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The Philippines has launched a new campaign promoting tobacco -- not for smoking but for fish farming, a government tobacco agency official said Thursday. http://phys.org/news246182114.html Biology Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:10:04 EST news246182114 The tobacco industry on Tuesday threatened to slash the price of cigarettes if Australia goes ahead with plans to introduce plain packaging, saying more people will end up smoking. http://phys.org/news224823476.html Medicine & Health Tue, 17 May 2011 03:58:12 EST news224823476 (PhysOrg.com) -- For years the tobacco industry has argued that efforts to ban tobacco advertising near schools would constitute a total ban on tobacco advertising in urban areas. http://phys.org/news217532032.html Medicine & Health Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:34:08 EST news217532032 When the FDA proposed new rules restricting outdoor tobacco advertising near schools and playgrounds in 2009, the tobacco industry argued that such rules would lead to a near complete ban on tobacco advertising in urban areas. An article in the March 2011 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that the effect of these rules would be less severe than the industry contends. http://phys.org/news216364330.html Medicine & Health Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:12:24 EST news216364330 (AP) -- China's addiction to huge revenues from its state-owned tobacco monopoly is hindering anti-smoking measures, potentially costing millions of lives in the country with the world's largest number of smokers, experts warned Thursday. http://phys.org/news213511686.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:48:25 EST news213511686 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration says it must review tobacco products that were introduced or changed over the last four years in order for companies to keep selling them. http://phys.org/news213460617.html Medicine & Health Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:10:01 EST news213460617 A US appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government cannot block the sale or import of so-called electronic cigarettes under existing laws, in a victory for the industry. http://phys.org/news211003119.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Dec 2010 04:10:01 EST news211003119 Point-of-sale tobacco advertising works impressively well on teens — so well that federal regulators should consider barring such marketing efforts from convenience stores, gas stations and small groceries, a Stanford University School of Medicine researcher said. http://phys.org/news198571919.html Medicine & Health Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:00:01 EST news198571919 The US Supreme Court gave a substantial victory to major tobacco firms Monday, rebuffing an appeal that would have allowed the government to pocket 280 billion dollars of their profits. http://phys.org/news196953234.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:30:01 EST news196953234 Three new UCSF studies describe the wide reach of the tobacco industry and its influence on young people, military veterans and national health care reform. http://phys.org/news194258887.html Medicine & Health Fri, 28 May 2010 10:00:01 EST news194258887 (AP) -- An attempt to impose what is believed to be the nation's most far-reaching smoking ban in state parks has stalled in the California Legislature. http://phys.org/news188115753.html Medicine & Health Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:23:05 EST news188115753 The online, open-access journal PLoS Medicine said this week that it will no longer accept for publication reports of research sponsored by tobacco companies. The journal joins two of its sister publications, PLoS Biology and PLoS One, in formally adopting this position, but the announcement might be viewed as self-serving in that the journal has never published such a paper. In fact, PLoS One has published only two. http://phys.org/news186590582.html Medicine & Health Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:10:02 EST news186590582 (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products - that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine - could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults. http://phys.org/news184530773.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:10:02 EST news184530773 A UCSF analysis of published studies on the relationship between Alzheimer's disease and smoking indicates that smoking cigarettes is a significant risk factor for the disease. After controlling for study design, quality of the journals, time of publication, and tobacco industry affiliation of the authors, the UCSF research team also found an association between tobacco industry affiliation and the conclusions of individual studies. Industry-affiliated studies indicated that smoking protects against the development of AD, while independent studies showed that smoking increased the risk of developing the disease. http://phys.org/news184246717.html Medicine & Health Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:39:19 EST news184246717 A new study on the smokeless tobacco product called moist snuff — placed between lip and gum — has led scientists in Minnesota to urge the tobacco industry to change manufacturing practices to reduce snuff's content of carcinogens. Their study is published online in ACS' monthly journal Chemical Research in Toxicology. http://phys.org/news179052113.html Chemistry Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:30:03 EST news179052113 As African nations are poised to undergo the highest increase in the rate of tobacco use among developing countries, nearly 90 percent of people on the continent remain without meaningful protection from secondhand smoke, according to a new report released at a regional cancer conference today. http://phys.org/news177139590.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:27:21 EST news177139590 New US legislation granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) jurisdiction over tobacco products represents a serious compromise on the part of tobacco control advocates, argues a new essay in this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine. http://phys.org/news167988580.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:30:25 EST news167988580 The tobacco industry knows exactly what makes social smokers tick. Now, researchers want to use that once-secret information to help them quit. http://phys.org/news164352289.html Medicine & Health Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:25:02 EST news164352289 A new study by UCSF researchers concludes that media campaigns that portray the tobacco industry in a negative light and that appeal to young adults may be a powerful intervention to decrease young adult smoking. http://phys.org/news160848677.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 17:11:46 EST news160848677 (AP) -- Smoking takes years off your life and adds dollars to the cost of health care. Yet nonsmokers cost society money, too - by living longer. http://phys.org/news158395954.html Medicine & Health Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:53:08 EST news158395954 Menthol cigarette brands have been rising in popularity with adolescents, and the highest use has been among younger, newer smokers. Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) explored tobacco industry manipulation of menthol levels in specific brands and found a deliberate strategy to recruit and addict young smokers by adjusting menthol to create a milder experience for the first time smoker. Menthol masks the harshness and irritation of cigarettes, allowing delivery of an effective dose of nicotine, the addictive chemical in cigarettes. These milder products were then marketed to the youngest potential consumers. http://phys.org/news135443933.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:18:53 EST news135443933