January 2011

Renault’s new black and gold livery might be chanllenged under Canadas strick anti-tobacco advertising laws. Toronto based newspaper ‘Globe and Mail’ has made this claim following the unveiling of the 2011 Lotus Renault GP racing colours this month at a racing car show in Birmingham. The black and gold colours are a tribute to the [...]

A new study shows that cigarette advertising significantly increases the odds that young people who see the adverts will start smoking. According to the study, adverts for other products such as cell phones and candies failed to trigger the same psychological mechanisms that make children take up smoking. The researchers say tobacco ads work because [...]

Industry experts have warned that the pack design and appearance id the tobacco industry’s ‘silent salesman’ helping to target and hook children and young people.Speaking on Wednesday at a discussion of several studies on the impact of introducing plain cigarette packaging, marketing expert Crawford Moodie said there was a definite link between smokers and tobacco [...]

Having declared that he is now clear from throat cancer, Michael Douglas has vowed to quit smoking as a part of his recovery from the disease. He has conceded that the cancer that he had was ‘motivated’ by tobacco smoking as well as alcohol.  Source: Toronto Sun, 11 January 2011 Link: http://bit.ly/gDCDFV

The tobacco industry is not obligated to disclose ingredients and additives used in manufactured tobacco production. However, a press release in 2010 disclosed evidence that porcine haemoglobin (“pig’s blood”) was sometimes used in cigarette manufacturing while never being disclosed to smokers. This research paper discusses the presses reastion to this leak, and shows the power [...]