Yes, there was a time when doctors and athletes were paid by tobacco companies to promote smoking.
Time has created a photo gallery of vintage pro-smoking advertisements.
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It’s going to cost more to destroy your health.
From MyFoxNY
Price of Cigarettes Going Up in NYC
Last Edited: Sunday, 08 Feb 2009, 5:06 PM EST
Created On: Sunday, 08 Feb 2009, 4:57 PM EST
NEW YORK – What a drag! A pack of cigarettes will soon cost more than $10 in Manhattan.
That’s because a 62 cent federal tax [...]
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January 27, 2009
Belmont Journal
Smoking Ban Hits Home. Truly.
By JESSE McKINLEY
BELMONT, Calif. — During her 50 years of smoking, Edith Frederickson says, she has lit up in restaurants and bars, airplanes and trains, and indoors and out, all as part of a two-pack-a-day habit that she regrets not a bit. But as of two weeks ago, [...]
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State praised for taxes, laws, but rapped on prevention
By Heather Senison
hsenison@gmail.com
ALBANY – Despite the state’s increased focus on getting smokers to quit in 2008, the estimated economic cost of smoking was $14.1 billion, according to an American Lung Association study.
Each year, the association evaluates how successful the state’s smoking-prevention programs are in comparison with the [...]
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