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New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Big awards to plaintiffs who sue tobacco companies can send a message to the tobacco industry, provide a strong incentive for others to sue and fund anti-smoking campaigns nationwide.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
NEW DELHI, INDIA (MARKET WIRE) Despite the decline by the broader markets, health insurance stocks were also able to buck the day's downtrend, lifting the Morgan Stanley Healthcare Payor Index up by 1.4 percent. As new market updates continue to fuel the current trading trend, Wall Street Sense analysts have issued valuable analysis on the following companies: Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The British American Tobacco (BAT) has said that it paid N89 billion tax as revenue to the federal government between 2001 and 2009.
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A Man With A Ph.D. (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The Manufactured Doubt industry and the hacked email controversy: [Via Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog] In 1954, the tobacco industry realized it had a serious problem. Thirteen scientific studies had been published over the preceding five years linking smoking to lung cancer. With the public growing increasingly alarmed about the health effects of smoking, the tobacco industry had [...]
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Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
via media.syracuse.com View full size photo » The NFL currently finds itself in a heated debate over concussions and the way it deals with their effects. After years trying to lessen the correlation between football and head injuries the way the tobacco industry tries to lessen the link between cigarettes and cancer, the league is slowly beginning to own up to the fact that its sport is a dangerous...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids:
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Conwood Company, LLC, is changing its name to American Snuff Company, LLC, effective Jan. 1, 2010. Conwood, the nation's second largest manufacturer of smokeless tobacco products, is an operating company of Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI).
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Ecigazon.com, an Electronic Cigarette company and advocate for Electronic Cigarettes as an alternative to tobacco smoking, has sent its own Health Reform to the White House: an Electronic Cigarette as a gift to President Obama for the holidays.
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Our opinion: The NFL tackles concussions There's nothing like being compared negatively to the tobacco industry to get a business' attention. And so it is with the NFL. At a high-profile congressional hearing last month, Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., told...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
CATTARAUGUS TERRITORY, N.Y., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Seneca Nation President Barry E. Snyder said today that Senate Judiciary Committee members have overreacted by approving S. 1147, the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act (PACT Act). If the PACT Act becomes law, there will be significant economic harm to the Seneca Nation, its members, member enterprises and the Western New York Economy.
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Schools Matter (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
From Susan Ohanian and Steve Krashen : FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The NCTE gives The Doublespeak Award annually to those "who have perpetuated language that is grossly deceptive, evasive, euphemistic, confusing, or self-centered." Previous winners include George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Exxon, the National Rifle Association, and the Tobacco Industry. NCTE deserves the award for...
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Dick Puddlecote (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Another view into our future because, as we well know, if it happens in the US, it's only a short while before it gets to us. This article in the New York Daily News closely follows steps 2, 3, 4 & 5 of the tobacco control template . Always remember, though, that it is for your own good . Make meat-eaters pay: Ethicist proposes radical tax, says they're killing themselves and the planet But in...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
British American Tobacco (BAT-Rwanda) Thursday remitted a cheque of Rwf 4 million as part of the company's contribution to the 'One Dollar' campaign provide support for orphans of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis.
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aarkstore | 11/23/2009
Summary British American Tobacco (Malaysia) Berhad (British American Tobacco) is one of the leading companies in the cigarette Industry. The company is engaged in the manufacturing and selling of high quality tobacco products worldwide. The company is vertically integrated and is involved in the full spectrum of the tobacco industry, from leaf buying and processing to manufacturing, marketing and distribution....
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gumir | 05/06/2008
Kazakhstan stock exchange (KASE) informs that on April 16, 2008 on the special trade floor of regional financial center of Almaty (STF RFCA) in the secondary market sector, two deals with common shares KZ1C05500018 (aUTMK) of Ust-Kamenogorskiy titanium-magnesium combine JSC (Ust-Kamenogorsk) were registered. The deals were conducted with 260 shares at the price of KZT 27,000.00 per each one for the