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Old Cigarette Ads: Doctors, Nurses, And Rock Hudson Say It's Good For You

Man, cigarettes were awesome in the past, if these old ads collected by Stanford University are to be believed. They calmed your nerves so you'd stop humming nervously! They soothed your throat! They made you a movie star and helped you capture animals on your big game hunt! We don't know what tobacco was made of before the mid-80s, but no wonder everyone smoked. More »

5:20 PM on Fri Oct 10 2008
By Chris Walters
8,838 views, 62 comments

Most discussed Corporate-Shill: My City has a smoking Ban. Life if good. more »

conflict of interest

Liggett Cigarette Company Paid For 2006 Lung Cancer Study

CT scanning, a promising approach to detecting lung cancer at early, treatable stages, has been dealt a setback with the revelation that the most prominent study so far in support of it was funded almost entirely by a cigarette company—with the funds funneled through a foundation set up by the study's author, Dr. Claudia Henschke, reports the New York Times. Although the funding revelation doesn't negate the results of the study, it raises huge conflict of interest flags and reveals how a tobacco company secretly influenced professional opinion by funneling $3.6 million into the foundation over a three year period. More »

8:34 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Chris Walters
1,899 views, 26 comments

Latest by trujunglist: @IrisMR: Everyone is dying slowly and painfully, some more than others. more »

smoking

China Puts Skulls on Cigarette Packs, Bypasses Toys For Now

China's had such a bad safety record lately that it's a little surprising to find out their latest plans for health warnings on packs of cigarettes: skulls, blackened teeth, and diseased lungs, covering at least 30% of the pack's surface area. The move is an attempt to curb the growing market of smokers in the country, where the average age of people who start smoking is as low as 10 in some areas. More »

5:09 PM on Wed Sep 12 2007
By Chris Walters
1,127 views, 11 comments

Latest by Robert Synnott: This is pretty common nowadays. I don't think that there's much evidence they work. Here in Ireland, packets just have text more »

news from the swamp

Senate Committee Votes To Give FDA Power To Regulate Tobacco

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted 13-8 to empower the FDA to regulate tobacco products. States and municipalities have spent years shoving cigarettes out of the public domain, but the FDA would be able to control cigarette advertising, mandate bigger, European-style warning labels, and regulate nicotine content. Only Congress has the power to ban cigarettes outright. From the Boston Globe:

Yesterday's slim majority however, came as Republican-sponsored amendments loom that could gut the bill's main intent.

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9:47 AM on Fri Aug 3 2007
By Carey
1,572 views, 55 comments

Latest by jerseyjokeboy: You know, at first I was against the smoking ban. But as a non-smoker I am seriously fed up more »

blogs

Five Things Tobacco Companies Wish They Never Said

Here's five thing about nicotine's addictiveness and the industry's underlying motives that tobacco companies probably wish they never said. Not like they're a shock or anything, it's just that they're there, in print, in court documents. Blamo. More »

2:30 PM on Tue Feb 6 2007
By Ben Popken
436 views, 8 comments

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Wacky Tobaccy

The cover of a 2002 anti-smoking pamphlet brought to you by your friends at the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Besides the fact that no kids gather in ice-cream parlors anymore, where does the one above even exist? They must have had to open up the secret wing of the confectioner's museum for the photo shoot. More »

2:03 PM on Wed Sep 27 2006
By Ben Popken
308 views, 37 comments

Latest by dave the wet sprocket: ten years from now, the guy on the left will be desperately peddling a dirty sanchez sex tape recorded without more »

ads

Clowns Choose Camels For Superior Flavor, Poignancy

NYT reporteth: More »

the news

The News Wins a Kosher Kitchen

• Step-children can be such bastards, especially after you beat them. [LAT] "Cingular Sued by Users It Inherited"
• Smoker guy lives to cough again. [NYT] "Big Award on Tobacco Is Rejected by Court"
• Kosher for the goyim set. Now, more than ever. [NYT] "Manischewitz Wants to Move to a Mainstream Aisle"
• Edging out heads of hog, it's only a matter of time before barrels of oil become good for dowries. [Yahoo] "Gas hits record $75.78 on strong demand"
• Ebay prez pledges to get rid of those 95 cent items with $50 shipping costs. [Ebay]

11:42 AM on Fri Jul 7 2006
By Ben Popken
65 views, 1 comment

Latest by Dustbunny: Hmmm...the Manischewitz story is immediately followed by one about pig heads. Not kosher at all. more »

airlines

Welcome To CarcinogenAir, Please Don't Not Smoke While On Board

Finally! A flying cure house in which chain smoking travelers can turn themselves into strips of walking, talking, coughing jerky. More »

7:59 AM on Wed Jun 28 2006
By consumerist.com
257 views, 6 comments

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The News; Rich, Creamy, Lung Cancer

• The last bowl of payola, overturned. Spitzer for el Presidente! [NYT]
• Alternate headline: Chevron agrees to be as good as 7-11. [LAT]
• Avoid these 6 airlines. [CT]
• That's one way to get them to stop losing data. [LAT]
• Gates, denouement, still looks like a doofus. [NYT]
• Nothing says I love you like asbestos. Too bad the candygram is belated. [NYT]
• It's gonna be a long spanking for Fannie Mae. [NYT]
• Nation's factories prescribed Cialis. [NYT] More »

11:50 AM on Fri Jun 16 2006
By Ben Popken
63 views, Comment

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