Sentences with phrase «by big tobacco companies»

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.

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.

«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.

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And crucially, while drinking at a bar with Harry Crane, he finds that he has been out of the loop on the big - tobacco scheme being plotted by Jim Cutler and Lou — a Machiavellian stratagem intended not only to land a big account, but also to push Don out of SC&P, since Don's past antics have made him toxic to tobacco companies.

The list of top donors to housekeeping accounts is dominated by special interests that are highly regulated and / or subsidized by state government: real estate firms, health - care and pharmaceutical interests, labor unions, telecom companies, the beverage industry, big tobacco and gambling interests.

Sales of e-cigarettes are rising amid a big push by tobacco companies: Marketwatch is reporting that America's number three cigarette - maker Lorillard, which acquired an e-cigarette brand last year, saw blu eCigs boost the company's second - quarter profits by 10 percent.

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

So I guess all the millions spent by Davidoff's parent company establishing itself as an art - forward brand or whatever is paying off, even if it's just a blip on a budget sheet for one of the world's biggest tobacco companies.

«NAFTA - style investment provisions,» I explained, «would let big oil, mining, tobacco and agribusiness companies avoid accountability to national governments or courts for the environmental destruction and social injustices wrought by their investment projects.»

The reason Monbiot makes such a big deal out of Exxon money is that it provides the link to the tobacco companies» financing of anti-cancer scare science, via the free enterprise think tanks financed by both Philip Morris and Exxon.

And an extra-special shout to West Virginia AG Darrel McGraw, who has fought valiantly on behalf of those victimized by big drug and tobacco companies, and fended off a very tough challenger who was heavily financed by both the U.S. and West Virginia Chambers of Commerce.