Big Tobacco’s unrelenting campaign against our children
Yes, Big Tobacco is still trying to get your children to smoke cigarettes, even though laws enjoin them to stop. How can they help it? They’ve got to replace all those smokers who quit or die. When...
View ArticleHow smokefree laws for adults protect children
A funny thing happened with Scotlands’ smokefree law, which banned smoking in public places such as restaurants, bars, shops, cinemas, offices, hospitals, work vehicles and sports centers. Research...
View ArticleCigarette pack warnings: US lags and Americans suffer
There’s been a lot of talk about the FDA’s proposed pictorial warnings on cigarette packs, including some whining by people who say they go too far. Actually, our proposed pictorial warnings are tame...
View ArticleSome good news from California: Smoking is waaaay down!
By Jim Gogek These days, Californians don’t hear a lot of good news about our state, not with budget cuts decimating our once vaunted education system, our parks and other public services. But one...
View ArticleSome bad news from California: We’re not a smoke-free state
By Jim Gogek Not too long ago, I was bragging on California in this blog because we have one of the lowest smoking rates in the country, lower than some other states by half. I said that was because...
View ArticleMentally ill, addicted and tobacco: Public views change slowly as clinicians...
By Jim Gogek The new frontier in the war against tobacco is special populations, particularly people with mental disorders, including addiction. Unfortunately, an uninformed, paternalistic public view...
View ArticleBig Tobacco: The biggest and most willing liar
By Jim Gogek In the film noir The Naked City, Detective Muldoon tells the smarmy Frank Niles, “…you are probably the biggest and most willing liar I have ever met.” Muldoon never met the modern day...
View ArticleEditorial cartoonists did their duty in Australia’s tobacco war
By Jim Gogek By now, we’ve all seen the new generation of pictorial health warnings gracing tobacco packs in enlightened countries, though not yet in the United States, which is falling behind other...
View ArticleDeadly scourge will kill three-quarters of a million AA and NA members
"...724,153 worldwide members of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous – who are alive today -- will die from tobacco, including 499,410 in the United States and Canada..." Continue reading →
View ArticleIf electronic cigarettes can help people quit smoking, then why is Big...
...The tobacco industry knows something that some harm reduction theorists don’t realize, and that the e-cigarette industry doesn’t care about: Electronic cigarettes can be an adjunct to smoking...
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