The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's "Tips From Former Smokers" ads are set to stop at the end of September. For 13 years, these tough and honest commercials told real stories about the ...
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will stop airing its "Tips From Former Smokers" ads at the end of September, ending a 13-year campaign. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI The U.S.
'Tips From Former Smokers' ads will end in September after 13 years The ads encouraged millions to give up tobacco and helped more than a million succeed Public health experts warn ending the ads ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Television ads that tobacco companies say are designed to discourage teenagers from smoking do no such thing, and some may actually encourage youths to smoke, researchers ...
Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. and his counterparts across the nation are asking Hollywood's major studios to couple any depictions of smoking in movies with anti-smoking ads on the ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Six major Hollywood film studios agreed on Friday to place anti-smoking ads on new movie DVDs targeted to children in a bid to counter the influence of tobacco use on screen.
The so-called corrective statements are part of a case the government brought in 1999 under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ruled in 2006 ...
PHOENIX — A last-minute decision by Arizona officials has snuffed out a series of anti-smoking television commercials aimed at teens and children. The ads were the centerpiece of a $900,000 campaign, ...