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Added: 2008-May-19 , 01:59
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 Mostly, though, he was an outspoken opponent of smoking. He fought to toughen the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965, which affixed a warning on cigarette packages saying that smoking could be "hazardous to your health."He maintained that it was "indefensible" for the tobacco industry to advertise cheap cigarettes "in a context of happiness, vigor, success and well-being without even a hint appearing anywhere that the product may also lead to disease and death."Dr. Stewart often faced fierce opposition from the tobacco lobby and its supporters. In 1967, when a Kentucky congressman said limits on cigarette advertising could cause economic hardship, Dr. Stewart replied: "I recognize there are thousands of people in the industry and the tobacco farmers who are caught up in this -- but I also recognize there are 49 million people exposed to a hazard."
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Added: 2008-Apr-3 , 01:51
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Added: 2008-Jan-14 , 04:17
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As it is, however, the issue of addiction is a red herring. Dole was also right when he said, "But I think the more serious question is whether or not the FDA has jurisdiction" over Cheap Cigarettes.The FDA is using the addiction issue as an excuse to gain the power to regulate tobacco. But it routinely regulates drugs that are non-addictive – antibiotics, for instance – while forsaking regulation of substances that are.By the same criteria the FDA is applying to tobacco, "beverages containing alcohol or caffeine are addictive, but they're not regulated as drugs," notes Reason magazine senior editor Jacob Sullum, author of an upcoming book on the anti-smoking movement."Addictiveness is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for FDA jurisdiction," he says. Rather, it's just a smokescreen for Commissioner David Kessler to justify the sudden reversal of its longstanding position that cigarettes are not covered by the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. "They pretend this is a new development," Sullum told me, "but people have been talking about the addictive potential of tobacco for hundreds of years."Only in one respect was Dole truly wrong. He also told the Kentucky crowd, "In effect, if they should claim jurisdiction and find that cigarettes are a drug, then in effect, you're banning cigarettes and production of tobacco, so it's going to affect a lot of people."Possibly, but probably not. Kessler and Waxman did initially say that if the FDA decided to regulate tobacco as a drug, a ban might be its only option. But now the FDA is instead pushing a series of measures ostensibly intended to reduce underage smoking, including restrictions on advertising, promotion, and sales.
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Added: 2007-Dec-27 , 01:17
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Added: 2007-Dec-5 , 04:19
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Added: 2007-Nov-23 , 06:07
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Added: 2007-Nov-22 , 02:45
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America is a wonderful country. It is a country where everyone has rights. In fact, everyone has so many rights that most people aren't even aware of all the rights they have. The exception to this is the criminal class. They are not only aware of all their rights, they also claim a great number that they don't have.Smoking is not necessarily a crime, and smokers are not necessarily criminals. However, smoking is prohibited by law in some locations and situations. Now, while we can argue all day about the stupidity of legislating the use of a legal substance, the dangers of secondhand smoke, whether nicotine is really physically addictive, why we're picking on tobacco when kids can buy meth more easily, or a dozen other things about smoking, one thing I think we can all agree on is this: If there is any place in the world where a person should be free of cigarette smoke, it's at a hospital.On second thought, scratch that. I work at a hospital. I encounter people who don't agree with that almost daily. Here are a few of the "rights" that people have explained to me over the years when I have encountered them while working my security job (aka being "The Bastard Officer From Hell").
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Added: 2007-Nov-22 , 02:44
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Tobacco companies have long recognised the importance of packaging in complimenting and extending the imagery created by advertising. As early as the 1950s, some US$150 000 was spent on packaging research by Philip Morris,23 equivalent to around $1 million in today's terms. To facilitate Marlboro's "repositioning" from a woman's cigarette ("Mild as May") to a man's smoke in the 1950s, "more than 120 different additional superogatory designs were created, rendered and researched. They were tested for eye movement, for associated characteristics, for emotional impact, for every attribute within the power of Vienna to define or invent".24 (Here, Vienna is a reference to Freudian psychiatry.)The influence of packaging is so great as to persist even when smokers are trained and practised in distinguishing between different brands of cigarettes when they are smoked. In 1980, British American Tobacco (BAT) investigated the influence of brand identification and imagery on subjective evaluation of cigarettes. The study exposed a panel of smokers to a control condition where the brand identification was masked and packs were absent, a condition where brand identification markings were visible on the cigarette but packs were absent, or a condition where cigarettes were contained in the pack from which they would normally be taken. The study found " . . .even with the use of panelists who are trained to be objective in their evaluation of cigarettes, that both brand identification and pack imagery variables have a significant effect on the individual's perception of the sensory attributes of the product."25 The concept of "sensation transfer" from the pack to the product, sometimes called the "halo effect" of packaging, is an important phenomenon. As will be later illustrated, it is a critical factor in creating the impression of lower tar cigarettes.
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