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New York Times Touts ‘Plain Packaging,’ Downplays Impact of Taxes on Tobacco

Business story supports pro-regulatory position of Times editorial board which attacked tobacco 24 times in two years.
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This Thanksgiving, Media Still Stuffed with Food Police Message

Media outlets maintain tradition with anti-obesity reporting heavy on calls for food regulation, taxation, with a side of shaming the overweight.

Producers Pick Lesbian Kiss, R-Rated Movies as Teen Choice Award Nominees

A secretive panel of adults has, once again, picked raunchy material for teens award show

CNN Anchor Shamelessly Lauds Mayor Bloomberg's Newest Smoking Ban

CNN anchor Randi Kaye finished her Tuesday news hour with a giddy monologue praising the newest smoking ban in New York City. The ban, signed into law by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in February, took ...

American Teens Heavily Involved in Sex, Alcohol, Drugs, Smoking

Adolescents commonly engage in self-destructive, character-damaging behavior.

Smoking Drug Chantix Blamed for Problems in Supposed 'Human Drug Experiment'

ABC News slams the VA and Pfizer for distributing a drug to veterans to help them quit smoking.

Times Invites John "Two Americas" Edwards to Take a Bow in Life Expectancy Story

In an overdramatic story on falling life expectancies among some women, the Times suggested the findings validated left-wing presidential candidate John Edwards: "The new research adds weight to ...

Media Accuse Cancer Research of 'Concealing' Funding

Study published in The New England Journal of Medicine rejected by media because of funding, not science.

A Rarely Seen Side of the Tobacco Story

WSJ shows one alternative to tobacco is ... tobacco?
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