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• Gallery of Shame 31

  Jun 19, 2013
  
  
  

  This week’s #adsthatkill Gallery of Shame entry is one of the most blatant examples we’ve seen yet of a classic Big Tobacco technique – using smokers’ very valid health concerns to peddle their deadly products.

  In this 1976 Lorillard ad, health concerns are not-so-obliquely referenced: Considering all I’d heard, says the fit woman pictured, I decided to either quit or smoke True. The connotation, of course, is that True brand cigarettes are a viable alternative to quitting – and somehow healthier than conventional brands. Even the name ‘True’ (like its contemporaries ‘Fact’ brand and ‘Now’ brand) has the ring of validity and scientific fact. The fact is, however, that so-called ‘low-tar’ cigarettes offer no protection from deadly health effects – in a recent study of almost 1 million smokers, rates of lung cancer were precisely the same in smokers of low-tar and conventional cigarettes. To put it simply, there is no such thing as a safe cigarette.

  Given all of this, shouldn’t these cigarettes be called ‘False’?

  Look for the next entry in Gallery of Shame on Wednesday, or submit your own ‘worst of the worst’ with the hashtag #adsthatkill or by emailing khamill@worldlungfoundation.org.
  

  
  

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• This Week in Global Health

  Jun 14, 2013
  A weekly round- up of selected health news from around the world. Posted each Friday. Health officials say the safety of electronic cigarettes has not been medically proved. WLF releases its first-ever Arabic translation of the Tobacco Atlas . (Daily News) E-cigarettes are increasingly in vogue – and at a crossroads , reports the New York Times. In the meantime, tobacco companies are betting on e-cigarettes to bolster sales , reports GMA. Big Tobacco goes high-tech to convince consumers that smoking is cool again; ThinkProgress reports. A new app may help smokers quit by increasing their mindfulness about addiction, reports The Daily News. The Hindu reports on the lasting negative health effects of cook stoves across the world – and what can be done. A new study finds that teenagers are more likely to start smoking when they see tobacco advertising. (U.S. News and World Report) ...continue reading
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• Gallery of Shame 30

  Jun 12, 2013
  This week’s #adsthatkill Gallery of Shame entry revisits one of Big Tobacco’s most important marketing strategies – a focus on getting young smokers hooked. In this vintage ad, we see the genesis of tobacco industry tactics that still flourish today. Note the language: “ gentle…delicate….likeable…unspoiled ” and sunny imagery, designed to present tobacco as harmless and pure. It may seem outdated, but the truth is that these themes are still echoed today , in ads that emphasize a sense of harmless fun and youthful vigor. Big Tobacco knows that they have to replace customers every year – specifically, the 6 million people that their products kill annually. They also know that smokers who start in their teens are more likely to become life-long addicts; recent studies show that 9 out of 10 adult smokers started before age 18. This ad only represents the beginning of tobacco marketing that has successfully attracted millions of ...continue reading
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• This Week in Global Health

  Jun 7, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 29

  Jun 5, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  May 31, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 28

  May 30, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  May 24, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 27

  May 23, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

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• Gallery of Shame 26

  May 15, 2013

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  May 12, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 25

  May 8, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  May 3, 2013

• Top Hits from the World Social Marketing Conference in Toronto

  May 2, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 24

  May 1, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  Apr 26, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 23

  Apr 24, 2013

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  Apr 19, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 22

  Apr 18, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  Apr 12, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 21

  Apr 12, 2013

• Can an epic traffic jam be an opportunity?

  Apr 9, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  Apr 5, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 20

  Apr 3, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  Mar 29, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 19

  Mar 27, 2013

• Institutionalizing Strategic Communication in Your Organization – Have You Missed the Boat?

