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  • “Simply put, the FTC will not be a smokescreen for tobacco companies' shameful marketing practices.”
    FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz
    » FTC tosses guidance on tar, nicotine in cigarettes, AP (Thursday, November 27, 2008)
  • “This action, while commendable, should only be a first step. Further action is needed. . . .I urge the next Congress to reintroduce S. 625, the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.”
    FTC COMMISSIONER PAMELA JONES HARBOUR
    » CONCURRING STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER PAMELA JONES HARBOUR (PDF), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (Wednesday, November 26, 2008)
  • “[T]he FTC will not be a smokescreen for tobacco companies’ shameful marketing practices. For far too long, tobacco companies have advertised cigarettes using “light” and “low tar” descriptors based on machine-tested tar and nicotine results while knowing that the cigarettes, when actually smoked by people, would not deliver lower tar or nicotine. . . . After today, there should be no confusion: there is no such thing as a safe – or even a safer – cigarette.”
    FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz
    » Concurring Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz Regarding Rescission of Guidance on Cigarette Testing Methodology (PDF), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (Wednesday, November 26, 2008)
  • “The commission believes the statements of tar and nicotine yields as measured by this test method are confusing at best, and are likely to mislead consumers.”
    FTC, in its Federal Register Notice rescinding its Cambridge Test-based tar/nicotine guidleines.
    » FTC dumps test on cigarette tar, nicotine , Reuters (Wednesday, November 26, 2008)
  • “I'm at a loss as to how people who are supposed to enforce the law can look the other way. I couldn't do it, and DA Budelmann couldn't do it.”
    Seneca County District Attorney Richard Swinehart, on NY state assistance with the Cayuga raids.
    » Deputies seize cigarettes from Cayuga Indian Nation stores, Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard (Wednesday, November 26, 2008)
  • “Public safety is of the utmost importance to us.”
    Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Grand Chief Tim Thompson, on the deadly car crash involving a cigarette smuggler.
    » Three killed in Cornwall Island tragedy , [Cornwall, Ont] Standard Freeholder (ca) (Monday, November 17, 2008)
  • “If soldiers are sacrificing for us, one of our responsibilities is to ensure that once they return to the United States, they have all the opportunities to succeed. If we condone a deadly habit like smoking, we are failing in that responsibility.”
    Dr. Michael Fiore, a veteran and head of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in a new presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians. Fiore's program for military personnel is at http://www.ctri.wisc.edu; the VA's cessation site is at http://www.publichealth.va.gov/smoking.
    » Smoking poses health threat on all fronts for soldiers, Chicago (IL) Daily Herald (Tuesday, November 11, 2008)
  • “This is the strongest study yet done of the effect of smoking bans on heart attacks. You can no longer argue that these declines would have occurred simply due to medical treatment.”
    Dr. Michael Siegel, a Boston University School of Public Health specialist in tobacco control who has been a critic of some antismoking laws and of previous research.
    » Smoking ban tied to a gain in lives, Boston (MA) Globe (Wednesday, November 12, 2008)
  • “It's not a duck, and it's not a goose. We don't know what it is.”
    Fund trustee Miles McGrane III, on the $580 million trust fund being distributed to members of the former Engle class. The Justice Department is involved in talks with several attorneys in an effort to collect federal income tax and Medicare money from the fund.
    » Justice Department Seeks Share of Smokers' $580 Million Trust Fund, Law.com (Friday, November 7, 2008)
  • “No matter what you do, I will not rescind my decision. No cigarette commercials will be broadcast on the MBC.”
    Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) Chairman Waleed Al-Ibrahim, to tobacco companies.
    » MBC rejects SR500m deal for tobacco ads, Arab News (sa) (Sunday, November 9, 2008)
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