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  • The term “soft drugs” was itself a marketing pitch, like “low-tar cigarettes.”

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • As with low-tar tobacco, low-alcohol beer, or low-fat cheese, it tacitly acknowledges the health concerns related to business as usual, but instead of promoting change it has watered down the product, slapped on a new label, raised the price, and aimed for an even bigger market.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • As with low-tar tobacco, low-alcohol beer, or low-fat cheese, it tacitly acknowledges the health concerns related to business as usual, but instead of promoting change it has watered down the product, slapped on a new label, raised the price, and aimed for an even bigger market.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The term “soft drugs” was itself a marketing pitch, like “low-tar cigarettes.”

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • The term “soft drugs” was itself a marketing pitch, like “low-tar cigarettes.”

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

  • There is no evidence that adding filters to cigarettes has made them safer or that "low-tar" and "light" cigarettes are any less dangerous, according to the report.

    New tobacco warnings from surgeon general Rob Stein 2010

  • This, despite the departure of the Bush administration's Petroleum Posse and Barack Obama's promise to get us out of the recession through a green energy revolution - that he later redefined to include offshore drilling, nukes and clean coal (think low-tar cigarettes).

    David Helvarg: Waiting on the Revolution 2010

  • There is no evidence that adding filters to cigarettes has made them safer or that "low-tar" and "light" cigarettes are any less dangerous, according to the report.

    Even one puff of tobacco harmful, reports surgeon general Rob Stein 2010

  • As with low-tar tobacco, low-alcohol beer, or low-fat cheese, it tacitly acknowledges the health concerns related to business as usual, but instead of promoting change it has watered down the product, slapped on a new label, raised the price, and aimed for an even bigger market.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • He lit a low-tar cigarette and swallowed the milky blue smoke.

    Steven Weber: For My Father 10/3/25 - 3/6/87 2009

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