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Ontario does not join the lawsuit against Big Tobacco

Ontario intends to allow six other provinces to push forward with a costly and ultimately uncertain multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the tobacco industry rather than commit its own taxpayer dollars to the cause, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Monday.
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Smoking Paradise in Russia

For the big cigarette companies, Russia is a reminder of the good times before public opinion and politicians in the West turned against them.
Booming sales have made Russia the world’s third-largest market, with consumption more than doubling in a decade. The country’s 60 million smokers puffed their way through an estimated 340 billion cigarettes last year, compared with 141 billion in 1996.
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Stanton Glantz: "The current science and policy implications of secondhand smoke exposure"

Stanton gave this presentation in Seattle. For the most part he explains what we know about secondhand smoke including the most recent research about breast cancer, heart attacks and the information found in industry documents about the toxicity of ETS.
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More about Cardiovascular effect of secondhand smoke
More about secondhand smoke and breast cancer

Movies That Blow Smoke

In an effort to get movies to stop glamorizing smoking, the AMA Alliance has put out a list of the worst offenders.
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TV, Movies Have Profound Effect on Youth Smoking

Children who view favorable images of smoking on TV or in movies have a 90-percent greater risk of becoming smokers, according to a meta-analysis of research studies on the link between smoking and exposure to tobacco ads and on-screen imagery.
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Yul Brynner: Don't Smoke

In 1985, Actor Yul Brynner said in a famous TV ad: Don't smoke. The spot is back in the body worlds exhibit in Vancouver and on YouTube.
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Puffing on Polonium

ROBERT N. PROCTOR, Professor at Stanford, wrote this opinion for the New York Times.
WHEN the former K.G.B. agent Alexander V. Litvinenko was found to have been poisoned by radioactive polonium 210 last week, there was one group that must have been particularly horrified: the tobacco industry.
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You can also read his 1999 rendez-vous.

An open letter to Tony Blair from Allen Carr

Two days before his death, Allen Carr posted on the internet this letter to Tony Blair.
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