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British American Tobacco Sustainability Report 2011: Stakeholders’ challenging questions

Q Can scientific research paid for by tobacco companies really be impartial? A We realise that it’s a contentious issue — the tobacco industry funding research.

Diminished aversive classical conditioning in pathological gamblers

Abstract Aims:  Impaired ability to form associations between negative events in gambling and aversive somatic reactions may be a predisposing factor for pathological gambling. The current study investigated whether a group of pathological gamblers and a control group differed in aversive classical conditioning. Design:  A differential aversive classical conditioning paradigm, which consisted of three phases.

Public Health Threatened By Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

An editorial to be published by the scientific journal Addiction has been made available online, revealing that negotiations are underway behind closed doors for a far-reaching new trade and investment agreement that could tie the hands of governments’ future alcohol and tobacco control policies in perpetuity…

Brad Rodu: Could Obama administration ban tobacco? : Prohibition seems to have support within the Department of Health and Human Services.

“Ending the Tobacco Epidemic: A Federal Plan” is the startling title of a speech scheduled Wednesday, March 14, by Dr. Howard Koh, assistant secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Intrauterine Exposure To Drugs Not Found To Affect Academic Achievement Test Scores

Researchers from Boston University Schools of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health along with Boston Medical Center have found children’s academic achievement test scores not affected by intrauterine exposure to cocaine, tobacco or marijuana…

Liquor In Movies Promotes Teen Drinking

Putting Tobacco in Movies and TV shows has long been politically unacceptable, except for certain period pieces.

Worth reading: Carl Phillips testimony at the FDA tobacco center meeting: My testimony at today’s FDA tobacco center meeting

Bits of background on this meeting: Today’s meeting was dedicated to dissolvable tobacco products, smokeless tobacco mixed with confectionary which dissolve in the mouth. These face particularly great existential threat from the regulators, probably because they compete with the almost identical products from the pharma companies who many of the extremists carry water for. The citizen comments period allowed for only 16 of us, and only for 3 minutes each — “government for/by the people” in action!

Re: Comments on the Institute of Medicine Report, "Scientific Standards for Studies on Modified Risk Tobacco Products" (PDF)

Altria Client Services Inc. (“ALCS”), on behalf of Philip Morris USA Inc.

Star Scientific gets patent OK for tobacco curing

Tobacco maker Star Scientific Inc. says it has received approval from the U.S

Star Scientific Announces Notice of Allowance by US PTO Granting New Patent Claims Relating to Tobacco Curing Technology

Star Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: CIGX) announced that the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a Notice of Allowance on February 16, 2012 in Application No. 12/342,192 by Jonnie Williams, entitled “Tobacco Curing Method”, formally granting patent claims for a new method of curing tobacco.