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- Tobacco Break Repeal Faces
Vote in Senate: (Reuters)
The Senate Wednesday is likely to vote on an attempt to
strip the tobacco companies of what critics call a
"$50 billion giveaway."
- Sep 10 8:08 AM EDT
- Florida Lawyers May Delay
Tobacco Payment: (Reuters)
Four lawyers who helped force the tobacco industry into
an $11.3 billion settlement with Florida are trying to
hold up the cigarette makers' payments unless they get
more money, the Wall Street Journal said.
- Sep 10 7:04 AM EDT
- Senators Push Tobacco Tax Credit
Repeal (Washington
Post)
The Washington Post A bipartisan group of senators
mounted a major effort last night to repeal a
controversial $50 billion tax credit that tobacco
companies can claim against costs of a national tobacco
settlement.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) introduced
legislation to keep tobacco companies from using existing
law to take a tax deduction for the billions of dollars
they would have to pay under the...
First found: 10 Sep 1997, 12:42 Universal Time
- No Smoking Gun (Washington Post)
Spanogle doesn't say is that while exposure to dioxin may
have been involuntary, one didn't have to smoke the
cigarettes in one's "K" rations. I didn't smoke
before the Navy gave me two cigarettes three times a day
in my rations, I didn't smoke after the Navy gave me
cigarettes in my rations, and I still don't smoke.
First found: 10 Sep 1997, 12:42 Universal Time
- Reynolds Settles Joe Camel Suit (ABC News)
"This may be terribly
important as a model for what cities and counties can do
to control the tobacco industry," Daynard said.
"You were dealing with
something which was a bleeding wound for the
industry," he said.
First found: 10 Sep 1997, 12:42 Universal Time
- RJR settles with City; Joe Camel
on way out (San
Francisco Examiner)
settled a suit brought by San Francisco and several other
local governments by agreeing to retire its Joe Camel
advertising campaign across the state. Of the $10
million, San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles will
each receive $1.5 million for anti-smoking education and
advertising efforts.
First found: 10 Sep 1997, 03:51 Universal Time
- California Sends Joe Camel To an
Earlier Retirement (Washington Post)
All Front Page stories from this morning's Washington
Post and an image of the Front Page. R.J. Reynolds also
will pay California communities $10 million -- $9 million
will go to 11 counties and the cities of Los Angeles, San
Francisco and San Jose to pay for anti-smoking campaigns;
the last $1 million will go to reimburse legal costs.
First found: 10 Sep 1997, 12:42 Universal Time
- Agency proposes changes in tar
and nicotine testing (Philadelphia Inquirer)
WASHINGTON -- The federal agency that regulates
advertisements proposed yesterday a new way of testing
tar and nicotine levels in cigarettes that would show a
range of levels rather than a single measurement. The
Federal Trade Commission plan would prompt tobacco
companies, in their ads, to include the new tar and
nicotine ranges as well as a disclaimer telling smokers
that the amount they get...
First found: 10 Sep 1997, 12:42 Universal Time
- U.S. May Alter Tobacco Ads (ABC News)
The FTC also proposed a
disclaimer in ads that would caution smokers about
inhaling deeply. How much
tar and nicotine you get from a cigarette depends on how
intensely you smoke it.
First found: 10 Sep 1997, 12:42 Universal Time
- Secondhand Smoke Contains
Carcinogen (Pathfinder)
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- For the first time, researchers
have demonstrated that people exposed to secondhand
cigarette smoke on-the-job do indeed absorb a
cancer-causing agent found in smoke. ``This is the first
time that a metabolite of a tobacco-specific lung
carcinogen has been found in the urine of nonsmokers
exposed to environmental tobacco smoke under field
conditions,'' stated study author...
First found: 10 Sep 1997, 03:51 Universal Time
- Bar Smoking Bill OKd by Assembly
/ But defeat likely in Senate, sources say (San Francisco Chronicle)
Greg Lucas, Robert B. Gunnison, Chronicle Sacramento
Bureau Sacramento California smokers could keep smoking
in bars and card clubs at least through January 1999
under a bill passed yesterday by the Assembly and sent to
an uncertain fate in the Senate. Eleven Democrats backed
the measure, including Cruz Bustamante, D- Fresno, and
Assemblyman Lou Papan, D-Millbrae.
First found: 9 Sep 1997, 18:48 Universal Time
- Flight attendants'
attorneys wrap up - Cigarette-makers will ask judge
to bypass jury and quickly issue verdict (AP/Winston
Salem Journal)
Flight attendants who say that secondhand smoke in
aircraft cabins made them sick rested their case against
the tobacco industry yesterday after eight weeks of
testimony. ''This jury, I think like no other jury in the
history of tobacco litigation, has gotten the full story
of tobacco-industry behavior for the last half-century,''
said Stanley Rosenblatt, an attorney for the flight
attendants.
9 Sept 1997
- Judge scales down Texas
tobacco suit: (Reuters)
A federal judge has scaled down the Texas lawsuit against
the tobacco companies, dismissing several claims against
the cigarette makers. -
Sep 09 9:29 AM EDT
- Big Tobacco fights Texas in
$14 billion lawsuit: (Reuters)
The nation's tobacco companies said Monday they will
fight Texas' $14 billion state lawsuit in court and
warned they will cut no more deals paying individual
states for the treatment of sick smokers.
- Sep 08 7:55 PM EDT
- Attorneys in Texas tobacco
case ready: (UPI)
Attorneys in the $14 billion Texas lawsuit against the
major tobacco companies say no settlement is in the wings
and they are preparing to take the case to trial.
- Sep 08 7:18 PM EDT
- In Clinton Ritual, Key Advisers
Hold Clashing Views on Tobacco Deal (Washington Post)
Gore, by contrast, thinks there is little to be gained by
a compromise, particularly if it angers many liberals,
and there are political benefits to be reaped for both
him and Clinton by casting themselves as implacable foes
of tobacco. "Often the route there is more of a
serpentine route, but he gets there."
First found: 8 Sep 1997, 13:29 Universal Time
- Ormond couple light fire under
tobacco companies (Orlando Business Journal)
The case also names Jacksonville-based Winn-Dixie as a
co-defendant for selling the cigarettes to the Paxtons
without warning about the effects of cigarettes.
Grasseler also claims that Wamsley would punish her for
missing quotas and not punish male employees for missing
the same quotas.
First found: 8 Sep 1997, 13:29 Universal Time
- New head of local lung
association shuns his roots (Business Journal of Portland)
B.J. Hall, a former Portland executive and son of a
tobacco farmer, has been installed as new board president
for the American Lung Association of Oregon. Hall has
been on the association's board since 1992, but just
recently took over the helm for a two-year term as board
president.
First found: 8 Sep 1997, 13:29 Universal Time
- Swift action by US on tobacco
deal unlikely (Irish Times)
Proponents of the deal, like the leading negotiator for
Mississippi, its Attorney General Mr Mike Moore, expect
the President Clinton to embrace the proposal with few
additional caveats. And the political fate of the
settlement could still be affected by lawsuits pending
against cigarette makers.
First found: 8 Sep 1997, 13:29 Universal Time
- Tobacco deal may be in peril (Boston Globe)
Clinton returns from vacation this week to finalize his
decision, and Congress has made it clear that the deal is
unlikely to pass this year unless he quickly works to
support it.
First found: 7 Sep 1997, 19:39 Universal Time
- Tobacco chiefs in campaign
firing line (Sydney
Morning Herald)
The settlement came after the State of Mississippi
settled with the industry in July for $US3.6 billion ($5
billion). "We want the denials to stop now and we
require as a minimum the same public admissions that have
been made by parent companies in the USA," the
letter states.
First found: 7 Sep 1997, 19:39 Universal Time
- Tobacco Industry Papers Barred
in Miami Trial
(Reuters)
The judge in a $5 billion secondhand-smoke trial forbade
lawyers suing cigarette makers from using tobacco
industry documents handed over last spring by the
maverick Liggett Group cigarette company.
First found: 7 Sep 1997, 19:39 Universal Time
- Tobacco Keeps Fighting (Washington Post)
Most buy them in stores and get them from older brothers,
sisters and friends. Does the industry's agreement to pay
$368 billion indicate that it has turned over a new
tobacco leaf?
First found: 7 Sep 1997, 23:44 Universal Time
- CLINTON IS CLOSER TO BACKING THE
TOBACCO DEAL, IF... (Business Week)
A Presidential decision will be reached "within the
first couple of weeks" that Clinton is back in
Washington. But Lockhart noted that it is "a
complicated piece of business" that will take months
for Capitol Hill to review.
First found: 6 Sep 1997, 00:32 Universal Time
- Secondhand-smoke jury hears RJR
researcher's memo - He suggested in 1972 note promoting
cigarettes as a drug vehicle (AP/Winston-Salem Journal)
In the memo, first disclosed two years ago, Claude Teague
proposed a ''futuristic approach'' to marketing focusing
on cigarettes as ''attractive dosage forms of nicotine.''
5 Sept 1997
- 09/15/97 SMOKE 'EM IF YOU CAN
AFFORD 'EM (Business
Week)
TOBACCO COMPANIES ARE already starting to pad their war
chests in anticipation of possible approval of the $368.5
billion national tobacco settlement. It is also
calibrated to head off hoarding by wholesalers and ease
consumers into paying more, says Morgan Stanley Dean
Witter Discover tobacco analyst David Adelman.
First found: 5 Sep 1997, 13:30 Universal Time
- 09/15/97 YOU BET I MIND IF YOU
SMOKE (Business
Week)
The director of the Surgeon General's Office on Smoking
& Health calls the report ''the single best
comprehensive review of the adverse effects of
environmental tobacco smoke on humans.'' ''The evidence
is very strong and consistent that environmental tobacco
smoke has adverse effects on human health, particularly
for kids,'' says Michael P. Eriksen, director of the
Surgeon General's Office on...
First found: 5 Sep 1997, 13:30 Universal Time
- 09/15/97 ANOTHER HUMPHREY,
ANOTHER CRUSADE
(Business Week)
Skip, who campaigned for his father in 1968, lost friends
over the issue. Press for more information from Business
Week's Archive*.
First found: 5 Sep 1997, 13:30 Universal Time
- Senate Backs More Funds to Curb
Teen Smoking (9/4) (Your Health Daily)
ID checks are a common-sense approach in the effort to
snuff out youth smoking.'' Announced in June, it calls on
the tobacco industry to pay $368.5 billion to states to
compensate for Medicaid payments for victims of
tobacco-related illnesses and to put in place sweeping
public health regulations.
First found: 5 Sep 1997, 13:30 Universal Time
- Don't Rush to Ban Smoking in
State Bars and Taverns (Business Wire)
: "A sword is hanging over the head of California's
bar and tavern industry and, unless the state legislature
takes action, the sword is going to drop on New Year's
Day. At the very least, we're talking about a major
economic hit on establishments located near the borders.
First found: 5 Sep 1997, 13:30 Universal Time
- No Tobacco CEO Testimony in Fla.
Smoking Trial (Reuters)
The judge in a landmark secondhand smoke trialhas blocked
lawyers representing 60,000 sick flight attendants from
using testimony on the health dangers of smoking given by
tobacco industry leaders in another case against
cigarette makers.
First found: 4 Sep
1997, 19:31 Universal Time
- Farmers Face Fork in Tobacco Road (Christian Science Monitor)
The tobacco industry is globalizing; the big
manufacturers are setting up production overseas, from
farms to factories. Settlement or not, the American
farmers' 60-year-old tobacco program - a quota system
that limits growth of tobacco and keeps its price high
and stable - is being undermined by the rise in cheaper
foreign tobacco. But many farmers are counting on
American tobacco's reputation for high quality to
maintain a certain demand.
