TY - JOUR T1 - USA: advocates keep up pressure at tobacco AGMs JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 278 LP - 278 VL - 15 IS - 4 AU - David Simpson Y1 - 2006/08/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/15/4/278.1.abstract N2 - While many US tobacco control budgets suffer cuts as scarce prevention funds are shifted from tobacco to obesity and other serious health issues, health advocates have been striving to keep the pressure up, and maintain the American public’s awareness of just how serious the tobacco problem remains. If anything has served as reassurance recently that the worldwide tobacco pandemic will not drop away from the headlines, it was the record level of protests at the annual shareholders’ meetings of two of the world’s largest tobacco companies. A wide range of activities ensured that both bosses and shareholders of Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds American were left in no doubt at all about the tobacco epidemic, not only on home ground, but in developing countries and others all over the world. Altria Group, the parent company of … ER -