Sentences with phrase «tobacco companies»

Both lawsuits draw inspiration from litigation brought against tobacco companies in the 1990s.

Some environmentalists have compared the tactic to that once used by tobacco companies, which for decades insisted that the science linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer was uncertain.

That's a whole new growth market for tobacco companies.

Some good examples are: a class action lawsuit against tobacco companies, bans on drilling for oil and gas companies, or the creation of generic drugs for pharmaceutical companies.

This shifted about two decades ago, when high carbon producers hired the same public relations team that worked with big tobacco companies.

Which may explain why four major tobacco companies are still — still!

Some are all in with tobacco companies investing heavily, but for others, the market is rife with complications.

For the first time in 20 years an advertisement from a large tobacco company has appeared on British TV screens.

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

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.

PM is the world's leading international tobacco company.

For these reasons people avoid owning tobacco companies which keeps the price of their stocks cheap and their dividend yields high.

They actively promoted the use of lead paint for interior use, knowing it was hazardous to children, much in the same way tobacco companies promoted smoking.

We were kept in a big warehouse of a Polish tobacco company.

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.

Some people have called for tobacco companies to lower nicotine levels in cigarettes.

Big tobacco companies, shockingly, weren't as happy.

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

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

In recent years, the efforts against tobacco companies have increased, and people have actually begun winning lawsuits against these companies.

Maybe some day someone will sue the dairy industry like we did with tobacco companies.

The only thing I had to do was invest with PM, a high quality international tobacco company that I'm fairly bullish on.

Ontario's statement of claim alleges that the defendant tobacco companies knew about the addictiveness of cigarettes and the health damages they caused and deceived the public by misrepresenting the risks.

He believes that the popularly «conservative» refusal to relate global warming to human activity is like tobacco company executives» denial of a link between smoking and lung cancer.

Separately, numerous Canadian provinces are teaming up to sue tobacco companies in hopes of recovering billions of healthcare dollars spent to treat the victims of tobacco use.

Like big tobacco companies who paid pretend scientists to make up pretend research to fight back against the scientific body of evidence linking tobacco smoke to cancer, there is now a well - documented history of coal and oil companies paying unqualified experts to attack climate science research with the goal of stalling climate change policies that would impact their bottom lines.

This week, four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the federal government.

Barnoya, who studies tobacco sales and antismoking efforts in Guatemala, says tobacco companies there secure customers by directly violating the law or by finding creative ways around it.

When tobacco companies like Reynolds American or Altria / Philip Morris want to avoid tobacco taxes and health regulations, reports by SPN groups in many states can help inspire local resistance.

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

A Federal Court has ruled that the Defendant tobacco companies deliberately deceived the American public about the addictiveness of smoking and nicotine, and has ordered those companies to make this statement.

The Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids and other public health groups recently urged the Justice Department to recuse any lawyers who represented tobacco companies from any tobacco - related litigation while serving in the government, specifically mentioning Mr. Readler and Noel Francisco, the nominee for Solicitor General, who long represented R.J. Reynolds in tobacco litigation while at Jones Day.

In an order, Kessler stated that the defendant tobacco companies had made false and deceptive statements on five topics:

This approach is often called the «tobacco strategy», because tobacco companies used it effectively to delay health warnings and regulation of smoking.»

It's also about understanding how big tobacco companies target queer people.

Even tobacco companies have admitted that nicotine is addictive, but exactly why the brain craves another cigarette is murky.

Al Gore cited that same tobacco company memo in his 2006 «An Inconvenient Truth» movie, right before he spelled out the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase full screen.

As nicotine use spreads across Africa, cancer - fighting groups are advocating for stringent smoke - free laws as tobacco companies lobby to expand in a growing continental market

She added that, just as investors reevaluated whether to put their money into tobacco companies after evidence emerged linking cigarettes to cancer, «this will begin to cause investors to look at the potential global - warming liability that companies that refuse to limit their greenhouse gas emissions will face.»

The ISPM is published by the industry - supported Fraser Institute which received over $ 60,000 from ExxonMobil and which is also financially - supported by several tobacco companies including Philip Morris and British American Tobacco.

Also interesting are Robertson's comments about major tobacco companies getting ready to jump into the market (presumably through acquisitions) if and when recreational pot becomes legal.

«I conclude that all the claims of Imperial [Tobacco] and the other tobacco companies brought against the government of Canada are bound to fail,» Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin wrote in the long, complex, and unanimous 9 - 0 judgment.