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- Children and Tobacco
- Preventing Tobacco Use (CDC)
- 05-21-03 Florida Court Supports Tobacco Industry (Washington Times - Wilson)
"A Florida appeals court erased a record $145 billion award against the tobacco industry yesterday, ruling that thousands of Florida smokers could not group themselves together for a class-action attack on cigarette makers."
"The action came on the same day that more than 190 countries approved the first international treaty against smoking, including an advertising ban, aimed at kicking the global habit that kills nearly 5 million people a year."
- Fighting Big Tobacco (CBS News)
"Jeffrey Wigand was the maverick insider who - at what he considered was great personal risk to himself and his family - blew the whistle on big tobacco."
"Back in 1995, he exposed the lies we'd all been told for decades about cigarettes: about their capacity to addict us, about their capacity to kill us."
"Since then, he's literally changed the air we breathe. But, in an interview with Correspondent Mike Wallace 10 years ago, Wigand became the first major tobacco insider to reveal that the cigarette companies were consciously trying to get us hooked on nicotine." 1-05
- -01-12-06 Tobacco Plant Manufactures Plague Vaccine (Scientific American)
"Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is one of the oldest known diseases of the plant world. Plague--known as the 'black death' in medieval Europe--is one of the oldest diseases afflicting humans, and has become a focus of concern in recent years because of its potential use as a bioweapon. Now scientists have transformed TMV to infect host plants and produce immunizing proteins rather than debilitating leaf shrivel, turning greenhouse tobacco into a biofactory for plague vaccine." 3-05
- States Now Tied to Big Tobacco (MSNBC News)
"On Nov. 23, 1998, the nation's four largest cigarette sellers agreed to pay $200 billion over 30 years in what seemed like a victory for David over Goliath. The money was supposed to help the states pay for health care and anti-smoking campaigns. Instead, much of it -- even payments that aren't due for 20 years -- has already been spent on politically popular tax breaks through complicated borrowing schemes initiated by Wall Street investment banks."
"Because these states have essentially borrowed against future payments from the tobacco industry, they are now dependent on the continued vitality of cigarette sales. If Big Tobacco stumbles, states will be on the hook for these massive, billion-dollar loans. In other words, David and Goliath are now allies." 11-08
- Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention
- Quitting Tobacco Use Lowers Lung Cancer Risk (CNN - Baum)
Provides the results of a 10-year study in California showing a correlation between the reduction of tobacco use and the incidence of lung cancer. 9-00
- State Tobacco Programs Fail (CBS News)
"Most states have failed to pay for tobacco-prevention programs and protect people from second-hand smoke despite receiving billions of dollars in settlement money to take such measures, according to a report."
"The American Lung Association's report, released Tuesday, gave 38 states grades of F for failing to fund tobacco prevention and control programs. Thirty-five states received F's for their smoke-free air laws." 1-04
- Smoking Tobacco Prevention
- Guidelines for Preventing Tobacco Use (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Provides guidelines for school health programs to help prevent the use of tobacco by children and teens. 1-04
- Tobacco QuitNet Library (Join Together Online and Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program)
- Guides to Quitting Tobacco Use (QuitNet)
Provides 6 guides to help stop tobacco use. 6-00
- Tobacco Quiting Resources (Join Together Online and Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program)
- Posters On Tobacco Prevention (BADvertising Institute)
- Tobacco Damage (Tobacco Free Kids)
Show kids in no uncertain terms what tobacco can do to the human body.
