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24 Jul 2008
Bush administration opposes tobacco regulation
The Bush administration strongly opposes legislation to give federal health authorities the power to regulate tobacco products, a top official said in a letter to Congress obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Full story at news.yahoo.com
22 Jul 2008
Call to ban sweet smoking additives
Public smoking bans have helped smokers to quit, improved health and cut health-related costs. Although about half the states have enacted bans over determined opposition by big-tobacco lobbyists, the effort to enact statewide bans has slowed. Groups such as the American Cancer Society have increasingly turned their smoking ban initiatives to individual cities, where the bans have found a much warmer reception.
Full story at abcnews.go.com
10 Jul 2008
Call to ban sweet smoking additives
Action on Smoking and Health and health officials say additives such as Tasty Puff drops - which come in Awesome Apple, Blueberry Thrill and Joosy Froot flavours and are designed to be added to cigarettes - should be banned because they mask the taste of tobacco and entice youngsters to smoke.
Full story at stuff.co.nz
8 Jul 2008
Public smoking ban hits pubs' beer sales
Pubs have sold 175 million fewer pints in the past year as a direct result of the smoking ban, according to market analysts AC Nielsen.
Full story at guardian.co.uk
3 Jul 2008
Biomarkers needed to gauge passive smoke exposure
Biological indicators, or "biomarkers" of exposure to secondhand smoke that can be analyzed in blood, tissue or other samples, or through imaging scans are needed to examine whether exposure to secondhand smoke may cause lung cancer.
Full story at uk.reuters.com
1 Jul 2008
Smokers, tobacco firms to meet in court again
Attorneys for Louisiana smokers and the nation's biggest tobacco companies will square off in a hearing today on a case that made headlines in 2004 when a Civil District Court jury ruled that the firms should pay $519 million to help Louisianians kick the smoking habit for conspiring to mislead the public about tobacco's effects.
Full story at nola.com
26 Jun 2008
Research supports tobacco display ban in convenience stores and retail outlets
Tobacco wall displays in convenience stores and other retailers should be banned because New Zealand and international evidence shows they are an unhealthy influence on children and people trying to quit smoking, according to latest research from the University of Otago, Wellington. "This is a serious issue affecting children who are considering starting to smoke, or smokers struggling to quit," says lead research Dr George Thomson. "Tobacco companies use these wall displays and pay retailers to keep them up because they work; in essence, they normalise smoking."
Full story at otago.ac.nz
24 Jun 2008
La. judge to rehash tobacco case
Attorneys for Louisiana smokers and the nation's biggest tobacco companies will square off in a June 30 hearing on a case that made headlines in 2004 when a Civil District Court jury ruled that for conspiring to mislead the public about tobacco's effects, the firms should pay $519 million to help Louisianians kick the smoking habit.
Full story at nola.com
5 Jun 2008
Smoking banned on public property in West Pittston
Mayor Bill Goldsworthy’s father died of throat cancer, after beginning a smoking habit as a kid. He wants to make sure that doesn’t happen to any of his borough’s children, he says.
Full story at zwire.com
30 May 2008
'Israel can do better against smoking'
One of America's leading experts on tobacco prevention and cessation says Israel needs grassroots leadership to reduce the smoking rate from its current 23.5 percent, given that the Treasury collects NIS 3.3 billion in tobacco taxes and Health Minister Ya'acov Ben-Yizri has chosen to take a relatively passive approach to the subject.
Full story at jpost.com
6 May 2008
Cigarette tax increase advocates rally support
Health-related groups are rallying support for a 50 cents-a-pack cigarette tax increase before the Senate debates raising South Carolina's lowest-in-the-nation tax this week.
Full story at wistv.com
30 Apr. 2008
Electronic cigarette substitute set for trials
Christchurch smokers may get the chance to try the Ruyan e-cigarette, a Chinese smoking substitute that delivers nicotine in a harmless mist through a cigarette-like device, this year.
