Sentences with phrase «of cigarette industry»

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News reports of the last several months freshly impress upon the mind the bright prospects for the human future now that science, greed, and justice have joined forces against the wickedness of the cigarette industry.

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Examples of companies within the food, beverage, and tobacco industry include Coca - Cola, General Mills, Tyson, ConAgra, Kellogg, Molson Coors (maker of Coors, Blue Moon, and Keystone beers) and Philip Morris (maker of Marlboro cigarettes).

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

The new brand of heated cigarettes and e-cigarettes could be the future of the industry.

The tobacco industry use to employ lots of scientists and doctors who would gladly express their opinion that cigarettes were not harmful, after all.

Members of Congress have declared themselves shocked by revelations that the industry, not content with having sold trillions of cigarettes in the past, is clearly planning to maintain and even expand its market in the future.

In the l960s when the FCC required stations to run counter advertisements every time an ad for cigarettes was played, the broadcasting industry soon agreed to legislation prohibiting all smoking ads, since the alternative was to run one free minute for every paid minute of cigarette advertising.

«If you are involved in the industry, you know everyone is convinced that you have to have other forms of profit centers because gas and cigarettes are declining.

The federal government points to its pioneering legislation to make cigarette packs a uniform and anonymous dull brown as evidence of its will to take on the cancerous global industry in the interests of people's health.

It uses a combination of sophisticated technologies, developed in response to industry demands for an advanced solution to tackle hazardous and problematic FM, including snails, dark and light plastics, wood, cardboard, cigarette ends, glass and stone.

Our former FDA Commissioner has written a book about how the food industry manipulates the fat, sugar and salt in products to stimulate our appetites and encourage overeating, much as the tobacco industry manipulates the contents of its cigarettes to encourage addiction.

Kids generally don't like having someone try to pull the wool over their eyes, so just as we've made them savvy about the tobacco industry's insidious techniques to get them to use cigarettes, we need to show kids that the food industry is, in a very direct way, making money at the expense of their own health.

Reports that a consultation on introducing plain cigarette packaging was to be launched by the Department of Health in spring 2012 attracted strong criticism from the tobacco industry.

Still, the supermarket industry fought the Albany County ban to the end, arguing it unfairly punishes stores that have already taken steps to move cigarette displays out of sight of children.

These motivations are in contrast to the tobacco industry whose interests are inherently opposed to the nation's health - their obligations to shareholders require them to maximise profits and sales of cigarettes.

Yesterday, the inspirationally - titled Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) decided to regulate electronic cigarettes as a medicine, opening the door to a flood of rules to be imposed on the nascent industry.

Despite tobacco industry claims of heat - not - burn products being less harmful than regular cigarettes, the health effects of the devices are still unproven, according to researchers.

Gregory N. Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health says FDA should focus on reducing tobacco use, rather than regulating the industry's efforts to develop «safer» cigarettes.

The large carbon polluters have taken the playbook written by the tobacco industry, which responded to the scientific consensus linking cigarettes and lung and heart diseases by hiring actors, dressing them up as doctors and putting them in front of cameras to falsely reassure people that there were no consequences to smoking cigarettes.

«Although the tobacco industry markets e-cigarettes as a tool to help adult smokers quit smoking, e-cigarette use actually only marginally increases the number of adult cigarette smokers who are able to successfully quit,» says principle investigator Samir Soneji, PhD, Associate Professor at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

We show how the tactics of the tobacco industry's campaign for «sound science» led to the formation of front groups who, as they lost the battle to deny smoking's health hazards and keep warning labels off of cigarettes, turned their argumentative skills to the denial of climate change science in order to slow government action.

About one - third to one - half of adolescents who begin smoking may do so because they see smoking in the movies, some research suggests, and the tobacco industry has spent big bucks in the past to make sure cigarettes appeared in popular movies, according to Smoke Free Movies, a University of California San Francisco project.

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Jackman's Charlie Kenton used to box himself, but now occupies the used - cigarette end of the industry: controlling fourth - rate pugilists by remote control and watching them get methodically taken apart in the ring.

The idea emerges in the movie's darkest story line, when Naylor is dispatched by his employers at the Academy of Tobacco Studies to put out a dangerous brush fire: Lorne Lutch (Sam Elliott), a cowboy who spent years posing for cigarette ads, has contracted lung cancer and become a vocal opponent of the tobacco industry.

