Sentences with phrase «tobacco companies which»

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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.

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 company's flexibles packaging business — which services the pharmaceutical, healthcare, food, beverage and tobacco industries — produced an 8.5 per cent rise in profit before interest and tax.

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.

She stepped down on the heels of a report from Politico that she had purchased stock in a large tobacco company 1 month into her tenure leading the nation's top public health agency, which devotes itself to persuading smokers to quit and warning kids not to take up the habit.

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.

Most of the increase — $ 601 million — would come from user fees charged to drug, device, tobacco, and other companies regulated by FDA, which have supplied FDA with billions of dollars in recent years.

According to Zaridze, the Russian government looks likely to succumb to pressure from industry and adopt a weaker law which will give the tobacco companies more freedom to advertise.

Most of the increase — $ 601 million — would come from user fees charged to the drug, device, tobacco, and other companies regulated by FDA, which have supplied FDA with billions of dollars in recent years.

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.

Unlike tobacco companies, which want to get more kids to smoke, and gun manufacturers, who want to sell more automatic weapons, a third grade teacher wants more money for school supplies and school funds to reduce overcrowding of classes.

Altria Group, Inc. operates as a holding company which produces and markets tobacco products.

The site allows you to post a cash bond which will automatically go to a charity, a friend, an enemy, or even an anti-charity (such as a tobacco company lobby group) if you donâ $ ™ t meet your goal.

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.

The Fund has the following threshold responsibility standards which are applied in determining whether a security qualifies as an investment for the Fund: • The Fund will seek to avoid investing in companies that manufacture tobacco products.

2) The addictive nature of tobacco and the extent to which the tobacco companies worked to increase nicotine levels to maintain addiction.

APCO organized The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, which was originally funded by the Philip Morris Company, to attack epidemiological studies which implicated environmental tobacco smoke in slightly increased rates of lung cancer in non-smokers.

«We request the DOJ investigate whether ExxonMobil violated RICO, consumer protection, truth in advertising, public health, shareholder protection or other laws,» the congressmen's letter said, referring to the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, which was how federal officials prosecuted tobacco companies in the 1990s.

If tobacco companies didn't have a right to speak (which is really what HI were referring to — a bit out of context you seem to be), think about whether or not * your * right to speak might be eroded by the same (presumed) logic.

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.

This pseudo-association was established for the tobacco industry by APCO, which at that time was virtually Philip Morris's private public relations company.

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.

In the early 1990s, the latter was described by tobacco company Philip Morris as «strategic vehicle» via which to advance its corporate objectives.

[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 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.»

The Gertler Law Firm also was a leader in a group of prominent Louisiana law firms that obtained a groundbreaking and unprecedented judgment against the tobacco industry, which ordered the tobacco companies to establish a $ 241 million cessation program for the citizens of Louisiana.

In fact, the single biggest donor was Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis, which counts among its clients tobacco companies and asbestos manufacturers.

From corporate boardrooms to PI law offices, all eyes today are on the Supreme Court, which hears arguments in Philip Morris USA v. Williams on the extent to which punitive damages can punish a tobacco company for «highly reprehensible» conduct and for the effects of its conduct on non-parties.

It's a shame because as we also noted in our letter to Safer, «In the 1980s, 60 Minutes engaged in some ground - breaking journalism with correspondent Ed Bradley and producer David Gelber that exposed myths about juries and the civil justice system, which were then and continue to be perpetuated by the insurance industry, drug companies, tobacco companies, medical lobbies and other special interests seeking to limit their liability from lawsuits.»

The majority of life insurance companies out there will classify you as a tobacco user which more than DOUBLES your life insurance rates!

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 life insurance company can offer a specific smokeless tobacco user category, which will have considerably lower premium rates as compared to the rates charged for regular smokers.

For example, while every company classifies a regular cigarette smoker as a «tobacco user,» some companies may make exceptions for people who only smoke the occasional cigar or two and offer nonsmoker prices, which will often cut your price nearly in half.

Some life insurance companies would have given Alex a tobacco rate, which would have made his premiums more expensive.

In this article, we are going to explain how funeral insurance carriers determine if you are subject to tobacco rates, which companies offer the best tobacco rates for smokers.

We work with multiple companies, so we know which ones take other factors (i.e. overall health) into consideration, and which companies differentiate between frequent and occasional tobacco use, so you get the best rates available.

If you're a tobacco user, then you're at a much higher risk for severe health complications, which means that you're going to represent a higher risk to the insurance company.

Whether you're looking for the best term life insurance for chewing tobacco users or the cheapest whole life insurance policy, we know which companies offer these non-smoker rates.

Factors such as age, medications being taking or have taken in the past, height & weight, occupation, family history, bankruptcy history, driving history, tobacco use, a criminal record and income all can impact which company which company has the best rate personally for you.

The online Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) has more than 70 million pages of tobacco industry documents, of which 98 % are full - text and searchable.3 Most of these records relate to the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), which continues to require transnational tobacco companies operating in the United States to make publicly available all industry documents disclosed during the pre-trial «discovery» phase of past and future lawsuits.