Full story at stuff.co.nz
25 Apr. 2008
The Marlboro men go global
Once upon a time, the Marlboro Man rode alone on his horse across a rugged Western landscape. Now, with smoking increasingly unpopular in the U.S. and Europe, he has to circle the globe to rustle up smokers.
Full story at articles.moneycentral.msn.com
23 Apr. 2008
States Look to Tobacco Tax for Budget Holes
To keep the state’s landmark universal health coverage plan afloat, Massachusetts lawmakers are looking to tap an increasingly popular source of financing for health-related initiatives: tobacco taxes. If the state raises its tax by as much as $1 a pack, it will join New York — and possibly a number of other states — in enacting significant increases this year.
Full story at nytimes.com
21 Apr. 2008
Private Lilydale club is attracting cigar lovers despite state's smoking ban
It's 11:30 a.m. on a weekday, and six middle-aged men are sitting on plush, leather couches and chairs and talking politics and religion — all while puffing on moderately priced cigars. Welcome to the Lilydale Social Club, an 800-square-foot indoor haven for cigar smokers that opened in November. At a time when Minnesota's statewide smoking ban is pushing smokers outdoors, the Lilydale club — next to a cigar shop on Sibley Memorial Highway — is finding a loyal membership.
Full story at twincities.com
18 Apr. 2008
Experts call for regulation on tobacco products
Monday is a day to be remembered by Tobacco farmers and traders across the federation, that was the day they converged at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja Lagos, not for any other thing but to make a special appeal to the Federal Government to review its plan on issues affecting the industry especially on its planned ban and litigation on tobacco and its products.
Full story at vanguardngr.com
16 Apr. 2008
Shura stubs out anti-smoking law
A DIVIDED Shura Council yesterday stubbed out an anti-smoking law, dismissing it as un-enforceable. Members initially approved the proposal last week, but yesterday decided to refer it back to the services committee for complete re-working.
Full story at gulf-daily-news.com
14 Apr. 2008
State sues bar for smoking 'show'
The Minnesota Department of Health has filed suit against a Scott County bar, accusing it of violating the state's ban on smoking in bars and restaurants. The suit against the Bullseye Saloon in Elko is the first over a spate of bars and clubs that began holding smoking "performances" this year. The bars claimed an exception in the 2007 Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, which allows smoking as part of a theatrical performance, meant customers could smoke as long as they are considered part of the performance.
Full story at twincities.com
11 Apr. 2008
Arrest of Cigarette Seller Is a Coup, Brooklyn Officials Say
Until a few weeks ago, Rafea al-Nablisi, a 40-year-old Jordanian immigrant, was one of the biggest cigarette wholesalers in the city, officials said on Wednesday. From warehouses in his home borough of Queens, they said, he sold 12,000 cartons of cigarettes a week, which made their way to store shelves in Queens, Brooklyn and New Jersey.
Full story at nytimes.com
09 Apr. 2008
Ansonia Smoking Lawsuit Is Settled
The war of the cigarettes is over at the Ansonia. The lawyer-couple who sued their neighbor at the historic Upper West Side apartment building because, they claimed, she was jeopardizing the health of their 4-year-old son with her smoking, have agreed to drop the lawsuit. Jonathan Selbin, the class-action lawyer who, with is wife, Jenny, also a lawyer, sued their neighbor, Galila Huff, confirmed the settlement.
Full story at cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
07 Apr. 2008
Rell talks with tribes about banning smoking at casinos
Gov. M. Jodi Rell is asking legislative leaders to withdraw a bill on banning smoking in many areas of the two Indian casinos in Connecticut while she tries to reach a deal with tribal officials. Rell has written to top state lawmakers informing them that she has begun preliminary talks with the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes, which run Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, respectively.
Full story at newsday.com
04 Apr. 2008
Pack in NYC will have $4.25 in taxes
New York's $2.75-per-pack tax would jump ahead of New Jersey for the highest state tax in the nation. New York has been ranked the 16th highest with a tax of $1.50 tax per pack. The average price of a pack of cigarettes is about $5.82 statewide, but there is an additional $1.50 New York City tax. That brings the total taxes on a pack of cigarettes for those who purchase in the city to $4.25 a pack.
