Sentences with phrase «tobacco companies including»

Background In 2001, the Province brought an aggregate action to recover health care expenditures for tobacco related diseases against 13 tobacco companies including Philip Morris International («PMI»).

The Fraser Institute has received funding from several tobacco companies including Rothmans, British American Tobacco and Phillip Morris.

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.

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.

Examples of companies within the food, beverage, and tobacco industry include Coca - Cola, General Mills, Tyson, ConAgra, Kellogg, Molson Coors (maker of Coors, Blue Moon, and Keystone beers) and Philip Morris (maker of Marlboro cigarettes).

It included the quarterly dividend payments of British - Dutch oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell ($ 216.17) and US electric and gas utility company Southern Co ($ 46.92) as well as the final dividend of Japanese tobacco group Japan Tobacco ($ 79.80).

She's had plenty experience doing just that, having worked in the communications departments for a range of high - profile companies, including tobacco marketer Philip Morris USA, PepsiCo, Heineken USA and the WWE, whose stars are seemingly always in the news.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

The Other Tobacco Operations segment, which includes tobacco sourcing for other consumer tobacco products (like cigars and pipes), provides the remaining 5 % of company income.

It included the quarterly dividend payments of British - Dutch oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell ($ 216.17) and US electric and gas utility company Southern Co ($ 46.92) as well as the final dividend of Japanese tobacco group Japan Tobacco ($ 79.80).

Excluded businesses include alcohol, conventional financial services (banking, insurance, etc.), casinos and gambling, pornography, tobacco manufacturers, pork related products and weapons companies.

The index is intended to track the overall performance of companies involved in: (i) agri - chemicals, animal health and fertilizers, seeds and traits, (ii) farm / irrigation equipment and farm machinery and / or (iii) agricultural products (including grain, tobacco, meat, poultry, and sugar), aquaculture and fishing, livestock plantations, and trading of agricultural products.

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?

The genesis of this idea for DOJ to investigate fossil fuel companies lies in the comparison between the actions of the fossil fuel industry and the actions of other industries known to have intentionally misled the public about the nature of their products, including the tobacco and lead paint industries.

Whenever the treaty's advocates, including the Clinton Administration, discuss global warming, they present the science as essentially settled and unchallengeable, and they compare dissenting scientists to discredited apologists for the tobacco companies.

Indeed the evidence indicates that... these journalists collected, including the distinguished historian of science at Harvard Naomi Oreskes, who wrote the book The Merchants of Doubt,... that they hired several of the very same public relations agents that had perfected this fraudulent and deceitful craft working for the tobacco companies.

So some prominent examples in the past include: institutional divestment from tobacco companies in the 1990s, and divestment from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa.

According to Wikipedia, Heartland has been funded by Koch, Scaife, Exxon - Mobil, the tobacco industry and pharmaceutical companies including Pfizer and Eli Lily.Heartland According to Wikipedia

[1] The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Board of Directors, which it says «determine the U.S. Chamber's policy positions on business issues and advise the U.S. Chamber on appropriate strategies to pursue,» includes representation from the fossil fuel industry such as ConocoPhillips and Consol Energy (one of the biggest coal producers in the US), large pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Bayer, and the tobacco company Altria (formerly Philip Morris).

In her book, Global Spin, author Sharon Beder noted that past Bonner clients have included tobacco companies Philip Morris and U.S. Tobacco Co.; the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; the utility trade group Edison Electric Institute; military contractor McDonnell Douglas; nuclear industry and military services giant Westinghouse; chemical companies Monsanto and Dow Chemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in the 1990s).

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear four appeals this week, including an aboriginal law case concerning the duty of consult, two criminal cases and the B.C. Crown's appeal of a decision ordering it to turn over data to a major tobacco company in response to the province's bid to recover health - care costs.

The various «truths» that the tobacco companies must admit to under Kessler's order include the following:

Included are decades of statements from tobacco company executives, scientists, and lawyers acknowledging the dangers of smoking and strategizing ways to keep customers hooked.

New disclosure documents filed this week show the big tobacco companies are spending huge sums and hiring an army of lobbyists to influence Congress and the Trump Administration, including giving $ 1.5 million to President Trump's inauguration.

The following is a statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids: New disclosure documents filed this week show the big tobacco companies are spending huge sums and hiring an army of lobbyists to influence Congress and the Trump Administration, including giving $ 1.5...

On Sept. 29, 2009, Ontario launched its $ 50 - billion lawsuit against tobacco companies both domestic and foreign including including Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd., Rothmans, RJ Reynolds Tobacco International Inc., and others for health - care costs.

As you may have read in other Minnesota Life Insurance Reviews, the Company does excel in certain key niche markets, including tobacco and nicotine, asthma, depression, and anxiety.

When determining premiums, life Insurance companies place clients into categories based on an underwriting process that considers a wide range of risk factors, including age, weight, gender, alcohol use, occupation, health history, and tobacco use.

There are a few insurance companies, Prudential and Lincoln Financial included, that are willing to consider pipe smoking, cigar smoking or nicotine gum or tobacco chewing individuals as non-smokers.

The LTDL does not include all Australian industry documents, but can still be used to investigate the attention paid to Australia by transnational tobacco companies.4, 5 The completeness of the collection is further compromised by the industry's destruction of many documents; 4 nevertheless, some consistent themes emerge.

Transnational tobacco companies routinely monitor Australian media, parliamentary and scientific reports, including those related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.5 They contract monitoring services to summarise these reports, and the summaries are circulated internally, along with copies or extracts of the original reports.

The advertisement included the text «Get your own black» (Box), an allusion to owning black servants, although ostensibly referring to the black branding.7, 8 The tobacco company was forced to withdraw the offensive advertisement — a resounding victory for the NAC on behalf of Aboriginal people.