Word: tobacco
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...Boston chapter of the Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP) has called on Graham to resign from an advisory board to the foundation, which has close ties to the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Graham serves on the advisory board to the Next Century Innovative Schools Program, which will donate $30 million over the next five years to elementary and secondary schools willing to "take risks" in order to improve the quality of education...
Until recently, new tobacco brands met little resistance. But target marketing has taken on an odious reputation as tobacco makers aim for the few groups that have been slow to kick the habit. The companies have long argued that they are selling a legal product to consumers capable of making their own choices, but as cigarette makers focus on younger and less-educated consumers, that argument becomes harder to support...
...reported strategy for Dakota heightened concerns that tobacco companies are trying to indoctrinate children and recruit minors. Half of all current smokers first lighted up by age 15, some 90% before they were 19. Some critics believe the industry is deliberately capitalizing on adolescents' desires to be popular and attractive by attributing those qualities to smoking / in its $2.5 billion annual ad spending. "You certainly don't see ads featuring 65-year-olds," notes Karl Bauman, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina's School of Public Health. Thomas Lauria of the Tobacco Institute, the industry's lobbying...
Other forms of marketing are taking flak as well. In his second antismoking salvo of the week, Sullivan denounced tobacco sponsorship of sporting events, notably Virginia Slims tennis tournaments, for using "the prestige and the image of the athlete" to tempt young people to light up. Mark Green's first official act as New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs was to fire off a letter last week to Louis Gerstner, chairman of RJR Nabisco, the cigarette maker's parent company, criticizing the use of a cartoon character in Camel ads. "Isn't this ad campaign an obvious attempt...
...prime reason for the flurry of regulation is that cigarette bashing has become politically popular. Even such a tobacco bastion as Greensboro, N.C., has an ordinance against smoking in retail stores and other public areas. As a sign of the diminished power of Washington's once feared tobacco lobby, Congress is considering 72 bills to inhibit tobacco use. Kennedy's proposal would create a $185 million Center for Tobacco Products, with broad powers to regulate the industry. His costly plan faces an uphill battle, as does another bill, proposed by Congressman Henry Waxman of California, that would allow only informational...