Corporate Social Responsibility

Retailer Sues Over Report Criticizing Its Advertising

by Bob Burton — March 6, 2007 - 6:11am

The giant Australian retailer David Jones has launched legal action against the Australia Institute, a centre-left think tank, for featuring the company's advertising in a

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Sydney Morning Herald, March 2, 2007

Weight-Loss Drug Told to Lose the Advertising

by Bob Burton — March 1, 2007 - 11:19pm

The Australian government's drug regulator has revoked Roche's permission to advertise its weight-loss drug, Xenical. It was originally approved as a prescription-only drug for those rating over 30 on the Body Mass Index (BMI), or 27 if other health conditions were present.

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Sydney Morning Herald, February 27, 2007

Carbon Offsets Challenged

by Bob Burton — February 28, 2007 - 7:06am

The marketing of carbon offsets as a 'solution' to global warming is attracting criticism.

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BBC News, February 21, 2007

As Nicotine Dose Increases, So Must Awareness of the Pitfalls of FDA Regulation

by Anne Landman — January 24, 2007 - 12:12am
  • Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Issue Management, U.S. Congress, Health, Marketing, Public Relations, Science, Tobacco

    • The Harvard School of Public Health released a study Thursday revealing that the amount of nicotine in cigarettes has increased significantly since the major American tobacco companies signed the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) in 1998. Predictably, Philip Morris (PM), in a media release available at their web site, denies the study results. The U.S. Surgeon General in 1988 warned that nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine, but these drugs don't have decades of sophisticated R&D behind them aimed at heightening their addictiveness. Cigarettes, among the most highly engineered consumer products in the world, deliver nicotine into more people's bodies more times every day than aspirin. Still, they remain unregulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

    Gates Foundation Retreats From Responsibility

    by Bob Burton — January 17, 2007 - 12:22am

    After two articles exposing the contradiction between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding health programs while maintaining $8.7 billion in investments in companies involved in socially damaging projects, the foundat

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    Los Angeles Times, January 14, 2007

    Wal-Mart's Believe It or Not: 90 Percent of Workers Have Health Insurance

    by Jonathan Rosenblum — January 16, 2007 - 12:57pm

    Wal-Mart had already announced an attempt to rewrite its public image through the hire of ex-political operatives and creation of a social responsibility ad campaign. The company has now released an internal study claiming that the overwhelming majority (90 percent) of its workers have health coverage--just not Wal-Mart's health coverage.

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    Washington Post, January 11, 2006
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