- Chew Tobacco - Damage and Quitting (University of Arkansas for Medical Science - PATCH)
Provides a free program to help with quitting, as well as providing reasons for quitting. 6-00
- Plan to Reduce Tobacco Use by Children (Dept. of Health and Human Services)
Provides the key points of the President's plan to reduce tobacco use by children. 6-00
- Tobacco Information and Prevention (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Provides facts, news, research, surveys, organizations, toabacco industry documents, "best practices" by programs, educational materials, and guides related to the cessation of tobacco use. 6-00
- Tobacco Education and Prevention (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Provides educational materials, factsheets, and other materials. 1-01
- Guide to Quitting Tobacco Use (QuitNet)
Provides a guide to help stop tobacco use. 9-01
- Tobacco Cessation Guidelines (U.S. Surgeon General)
Provides guidelines, based on latest research, on how to stop smoking. 1-04
- Anti-Tobacco Products for Teens (Generation Truth)
Provides mugs, T-shirts, and posters to help combat tobacco use by teens. 9-00
- History of Tobacco (Borio)
Provides dozens of sources of information on the history of the cultivation and use of tobacco. 8-01
- Frequently Asked Questions About Tobacco Use (University of California San Fancisco - Tobacco Control Archives)
Provides answers to frequently asked questions about tobacco use. 8-01
- Tobacco Encyclopedia (UICC-GLOBALink - TobaccoPedia)
Provides comprehensive information about the effects and use of tobacco, organized by topic. Includes information on advertising, litigation, industry supporters, economics, and more. 8-01
- Industry Plans to Target Youth for Tobacco Ads (Smoking Gun)
Provides internal memos that show that that executives in the major tobacco manufacturing companies focused ads on trying to capture the youth market. 8-01
- Industry Plans to Target Youth for Tobacco Ads - Sample Document (Smoking Gun)
Provides an internal memo, dated October 15, 1987, within R. J. Reynolds (Marlboro tobacco company) that discusses a project, including budget, to get youth from ages 13 - 24 to use their brand of cigarette. Visitors sometimes misspell as cigaret, cigaret, cigeret, or cigarete. 8-01
- Tobacco Cessation Guidelines (CDC)
Provides guidelines, based on latest research, on how to stop smoking. 1-04
- Obesity - Food Industry Sued (CBC News)
"The same lawyers who took on Big Tobacco met this summer in Washington to explore whether similar tactics can be used against the food industry." "And just like tobacco, the lawyers would target junk food advertising and gimmicks directed at children." 8-02
- Essay - John McCain Should Switch Parties and Run for President Again (The Washington Monthly - Green)
"Deep down, what worries them [Democrats] is the growing sense that none of these candidates can beat Bush. Doing that will require someone with the perfect combination of qualities: the ability to match Bush's greatest strength (military leadership), exploit his greatest weakness (shameless ties to special interests), and offer a fresh, appealing agenda of his own. More and more, an honest survey of Democratic contenders suggests that unless the political winds change, the likeliest outcome is: four more years of George W. Bush."
"There is an alternative, but it isn't one that most people have considered. In fact, the best Democrat may be someone who's no Democrat at all: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). As a war hero who's hawkish on foreign policy, he more than matches Bush on the military front. As a reform-minded foe of corporate welfare, Big Tobacco, and the Republican right, he is peerless. McCain is Bush's most vociferous critic, voted against the president's tax cut, forced his hand on campaign finance reform, and federalized airport security in the face of White House opposition. He has co-sponsored numerous bills with Democrats--many of them in the presidential-aspirant class--requiring background checks at gun shows (Lieberman), a patients' bill of rights (Edwards), better fuel-efficiency standards in cars and SUVs (Kerry), and expanded national service programs (Bayh). He is even drafting a bill with Lieberman to reduce greenhouse gasses and mitigate global warming." 12-02
- Hodgkin, Dorothy Crowfoot (University of California San Diego)
"Concentrating first on her contributions to science, she is known as a founder of the science of protein crystallography. Hodgkin's contributions to crystallography included solutions of the structures of cholesterol, lactoglobulin, ferritin, tobacco mosaic virus, penicillin, vitamin B-12, and insulin (a solution on which she worked for 34 years), as well as the development of methods for indexing and processing X-ray intensities." 1-04
- 07-01-03 Obesity: Food Giant to Change Ways (Independent)
Amid growing concern about the threat of fat-related lawsuits, the world's second biggest food manufacturer is to cut back on the fat and sugar content of most of its products and reduce the size of the portions."
"Kraft...announced yesterday that it would overhaul its range of products around the world to make them less unhealthy. Many other food manufacturers are expected to follow suit - to avoid the risk of being sued by overweight consumers in the way that tobacco companies have been sued by smokers." 7-03
- Wall Street Reform and Eliot Spitzer (PBS - NOW with Bill Moyers)
"In the role as guardians of the public interest, several attorney generals are responsible for the massive tobacco awards now propping up state coffers. And, just last year, New York's Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed, and won, a landmark suit against several large Wall Street firms accused of corporate malfeasance." 12-03
- Sac and Fox Nation History (the Pages of Shades)
"The Asakiwaki (Sauk) and Meshkwahkihaki (Mesquakie/Fox) belong to the Woodland and Plains Cultures. They are are Algonquin-speaking peoples."
