Smoking Cessation

Smoking Cessation

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Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes Are Scary, but Do They Work?
'Graphic warning labels' pair gruesome images with warnings about the dangers of smoking, covering anywhere from 30 to 80 percent of cigarette pack 'faces' (the front and back). Do they prevent people from starting to smoke or cause current smokers to quit?
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Sep 30, 2014
The Health Care Blog
Deborah M. Scharf, William G. Shadel

Tobacco and Smoking

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CVS and the Effect of In-Store Tobacco Displays on Smokers
CVS Caremark will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products at its CVS/pharmacy stores beginning Oct. 1. Though it stands to lose $2 billion dollars in annual revenue, CVS CEO Larry J. Merlo said that selling tobacco products is at odds with the company's mission of improving health outcomes.
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Feb 6, 2014
Tobacco and Smoking

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Big Tobacco vs. Tobacco Regulation and Control: An Even Match?
Anti-tobacco policies that have clear scientific support will strengthen the FDA's regulatory position. While the evidence base is solid in this area, it needs to be much stronger and broader if the TCA is going to have any lasting success against the industry.
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Aug 26, 2013
The RAND Blog
William G. Shadel

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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Smoking Cessation

Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes Are Scary, but Do They Work?

CVS and the Effect of In-Store Tobacco Displays on Smokers

Big Tobacco vs. Tobacco Regulation and Control: An Even Match?

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