California Taxpayers to Spend a Quarter Million Dollars Studying Effects of Thirdhand Smoke Dust on Skin

9 August 2010 by Mr. Scsi, Comments Off

According to a press release from the University of California at Riverside, the school has received a $250,000 grant from the state-funded tobacco research program to study the effects of thirdhand smoke dust on the skin.

Big Tobacco not just in Liberal pockets

9 August 2010 by Mr. Scsi, Comments Off

The Coalition has been exposed this week for its links to Big Tobacco.

Dietary Supplement Launch in Richmond, Virginia CigRx™

9 August 2010 by Mr. Scsi, Comments Off

Glen Allen, Virginia, Star Scientific, Inc. announced that CigRx™, a dietary supplement developed by the company’s Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals subsidiary, has been launched in the greater Richmond, Virginia area.

Movie Ratings Downplay Smoking Risk

9 August 2010 by Mr. Scsi, Comments Off

WASHINGTON, – Three years after the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced they would include smoking when assigning ratings to films, a new report shows that more than half of widely released films showing tobacco were youth rated (that is, carrying a rating of G, PG or PG-13). According to this analysis, the film industry rated and released 216 box office films with tobacco imagery between May 10, 2007 and May 9, 2010

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