4 Sep 1997
- Tobacco firms' defense mirrors
'77 pledge (Miami
Herald)
Associated Press Pledges by a Brown & Williamson
executive in 1977 to research tobacco and his denials of
any disease link to cigarettes mirror the industry's
defense in a landmark secondhand-smoke trial two decades
later. ``I am utterly secure in saying to you that the
tobacco industry recognizes its responsibility and its
duty'' to research health issues.
First found: 4 Sep 1997, 19:31 Universal Time
- Tobacco sales to minors fall (Akron Beacon Journal)
The good news is, more tobacco retailers in Summit County
appear to be complying with the law than in past years.
In contrast to the survey's promising results, national
statistics show that smoking is gaining in popularity
among minors.
First found: 4 Sep 1997, 12:17 Universal Time
- Tobacco settlement faces a
difficult road in Congress (St. Petersburg Times)
Virtually no one in Congress is happy with the deal, and
many are skeptical about whether it can pass. Republicans
are skeptical about whether it can truly reduce teenage
smoking.
First found: 4 Sep 1997, 19:31 Universal Time
- SACRAMENTO -- Secondhand Smoke
Bill Sent to Wilson / Exposure to cigarettes could be
grounds for suit (San Francisco Chronicle)
Approved yesterday was a bill by Senator Byron Sher,
D-Stanford, that would allow people who are victims of
tobacco company fraud, misrepresentation or conspiracy to
sue as well as people exposed to secondhand smoke.
First found: 4 Sep 1997, 19:31 Universal Time
- Senate burns cig industry (Philadelphia Daily News)
WASHINGTON -- Reversing course by an unexpectedly large
margin, the Senate dealt the tobacco industry a blow
yesterday by approving the Clinton administration's $34
million request for a crackdown on cigarette sales to
teen-agers. Harkin also changed the source of the $34
million for the FDA from an assessment on tobacco
companies to a reduction in computer money for the
Agriculture Department.
First found: 4 Sep 1997, 12:17 Universal Time
- Senate Approves $34 Million to
Fight Teen Cigarette Sales (Washington Post)
In a dramatic reversal, the
Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved the Clinton
administration's full request for $34 million to crack
down on cigarette sales to teenagers.
First found: 4 Sep
1997, 19:31 Universal Time
- The Smoking Cow (Washington Post)
The Washington Post I realize that I may be the only one,
but I am very confused by the recent tobacco settlements
and the amounts of money the companies are willing to
shell out so they can stay in business. As long as there
are lawyers, there will be unhappy smokers, and as long
as there are unhappy lawyers, there will be smokers.
First found: 4 Sep 1997, 19:31 Universal Time
- Citizen First, Veteran Second (Washington Post)
I remember free cigarettes in "C" rations,
cut-rate tobacco products in the PX, smoking breaks
during training. Yet I decided to take up smoking in the
service anyway because I found comfort, solace, therapy
and relaxation therein.
First found: 4 Sep 1997, 19:31 Universal Time
- The Senate and Smoking Kids (ABC News)
The House has approved $24
million for the FDA youth anti-smoking
program. This is round two
in the effort to snuff out youth smoking, Harkin
said.
First found: 3 Sep 1997, 23:14 Universal Time
- Makers boost cigarette prices as
state claims take effect (Philadelphia Inquirer)
boosted wholesale cigarette prices by about 7 cents a
pack yesterday in what analysts saw as a down payment on
the smoking lawsuit settlements that would cost the
industry billions of dollars. Consumers could expect to
pay 10 more cents a pack, or about $2.15 for a pack of
Philip Morris' Marlboros or RJR's Camels, said Morgan
Stanley Dean Witter analyst David Adelman.
First found: 3 Sep 1997, 12:28 Universal Time
- Chuck Norris' Lone Wolf Cigars
Add Sizzle to the Flame (Business Wire)
I have my Kick Drugs Out of America program, and the
Bryan's House organization, working for children with HIV
and AIDS, is a wonderful cause," said Norris.
Bryan's House is a nationally acclaimed pediatric AIDS
program located in Dallas providing "Big Care for
Little Cases of Aids."
First found: 3 Sep 1997, 23:14 Universal Time
- SACRAMENTO -- State Assembly
Panel OKs Bill To Postpone Smoking Ban in Bars (San Francisco Chronicle)
``It's bad for California, bad for worker health and bad
for patron health,'' said Paul Knepprath, a lobbyist for
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First found: 3 Sep 1997, 18:17 Universal Time
- Smoking Tied to Gastric Cancer (Pathfinder)
The study findings also indicate the smoking-related
increased risk for this type of cancer may not decline
for as much as 30 years after a person quits smoking.
These cancer patients were compared with 695 people
without cancer matched to the patients' age and
demographics who served as a comparison ``control
group.''
First found: 3 Sep 1997, 23:14 Universal Time
- Nicotine may be listed as poison (Age, The)
But big international sporting events such as the
Australian Grand Prix will still be exempt from a ban on
tobacco advertising, according to the Government's
response to the Senate committee report into the tobacco
industry and the health effects of smoking. The Health
Minister, Dr Michael Wooldridge, yesterday warned that
many of the Government's proposed moves to curb smoking
would depend on...
First found: 3 Sep 1997, 23:14 Universal Time
- Minister tips tobacco
sponsorship to stay (Sydney Morning Herald)
By JODIE BROUGH in Canberra The Federal Government is
unlikely to phase out tobacco sponsorship of major
sporting events, such as the Australian Grand Prix,
despite a recommendation to end all sponsorship by 2000.
The Federal Minister for Health, Dr Wooldridge, said
yesterday it would be "a great pity for Australia to
lose a number of events that were of international
significance" by excluding...
First found: 3 Sep 1997, 03:06 Universal Time
- Scientists Study Seductive
Allure of Nicotine (9/2) (Your Health Daily)
There, it triggers specific receptors in the pleasure
center of the brain that unleash dopamine. A person is
addicted when a decline in the nicotine levels in the
blood results in reduced dopamine in the brain.
First found: 3 Sep 1997, 03:06 Universal Time
- Flight attendants' lawsuit
against tobacco to resume (Boston Globe)
So far, Circuit Court Judge Robert Kaye has allowed the
jury to see most of the documents that the flight
attendants have wanted to introduce. Tobacco lawyers have
objected to each exhibit that the flight attendants want
to introduce from industry files.
First found: 2 Sep 1997, 18:26 Universal Time
- Study links donations to
pro-tobacco decision (Philadelphia Inquirer)
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers who received contributions from
tobacco companies were three times more likely to have
voted to block spending to help states fight cigarette
sales to minors, says a new analysis by smoking foes. The
Food and Drug Administration has requested $34 million to
distribute to states to enforce new federal rules
intended to prevent tobacco sales to teenagers.
First found: 2 Sep 1997, 13:08 Universal Time
- Study shows influence of tobacco
contributions (Houston
Chronicle Interactive; free registration)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers who received contributions
from tobacco companies were three times more likely to
have voted to block spending to help states fight
cigarette sales to minors, says a new analysis by smoking
foes. The Food and Drug Administration has requested $34
million to distribute to states to enforce new federal
rules intended to prevent teen-age tobacco sales.
First found: 2 Sep 1997, 13:08 Universal Time
- Tobacco deal key to Chiles'
legacy (Miami
Herald)
With last week's historic $11.3 billion settlement with
tobacco companies, Chiles probably has secured his
legacy. $11.3 billion and more Chiles won not only an
$11.3 billion settlement, but also a requirement that
tobacco companies take down all cigarette billboards
across the state.
First found: 2 Sep 1997, 13:08 Universal Time
- State Reports Significant Drop
in Sales of Tobacco to Kids Third Year in a Row; Sales
From Self- Service Displays Still a Major Problem (Business Wire)
2, 1997--State Health Director Kim Belshe Tuesday
announced that illegal sales of tobacco products to
minors in California have decreased 25.9 percent since
last year. Overall, the percentage of stores with illegal
tobacco sales was 21.7 percent in 1997, down from 29.3
percent in 1996, 37 percent in 1995 and 52.1 percent in
1994.
First found: 2 Sep 1997, 18:26 Universal Time
- Children Who Breathe Second-Hand
Smoke At Home Have Lower Levels Of "Good"
Cholesterol, Study Finds (EurekAlert!)
2 -- Children already in danger of developing heart
disease because of high cholesterol blood levels face a
"triple jeopardy" if they live in smoke-filled
homes, according to a study appearing in today's American
Heart Association journal Circulation. Children in the
study were considered at high risk because of cholesterol
abnormalities -- either total cholesterol above 200 mg/dl
(considered...
First found: 2 Sep 1997, 05:15 Universal Time
- Will deal on tobacco be able to
help kids? (Miami
Herald)
That agreement would settle 38 other states' lawsuits now
pending. According to a study by the Stanford Center for
Research in Disease Prevention, seventh-graders were 21
percent more likely to experiment with smoking if they
saw magazine ads and 38 percent more likely if they saw
tobacco marketing in stores.
First found: 2 Sep 1997, 13:08 Universal Time
- Clinton Urged to Stand Firm on
Tobacco (ABC
News)
Clinton and Koop, a prominent
anti-tobacco advocate, met briefly at Alleys
General Store, where Clinton had stopped to buy coffee,
blueberry muffins and peaches.
Presidential aide Bruce Lindsey said the meeting had not
been planned.
First found: 1 Sep 1997, 23:13 Universal Time
- Tobacco deal a real drag on
billboards (South
Florida Business Journal)
"We've seen the writing on the wall for the last few
years," said Rosanne Marks, spokesperson for AK
Media Florida in Miami. "Outdoor advertising of
tobacco has been under fire for a while now, so we've
done a lot of work in diversifying our business to
prepare for this day."
First found: 1 Sep 1997, 13:51 Universal Time
- Lobbyists for, against tobacco
gear up for fall campaign (Houston Chronicle Interactive; free registration)
He has held an initial meeting with administration
officials to talk about it. Congress must approve the
package because it calls for changes in federal law.
First found: 1 Sep 1997, 13:51 Universal Time
- Billboard owners await tobacco
fallout (Jacksonville
Business Journal)
If tobacco companies have a contract with the outdoor
advertisers, the companies would have to make the
billboards available to the state to provide anti-smoking
messages, he said. Several calls he has put in lately to
Philip Morris representatives in New York have been
unanswered.
First found: 1 Sep 1997, 13:51 Universal Time
- Let tobacco pay for schools (South Florida Business Journal)
Lawton Chiles and his staff may think it absurd for
Republican legislators to call the $11.3 billion tobacco
settlement a "windfall" for the state, but
that's exactly what it is. Instead, we're going to spend
billions of dollars mounting an advertising campaign to
try to counteract the tobacco companies' advertising
campaign.
First found: 1 Sep 1997, 13:51 Universal Time
- Bible's stand a shift or a nuance? Philip Morris chief's fatality remarks
prompt divergent interpretations (Richmond
Times-Dispatch)
When Bible said smoking ''might have'' played a part in
the deaths of 100,000 Americans, ''The waters parted,''
Motley said. ''It was a revelation.'' . . . By saying
smoking ''might have'' been a cause of smoking-related
illness, ''It was the same as saying, 'Maybe yes, or
maybe not,' '' said Edward Sweda, senior attorney at the
Tobacco Products Liability Project in Boston.
