But a big reason is that the people who create anti-tobacco ads have refined their messages.
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They use the higher NSDUH numbers to argue for even more onerous anti-tobacco measures.
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The Economist disapproves of his positions on guns and abortion, and of his anti-tobacco stance.
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) told CNN's "Late Edition" that she already has an alternate anti-tobacco bill in the works.
To judge by the rhetoric of the anti-tobacco campaign, America has taken leave of its senses over smoking.
But anti-tobacco advocates suspect that it is really aimed at getting youngsters to take up the smoking habit.
And then we have a few, you know, hundred million across the country that we're spending on anti-tobacco messages.
The deal, between the big cigarette companies and anti-tobacco lawyers, proposed to end America's 40-year pitched battle over smoking.
American tobacco companies, under siege from anti-tobacco lawsuits, scored an unexpected victory in a Florida court when a jury found R.
Health experts have accused the government of spending more on subsidising American films that contain smoking scenes than on anti-tobacco campaigns.
The latest challenge comes in the form of a series of hostile missives from anti-tobacco activists to blow up the upcoming FDA meeting.
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The report said this was the equivalent of funding anti-tobacco smuggling measures across the UK and smoking cessation services in England twice over.
Australia has adopted the most aggressively anti-tobacco regime in the world in taking this approach, but other countries are catching up in a hurry.
The tobacco survey is the first of several executive steps in the works to respond to the demise of major anti-tobacco legislation in the Senate.
He said the defeat of the anti-tobacco legislation sponsored by Sen.
And anti-tobacco lawsuits are the legal profession's equivalent of Silicon Valley.
The video was directed by Alex Bogusky, the man behind the anti-tobacco "Truth" campaign, and features an original song, "Sugar, " by Grammy award-winning artist Jason Mraz.
The officials described the action as part of the president's effort to show he is determined to keep the pressure on Congress to pass a comprehensive anti-tobacco measure.
The new proposed restrictions on the tobacco companies appear odd when compared to America's stance on the global anti-tobacco treaty being sought by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Anti-tobacco legislation like those imposing smoking bans in public areas, compulsory health warnings on the packaging and restrictions on advertising and marketing add to further decline in tobacco sales.
We dont just have a anti-tobacco prohibition problem in america we have a socialist agenda via public health laws being forced upon us all with the use of junk science.
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Although tobacco companies are already threatening legal action and anti-tobacco lawmakers are promising to fight for a tougher bill, some version of the McCain Act will probably pass the full Senate by Memorial Day.
"With this new campaign and with a renewed call for bipartisan, comprehensive anti-tobacco legislation this year, we can give our young people a healthier, smoke-free tomorrow, and it can't come a day too soon, " Gore said.
He said pared down anti-tobacco proposals that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) have indicated they may offer will be seen for what they are -- in the interest of big tobacco.
Stanton Glantz, a longtime anti-tobacco advocate and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, said the RICO ruling is what the public health community should use in its fight against the tobacco industry.
But that was long before Hanes began moving much of its production offshore, and before the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (under which the tobacco companies agreed in 1998 to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in damages for harming people's health), the leveraged buy-out of RJR by a private-equity firm, the elimination of federal farm price support for tobacco and decades of anti-smoking advertising.
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The return of the campaign is already being applauded by some anti-smoking advocates, who say tobacco companies spend more on tobacco product promotion in a week than the CDC spends in a year.
Much of it would go to paying off lawsuits against the tobacco companies, for anti-smoking programs and funding research to cure the diseases it causes.
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