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Is Big Soda as Bad as Big Tobacco?
Over at TIME's new "Ideas" blog, obesity and food policy expert Kelly Brownell makes the case for a soda tax: simply put, it's good for the country's waistline...
How Safe Is Tobacco That Melts In Your Mouth?
Big name tobacco brands are ramping up their presence in the dissolvable tobacco game, and consumers in test markets, as well as regulators, are trying to figure...
Hollywood to Kids: Smoking Isn't Cool
Were they still alive today, John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart might have been given a serious image makeover. The message from Hollywood last year: smoking in...
Do Bhutan's Anti-Smoking Laws Go Too Far?
On March 3, Sonam Tshering, a Buddhist monk, was sentenced to three years in prison in the Himalayan nation of Bhutan. His crime? Trying to smuggle $2.50 worth...
China Shows Little Progress in Kicking Its Smoking Habit
China is a nation in serious need of Nicorette. Taxi drivers light up when they drive and sometimes hand out cigarettes to passengers as a token of...
Thai Protesters Smoke Out Tobacco Execs
Thailand may have a reputation for indulging visitors in their various vices, but smoking is no longer one of them. On Tuesday, more than 600 fired-up...
House to Send FDA Tobacco Bill to Obama
(WASHINGTON) — After more than a decade of efforts by smoking opponents, Congress prepared to take a final vote Friday on legislation giving the government...
Why a Tobacco Giant Backs a Tough New Antismoking Bill
The U.S. Senate on Thursday struck the most devastating legislative blow in history to Big Tobacco, giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority over...
Cigarette Advertising
The June 11 passage of the FDA Tobacco Regulation Bill, which provides the U.S. government with extensive power to regulate tobacco products, is a major step...
Big Tobacco Sets Its Sights on Africa
It's easy enough to buy a smoke at Isa Yakubu's grocery store on a busy street in Lagos, Nigeria. Never mind if you don't have much money. Most local merchants...
Big Tobacco's New Targets
There are a lot of ways to divide the world--rich and poor, east and west, industrial and agrarian. Now add one more: smoking and nonsmoking. In the U.S. and...
How Much Do Life Insurers Profit from Tobacco?
In an era of corporate wellness programs and socially screened investment funds, some of the world's largest life-insurance companies still own billions of...
A Brief History Of: Cigarette Advertising
For practically as long as the U.S. has existed, Americans have been selling tobacco. But a pack of new industry regulations passed by Congress could put a drag...
Big Tobacco's Newest Headache
It is shaping up to be a bad couple of weeks for the tobacco lobby. First, a Senate panel approved a 61-cent hike in federal taxes on all packs of smokes, and...
What Do You Think: Tobacco Ballots
"Initiative": Tobacco Taxes/Smoking Bans/Tobacco Settlement Revenues "Number of States Voting": 7 "Where": Arizona, California, Florida, Missouri,...
China's Smoking Curb is Bad News for Big Tobacco
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...
Behind the Tobacco Retreat
The U.S. government has spent four years and more than $135 million building a case in federal court that cigarette makers profited over the course of a...
This Tobacco Money May Be Hazardous To Your Health
When 46 states agreed in 1998 to settle their claims against the nation's tobacco companies for $206 billion, they promised that a "significant" portion of the...
From Big Tobacco, a Smoking Gun that Saves Money
Maybe Big Tobacco should be suing the government, instead of the other way around. A study commissioned by Philip Morris in the Czech Republic found that a...
