Archive for the ‘Ethics’ Category

In France, Sex Sells — Even in Anti-Smoking Ads

The French aren’t exactly squeamish when it comes to sex. Nor do they typically bat an eye when it comes to racy content in advertising. Now, however, a controversy has erupted over an ad that some feel has gone a step too far: it doesn’t just evoke oral sex but actually seems to depict it. Worse still, the salacious images are targeting young people in what would otherwise be a laudable campaign — trying to stop them from smoking. ... read more >>

Power of the cinema is leading young people to smoke

It’s easy to make fun of people who blame Hollywood for everything. After all, movies are merely entertainment. Movie studios are neither missionary chapels nor outposts of political correctness. They’re businesses. As a producer once remarked, “We don’t make movies. We make money.” ... read more >>

Big tobacco kicked big bucks into Utah politics

Big tobacco companies contributed $67,000 to Utah office holders and their political action committees in 2009, as lawmakers wrangle over whether to nearly triple the state’s cigarette tax. Many elected officials in Utah — including Gov. Gary Herbert and Senate President Michael Waddoups — refuse contributions from alcohol and tobacco companies. ... read more >>

Teacher sacked after handing cigarettes to pupils… who were being punished for smoking

A teacher who handed out cigarettes to pupils being punished for smoking has been sacked. Jane Eccles gave tobacco to two pupils – a Year 9 boy and Year 11 girl – she was meant to be supervising in the ‘naughty room’ at the Sir Christopher Hatton School, Wellington, Northamptonshire. Mrs Eccles, 60, was sacked over the incident but last week avoided major punishment from a teacher disciplinary body. ... read more >>

Tobacco Lobbyists

Millions of people around the country have been treated to the anti-debt ads run by one-time tobacco industry lobbyist Richard Berman. Mr. Berman, who has also worked to thwart minimum wage increases and managed to get on the opposite side of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is now working alongside the Wall Street types who wrecked the economy. ... read more >>

The doubt industry

There are many reasons why no binding agreement will likely emerge from the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen. We would put near the top of the list the ongoing, cleverly orchestrated and well-funded campaign of junk science designed to mislead people into thinking that there is a difference in scientific opinion about climate change. ... read more >>

Outrage after tobacco company nominated

Anti-smoking groups say they are outraged at the inclusion of British American Tobacco (BAT) in a best workplace competition. ... read more >>

Ethical Corporation: Nestle, British American Tobacco, Shell and AWE to join 100+ other multinationals to discuss their CR and sustainability reporting and communications in London in November

On the 25th and 26th November, the Regent’s Park Marriott hotel will play host to the largest meeting of multinational companies in 2010 discussing CR/sustainability reporting and communications ... read more >>

Patterson Says He Wants to Collect Cigarette Taxes From Tribes

New York Governor David A. Paterson has asked the U.S. Justice Department for a “threat assessment” if he were to begin trying to collect taxes on cigarette sales by Indian tribes, including the Seneca Nation, reported The Buffalo News. ... read more >>

Govt denies involvement in missing tobacco article

The government has denied any involvement in the striking off of a contentious sub-article on tobacco in the recently endorsed health law, deemed an effort to protect the country’s cigarette industry. ... read more >>

Clove-Flavored Cigarettes More Dangerous?

Twenty-two-year-old college student Michael Bell is not the only young adult who began his smoking habit with clove cigarettes. And he knows why the Food and Drug Administration recently announced a ban on clove and other flavored cigarettes. ... read more >>

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