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Insurance-Industry Investments in Tobacco
New England Journal of Medicine, 2009To the Editor: The Obama administration is proposing a major overhaul of the U.S. health care system, and the insurance industry is poised to play a major role in the process. Insurance firms, like any business, are driven by profit, and this fact compromises any health care plan that includes them. In case there is any doubt that insurers place profit
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The ethics of consulting for the tobacco industry [PDF]
Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2002 This article describes how and why I became involved in consulting for the tobacco industry. I briefly discuss the four relatively distinct statistical topics that were the primary focus of my work, all of which have been central to my published academic research for over three decades: missing data; causal inference; adjustment for covariates in ...
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The global effects of the tobacco industry
Work, 1998The politics, economics, health impacts, and regulation of the tobacco industry are common themes in recent debates. This paper documents worldwide impacts of tobacco use, including the health implications as well as the politics and economics of tobacco regulation. A review of the proposed settlement and potential legislation is presented.
N J Murdock, D McIvor Joss
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The tobacco industry in Australia
Economic Botany, 1952Australia requires about 33,000,000 pounds of fluecured tobacco annually and produces only 4,000,000 pounds, most of the balance being imported from the U.S.A. Production could be increased if water for irrigation were available during the “dry” season in the northeastern coastal districts.
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Settlements with the tobacco industry
2000The growing tobacco epidemic which is the subject of this conference is spread by identifiable agents: the multinational tobacco companies. Two of the three leading global tobacco companies, Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds , are based in the United States.
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Tightening the Reins On the Tobacco Industry
Health Affairs, 1986The tobacco industry, under assault from a variety of private and public quarters because of the damaging health effects of smoking, has long asserted that its record on tobacco use among the young is one of “unparalleled restraint and responsibility.“ If that is indeed the case, the industry will have a golden opportunity to convince Congress this ...
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Tobacco research funded by the tobacco industry‐an ethical conflict
Addiction, 1997What moral misgivings may arise in connection with the financing of research? Does the source of the funds for a research project matter? Tobacco exemplifies this problem well. Tobacco smoking is the largest single cause of illness and premature death in the industrialized world, but the tobacco industry is also one of its most profitable commercial ...
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