Archive for 2007

More awards for tobacco research

Marketing researcher Professor Janet Hoek has ended the year on a high note, elected Vice-President of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy at its annual conference in Brisbane last week. Continue

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Canadian band leads lawsuit over Rolling Stone spread

The popular Toronto-based punk band Fucked Up and the experimental San Francisco group Xiu Xiu have filed a class-action suit against Rolling Stone magazine and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. over a now notorious Camel advertising spread. Continue

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Thank You For Smoking

After years of health warnings, fewer Americans are smoking. But while Washington is encouraging Americans to quit, it has been helping big tobacco push cigarette smoking in other countries, using trade pacts to force poorer nations to accept American cigarettes and helping cause an epidemic of health-related problems. Continue

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Bush vetoes children’s health bill a second time

WASHINGTON - U.S. President George W. Bush on Wednesday vetoed a bill expanding a popular children's health care program for the second time, angering Democrats who are locked in a fight with the administration over the budget and spending. Continue

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Australia: Anti-smoking pill to contain suicidal warning

Melbourne , Dec 10 (ANI): A drug meant for ceasing cigarette cravings will carry warnings of links with suicidal thoughts when it is launched in Australia in January. Continue

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