Sentences with phrase «tobacco industry funded»

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The tobacco industry is notorious for funding such front groups as the «Center for Consumer Freedom» to defend the rights of consumers to smoke as they pleased.

There are currently excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco, liquid vehicle fuels (for highways), oversized tires for large trucks (presumably for highways), airplane tickets (for the FAA and TSA), multiple aspects of the firearms industry, bows and arrows, vaccines (for a vaccine injury fund), and in a variety of industries in support of marketing boards in those industries (although those cases have had mixed results in litigation).

Which of course lovingly details the group's funding by the conservative Koch Brothers and its work on behalf of union - busters and the tobacco industry.

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).

But pharmacologist Lisa Bero of the University of California, San Francisco, says that her own research on similar rule - making processes for tobacco control found that scientists opposing rules were often funded by industry groups.

The journal's editor, Gio Gori, a former National Institutes of Health researcher who drew attention in the 1980s for accepting funding from the tobacco industry and questioning the risks posed by second - hand smoke, could not be reached.

Written several years ago, it discussed his plan to study the influence on policymaking of «third parties» funded by the tobacco industry.

These activities are being performed in the context of several public or industry - funded R&D projects, and the in house GMP - facility has been used for process development and production of clinical trial material in different expression systems, including E.coli, Pichia pastoris and transgenic tobacco plants.

Using tactics similar to those of the tobacco industry, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the role of sugar consumption in raising levels of fat in the blood and did not disclose findings that linked sugar with heart disease.

This Fund does not invest in tobacco, liquor, or gaming companies and may be appropriate for investors that wish not to support these industries with their investment capital.

It would be like believing a report (even if it were peer reviewed) funded by the tobacco industry saying that smoking can benefit your health.

As everyone knows (or ought to know by now), one of main reason controversy over climate change is continuing in the face of overwhelming evidence is the fact that ExxonMobil has the cash spigot open to fund anyone willing to deny the evidence — the Competitive Enterprise Insitute, George Marshall Institute and the old tobacco industry network run by Steven Milloy, Fred Seitz and Fred Singer have been among the main beneficiaries.

His ties to the tobacco industry and acceptance of tobacco funding ultimately caused...

Miller was also a founding member scientist of The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, a now - defunct, tobacco industry - funded public relations front group run by the APCO Worldwide PR firm that worked to discredit the links between cigarettes and cancer.

Consider in this regard the deeply deceptive recent WSJ op - ed by David B. Rivkin Jr., who writes for the National Review and is a principal attorney in the fossil fuel industry attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency clean power plan, and Andrew M. Grossman, who represents the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), an organization with long - established ties to both the fossil fuel industry and the tobacco industry before it, including its ongoing affiliation with Chris Horner, the very lawyer Alpha was funding to attack climate scientists.

Enstrom is a controversial figure who has accepted funding from the Philip Morris tobacco company and the Center for Indoor Air Research (a tobacco industry front group).

In reality, CCF is a front group for the tobacco, restaurant and alcoholic beverage industries, which provide all or most of its funding.

For example, the tobacco industry has given funding to youth organizations such as the Jaycees and w: 4 - H clubs, which serves a public relations goal by helping the industry cultivate an image of corporate responsibility.

Moreover, by applying the term «denial» (with all its loaded undertones) to sceptical scientists; by referring to them inaccurately as «well funded» by the oil industry; and by likening those who stress the uncertainties of climate science to unprincipled lobbyists for tobacco companies, Lord May enters on the field of personal vilification — not a suitable place for a distinguished former President of the Royal Society.

Number 3 on the list of Heartland's beneficiaries, at $ 1,667 a month, is the Australian Robert Carter, a geologist at James Cook University in Queensland and a staff member for the Institute of Public Affairs, an Australian think tank which, like the Heartland Institute, takes funding from the tobacco and oil industries.

Despite its advanced knowledge of the climate disruption fueled in large part by oil, gas and coal pollution, ExxonMobil turned its back on crafting responsible solutions and instead funded a sophisticated campaign to sow doubt and delay action to curb carbon emissions — honing the tobacco industry's playbook with even more advanced public relations, advertising and lobbying muscle.

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

The tactical link between ExxonMobil's funded denial of climate change and the tobacco industry's organized denial of the health risks of its product have been documented in these pages before.

The Nation journalist Lee Fang previously reported that SPN relied on funding from the tobacco industry throughout the 1990s, and in return assisted the tobacco industry «in packaging its resistance to tobacco taxes and health regulations as part of a «freedom agenda» for conservatives.»

In a 2007 report, the Union of Concerned Scientists described the GMI as a «clearinghouse for global warming contrarians» funded by Exxon Mobil Corporation and employing the same strategy formerly used by the tobacco industry, repeatedly attacking the science behind the theory and insisting that there was actually a great deal of uncertainty and disagreement among scientists.

SPN, its member affiliates, and SPN - related entities such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute, continued to receive funding from the tobacco industry that has continued through at least 2012, according to Altria / Phillip Morris documents.

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).

But the little I have been able to find so far suggests that here, as in the US, there seems to be some overlap between Exxon and the groups it has funded and the operations of the tobacco industry.

Pat Michaels was a «member scientist» and «individual supporter» at The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASCC), an organisation created and funded by the tobacco industry to fight anti-tobacco legislation.

Likewise, if science shows like PBS NOVA started relying heavily on Exxon and Koch Industries funding — if the American Petroleum Institute started dictating policy to the National Science Teachers Association — if BP got to play a role in drawing up science curricula at California schools — well — the tobacco / fossil fuel comparison is fairly valid, isn't it?

(which worked for the tobacco industry and other funding corporations)

Matthew L. Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids, an advocacy group that administers the fund, called the chamber «the tobacco industry's most formidable front group,» adding, «it pops up everywhere.»

Marie McInerney reports: A «tortuously worded disclaimer» from KPMG on its industry - funded report about the risks of illicit tobacco consumption in Australia (see below) was a reminder to th... Read more