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  • “Cigarette manufacturers should not be expected to police the trade in untaxed cigarettes.”
    Dec. 9, 2008 Lorillard statement.
    » Big Tobacco’s New York Black Market, Center for Public Integrity (Friday, December 19, 2008)
  • “R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard, and Philip Morris come in monthly and change signs, check that no product is out of date, that kind of thing.”
    Sally Snow, owner of Doogies, one of many smoke shops on the Seneca's western New York reservations.
    » Big Tobacco’s New York Black Market, Center for Public Integrity (Friday, December 19, 2008)
  • “[A]t least half of this is lifestyle. Remember that there have been new food labeling laws, laws to restrict trans fats, and smoking has been steadily declining for some time.”
    Steven Nissen, head of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic, on news that heart attacks and stroke deaths dropped by a third between 1999 and 2006.
    » Heart Attack Deaths Drop in U.S. as Smoking, Diet, Drugs Help , Bloomberg News (Monday, December 15, 2008)
  • “Smoking is the most lethal legal activity in our society.”
    Dr. James Mulshine, a professor of internal medicine and associate provost for research at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Lung cancer killed 160,390 people in 2007, according to the Lung Cancer Alliance. That's an average of 439 people a day.
    » Lung Cancer: Still the Biggest Cancer Killer, by Far , HealthDay [HealthScout] (Saturday, December 27, 2008)
  • “Lake View. Tobacco can kill this town in 1 day.”
    JEL's anti-tobacco sign featuring Lake View, IA (pop: 2100) created a big fuss.
    » Iowa town scores win over billboard , Omaha (NE) World Herald (Wednesday, December 24, 2008)
  • “Big tobacco is in your town already. Nobody is raising a fuss over those signs. ”
    Garin Buttermore, the JEL youth coordinator, referring to advertisements at local convenience and grocery stores.
    » Iowa town scores win over billboard , Omaha (NE) World Herald (Wednesday, December 24, 2008)
  • “It used to be extremely dangerous. Now the only danger is you're not the coolest cat on the block.”
    Marketing kits distributed to fashion outlets in Australia by Imperial Tobacco.
    » Imperial Tobacco offers cash incentives for fashion outlets to sell Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes , News Interactive Network/News Limited/News.com (au) (Sunday, December 14, 2008)
  • “On one side are Escondido residents wanting to enjoy publicly owned outdoor spaces without having to inhale secondhand smoke, youth activists, nonprofits, and such damning statistics as 100 Escondidans will die in 2009 from the effects of smoking. On the other side are Escondido Councilman Sam Abed and a big red sign saying, 'Cigarettes For Sale.'”
    The San Diego Union Tribune tears into Convenience Store owner and City Councilman Sam Abed.
    » EDITORTIAL: Outdoor ban request prompts Escondido smoke screen, San Diego (CA) Union-Tribune (Saturday, December 20, 2008)
  • “For decades the tobacco industry has pushed the idea that smoking somehow equates to being fashionable or glamorous but as this study shows, a teen girl who smokes could be on a fast track to obesity.”
    Victoria-based Quit Support Programs manager Luke Atkin, on the recent Finnish study.
    » Teen smokers looking at adult obesity, AAP (Australian Associated Press) (au) (Wednesday, December 17, 2008)
  • “I'm afraid for the tobacco industry”
    Robin Conrad, a vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, on SCOTUS' Good decision.
    » Supreme Court lets smokers sue over 'light' cigarettes, Los Angeles Times (Tuesday, December 16, 2008)
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