We agree with SEC that the timing used as the intervention date matters when determining the effects of the conflict minerals disclosure rule.[202] As we state in the body of the report and in the appendices, our analysis uses the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) in July 2010 as a proxy for the SEC conflict minerals disclosure rule because once the act was signed, companies, governments, and others began to take action in anticipation of the rule that the act required the SEC to issue.[203] For example, company representatives told us that before SEC issued the rule in 2012, their companies began preparing for its issuance by mapping supply chains for the minerals in their products and developing conflict minerals policies
"January 19, 2007 transcript"
Tobacco Advertising and Marketing from 1913-1994 Cigarette Brand Decline Curves William Slocum wrote in 1951 about the conundrum of how to sell a certain tobacco-based consumer product: The extraordinary part of this tale is that no matter how you cut it, flavor it, toast it, pack it or glamorize it, it is basically the same product
Now, how about mustering the long overdue political will to increase the cigarette tax
This should appeal to fans of GLP's Temple Bar