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[last page] • September 18, 2002 - Bridge.com
American Legacy Foundation study shows their "truth" campaign is helping to lower smoking rates among U.S. youth. According to the study, smoking prevalence among high school students who have had "high exposure" to the campaign's television commercials has declined 29 percent since 2000.
• September 17, 2002 - Tobacco Free Kids
Tobacco Free Kids notes that Philip Morris’s "termination of ineffective anti-smoking ads" is a positive step, but asks that tobacco companies also stop opposing other prevention programs.
• September 13, 2002 - Yahoo! News
San Diego judge dismisses a class-action lawsuit filed against US cigarette manufacturers on behalf of California minors, citing freedom-of-speech protections.
• September 12, 2002 - MediaWeek.com
The Federal Communications Commission began a rulemaking process that could weaken or eliminate regulations of broadcast ownership. Some limitations in questions are those that limit national and local television ownership, restrict ownership of broadcast stations by local newspapers and prevent joint ownership of any of the major four television networks.
• September 09, 2002 - AdAge.com
Island Def Jam Music Group is in formal talks with Hewlett-Packard Co. in an unprecedented paid product-placement deal. The discussions, though still "speculative," would mark the first time brand tie-ins with the hip-hop community monetizes the arrangement beyond receiving free products.
• September 03, 2002 - Yahoo! News
A new study finds that adolescent couch potatoes are more likely to start smoking than teens with more restricted viewing hours.
• August 29, 2002 - CNN.com
According to a new CDC/WHO study, 14% of people age 13 to 15 around the world smoke cigarettes, with nearly a quarter of them having tried their first cigarette by age 10. However, nearly 70 percent said they want to quit immediately.
• August 28, 2002 - AdAge.com
Boston Beer Co. will run an ad to apologize for a national radio promotion that encouraged people to have sex in public. Chairman Jim Koch called about 10 bars in Boston to apologize for the promotion, which resulted in a couple having sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral.
• August 27, 2002 - Yahoo! News
US malls and movie theaters refuse to display the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's "Protect Your Fertility!" campaign materials, on that grounds that the PSAs are not family friendly or entertaining. The campaign targets people in their twenties and early thirties to inform them that decisions they make now can impact their fertility later in life.
• August 27, 2002 - AdAge.com
Los Angeles-based Ground Zero has begun a formal affiliation with Girls Intelligence Agency, a shop specializing in researching and marketing to girls aged 8 to 18. GIA has conducted research projects by doing things such as holding slumber parties.
• August 25, 2002 - EducationGuardian.co.uk
Study of Israeli students suggests that the use of computers in schools does not improve pupils' educational performance and in fact may have a damaging impact on their math performance.
• August 24, 2002 - MaineToday.com
In a move to aid student identification and prevent entry of outsiders, students at a Maine high school are required to wear ID badges this year. Similar policies are being adopted across the country.
• August 21, 2002 - Advocates for Youth
Advocates for Youth and Rock the Vote launch signature campaign to counter federal policies aimed at abstinence-only sex education. They hope to get petitions to Capitol Hill before Congress votes next month on funding abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
• August 19, 2002 - Kaiser Family Foundation
More than two out of three (68 percent) of 12- to 24-year-olds have gotten health information online. Four in ten (44 percent) have looked up information online about pregnancy, birth control, HIV/AIDS, or other STDs.
• August 19, 2002 - JoinTogether.org
Charles "Andy" Williams, who killed two students and wounded 13 in a shooting rampage last year at Santana High School in California, was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison.
• August 17, 2002 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Utah judges kept gun lockers out of state courthouses by eliminating their own court rules that subjected them to new locker legislation. Weapons are still banned from all Utah courthouses, where taking a weapon inside is a misdemeanor.
• August 16, 2002 - CommericalAlert.com
Channel One, the in-school television show with ten minutes of news and two minutes of commercials, is suffering declining advertising revenues.
• August 14, 2002 - Yahoo! News
In the 1980s and early 1990s, tobacco companies exerted pressure on pharmaceutical companies to tone down ad campaigns for products aimed to help people quit smoking. In one example, Philip Morris was able to influence the marketing of the nicotine replacement gum, Nicorette, by threatening to withdraw millions of dollars worth of business from Dow Chemical.
• August 13, 2002 - School Board News
A federal judge in Louisiana ruled that the state illegally used federal money to promote religion in abstinence-only sex education programs. It was the first such suit challenging federally funded abstinence-only programs.
• August 13, 2002 - The New Zealand Herald
Smoking cannabis is as bad for your lungs as smoking cigarettes. People who smoked cannabis or tobacco expelled less air in a second than non-smokers and took longer to expel all the air from their lungs because their airways had narrowed slightly.
• August 13, 2002 - JoinTogether.org
A new survey shows that many high-school students in the United States are smoking cigarettes in an effort to lose weight.
• August 12, 2002 - JoinTogether.org
Coors has become the official sponsor of U.S. theatrical premieres for Miramax. Under the deal, Coors products will be seen in 15 films over the next three years. In addition, the Coors logo will appear on red carpets, and Coors beer will be served at Miramax parties.
• August 12, 2002 - AdAge.com
Disney cereal and beverage brands are not doing as well as expected. Almost a year after Minute Maid's launch of a line of 18 products playing off Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh and others, retailers are pulling varieties instead of feeling the magic. And Kellogg -- on the eve of launching the Disney brand into the highly competitive cookie and cracker category -- is seeing modest sales for the trio of Disney cereals it launched less than six months ago decline.
• August 12, 2002 - AdAge.com
Philip Morris USA has not run a single magazine ad for Marlboro this year, but the tobacco leader continues to aggressively promote brands at retail through discounts and other programs and
events that facilitate customers' interaction and reward their loyalty.
• August 09, 2002 - MSNBC
Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas treated for throat cancer, says he has trouble forgiving himself for the rampant cigarette use in his films.
• August 06, 2002 - AdAge.com
Proctor & Gamble hire consulting group to enhance teen product-positioning site. Creative Artists Agency will work to develop Tremor, an online and offline teen viral marketing program.
• August 01, 2002 - American School Board Journal
Tobacco use is declining among teens, but it's still a serious problem.
• July 31, 2002 - NIDA
A long-term study has linked adolescent drug use with health problems in early adulthood. Subjects in their mid-to-late twenties who had used drugs as teens reported more health problems than those who had never used drugs, including increased incidence of respiratory conditions, cognitive problems, and headaches, dizziness, and vision problems.
• July 31, 2002 - MEDLINEplus
Pennsylvania State College of Medicine study demonstrates that taking birth control pills does not lead to weight gain for teens.
• July 30, 2002 - Yahoo! News
A German consumer protection association is suing two cigarette companies for allegedly breaking advertising rules by appealing to young people and playing down the risk of illness through smoking.
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