Sentences with phrase «tobacco companies after»

... some of the very same individuals who are doing this now (i.e., trying to persuade people that global warming is not a problem) were some of the same people who took money from the tobacco companies after the Surgeon General's report came out warning of the dangers of smoking.

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Philip Morris International shares plummeted 16 percent in the company's worst day since it spun off from Altria in 2008, after PMI posted mixed first - quarter results and said growth of iQOS, its heat - not - burn tobacco product, slowed in Japan.

RAI was founded in 1875 and is the leading company for cigarettes and tobacco products, next only to Altria, Inc. (MO), after acquisition of Lorilland company (LO) is completed.

He was able to promise more cash for vital services after the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, said he would raise money from mansion owners, tobacco companies and tax avoiders to protect NHS funding.

DiNapoli and previous comptrollers have used the fund as a vehicle for social change in the past, divesting funds from South Africa during the apartheid era, and from tobacco companies, as well as freezing and then ending investments in guns manufacturers after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

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

The «You've Come a Long Way, Baby» campaign ran through the 1980s, well after tobacco companies knew that smoking can cause lung cancer.

Until you've safely quit, here's an alternative: Visit the online Legacy Tobacco Documents Library to read memos and reports tracing the real - life efforts of tobacco companies to advertise and market cigarettes in the years before and after the historic 1964 Surgeon Generals report declaring smoking a health hazard.

The chief public health official bought stocks in tobacco and health care companies after she started working at the agency.

That» s like a cigarette company asking for help paying for ventilators for it's executives after they've pedalled tobacco for decades.

The parent company of Philip Morris USA contributed a total of $ 500,000 on Oct. 6 and 8 to a Republican Party group, a few weeks after the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to hear the tobacco company's appeal of a $ 10.1 billion verdict.

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