Posts tagged tobacco
Tobacco Firms Bypass Marketing Restrictions With Clever Web Campaigns
Aug 27th
Jonathan Fildes
BBC News
August 26, 2010
The tobacco industry may be using websites such as YouTube to get around a ban on advertising cigarettes, a study says.
Tobacco Giant Uses Child Labor for Cigarette Production
Jul 19th
Shaun Walker
TheIndependent
July 19, 2010
Tobacco giant Philip Morris has been forced to admit that child workers as young as 10 have been subjected to long hours working on tobacco farms with which it has contracts in the Central Asian state of Kazakhstan. More >
2-Year-Old Hooked On Cigarettes, Parents See No Problem
May 29th
Boston Herald
May 29, 2010
Anti-tobacco advocates worldwide are stunned, but the dad of a chain-smoking Indonesian toddler doesn’t see what the big deal is. And, mom adds, don’t even think about taking the coffin nails away from their little stovepipe terror of a tyke.
Secondhand Smoke Damages Arteries
Mar 8th
Reuters
March 8, 2010
Children as young as 13 who have evidence of secondhand smoke in their blood also have visibly thicker arteries, Finnish researchers reported on Tuesday. Their study suggests that the damage caused by secondhand tobacco smoke starts in childhood and causes measurable damage by the teen years.