"In the valley the soil was rich and fertile. Using the shoulder bone of a buffalo or deer, the women broke the land and turned over the soil. They grew corn, beans, squash, pumpkin and tobacco. Of all the crops corn was the most important. It could be boiled, roasted, or made into soup or dumplings. After the kernels were stripped from the cob it could be dried and pounded into meal or stored away for further use. When kernels were laid out on a hot rock they would pop into fluffy morsels. Corn provided its own seed for the next year's planting. As long as the Sauk and Fox had a good harvest of corn, they knew they would not go hungry." 10-04
- Baseball Card Sells for $2.35 Million Dollars (ABC News)
" The "Holy Grail of baseball cards," the famous 1909 Honus Wagner tobacco card once owned by hockey great Wayne Gretzky, has sold for a record-setting $2,350,000, the seller of the card said Monday." 02-07
- -09-25-07 Bush Likely to Veto Child Healthcare Bill (Christian Science Monitor)
"With a popular children's health insurance program set to expire this week, US lawmakers who want to expand it are scrambling to find enough votes to withstand a probable veto of their legislation."
"It's the first in what is shaping up to be a season of standoffs over funding. President Bush has threatened to veto nine of 12 spending bills for fiscal year 2008, as well as the proposed renewal of the 10-year-old State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP)."
"Last week, House and Senate negotiators agreed to an increase for the S-CHIP program of $35 billion over five years, to be financed with a 61-cent tobacco tax increase. That increase will reduce the number of uninsured children by some 4 million, or about 10 million covered by the S-CHIP program overall." 09-07
- Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention (SAMHSA)
Provides a comprehensive resource for information on substance abuse prevention, including alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. 4-01
- At-Risk Behaviors by Youth (U.S. Dept of HHS - HHS News)
According to the 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 41.6 percent of youth ages 18-25 report smoking tobacco. Youth 12-17 who smoke are 11.4 times more likely to use illicit drugs and 16 times more likely to drink heavily.
- Teens - Facts for Teens about Smoking (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Provides facts for teens. 6-00
- Teens - Posters on Smoking (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Provides 5 posters for teens related to tobacco smoking. 6-00
- Teens and Kids - Rate Movies (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Provides two worksheets for rating the "smokiness" of a movie. 6-00
- Teens and Kids - Movie Facts (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
Provides facts about how movies promote smoking without using ads. 6-00
- News Related to Smoking (QuitNet)
Provides news stories on efforts to reduce the use of tobacco. 6-00
- Safety Suggestions for Teens (KidsHealth.org)
Discusses safety related to tanning, dates, drugs, abuse, bicycles, tobacco, and more. 3-01
- Additives to Cigarettes (Indiana University - Indiana Prevention Resource Center)
Provides the list of 599 ingredients added to cigarettes by the five leading cigarette manufacturers. 8-01
- Smoking and Cancer of the Lungs (Healthopedia.com)
Provides detailed information, listed by condition. 8-04
- -07-10-07 New Tablet Could Help Smokers Quit (CBS News)
"A drug called varenicline may be the answer. The tablets already have been shown to make smoking less rewarding for some. Preliminary work, done in rats, suggests they could do the same for drinking." 07-07
- -12-18-08 Secrets of Successful Quitters of Smoking (U.S. News)
"Research suggests that pairing medication with group, individual, or telephone counseling can boost abstinence rates by 40 to 70 percent over using either one alone. The 2008 guidelines recommend four or more counseling sessions of at least 10 minutes each; the longer and more intense the counseling, the better the result." 12-08
- Federal Tax Hike Hits Smokers (CNN News)
"Thanks in part to the largest-ever federal cigarette tax increase -- a nearly 62-cents-a-pack hike that starts Wednesday but was reflected in many prices earlier -- Jukes on Tuesday paid more than $58 for a 10-pack carton at the Cigarette Store in Denver, Colorado." 04-09
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