Sentences with phrase «like with tobacco»

In spite of medical use and legal changes, like with tobacco use, marijuana use can affect the rate class you are placed into by insurers.
But just like with tobacco smoking, what exactly this means for your rates depends on the insurer.
Just like with tobacco, if someone wants to smoke marijuana, they should do so outdoors and away from windows and doors.

Not exact matches

The pen - like device holds «HeatSticks» that are made with tobacco and would carry the Marlboro brand name.
«The consumer packaged goods space, like tobacco, may be facing an existential crisis here, and as far as I know, at least with these managements, there's no exit for them.»
Solace Vapor strives to convert tobacco smokers by delivering high - quality nicotine salts with flavors (like Butterscotch and Strawberry Hard Candy) designed to evoke nostalgia.
Smokers inhale burned tobacco and tar along with toxic metals like cadmium and beryllium, and elements like nickel and chromium — all of which accumulate naturally in the leaves of the tobacco plant.
More recently, Warner has toyed with the idea of scrutinizing the way these companies psychologically manipulate users — possibly paving the way for Congress to treat tech companies like tobacco companies.
«When I consider the use indications of the alcohol industry — when it's consumed, who consumes it, that type of environment — alcohol overlaps significantly with cannabis, whereas something like tobacco doesn't,» Agnese said in an interview.
Last year, former FDA Commissioner David Kessler came out with a book in which he posited that the food industry, somewhat like the tobacco industry before it, has perfected the ability to make consumers crave their products through the excessive use... [Continue reading]
Tobacco Exposure: While the connection is unclear, several studies have shown that babies exposed to smoke (like that from tobacco) either directly or from second - hand smoke, during pregnancy or as infants, were more likely to struggle with colic.
Maybe some day someone will sue the dairy industry like we did with tobacco companies.
@D žuris In Greece is the same, key difference is this is done to regulate an addictive habit from going out of hand, as it is done with tangible issues alike like tobacco, and has nothing to do with suppressing any fundamental right to an individuals freedom of speech.
The tobacco industry is using the same tired arguments against plain packaging as with smokefree law — namely that it would have a major impact on small businesses like me.
I had been rolling a cigarette but the paper suddenly felt limp in my tremulous hands, the tobacco scattering across the road like the dreams and aspirations of my generation, a generation lost in space with no time left to start again.
It ignores the facts - that illicit tobacco has been in sustained decline for more than a decade, and that the claimed relationship with health measures like plain packs or tax hikes do not stand up to scrutiny.
Commenting on the new report that provides documented evidence of how the alcohol industry is misleading the public about the risks associated with alcohol and cancer, Institute of Alcohol Studies Chief Executive Katherine Brown said: «This report shows that, like the tobacco industry before them, alcohol companies are misleading consumers about the evidence linking their products to cancer.
«What's shaping up is like the situation with the tobacco companies,» says Bob Ward at the London School of Economics.
Here were entities so wraith - like that they remained unseen until 1935, when scientists armed with the newly invented electron microscope managed to take a picture of the «poison» lurking in Beijerinck's slime, today known as tobacco mosaic virus.
The flammable liquid with a gasoline - like odor is found in coal tar and petroleum, as well as tobacco smoke.
However, the study results could lead people with TBI histories to change certain behaviors like alcohol and tobacco use, regular exercise and treating hypertension, diabetes and depression to limit other potential risk factors for dementia.
The recent EU barometer survey on tobacco showed that smoking prevalence is still very high in the EU, even exceeding 35 % in countries like Spain and Greece, and with only one country (Sweden) approaching the currently lowest prevalence of 15 % (fig. 2)[9].
When the FDA was given the authority to regulate tobacco products in 2009, the agency banned cigarettes with flavors such as chocolate and fruit, because candy - like cigarettes are more attractive to kids.
Strangers are done away with, and even the good doctor, who smokes and drinks like someone in «Mad Men» or in the 1940s when cigarette companies assured all that tobacco was safe, abandons his patients.
While shark - like lawyers and a befuddled mad - scientist play fast and loose with the finer points of facts, Nick is tasked with not so much refining tobacco's image, as changing the premise of the argument against smoking.
No, there's nothing so literal as Stetson hats and spurs, but «Logan» does boast galloping horses, suspenseful shoot - outs, and a black hat baddie (Boyd Holbrook) with a gold tooth and a Southern drawl that spits threats thick and squarely like chewing tobacco.
While ALEC has a governing board of state legislators it also has a governing board of corporations, packed with tobacco firms, giant pharmaceutical firms, and energy companies like Exxon Mobil.
We like the tobacco coloured upholstery, but found the overall look was a less than cohesive attempt at «luxing» it up, mixing the seat trim with woodgrain, hard and soft plastics, plus the faux - metal elements.
