Tag Archives: Tobacco Industry
WNTD: The Nightmare Epidemic Created by Tobacco Marketing
Tobacco is a Deadly Product - Tobacco kills up to half of its users. - Tobacco kills nearly 6 million people each year, of whom more than 5 million are from direct tobacco use and more than 600 000 are nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke. Unless urgent action is taken, the annual death toll could… Read the full article >
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Do We Get Sick Like Rats? A New Philip Morris Prize Asks the Crowd
It might be surprising to hear a tobacco giant described as a tech innovator. But Philip Morris researchers are pioneering new territory with a crowdsourced approach to checking the accuracy of life sciences data. In partnership with computational biologists at IBM’s Watson Research Center, Philip Morris’s so-called sbv IMPROVER project creates open challenges to encourage scientists to… Read the full article >
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