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truth® zombies invade Walgreens to protest sale of tobacco products
A zombie-themed demonstration outside of Walgreens’ Washington, D.C., flagship store symbolized the consequences of smoking...
Played: This year’s video games glamorize tobacco use to youth
Participants in a new survey of video game players said they felt tobacco or nicotine...
Monitoring the future reveals good and bad news underscoring need for education and regulation
New data from the 2017 Monitoring the Future study show a drop in teen smoking...
truth® campaign successful in saving lives and preventing youth smoking
Exposure to the award-winning truth campaign prevented more than 300,000 U.S. youth and young adults...
Big Tobacco finally forced to tell the truth about its deadly products through court-ordered ads
The tobacco industry has begun publishing advertisements, or “corrective statements,” outlining the truth about the...
Truth Initiative announces new General Counsel
Truth Initiative announced the appointment of Robert Falk as General Counsel. Falk will succeed Ellen...
Philip Morris announcement to spend nearly $1 billion to end smoking sounds like fake news
The tobacco industry creating a foundation to end smoking is an affront to public health...
Leading health groups demand film industry give R rating to movies that depict smoking
A coalition of health organizations has demanded that movie producers and distributors apply an R...
truth asks if it is just business or is it exploitation
A new campaign from truth® exposes the tobacco industry’s exploitation of individuals with mental health...
truth and Kevin Lyons partner with Cotopaxi to inspire tobacco-free lives
truth will join Cotopaxi for 25 of their Questival adventure races. They will launch a...
FDA nicotine reduction plan announced today has promise, but timeline puts young lives at risk
We applaud the FDA for moving forward with a comprehensive policy toward nicotine but the...
Leading health organizations seek to intervene in defense of FDA rule on e-cigarettes, cigars
Six leading public health organizations today asked federal courts to allow them to intervene in...