February 5, 2013
USA Today recently published a story that quoted Grassroots Change‘s Director Mark Pertschuk on the similarities between the tobacco industry and gun lobby’s dirty tricks. According to Pertschuk, these include “suppressing information, blocking research, targeting individual scientists and pushing for state laws that prohibit cities and counties from passing their own gun …
November 17, 2012
APHA, Nov. 8, 2012 Voters from across the country cast their ballot on Tuesday for state and local measures that will have tremendous impact on the health of their communities. From fracking to tobacco control, we rounded up a variety of initiatives with implications for public health that made their way to …
March 9, 2011
By JOHN ESTUS NewsOK.com Big tobacco companies have hired a slew of influential Oklahoma lobbyists this year to help the industry defeat legislation that would let cities regulate smoking. At least 13 lobbyists for tobacco companies are at the Capitol this year, up from nine at this time last year, …
December 30, 2010
The New York Times, ANAHAD O’CONNOR, Published: December 29, 2010 A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a New York City law that would have forced all bodegas and convenience stores to post gruesome images of diseased lungs, brains and teeth in the shops to discourage people from buying cigarettes. In …
November 29, 2010
Tulsa World, Nov. 27, 2010 Local governments in Oklahoma could soon have the power to ban smoking in public places under a plan legislators and health groups will announce Monday. The plan calls for the repeal of state laws preventing cities and towns from enacting tobacco-use restrictions stricter than the …