May 20, 2015
Opening this week in the US, When Marnie Was There (PG rated for "thematic elements and smoking") is an animated feature financed by Japan advertising giant Dentsu, the agency for Japan Tobacco.
The film is distributed in the US by Gkids, an independent that releases films from Studio Ghibli, a renowned animation company in Tokyo. Gkids founded and produces New York’s annual International Children’s Film Festival. 2015 festival sponsors include the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The New York Times, Variety and Whole Foods.
Another PG-rated animated feature film with smoking released in the US by Gkids, with Dentsu financing, is From Up on Poppy Hill (2012, rated PG for "mild thematic elements and some incidental smoking images”). That movie was co-produced by The Walt Disney Company, which has since ended its cooperation with Ghibli Studio films.
Dentsu is also credited as a producer on Universal's Fast & Furious film series, beginning with Fast & Furious (2009), whose smoking went unmentioned in its MPAA rating descriptor. The next three F&F films, also with Dentsu’s participation, were smokefree.
Smoking:
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
May 19, 2015
Sara Kalkoran, Ernesto Sebrie, Edguardo Sandoya, and I just published "Effect of Uruguay's National 100% Smokefree Law on Emergency Visits for Bronchospasm" in American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This paper adds to the robust literature showing that 100% smokefree laws have immediate health benefits that immediately reduce medical costs.
Here is the abstract:
May 18, 2015
The 2016 UCSF It’s About a Billion Lives symposium will be Friday January 22, 2016 from 8:30am through 1 pm at the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus.
Matt Myers, from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, will be the keynote.
UCSF professors Suzaynn Schick and Stella Bialous and postdoctoral fellows Noah Gubner and Lauren Dutra will present their work.
The closing speaker will be UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Dan Lowenstein.
More details later. See you there!
May 13, 2015
Once, California had abundant water and few recognized the challenge of global warming. . Governor Brown, recognizing that it is impossible to simply roll back the clock on these problems, is leading California to confront this changed reality with enormous efforts that have uncertain outcomes. But there is one problem in which the governor could roll back the clock to when California worked better: higher education.
Once, California’s three sector system of higher education – its Community Colleges, California State University, and the University of California – formed a high quality integrated system of accessible opportunity in which any California student could find an appropriate seat to advance their dreams. California had the best higher education system in the world, while it cost the state less, per student, than other states spent on higher education. And the system’s graduates built California.
Now, after years of budget cuts and privatization, students are paying more for less. The combination of high costs, increasing out-of-state students, and muddled Legislative policy is forcing students out of UC into CSU and the Community Colleges, which are, in turn, forcing the Community Colleges’ traditional students in to for-profit “colleges” that cost taxpayers billions and leave students with nothing but debt.
May 12, 2015
Last Thursday, the UCSF Library we released over 16,000 previously confidential RJ Reynolds documents on LTDL.
In addition, they have moved the new IDDL site out of beta (note the new URL minus the "beta" - https://industrydocuments.library.ucsf.edu/). and will retire the old LTDL and DIDA sites in June. Please give us your continued feedback on the new site - we want to make this site as usable and robust as possible but we can't do that without your input.
Rachel Taketa
Industry Documents Projects
UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management
415-514-1796
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