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9 Aug 2010, 9:59 pm by Donald Clarke
I've received an announcement of three positions at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids with a Chinese law and policy element. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 5:52 am by Brian Wolfman
Read this new report by the American Heart Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids claiming that the big tobacco companies and convenience stores work together, illegally, to market tobacco to kids. [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 7:45 am by Robert Kraft
ABC News reports on its website that a recent Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids report asserts that cigarettes have become “more addictive, more attractive to kids and even more deadly,” over the past few decades. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 3:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARKOWITZ JOINS COUNCILMEMBERS, HEALTH ADVOCATES TO LAUNCH BROOKLYN SMOKE-FREE PARTNERSHIP TO PROTECT KIDS FROM BIG TOBACCO AND PROMOTE A TOBACCO-FREE BROOKLYN  293,000 BROOKLYN RESIDENTS - INCLUDING 6,000 KIDS - NOW SMOKE MARKOWITZ AND OTHERS VOW TO FIGHT BIG TOBACCO NEIGHBORHOOD BY NEIGHBORHOOD TO PROTECT KIDS FROM ENTICING TOBACCO ADVERTISING Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz… [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 5:16 am by InternationalLaw Blogger
In July 2010, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK), ALIAR, and other Argentinean civil society organizations prepared a shadow report before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms... [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 7:03 am by Robert Kraft
The Hill reports the American Lung Association, March of Dimes, and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, were among 53 groups that wrote to the leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees to reject any upcoming government spending bill with riders excluding e-cigarettes and other tobacco products currently on the market from the Food and Drug Administration’s regulatory purview. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 7:03 am by Simon Lester
This is from Inside US Trade: The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a U.S. anti-smoking group, is actively lobbying Democratic members of Congress hoping to sway them in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) based on the argument that the agreement's tobacco carveout is a major public health victory, according to the head of the organization. [read post]
23 Jun 2011, 11:20 am by Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal
On behalf of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids Action Fund, the American Cancer Society, and other health groups, we were successful in beating back yet another attempt by the tobacco companies to weaken the remedial order issued in the Court's seminal RICO ruling in United States v. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 12:14 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
O’Neill Institute Colloquium 2011 Tobacco and TradeMatthew Myers — President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free KidsTobacco is a unique product: kills ½ of longterm consumers when used exactly as intended. [read post]
1 Nov 2021, 6:10 am by Robert Kraft
Filter (NY) reports, “On September 28, a string of mainstream public health organizations including the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association, together with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK), sent a letter to Janet Woodcock, acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 8:44 pm by Peter
Maggie Fox of Reuters writes that a study released by the Cancer Action Network, the advocacy arm of the American Cancer Society, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Heart Association, American Lung Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows that, [A]dding a $1 per pack tax to cigarettes could raise more than $9 billion a year [...] [read post]
10 Jun 2023, 11:41 am by Howard Wasserman
It features the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids discussing opposition to early smoking bans, which featured arguments that prohibiting indoor smoking would destroy... [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 4:13 am
A recent publication by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids claims that federal cigarette taxes aren't regressive because they actually benefit low-income people more than high-income people. [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 7:51 am
As the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids reports, the nationwide average cig tax is now $1.19 per pack.The Republican-led House quickly announced that it was having none of this. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 6:43 pm
Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an advocacy group that administers the fund, called the chamber “the tobacco industry’s most formidable front group,” adding, “it pops up everywhere. [read post]
23 Feb 2014, 3:46 am by Jon Gelman
Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an advocacy group. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 6:13 am by Hardee Bass
In '94, the Surgeon General concluded that if young people can remain free of tobacco until age 18, most will never start to smoke, which has proven not to be that far off - in 2012, 80% of high school smokers will continue smoking into adulthood. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 6:13 am by Hardee Bass
In '94, the Surgeon General concluded that if young people can remain free of tobacco until age 18, most will never start to smoke, which has proven not to be that far off - in 2012, 80% of high school smokers will continue smoking into adulthood. [read post]
9 Aug 2019, 10:40 am by Altman & Altman
Experts have also found that Juul Labs has engaged in similar advertising campaigns – like using young, attractive models and marketing exciting names and tasty flavors – as tobacco companies of the past. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 11:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Previous research suggests that 57% of the city's nonsmoking adults have tobacco byproducts in their bodies, indicating exposure to second-hand smoke in some indoor or outdoor location. [read post]