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• This Week in Global Health

  Mar 22, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 18

  Mar 21, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  Mar 15, 2013

• History is Happening Before Our Eyes

  Mar 14, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 17

  Mar 13, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

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• Gallery of Shame 16

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• Gallery of Shame 15

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• Gallery of Shame 14

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• Gallery of Shame 13

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• This Week in Global Health

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• Gallery of Shame 12

  Feb 6, 2013

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  Feb 1, 2013

• A Historic Victory for Tobacco Control

  Feb 1, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 11

  Jan 30, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  Jan 25, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 10

  Jan 23, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  Jan 18, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 9

  Jan 16, 2013

• Top Five Blog Posts of 2012

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• This Week in Global Health

  Jan 11, 2013

• Gallery of Shame 8

  Jan 9, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

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• Gallery of Shame 7

  Jan 3, 2013

• This Week in Global Health

  Dec 28, 2012

• Gallery of Shame 6

  Dec 27, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Dec 21, 2012

• Gallery of Shame 5

  Dec 20, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Dec 14, 2012

• Gallery of Shame 4

  Dec 13, 2012

• Mhealth Summit 2012 – The Tobacco Control perspective

  Dec 11, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Dec 7, 2012

• Gallery of Shame 3

  Dec 5, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Nov 30, 2012

• FCTC-COP5: Six intense days in Seoul leads to significant victories for tobacco control despite Big Tobacco’s shady maneuvers.

  Nov 29, 2012

• Gallery of Shame 2

  Nov 28, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Nov 26, 2012

• Gallery of Shame

  Nov 21, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Nov 19, 2012

• Inside the Fifth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO FCTC (COP5) in Seoul, Korea

  Nov 13, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Nov 9, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Nov 2, 2012

• Using New Media to Bring About Tobacco Control Policies

  Nov 2, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Oct 26, 2012

• WLF’s Tabasco Campaign: Evaluation Results

  Oct 22, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Oct 19, 2012

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  Oct 12, 2012

• 2012 World Cancer Takeaways: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

  Oct 9, 2012

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  Oct 5, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Sep 28, 2012

• World Lung Foundation Meets with the Tanzanian Minister of Health and Social Welfare

  Sep 25, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Sep 21, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Sep 14, 2012

• Standing Room Only

  Sep 11, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Sep 7, 2012

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  Aug 31, 2012

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  Aug 24, 2012

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  Aug 20, 2012

• Results From the Largest International Study of Tobacco Use Ever Published

  Aug 17, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Aug 10, 2012

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  Aug 3, 2012

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  Jul 27, 2012

• Health: Can you sell it like a Happy Meal?

  Jul 25, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jul 20, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jul 13, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jul 6, 2012

• Singapore Tobacco Control Campaign - A bad case of deja vu?

  Jul 3, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jun 29, 2012

• How Can China Do Better in the Global Fight against Tobacco?
  A Chinese Citizen’s Perspective.

  Jun 25, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jun 22, 2012

• A Landmark Day in Vietnam

  Jun 18, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jun 15, 2012

• This in Global Health

  Jun 14, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jun 1, 2012

• Are you one of the five?

  May 31, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  May 25, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  May 18, 2012

• Graphic Pack Warnings at WCTOH: Hope for the Future

  May 15, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  May 11, 2012

• Developing and Implementing an Effective Tobacco Control Mass Media Campaign

  May 8, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  May 4, 2012

• Using Education and Communications to Advance Tobacco Control Goals

  May 2, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Apr 27, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Apr 20, 2012

• Poster: The Most Dangerous Places

  Apr 19, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Apr 13, 2012

• Big Tobacco: Past or Present?

  Apr 11, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Apr 5, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Mar 29, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Mar 22, 2012

• China’s Ministry of Health Launches First National Tobacco Control Mass Media Campaign

  Mar 21, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Mar 16, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Mar 9, 2012

• Big Tobacco: Past or Present?

  Mar 7, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Mar 2, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Feb 24, 2012

• Big Tobacco: Past or Present?

