US government opens racketeering case against tobacco industry
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Understanding Philip Morris's pursuit of US government regulation of tobacco.
OBJECTIVE To investigate Philip Morris's support of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of tobacco products and analyse its relationship to the company's image enhancement strategies. DATA SOURCES Internal Philip Morris documents released as part of the Master Settlement Agreement. METHODS Searches of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu) beginni...
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1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, 2 South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India, 3 Onbeyond LLC, Fairfax, California, United States of America, 4 Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, 5 Center for Tobacco Control Research...
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The government of Hong Kong grasped the political nettle of control of tobacco in the early 1980s, since when a comprehensive policy of legislation, education, and publicity, together with large increases in taxation on tobacco products, has been introduced. This has led to almost all of the population of Hong Kong having knowledge of the harmful effects of tobacco and of antismoking measures t...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.329.7468.701