San Francisco Voters Uphold Ban on Flavored Tobacco Products In Big Win for Kids over Tobacco Industry Proposition E to ban flavored tobacco products won by a landslide in San Francisco yesterday. SFMMS whole-heartedly supported this effort and is thrilled with the outcome. June 6, 2018 Advocacy, Public Health Flavored Tobacco, Prop E, Tobacco 0 0 Comment Read More »
Op Ed by Mark Leno Big Tobacco is at it again — marketing to children about deadly addiction. May 29, 2018 Advocacy, Guest Blog Tobacco, JUUL, Prop E 0 0 Comment Read More »
And the winner is...the tobacco industry 71% of the films listed in major Oscar categories this year feature smoking, including seven out of ten Oscar-listed films rated PG-13. February 27, 2017 UCSF Academy Awards, Oscars, Smoking, Tobacco, UCSF 0 0 Comment Read More »
SFMS Applauds the California State Senate for Passage of Historic Package of Tobacco Legislation The California State Senate on Thursday passed a landmark package of bills that will regulate e-cigarettes as a tobacco product, raise the legal tobacco purchasing age to 21, and allow municipalities to tax tobacco. March 10, 2016 Advocacy, News, Public Health tobacco 21, e-cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, physician advocacy, smoking age, tobacco 0 0 Comment Read More »
CMA Passes SFMS Resolution Urging U.S. Chamber of Commerce to Cease Tobacco Advocacy Efforts CMA reinforced its long-established stance against tobacco use, adopting Res. 107-15 authored by the San Francisco Medical Society that strongly objects to pro-tobacco efforts by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in other parts of the world. October 19, 2015 Advocacy, CMA, Public Health, SFMS Member House of Delegates, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, John Maa, tobacco 0 0 Comment Read More »
