India, Dec. 5 -- Several members of the Rajya Sabha on Thursday asked the Government to immediately stop "misleading" advertisements to promote tobacco, liquor and other products, while citing an ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China enforced sweeping new rules on Tuesday to restrict tobacco advertisements, in its latest step to rein in a widespread habit that has caused a massive health crisis. More than ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s tobacco companies and the Justice Department are including media outlets that target more of the black community in court-ordered advertisements that say the cigarette ...

Anti-tobacco television advertising helps reduce adult smoking, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Health Research and Policy — but some ads ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Television ads that tobacco companies say are designed to discourage teenagers from smoking do no such thing, and some may actually encourage youths to smoke, researchers ...

The so-called corrective statements are part of a case the government brought in 1999 under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled in 2006 ...

The more tobacco advertising teenagers see, the more likely they are to start smoking, according to a new study. Every 10 tobacco ads that teens view increases their risk of starting to smoke by ...

Carolyn Holbrook receives funding from the Australian Research Council. This research was supported by Australian Research Council Linkage grant LP210100204, 'Cancer Culture: Understanding Anti-Cancer ...

You smell it before you see it. A creeping odor that foretells of tar-ridden lungs. The wrinkled toxic sticks that foreshadow one's future death bed. It’s responsible for 480,000 deaths per year in ...

Some people object to smoking prevention and cessation ads that have been airing on television stations across North Dakota and Minnesota. They seem to think the ads, which range from humorous to ...

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