Sentences with phrase «tobacco industry»

Except for no «abrupt changes» in climate, and considering that the source of the study is as credible as tobacco industry funded smoking studies, it is a great report.

Despite tobacco industry claims of heat - not - burn products being less harmful than regular cigarettes, the health effects of the devices are still unproven, according to researchers.

The entire tobacco industry as a group lied before congress when they claimed that their tobacco is not habit forming.

Governments and public health professionals have been warned against developing partnerships with a new tobacco industry - funded organisation that says it wants to eliminate smoking globally....

I remember well when tobacco industry scientists criticized warnings against cigarette smoking as unproven.

This conference was also loaded with known tobacco industry consultants and academic associates.

They point to an independent review that found good evidence to support plain packaging and also rejected misleading tobacco industry opposition.

Great thought, actions like the one on the big tobacco industry should be reflected and acted upon.

The tobacco analogy works in regard to the fossil fuel / tobacco industry positions but that's about it.

We searched the LTDL for tobacco industry references to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, guided by standard procedures.6 Initial keyword search terms were «Australia» or «Australian» combined with «Indigenous», «Aboriginal», «Aborigine» or «Torres Strait Islander».

Could it be that the initial promoters of the catastrophic man - caused global warming narrative perceived their position was so vulnerable in the face of skeptic science - based criticism that they felt a need to distract the public away from skeptics by concocting the idea that those skeptics were paid coal & oil money to lie about the issue being «mere theory and not settled fact,» just like tobacco industry shills did about the harm of cigarette smoking?

While Heartland continues politicizing science, demonizing credible scientists and using tobacco industry tactics to forge doubt over global warming, Americans are feeling the real toll climate change is already taking on society, by increasing the severity of storms like hurricane Sandy or pushing droughts, wildfires and heatwaves to new extremes.

If he loses his nerve in the internecine conflict over whether to run an explosive interview with tobacco industry whistle - blower Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), it's because he's reluctant to be remembered as the reporter who destroyed his own network.

Like so many other tobacco industry fronts, it diversified into climate denial in the 1990s, using the same tricks and tropes.

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).

The University of California, San Francisco, documents were cached there starting in 2002 after tobacco industry litigation.

So, according to Conway, at some point after December 2004, potentially into 2005, he contacted Oreskes to describe how he knew of Dr S Fred Singer's criticism of atmospheric chemistry scientist Dr F Sherwood Rowland, and she subsequently discovered the «tobacco industry connection» of Dr Singer and others...

These warnings have not yet been implemented because of tobacco industry lawsuits, and the U.S. FDA is researching new warnings to comply with any legal challenges.

Full screen, spelled out letter - by - letter in red over the span of six seconds, and immediately equated to an infamous leaked tobacco industry memo.

Robert D Tollison for instance, was a life - long tobacco industry consultant in economics (and other areas), while Robert W. Crandall was the brother of Candace Crandall, who was the wife of S. Fred Singer.

There is no evidence in the industry documents to suggest there was a separate tobacco industry campaign targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and smokers.

Evil - doers paid to «repackage» settled science, mimicking tobacco industry tactics with zombie - like debate in order to dupe the public.

Besides, if the pesticide was already banned for use in residential areas because of its noxious health effects — under the tenure of EPA head Stephen Johnson (a former tobacco industry scientist) no less — wouldn't it also make sense to restrict its use in farms which depend heavily on manual labor?

An analysis of internal tobacco industry documents from 1965 to 2000 identifies two types of menthol smoker.

These are attacks based on anti-regulatory, so called «free market» ideology, not legitimate scientific debate, using a wide range of dirty tricks: from faked science, attacks on scientists, fake credentials, cherry - picking scientific conclusions: a campaign based on the old tobacco industry mantra: «doubt is our product».

Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, spins on behalf of the embattled tobacco industry while trying to remain a role model for his 12 - year - old son.

As near as I can tell after extensively digging into Gelbspan activities, he appears to have largely invented the idea that skeptic climate scientists act in a way that supposedly parallels old US tobacco industry tactics to downplay the hazards of smoking.

One initiative to come out of COP19 that Corporate Europe Observatory has been involved in is to kick fossil fuel lobbyists out of the UNFCCC (and, if the World Health Organisation's tobacco industry precedent is anything to go by, also out of our capitals).

The e-cigarette industry is growing so fast that the FDA is currently in the process of deciding how to treat it with respect to other tobacco industry products.

Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2012reviews updated evidence on the use of tobacco by youths and young adults including health consequences, epidemiology, etiological factors, tobacco industry influences, and effective efforts to prevent or reduce tobacco use.

This is not the first time myself and my retailer colleagues have been fed a constant stream of tobacco industry scare stories, from front groups and via the trade media, in which doomsday was predicted for small retailers at any measure to cut young people smoking.

«Although disappointed at the delay we're delighted that the government has refused to cave in to tobacco industry lobbying for the repeal of the tobacco display legislation.

In response to community efforts elsewhere to curb the sale of tobacco products at pharmacy retailers, tobacco industry defenders and retailers have said this type of legislation provides some retailers an unfair advantage over others, hurts businesses who are selling legal products, and unnecessarily inconveniences consumers.

The food, beverage and tobacco industry came in a distant second on the list, with women comprising 21.2 % of sitting board members on average during that roughly six - year period.

Crosby, the Conservatives» general election supremo, is also a lobbyist for the Australian tobacco industry.

«The e-cigarette industry is acquiring the kind of influence that the conventional tobacco industry has used for many years to prevent the implementation of sensible measures to protect the health of the public,» he says.

The report recognises that tobacco industry acquisition of many formerly independent e-cigarette producers and importers is a cause for concern, but says that advertising restrictions due to be implemented in May 2016 «go some way towards alleviating these concerns.»

A famous tobacco industry document from 1969 spells out the strategy succinctly: «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.