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Budgeting - rediscovering an ancient skill1 comment

gonexc wrote 3 months ago: I realized yesterday that, faced with a tumult of orders and expenses, I needed to make up a budget. … more →

Tags: Budget

Smokeless Tobacco Worries Health Officials

kreuzer33 wrote 7 months ago: A leading U.S. tobacco company is hoping that Camel Snus will become a hit with tobacco lovers tired … more →

Tags: Tobacco, American Cancer Society, Smokeless Tabacco, Camel Snus, snus, european union, Cigarettes, Chewing tobacco, Reynolds

Drugs, But No Smokes3 comments

writedit wrote 9 months ago: Given that the Senate is a tad preoccupied with other matters just now, the Family Smoking Preventio … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics

No Need for Research of Nicotine in Pregnancy?2 comments

writedit wrote 11 months ago: This post has been modified in recognition of reports that this center proposal is no longer under c … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics, NIH Advice, Research News

Marlboro Monopoly Act3 comments

writedit wrote 11 months ago: You likely know by now that the U.S. House of Representatives passed by a veto-proof margin a bill ( … more →

Tags: Research News

VCU-Philip Morris Agreement Researched15 comments

writedit wrote 1 year ago: Although the NYT has not printed a correction, clarification, editor’s note, retraction, or any othe … more →

Tags: Research News, Biomedical Research Ethics

Secret Smoke-Filled Agreements9 comments

writedit wrote 1 year ago: The NYT today reports on an astoundingly unethical and outrageous research agreement between VCU (Vi … more →

Tags: Research News, Biomedical Research Ethics

Continued Tobacco Industry Deception

writedit wrote 1 year ago: JAMA also reports the shocking (or not) news that Philip Morris, RJR, et al. continue to deceive the … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics

Building Academic Legitimacy12 comments

writedit wrote 1 year ago: Update: The reason for these meetings can be better understood in light of the VCU-PM master researc … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics, Payline

Fraudulent "Harm-Reduction" Tobacco Research

writedit wrote 1 year ago: Last week’s issue of Circulation includes a report that further fuels my tirade against the to … more →

Tags: Research News, Biomedical Research Ethics

Industry Funded Research "Controversy"1 comment

writedit wrote 1 year ago: From the NYT today: “The extent to which depictions of smoking actually spur the young to smok … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics

UC Regents Policy on Tobacco Funding

writedit wrote 1 year ago: Update: Science and The Chronicle of Higher Education (which includes a thread of comments) note tha … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics

Cigarette Additives - Findings Question Motives1 comment

writedit wrote 1 year ago: A brief lab report in today’s JAMA refers to an e-pub ahead of print in the Am Journal of Publ … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics

Smoking Harm Encoded in Genes

writedit wrote 1 year ago: Harm reduction research touted by Philip Morris, already a stretch, could run into more hurdles with … more →

Philip Morris USA Revenue "Only" $18.47 Billion3 comments

writedit wrote 1 year ago: From the WSJ today: “Altria Group Inc. is likely to announce a spinoff of its Philip Morris In … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics

Tobacco Industry and the Data Quality Act

writedit wrote 1 year ago: Published today in Science: The Tobacco Industry and the Data Quality Act Science 17 August 2007: Vo … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics

Tax Cigarettes to Insure Children

writedit wrote 2 years ago: Okay – what am I missing here? In a bipartisan agreement, the Senate Finance Committee wants t … more →

Tags: Research News

Two Tobacco Tidbits

writedit wrote 2 years ago: In JAMA, a brief commentary on the potential public health benefits of recent litigation against the … more →

Tags: Biomedical Research Ethics

NYT Editorial: Ending Our Tobacco Addiction

writedit wrote 2 years ago: Today’s NYT editorial page includes a piece on tobacco policy and trends on the heels of the I … more →


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