August 31, 1997
- Push for total ban on tobacco in
sport (Age,
The)
Already the Government is signalling its intention to
toughen its anti-tobacco stance by encouraging state and
territory smoking bans in public places. That report will
recommend: tobacco only be sold in specialist shops, with
only one in each suburb; nicotine be registered as a
poison and that smoking should be banned in confined
public spaces.
First found: 31 Aug 1997, 00:26 Universal Time
- Tobacco-trial papers upset judge (AP)
A judge grew irritated yesterday with attempts by tobacco
attorneys to block jurors from seeing a compilation of
industry advertising and publications in the country's
first secondhand-smoke trial. ''Look, I'm not going to
play this game. I really am not,'' said Circuit Judge
Robert Kaye.
August 30, 1997
- Possible Genetic Link to Lung
Disease Reported* (8/29) (Your Health Daily)
esearchers believe they may have found a genetic key that
makes people more likely to develop two lung diseases,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema. This
means that people with COPD were four times more likely
and that those with emphysema were five times more likely
to have the slow-acting enzyme than those who did not
have lung disease, the researchers concluded.
First found: 30 Aug 1997, 13:36 Universal Time
- Passive Smoke May Cut `Good'
Cholesterol in Kids* (8/29) (Your Health Daily)
hildren with elevated cholesterol levels are known to be
at increased risk for heart disease, but that risk may be
even higher if there is a smoker in the home, Boston
researchers conclude. Another type of cholesterol, LDL,
is known as ``bad'' cholesterol because it increases the
risk of heart disease and stroke when elevated.
First found: 30 Aug 1997, 13:36 Universal Time
- Morton Downey Says He'll Sue
Howard Stern (E!
Online)
He'd think nothing of blowing smoke at guests, usually to
the cheers of his rowdy fans." Don't expect this to
turn into a battle of the big mouths, though.
First found: 30 Aug 1997, 03:53 Universal Time
- Kids Learn Smoking (ABC News)
"Smoking prevention programs
should begin as early as possible, and those aimed at
preadolescents should target family and peer influence as
well as attitudes that reinforce smoking behavior."
Forty percent said they smoked
with a family member, while 46 percent got their first
cigarette from a family member or at home.
First found: 30 Aug 1997, 00:34 Universal Time
- California Amends Tobacco
Lawsuit:
(Reuters)
California Attorney General Dan Lungren says he has
amended the state's lawsuit against tobacco companies to
allow California to seek punitive damages.
- Aug 30 2:13 PM EDT
- Georgia files $2.78 billion
tobacco lawsuit: (Reuters)
The state of Georgia filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking
billions of dollars in damages from seven tobacco
manufacturers and the industry's lobbying group, joining
dozens of states that have sued tobacco makers.
- Aug 29 7:01 PM EDT
- Ga. sues tobacco firms for $8.3
billion: (UPI)
Georgia has filed an $8.34 billion lawsuit against the
tobacco industry, asking for the reimbursement of money
spent on tobacco-related illnesses and injuries in the
state since 1968.
- Aug 29 6:02 PM EDT
- TABLE: Hurdles for the Tobacco
Pact (Business
Week)
FDA FREEDOM: Under the existing pact, the FDA has to jump
through a variety of legal hoops to regulate nicotine.
DOCUMENT DISCLOSURE: Deal critics seek complete
disclosure of all of the industry's internal memoranda.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 05:10 Universal Time
- FANNING THE FLAMES FOR A TOUGHER
TOBACCO DEAL (Business
Week)
And coming just seven weeks after a similar agreement in
Mississippi, it seemed to be a sign that the states--and
eventually Congress--were inclined to support the June
pact. It now seems as if it will be very difficult for
Congress to finish work on the deal by then.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 05:10 Universal Time
- WHAT MAY STUB OUT THE TOBACCO
SETTLEMENT (Business
Week)
Their objections threaten to invalidate key portions of
the settlement--and perhaps even the entire deal.
Minnesota is particularly peeved because the pact would
override the state's tougher laws on the licensing of
retailers of tobacco and on laws requiring the industry
to disclose documents.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 05:10 Universal Time
- Tobacco Negotiator Considered
for US Judgeship (Reuters)
Connecticut
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, one of the key
negotiators of the proposed $368.5 billion tobacco pact,
is being considered for a federal appeals judgeship, the
New York Law Journal reports.
First found: 29 Aug
1997, 19:44 Universal Time
- Downey leaves radio show,
promises to sue Stern over smoking claim (Akron Beacon Journal)
``He hasn't picked up a cigarette,'' Downey's publicist,
Les Schecter, said Thursday. ``I appreciate Cleveland,
but that's all I can say,'' Downey said.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 13:20 Universal Time
- Smoking will kill 10 million a
year by 2025 (Irish Times)
Tobacco smoking posed a growing menace to society and
would claim 10 million lives a year by 2025, an
international conference was told yesterday. Tobacco
shared only with AIDS the claim to being a major growing
cause of premature death, Ms Judith Mackay, of the Asian
Consultancy on Tobacco Control, said.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 13:20 Universal Time
- Changes expected in tobacco
settlement (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The White House is working on recommendations for
changes, which are expected to be announced soon after
Labor Day. Public-health advocates and the administration
are insisting that the FDA be given a strong and
immutable power to regulate tobacco.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 13:20 Universal Time
- Proposed tobacco deal makes
public skeptical - 8/29/97 (Detroit News, The)
And two-thirds expect tobacco companies to sell as many
cigarettes as ever. "It's exactly this kind of
public opposition to the deal that's going to force
Congress to make significant changes."
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 18:43 Universal Time
- Kids Who Smoke Follow Family
Example (Pathfinder)
Next in line, however, was ``because a family member
smokes'' (45.9%), and ``because friends do'' (19.5%). In
fact, they say that the negative 'social' aspects of
smoking (such as the habit's effects on appearance or
academic performance) were just as strongly linked to a
child's decision not to smoke as health implications such
as later cancer or heart disease.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 05:10 Universal Time
- Anti-Smoking Activists Blame
U.S. (ABC
News)
The conference also called for
an international treaty to regulate the cigarette trade
and for makers to pay for smoking-related health care and
environmental costs. Smoking is
blamed for 3.5 million deaths a year, and health experts
at the conference said without steps to control the
tobacco trade, that number could rise to 10 million by
2025.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 05:10 Universal Time
- Bill Allowing Tobacco Suits Goes
to Wilson / Smokers could be reimbursed for medical
costs, lost wages (San Francisco Chronicle)
``In the settlement is $4 billion for individuals, not
for big government, not for the states, not for attorney
generals but for individuals,'' said Senator Quentin
Kopp, independent-San Francisco. Twice, Assembly
Democrats shuttered themselves behind closed doors to
decide how to handle the issue.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 18:43 Universal Time
- Judge: Jury may see stolen
papers in tobacco case (Miami Herald)
The order by Circuit Judge Robert Kaye duplicates
decisions by other judges in California and Mississippi
on tobacco papers purportedly stolen by a paralegal from
a Louisville, Ky. The report was written by an employee
of Britain's BAT Industries, Brown & Williamson's
parent, and copied to Brown & Williamson's chairman.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 18:43 Universal Time
- Smoking out the big fees (Philadelphia Daily News)
The lead attorney for a ``dream team'' of a dozen firms
that fought the tobacco industry on behalf of the state
figures their attorneys' fees at more than $1 billion.
The state won't pay a penny of this -- and cigarette
makers aren't likely to pay much of it without another
fight.
First found: 29 Aug 1997, 13:20 Universal Time
- Smoke If You Got 'em (Washington Post)
Veterans aren't entitled to VA benefits because they have
unusual medical problems but because they have problems
caused by their military service. Veterans have a right
to claim a service connection for tobacco-related
problems because the U.S. military encouraged tobacco use
as no other segment of our society.
First found: 28 Aug 1997, 13:02 Universal Time
- Smoking Tied to Joint Decline in
Arthritis (Pathfinder)
``The study certainly suggests that cigarette smoking
accelerates the process of rheumatoid arthritis and based
on that, it's likely that not smoking or stopping smoking
would benefit individuals who have rheumatoid
arthritis,'' said senior investigator Dr. ``So my advice
to patients would be to stop smoking cigarettes to have a
beneficial effect on their rheumatoid arthritis.''
First found: 28 Aug 1997, 23:37 Universal Time
- Thank you for not dealing with
the devil (San
Francisco Examiner)
If you've ever been to Eastern Europe and tried to
breathe, you know there are plenty of addicts over there
to pay the cost of people killed in this country. As part
of their settlements, tobacco companies have agreed not
to advertise to children.
First found: 27 Aug 1997, 03:39 Universal Time
- Florida Settles Tobacco Suit - $11.3 Billion Included in
Industry Agreement (National Law Journal)
In the second and largest settlement to date between a
state government and the tobacco industry, cigarette
makers have agreed to pay the state of Florida $11.3
billion and to adopt a series of restrictions on
advertising and sales.
26 Aug 1997
- Congress Turns to Tobacco Cos (AP)
I think you have to look at it in a very wide
perspective,'' former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
said today on ABC's ``Good Morning America.'' ``Tobacco
gained a lot by not having to go through a court
procedure.''
Aug 25, 1997
- Texas, Minnesota seen next up in
tobacco negotiaions: (Reuters)
Texas and Minnesota are next up in court against Big
Tobacco, making them the most likely among the states
with anti-smoking lawsuits to strike multibillion dollar
deals, analysts said on Tuesday.
- Aug 26 3:09 PM EDT
- Georgia to Sue Tobacco Industry
Within Days:
(Reuters)
The state of Georgia, following on the heels of Florida's
$11.3 billion settlement with tobacco companies, has
decided to sue the cigarette industry, officials said
Tuesday.
- Aug 26 1:40 PM EDT
- Historic Florida Tobacco
Settlement Applauded By The American Cancer Society: (PRNewswire)
Governor Lawton Chiles and Attorney General Robert
Butterworth made history Monday, according to the
American Cancer Society, as they announced the settlement
of the Florida Medicaid Third Party Liability lawsuit
against the tobacco industry in the Palm Beach County
Courthouse.
- Aug 26 10:10 AM EDT
- PA Attorney General Mike Fisher
Praises Florida Tobacco Settlement: (PRNewswire)
Calling it ``another nail in the coffin of the tobacco
industry,'' Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher
today praised the settlement reached by the state of
Florida in its lawsuit against the nation's largest
tobacco companies.
- Aug 26 10:43 AM EDT
- Fla. Business Seeks Repeal of
Tobacco Law:
(Reuters)
Two leading Florida business groups are calling for the
repeal of the law under which the state filed its
Medicaid lawsuit against the U.S. tobacco industry.
- Aug 26 6:48 AM EDT
- U.S. activist says national
tobacco deal a gamble: (Reuters)
American anti-smoking campaigners would gamble away
potentially significant triumphs if they accepted a
proposed national settlement that would limit liability
claims over the effect of smoking, a U.S. health activist
said on Tuesday...Casting away
the chance of potential future victories against
cigarette companies was like a punter on an old-style
U.S. gambling boat putting all his money on one throw,
Daynard said.
- Aug 26 9:01 AM
EDT
- Pa. smokers' suit OKd as class
action (Philadelphia Inquirer)
``We're going to be able to establish a very important
fact -- judicially,'' Sklaroff added. ``We're going to be
able to establish the fact that people can be addicted to
nicotine.''
First found: 26 Aug 1997, 12:28 Universal Time
- Public-health groups attack
Winston's ads (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The American Cancer Society, American Heart Association
and American Lung Association said yesterday that they
have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate
whether the ads make an unsubstantiated health claim.
