Posts Tagged ‘Big Tobacco’
Posted on Monday, March 10th, 2014 by Michele Simon
By Michele Simon and Leslie Zellers
Some commentators have compared the current effort to legalize marijuana to the post-prohibition days of alcohol. And many advocates for marijuana legalization are making the comparison to alcohol. Indeed the entire campaign in Colorado in 2012 was called “Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol.” But if supporters of marijuana legalization are serious about this comparison, they might learn some valuable lessons from both alcohol and tobacco control. In each of these areas, advocates have spent decades figuring out what works and what doesn’t in regulating legal products that also have the potential for harm.
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Posted in Alcohol Policy, Industry Tactics, Public Health | Tagged: alcohol, alcohol taxes, Big Alcohol, Big Tobacco, marijuana, Marin Institute, pot, tobacco | Michele on Google+ | View/Add Comments (1) |
Posted on Monday, August 13th, 2012 by Michele Simon
The food industry really hates it when you compare them to Big Tobacco. They try to deny the negative association by claiming that food is different than tobacco. Of course that’s true, but why are the same consultants that have worked for the tobacco industry now shilling for Big Food, opposing the ballot initiative that would require labeling of all foods containing GMO ingredients?
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Posted in Big Food | Tagged: Big Tobacco, California Prop 37, GMO labeling, Kraft, PepsiCo, Phillip Morris | Michele on Google+ | View/Add Comments (25) |
