ASH Daily News for 13/12/2002
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ASH Daily News
13 December 2002
HEADLINES
Health study ‘discredited by secret tobacco plot’
Hospitality industry to claim Charter is working
EU tobacco ad ban may risk European Grands Prix
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Health study ‘discredited by secret tobacco plot’
The tobacco industry set out to discredit a landmark study linking passive
smoking to cancer by commissioning rival research and then seeking to hide
its involvement, a leading medical journal claims.
Documents found over years of legal action against cigarette manufacturers
show that a coalition of companies agreed to fund or support a study
downplaying the dangers of passive smoking. The project was designed to
contradict a Japanese study in 1981 which concluded that the wives of heavy
smokers faced double the risk of developing lung cancer as the spouses of
non-smokers.
An investigation published today in the British Medical Journal claims that
tobacco manufacturers were anxious that the research should have no obvious
links to them.
Full Independent article:
<http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=361095>
BMJ article:
<http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7377/1413>
Hospitality industry to claim Charter is working
Nick Bish, chairman of the Charter Group (smoking in public places) is
expected to claim that research soon to be published will prove that self
regulation on smoking in pubs is working.
Nick Bish said he was confident that the industry would be able to meet its
target of 50% of all pubs complying with the public places charter by the
end of this year or early next year.
Source: Morning Advertiser, 12 December 2002
EU tobacco ad ban may risk European Grands Prix
Several newspapers report that the recent EU agreement on a ban on tobacco
advertising will put many European Grand Prix at risk.
Full Guardian article:
<http://sport.guardian.co.uk/formulaone/story/0,10069,859194,00.html>
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