They will work to expose the marketing practices of the corporate tobacco industry, learn how to empower their peers and communities, and celebrate the successful first year of the youth advocacy organization. We want to help Montana residents understand how corporate tobacco manipulates people into using tobacco and hooks them for life. Research has shown that a third of underage experimentation with tobacco is attributable to advertising by tobacco companies. The tobacco industry spends...

You ve seen our all-time low rates for healthy life insurance consumers, and you may be thinking but I smoke, I can t afford life insurance. Can Smokers Find Reasonable Life Insurance Rates Too? Absolutely! By Abbey Wagner, InsWeb. Now (with extreme competition among more and more life insurance companies, distribution methods like the Internet that cut out the middleman, and longer life spans of Americans) term life insurance rates are at record lows, and companies are competing for all...

It is being reported that the World Health Organization is slamming the tobacco industry for misleading consumers when it comes to health risks and the dangers of second-hand smoke exposure It is being reported that today, the World Health Organization is slamming the tobacco industry for spreading lies regarding smoking in public places. It is being reported that the World Health Organization is slamming the tobacco industry for misleading consumers when it comes to health risks and the...

Whatever the Supreme Court decision, government should give high priority to new tobacco law. Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. Attention: Assignment Editor, Health/Medical Editor, News Editor, Government/Political Affairs Editor OTTAWA--(Marketwire - June 25, 2007) - Whether or not the Supreme Court upholds the federal Tobacco Act when it releases its decision on a tobacco industry challenge to this law later this week, a Canadian doctor-led health charity is calling on Health Minister Tony Clement to move quickly to introduce a new law to end tobacco advertising.'The Tobacco Act was a weak law in 1997, and if the Supreme Court upholds it, its weaknesses will become more apparent,' expla

Still, when most people think chewing tobacco, they don't think about one gender or another. According to the National Cancer Institute, smokeless tobacco users absorb 2-to-3 times more addictive nicotine into their bloodstream than smokers do. While nicotine doesn't cause cancer, there are more than 10 other substances found in smokeless tobacco (see table) that do. The appearance of tobacco includes tins, pouches, mint leaves and any substance that mimics a tobacco product. A number of...