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FDA Unveils New Tobacco Warning Labels For Teens To Laugh At While They Smoke
Last fall, the Food & Drug Administration announced they would be requiring tobacco packaging to carry larger and more graphic warning labels. And because our governmental agencies move like...
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Tobacco Companies Sue FDA Over New Warning Labels
In an effort to get the Food and Drug Administration to shut down its plans to slap graphic new warning labels on tobacco products, four large tobacco firms have sued the government. Big tobacco...
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Should Smokers Have To Pay The Full Tax If They Roll Their Own Cigarettes?
Since state and local governments began slapping heavy taxes on cigarettes, a number of smokers have managed to pay less by buying loose tobacco and rolling their own. But as a growing number of stores...
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Judge: Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels Violate Right To Free Speech
Remember those graphic, sometimes gory, cigarette warning labels the FDA came up with? Well, a U.S. District Judge has sided with the tobacco companies and ruled that the warnings violate...
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Appeals Court Rules Graphic Cigarette Labels Don't Violate Free Speech
The latest battle over those graphic anti-smoking labels on cigarette packaging has been won by the FDA, after a federal appeals court ruled yesterday that requiring the warnings does not violate...
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Tobacco Companies Required To Report Levels Of Dozens Of Chemicals
The Food & Drug Administration says there are more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco and tobacco smoke. And now the FDA says consumers have a right to know about the levels of 93 harmful or...
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Higher Cigarette Taxes Drove Smokers To Pipe Tobacco & Cigars
Among the intended goals of higher taxes on cigarettes is that some smokers will quit rather than deal with the increased cost. While this may happen, newly released numbers show that taxing cigarettes...
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Would $81 For A Pack Of Cigarettes Put An End To Smoking?
While lawmakers here in the U.S. have developed a habit in recent years of raising taxes on cigarettes as a way to curb smoking while increasing tax revenue from those who continue to inhale, officials...
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Supreme Court Agrees: Cigarette Warning Labels Don’t Violate Big Tobacco’s...
For the last several years, the tobacco industry has been fighting a federal law that requires, among other restrictions, cigarette manufacturers to place graphic warning labels on packaging. Big...
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Former Tobacco Fields Now Grow Chickpeas To Serve America’s Growing Hummus...
(Coyoty) Fewer Americans smoke today, which is a really good thing for our collective health and finances as a nation. It’s not so good for farmers in the areas of Virginia and the Carolinas that once...
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FDA Okays Two New Cigarettes Because They Are Just As Harmful As What’s...
(camknows)The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 gave the Food and Drug Administration the authority to regulate tobacco products. Since then, no new tobacco products have been...
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Australian Smokers Think Plain Packaging Makes Tobacco Taste Worse
Plain tobacco packaging is a global movement aimed at undoing decades of ads and branding messages. Tobacco products get sold in identical plain boxes with only plain letters on the front: no logos, no...
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40 Attorneys General Agree: E-Cigarettes Need To Be Regulated Like Tobacco
Sort of famous actor Stephen Dorff is now a shill for a brand of e-cigarettes that isn’t going to get any free advertising on this site.The use of electronic cigarettes is growing rapidly, not just...
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Los Angeles Might Treat Sale Of E-Cigarettes Like Regular Smokes
Jenny McCarthy, the latest sorta-famous person from the ’90s to shill for electronic cigarettes.It’s not just has-been actors like Stephen Dorff and Jenny McCarthy who smoke electronic cigarettes. They...
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How Will Tobacco Companies’ Ads Say Sorry To Americans?
(Wesa) Do you remember when your mom made you apologize to your brother for being mean and you just repeated what she said word-for-word? Did you actually mean any of it? No, didn’t think so. That...
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50 Years After First Surgeon General’s Report, Smoking Still Leading...
(SA_Steve)Back in 1964, 42% of American adults smoked tobacco. That same year, the U.S. Surgeon General’s office issued a landmark report about the link between smoking and lung cancer. Since then,...
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Walgreens Wants Everyone To Know It’s Continuing To Sell Cigarettes
(J.G. Park)Earlier today, CVS surprised an awful lot of people by saying it would give up $2 billion a year in cigarette sales because it’s “the right thing for us to do for our customers and our...
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Groups Call On Walgreens To Stop “Evaluating” Cigarette Sales And Just Stop...
(afagen)Last week, Walgreens responded to the news that CVS would stop selling cigarettes by saying it was “evaluating its tobacco line.” That didn’t sit well with some advocacy groups who have called...
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28 Attorneys General Urge Major Retailers To Discontinue Tobacco Sales
(nonojoe) Is it a conflict of interest when stores that sell products to improve your health also make billions every year selling cigarettes? More than two dozen Attorneys General think so, and are...
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Proposed Regulations On E-Cigarettes Include Health Warning Label, Age...
It only took five years, but the Food and Drug Administration is ready to begin regulating electronic cigarettes. While the new rule covers a lot of ground with the never-before regulated devices, it...
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