Tobacco

Colorado's Casino Towns Gamble on Loose Interpretation of Smoking Ban

by Anne Landman — December 27, 2007 - 1:15pm

As Colorado prepares to extend its state law eliminating secondhand smoke in workplaces to include casinos as of January 1, 2008, the state's mountain gambling towns have been hard at work getting ready for the change.

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Casper, Wyoming Star Tribune, December 27, 2007

Keep Your Smoke to Yourself, S'il Vous Plait

by Judith Siers-Poisson — December 22, 2007 - 11:27pm

The French National Committee Against Tobacco Addiction is launching an edgy new campaign based on previous ones against AIDS/HIV, "except that there i

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Le Monde (France), December 17, 2007

Heckuva Huckabee Non-Recollection

by Anne Landman — December 17, 2007 - 4:54pm

Mike HuckabeeBaptist preacher and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee denies knowing about a financial boost he received from the R.J.

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Newsweek, December 17, 2007

New Participatory Project: Nicotine, Nicotine, How Do We Ingest Thee?

by Anne Landman — December 4, 2007 - 1:51pm

Nicosphere3000Tobacco companies aren't the only ones who are trying to find new and creative ways to get nicotine into people's bodies.

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TobaccoWiki.org

Studio Owners Try to Seem Reasonable, Like Big Tobacco

by Diane Farsetta — November 28, 2007 - 2:37pm

Reporter Nikki Finke, who has been closely covering the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike, reports that the studio owners' group, the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP), "during the first days of the strike ... went out and hired Hill and Knowlton, the controversial global public relations and public affairs giant." Finke writes, "Remember that full page ad that ran November 15th in the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times?

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Deadline Hollywood Daily, November 25, 2007

The Failure of Oregon's Cigarette Tax: a Postmortem

by Anne Landman — November 12, 2007 - 5:19pm
  • Topics: Front Groups, Issue Management, Health, Public Relations, Tobacco

    • The November 6, 2007 election brought a stinging defeat to Oregon's cigarette tax increase. The proposal aimed to raise the state's cigarette tax by 84.5 cents a pack to pay for health insurance for about 100,000 additional poor Oregon children who currently have no coverage. Measure 50, as the tax was called, went down by a wide 60-40% margin.

    Fire-Safe Cigarette Laws Don't Light Any Fires Under Tobacco Companies

    by Anne Landman — November 8, 2007 - 3:35pm

    Most people don't know it, but cigarettes sold in some states are now more dangerous than ones sold in other states. Deaths and damage from cigarette-caused fires have motivated New York, Vermont, California and other states to enact laws in recent years requiring that only fire-safe cigarettes be sold in their states.

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    Baltimore Sun, October 11, 2007

    New Participatory Project: What was Big Tobacco's "Project Big Boy"?

    by Anne Landman — October 23, 2007 - 8:11pm

    What was Brown & Williamson's "Project Big Boy"? CMD launched the TobaccoWiki project to answer questions just like that (the answers are usually not very pretty) by enlisting citizens like you to mine the millions of pages of previously-secret, internal tobacco industry documents now posted on the Internet. Spending even a few minutes to find an interesting nugget of information about what this project involved would be helpful, so why not give it a spin?

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