Sentences with phrase «campaigns against tobacco»
Thomas A. Farley, the pediatrician who led New York City's health department through major campaigns against tobacco and sugary soda, was named to head Philadelphia's Department of Public Health.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/ Not exact matches
In Zion, Healthy Youth campaigns against teen use of tobacco and alcohol.
In many respects, Pence's conservative rallying cry against tobacco regulation is similar to more recent conservative hobby horses: campaigns against energy - efficient lightbulbs and against attempts by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to ban some vendors from selling large sodas.
Atlantic Bridge was itself a partner of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a US lobbying group funded by the Charles G Koch Foundation (predominant funders of the US Tea Party), the National Rifle Association and the Tobacco Institute, to name but a few, and which campaigns against climate change legislation and regulation of tobacco.
A poll in late March found that 68 % of likely voters supported the measure, but that was before tobacco companies and other opponents mounted a vigorous campaign against it.
They set out to have a massive public relations campaign to defend tobacco at all costs against science.
Also, specifically on smoking, you'll note that the same organisations and in some cases, even the same people, fought the war against tobacco science that are now engaged in the campaign against climate science.
[LM (prior to Spiked)-RSB- campaigned against bans on tobacco advertising, child pornography and the ownership of handguns.
By both outsourcing the misinformation campaign and allowing their scientists to publish research in peer - reviewed journals — where it was available to but largely unseen by the public — the oil companies tried to buffer themselves against the legal liability that took down the tobacco industry.