The National Tobacco Control Act gives the tobacco industry inside access to the decision making process.
- Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
The journey to the ads that cigarettes companies started running Nov. 26, 2017 about the dangers of smoking and their bad behavior started 64 years ago .
Philip Morris has applied to the FDA to market a product that it says is safer than a cigarette, but its own data show that is not true.
While many groups of people stand to lose health insurance benefits under the new health care bill, smokers would be particularly harmed. Here’s how cutbacks in cessation programs could harm them.
Smokefree laws save lives quickly, by preventing heart attacks. A recent study showed a drop in heart attack deaths by 12 percent, adding to a growing body of research on benefits of the laws.
Thanks to voters ignoring Big Tobacco, California may be the first smoke free society. Here’s how it happened.
California, the nation’s single largest market for cigarettes, has one of the lowest taxes on them. A proposal to raise the tax by US$2 a pack could signal a sea change.
California has one of the nation’s lowest cigarette taxes, due in large part to a powerful tobacco lobby. The power could shift this fall, if a voters agree to raise taxes by $2 a pack.
Uruguay fights tobacco more strongly than many countries 100 times its size – including the U.S. It recently won a battle against Philip Morris. Should others follow the example of this tiny nation?
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