Sentences with phrase «tobacco companies used»

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

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.

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).

Ronald S. Milstein, general counsel for Lorillard Inc., LO -0.76 % said the tobacco company uses Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, a well - known New York law firm, to handle corporate work and national product - liability litigation.

Not exact matches

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.»

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP)-- CVS Health Corp. reported better - than - expected third - quarter earnings Tuesday as increased use of specialty drugs helped offset missing sales of tobacco products, which the company stopped selling this fall.

The deceptive and abusive litigation tactics used by the tobacco companies failed in the third wave of tobacco litigation.

Australia is already having a painful experience with this type of clause — tobacco company Philip Morris Asia has commenced arbitration against the Australian government over its new plain packaging for tobacco products laws using a similar clause in an investment treaty between Australia and Hong Kong.

However the marketing tactics used by the baby food companies mirror those of the tobacco industry.

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.

A new Survation poll for Labour List of 1,037 people shows that 72 % of the public are in favour of the policy to fund the NHS to the tune of # 2.5 bn extra a year, partially using taxes against tobacco companies and mansions as well as closing loopholes.

Stephanie Campbell, acting executive director of FOR - NY, likened the proposed tax to fees acquired from tobacco companies and used to fund smoking prevention and cessation programs.

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.

For decades, the tobacco industry has been criticized for funding biased research and using the credentials of high - profile scientists to boost the companies» public image (Science, 7 January 2005, p. 36).

In the face of such broad agreement, the leaked strategy smacks of tactics used by tobacco companies as the evidence linking smoking to fatal diseases continued to grow.

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.

In The Future for Investors, Jeremy Siegel pointed out that slow - growth companies (or even negative growth) companies can make fantastic investments, and he used tobacco giant Altria (NYSE: $ MO) as an example.

Yes, you are still going to be paying a higher premium than someone that does not use tobacco, but Banner will help you get a lower price than almost all other companies.

It's important to remember that companies that offer non-tobacco rates will not extend those rates to people who use tobacco in addition to marijuana; use tobacco, you'll get tobacco rates.

Prudential is the top company for people who use chewing tobacco.

Companies are known to upcharge at least double the standard rate if you have used any type of tobacco in the last year.

If that doesn't work, try switching to a vaping device and use different e-liquid flavors from a company like NJOY to keep you from going back to dangerous tobacco.

A deliberate disinformation campaign using methods honed and tested by the tobacco companies?

She is on the board of the Climate Accountability Institute, the group that organized a 2012 conference in La Jolla that laid out the foundations of a strategy to link oil companies to climate change using a strategy similar to that employed to connect tobacco firms to lung cancer.

This cash, he argued, was used to create fake campaigning organisations, established by the people involved in the same campaign to protect tobacco - company profits:

The politicians are requesting that the Justice Department look into whether Exxon violated the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law, which federal officials used to prosecute tobacco companies in the 1990s for lying about what they knew about the health impacts of smoking.

Three years ago in La Jolla, California, ACU sponsored a meeting of high - level environmental activists and organization heads, titled «Establishing Accountability for Climate Change Damages: Lessons from Tobacco Control,» an obvious nod to RICO investigations used to accuse tobacco companies of a large scale conspiracy to deceive the public about the dangers of cigarette smoking.

Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to «Manufacture Uncertainty» on Climate Change details how the oil company, like the tobacco industry in previous decades, has

Used to receive funding from ExxonMobil, still recieve grants from tobacco companies and are also a major recipient of grants from the foundations run by Koch Industries Inc. (the largest private energy company in the United States).

«Smoking and car use have comparable health costs, yet while we have the strictest tobacco promotion laws in the world, we allow car companies to promote themselves unbridled.»

In what may be among the most damning comparisons, Revkin reported that «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.»

Just as tobacco and lead companies sowed doubt about the dangers of their products through the use of front groups and third - party experts, so did ExxonMobil — through its funding of a sophisticated network of denialists — work to deceive the public about climate science and the need for political action to end the fossil fuel era.

Reuters reports that the tobacco company defendants have been battling to avoid being forced to use words such as «deceived» in the corrective statements, but lost this free speech battle before Kessler.

As we said from the very start, there are indeed burial insurance companies that classify cigar use as non tobacco use.

Even the best term life insurance companies that are known as the most liberal in the underwriting department will take your tobacco use into strong consideration.

Lastly, if you withhold information on your application, but your tobacco use is revealed at the time of death, then the insurance company could challenge your claim in many cases.

Each final expense life insurance company will have one price for non-tobacco users and a higher amount for those who do use tobacco.

Also, some companies offer a non tobacco rate class for clients who use tobacco products but do not smoke cigarettes.

However, some life insurance companies won't charge extra if you only use chewing tobacco or smoke cigars occasionally.

Some companies are a better fit for certain health conditions or if you use tobacco.

However, I know of one company who sets no limit to the amount you use these forms of tobacco, and your urine result can also come back positive for nicotine, and they'll still allow you to qualify for non tobacco rates!

The life insurance companies have eased up on the use of smokeless tobacco.

If you use tobacco, the choice of what company to use will be very important.

In this article, we are going to talk about how life insurance companies define tobacco use, which carriers are best for cigar smokers, and how to find the best burial insurance plan possible.

A lot of it is going to depends on what type of tobacco you use and the company that you choose.

Most companies will classify a Pot smoker as a non-smoker as long as he does not also use tobacco.

Most burial insurance companies use that question to define whether or not you are a tobacco user, and thus subject to tobacco user rates.

In 1967, Phoenix Life is the first company to recognize the harmful affects of tobacco use.

The Company lowered premiums for all non-tobacco users 20 %, compared to those who used tobacco products.

If you use any other form of tobacco, we probably have companies that will offer you non tobacco rates.