The Truth Is Scary

It’s funny, not “funny ha-ha” but “funny-odd,” that so many smokers still don’t fully understand what they’re inhaling into their body. Sure, everyone and their mother knows that smoking is dangerous and that it can (and likely will, eventually) kill you but according to a new study as many as half of smokers aren’t aware

Posted: June 3, 2014 | tobacco | big tobacco, dangerous, smokers, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments

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Thanks But No Thanks

Politics can be a dirty game. Money talks and nonsense walks but things have a way of getting sticky when campaigns get shady donations. Every politician needs financial backing to run a campaign. Advertising and travel aren’t cheap, so they all rely on 3rd party supporters to donate money to their cause. Problem is, nothing

Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | big tobacco, politics, tobacco | 0 Comments

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Big Tobacco Hikes Up Price Per Pack

It was just announced that three major American tobacco companies have banded together in a mutual price hike. The price increase is 6¢ per pack which doesn’t seem like anything too crazy upon first glance but when you consider the sheer volume of packs of cigarettes that sell in this country on a daily basis,

Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | big tobacco, price, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments

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$47.7 Million To Save $1

Big tobacco spends $47.7 million to save a buck…kind of.

Posted: April 24, 2014 | tobacco | American Heart Foundation, American Lunch Association, ballot, big tobacco, California, California ballot, cancer research, Cancer Society, cigarettes, million, prop 29, smoking, tobacco | 0 Comments

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