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FDA’s top tobacco regulator pledges ‘fair’ enforcement of products

Thursday, May 16, 2013

“You all make a lawful product,” Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products, told those attending the Tobacco Merchants Association’s annual meeting in Williamsburg.

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VIDEO: Big Tobacco and Smokers Battle in Controversial Case

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Marjory Moses, Director of Community Wellness at Davis Memorial Hospital, said, “To say that a cigarette could have been safer, that less nicotine makes it safer, or that a filter could make it safer, is just saying it could be different. It can’t ultimat

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Attorneys give closing arguments in lawsuit pitting smokers against big tobacco companies

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Attorneys gave their final summaries and appeals to jurors Monday in a trial that seeks to determine the responsibility of the major tobacco companies in hundreds of cigarette-linked illnesses and deaths in West Virginia.

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Va. entrepreneur caught in growing political drama

Monday, May 13, 2013

Two decades later, revelations of Williams’ lavish gifts and his company’s generous political donations are at the center of a growing scandal dogging the state’s two top Republicans – Gov.

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CHAPMAN/WAKEFIELD: Large-scale unassisted smoking cessation over 50 years: lessons from history for endgame planning in tobacco control

Thursday, May 9, 2013

nations which have banned or seriously restricted access to alternative nicotine delivery systems (eg, the European Union, New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Oman, Singapore, Thailand) would be wise to take great care before considering unravelling their sm

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Totally Wicked Welcomes the JURI committee’s Opinion of the EU Tobacco Products Directive

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The draft Directive at present proposes to subject electronic cigarettes to the medicines licensing regime, essentially amounting to a ban on the product as currently sold.

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Drinkaware independent review raises questions for industry funded alcohol charity

Friday, May 3, 2013

The industry funded alcohol education charity Drinkaware has released an independent review of its activities , with mixed findings over its effectiveness to date. Download the report here [pdf] or appendices . The review was carried out by consultancy firm 23Red which in the executive summary identifies its main findings as: 2.1 This is a mixed report

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TC Tso, USDA tobacco scientist

Friday, April 26, 2013

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Supreme Court Lets FDA Move Forward with Graphic Cigarette Warnings And Other Tobacco Regulations

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The new warnings are needed to better inform Americans about the deadly consequences of smoking. As Congress found in enacting the requirement, the current, text-only warnings – which are printed on the side of cigarette packs and haven’t been updated si

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Star Scientific’s next controversy? Dietary aids

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Now, having recently exited the tobacco business to focus instead on its relatively new venture into dietary supplements, Star Scientific has again become a magnet for controversy and is headed back to court, this time facing investors who argue the comp

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