Carole Crosslin, a spokeswoman for R.J. Reynolds in
Winston-Salem, N.C., denied that the ads were making a
health claim, and said the positioning of Winston as a
``no-additive''...
First found: 26 Aug 1997, 12:28 Universal Time
- Where's there's smoke, there's
protest (Houston
Chronicle Interactive; free registration)
"We demand evidence to substantiate the claim that
these cigarettes are safer than other cigarettes,"
said John Garrison, chief executive of the American Lung
Association. The Lung Association said removing the
additives doesn't affect the nicotine that makes
cigarettes addictive or the tar that is largely
responsible for lung cancer.
First found: 26 Aug 1997, 12:28 Universal Time
- (California) Assembly OKs Bill to Allow
Tobacco Suits by Individuals (San Francisco Chronicle)
The Assembly passed a bill to
permit California smokers to sue tobacco companies
yesterday as tobacco industry lobbyists readied a measure
to allow smoking in bars to continue until 2001.
First found: 26 Aug
1997, 18:17 Universal Time
- Deal may be national setback (Boston Globe)
And that ignores the fact that more can be achieved
nationally than on a state-by-state basis.'' Not only
would the tougher national advertising rules supersede
those in the state agreement, but the state also stands
to win as much as $18 billion in payments, far more than
in the state settlement.
First found: 26 Aug 1997, 18:17 Universal Time
- Industry to pay state (Florida)
$11.3b, limit advertising (Boston Globe)
All tobacco billboards will be removed, starting with
signs within 1,000 feet of schools. In addition to the
cash settlement, the tobacco companies agreed to remove
all billboards within 1,000 feet of schools immediately,
and to eliminate all tobacco billboards in the state
within six months.
First found: 26 Aug 1997, 18:17 Universal Time
- Georgia to file tobacco suit (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
By Rhonda Cook, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Just
hours after Florida settled a lawsuit against the tobacco
industry for $11.3 billion, Georgia has decided to join
the growing list of states trying to recoup money spent
on medical care for indigent smokers. 15 to be earmarked
for an anti-tobacco advertising campaign, $1 billion
within a year and the balance within 25 years.
First found: 26 Aug 1997, 12:28 Universal Time
- Florida settles lawsuit against
tobacco industry (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
In Philadelphia, meanwhile, a federal judge Monday set a
trial date for another major lawsuit against the
industry. In Philadelphia, U.S. District Judge Clarence
Newcomer certified a pending smokers' lawsuit as a class
action Monday and set a trial date of Oct.
First found: 26 Aug 1997, 02:55 Universal Time
- Advertising Age - Features - RJR
expands test of low-smoke Eclipse (Advertising Age)
Retailers in the Lincoln test market said RJR told them
only about half the cigarette sellers there would be
getting Eclipse; one retailer said he was told about 100
stores would have the smoke. RJR has struggled with
issues over "lightability" of the cigarette,
which the company said has been improved since the
initial test began.
First found: 25 Aug 1997, 23:23 Universal Time
- Calif. lawmakers consider a ban
on smoking in bars (Philadelphia Inquirer)
California's ban on smoking in the workplace, enacted in
1994, remains one of the toughest, prohibiting smoking in
most indoor workplaces and allowing local governments to
enforce even stricter ordinances. She said that was the
experience of bar owners she knows in cities that tried
-- and later repealed -- smoking bans.
First found: 25 Aug 1997, 19:33 Universal Time
- Tobacco Ruling Could Curtail
Client Privilege - Court's easy standard for ordering
disclosure may become the U.S. rule (National Law
Journal)
Prof. Daynard says: "The fact that the Committee of
Counsel apparently had the authority to veto a proposal
for health research from one of the companies suggests
that their responsibility was not just to defend or to
assist a conspiracy, but to administer a
conspiracy."
August 25, 1997
- Smoking deaths predicted to
triple (Philadelphia Inquirer)
BEIJING -- Smoking-related deaths around the world will
more than triple in the next 25 years, and no other
country will feel the burden as much as China, according
to new data released yesterday at a U.N.-supported
conference on tobacco control. No other country in the
world has as many cigarette smokers as China -- and no
other country suffers as many smoking-related deaths.
First found: 25 Aug 1997, 19:33 Universal Time
- Florida, Big Tobacco Settle (ABC News)
Floridas war against the tobacco industry ended
today with a settlement of its multibillion-dollar
lawsuit aimed at punishing cigarette companies and
recovering Medicaid money spent on sick smokers.
Aug. 25. 1997
- Florida, tobacco industry reach
$11.3 billion settlement (CNN)
Unknown to the state's lawyers, negotiators for the
industry and state, including Chiles and Attorney General
Bob Butterworth, hammered out the final details late
Sunday, April Herrle, the governor's spokeswoman, told
The Palm Beach Post newspaper.
August 25, 1997
- Settlement puts Fla out of
national tobacco pact: (Reuters)
The settlement of Florida's Medicaid lawsuit against the
tobacco industry takes the state out of the national
settlement between state attorneys general and the
industry, a tobacco lawyer said Monday.
- Aug 25 9:00 AM EDT
- Fla. Settles Massive Lawsuit
With Big Tobacco: (Reuters)
The State of Florida said Monday it had settled its
multi-billion dollar lawsuit against the U.S. tobacco
industry for "the largest monetary concessions the
industry has ever paid."
- Aug 25 8:39 AM EDT
- Tobacco-Pact Revision Under
Discussion - WSJ: (Reuters)
U.S. and tobacco company negotiators are in talks to
revise a controversial portion of the proposed $368.5
billion tobacco settlement, the Wall Street Journal
reported Monday.
- Aug 25 7:02 AM EDT
- China split over smoking as
figures rise - 8/24/97 (Detroit News, The)
The habit accounts for 10 percent of government's
revenues, yet according to health officials, costs more
than that in smoking-related diseases and fires.
The Ministry of Health says smoking-related
diseases and fires cost $7.8 billion in 1993, compared
with tobacco revenues of $4.9 billion.
First found: 24 Aug 1997, 12:33 Universal Time
- `Canned testimony' makes smoking
trial a long haul (Miami Herald)
In what has turned into a trial by deposition, only one
live witness has appeared in the past two weeks in the
flight attendants' $5. ``I think the jury has gained a
lot of sophistication in the trial, and I think they
understand we do not have the power to subpoena these
people,'' he said.
First found: 24 Aug 1997, 17:21 Universal Time
- Moment of Truth (Washington Post)
Mr. Bible's deposition offers
just such a bonus: a momentary demonstration of how high
a level of mendacity the society has learned casually to
tolerate from the mouths of the big tobacco companies'
leaders and spokesmen.
First found: 24 Aug
1997, 12:33 Universal Time
- States opposed to tobacco tax
refunds (Australian
Financial Review)
WA, Tasmania and SA have snubbed the country's major
tobacco firms as the industry seeks a refund of a
forecast $500 million in over-paid tax. --> Western
Australia, Tasmania and South Australia have snubbed the
country's major tobacco firms as the industry seeks a
refund of a forecast $500 million in over-paid tax.
First found: 24 Aug 1997, 17:21 Universal Time
- No-Smoking Bars (ABC News)
Beverly Mathis-Swanson has no
doubt about what a ban would mean for
her. Moench says his smoking
customers just step outside if they want a cigarette.
First found: 24 Aug 1997, 12:33 Universal Time
- RJR chief supports warnings in
Third World countries - 8/23/97 (Detroit News, The)
"I have always believed that smoking
plays a part in causing lung cancer. Some
tobacco foes have praised the executives for making the
apparently damning statements.
First found: 23 Aug 1997, 13:16 Universal Time
- Smoking Triggers
Cancer-Promoting Protein (Pathfinder)
They found that smokers who used tobacco for more than 25
years were a lot more likely to show expression of a
protein called gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) receptor
on the cells lining their airways than those who had
smoked for a shorter time. About 15% of nonsmokers had
the protein on their lung cells, compared with 77% of
those who had smoked for 25 years or more, even if they
had stopped...
First found: 23 Aug 1997, 03:28 Universal Time
- RJR chief admits cancer link - Steven Goldstone links
smoking to lung cancer in deposition (CNNFN/Reuters)
Steven Goldstone, chairman of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp.
said in a deposition Friday that he believes smoking
contributes to lung cancer, according to a transcript.
August 22, 1997: 11:53 a.m. ET
- Industry leader: Smoking may
kill (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Bible made the statement toward the end of 90 minutes of
questioning by Ron Motley, an attorney for the state of
Florida, which is suing the tobacco industry, seeking
$12.3 billion to compensate for the public cost of
smoking-related illnesses. Florida was the first of 40
states suing the major tobacco companies to bring a case
to trial.
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 14:26 Universal Time
- Tobacco Chief Says Product
"May Have" Killed (ABC News)
Bible answered, I think
theres a fair chance that one would have, might
have. Public health officials
estimate 450,000 Americans die each year from illnesses
caused by smoking and secondhand smoke.
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 00:18 Universal Time
- Philip Morris CEO links death,
smoking (Miami
Herald)
Bible said if he were convinced cigarettes were a cause
of lung cancer, he would halt production. ``I honestly
think that it's about as significant as someone saying
the sun might have come up in the morning,'' he said.
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 17:46 Universal Time
- Man sues to stop wife's smoking (Chicago Sun Times)
Richard J. Thomas, 69, said in a lawsuit that Sally, his
wife of 43 years, is slowly killing him and herself with
her cigarettes and that she needs to be stopped. However,
a representative of the EPA's Chicago regional office
said environmental tobacco smoke is not regulated by the
Clean Air Act.
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 17:46 Universal Time
- Clinton To Tobacco: Pay $50
Billion (ABC
News)
In balanced budget legislation
signed by Clinton earlier this month, Republicans
included a $50 billion credit to reduce the cost of the
tentative $368.5 billion deal to settle liability
claims. Its our
position that this provision in the budget legislation
should not be allowed to actually reduce the cost to the
industry of the...
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 00:18 Universal Time
- Small Reduction In Adult Smoking
Population Yields Big Health And Economic Payoffs, New
Study Finds (EurekAlert!)
The University of California researchers conclude that
these figures justify significant investment in programs
designed to reduce adult smoking. The lesson from
California is that monetary savings from preventing heart
attacks and strokes alone "would basically pay for
the program," says Glantz.
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 04:40 Universal Time
- Cigar Villa and Cigar Vault
stoke competition for aficionado's dollar (Sun Herald)
Friedman said the owners, who also have shops in Atlanta,
chose the location because of the large number of people
who work and shop in the area and the ease of parking. In
May, the Cigar Vault opened in the lobby of the Hancock
Bank building in downtown Gulfport.
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 14:26 Universal Time
- Ex-smokers still at risk, study
says (Philadelphia Daily News)
Smoking the equivalent of a pack of cigarettes every day
for 25 years appears to encourage both healthy and
mutated lung cells to multiply, increasing the odds of
developing cancer, according to a study released
yesterday by the University of Pittsburgh. ``The more
cell growth you have, the greater the chance that one of
those mutated cells will be the one that grows,''
Siegfried said.
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 14:26 Universal Time
- Longtime ex-smokers a high risk
for cancer: Once 'switch turned on,' it permanently
triggers multiplication of both healthy, mutated cells. -
8/22/97 (Detroit
News, The)
Heavy smokers were defined as those who had
more than 25 "pack-years." People who smoked
two packs a day for 121/2 years were classified the same
as those who smoked one pack a day for 25 years.
