Sentences with phrase «by tobacco companies»

The deceptive and abusive litigation tactics used by the tobacco companies failed in the third wave of tobacco litigation.

Its authors say their findings challenge the claim by tobacco companies that marketing has far less of an impact on adolescent smoking than social factors.

As is now well - documented, they consciously adopted the tactics developed by the tobacco companies to prevent or slow down legislative restrictions on smoking.

Some environmentalists have compared the tactic to that once used by tobacco companies, which for decades insisted that the science linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer was uncertain.

A user fee paid by tobacco companies will finance the FDA expansion required by the law, including a scientific advisory panel on tobacco - related issues.

This recent history, as well as the prior history of denial by the tobacco companies and chemical, asbestos and other manufacturing industries, is important to remember because the fossil fuel industry has never admitted that it was misguided or wrong in its early efforts to delay the policy reaction to the climate crisis.

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.

In the face of such broad agreement, the leaked strategy smacks of tactics used by tobacco companies as the evidence linking smoking to fatal diseases continued to grow.

The study's authors, representing more than 3 dozen medical centers, government health agencies and institutes in the U.S., Asia and Europe, credit this rise in smoking among Asians to aggressive product marketing by tobacco companies and a lack of education about health issues related to tobacco.

Toward the end of the 2 - hour hearing, Representative Andy Harris (R - MD) asked about a specific National Cancer Institute (NCI)- funded study tracing Tea Party's origins to groups supported by tobacco companies (video around 1:51 here).

Advertising by tobacco companies has a greater effect than peer pressure or family influence on whether some adolescents take up smoking, according to a study of California youths.

A deliberate disinformation campaign using methods honed and tested by the tobacco companies?

Hassol and Somerville said one obstacle to their work on communicating the science of climate change is an active disinformation campaign — comparable to one run in the past by tobacco companies — that seeks to sow doubts about scientific findings.

Just 30 years ago, Australia was awash with tobacco advertising and promotion by tobacco companies and their agents through multiple media outlets and sporting organisations, supported by newspaper editorials opposed to any restrictions.

But it turns out that there is much more to this story than just climate change, and we find ourselves once again reaching back into the rich history of scientists paid by tobacco companies to conduct research bringing into question the links between cigarette smoke and cancer.

In it, Glantz and co-authors make the case that two nonprofit groups funded by tobacco companies to fight tobacco taxes and no - smoking laws were among the earliest supporters of what became the Tea Party.

In what may be among the most damning comparisons, Revkin reported that «some environmentalists have compared the tactic to that once used by tobacco companies, which for decades insisted that the science linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer was uncertain.»

And like the «experts» paid by tobacco companies to discredit the link between lung cancer and cigarettes, these spin doctors also know that doubt is their product and their most powerful weapon — climategate proved it.

It has been long known (by tobacco companies and scientists) that strong cigarette addiction is most often created during the teenage years while brains are developing quickly.