News tagged with tobacco marketing
Tobacco companies keep people smoking despite UK cigarette tax increases
Raising tobacco prices is one of the most effective means of reducing tobacco use, particularly among price-sensitive smokers such as young people and people with low incomes. But when the UK government has been raising cigarette ...
Addiction
Apr 16, 2013 |
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Harmful effects of ultra-processed food and drink industries should be regulated
An international analysis of food, drink, and alcohol industry involvement in NCD policies shows that despite the common reliance on industry self-regulation and public-private partnerships to improve public health, there ...
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Feb 11, 2013 |
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EU crackdown on tobacco stops short of plain packets (Update)
With menthol cigarettes to be banned and cigarette packs sold with repulsive images of rotting lungs, the European Union released new anti-tobacco proposals Wednesday, the first in over a decade.
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Dec 19, 2012 |
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Industry now using smartphone apps, which kids can easily download, to promote tobacco
The tobacco industry is now using smarphone apps - a medium that has global reach, including to children - to promote its products, warn researchers in Tobacco Control.
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Oct 22, 2012 |
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India mulls plain packaging of cigarettes
India is considering plain packaging of cigarettes in line with new Australian laws that ban all logos and brand descriptions, a top health official in New Delhi said on Wednesday.
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Sep 05, 2012 |
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Researchers launch Facebook site to monitor tobacco industry tactics
The University’s Tobacco Control Research Group (TCRG) has identified several methods used by transnational tobacco companies in response to the changes within the global tobacco market.
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May 14, 2012 |
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FDA: tobacco companies must report chemicals
(AP) -- Tobacco companies will be required to report the levels of dangerous chemicals found in cigarettes, chew and other products under the latest rules designed to tighten regulation of the tobacco industry.
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Mar 30, 2012 |
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US: More work needed to stop youth tobacco use
(AP) -- More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report ...
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Mar 08, 2012 |
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Plain packets will remove the appeal of smoking for young women, says UWS researcher
(Medical Xpress) -- As the world's first tobacco plain packaging legislation is passed through Parliament today, a researcher from the University of Western Sydney says removing the brands from cigarettes is an important ...
Health
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Stronger tobacco control policy in the Netherlands would save thousands of lives
A new study shows that 145,000 deaths could be averted in the next 30 years in the Netherlands by implementing stronger tobacco control policies. This set of policies, as recommended by the MPOWER report of the World Health ...
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Sep 26, 2011 |
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