Sentences with phrase «tobacco company executives»

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

Should tobacco company executives and others who deliberately deceived the American people about the reality of tobacco and cancer be subject to legal penalty?

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.

It goes for seven minutes, five seconds and provides comments from director / co - writer / producer Michael Mann, former tobacco company executive Jeffrey Wigand, former 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman, attorney Richard Scruggs, Mississippi Attorney General Michael Moore, and actors Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, and Christopher Plummer.

The approach was aptly described by one tobacco company executive: «Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the mind of the general public.

The title of Michaels» book comes from a 1969 memo from a tobacco company executive: «Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the «body of fact» that exists in the minds of the general public.

Not exact matches

Then 1994 happened, and the public turned against big tobacco amid revelations that the companies» executives were exposed to research that suggested nicotine was addictive and cigarettes could cause lung cancer.

Philip Morris International, the world's largest international tobacco company, could eventually stop selling cigarettes, its chief executive told the BBC on Wednesday, as it launched its alternative product IQOS in Britain.

Lets see... what did that mean in Nazi Germany... What did it mean in Soviet Russia... What does it mean in working in the executive levels of an oil company... a tobacco company... a slaughterhouse... what does it mean in being captain of a nuclear attack sub with armed with live nuclear missles... what does that mean in managing an «Apple» store in China... what does it mean in congress... how about being a member of Assad's team?

Thorsten Kühn has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of the Schur Flexibles Group, a company based in Wiener Neudorf / Austria specialising in packaging solutions for the food, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries.

Commenting on the new report that provides documented evidence of how the alcohol industry is misleading the public about the risks associated with alcohol and cancer, Institute of Alcohol Studies Chief Executive Katherine Brown said: «This report shows that, like the tobacco industry before them, alcohol companies are misleading consumers about the evidence linking their products to cancer.

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.

Not long ago, lawsuits were filed against cigarette companies for all the suffering caused by smoking, saying tobacco executives fully knew their product was a killer when they hired shill experts to testify and report that there wasn't a clear connection between smoking and lung cancer.

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