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 17:46 Universal Time
- ASH: World Antismoking Leaders
to Debate Proposed Tobacco Deal; World Conference Likely
to Tell President Clinton to Reject It (PR Newswire)
This special session was added at the last minute at the
request of Professor John Banzhaf, Executive Director of
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). ASH has been one of
the most outspoken U.S. organizations protesting the lack
of any international controls or protection in the
proposed settlement deal.
First found: 22 Aug 1997, 17:46 Universal Time
- Gingrich Defends Tobacco Tax
Break (Washington
Post)
State attorneys general have
threatened to withdraw support for the deal unless the
credit is blocked. Tobacco companies said any increase in
the settlement's costs could kill the deal. Gingrich said
the tax credit is only part of the final deal with the
tobacco companies.
First found: 22 Aug
1997, 14:26 Universal Time
- Cigarette Ingredient Disclosure
Upheld (Washington
Post)
A federal appeals court panel
in Massachusetts has upheld a controversial state law
that requires tobacco companies to publicly reveal the
ingredients and nicotine levels of their cigarettes.
First found: 21 Aug
1997, 12:27 Universal Time
- Movie Smoking Burns Up Health
Agency (8/20) (Your Health Daily)
The county's Department of Health is exploring ways to
place anti-smoking ads in movie theaters and has been
cleared by the Board of Supervisors to spend up to $2
million on the effort by mid-1998. ``People don't want to
be preached at; they want to be entertained,'' he said.
First found: 21 Aug 1997, 04:12 Universal Time
- Workers' Health Care Funds Ask
Federal Judge to Disapprove Proposed Nullification of
Class Action Suits by Tobacco Settlement (PR Newswire)
The two original plaintiffs are: The Northwest
Laborers'-Employers' Health & Security Trust Fund;
The Carpenters' Health and Security Trust of Western
Washington. SOURCE The Northwest Laborers'-Employers'
Health & Security Trust Fund; The Carpenters' Health
and Security Trust of Western Washington CONTACT: David
A. Jewell, 202-466-6790, for The Northwest.
First found: 20 Aug 1997, 12:04 Universal Time
- Tobacco Foe Under Attack / UCSF
scientist says the battle has gotten personal (San Francisco Chronicle)
He never minded the nasty remarks the tobacco people made
about him. ``We might be looking at the tip of the
iceberg here.
First found: 20 Aug 1997, 19:13 Universal Time
- Tobacco industry gives ultimatum
(Philadelphia Inquirer)
The critics have been pressing to increase the cost of
the settlement and to require more of it to come out of
tobacco profits. The upswing in both the tenor and
sharpness of the comments comes as the White House nears
completion of its review of the settlement.
First found: 20 Aug 1997, 12:04 Universal Time
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Could Have
Big Payoff (8/19) (Your Health Daily)
ALLAS -- Reducing the smoking rate in the U.S. by just 1
percent a year over a period of seven years could prevent
tens of thousands of hospitalizations and save billions
of dollars, researchers said Monday. Researchers from the
University of California created statistical models and
analyzed California's anti-tobacco education campaign and
its resulting drop in smoking rates of about 1 percent...
First found: 20 Aug 1997, 03:31 Universal Time
- States Draft Plan to Share Tobacco
Settlement (Reuters)
Representatives of 15 states and Puerto Rico say they
have drafted a recommendation on how to divide the
proposed $368 billion tobacco settlement.
- Aug 19 6:51 AM
EDT
- Tobacco Firm Shielded Papers On
Research, Memo Indicates (Washington Post)
appears to have had a detailed procedure for passing
sensitive research documents through attorneys to protect
the cigarette maker against lawsuits, according to a 1985
company memo. "It was really just a conscious effort
to limit what could be said or had to be said in
discovery.
First found: 19 Aug 1997, 12:18 Universal Time
- Lawyers start screening jurors
in tobacco case
(Miami Herald)
But several paused when state attorneys suggested $11
billion in punitive damages would be necessary for
meaningful punishment. It is those types of attitudes and
comments the attorneys are trying to elicit from the
prospective jurors to determine if they could be fair and
impartial in deciding the case.
First found: 19 Aug 1997, 12:18 Universal Time
- Small Drop in Smokers Would Save
Billions (Pathfinder)
``The main point is that you get this little change and
you get a lot of money and a lot of lives saved,'' said
study author Dr. The risk of heart disease drops
immediately after quitting smoking and is about half way
back to a nonsmoker's risk after a year.
First found: 19 Aug 1997, 04:40 Universal Time
- Cigarette-smuggling inquiry
poses a problem for RJR - Company could be fined if
representative is tied to ring (Winston-Salem
Journal)
At issue is a federal grand-jury investigation into
accusations that the company knew about an operation that
smuggled $687 million worth of cigarettes and liquor into
Canada between 1992 and 1996, according to authorities.
August 19, 1997
- Warning: Tobacco settlement is
dangerous to your liberty (Wichita Business Journal)
Part of the monetary settlement is to fund kids' health
insurance, anti-smoking campaigns, even programs to help
kick the habit. Furthermore, authoritative studies have
concluded that excise taxes on cigarettes already exceed
public costs attributable to smoking.
First found: 18 Aug 1997, 19:22 Universal Time
- Congress may bail out tobacco
farmers-
Those hurt by settlement seek buyout, aid or training (AP/Winston-Salem
Journal)
Two new plans circulating in Washington call for buying
out farmers who can't make it and compensating others who
lose money -- at a cost of $7 billion to $17 billion. The
more expensive option would help whole regions retrain
and regroup if tobacco could no longer pay the bills.
August 18, 1997
- Movement on tobacco settlement
depends on approval by Clinton (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
The Clinton administration allowed pro-tobacco lawmakers
to slip the provision into the budget deal to get a
budget compromise. But the White House also has said it
may try to yank the provision after Congress returns from
its summer recess Sept. 2.
August 18, 1997
- Pressure on Clinton in Tobacco
Deal (ABC
News)
If the 15-cent tax increase was
added to the companies 62-cent price increase,
smoking would drop more sharply, especially among the
young, the Post said. Clinton
already has said the FDA must have more authority over
nicotine, and is contemplating other changes.
First found: 18 Aug 1997, 12:28 Universal Time
- The Federal Smoking Ban (Washington Post)
The president trimmed back a decision to ban outdoor
smoking within 50 feet of building doorways and left this
decision to individual agency heads.
First found: 18 Aug 1997, 12:28 Universal Time
- Duel in a Country Courthouse,
With Tobacco Regulation at Stake (Washington Post)
With skeptical questioning, they hammered away at the
FDA's sudden decision to regulate tobacco after generally
opting not to for more than 50 years. (Michael, a trial
judge, was a last-minute replacement for an ailing
appellate judge.
First found: 18 Aug 1997, 12:28 Universal Time
- Nonstop international flights
likely to be nonsmoking now (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Other major airlines offering completely smoke-free
international service are US Airways, Continental
Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Trans World Airlines, Alaska
Airlines and America West. The exceptions among U.S.
carriers are service on Continental Micronesia between
Honolulu and Tokyo, flights to and from Japan operated by
Northwest Airlines, and all international service
operated by Tower Air.
First found: 17 Aug 1997, 12:49 Universal Time
- Tobacco pact expected to cut
smokers' ranks - 8/17/97 (Detroit News, The/Washington Post)
To pay the cost of the settlement,
cigarette makers would have to raise prices by about 62
cents per pack, the report estimates. The
sharpest impact would be on minors, who have the least
money available for discretionary purchases.
First found: 17 Aug 1997, 12:49 Universal Time
- How a $50 Billion `Orphan' Was
Adopted (Washington
Post)
Whoever drafted it, congressional staffers and
administration officials said, Lott and Gingrich attached
it to the tax cut bill, because at that point in the
negotiating sessions they were the only ones in the room
with the Clinton team's representatives. So they
hurriedly wrote it into the companion tax cut bill,
congressional staffers said.
First found: 17 Aug 1997, 12:49 Universal Time
- Audit raises concerns about
tobacco deal-
Industry could see profit from settlement (AP/Winston-Salem
Journal)
An internal Treasury Department audit says that cigarette
makers could profit handsomely from a proposed tobacco
deal, a finding that puts additional pressure on
President Clinton to increase the cost of the settlement.
August 17, 1997
- RJR, black market linked- Papers show company knew about
Canadian cigarette-smuggling ring (AP/Winston-Salem
Journal)
As the leaders of a massive cigarette-smuggling ring
discussed their booming business at a Canadian fishing
lodge two years ago, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. had a
representative in the meeting, according to federal court
records unsealed last week in Syracuse.
August 17, 1997
Companies may face stiffer fines
if youth smoking doesn't drop - Industry says decision by
White House to raise penalties may imperil settlement (NY
Times/Winston-Salem Journal)
Despite fierce industry opposition, the Clinton
administration will demand that cigarette companies pay
stiffer fines than the tobacco settlement proposes if
smoking by teen-agers does not drop, a top White House
official said yesterday.
August 16, 1997
Big Tobacco can use a key
defense strategy, judge says - Industry says there was
information showing that customers knew the risks
(AP/Winston-Salem Journal)
Attorneys for cigarette-makers will be allowed to offer
evidence that the industry did not try to deceive the
public because it ''believed that the public was fully
aware of the risks of smoking because the information out
in the general circulation . . . informed them to the
risk,'' Judge Harold Cohen of Circuit Court ruled
yesterday.
August 16, 1997
- Fatal S.F. highrise fire blamed
on cigarettes (San Francisco Examiner)
Preliminary results indicate that cigarettes were the
cause of the blaze that claimed the life of a resident of
a South of Market apartment complex, fire officials said.
The fire destroyed the apartment on the Fourth Street
side of the 135-unit building, which is run by the San
Francisco Housing Authority.
First found: 16 Aug 1997, 13:34 Universal Time
- Ex-tobacco research chief draws
a blank (AP/Winston-Salem
Journal)
A longtime president of the Council for Tobacco Research
was stumped by a request yesterday to name any studies
done by the industry-funded group on smoking and disease
even though such studies were its publicly stated
mission.
Friday, August 15, 1997
- Tobacco companies are primed to
fight changes in settlement (Bloomburg/Winston-Salem Journal)
The tobacco industry is digging in against changes to a
historic $368.5 billion settlement and disputing a report
by White House economists that the industry can afford to
pay more. Economists from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., a
unit of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., met yesterday with
White House economists.
First found: 15 Aug 1997
- Second Fatal S.F. Blaze in 4
Days / Firefighters say victim was smoking (San Francisco Chronicle)
Officials did not identify the Clementina Street victim
because relatives had not been notified. Bosch said it
appeared that the fire awakened the man and he tried to
get through a balcony door but did not make it.
First found: 15 Aug 1997, 14:27 Universal Time
- Judge: Derisive terms must go (Miami Herald)
Judge Harold Cohen settled a name-calling battle Thursday
by ruling attorneys could not refer to the tobacco
industry or any of its members with terms or names from
the Holocaust. ``There's at least one document where
(tobacco officials) liken themselves to mafia,''
explained W.C. Gentry, an attorney for Florida.
First found: 15 Aug 1997, 19:17 Universal Time
- Cig-firm pondered root beer,
fruit juice flavors (Philadelphia Daily News)
-- A newly released tobacco company memo that was
apparently written in the 1980s proposes the creation of
cigarettes that taste like root beer or fruit juice., an
affiliate of Brown and Williamson, proposes the creation
of a brand that ```breaks the rules' to appeal to a new
generation and shock their parents'' while making
``conventional brands look bland and weary.''
