Vector CEO Says Views Changed on Tobacco Effects
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The chief executive of tobacco  holding company Vector Group Ltd. backed away from past  admissions that smoking is a proven cause of disease during  testimony on Monday in the government's racketeering trial  against the industry.
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A drug company executive who spoke out in support of Montgomery County's proposal to import drugs from Canada said that his company has launched an investigation into his political activities.
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Kicking the tobacco habit, even young, does not always reset harmful cancer-related genes that have been switched on or off by smoking in the first place, according to a study to be published Thursday.
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Researchers from the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh looked at how the cognitive abilities of smokers and non-smokers changed over time.
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A former tobacco industry executive testified Wednesday that top cigarette makers for years have chosen not to make their products safer despite knowing how to.
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Details on how a controversial change was made in a study of their cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin.
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Blog: At iMeme conference, CEO sidesteps questions about how much his predecessor had to do with company's success.
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A tobacco industry lawyer  acknowledged on Wednesday that some executives may have acted  wrongly, but said cigarette companies have never engaged in a  conspiracy to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking.
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NEW YORK - At Merck&#39;s annual analyst meeting, Chief Executive Raymond Gilmartin defended his company&#39;s handling of Vioxx and outlined changes that he says could help restore Merck&#39;s health.
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More and more big companies think   climate change could have an impact on their bottom lines,   according to a survey backed by major investors, the survey's   authors said on Monday.
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A tobacco firm has said allegations it covered up evidence of the harmful effects of passive smoking are &quot;false, inaccurate and highly misleading&quot;.
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The government&#39;s chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report on a US-funded study of the anti-HIV drug nevirapine, sold in the United States as Viramune, to change its conclusions and delete negative information.
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Tobacco companies tried to cast doubt on  the link between smoking and cancer by funding projects that  challenged the findings of a landmark study, scientists said on  Friday.
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The company's new smokeless product could help it capitalize on a growing trend.
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CEOs in the life-sciences business are supposed to be sober, scientifically grounded leaders. So, when Josh Boger, chief executive of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. , showed a slide last year comparing one of the drugs his Cambridge company is developing to Apple's iPod, he raised a lot of eyebrows.
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Philip Morris, one of the world's  leading tobacco manufacturers, was involved in research into  the health effects of smoking 30 years ago but did not reveal  data on the dangers of passive smoking, scientists said on  Thursday.
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BOSTON, Sept. 11 -- Philip Morris USA, the nation's largest cigarette maker, is disputing a study by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that found that nicotine levels in cigarettes rose about 10 percent from 1998 to 2004.