From the book jacket: Kate Martinelli has seen her share of peculiar things as a San Francisco cop, but never anything quite like this: an ornate Victorian sitting room straight out of a Sherlock Holmes story — complete with violin, tobacco - filled Persian slipper, and gunshots in the wallpaper that spell out the initials of the late queen.
Then you buy depressed non-cyclical equities with easy to predict cash flows like utilities (ConEd), food manufacturers (General Mills), consumer non-durables (P&G) and alcohol / tobacco.
Marijuana use is looked at on a case - by - case basis, and factors like frequency of use are taken into account, but it's often lumped in with tobacco use.
This portfolio is very basic, and eliminates the «sin sectors» like tobacco, military weapons, and companies with the lowest sustainability scores in their sector.
Tobacco stocks have declined quite significantly over the last months due to threats of regulations, falling cigarette volumes and some uncertainties with regard to the success of so - called «Next Generation Products» (vapour products like e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products).
The British tobacco company Imperial Brands is the world's fourth largest cigarette producer with brands like Davidoff, Gauloise, West, Winston, Kool.
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Inc., is one of the prominent tobacco company internationally with 6 of the top 15 international brands, like Marlboro, Virginia Slims, L&M, Parliament, Merit, Bond Street, Philip Morris, Chesterfield, Lark, Muratti, Red & White.
During that period, agriculture was the chief industry but with the onset of Industrial revolution, Saugus became home to several other industries like woolen goods, shoes and tobacco.
A glass panel that looked innocuous, even sunny when unlit — a bit of vernal green here, some goldenrod smudged into a meringue of dirty white — gleamed like a tortoise - shell sconce when its internal lights were switched on, becoming a backlit swirl of dungy brown marbled with moss green and chewing - tobacco spit.
These brave members of this coalition are doing their job like they did in the tobacco case,» said Vice President Gore, comparing fossil fuel companies to the tobacco companies of the 1990s that fell under intense scrutiny over misstatements about cancer and heart disease risks associated with cigarette smoking.
What I fear is, that having realized, like the tobacco industry, that their time is limited, they have decided to ride the wave of doubt for as long as it can be sustained in order to maximize their profits in the short term and to Hell with the planet.
One theory pedalled by a former tobacco advertising guru is that opposition to the «joys» of living with giant fans is only a problem among English speaking countries: the guru reckons that complaints like those heard from dozens of wind farms around Australia are a cooked - up phenomenon exclusive to the English speaking world — as pitched - up in this piece of propaganda on ABC radio and parroted in this piece of eco-fascist drivel from ruin - economy (for a taste of what the Taiwanese — not the world's strongest English speakers — think about giant fans, see our post here).
It's a lot like the tobacco industry's abominable campaign to muddy the health problems associated with smoking.
As long as the response of climate scientists is to act like tobacco companies getting caught out on lung cancer - with flying squads of marketing and sales experts - they are wasting their time.
The cases make the claim that the «Global Climate Coalition» was a front group operating in tobacco industry - like fashion with the fossil fuel company defendants to misinform the public while supposedly knowing their «contrarian» views were unfounded.
Attorneys general in states like California, Massachusetts, and New York will also move forward with their investigations into ExxonMobil's tobacco - style efforts to mislead investors and the public about the risks of climate change.
**** Australia is blessed with a former tobacco advertising guru who is paid a packet by wind power outfits — like near - bankrupt Infigen — to pedal a story that the adverse health impacts caused by incessant turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound (such as sleep deprivation) are the product of «scare - mongering» — which, on his -LSB-...]
For all practical purposes, the collective Greenpeace organization committed outright political suicide two weeks ago, essentially telegraphing to the entire world that they never had the evidence they claimed they had, proving skeptic climate scientists lie to the public under a pay - for - performance arrangement with fossil fuel industry people just like the way shill experts lied for the tobacco industry.
There is a tremendous disconnect between what most people (especially here in the US) think that the state of the scientific knowledge is, and what it really is — partly, I think, because it's hard to grasp just how big the field of climate science is, partly because of organized disinformation campaigns orchestrated by the likes of Senator Inhofe, Exxon and Massey Energy, and informed by the tactics (and sometimes funding sources) of the tobacco denial movement, and partly because who really * wants * to believe in a big, tough - to - deal - with danger to the well - being of our kids and our society?
Evil - doers paid to «repackage» settled science, mimicking tobacco industry tactics with zombie - like debate in order to dupe the public.
She puts forth an alternative proposal for helping the cash - strapped courts: «Judges and bailiffs could be plastered with ads for household products and chewing tobacco, like NASCAR drivers.»
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