Tobacco Control Making National News (again)

President Obama's administration is appealing the ruling made last week by a US District Judge to block implementation of graphic warning labels on cigarette packages.

Read more on the FDA appeal story as reported by The Chicago Tribue

This appeal comes on the same day a report was released by The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids that examines the tobacco industry's strategy in partnering with convenience stores.
The report Deadly Alliance: How Big Tobacco and Convenience Stores Partner to Market Tobacco Products and Fight Life-Saving Policies makes several key findings:

• Convenience stores and other retail outlets have become by far the dominant channel for marketing tobacco products in the United States.
• Point-of-sale marketing is very effective at reaching kids and influencing them to smoke.
• Tobacco companies, inhibited by their own negative reputations, have also enlisted convenience stores as front groups to oppose tobacco tax increases and other policies to reduce tobacco use.

 It looks like the fight against the #1 cause of preventable death and disease will continue...