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Falling smoking rates in much of the industrialized world have made tobacco companies turn to China as their next great hope. The U.S. tobacco industry's overseas sales grew almost 20 percent last year, and a nation of 350 million puffers adding five million more each year and few restrictions on advertising would make the People's Republic the jewel in the crown of global cigarette marketing plans. In keeping with its World Trade Organization promises, China has been slowly opening its domestic market to foreign brands, lowering tariffs from 65% to 25% in 2004, and streamlining the rules...
...fast, the Chinese government now seems to be saying. This week, the state legislature ratified a World Health Organization treaty aimed at curbing smoking, and government officials promptly announced a ban on cigarette sales through vending machine. The treaty also calls for a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorships and legislation requiring that prominent health warnings be displayed on packages, discourages deceptive labeling (such as describing cigarettes as "light") and encourages litigation as a tool to stamp out the habit. China joins more than 75 countries (although not the U.S.) in ratifying the treaty, which went into effect earlier...
...unsettling enough that ABC anchorman Peter Jennings died of lung cancer just four months after announcing his diagnosis. Perhaps more distressing to the 90 million--plus smokers and former smokers out there was that Jennings swore off tobacco 20 years ago and was struck by the disease all the same. It's true that he had resumed smoking after the terrorist attacks in 2001, but he quit again. Can that first puff years ago start a fatal cascade of lung damage that can never be reversed? The answer...
...quit smoking can you reduce or eliminate your risk of tobacco-related lung cancer, or is the damage permanent...
...pulpit in the boardroom. According to an analysis based on data from investment tracker Morningstar, 58 faith-based mutual funds have formed since 2001, bringing the running total to 142. And faith-based investors' tactics have become much more aggressive: they no longer just shun certain industries, such as tobacco, gambling or weapons manufacturing. Mirroring a greater trend in socially responsible investing, they are now buying stocks and leveraging pressure from the inside to promote their agendas. For instance, Mennonite Mutual Aid funds, which wants companies to be proactive in curbing HIV and AIDS, helped persuade Ford Motor...