Despite federal ban, tobacco ads continue to lure teen smokers

Despite decades of efforts to keep the tobacco industry away from children, tobacco companies are successfully promoting their products to nine out of 10 middle and high school students in the U.S., according to the study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control.
What’s more, the dramatic decline in tobacco use among California high school students appears to have flattened out, a troubling development both because of the health effects and because tobacco use is strongly associated with failing to graduate from high school on time, according to recent research.

The fag end of the argument

Yesterday, I received an email from Amanda Sandford, research manager of the anti-smoking organisation ASH UK: ‘We understand that a report published by the human rights “watchdog” organisation Privacy International has been released today. Please note that this is a tobacco industry-funded report published over a month ago in association with the tobacco manufacturers front group, FOREST.’
Phew! Not only has ASH long been a guardian of the nation’s collective health, protecting us from the nasty smoke spewed out by cigarette abusers, but now it is stepping up to the plate as moral guardian, too. Many easily led people may simply have checked out the report, Civil Liberties: Up in Smoke by Simon Davies, and fallen into the trap of judging the arguments within on their merits. Never fear, because ASH has saved us from that. Some money from Big Tobacco helped to fund the report, so there’s no need to read a word of it or engage in any debate about it.

Marlboro brand of cigarettes

Triumph history Marlboro cigarettes began in 1847 in England. The new brand was named after the Marlborough Street in London. In 1902, Philip Morris, British cigarette manufacturer, based subsidiary of the corporation in New York. Marlboro cigarettes were submitted to the U.S. market as the cigarette choice for women. Marlboro cigarettes women, it was announced under the slogan "soft as May." A series of ads in 1926 depicted a woman's hand reaching for a cigarette. The special design of shows a red tip, which hid lipstick marks that women would leave while smoking. However, the Marlboro brand of cigarettes faltered during the Second World War and had to be withdrawn from the market. The brand was re-introduced to the market in the 1950s, when many smokers began to worry about the health aspects of their habits. While most of the cigarettes is not filtered.