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- Apr 10, 2012nmartinez
By Alicia Smith, Project Manager, CADCA’s Tobacco Program
"Smoking a cigarette for the beginner is a symbolic act. I am no longer my mother's child, I'm tough, I am an adventurer, I’m not square. As the force from the psychological symbolism subsides, the pharmacological effect takes over to sustain the habit." (Philip Morris Tobacco Company internal documents, 1968) It may not surprise you that R.J. Reynolds, Lorillard and the U.S. Tobacco companies have all indicated very similar testimonies to this Philip Morris statement in their internal documents. For years, tobacco companies have studied the 14-20 market hoping to create a “fad” [tobacco use in this case] in order to surge a resounding sonic boom of profits. The tobacco industry targets today’s teenager as tomorrow’s potential regular customer, and sadly an overwhelming majority of smokers first begin to smoke while still in their teens. - Apr 04, 2012vcarlborg
By Khiree T. Smith, NYLI Trainer, CADCA
CADCA was invited and gratefully accepted the invitation to join the Department of Justice’s National Summit on Preventing Youth Violence as a result of a growing and valued relationship with the DOJ. - Mar 21, 2012nmartinez
By Gen. Arthur T. Dean, Chairman and CEO, CADCA
From the moment we began to the very last day, the CADCA delegation was busy stressing the importance of prevention at the 55th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND). From March 12th to the16th I had the honor of participating in this important meeting in Vienna, Austria along with several other colleagues from CADCA.
- Mar 05, 2012nmartinez
By Alicia Smith, Project Manager, CADCA’s Tobacco Program
Not only is hookah smoking dangerous for your health, but the idea of the whole thing seems pretty gross to me. How many strangers would you share your straw with if you all had different mouth pieces to attach to the sipping end? Not many, if any, I’m sure. No matter how sweet the taste, the reward wouldn’t be worth the anxiety of worrying where that person’s mouth had been. - Dec 05, 2011nmartinez
By Gen. Arthur T. Dean, CADCA Chairman & CEO
A study that has not been peer-reviewed but rather published as part of a “discussion series” by a German labor journal is getting a lot of publicity. Time Magazine, Join Together, the Denver Post, and other outlets have published stories about the study. The study concludes that traffic fatalities are reduced in medical marijuana states because, as the author’s assert, “alcohol and marijuana are substitutes.” So, as substitutes, the authors contend that medical marijuana laws cause people to drink less and therefore not drive drunk. This is most certainly a spurious and coincidental relationship, however, as a large body of data points to other reasons why we have witnessed historic reductions in road fatalities over the last 20 years.