First found: 15 Aug 1997, 14:27 Universal Time
- Memo proposes cigarette for kids (Miami Herald)
``It supports and complements what we'd already known,''
lead attorney Bob Montgomery said Thursday. To that end,
the memo discusses a cigarette with a bad taste,
distinctive packaging and enhanced nicotine.
First found: 15 Aug 1997, 19:17 Universal Time
- Tobacco lawyers had key roles in
research (Miami
Herald)
``It is my lay opinion that causation is still up in the
air,'' Gertenbach said. The testimony reinforces
arguments by the attendants that the council offered a
psychological balm to the public but really was a fraud.
First found: 15 Aug 1997, 19:17 Universal Time
- Sara Lee pulls tobacco ads (Chicago Sun Times)
As of July 1, Chicago-based Sara Lee cut $150,000 in
advertising funding for Drum in Eugene and Portland, Ore.
The decision also came after the New York-based
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility urged the
company to end its involvement in producing and promoting
tobacco products, the New York Times reported.
First found: 14 Aug 1997, 18:35 Universal Time
- Former Chadbourne Partner Ruled
Subject to Deposition (New York Law Journal)
CHADBOURNE & Parke has lost an attempt to avoid the
deposition of a former partner in a suit by the state of
Oklahoma against various tobacco companies, an industry
public relations firm and several law firms, including
Chadbourne. The suit seeks to recoup the costs of medical
services provided Oklahoma citizens who smoked.
Published August 5, 1997
- Bliley predicts no quick finish
to tobacco war
- Clinton endorsement called next step (Richmond
Times-Dispatch)
''I don't expect quick action'' in Congress, Bliley told
about 50 people at a forum at Providence Middle School in
Chesterfield County. Asked whether he expects
''reasonable tobacco legislation,'' Bliley laughed and
said that's up to President Clinton.
Aug 14 1997
- RJR head: Nicotine memo
'bizarre' -
Reynolds researcher advocated marketing the stimulant in
1972 (Winston-Salem Journal/AP)
A top executive testifying in an industry trial yesterday
dismissed as ''bizarre'' an R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. report in
1972 suggesting
that the company play up cigarettes as a nicotine vehicle
that delivers satisfaction.
Aug 14 1997
- Panel OKs deal on tobacco sales
to minors (Winston-Salem
Journal/AP)
Legislators say they have reached a compromise that
preserves criminal punishment against store clerks who
sell cigarettes to underage buyers and adds charges
against the young buyers.
Aug 14 1997
- Careless smoker blamed in
residential hotel fire; emergency shelter fills up (San Francisco Examiner)
She left about 100 of her paintings behind, but had her
pets with her: a pigeon and a lizard, she said. "I
said, this is the Lord speaking to me and I got to listen
to this lady," she said.
First found: 14 Aug 1997, 01:13 Universal Time
- Garagiola goes to bat against
smokeless tobacco (Nando Times)
It was supposed to take 2, 2 1-2 hours. "But what
really got to him, other than the fear of what was going
on in his mouth, was when a kid 12 or 13 handed him a
pack of chew to sign.
First found: 14 Aug 1997, 01:13 Universal Time
- Tobacco Negotiators Try to
Bolster Deal (Washington
Post)
Moore has been working chiefly
with his longtime partner in the tobacco effort,
Mississippi attorney Richard Scruggs. The two appear to
have been negotiating without the cooperation -- or,
perhaps, even the knowledge -- of colleagues with whom
they had worked on the tobacco deal
First found: 14 Aug
1997, 12:10 Universal Time
- Tobacco firms' donations rose
sharply (Philadelphia Inquirer)
The industry gave nearly five times the amount it did in
the same period after the 1992 elections. WASHINGTON --
The nation's beleaguered tobacco companies gave $2
million to political parties in the first half of this
year -- nearly five times what they gave in the same,
normally slack period of 1993 after the previous
presidential election.
First found: 14 Aug 1997, 01:13 Universal Time
- Panel hears proposal for tobacco
regulation (Houston
Chronicle Interactive; free registration)
The proposal, which would limit cigarette advertising,
could make the legal arguments over FDA regulation moot.
But if Congress fails to pass legislation stemming from
the settlement, tobacco's future would remain with the
federal court.
First found: 13 Aug 1997, 03:16 Universal Time
- Tobacco Donations Rise (ABC News)
It is no coincidence that
tobacco companies are among the largest givers of
partisan contributions, said Matt Myers, executive
vice president of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.
Philip Morris had no comment on
the donations, said spokeswoman Darienne Dennis.
First found: 13 Aug 1997, 03:16 Universal Time
- New Demographics Crush Out
NASCAR's Need for Tobacco (iRACE)
But, he adds, When a decision is made, there will be some
lead time. Theres plenty of time to look for new sponsors
once a formal decision is made.
First found: 13 Aug 1997, 03:16 Universal Time
- Smokers May Have Mental Health
Problems (Pathfinder)
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Hard core smokers may be using
nicotine to help manage psychiatric problems such as
depression, anxiety, attention deficit-hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD), and bulimia or binge-eating, says a
researcher at the University of Michigan. Pomerleau
concludes that health professionals helping smokers with
co-factors quit smoking may have to treat the depression,
anxiety, ADHD, or...
First found: 13 Aug 1997, 03:16 Universal Time
- Three-Judge Panel Appears
Skeptical of FDA Attempts to Regulate Youth Smoking (Washington Post)
Three-Judge Panel Appears Skeptical of FDA Attempts to
Regulate Youth Smoking. Although legal experts caution
against predicting the outcome of an appeal from the
tenor of judges' questions, a majority of the panel
appeared dubious of the regulations, which are being
challenged by the tobacco industry.
First found: 12 Aug 1997, 12:26 Universal Time
- cancer survivor takes stand (Miami Herald)
Attacked by lung cancer though she never took a single
puff of a cigarette, Broin told an alert, note-taking
jury that she worked for 14 years in an environment of
``very, very, very, very dense'' cigarette smoke. ``This
is an historic case, and it's the Broin case,'' he told
Judge Kaye.
First found: 12 Aug 1997, 17:32 Universal Time
- Flight attendant finally
testifies (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Broin's long-awaited testimony as the lead plaintiff in
the landmark $5 billion lawsuit -- the first class-action
and first secondhand-smoke suit against the tobacco
industry to go to trial -- was punctuated by heated
arguments over what she would be allowed to tell the
jury. Her testimony was restricted in part because of the
manner in which Dade County Judge Robert Kaye structured
the trial.
First found: 12 Aug 1997, 12:26 Universal Time
- With the lawyers comes the smoke (Houston Chronicle Interactive; free registration)
Q: Could you please explain the recent historical tobacco
settlement? What will be done to correct this under the
historical tobacco settlement?
First found: 12 Aug 1997, 12:26 Universal Time
- Clinton bans smoking in federal
buildings, stops short of doorways (Houston Chronicle Interactive; free registration)
"Cigarette smoking is the (single most) significant
public health problem facing our people today. His order
does not affect offices outside the executive branch --
federal court buildings and congressional offices.
First found: 12 Aug 1997, 12:26 Universal Time
- A look under the tobacco
industry's new leaf (Philadelphia Daily News)
Basically, the tobacco industry has admitted that it is
killing people by the millions, and has agreed that from
now on it will do this under the strict supervision of
the government. To compensate for the immense suffering
caused by its products, the tobacco industry will pay
huge sums of money to the group most directly affected,
lawyers.
First found: 11 Aug 1997, 12:03 Universal Time
- The $50 Billion Fiddle (Washington Post)
It reminds those boggled by the apparent generosity of
the dollar figure and the sheer scale of the proposed
agreement that a great deal can disappear in the fine
print. That includes precisely those things that
supporters of the deal see as an improvement over the
status quo for the tobacco industry, should no deal pass.
First found: 10 Aug 1997, 14:27 Universal Time
- Smoke Signals (Washington Post)
The government would probably have to set up an emergency
task force to figure out ways to get people smoking again
in order to finance the historic tobacco settlement. A.
At the request of the White House, they will be
reassigned to the Whitewater investigation.
First found: 10 Aug 1997, 14:27 Universal Time
- Clinton bans smoking in federal
buildings (Philadelphia Inquirer)
WASHINGTON -- President Clinton deepened his assault on
cigarettes yesterday by outlawing smoking in federal
buildings, but he backed off plans to banish smokers from
government-owned doorways and courtyards. The ban,
Clinton said, will reach not only federal agencies and
office buildings but also visitors' centers at national
parks and other facilities owned or leased by the
executive branch.
First found: 10 Aug 1997, 14:27 Universal Time
- Weld fight threatens tobacco
settlement (San Francisco Examiner)
Helms chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
which must approve Weld's nomination, and Lugar is the
committee's No.2 ranking GOP member. Lugar noted
pointedly that the proposed tobacco settlement, which
Congress must approve, "is a big issue for
Helms."
First found: 9 Aug 1997, 12:10 Universal Time
- Stores Still Post Tobacco Ads,
But Fewer Targeting Children (San Francisco Chronicle)
Carol Emert, Chronicle Staff Writer Tobacco advertising
continues unabated in California stores, although
retailers have removed many signs targeting children, a
new study shows. And only half as many of those stores --
31 percent in the latest study --were hung with signs at
a child's eye level.
First found: 8 Aug 1997, 17:20 Universal Time
- Judge in secondhand-smoke trial
bars testimony about letter (Winston-Salem Journal/AP)
A former surgeon general who labeled smoking the top
health threat 25 years ago was barred yesterday from
testifying that his ouster was sought by a tobacco
executive.
August 8, 1997
- Tobacco bills could be hostages (Richmond Times Dispatch)
Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Agriculture
Committee, vowed yesterday to stop cooperating with Sen.
Jesse Helms on tobacco matters until he loosens his
stranglehold on international affairs and schedules
hearings on a controversial nomination.
Aug 8, 1997
- Smoking area built at agency (Richmond Times Dispatch)
The department is spending $7,000 for an indoor smoking
room, complete with a separate air filtration system to
suck the smoke out of the building.
Aug 8, 1997
- Proposed ban on smoking in
restaurants lights up debate (Houston Chronicle Interactive; free registration)
Copyright 1997 Houston Chronicle Where there's smoke,
there's fire as City Council found out Tuesday when
factions on both sides of a proposed anti-smoking measure
voiced their feelings at City Hall. Forehand and others
appeared before council to protest a series of proposed
amendments to Houston's anti-smoking ordinance that would
ban all smoking in restaurants.
First found: 8 Aug 1997, 11:54 Universal Time
- Tobacco Firms Shielded Data On
Hazards (Washington
Post)
National Section: news, background and Web resources on
the topics of national interest. The state had called for
the release of the documents as a condition of settling
its suit against the industry separately.
First found: 7 Aug 1997, 11:54 Universal Time
- Nicotine Availability in Tobacco
Smoke Enhanced by Ammonia (Environmental Science and Technology)
The amount of nicotine available to a smoker from a
tobacco source can be adjusted by varying the levels of
ammonia in the smoke, according to James F. Pankow of the
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in
Portland. Pankow's research appears in the August issue
of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science &
Technology, a publication of the American Chemical
Society.
First found: 7 Aug 1997, 02:13 Universal Time
- Cig makers on defensive 30
years, papers show (Philadelphia Daily News)
The eight documents from the Liggett Group, the maker of
Lark and L&M cigarettes, include attorney memorandums
on how to defend the industry against charges of
misconduct, and show how cigarette makers plotted to
manipulate data and shape public opinion. ``These lawyers
have engaged in a conspiracy to defraud the public, to
keep this information private and to help them continue
this co...
