Updates matching "Tobacco Regulation and Products"

Statement from Blair Horner, Vice President for Advocacy, American Cancer Society of NY & NJ, regarding NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s housing and smoking policy disclosure proposal. “Consumers have a right to know the smoking policy of the building they want to live in prior to signing a

Point of Sale Displays an Important Cause of Youth Smoking Last night, the Village of Haverstraw in Rockland County acted to protect children from the lure of attractive tobacco industry marketing by banning point of sale tobacco displays in stores, a move strongly supported by the American

Big Tobacco is at it again. It wasn't long ago that ACS CAN volunteers helped score a major health victory when Congress passed a law granting the FDA the authority to regulate all tobacco products, including cigarettes and cigars. Now, Big Tobacco is pushing Congress to exempt many types of

A federal district court judge in Washington, DC sided with Big Tobacco when he ruled that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) could not implement its new cigarette warning labels. The new warning labels were to feature photos and drawings which depict the consequences of smoking and text, such

Following a joint letter , ACS CAN and its partners were successful in pressuring the Orange Bowl and NCAA to cancel a sponsorship agreement with Camacho Cigars. This sponsorship would have encouraged teenagers, especially young men, to smoke. This was the latest attempt by the tobacco industry to undermine

Late last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its latest findings on cigarette and smokeless tobacco marketing by the nationŠ—Ès largest tobacco companies in 2007 and 2008. While the reports show that the amount spent on cigarette advertising actually slightly decreased during that time period, they also show that

If a picture is worth a thousand words, it is also worth thousands of fewer smokers? Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled new graphic warning labels that could be placed on packs of cigarettes starting in September 2012. The images focus on smokingŠ—Ès impact on the health of

New graphic cigarette warning labels were unveiled at an event Wednesday morning in Washington, D.C., by federal health officials from the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The new labels feature prominent graphics of diseased lungs, cancer patients and dead bodies covering 50