertising dollars allotted to e-cigarette promotion in the past year, it should be expected that advertisements for these products created by big tobacco companies will maximize smoking cues in their advertisements, and if not regulated, individuals will be exposed to much more e-cigarette advertising on a daily basis,» Maloney and Cappella wrote.

In 1998, 46 US states sued the big tobacco companies for costs incurred when treating smoking - related health problems.

Big tobacco companies were really persistent in denying the negative effects of smoking, despite the fact that many health experts were pointing the dangers and health risks of smoking.

Lobbyists and scientists supported by the big tobacco companies worked hard to disprove prevalent research, doing their best to stop and discredit the negative publicity.

Attacks on electric cars by the oil industry are on a par with misinformation campaigns promoted by big tobacco companies and vested interests undermining climate science, according to Elon Musk, the serial entrepreneur who founded PayPal and the brains behind both the space exploration company SpaceX and the electric sports carmaker Tesla Motors.

Canada's three biggest tobacco companies, all with multinational parents, face C$ 27 billion ($ 27.30 billion) in damages and penalties as the largest civil lawsuit in the country's history gets underway on Monday

New disclosure documents filed this week show the big tobacco companies are spending huge sums and hiring an army of lobbyists to influence Congress and the Trump Administration, including giving $ 1.5 million to President Trump's inauguration.

The big tobacco companies are behind these efforts.

The following is a statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids: New disclosure documents filed this week show the big tobacco companies are spending huge sums and hiring an army of lobbyists to influence Congress and the Trump Administration, including giving $ 1.5...

The newest judge on the Supreme Court is a high - profile lawyer who grew up in Quebec's remote Gaspé Peninsula, became the first female head of litigation at a top Montreal firm, and represented a big tobacco company two years ago in a class - action lawsuit involving addicted and ill smokers.