Sentences with phrase «on tobacco companies»

The resulting Master Settlement Agreement, a $ 206 billion accord with the four largest United States tobacco producers, provided reimbursement to the states for publicly funded health care costs and imposed advertising and sponsorship restrictions on the tobacco companies.

Over 70 % of the public are in favour of Miliband's policy to fund the NHS with extra taxes on tobacco companies and mansions, according to a new poll

[76] At the conference, Miliband pledged to focus on six national goals for Britain until 2025, including boosting pay, apprenticeships and housing; a mansion tax and levy on tobacco companies to fund # 2.5 billion a year «time to care» fund for the NHS; a commitment to raise the minimum wage to # 8 or more by 2020; and a promise to lower the voting age to 16 ready for elections in 2016.

He said a mansion tax for those living in houses worth over # 2 million, moves against tax avoidance including closing hedge fund tax loopholes and a raid on tobacco companies» profits would help pay to relieve NHS workers of the «huge future pressures» they face.

And even more were in favour of increasing funding for the NHS by # 2.5 billion, partially through increased taxes on tobacco companies.

A windfall tax on tobacco companies.

Not exact matches

The company's IQOS smokeless cigarette, which is already on sale in over a dozen markets including Japan, Switzerland and Italy, heats tobacco enough to produce a vapor without burning it.

Philip Morris International, the world's largest international tobacco company, could eventually stop selling cigarettes, its chief executive told the BBC on Wednesday, as it launched its alternative product IQOS in Britain.

And the mere tens of millions of dollars tobacco companies will have to spend on the campaigns pale in comparison to their billions in annual sales.

For example, Philip Morris, the tobacco company, faced criticism for spending more to publicize its charity than it did on charities themselves.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called for social media to be regulated like the tobacco industry on Tuesday, while British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday called for tech companies to do more to protect users, saying they can not «stand by while their platforms are used to facilitate child abuse, modern slavery, or the spreading of terrorist and extremist content.»

Franken also took on Representative Tom Price, Trump's nominee for the Department of Health and Human Services, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.

, for owning shares in tobacco companies while voting to do their bidding in Congress and for getting a «sweetheart deal» on biotech stock.

Contrary to popular ESG themes, ACT focuses solely on vice activitiesit invests in US - listed companies that generate at least 50 % of their revenue from alcohol -, cannabis -, or tobacco - related businesses.

On November 23, 1998, the tobacco companies signed a settlement agreement that brought the state attorney general medical cost reimbursement actions and most of the class action lawsuits to a close.

And crucially, while drinking at a bar with Harry Crane, he finds that he has been out of the loop on the big - tobacco scheme being plotted by Jim Cutler and Lou — a Machiavellian stratagem intended not only to land a big account, but also to push Don out of SC&P, since Don's past antics have made him toxic to tobacco companies.

This way, as with such sponsorships in the United States as the Virginia Slims Tennis Tournament, tobacco companies get their products on TV without «advertising.»

Operating from thirteen locations across Europe, America and Asia, API's packaging solutions enable companies across a wide - range of industry sectors including premium drinks, confectionery, tobacco, perfumery, personal - care, cosmetics and healthcare to empower their brands on the shelf and in the hand.

Judge Gladys Kessler's ruling in 2006 was the basis for tobacco companies» corrective statements now airing on TV and placed in newspapers.

As an example: When Virginia sued the tobacco companies and was awarded the huge settlements they set up a commission to reinvest that money in the tobacco farming areas in order to help the economy there (since it was dependent on tobacco farming).

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.

The Master Settlement Agreement is a $ 10 billion settlement between various governments and the five largest tobacco companies related to the impact of tobacco use on public health.

Dubbing him «$ ean Eldridge,» the NRCC called out the candidate for carpetbagging into the Hudson Valley district, buying a $ 2 million home there, and investing some of his immense wealth in banks, oil and tobacco companies he criticizes on the trail.

With two weeks to go until a crucial state Senate special election in Nassau County, Democrat Todd Kaminsky's campaign's latest ad hits Chris McGrath over the fees his law firm received for its work on the early 2000s settlement agreement between states and tobacco companies.

Between January 14, 2014 and April 30, 2016, the defendant, owner of M&J Tobacco Wholesale, significantly under reported the amount of tobacco products imported by his company on his tax returns.

However, some of his comments on the smoking issue have been distinctly combative, including the assertion that tobacco companies have «no business» in the UK.

