Sentences with phrase «tobacco cigarettes by»

Researchers found that psychosocial factors such as the use of e-cigarettes and tobacco cigarettes by family and friends had an impact on the participants» use.

Riccardo Polosa, professor of Medicine at Catania University, did a study for the Italian Non-Smoking Association which found that 55 % of the 40 committed smokers in his experiment had significantly reduced or eliminated their use of tobacco cigarettes by the electronic alternative.

Not exact matches

After losing the Lucky Strike account, Don retaliates by taking out a full - page ad in the New York Times listing the evils of the tobacco business and stating SCDP's decision to no longer welcome cigarette accounts — a classic «You can't fire me, I quit!»

The Liberals are also spending $ 80.5 million over five years starting this year to reduce tobacco use, particularly in Indigenous communities, and raising taxes on cigarettes by $ 1 per carton.

In the first quarter of this year, its cigarette shipment volumes fell by 11.5 % year - on - year, but its heated tobacco shipments were up almost ten-fold — overall, unit shipments were down 9.4 % and net revenues were down 1.4 %.

First, in 2009 there was an increase in federal tobacco tax.35 The national cigarette tax increased by 158 %, resulting in an immediate reduction in cigarette uptake among US adolescents.35 In our study we found a small but statistically significant increase in quit attempts among US adults, from 39.9 % in 2006 - 07 to 41.4 % in 2010 - 11 (fig 2, top panel).

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

An even more distressing example of cultural imperialism is the recent media campaign by U.S. tobacco companies to increase their cigarette sales overseas.

Australia banned branded tobacco products in 2012, and just last year the UK made a similar move by ordering that all cigarettes and tobacco be sold in plain green packets adorned with graphic images of smoke - induced ailments.

Your kindergartner may not have many questions about cigarettes, but you can set the stage for tomorrow's talks about tobacco and drugs by answering today's questions about where babies come from.

Find out whether you can protect your baby or child from the harmful effects of tobacco by making sure no one smokes cigarettes...

The exchanges were dominated by Ed Miliband's suggestions that the Conservatives» general election adviser Lynton Crosby, a tobacco lobbyist, had influenced the government's decision to drop its plans to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.

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.

There are nearly 9,000 stores peddling tobacco in NYC, according to a new report by the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network, which says the city is «over saturated» with cigarette retailers.

It copies a similar policy introduced by Barack Obama in 2009 which forced cigarette firms to contribute more to the cost of tobacco - related illnesses.

Legislator Joel Tyner, D - Clinton, opposed the law, arguing that the prohibition of electronic cigarettes would inhibit efforts by young people to transition off traditional tobacco products.

Sales of e-cigarettes are rising amid a big push by tobacco companies: Marketwatch is reporting that America's number three cigarette - maker Lorillard, which acquired an e-cigarette brand last year, saw blu eCigs boost the company's second - quarter profits by 10 percent.

A cigarette tax increase has been opposed by tobacco retailers, however, who say it merely drives consumers to black market cigarettes.

Sold by the major multinational tobacco and other companies, the devices are aggressively marketed in print, television and the Internet with messages similar to cigarette marketing in the 1950s and 1960s, even in the U.S. and other countries that have long banned advertising for cigarettes and other tobacco products.

«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.

The tobacco industry is fighting moves to sell cigarettes in plain packs by claiming food manufacturers will be hit next.

At the end of an 8 - month study, 21 % of all participants had stopped smoking tobacco entirely (verified via a CO test), whereas an additional 23 % reported cutting the number of tobacco cigarettes they smoked per day by half.

At the end of the 8 - month study, 21 % of all participants had stopped smoking tobacco entirely (verified via a CO test), whereas an additional 23 % reported cutting the number of tobacco cigarettes they smoked per day by half.

E-cigarettes may not be safer than traditional tobacco cigarettes, according to new results presented by a trio of researchers at an 11 February press briefing at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting.

After viewing a pro-smoking advertisement or message, participants reported their smoking intentions and ability to refuse tobacco by answering a series of questions such as, «Do you think you will try a cigarette anytime soon?»

In 2014, e-cigarettes surpassed cigarettes as the most commonly used tobacco product by middle school and high school students, according to an annual U.S. survey.

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.

The organizations» leadership thought other policies offered more promising ways to reduce smoking such as by raising cigarette taxes, imposing more severe restrictions on indoor smoking, and controlling tobacco marketing.

Menthol cigarettes are disproportionately smoked by black and gay smokers in California, and some hope banning flavoured tobacco will protect these groups

In fact, e-cigs have overtaken cigarettes as the leading tobacco product used by teens.

A 2016 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows that while the number of teenage tobacco users has declined, the number of teenagers who use electronic cigarettes is greater than those who use conventional cigarettes.

In any case the warping effect on collagen will only damage your acne slightly and the free radical intake from even a marijuana cigarette is dwarfed by that of tobacco.

Burning tobacco, the core of cigarette smoking, creates many chemical by - products — that's why smoking is so unhealthy.

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.

He plays Nick Naylor, a high - powered and high - paid V.P. at the Institute of Tobacco Studies, which was founded by the tobacco companies and dedicated to the fine art of obfuscating the downside of cigarettes.

Last week's failure of a massive tobacco - settlement bill in the Senate added new urgency to efforts by the Clinton administration and education lobbyists to find money to pay for class - size reductions and other programs with funding contingent on new cigarette taxes.

Tasks are differentiated by colour: purple = lower ability blue = middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources cover the following: - dangers and effects of tobacco, cannabis smoking - what cigarettes contain - chemicals - dangers - illnesses - studying stop smoking campaigns - creating own stop smoking campaign

The Smokeable Products segment comprised of cigarettes manufactured and sold by PM USA and machine - made large cigars and pipe tobacco manufactured and sold by Middleton.

During the reception, the forty - two - foot - long cigarette included in Xu Bing's work Traveling Down the River will be ignited on a reproduction of a famous Chinese scroll painting by Xhang Zeduan, commenting on the way tobacco culture spread into China.

It was gradually established that smoking prevalence could be reduced by raising the tax on cigarettes, and by banning tobacco advertising.

perhaps including increased risk — remember how many decades the tobacco companies go by arguing that no individual smoker could attribute his particular lung cancer to any specific cigarette product?

And like the «experts» paid by tobacco companies to discredit the link between lung cancer and cigarettes, these spin doctors also know that doubt is their product and their most powerful weapon — climategate proved it.

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.

Almost all of them are in some way linked to the corporations they comment positively on (Ie defense experts who get on recomending america should buy a certain missile, then it pans out they are being paid off by the missiles manufacturer, or health experts claiming cigarettes are harmless who pan out to be employed by a PR company working for tobacco firms, and so on).

Under Armey, FreedomWorks consistently took the tobacco industry's side by opposing cigarette tax increases.

The same strategy was used cynically for decades by the tobacco industry after research showed that cigarettes caused cancer.

In 2007, FreedomWorks boasted about the effectiveness of a $ 12 million ad blitz by the tobacco companies aimed at killing a cigarette tax proposal in Oregon.

Not long ago, lawsuits were filed against cigarette companies for all the suffering caused by smoking, saying tobacco executives fully knew their product was a killer when they hired shill experts to testify and report that there wasn't a clear connection between smoking and lung cancer.

But it turns out that there is much more to this story than just climate change, and we find ourselves once again reaching back into the rich history of scientists paid by tobacco companies to conduct research bringing into question the links between cigarette smoke and cancer.

TASSC was a front group created in 1993 by specialist crisis PR company APCO Worldwide and cigarette firm Philip Morris to fight tobacco legislation and discredit science linking smoking to health concerns.