Tobacco Ads Admit Addiction, Wild West Tours Europe
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 693
- Nov 29, 2017 7:00 am
- 1:39:24 mins
Tobacco Advertises Danger of Cigarettes Guest: Stanton Glantz, PhD, Truth Initiative Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, University of California, San Francisco, and Director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education A jarring series of advertisements began airing on network TV, online and an in print this week, paid for by US tobacco companies. “Smoking kills on average 1,200 Americans every day,” reads one ad. “More people die every year from smoking than from murder, AIDS, suicide, drugs, car crashes and alcohol, combined.” Another one says, “RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Philip Morris USA, Altria and Lorillard, intentionally designed cigarettes to make them more addictive.” The ads are pretty basic: that slightly robotic voice reads as black text appears on a white background. They’ve been a long time coming, too. A judge actually ordered tobacco companies to air these so-called “corrective statements” ten years ago. You can read the internal documents tobacco companies have been court-ordered to release here: https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/ Seeing More at Night Vision Guests: Diane Cook, Landscape Photographer; Len Jenshel, Landscape Photographer “The night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” Vincent van Gogh apparently said that once, and his famous Starry Night painting certainly makes the point. So does a new coffee table book from National Geographic called “Night Vision: Magical Photographs of Life After Dark.” Lunar Colony in Sight Guest: Jay Melosh, PhD, Distinguished University Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University It’s been 46 years since an American astronaut last set foot on the moon. Vice President Mike Pence told the National Space Council meeting last month that’s going to change: “We will return American astronauts to the moon. Not only to leave behind footprints and flags, but to build the foundation we need to send Americans to Mars and beyond.” He’s talking about setting up a more permane
