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Media Accuse Cancer Research of 'Concealing' Funding

admin — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:07:40 +0000

Jeff Poor

Even studies deemed suitable for publication in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine can’t earn the respect of the media when they see an opportunity to bash “big tobacco.”

A Rarely Seen Side of the Tobacco Story

admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:20:02 +0000

Dan Gainor

Amidst media coverage of Big Tobacco, one reporter has shown another side of the story – little tobacco?

As the March 27 Wall Street Journal reported, those who want to quit smoking might try tobacco. Smokeless tobacco.

According to the Health Journal story, smokeless tobacco gives buyers the nicotine they crave “while posing a substantially reduced health risk compared with smoking.”

Big Tobacco and the Supreme Court: Double Jeopardy, Civil-Style?

admin — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:49:25 +0000

Ted Frank

Jesse Williams started smoking as a 21-year-old soldier in Korea in 1950. Though Williams was taught as a child that it was unhealthy to smoke, and, in turn, taught his children not to smoke, he refused entreaties from doctors and family to quit smoking. After 45 years of smoking two packs a day, with the packs carrying the Surgeon General’s warnings for nearly 30 of those years, Williams died of inoperable lung cancer. His widow sued Philip Morris for damages on grounds of product design and “fraud.”

ABC's Dr. Johnson Prescribes Higher Taxes to Get Smokers to Quit

admin — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:35:42 +0000

Ken Shepherd

Marking the one-year anniversary of longtime smoker Peter Jennings’ death from lung cancer, ABC’s Dr. Timothy Johnson wrote up a prescription as outdated and ineffective as bleeding a patient: growing government.

“At the government level there are three proven techniques. One is to raise prices by increasing taxes, the second is to limit access by minors, and the third is to conduct mass media campaigns,” Johnson said on the August 7 “World News with Charles Gibson.”