In fact, there are only two things that deeply trouble Mannix: lying to his wife about quitting cigarettes, and that job offer from Lockheed that will give him regular hours to spend with his beloved family, and a lifetime of security in an industry that isn't being threatened by television.

Heading into the 2015 True / False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, the last two documentaries I reviewed were Kirby Dick's The Hunting Ground, about rape on college campuses, and Robert Kenner's Merchants Of Doubt, about the industry - financed «experts» who deliberately muddy the debate over the settled science of climate change and cigarette - smokinOf Doubt, about the industry - financed «experts» who deliberately muddy the debate over the settled science of climate change and cigarette - smokinof climate change and cigarette - smoking.

Nick's nemesis, on the other hand, Vermont Senator Ortolan Finistirre (William H Macy in fine fettle) is an over-anxious, self - righteous prig whose campaign to destroy the cigarette industry smacks just a little too much of wanting to be in the spotlight, even though said spotlight never fails to show up his shortcomings, of which there are many.

But two bills now before Congress, S 1929 and HR 5653, both of which would stiffen requirements for warning labels on cigarette packs and strengthen educational and research programs on smoking, face heavy opposition from the tobacco and advertising industries as well as from other critics who say that people of all ages are sufficiently aware of the hazards of...

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At the risk of making an analogy to the cigarette industry and early denial of the harm caused by cigarettes, I hope we stop blowing smoke and make use of the information and data provided by the mutual fund industry that clearly show trailer fees harm Canadian investors.

A skeptical article in The New York Times reported that the show presented «35 artists» largely acerbic views of the real estate industry and the city planning process through drawings, montages, cartoons, architectural mockups and, in one case, a sculpture made of cigarette wrappers.»

We show how the tactics of the tobacco industry's campaign for «sound science» led to the formation of front groups who, as they lost the battle to deny smoking's health hazards and keep warning labels off of cigarettes, turned their argumentative skills to the denial of climate change science in order to slow government action.

Most significantly, when we discovered that the tobacco industry hid information about the addictive nature and deadly toll of cigarettes and systematically engaged in a decades - long campaign to misinform the public, we held the industry accountable.

Miller was also a founding member scientist of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, a now - defunct, tobacco industry - funded public relations front group run by the APCO Worldwide PR firm that worked to discredit the links between cigarettes and cancer.

Naomi Oreskes, a professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego, compares the strategy of these early groups to that of the tobacco industry, which for decades argued that cigarettes didn't cause cancer.

In his last job as head of Freedomworks, Dick Armey became a more consistent and reliable ally for the tobacco industry for at least one of their pet issues: cigarette taxes.

Well, if you think an ftp on a NOAA website is the equivalent of a cigarette packet, maybe we ought to rethink who's behaving like the tobacco industry.

A leaked tobacco company memo pushing «Doubt is our Product» was a key bit of evidence in those complaints, but industry efforts to hoodwink the general public were arguably ineffective since a slang term for cigarettes had been «coffin nails» for multiple decades.

We can raise the price of cigarettes through taxes, which is known to reduce demand, especially among young people who are the industry's reservoir of future addicts to their legal product.

Some of the largest carbon polluters... try to convince people — as the tobacco industry did years ago on the link between smoking cigarettes and lung disease — that there really isn't a link — between global warming - pollution and global warming.

According to the court: «Defendants coordinated significant aspects of their public relations, scientific, legal, and marketing activity in furtherance of a shared objective — to... maximize industry profits by preserving and expanding the market for cigarettes through a scheme to deceive the public.»

Like many of the groups that have been funded by ExxonMobil, IPN has also received money from the cigarette industry.

Critics argue that they have also been suppressing the true implications of global warming, somewhat as the tobacco industry did about the dangers of cigarettes.

One of the worrisome features of the distortion of climate science is that the stakes are huge here — even larger than the economic stakes for keeping the cigarette industry alive.

The contrarians are a tiny but vocal and well - financed minority, similar to the libertarian / industry - funded scientists that opposed the regulation / phasing - out of dioxins, CFCs, asbestos, and cigarettes.

Not to diminish the work of those advocating truth in science observations and exposing any kind of industry distortion / misinformation about cigarette smoking, but the elemental goal in attempts to create any sort of parallel here is that it must be established that skeptic climate scientists knowingly lie about the issue as a direct result of being paid to do so.

Defendants sponsored publicity campaigns using front groups and paid «scientific» mouthpieces — including some of the same scientists that the tobacco industry had used to downplay the risks of cigarettes — to discredit the mainstream scientific consensus on global warming and downplay the risks of climate change.