  Feb 22, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Feb 17, 2012

• Two Days in Lille: A WLF Photoblog on Flickr

  Feb 16, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Feb 10, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Feb 3, 2012

• Norway in January

  Jan 31, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jan 27, 2012

• Tobacco Control in Vietnam: Looking Forward to a Healthy New Year

  Jan 25, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jan 20, 2012

• World Lung Foundation – Commonly Cited Resources and Materials

  Jan 19, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jan 13, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jan 6, 2012

• Making Waves in 2011: WLF Speaks Out

  Jan 5, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Jan 4, 2012

• This Week in Global Health

  Dec 23, 2011

• From Research to Action – China Tobacco Control Research Symposium, Lijiang, China

  Dec 19, 2011

• Enroll now: WCTOH Mass Media Workshop – March 2012, Singapore

  Dec 16, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Dec 16, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Dec 9, 2011

• “The conflict is over”: An insider’s unique perspective on smoking in Bollywood films

  Dec 6, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Dec 2, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Nov 23, 2011

• Peter Baldini, Chief Executive Officer of WLF, reflects on five years of global tobacco control work with Bloomberg Philanthropies

  Nov 21, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Nov 18, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Nov 11, 2011

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  Nov 4, 2011

• Update from Kigoma: WLF’s latest work in Tanzania

  Nov 1, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Oct 28, 2011

• WLF Assesses the Impact of the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases: Part 2 of 2

  Oct 24, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Oct 21, 2011

• WLF Assesses the Impact of the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases: Part 1 of 2

  Oct 20, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Oct 14, 2011

• Russia Doesn’t Want to be # 1 Anymore

  Oct 13, 2011

• Friends and Foes: How did your country fare at the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases

  Oct 13, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Oct 7, 2011

• Largest Conference on Tobacco Control in Chinese – Speaking World Held Successfully in Taipei

  Oct 5, 2011

• Close to the Drama: Speaking with Dr. Staffan Bergstrom about delivering life-saving maternal health care to rural Tanzania

  Oct 3, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Sep 30, 2011

• Mashable’s Social Good Summit: The Highlights

  Sep 28, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Sep 23, 2011

• Follow the Action with Live Streaming Coverage from the UN Summit on NCDs

  Sep 20, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Sep 16, 2011

• Ask the Expert: Q&A with WLF's Rebecca Perl on FDA's New Tobacco Pack Warnings

  Sep 14, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Sep 8, 2011

• Glimmers of hope in Indonesia

  Sep 6, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Sep 2, 2011

• Is your country blocking progress on global health for the UN Summit on NCDs? An urgent call to action.

  Aug 31, 2011

• Meeting Vietnam's Vice Health Minister Madame Xuyen

  Aug 29, 2011

• Using Threat Appeals in New Media Channels

  Aug 26, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Aug 26, 2011

• Threat Appeals– How and when are they effective?

  Aug 24, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Aug 19, 2011

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  Aug 12, 2011

• Big Tobacco wants to be your Facebook friend

  Aug 11, 2011

• This Week in Global Health

  Aug 5, 2011

• The ‘Heartbreak’ Campaign- Fighting Tobacco’s Devastating Effects in India

  Aug 4, 2011

• WLF In The News

  Aug 1, 2011

• Lung Health: The Need for Cleaner Cooking Methods

  Jul 26, 2011

• A Newbie’s Look at Graphic Tobacco Ads

  Jul 25, 2011

• Tobacco Advertising to Russian Women, Part III: A Dose of Reality

  Jul 20, 2011

• Tobacco Advertising to Russian Women, PART II: Making Death Look and Taste More Appealing

  Jul 14, 2011

• Tobacco Advertising to Russian Women, Part I: Marketing Death to the Vulnerable

  Jul 13, 2011

• Choking on Tar: Hard-hitting 'Sponge' ad shows Mauritians the frightening truth about smokers' lungs

  Jun 29, 2011

• Tobacco Advertising That Reached Millions Banned on the Moscow Metro

  Jun 27, 2011

• Lessons from Tobacco Control: Should the Food Industry sit at the health policy table?

