Tobacco.org Updates

 

THIS WEEK'S HOT SPOTS:

  

• 2012 Surgeon General's Report to be released Thu. Subject: tobacco industry targeting of teens

TODAY'S MUST-READS:

Can the new anti-smoking law be enforced? History, politics and Costa Rica's new tobacco control legislation

The Powell Memo (also known as the Powell Manifesto) Viewers of the new movie "Heist" will want to read the full text of the 1971 memo from Philip Morris board member and soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, with analysis

 

 

This week's MUST-READS:

Tobacco Control's 20th Anniversary Edition
Tobacco control at twenty: reflecting on the past, considering the present and developing the new conversations for the future
Many articles FREE

Heartland Insider Exposes Institute's Budget and Strategy DeSmogBlog.com

Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition Review of Robert Proctor's new bombshell book

The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You How Philip Morris director Lewis Powell thwarted democracy from the bench of the Supreme Court

TRENDING:

• Smoking Bans gaining steam OUTDOORS, at COLLEGES, in VEHICLES and even at HOME
• E-CIGS: Cessation aid, nicotine delivery device, or--?? Controversy continues.
• FOLLOW TOP TOBACCO NEWS HEADLINES ON TWITTER! Yes, we've joined the 21st Century . . .

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It's all over but the remedying! The 12-year saga of the DOJ RICO suit was partially ended at the Supreme Court. The tobacco defendants were found guilty of racketeering, but will pay no monetary penalty. The case is back in Judge Kessler's DC District Court for implementation of court-ordered remedies in light of a number of new developments.
Late-Breaking DOJ Trial News is here: http://www.tobacco.org/articles/lawsuit/doj/
Visit: http://www.tobacco-on-trial.com

Latest Top Tobacco Headlines

• UK Fifty years since Smoking and health (PDF) — Jump to fulltext at Royal College of Physicians (uk)
• DEADLY ALLIANCE: How Big Tobacco and Convenience Stores Partner to Market Tobacco Products and Fight Life-Saving Policies (PDF) — Jump to fulltext at Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK)
• Blumenthal Demands Appeal of Graphic Cigarette Label Ruling — Jump to fulltext at Senator Richard Blumenthal - United States Senator for Connecticut
• New Report: Tobacco Companies and Convenience Stores Partner to Market Tobacco Products, Fight Life-Saving Policies — Jump to fulltext at Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK)
• California Higher excise taxes on cigarettes gets test on California — Jump to fulltext at Winston-Salem (NC) Journal
• Indonesia INDONESIA Using food and cigarettes, Muslim merchants converting Christians to Islam in Papua — Jump to fulltext at AsiaNews.it (it)
• Gibraltar Citypeg urges less pressure on tobacco — Jump to fulltext at Gibraltar Chronicle (gi)
• Anti-Smoking Groups' Report Draws Criticism From Industry Leaders — Jump to fulltext at Convenience Store News
• Macau Smoking violations more than double in February — Jump to fulltext at Macau Daily Times (mo)
• Texas SA teen girls top smoking list — Jump to fulltext at WOAI NBC Channel 4 (San Antonio, TX)
• Oklahoma EDITORIAL: Oklahoma tobacco endowment funds shouldn't be used to boost smoke-free bill — Jump to fulltext at NewsOK
• UK Smoking at the weekends does just as much damage to the memory as daily habit — Jump to fulltext at The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
• UK LETTER: CHAPMAN: The tobacco industry is terrified of plain packs ($$) — Jump to fulltext at British Medical Journal
• UK Obese and smokers denied treatment 'to save money' — Jump to fulltext at Electronic Telegraph (uk)
• Canada SHATENSTEIN: Tobacco use is no less deadly than war — Jump to fulltext at Calgary (Alb) Herald
• Maryland Secondhand Smoke Appeal Accepted as Issue Grows in Greenbelt — Jump to fulltext at Patch.org
• Philippines Smoking curbs fail in the Philippines — Jump to fulltext at Asia Times
• Australia Australia Said to Face WTO Complaint Over Tobacco Packaging, Ban on Logos — Jump to fulltext at Bloomberg News
• Weekend smoking can damage your memory, study suggests — Jump to fulltext at ScienceDaily
• New Navy rules take aim at alcohol abuse, smoking — Jump to fulltext at Norfolk (VA) Virginian-Pilot

