Tag: Big tobacco
Foods high in added fats and refined carbs are like cigarettes...
Ashley Gearhardt, University of Michigan
Every year millions of Americans try to cut down on ultra-processed foods – industrial...
Vape sellers are using popular music videos to promote e-cigarettes to...
Jon-Patrick Allem, University of Southern California
Research that my colleagues and I recently conducted demonstrates that electronic cigarette product...
Big Tobacco’s decisive defeat on plain packaging laws won’t stop its...
Genevieve Wilkinson, University of Technology Sydney
After a decade of legal challenges by the tobacco lobby, Australia’s pioneering push to eliminate all tobacco advertising finally...
April 15 is the day tobacco companies pay $9 billion for...
Charles Betley, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
April 15 is Tax Day in the U.S., and it is a bitter pill for many.
For state Medicaid...
Smoking rates in US have fallen to all-time low, but how...
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls cigarette smoking “the leading cause of preventable disease and death in...
Who forced the cigarette companies to run those anti-smoking ads?
Stanton Glantz, University of California, San Francisco
You may have seen ads run by the big cigarette companies listing the dangers of smoking and...
Why lowering nicotine in cigarettes could change the course of health
Michael P. Eriksen, Georgia State University
The new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently made a surprising and bold announcement that could...
The challenge facing libraries in an era of fake news
Donald A. Barclay, University of California, Merced
Imagine, for a moment, the technology of 2017 had existed on Jan. 11, 1964 – the day Luther...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
