June 18, 2010

New York Reaches Deal to Raise Cigarette Tax

By Nicholas Confessore and Danny Hakim

Cigarette taxes in New York would jump by $1.60 a pack under a tentative deal reached between Gov. David A. Paterson and legislative leaders, which would give New York the nation’s highest state cigarette taxes.

The proposal, which officials said Mr. Paterson would ...more

June 17, 2010

FDA Should Use Its Power to Lower Nicotine in Cigarettes, Former Chief Says

By Lyndsey Layton

A year after Congress gave the federal government the authority to regulate tobacco, anti-smoking activists are applauding the initial steps taken by the Food and Drug Administration to control cigarette marketing and advertising. But a prominent public health figure says that ...more

April 29, 2010

Australia moves to ban logos on cigarette packs

By the CNN Wire Staff

Australia could become the first country in the world to require cigarette packages to be stripped of logos and designs.

By July 2012, all cigarettes in the country will be sold in plain packs carrying graphic warnings against smoking, according to an anti-smoking in ...more

April 22, 2010

Cigarette Sponsor Pulled From Kelly Clarkson Show

By Margie Mason and Irwan Firdaus, Associated Press

Pop star Kelly Clarkson's upcoming concert in Indonesia will no longer be sponsored by a cigarette company, the promoter said Thursday following protests from fans and anti-tobacco groups.

Clarkson, the first winner of "American Idol," had previously said that while ...more

April 21, 2010

All I Ever Wanted was a Tobacco-Free Idol

Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Kelly Clarkson's fans around the world and international public health advocates are calling on the singing star and American Idol winner to withdraw tobacco industry sponsorship of her April 29 concert in Jakarta, Indonesia.

And with good reason.

Big Tobac ...more

April 19, 2010

Tobacco in candy-like form can poison kids

By Denise Mann

(Health.com) -- A new generation of smokeless, flavored tobacco products that look like breath mints or breath-freshening strips may be life-threatening for children who mistake them for candy, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Centers f ...more

April 14, 2010

Smokeless tobacco use rising among teens

Health experts on Wednesday raised concern about the growing use of smokeless tobacco by teenagers, and suggested its use by Major League Baseball players is influencing young people to take up the cancer-causing habit.

The use of smokeless tobacco, chewing tobacco and snuff, by teens has risen in recent years, reversing a trend toward declining use of all tobacco products by teens, Terry Pechacek of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told a U.S. congressional panel. He said data ...more

April 14, 2010

Camel uses questionable methods to promote products

Staff Editorial

Free things are really nice when you’re a college student.

Freshmen and older students who don’t know any better gather in front of Memorial Stadium for Big Red Welcome, accruing pillowcases full of things they aren’t going to use the rest of the year, eagerly ...more

April 8, 2010

CDC: Cigarette taxes rose in 14 states last year

By Mike Stobbe

ATLANTA (AP) - Fourteen states, the nation's capital and the federal government hiked their cigarette taxes last year, but health officials worry that tobacco company discounts are keeping prices down.

State increases ranged from 10 cents per pack in North Carolina t ...more

March 25, 2010

Maxwell students help kick butts

By John Lindenberger

On Wednesday, students throughout the country participated in some 2,000 demonstrations in an effort to alert the public to the methods tobacco companies use to target children in their marketing campaigns.

The demonstrations were all part of a national campaign call ...more

March 24, 2010

Skoal and Copenhagen maker loses fight over city ban on flavored tobacco

By Alison Gendar

March 15, 2010

Study: Camel No. 9 cigarette ads appeal to teen girls

By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY

A recent marketing campaign for Camel cigarettes appears to have attracted the interest of teen girls, a study shows. The ads for Camel No. 9 cigarettes — which ran in magazines such as Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Glamour — were a hit with girls ages 12 to 16, says a study of ...more

February 11, 2010

Tobacco industry constantly reinvents its marketing efforts, a Minnesota report points out

They’re baaack!

The ingenious marketers with the tobacco companies, that is.

Actually, they never went away. They just quietly changed the way they do things, adjusting to increasing government restrictions and negative publicity with sometimes subtle but ...more

February 4, 2010

FDA concerned dissolvable tobacco appeals to kids

By Michael Felberaum

The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products _ that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine _ could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults.

The FDA's C ...more

February 3, 2010

FDA probes candy-like tobacco products

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials are seeking more information about the possible attraction and addiction of flavored, dissolvable tobacco products that regulators worry look too much like candy and can entice children.

The products, made by Reynolds American Inc's R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co and by Star Scientific Inc, contain powdered "smokeless" tobacco and are brightly colored, with flavors such as coffee and mint.

Companies have argued that the products, which include dissolvable ...more

January 25, 2010

Nebraskans quite civilized about ban

Implementation of Nebraska’s statewide smoking ban has gone amazingly well.

Residents and state officials should pat themselves on the back for the smoothness of this major transition in social policy and personal habit.

The calm is in marked contrast to ...more

January 18, 2010

Message Delivered: Youth take stand against tobacco

By Tracy Buffington

Armed with spray bottles filled with colored water, about a dozen youth set out to leave a message.

Members of No Limits-Nebraska’s youth board left a temporary billboard on a snow bank facing the Clemmons Park sledding hill on Saturday.

“All the kids i ...more

January 3, 2010

‘Avatar’ Joins Holiday Movies That Fail an Antismoking Test

By Michael Cieply

Some of those who oppose smoking in movies have just seen the future, and they are not happy about it.

Mark Fellman/20th Century Fox James Cameron, the director, says the smoking scientist played by Sigourney Weaver, center, is not meant to be a role model.

Area Teens Fight Big Tobacco

PRCA Statement Regarding U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co.

MTV's 'Made' Launching Anti-tobacco Tie-in

Flavors Banned From Cigarettes to Deter Youths

Standing Up for What You Believe in

Youth celebrate clean air

FDA and health experts warn against use of e-cigarettes

truth® Wants to Know: “Do You Have What it Takes?”

Group wants R rating for any film with smoking

Setting the stage for more smokers

No Limits anti-tobacco demonstration

Philip Morris Meeting Mixes Tobacco Profit and Protests

Philip Morris Int'l 1Q profit drops 12 percent

Philip Morris' Global Race

Governor Heineman signs new bills into law

Smoking Ban Exemption To Face Scrutiny

Senators finalize cigar bar exemption

Britney Spears Halts Vancouver Show Because Of Smokers

Students Join Together Against Big Tobacco

Cigarettes in New Film Stir Anger at Studio

American Legacy Foundation® Statement: New Report on Tobacco Marketing to Women

State Lawmakers Extinguish Smoking Ban Opt-Out Measure

Nebraska Improves On Preventing Tobacco-Related Illness

Senate passes bill increasing FDA power over tobacco products