Sean Bell, Senior Vice President, Strategic Development:   Free & Clear's CMO, Tim McAfee, is a man of proud Scottish heritage, so I think he must be particularly pleased with today's news published in the  New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and reported on in... [More]

Ken Wassum, Senior Product Manager:   The announcement by Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg that they are committing $500 million to worldwide stop smoking efforts is to be applauded. The World Health Organization cites the toll in lives lost in the 20th century to be around 100 million... [More]

Andy Roberts, Senior Manager, Call Quality and Satisfaction:   Jon Lovett manages a tobacco shop in Hutchinson, Kansas and his current advertising campaign is drawing some media attention. The billboard outside his store reads: SMOKING REALLY IS COOL. He says that business is... [More]

Ken Wassum, Senior Product Manager:   Tobacco use kills 5.4 million people a year throughout the world, with over 100 million deaths in the 20th century. Based on this trend it is projected that tobacco will kill close to one billion worldwide in the 21st century (WHO). In the Uni... [More]

Tim McAfee, Chief Medical Officer:   I just put my wife on a plane to Amsterdam today. I’ll be a single parent for a week, and it's all because of smoking. She is going for a last visit with her Aunt Gerda, who at the age of 75, was recently diagnosed with Stage-4 lung cancer... [More]

Yuki Yang, Senior Director, Client Services:   A new study recently released in Perth found higher levels of nicotine and other tobacco-related particles inside the homes of smokers compared with smoke-free households, even if people smoked outdoors. The study found that when smok... [More]

Andy Roberts, Senior Manager, Call Quality and Satisfaction:   I pass a hospital on my walk in to work.  Inevitably, someone dressed in blue scrubs will be smoking outside in the designated area.  Maybe a surgeon relaxing after a difficult procedure?  A nurse escaping fr... [More]

Ken Wassum, Senior Product Manager:   In the United States we have a group of individuals who are trained experts at saving lives.  These experts treat the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, one that results in ten times the annual deaths from all the illegal... [More]

Yuki Yang, Senior Director, Client Services:   Washington State’s smoking ban, passed on December 8, 2005 prohibiting smoking in all indoor public places and workplaces including restaurants, bars, taverns, bowling alleys, skating rinks and non-tribal casinos, still evokes strong... [More]

Tim McAfee, Chief Medical Officer:    We are bombarded by information every day about things in modern life that are “bad” for us. Often a year later, we hear that what was “bad” is now “good,” or at least not as “bad” as we thought.... [More]