Sentences with phrase «of tobacco companies»

The most recent example should become the poster child for how the most egregious tactics of tobacco companies are alive and well.

That is the fault of the tobacco company that sold me the cigarettes, right?

And in 2003 the World Heath Organization followed suit with an international treaty designed to limit the marketing power of tobacco companies in developing countries.

The recent merger of tobacco companies R.J. Reynolds and Brown & Williamson vaulted Ivey, B&W's former CEO, to the top of the newly created holding company, Reynolds American.

The increasing market power of tobacco companies is identified as an important public health challenge in a major new report on the economics of tobacco control, from the US National Cancer... Read more

The evidence of the «long history of tobacco companies creating astroturf groups» is an article George wrote in 2006.

For example, there's a long history of tobacco companies creating astroturf groups to fight attempts to regulate them.

When the 2000s rolled around and CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) emerged as a real correlation with the game of football, the NFL and others followed the noble example of tobacco companies by falsifying research, denying all charges, and focusing on selling the product to children.

Former House Speaker John Boehner has parlayed a bad habit into a paying gig: The smoker is joining the board of tobacco company Reynolds American Inc..

Given the growing presence of the tobacco companies in the e-cigarette market, do we really believe they want to close down their main business?

A Florida circuit court has ruled in favor of a Stanford University professor who is trying to keep his unpublished book manuscript out of the hands of tobacco company R.J. Reynolds, which had subpoenaed it as evidence for an upcoming suit.

(In her Sept. 7 ethics filing, Fitzgerald revealed there were a number of tobacco companies in her stock portfolio, including Philip Morris International and British American Tobacco.)

We continue to seek answers from federal bodies and universities whose employees are taking money from the Heartland Institute to attack science and disrupt the democratic process on behalf of tobacco companies, industrial giants and billionaire ideologues like the Koch brothers.

Other scientists discredited Seitz by revealing he was on the payroll of tobacco companies while arguing against the carcinogenic effects of second - hand smoke.

They took a page from the playbook of the tobacco companies... the same thing is going on now with some, not all, some of the large carbon polluters, putting out false information, hiring pseudo scientists to pretend that they have the lowdown on the science...

«It is simply not acceptable for major companies to mimic the unethical strategy of the tobacco companies in presenting blatantly false information in order to protect a business model,» Gore added, alleging that's what some oil and coal companies are doing.

Exxon's apparent disinformation campaign came right out of the tobacco companies» playbook.

Mr. Nordhaus invokes the specter of tobacco companies sowing doubt about the dangers of cigarette smoking back in the 1950s and then says that the stakes for energy companies are even higher.

Acknowledging that the views of tobacco companies lacked credibility, APCO proposed a strategy of «astroturfing», the formation and funding of apparently independent front groups to give the impression of a popular movement opposed to «overregulation» and in support of individual freedom.

One of the firm's more high - profile appointments of the past year is arguably their its acting on behalf of the government of Manitoba against a group of tobacco companies to recover the estimated costs of smoking - related diseased on Canada's prized government - subsidized health care.

For us to presume they speak for all the members of their organization as if they were «lock step» behind them is as realistic as believing the heads of the tobacco companies when they asserted nicotine is not habit forming.

The case of the tobacco companies interests me only because it created a precedent of stifling free speech and independent scientific research.

Former California governor and Terminator movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger says he plans to sue the big oil companies for «first degree murder», likening their actions to those of tobacco companies, and NGOs are suing Big Oil in the Philippines for violating the human rights of typhoon victims.

The Court rejected all of the tobacco companies» grounds of appeal and confirmed the earlier conclusion of the High Court -LSB-...]