Pro-tobacco content on Facebook and YouTube is glamorising smoking among the young, warn health groups Leading health organisations have expressed alarm at how the internet is being used to promote smoking. Tobacco companies deny using the online world to market their brands, but there is mounting concern that social networking sites are glamorising smoking, especially [...]
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Tobacco companies accused of promoting cigarette brands online
RJ Reynolds’ ads urge tobacco pouches for smokers
RALEIGH, N.C. — R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is targeting people who resolve to quit smoking in the new year with advertisements suggesting they switch to its smokeless tobacco pouches, a move critics say is an attempt to keep people from quitting nicotine. The ads mark the company’s first campaign aimed at getting smokers to switch [...]
New Rules Take Effect For Tobacco Industry
New rules are in place a year after Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco. Most of the rules are aimed at keeping tobacco products out of the hands of young people. For example, it’s now against the law anywhere in the United States to sell cigarettes to anyone under 18. RENEE [...]
“Tobacco Should be Made Illegal”
Many U.S. citizens nowadays insist that tobacco products should completely disappear from our marketplace. They call tobacco companies “the merchants of death”, and rightfully so. As tobacco manufacturers now face a decline in sales, due to the fact that people know more about the hazards of cigarettes and therefore smoke less, these corporate monsters come [...]
Lifting the smoke screen on big tobacco
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has released its investigative report into the tobacco industry’s global lobbying campaign. The investigation, called Smoke Screen – big tobacco’s global lobbying campaign, traces how multinational tobacco companies, faced with stagnant sales and health-conscious governments in developed nations, have targeted expansion in developing countries and emerging markets. Smokescreen [...]
Changes in cigarette pack colors called not so mild
In anticipation of a ban against using words such as “light” or “mild” on cigarette labels and ads, tobacco companies have lightened package colors to convey the same message, a move the American Lung Association and Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., have attacked as disingenuous. The ban, part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control [...]