Smoking and Tobacco Industry
By Chelsea Conaboy on June 12, 2018
Vodka toasts for gun rights group: Several prominent Russians, including people said to be in Putin’s inner circle or powerful within the Russian Orthodox Church, met with officials of the National Rifle Association in Moscow and elsewhere during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a McClatchy report.
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Consumer Protection, FDA, food safety, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, wage theft, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Angus Chen on June 7, 2018
Teenagers from local high schools flock to Brooklyn Vape in downtown Brooklyn. The store is small – a single room with vape paraphernalia stacked to the ceiling in glass cabinets. Many of the teens walk awkwardly through the shop and ask the clerk, a man who goes by Ali and wouldn’t give his last…
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
By Paul Feldman on June 6, 2018
In a closely watched election contest, San Francisco voters have upheld a first-in-the-nation ban on the sale of menthol cigarettes and other flavored tobacco products, overwhelmingly rejecting an $11.6 million campaign by R.J. Reynolds to scuttle the law.
Posted in FairWarning Reports, Recent Stories | Tagged Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
By Chelsea Conaboy on May 1, 2018
EPA on the brink of ‘regulatory capture’?: By avoiding input from career employees, promoting the views of industry leaders and proposing aggressive cuts to the agency’s budget and staff, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has dramatically changed the agency, researchers with the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative have found. The EPA appears headed toward “regulatory…
Posted in Warning Wire | Tagged Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, labor laws, Pharmaceutical Industry and Drugs, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, wage violations |
By Paul Feldman on November 29, 2017
Anti-smoking groups, frustrated by federal inaction on restricting menthol cigarettes, are taking matters into their own hands. In recent months, cities ranging from Oakland and Los Gatos, Calif., to Minneapolis and St. Paul have passed laws limiting the availability of menthol cigarettes, which health advocates say have a particular appeal to beginning smokers. St. Paul…
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Consumer Protection, Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
By Stuart Silverstein and Myron Levin on November 21, 2017
In a matter of days, the American tobacco industry will begin publicly admitting some ugly truths about its dark history and the health effects of smoking. The tobacco giants will launch a court-ordered national advertising campaign to end a massive fraud and racketeering case that the federal government brought against the industry nearly two decades…
Posted in FairWarning Reports | Tagged Consumer Protection, Product Hazards and Recalls, Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
By Myron Levin on February 9, 2017
Tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds, the top seller of the menthol cigarettes favored by most black smokers, is seizing on the hot button issue of police harassment of blacks to counter efforts by public health advocates to restrict menthol sales. In recent months, the company has quietly enlisted black groups and leaders, including civil rights activist…
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Cigarette Smuggling, Consumer Protection, Product Hazards and Recalls, Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
Big Companies in Legal Scrapes Turn to Science-for-Hire Giant Exponent
By Myron Levin and Paul Feldman on December 13, 2016
The Fall of Icarus is the Greek myth about a youth who gets a pair of wax-and-feather wings but soars too close to the sun–melting the wings and casting him into the sea. In the 1990s, a consulting firm called Failure Analysis Associates ran tongue-in-cheek ads aimed at corporate lawyers that retold the myth as…
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Air Pollution/Toxic Exposure, Auto and Highway Safety, Aviation Safety, Consumer Protection, Environmental Safety and Health, Food Supply, Product Hazards and Recalls, Smoking and Tobacco Industry, Workplace Safety and Health |
By Myron Levin on November 17, 2015
Lorillard Tobacco donated nearly four times as much to Republican candidates as to Democrats in the 2014 congressional elections. No surprise there — most businesses count on Republicans to hold the line on regulations and taxes. But Lorillard made a striking exception for one set of Democrats: African Americans. It gave campaign cash to half…
Posted in FairWarning Investigates | Tagged Cigarette Smuggling, Product Hazards and Recalls, Smoking and Tobacco Industry |
By Myron Levin on October 6, 2015
The sweeping trade deal concluded Monday by negotiators from the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim countries still faces strong criticism from environmentalists, labor unions and many lawmakers– which makes its approval by Congress uncertain. But public health groups are rejoicing over a provision barring the tobacco industry from using the treaty, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, to…
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