... radio ads for themselves and their movies in lucrative "cross over" deals, paid for by tobacco companies, shows the research.
The studios with the most "cross over" deals were Paramount and Warner ...
Tobacco companies paid the Hollywood A-listers of the 1930s and 1940s millions of dollars in today's money to endorse particular brands of cigarette, under contract, reveals research in Tobacco ...
... Collin (Centre for International Public Health Policy, University of Edinburgh, Scotland) analyzed tobacco company documents that were made publicly available online following litigation in the United ...
An international tobacco company sought to shift attention from the dangers of secondhand smoke in China, researchers claim.
... published in the open access journal Globalization and Health has shown that transnational tobacco companies (TTCs) are using tactics long used with devastating effect in Western countries to snare ...
The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by tobacco company Philip Morris USA over $79.5 million US in punitive damages that were awarded to the widow of a longtime smoker.
While one branch of the New Brunswick government has been suing large tobacco companies, another branch has $21 million invested in them, investment records show.
... . At Senate hearings on the FDA bill last year, Connolly discussed that research, including how tobacco companies have increased nicotine content over time, manipulated menthol and added candy-like ...
... cool while the eighth graders haven’t been as exposed to the Western message.”
After the major tobacco company settlements of 1998 that included more stringent laws banning pro-smoking advertising, ...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Tobacco companies are targeting the half billion young people in the Asia Pacific region by linking smoking to glamorous and attractive ...
... survey among U.S. residents aged 12 years and older. The industry documents revealed that tobacco companies researched how controlling menthol levels could increase brand sales among specific groups. ...
A prominent anti-tobacco group says it's simultaneously pleased and disappointed by the huge fines levied against two of Canada's largest tobacco companies.
... and may even increase youth smoking.
"The role of marketing in the success of the tobacco companies is conclusive," according to Loken. "The report's recommendations offer the best approach to ...
... . 24 online in the journal Tobacco Control.
"Commercial arrangements between the movie industry and tobacco companies were there from the very beginning," said Glantz, director of UCSF's Center for ...
... reduce the number of fatal road crashes, and tobacco companies would be compelled to reducing smoking ... public health problems, he says that many major companies now see the business sense of promoting ...
