Articles
TOBACCO: Light Up
In the highly competitive cigarette industry, there were some significant changes in the standing of the leaders While domestic consumption in 1950 rose to a...
TOBACCO: Man of Few Words
Everyone knows Chesterfields, thanks to $8,000,000 a year spent on such slogans as "They Satisfy" and "ABCAlways Buy Chesterfield." But outsiders know little...
TOBACCO: Honor System
Suspicion, wheedling, indignation, and the haunting eyes of the tobaccoless have hounded the nation's cigaret retailers since the coming of the great famine...
Medicine: Indian Tobacco v. Tobacco
MEDICINE Indian Tobacco v. Tobacco A Spanish physician whom American Indians taught to smoke tobacco introduced that indigenous American plant to Europe in...
Religion: Methodists v. Tobacco
Before they can be admitted to their district conference, all Methodist ministers are asked, "Will you abstain from the use of tobacco and other indulgences...
National Affairs: Tobacco Policy
Sir A. Maurice Low, suave Washington correspondent of the London Post (diehard Tory), suggested recently that the President's tobacco policy is different from...
Business: American Tobacco
Earnings of the American Tobacco Co., according to its 1924 report, were the largest in its history. Total income last year amounted to $20,844,993, as against...
Business: Tobacco Consumption
The principal effect of the War period upon the tobacco business has been the increased sales of cigarettes as compared with cigars. Under growing use of...
Business & Finance: Tobacco Merger?
The absence abroad of J. B. Duke, George Whelan and other leading figures in the tobacco business, is held to confirm rumors of a $250,000,000 tobacco...
Non-Smoking Hotel Rooms Aren’t a Guarantee of a Smoke-Free Stay
Just because you choose the non-smoking hotel room doesn't mean you're completely protecting yourself from exposure. A new study published in the journal,...
Earning It: Office Darwinism on Mad Men and The Good Wife
Last night's episodes of both dramas showed that their firms can be unfair places to work—and some of the same characters we sympathize with like it that way.
NYC Proposing Raising The Age To Buy Cigarettes To 21
After years of striving to set a national agenda for curbing smoking, New York City may set a new bar by becoming the most populous place in America to raise the...
Feds Bust Up $100M NC Crop Insurance Fraud Ring
(RALEIGH, N.C.) — Federal investigators have unraveled a massive scheme among dozens of insurance agents, claims adjusters, brokers and farmers in eastern North...
A Quitter's Market
As the new year begins, many of the estimated 45 million smokers in America are trying to kick the habit. It's a perennial New Year's resolution, according to an...
Cairo’s New Normal: Protests Spawn a World of Walls and Barricades
Ramadan Romih, the heavyset manager of the White House Net, an Internet café up the street from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside...
Smoke-Free Laws Are Saving Lives
You can't smoke in most restaurants and malls, and those laws may be responsible for saving thousands of lives.
Women Who Give Up Smoking Extend Lives by 10 Years
A new study of over a million women reports smokers more than triple their risk of dying early compared to non smokers, and that kicking the habit can virtually...
Five Smart-Phone Apps That Promote Smoking
Marketing cigarettes ain’t what it used to be. Gone are the days of Joe Camel billboards and T-shirts or caps branded with cigarette makers’ logos. But Big...