With two weeks to go until a crucial state Senate special election in Nassau County, Democrat Todd Kaminsky's campaign's latest ad hits Republican Chris McGrath over the fees his law firm received for its work on the early 2000s settlement agreement between states and tobacco companies

An agreement ending a decadelong dispute between New York and major tobacco companies will deliver $ 550 million to the state, New York City and other counties, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is expected to announce on Tuesday.

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.

The District Attorney's Office said between Jan. 14, 2014, and April 30, 2016, Mohamed Alabadi, 55, significantly underreported the amount of tobacco products imported by his company on tax returns.

«Are they the going to be on the sides of kids and health or are they going to be on the side of big tobacco and e-cigarette companies,» said Julie Hart, government relations director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.

«Whether you go back to tobacco companies or to oil companies with lead in gasoline, the companies knew there was a problem,» said Brian Nowak, who is serving his first year on the Cheektowaga Town Board.

She stepped down on the heels of a report from Politico that she had purchased stock in a large tobacco company 1 month into her tenure leading the nation's top public health agency, which devotes itself to persuading smokers to quit and warning kids not to take up the habit.

You could argue that if tobacco companies had a monopoly on lung health research, it's possible that the damaging effects of tobacco smoke would not have come out as quickly.

By then, tobacco companies will be required to display one of nine graphic health warnings on each pack, to comply with the Tobacco Control Act of 2009.

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

Plain packaging means tobacco company colours, logos and design elements are not allowed on tobacco products, but government health warnings still appear.

«Given the sophistication of cigarette marketing in the past and the exponential increase in advertising dollars allotted to e-cigarette promotion in the past year, it should be expected that advertisements for these products created by big tobacco companies will maximize smoking cues in their advertisements, and if not regulated, individuals will be exposed to much more e-cigarette advertising on a daily basis,» Maloney and Cappella wrote.

Eyes are now on the US and UK after Australia's High Court dismissed tobacco companies» challenge to plain packaging legislation

He is also working on an 800 - page book, The Golden Holocaust, which describes, Proctor claims, the shaky scientific rhetoric and bogus clinical studies that tobacco companies used to sell their products.

A user fee paid by tobacco companies will finance the FDA expansion required by the law, including a scientific advisory panel on tobacco - related issues.

The defeat was blamed on heavy lobbying by tobacco giants against the measure; the companies reportedly dropped a hefty $ 12 million on the effort, outspending supporters by a four - to - one - margin.

For example, although they can't market their products on television or in magazines, tobacco companies use «nontraditional» advertising, such as paying retailers to place their products in the most visible parts of the store (usually either directly behind or in front of the cash register).

In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a final rule that required tobacco companies to include color graphics on cigarette packets that depict the negative health implications of smoking.

March 12, 2002 Cigarette ads target youth, violating $ 250 billion 1998 settlement Despite an explicit ban since 1998 on directing advertising at children, U.S. tobacco companies selectively increased youth targeting in 1999 and 2000 report researchers from the University of Chicago.

The tobacco company's CEO Thomas Sandefur (Michael Gambon) not only insists on using a chemical with a health risk in his cigarettes, but he also demands that Wigand sign an extraordinarily restrictive non-disclosure agreement about anything to do with the company.

Based on a real - life story of a tobacco - company research scientist (Russell Crowe) and the ramifications of his decision to disclose industry secrets to the American public on an episode of 60 Minutes, it was a moody, intense affair that many critics touted as one of the year's best films; it netted 7 Oscar nominations in the process.Mann was back in the Academy Award hunt two year's later with Ali, a biopic of the beloved boxer Muhammad Ali that focused on both his athletic accomplishments and his political battles.

It's 1995, and the heads of the seven major tobacco companies — «the Seven Dwarves,» as Wigand dubs them — have recently made their infamous appearance on Capitol Hill to swear that nicotine is not an addictive drug.

It was clear the tobacco industry had met its match when the surgeon general made smoking a national health issue, when the mass media and entertainment industry abandoned the Marlboro man, when juries discovered that companies were responsible for the lungs of their consumers, and when powerful figures on Capitol Hill eschewed donations from tobacco magnates in favor of those contributed by trial lawyers who made billions from suing them.

Its authors say their findings challenge the claim by tobacco companies that marketing has far less of an impact on adolescent smoking than social factors.