  Jun 23, 2011

• Tobacco Control in Tianjin – an Ongoing Effort

  Jun 23, 2011

• Tobacco on the agenda at the UN NCD Meeting

  Jun 20, 2011

• Tribute to Jamshed Chhor

  Jun 20, 2011

• Ask the Expert: Q&A with FCA's Laurent Huber on
  Tobacco Pack Warnings and FCTC Article 11

  Jun 15, 2011

• A New Yorker’s Response to Smoke-Free Park Scofflaws

  Jun 13, 2011

• Launching the Anti-Tobacco Fight in Bangladesh

  Jun 9, 2011

• They Never Stop

  Jun 9, 2011

• Bangladesh's First Ever National Tobacco Control Mass Media Campaign

  Jun 8, 2011

• Fighting Tobacco in the Philippines: No Easy Task

  Jun 2, 2011

• A Global Fight: World Lung Foundation on World No Tobacco Day 2011

  May 31, 2011

• Countdown to the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)

  May 4, 2011

• "Too Graphic for TV”: Innovative new-media campaign shows the harms of chewing tobacco to millions of Indians

  May 3, 2011

• WHO/Russian Ministerial Meeting on
  Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in Moscow - Day 1

  Apr 28, 2011

• Bloomberg Philanthropies Applauds China's New Smoke-free Initiative

  Apr 25, 2011

• Billboards in India: Ban Smokeless Tobacco

  Apr 20, 2011

• Fighting Big Tobacco in China

  Mar 22, 2011

• WLF Interview on Russia's Tobacco Tax Increase

  Mar 3, 2011

• Anti-Corruption and Anti-Smoking: Hand-in-Hand in Tahrir Square

  Mar 2, 2011

• Meeting Tobacco Control Allies in Tabasco and Mexico City

  Feb 23, 2011

• CNBC: Lights, Camera, Action

  Feb 18, 2011

• Long Overdue: Graphic Pack Warning Labels for Cigarettes in the United States

  Feb 14, 2011

• The Myth of the Celebrity

  Feb 7, 2011

• Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya

  Jan 31, 2011

• Thoughts on a First CoP

  Dec 17, 2010

• Turkish "Sponge" leaves hotline busy signals

  Dec 14, 2010

• Smoke-Free Alexandria

  Nov 30, 2010

• Travel Log: Tanzania, Mauritius, Bangladesh and India

  Nov 23, 2010

• Incredible Istanbul: City offers the perfect smoke-free backdrop for WLF media workshop

  Nov 2, 2010

• Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health
  Sydney, Australia, October 6-9, 2010

  Oct 25, 2010

• 2010 World Cancer Congress in Shenzhen, China

  Sep 16, 2010

• Aus-Aid Australian Leadership Award Fellowship on Tobacco Control

  Sep 9, 2010

• Sunday in Tanzania

  Jul 20, 2010

• Smoke-free Alexandria, "effective immediately"

  Jun 22, 2010

• WLF Workshop in Bogotá, Colombia

  Jun 16, 2010

• Working Together for Tobacco Control in Vietnam

  May 20, 2010

• WLF Brings Communications Course to Singapore

  May 19, 2010

• Tanzania - Expanding Critical Health Services for Women and Children

  Apr 21, 2010

• Run, WLF, Run!

  Apr 6, 2010

• Craig David, Goodwill Ambassador against Tuberculosis

  Mar 29, 2010

• Moscow Sponge Winter Campaign

  Mar 12, 2010

• Spring Festival Gift-Giving in China

  Mar 9, 2010

• Enhancing Maternal Health in Tanzania

  Feb 3, 2010

• Some Things Just Don't Work that Well with Holes in Them

  Jan 27, 2010

• I Love Smoke-Free Paris

  Jan 22, 2010

• Media Communications Workshop in Singapore

  Jan 7, 2010

• Poverty and Lung Health: 40th World Lung Conference in Cancún, Mexico

  Dec 15, 2009

• Thanksgiving in Hanoi

  Dec 14, 2009

• Moscow Duma Launches

  Nov 16, 2009

• 3rd Cross-Strait Conference on Tobacco Control

  Oct 27, 2009

• Turkey Smoke-free site Visit

  Oct 15, 2009

• Judith Mackay at WPRO meeting

  Sep 26, 2009

• Egypt Mass Media Training

  Sep 15, 2009

• Ad filming in Egypt

  Sep 15, 2009