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Tobacco profits $35bn last year at cost of 6 million dead

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Caspar

The latest figures show tobacco companies are profiting from death and addiction at an even greater rate than we reported last month. The Guardian reports that revenues topped half a trillion dollars last year with profits over $35 billion. That’s … Continue reading →

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War, Famine, Pestilence and Tobacco

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Caspar

What price do you put on a human life? If you were an executive at Philip Morris it might be about $2,730. At least if we’re talking profit and loss.  That is how much profit tobacco companies made last year for … Continue reading →

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My Lady Nicotine, by J. M. Barrie.

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Caspar

Perhaps, like me you thought Alan Carr had written the book on smoking. But before there was  The Easy Way to Stop Smoking, there was My Lady Nicotine by JM Barrie. Written 14 years before Peter Pan, it was a novel of … Continue reading →

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FDA proposes new cigarette warning labels.

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Caspar

It was only last year recently the US Food and Drug Administration was finally given power over Tobacco advertising. They currently have a gallery of 32 potential contenders for the 9 new graphics to go on all packets of cigarettes … Continue reading →

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