Tobacco industry

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• AATCLC - African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council
  
  
• African American leadership groups: smoking with the Enemy.
  African American leadership groups: smoking with the Enemy.
  V B Yerger, R E Malone. Tobacco Control 2002;11:336–345
• Big Tobacco’s Big Apology
  WAMU 1A, Tuesday, Nov 28 2017 After more than a decade of appeals, and nearly two decades after they were first ordered to do so, big tobacco companies are running ads admitting that smoking is deadly and addictive, and their manufacturers know this. Despite the warnings, an estimated one fifth of Americans still light up. But these smokers aren’t evenly distributed across the country, or across class lines. As the Pew Research Center notes, there are differences in who smokes, and where they do it. From Pew: Smoking rates today are highest among the poor and less-educated, according to government data. For instance, 29% of people living below the official poverty level smoke, versus 17.9% of people at or above poverty. People whose highest educational level is a General Educational Development (GED) certificate — typically high-school dropouts — are nine times more likely to smoke than people with graduate degrees (45.3% versus 5%). Smoking rates vary considerably by geography. The highest rates in the 2009-2011 period were in nonurban counties in the South (31.9%) and small towns in the South (31%) and Midwest (30%). The lowest rates are in big Western cities (15%) and their suburban fringes (16.9%). Will these warnings lead people to quit? Host: Joshua Johnson; Guests: Robin Koval CEO and president, Truth Initiative Maggie Fox Senior health writer, NBC News Terry Pechacek Health Management and Policy professor, Georgia State University
• CREF Participant Proposal advocating divestment from tobacco stocks
  This proposal was introduced in several consecutive years.
• European Community and Colombia sues RJR and Philip Morris for smuggling and money laundering
• Exclusive: Documents reveal Philip Morris' campaign to subvert the world's anti-smoking treaty
  Aditya Kalra, Paritosh Bansal, Duff Wilson, Tom Lasseter. Reuters. July 13, 2017 In one of the largest-ever tobacco industry leaks, internal Philip Morris International documents seen by Reuters, combined with reporting in 14 countries, expose a clandestine lobbying operation that stretches from the Americas to Africa to Asia. In internal emails, Philip Morris executives take credit for the watering down of anti-smoking measures at the biennial meeting of the tobacco control treaty, known as the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, or FCTC. The thousands of pages of documents reviewed by Reuters also include Philip Morris plans to set up a “global project team” for “achieving scrutiny” of tobacco control advocates. The full story – along with a selection of internal Philip Morris documents uncovered by Reuters – can be read online. (reut.rs/2sSSnyQ)
• Exclusive: Philip Morris suspends social media campaign after Reuters exposes young 'influencers'
  Chris Kirkham, Reuters Japan, May 10, 2019
  Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc has suspended a global social media marketing campaign in response to Reuters inquiries into the company’s use of young online personalities to sell its new “heated tobacco” device, including a 21-year-old woman in Russia.
• Gateway to addiction? A survey of popular electronic cigarette manufacturers and targeted marketing to youth
  A report written by the staff of Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL), Representative Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Jack Reid (D-RI), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Representative Frank Pallone Jr.(-NJ). April 14, 2014
• International Press Briefing: What's Menthol Got To Do With It? Everything! (Still!) (1 hr 37 min)
  The Plight of African Americans and Mentholated Tobacco Products: The Time is Now. This international briefing will provide the press and the greater community an update on where the menthol/flavor sales ban movement stands today, the status of the landmark 2006 Kessler ruling, international treaty violations (including the targeting of African countries), and local and civil actions that have been successfully implemented or won. Press briefing speakers are prominent U.S. and international tobacco control advocates, researchers, attorneys, and elected officials. www.savingblacklives.org www.AMPLIFY.LOVE
• Is the World's Most Powerful Military Defenseless Against Big Tobacco?
  Cigarettes kill more soldiers and sailors than wars do, and cost taxpayers billions. Yet Congress keeps shooting down the Pentagon's efforts to snuff them out.
  —By Michael Mechanic, Thu May 22, 2014 6:00 AM EDT
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Tobacco (HBO)
  Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Tobacco (HBO)
  Thanks to tobacco industry regulations and marketing restrictions in the US, smoking rates have dropped dramatically. John Oliver explains how tobacco companies are keeping their business strong overseas.
• Learning the hard way
  Allan Brandt, history of science scholar and ‘Cigarette Century’ author, says opioid negotiators should heed lessons from tobacco settlement
  Colleen Walsh, The Harvard Gazette, August 4, 2021
• Long Term We Remain Bullish on Vapor
  An email circulating on the net
• Michael Felberbaum (AP) - Tobacco companies fighting over claims on smoking's effects
  Tobacco companies fighting over claims on smoking's effects By Michael Felberbaum AP Tobacco Writer The Denver Post, 2/23/2015 "WASHINGTON (AP) — America's biggest tobacco companies asked a federal appeals court Monday to set aside a series of court-ordered advertisements saying they lied about the dangers of smoking."
• NAAPTN (National African American Tobacco Prevention Network)
  NAATPN's mission is to facilitate the development and implementation of comprehensive and community competent public health programs to benefit communities and people of African descent.
• Ofield Dukes & Associates memo to RJR
  From Ofield Dukes to Ben Ruffin, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, March 18, 1997. Interesting nuggets, e.g., "In advertising in African American publications, the company may want to take advantage of 'editorial adjacency,' whereby a publication will offer editorial space commensurate with paid advertising space."
  
  See also the other 14 million documents at http://beta.industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
• Philip Morris Pledges $1 Billion to Fight Smoking
  Eric Pfanner and Thomas Mulier, Bloomberg, September 13, 2017 Philip Morris International said it plans to spend about $80 million annually over 12 years on a project led by Derek Yach, a former World Health Organization official who worked on a global tobacco treaty, to switch smokers from cigarettes to Philip Morris’s IQOS, which heats rather than burns tobacco. The Marlboro maker has applied to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval to market the device as a product that may reduce the risk of smoking-related diseases.
• R.J. Reynolds to ban smoking in the office
  By Jena McGregor October 23 at 4:15 PM. The Washington Post
• See also Big Challenges to Public Health
• Tobacco industry continuing opposition to tobacco control
• Tracing the racist tactics of the tobacco industry
  Oct 16, 2020
  "We don't smoke this shit, we just sell it. We reserve the right to smoke for the young, the poor, the Black, and the stupid." (Truth Tobacco Industry Documents library quoting a tobacco industry executive).
• UNC involvement with the tobacco industry
  Several documents, courtesy of Adam Goldstein, from the tobacco industry litigation database