First found: 7 Aug 1997, 11:54 Universal Time
- Lawyers blocked tests of
cigarettes (Philadelphia Inquirer)
WASHINGTON -- Tobacco industry lawyers shot down a
proposal by company scientists to test cigarette
ingredients for their safety, according to newly released
tobacco documents. Lorillard makes Newport and Kent
cigarettes, and RJRT refers to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco,
which makes Camel, Winston and Salem cigarettes.
First found: 7 Aug 1997, 11:54 Universal Time
- Canada's provincial leaders eye tobacco
lawsuits (Reuters)
Canadian provincial premiers debated on Thursday whether
they should follow the lead of 40 U.S. states and seek
damages from the tobacco industry in court.
August 7, 1997
- Lester Pullen, 68, Global Leader in
Tobacco Marketing Dies in the Bahamas: (Business Wire)
The retired chairman and CEO of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
International Inc., died suddenly on July 30th, in Lyford
Cay in the Bahamas.
- Aug 06 2:02 PM
EDT
- Tobacco companies say Liggett papers hold
no secrets: (Reuters)
With little fanfare, tobacco companies Wednesday released
copies of eight industry documents that Florida lawyers
say will support allegations that the industry conspired
to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking.
- Aug 06 1:03 PM
EDT
- Smoking Gun (Washington Post)
The general counsel of the
Department of Veterans Affairs has concluded that, under
existing law, veterans who smoked in service, then
contracted smoking-related diseases, could be eligible
for both health care and disability benefits.
First found: 6 Aug
1997, 14:17 Universal Time
- Smoking Increases Sudden Infant
Death Risk (Pathfinder)
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Smoking intervention programs could
lead to a drop in the number of deaths due to sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS), say an international team
of researchers. Researchers think there are many factors
that might cause SIDS, including how much smoke a fetus
or infant is exposed to.
First found: 6 Aug 1997, 16:55 Universal Time
- World Conference on Tobacco or
Health, Beijing, August 24-28 (PR Newswire)
World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Beijing, August
24-28 - New smoking figures to be revealed - Landmark
meeting will discuss global control strategies BEIJING,
China, Aug. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly 1,500 of the world's
experts on smoking and tobacco control will meet in
Beijing from August 24-28 for the 10th World Conference
on Tobacco or Health.
First found: 6 Aug 1997, 16:55 Universal Time
- Congress Is Sanctuary For
Smokers (Washington
Post)
The House and Senate, which dictate their own smoking
policies, would remain exempt from the executive order.
First found: 6 Aug 1997, 14:17 Universal Time
- Smoking ban outside U.S.
buildings? (Philadelphia Daily News)
It's a stultifying development for some of the
liberty-loving people at the Voice of America, where
memories are fresh of repressive homelands and the way
officials there tried to control behavior. She usually
skips lunch so she can take more smoke breaks through the
day.
First found: 6 Aug 1997, 14:17 Universal Time
- Some Smokers at Greater Risk
than Others (Pathfinder)
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Smokers whose can't achieve a
target heart rate during exercise are at greater risk of
heart disease and death than other smokers, a new study
suggests. The study participants were part of the ongoing
Framingham Heart Study, a study of heart disease risk
factors in residents of Framingham, Massachusetts.
First found: 5 Aug 1997, 22:46 Universal Time
Gephardt Calls on President to
Use Line-Item Veto; Cites Provision Offering Tax Relief
To tobacco Companies (PR Newswire)
5, 1997, to President Clinton: I write to express my
dismay over a particular provision in legislation that
you will sign today as part of the budget and tax
agreement. SOURCE Office of the House Democratic Leader
CONTACT: Laura Nichols or Erik Smith of the Office of the
House.
First found: 5 Aug 1997, 22:46 Universal Time
- Teens believe smoking helps keep off
weight - 8/5/97
(Detroit News, The)
Robert Klesges of the Universities
Prevention Center in Memphis, Tenn. They
surveyed 6,900 Memphis public school students with a mean
age of 13.
First found: 5 Aug 1997, 12:03 Universal Time
- Flying the Smoky Skies (ABC News)
Tobacco-smoke contamination in airliners was
so troublesome that aircraft engineers gave up trying to
eliminate it and ultimately recommended inflight smoking
be banned, an engineer testified Monday. Halfpenny said that when inspecting planes,
he found sticky residue that he attributed to smoking.
The tar all but disappeared on
airplanes after a ban on inflight smoking, he said.
First found: 5 Aug 1997, 12:03 Universal Time
- Smoking changes too costly (Irish Times)
However, the changes would have required the jets to
consume hundreds of thousands of gallons more fuel each
year. This would have cost $663 million annually for the
US fleet of 737s and more than $1.3 billion for 747s used
by American airlines, Halfpenny said.
First found: 5 Aug 1997, 12:03 Universal Time
- Federal Ban On Smoking To Widen (Washington Post)
Officials said yesterday it will be made the focus of the
president's weekly radio address Saturday. "Such an
executive order guarantees an individual's fundamental
right to work in an environment free of unhealthy
smoke," said Sen.
First found: 5 Aug 1997, 12:03 Universal Time
- Some Smokers at Greater Risk than Others (Pathfinder)
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Smokers whose can't achieve a
target heart rate during exercise are at greater risk of
heart disease and death than other smokers, a new study
suggests. The study participants were part of the ongoing
Framingham Heart Study, a study of heart disease risk
factors in residents of Framingham, Massachusetts.
First found: 5 Aug 1997, 02:23 Universal Time
- Smokers: 15-cent tax no deterrent - Can't
put price on being cool, teens say (Philadelphia
Daily News)
``Whether you're smoking to be cool or you're chain
smoking, 15 cents is not going to make a difference,''
says the Washington teen-ager, reflecting skepticism not
only among her peers but among lawmakers who wanted a
higher tax but were forced to compromise.
First found: 4 Aug 1997, 22:48 Universal Time
- Cigarettes for 5-year-olds, The
Worldwatch Report -- Planet ENN, Aug. 4, 1997 (Environmental News Network)
Many countries, both developing and industrialized,
restrict tobacco advertising in one form or another --
although enforcement is often lax. Some countries, such
as Singapore, Sweden and Thailand, limit print
advertising; others like the United States, Poland and
the Czech Republic restrict ads in the broadcast media.
But as global businesses, the companies have developed
comprehensive strategies for getting around such
piecemeal regulations.
First found: 4 Aug 1997, 22:48 Universal Time
- Tax Deal Reasserts Tobacco Industry's
Clout (Washington Post)
The amendment was inserted so quietly that sponsors of
the tax increase were taken by surprise, and when it was
discovered, no one in Congress was willing to claim
authorship.) called the amendment "an absolute
outrage" and charged it was put in the bill "by
the Republican leadership in the dead of night."
First found: 4 Aug 1997, 22:48 Universal Time
- Tobacco suits strike fear in other
industries (Miami
Herald)
In Florida, the trend is prompting the leader of a major
business and industry lobby to say, ``I told you so.''
``There is a direct link between the tobacco litigation
and this lawsuit,'' said Blair Thompson, a dairy industry
spokesman.
First found: 4 Aug 1997, 22:48 Universal Time
- Tougher smoking regs could hurt casinos (Philadelphia Daily News)
LAS VEGAS -- Mark Savage, a victim of throat cancer,
blames his malady on years of working in smoke-filled
casinos. A study commissioned by the Las Vegas and
Greater Reno-Sparks chambers of commerce predicts dire
consequences if smoking is banned in casinos.
First found: 4 Aug 1997, 22:48 Universal Time
- Tobacco industry fights to keep records
closed - 8/3/97
(Detroit News, The)
"If truly outrageous documents come out, it will
make the price of the settlement higher -- in dollars and
in other ways," said Professor Richard Daynard,
director of the Tobacco Products Liability Project at
Northeastern University in Boston.
First found: 3 Aug 1997, 16:48 Universal Time
- NACDS Attends White House Meeting to
Discuss Key Aspects of Tobacco Settlement (PR Newswire)
Additionally, chain pharmacy retailers participate in the
"We Card" program and NACDS has extensively
communicated the new FDA requirements to its membership
and has worked with the FDA to promote its new
store-level training program. SOURCE National Association
of Chain Drug Stores CONTACT: Debra Cabral of the
National Association of Chain Drug.
First found: 2 Aug 1997, 04:49 Universal Time
- News in Brief (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Florida is the first state to go to trial of the 40
states that have sued cigarette makers. When the driver
tried to back out, several young men blocked it and
opened fire.
First found: 2 Aug 1997, 13:14 Universal Time
- Singapore expands its crackdown on
smoking (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
15, smokers can light up legally only at home, in their
cars, a handful of areas without air conditioning and in
special smoking rooms. Despite years of government effort
in this socially engineered culture, a recent Health
Ministry survey showed that 18 percent of the population
of three million light up every day.
First found: 2 Aug 1997, 13:14 Universal Time
- AMA endorses agreement on regulation of
tobacco (San Francisco
Examiner)
The proposed settlement would dock the firms $80 million
for every percentage point below the targeted levels.
First found: 2 Aug 1997, 04:49 Universal Time
- Liggett Pact Jeopardized? (ABC News)
"They are trying to
extinguish all cases for nothing," she told
reporters after the discussion.
Brueckner said Liggett was trying to use federal class
action law to avoid bankruptcy, in which "all the
money would have to be on the table."
First found: 2 Aug 1997, 13:14 Universal Time
- WASHINGTON REPORT -- New Cigarette Tax
Would Reduce Liability (San
Francisco Chronicle)
Staff and Wire Reports The money raised by a new
cigarette tax would offset anything tobacco companies
would otherwise have to pay to settle health claims
against the industry, under a provision inserted into the
tax bill at the last minute. He said that over 25 years,
the cigarette tax would raise $50 billion, which tobacco
companies would not have to spend on the anti-smoking
initiatives they...
First found: 1 Aug 1997, 19:18 Universal Time
- Confirmed Injustice For The Business
Community: Florida's Business Community Goes On Trial,
Says Associated Industries Of Florida (PR Newswire)
..I don't think there's anybody else operating under this
[law] anywhere in the country. As AIF has said time and
time again, this law does not mention tobacco.
First found: 1 Aug 1997, 22:09 Universal Time
- In the tax bill
there's a gift just for tobacco industry (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
The $2.5 billion is roughly the amount that tobacco
smokers are expected to pay annually in additional taxes
to finance a new health-care program for uninsured
children. . . . It means there'll be $2.5 billion less
money every year to help the victims of the tobacco
industry.
First found: 1 Aug 1997, 11:59 Universal Time
- Tobacco pact
splits two health leaders (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
In congressional testimony, Lonnie Bristow, who as
president of the American Medical Association
participated in the settlement talks, declared that this
deal ``has public-health opportunities which would
potentially dwarf the impact of even the polio vaccine.''
But John Seffrin, chief executive officer of the American
Cancer Society -- which was not party to the talks --
told the Senate...
First found: 1 Aug 1997, 02:18 Universal Time
- Florida Judge
Bars Evidence State Knew of Tobacco Risks; Rules State
Need Not Prove Essential Elements of Its Case (PR Newswire)
The following statement was
issued today by Philip Morris:
In rulings that directly contradict over 100 years of
judicial precedent and the Florida Supreme Court, a trial
judge in West Palm Beach on Wednesday barred tobacco
companies from challenging key portions of the state's
case of reimbursement of Medicaid payments made on behalf
of smokers.
