Tobacco Info No.
10, August 2012
See this issue
in PDF: mag10.pdf
(16 pages, 1.6 Mo)
SUMMARY
Harper government guts Federal Tobacco
Control Strategy
(p1-3)
Big Tobacco wins big with $15 million cut from tobacco control budget
Quebec’s $27B lawsuit opens floodgates of
tobacco industry documents (p4-5)
The
Blais and Létourneau lawsuits against Big Tobacco were
launched in 1998
Waterpipe Forum addresses
dangers of hookah use (p6-7)
Tobacco Info
On Hold
(p7)
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan attacks Big Tobacco
The 15th World Conference
celebrates Australia’s plain packaging and explores endgame ideas
(p8-12)
Review of new studies by the Ontario
Tobacco Research Unit
(p13)
Risk of blindness from smoking highlighted
by graphic image of eyes pried open (p.14)
Briefs
(p15)
World Cancer Congress
Brazil bans tobacco additives
New host for GLOBALink
20,100 deaths by lung cancer
Quebec’s $60 billion lawsuit
Larger graphic health warnings hitting the
shelves
(p16)
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