Sentences with phrase «from tobacco companies»

Meanwhile cigarette consumption is on the rise in much of the developing world, thanks in no small part to strong marketing from tobacco companies.

This is the kind of science we used to get from the tobacco companies to «prove» that cigarette smoking is good for you.

Like medical scientists who took money from tobacco companies, they do not deserve to be taken seriously.

Included are decades of statements from tobacco company executives, scientists, and lawyers acknowledging the dangers of smoking and strategizing ways to keep customers hooked.

FDA is also seeking $ 215 million, all in fees from tobacco companies, to help regulate tobacco products, and $ 25 million for a «new generation of medical technologies,» said Hamburg in a press briefing this afternoon.

The move didn't dissuade Sampson, who has been pushing a plan to refinance tobacco bond payments that New York receives from tobacco companies.

I therefore shy away from tobacco companies, fast food and factory farming.

It would also levy a mansion tax on homes above # 2m and «raise extra resources from the tobacco companies who make soaring profits on the back of ill health».

We hope so, but that same oompah - loompah from Westchester was caught on TV passing out Tobacco lobby checks from tobacco companies, so it is hard to say.

Stephanie Campbell, acting executive director of FOR - NY, likened the proposed tax to fees acquired from tobacco companies and used to fund smoking prevention and cessation programs.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed the implementation of such warnings in 2009, though legal challenges from tobacco companies delayed the process.

The setting changes from Biloxi to New Orleans, the case goes from tobacco companies to guns, and many other major tweaks are implemented, some of which are probably due to several major lawsuits against tobacco companies already succeeding in recent years, making it seem rather unremarkable today.

He unearths marketing campaigns designed — in a technique adapted from tobacco companies — to redirect concerns about the health risks of their products: Dial back on one ingredient, pump up the other two, and tout the new line as «fat - free» or «low - salt.»

The people who took up smoking in the» 60's and» 70's were lied to by advertising and propaganda from the tobacco companies telling them they were safe.

Over the fold, I've linked and quoted an article from the American Journal of Public Health, and two (of many) documents from tobacco company archives, released as part of a settlement of litigation against them by US state governments.

Smith has regularly requested financial aid from tobacco companies like Philip Morris and The Tobacco Institute, according to records from the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents archive.

... some of the very same individuals who are doing this now (i.e., trying to persuade people that global warming is not a problem) were some of the same people who took money from the tobacco companies after the Surgeon General's report came out warning of the dangers of smoking.

Well, it's not my place to get involved in your politics, but it reminds me of politicians here in the United States who got a lot of support from the tobacco companies and who argued to the public that there was absolutely no connection between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer.

Indeed, during the 1990s, many of the same think tanks that later would disparage climate science on behalf of Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel interests received millions of dollars from tobacco companies to block efforts to address secondhand smoke, regulate tobacco as a drug, and curb cigarette advertising and sales to minors.

Used to receive funding from ExxonMobil, still recieve grants from tobacco companies and are also a major recipient of grants from the foundations run by Koch Industries Inc. (the largest private energy company in the United States).

The title of Michaels» book comes from a 1969 memo from a tobacco company executive: «Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the minds of the general public.

In 1990, Harvard divested from tobacco companies.

For example, the Tobacco Archives contain numerous «Tort Reform Project» budgets from tobacco companies, showing fees to Crowell & Moring (among other firms), whose counsel at the time was Victor Schwartz, General Counsel of the American Tort Reform Association.

The state Democratic Committee's 2000 pledge not to accept tobacco money seems to no longer be in force, NYPIRG noted: It took $ 45,000 from tobacco companies in 2011 through 2013.

Funny you invoke cigarettes, since it's climate «skeptics» like Fred Singer and Richard Lindzen who openly argue this... in fact, Singer's Heartland Institute was built around the money he received from tobacco companies to spread doubt about the link between smoking and cancer.

Alternative plans, such as the one proposed by Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson of Brooklyn, could raise $ 500 million or more by refunding bonds that are backed with money from tobacco companies, but that might not be enough.

DiNapoli and previous comptrollers have used the fund as a vehicle for social change in the past, divesting funds from South Africa during the apartheid era, and from tobacco companies, as well as freezing and then ending investments in guns manufacturers after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.