First
found: 1 Aug 1997, 02:18 Universal Time
- AMA Wants
Stronger Tobacco Deal (ABC News)
The danger is that once the tobacco industry gets
the relief it seeks, there is no incentive for them to
cooperate further. We have to get it right the
first time
The danger is that once the tobacco
industry gets the relief it seeks, there is no incentive
for them to cooperate further, Dr.
First found: 1 Aug 1997, 11:59 Universal Time
- AMA Supports
Tobacco Deal -- With Modifications (7/31) (Your Health Daily)
``We believe very strongly that there are ways to
strengthen the settlement and still keep the tobacco
companies in the process,'' Corliss said. ``We could do
more good by adding a 10-percent cigarette tax per year
for the next 10 years than we ever could by this
negotiated settlement,'' he said.
First found: 1 Aug 1997, 02:18 Universal Time
- Tobacco Negotiations Created Sharp Client
Conflicts - Did
leading plaintiffs' lawyers bargain away the rights of
individual clients? (National Law Journal)
While the Liggett settlement was being challenged, Mr.
Motley was helping to negotiate a deal that would limit
the ability of Ms. Butler and others like her to sue for
punitive damages, cap the yearly amount of compensatory
damages available to plaintiffs and abolish the ability
of plaintiffs to join individual cases together.. .
."They're perfectly willing to trade away your right
to line their own pockets,'' Mr. Vladeck said. As for Mr.
Motley, "[H]e placed himself in an intractable
conflict between the two clients."
Monday, August 4,1997
- If the FDA were
serious, it would have moms write the smokers' warnings -
7/30/97 (Detroit News, The)
Your tongue will taste like it was used to sweep out a
parrot's cage." Your wife plans to haul you out to
the curb in a Hefty bag."
First found: 30 Jul 1997, 17:52 Universal Time
- To Anti-Tobacco
Advocates, Issue Is Anything but Settled (Washington Post)
Koop and former Food and Drug
Administration commissioner David A. Kessler urged
senators to fashion a new tobacco control policy along
the lines of recommendations from a panel they led.
First
found: 30 Jul 1997, 13:09 Universal Time
- Ammonia
Amplifies Nicotine, Study Confirms (Washington Post)
News From the 50 States Find news, reference materials
and Internet resources for every state. Tobacco companies
have denied in the past that they use ammonia to boost
nicotine's power, and have argued that they use it only
to reduce the amount of nicotine in tobacco products.
First found: 30 Jul 1997, 13:09 Universal Time
- Tobacco
Litigation Conference to Cover Latest Developments (PR Newswire)
, July 29 /PRNewswire/ -- News from the world of tobacco
litigation is coming out fast and furious. The proposed
settlement between the tobacco industry and the state
attorneys general will be the focus of a newly added
early-morning session on Sept.
First found: 29 Jul 1997, 22:46 Universal Time
- Hispanic
Organizations Reject Tobacco Agreement; Call for Support
of Koop/Kessler Report Recommendations (PR Newswire)
Delgado concluded: "While Hispanics have
traditionally been the group least likely to smoke, new
data shows that among 8th graders Hispanics are now the
group most likely to smoke. (Washington and the World)
(Money Talks) (About PRN)(Ask PRN) (Links) (PRN Events).
First found: 29 Jul 1997, 22:46 Universal Time
- California Anti-tobacco Community Rejects
Proposed Tobacco Settlement: (BW
Healthwire)
``The proposed global
settlement between 40 state attorneys general and tobacco
manufacturers is not in the best interest of
Californians.
- Jul 29 2:03 PM
EDT
- Kessler, Koop push Congress on tobacco:(UPI)
Two top smoking opponents are urging Congress (Tuesday)
to end ``40 years of willful ignorance and inaction on
tobacco'' and take tougher action than is proposed in a
tobacco settlement.
- Jul 29 1:58 PM
EDT
- Why S.F. opposes
the pact with Big Tobacco (San Francisco
Examiner)
Every year, San Francisco spends millions of tax dollars
to care for people suffering from tobacco smoking-related
illness. More than a year ago, San Francisco became the
first city in the nation to sue the tobacco industry for
medical costs of cigarette smoking.
First found: 29 Jul 1997, 02:18 Universal Time
- Burned Up (Washington Post)
My sister started smoking when she was 16 or 17 and had
just quit when she was diagnosed with lung cancer at 51.
As she looked at me wide-eyed, I tried to say something
about mouth cancer or lung cancer or cancer in general,
but no words issued forth.
First found: 29 Jul 1997, 11:58 Universal Time
- Blowing smoke (Houston Business
Journal)
For hundreds of years, men have savored their victories
in this vale of tears by relaxing with a good cigar. It's
a grassroots trend, we've noticed -- one that's come
about possibly in reaction to these often puritanical
times.
First found: 28 Jul 1997, 12:13 Universal Time
- Richards hired as tobacco lobbyist: (UPI)
Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards has been hired by the
tobacco industry to lobby Congress to accept the proposed
$368.5 billion legal settlement.
- Jul 28 10:37 AM
EDT
- We don't trust
Big Tobacco (South Florida Business Journal)
In general, when it comes to rifts between the government
and business, we'll side with business every time. for
several months in 1995 to keep the company's owner,
Bennett LeBow, from breaking ranks on the issue of
whether smoking causes cancer.
First found: 28 Jul 1997, 12:13 Universal Time
- Where There's
Smoke, You'll Find a Cigar (Washington Post)
In the piece, Newhart plays the head of the West Indies
Co. They say you are secure enough not to care what
others think of you, although if you need a cigar to show
others you care not, you probably do.
First found: 28 Jul 1997, 22:22 Universal Time
- This week's
question: What role should the government play in
regulating tobacco? (Business News of Dayton)
I think the government's role should be taking a close
look at the incidences of smoking, the data about smoking
and promoting, along with the tobacco industry, ways to
inform the public about and to discourage the use of
tobacco. Therefore, I don't think the government should
have a role in regulating the tobacco industry except
when it comes to public places.
First found: 28 Jul 1997, 12:13 Universal Time
- An American
export: Tobacco litigation (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England -- John Players,
nonfiltered, were the cigarettes she started with. It is
adding 19 pence in taxes (about 31 cents) to the cost of
each pack, which will raise the cost of an average pack
of cigarettes in Britain to $5.47.
First found: 27 Jul 1997, 11:56 Universal Time
- Grocer kicks the
habit out the door - 7/27/97 (Detroit News,
The)
"When I came back to the store, I felt
guilty when I sold a pack of cigarettes," he said.
Despite the troubles, Mosby said he won't
resume selling booze and cigarettes.
First found: 27 Jul 1997, 16:43 Universal Time
- Cancer Society Criticizes Deal (ABC News)
Meanwhile, the American Lung
Association criticized the proposed settlements
advertising requirements, saying they will not
appreciably inhibit youth smoking.
The society also released the
results of nationwide polling examining public support
for various provisions of the proposed tobacco
settlement.
First found: 25 Jul 1997, 03:45 Universal Time
- Clinton Pushes Tobacco Tax (ABC News)
This 20-cent increase in
the cigarette tax not only will provide necessary
resources to protect and improve children's health.
It has literally been a
generation since we did this much for children's health
insurance.
First found: 24 Jul 1997, 22:00 Universal Time
- Tobacco's Can of Worms (Fortune)
Tobacco negotiators may have thought they had a done
deal, but Washington thinks otherwise. Here's what to
expect as the settlement goes to the President and
Congress. It won't be pleasant--for Big Tobacco.
July 21, 1997 Issue
- The Plaintiffs Bar Strikes Again (Fortune)
The attorneys general didn't bring Big Tobacco down. It
was their allies, the plaintiffs lawyers, who are now
more powerful than the companies they fight.
July 21, 1997 Issue
- Geoff Bible Won't Quit (Fortune)
The last of the tough-talking tobacco chieftains has done
what was long unthinkable: negotiate a settlement with
tobacco's enemies. What brought the Philip Morris CEO to
the table? And how will his company survive an uncertain
future?
July 21, 1997 Issue
- Senator: Tobacco
lobby targeted minors law (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
, N.J.) yesterday accused the industry of working behind
the scenes to cut funding for enforcement of a federal
law banning sale of tobacco products to minors.
Lautenberg noted that the Senate Appropriations Committee
had cut about $29 million earmarked for the enforcement
and said that industry lobbyists were responsible.
First found: 23 Jul 1997, 18:12 Universal Time
- B.A.T Industries
agrees to buy of biggest Mexican cigarette-maker (Bloomberg/Winston-Salem
Journal)
B.A.T Industries Plc agreed to pay $1.7 billion for
Cigarrera La Moderna, Mexico's biggest cigarette-maker,
vaulting past rival Philip Morris Cos. in the country's
growing tobacco market
Wednesday, July 23, 1997
- Smoking
Increases Risk of Eye Disease (7/21)* (Your Health Daily)
n a follow-up letter to a study released last fall, Dutch
researchers report that smoking increases the risk of
developing a potentially blinding eye disease, regardless
of a person's age. According to the original report,
which appeared last October in the Archives of
Ophthalmology, smokers and former smokers ages 55 to 84
had a significantly higher risk of developing age-related
macular...
First found: 22 Jul 1997, 02:08 Universal Time
- SACRAMENTO --
Wilson Backs Tobacco Suits If Stores Not Targeted (San Francisco
Chronicle)
Governor Pete Wilson
will sign legislation allowing Californians to sue
tobacco companies for product liability if retailers and
distributors cannot be included as defendants, his office
said yesterday.
First
found: 22 Jul 1997, 11:56 Universal Time
- Tobacco giant is
accused of buying silence: Lawyer: Philip Morris paid
rival's bills to quiet criticism of smoking. - 7/22/97 (Detroit News,
The)
Philip Morris "didn't pay his bills
out of the goodness of their heart," Rosenblatt
said.. LeBow, testifying for the first time
in a tobacco lawsuit, told the jury that Philip Morris
agreed to pay $10 million a year of his company's legal
bills while he was rethinking his position on smoking and
health.
First found: 22 Jul 1997, 11:56 Universal Time
- Cigarette taxes
force smokers to cross borders in search of deals -
7/22/97 (Detroit News, The)
New Hampshire sold twice as many packs of
cigarettes as Massachusetts, even though the rate of
smoking in both states is nearly identical. Moreover,
some states limit the number of excise taxable items that
come in.
First found: 22 Jul 1997, 11:56 Universal Time
- Liggett owner
says rival tried to buy silence (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
In March 1996, Liggett settled lawsuits brought by five
states and private attorneys to recover the medical costs
of treating sick smokers. Yesterday, LeBow testified
against his company -- Liggett is a defendant -- and was
questioned by lawyers for his company.
First found: 22 Jul 1997, 11:56 Universal Time
- Anti-child-smoking
laws take a Holiday (Age, The)
By SUE HEWITT of the Sunday Age A NEW "kiddie"
pack of cigarettes will test the already flawed laws
designed to prevent tobacco sales to minors, according to
the anti-smoking lobby. A company spokesman, Mr Peter
Alexander, said the pack was only one of 63 brands
available in packs of 20.
First found: 20 Jul 1997, 21:44 Universal Time
- Economic aid
sought by growers of tobacco (Philadelphia
Inquirer)
That could include price supports or possibly buyouts of
farmers who want to quit the tobacco business. ``We don't
have much sympathy for the tobacco companies, but we do
have real sympathy for the family farmers who have been
growing this crop for generations,'' Bruce Reed, a top
Clinton aide, said this week.
First found: 19 Jul 1997, 12:09 Universal Time
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