Tobacco companies were especially fond of celebrity testimonials, enlisting hundreds upon hundreds of celebrities to endorse their tobacco products well into the 1960s
Laura Parker Bowles lights a cigarette at the memorial service for Major Bruce Shand at St Paul's Church in Knightsbridge, London in September 2006 But the stepdaughter of King Charles gave up smoking in 2007 as she tried for a baby with Calvin Klein model-turned-chartered accountant Harry Lopes
In many cases, using an expired lozenge once or twice may not cause serious harm
unfilled prescriptions cost the medical system $300 billion annually, CVS says
HEC Press Officer Michel Jacob noted that evaluation of a campaign like this is difficult, since its influence on behaviour can only be measured in the future and, even then, smoking behaviour is governed by a great many factors and subject to a great many influences. He went on to state that It would be idle to pretend, and I think it is idle to pretend, that any health education mass media campaign on its own can make a significant long-term impact on health behaviour. Nonetheless, Jacob was confident that the overwhelming response by children, the favourable reception by schools, and the associated significant coverage by the mass media suggested that the approach is one worthy of development (Health Education Council, 1981b)
Yet blacks are far more likely to go to prison for drug offenses