Weight-Loss Drug Told to Lose the Advertising
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Carbon Offsets Challenged
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The marketing of carbon offsets as a 'solution' to global warming is attracting criticism.
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Mixed Outcome on Eli Lilly's Zyprexa Gag Bid
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Federal court judge Jack B. Weinstein has lifted an injunction on U.S.
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GE Casts Diesel Cloud Over Own Green Marketing Campaign
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General Electric's current "green" marketing campaign ads include a train engine "chugging through pristine rural sett
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Bayer Owns Up to Poison Pill
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Source: Alley, Clark, Greiwe & Fulmer
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As Nicotine Dose Increases, So Must Awareness of the Pitfalls of FDA Regulation
The Harvard School of Public Health released a study Thursday revealing that the amount of nicotine in cigarettes has increased significantly since the major American tobacco companies signed the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) in 1998. Predictably, Philip Morris (PM), in a media release available at their web site, denies the study results. The U.S. Surgeon General in 1988 warned that nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine, but these drugs don't have decades of sophisticated R&D behind them aimed at heightening their addictiveness. Cigarettes, among the most highly engineered consumer products in the world, deliver nicotine into more people's bodies more times every day than aspirin. Still, they remain unregulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Gates Foundation Retreats From Responsibility
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After two articles exposing the contradiction between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funding health programs while maintaining $8.7 billion in investments in companies involved in socially damaging projects,
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Wal-Mart's Believe It or Not: 90 Percent of Workers Have Health Insurance
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Wal-Mart had already announced an attempt to rewrite its public image through the hire of ex-political operatives and creation of a social responsibility ad campaign. The company has now released an internal study claiming that the overwhelming majority (90 percent) of its workers have health coverage--just not Wal-Mart's health coverage.
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Carbon Neutral: A New Frontier for Spin?
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Voluntary carbon trading markets in the United States have doubled in volume over the past year, demonstrating that companies and consumers increasingly seek to offset their role in creating greenhouse gasses by fostering reductions in carbon elsewhere. But the market lacks quality control and a reliable referee. Some companies may take more interest in pushing brand identity than good works.
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Philip Morris’s Project Sunrise: Wake Up and Smell the Efforts to Undermine Public Health
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An article published in the medical journal Tobacco Control reveals Philip Morris' "Project Sunrise" (1995-2006), a long-term plan to bolster the social acceptability of smoking and ensure the company's future.
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