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• July 18, 2002 - Yahoo! News
Cases of syphilis in England have doubled in recent years, heightening the need for better regional and national surveillance systems. There were four outbreaks in England between 1997 and 2000.

• July 18, 2002 - AdAge.com
Philip Morris Cos. will invest $350 million to promote and market its premium cigarette brands - Marlboro, Parliament, Virginia Slims and Basic - at retail, the company announced today.

• July 17, 2002 - JoinTogether.org
A new study shows that cigarette advertising can impede parents' efforts to prevent children from smoking; cigarette ads influence teens to smoke even when parents are highly involved in their lives.

• July 16, 2002 - CSPI
America’s children are getting high exposure to ads for liquor-branded malt beverages known as "alcopops". Public-health advocates say that ads for those drinks, which may total $450 million this year, not only promote alcopops, but are a back-door way for liquor companies like Bacardi, Stolichnaya, Captain Morgan’s, and Smirnoff to put their brand names in front of young audiences on network television.

• July 07, 2002 - AIDS 2002
XIV International AIDS Conference held in Barcelona, Spain

• June 28, 2002 - The Guardian
England's public health minister gave the first official blessing for health clinics offering contraception, advice on sexual health, and counseling in England's secondary schools, in a campaign to halve the number of teenage pregnancies by 2010.

• June 27, 2002 - Center for Disease Control
Compared to the early '90s, high-school students are practicing fewer unhealthy behaviors, including sex.

• June 14, 2002 - JoinTogether.org
Several cable-television networks have begun relaxing their hard-liquor advertising policies, with some already accepting liquor commercials nationally. In the past, cable networks would accept local hard liquor ads, but refused to air liquor advertisements nationally. The first on the scene comes from Bacardi USA, which began running ads for its Bombay Sapphire Gin nationally on five cable networks.

• June 06, 2002 - AdAge.com
A California judge fined R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. $20 million for targeting teens in magazine ad campaigns, a decision that holds the potential to force tobacco companies to pull more of their ads from consumer titles.

• May 30, 2002 - American Public Health Association
According to a new American Legacy Foundation study, Philip Morris's youth anti-smoking ads makes kids more likely to smoke in the future. Legacy claimed that the Philip Morris campaign undermines their own "Truth" campaign.

• May 29, 2002 - Washington State DASA
Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) asks parents to supervise parties celebrating the end of school year to protect youth from injuries and deaths caused by drinking alcohol, noting that a recent study found that 38 percent of Washington high school seniors regularly have five or more drinks in a row - higher than the national average.

• May 13, 2002 - AdAge.com
The Osbournes has broached a $100,000 mark for a 30-second advertising spot, a pricing record for a regular non-sports cable series.

• May 01, 2002 - Christian Science Monitor
By the time they hit first grade, most US children are aware of some 200 logos – many dangled by firms out to secure their long-term loyalty.

• April 03, 2002 - Tobacco Free Kids
New Poll Shows Kids Still Bombarded with Tobacco Advertising.

• April 02, 2002 - Tacoma News Tribune
Park Close to Being Smoke Free.

• April 01, 2002 - Join Together Online
Depressed Teens More Likely to Smoke.

• March 11, 2002 - AdAge.com
Big Tobacco Objects to Further Ad Restrictions.

• February 19, 2002 - AdAge.com
Cigarette Giant Sues Anti-Tobacco Ad Group.

• January 31, 2002 - Department of Health and Human Services
President Bush's budget for 2003 will increase funding for abstinence education programs to $135 million, a $33 million increase over 2002 funding for abstinence-only education.

• January 13, 2002 - New York Times
In Saudi Arabia, a new jihad, or holy war, was recently declared against Big Tobacco.

• January 07, 2002 - Department of Health, Washington State
Recently released anti-tobacco advertisements approach the topic of smoking in an "in-your-face" way.

• December 27, 2001 - San Francisco Chronicle
Smoking in films seems to have made a comeback in recently released movies.

• December 14, 2001 - The Glasgow Herald, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
The British Medical Association has asked British film companies to ban smoking in films.

• December 11, 2001 - New York Times
An Old Enemy, Smoking, Hangs Tough - Worrisome trends concerning young people and smoking.

• November 29, 2001 - USA Today
Study shows U.S. teens are not more likely to be sexually active than their peers in other developed countries, but they're much more likely to become parents. Sexually active U.S. teen are significantly less likely to use birth control or have abortions.

• November 28, 2001 - Antelope Valley News
A local non-profit group in California is seeking to pass a prevention plan that would eliminate public alcohol and tobacco advertisements in their local community.

• November 19, 2001 - New York Times
The proposed name change of the Philip Morris Companies is sparking debate and conversations about how consumers will perceive the new name.

• October 31, 2001 - The Seattle Times
Los Angeles may decide this year whether or not to allow people to continue to smoke in its public parks.

• October 31, 2001 - St. Petersburg Times
The Florida Department of Health is releasing new advertisements that put a new spin on the Philip Morris commercials promoting the company's charitable contributions in the United States.

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