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Latest Quotes

• “In short, the tobacco industry and its convenience store allies are making a killing by making deadly and addictive tobacco products all too convenient.”
  "Deadly Alliance: How Tobacco Companies and Convenience Stores Partner to Market Tobacco Products and Fight Life-Saving Policies"
  » New Report: Tobacco Companies and Convenience Stores Partner to Market Tobacco Products, Fight Life-Saving Policies , Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) (Monday, March 5, 2012)
• “It might be easier to write a bill that just lists the places where you can smoke.”
  Rep. Eric Turner, R-Cicero, on the Senate version of Indiana's proposed smoking ban.
  » A long, slow crawl to a smoking ban , Fort Wayne(IN) News-Sentinel (Saturday, March 3, 2012)
• “[T]he graphic images here were neither designed to protect the consumer from confusion or deception nor [designed] to increase consumer awareness of smoking risks. Rather, they were crafted to evoke a strong emotional response calculated to provoke the viewer to quit or never start smoking.”
  U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon in his RJR v. FDA ruling.
  » FDA's Graphic-Image Tobacco Labels Found Unconstitutional ($$), Law360 (Wednesday, February 29, 2012)
• “While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances and permeates the environment with them.”
  Dr. Renato Dulbecco, who called for severe restrictions on tobacco in his acceptance speech for a Nobel Prize in 1975. He won for his role in drawing a link between viruses, genetic mutations and cancer.
  » Renato Dulbecco, 97, Dies; Won Prize for Cancer Study , New York Times (Tuesday, February 21, 2012)
• “Surveys have shown that people do take this advice seriously, although they may not act on it immediately. The opposite is also a problem because if health professionals don't raise issues with people, they can take it as a justification to continue that behaviour.”
  Dr Julie Bishop, a consultant in public health at Public Health Wales and author of the report that highlights the brief interventions NHS staff can make to cut alcohol and tobacco use and reduce the risk of falls in older people.
  » Report shows how interventions on tobacco and alcohol use ‘could save the NHS millions’ , WalesOnline (uk) (Monday, February 20, 2012)
• “We absolutely do not endorse or support their [Heartland Institute's] views on the environment or climate change.”
  Sarah Alspach, a spokeswoman for GlaxoSmithKline, a multinational drug company shown in the documents as contributing $50,000 in the past two years to support a medical newsletter. GlaxoSmithKline produces cessation products Nicoderm, Commit Lozenges and, with Healthways, QuitNet.
  » In Heartland Institute Leak, a Plan to Discredit Climate Teaching , New York Times (Thursday, February 16, 2012)
• “Although the record contains ample evidence of RJR's wanton conduct in marketing cigarettes, we can find nothing in the record to suggest that RJR's conduct toward Mr. Townsend was any more wanton or reprehensible than it was toward Mr. Martin. The conduct here is essentially the same conduct the Martin jury found to justify "only" $25 million in punitive damages. ”
  VAN NORTWICK, J., of the District Court of Appeal of Florida, ruling in RJR's Engle appeal.
  » R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY v. TOWNSEND - Opinion filed February 14, 2012., Leagle (Tuesday, February 14, 2012)
• “The law aims to protect citizens from the danger of tobacco and reduce the number of smokers by taking measures to combat this plague.”
  Law passed by the Iraqi parliament on Thursday that bans smoking in gov. offices, hotels, restaurants and other indoor gathering places.
  » Iraq parliament bans smoking in public , Agence France Presse (AFP) (fr) (Thursday, February 2, 2012)
• “When it was all over, I was relieved. Yet when I got home that final day, I sat down and cried for four hours straight. At first I thought it was just the release of stress, but now I'm not so sure. I know I cried for the lady who died, and for her children and grandchildren . . . I also cried for all the mothers and dads around the world who still smoke and want to quit . . . I also cried for my own brother who has smoked all his life and now suffers from severe heart disease, COPD, and recurring pneumonia. . . . Finally, I cried for the tobacco company executives and scientists, and their lawyers, who continue to make a lucrative living off the pain, suffering, and death of their fellow Americans. There is no justification for such callous, mercenary selfishness. Shame on them all. ”
  Hallgren juror Joyce Minor.
  » MINOR: Cigarette, anyone? Think twice , Tampa Bay (FL) Online (TBO.com) (Sunday, January 29, 2012)
• “It's like walking into a crime scene.”
  Dr. Farrah Kheradmand, professor of medicine and immunology at BCM and a senior author of the report that tracks the destructive path of tobacco smoke through the body's tissues, as it activates genes and changes immune cells to create inflammation that results in emphysema.
  » Mapping the destructive path from cigarette to emphysema, EurekAlert (Wednesday, January 18, 2012)