Full story at abclocal.go.com
02 Apr. 2008
Support Grows for Tobacco Bill
A long-stalled bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate tobacco products is picking up momentum in this election season, propelled by sponsors' concessions to some key interests that had opposed the plan.
Full story at online.wsj.com
31 Mar. 2008
Cigar bars, tobacco shops want to bring back smoking
A group of unlikely political activists wants to bring smoking back to some Washington businesses and clubs, more than two years after voters here overwhelmingly approved the nation's most-stringent statewide smoking ban.
Full story at seattlepi.nwsource.com
28 Mar. 2008
Japan Tobacco To Cut Executive Salaries Over Dumpling Poisoning
Japan Tobacco Inc. (2914.TO) said Friday that it will cut the monthly salaries of its executives, including President Hiroshi Kimura, by 10%-30% for three months, following food poisoning incidents.
Full story at news.morningstar.com
26 Mar. 2008
Big Tobacco Faces Further Cigarette Market Declines In The U.S.
Tobacco companies have been steadily selling fewer cigarettes in the U.S., but that rate of decline is likely to accelerate over the next few years. Those declines will mean the biggest cigarette companies could be in for a much tougher fight for their survival and growth in the U.S.
Full story at money.cnn.com
24 Mar. 2008
Technology makes smoking safe
SMOKING IS a filthy habit. Not only does it clog a person’s lungs with tar, significantly raise the risk of emphysema and various cancers, expose the smoker to 4000 chemical substances, age the skin and yellow the teeth, it also smells awful and irritates non smokers with pungent smoke clouds which sting the eyes and cling to clothes and hair.
Full story at theinquirer.net
21 Mar. 2008
PACIFIC SMOKE-FREE DEADLINE LOOMS
The woman is thin-framed, a young mother who has not seen her family all day—it’s late and she is hungry. A nil-by-mouth sign sits with her files which have been on the bed with her since she arrived this morning. It is evening, and she is still waiting to see a doctor. She will spend the night and most of the next day in a public hallway with more than 20 other urgent cases, connected to a drip and coughing her way through conversation.
Full story at islandsbusiness.com
19 Mar. 2008
FG to serve litigation processes on tobacco firm through Swiss newspaper
Hearing in a multi billion suit slammed by the Federal Government against the Britsh American Tobacco Company and four others was yesterday stalled following a report by government to the effect that one of the principal defendants in the case, Philips Moritz of Switzerland was yet to be served court processes in the case.
Full story at vanguardngr.com
17 Mar. 2008
Walls of smokes coming down
It’s usually one of the first things you see in a convenience store. The wall of cigarettes typically stands just behind the cashier’s counter and just beyond the racks of chocolate bars and candy. But soon the tobacco displays — known as powerwalls — will have to be taken down. Retailers across the province will be banned from stocking cigarettes and tobacco products in powerwalls as of May 31, under the Smoke-free Ontario Act.
Full story at stcatharinesstandard.ca
14 Mar. 2008
Trading smokes for snus may be a safer bet
In the tobacco family, chew and dip are considered the country cousins. When they visit, a murky cup of tobacco juice soon follows. So it may be a surprise to learn of the Swedish relatives. A neater smokeless tobacco that comes in a small tea bag and doesn't require spitting, tobacco companies say. It arrived in local Sheetz stations last summer. Its name is snus.
Full story at roanoke.com
12 Mar. 2008
Smoking ban benefits bar business
A new study published by a public interest group finds the smoking bans passed in cities across the state have had a neutral or even positive impact on the bar business.
Full story at wisconsinrapidstribune.com
10 Mar. 2008
Less Cigarette Consumption Won’t Affect Filipino Tobacco Farmers, Says Solon
The country’s tobacco industry will not be affected by reduced cigarette consumption, according to Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel, allaying fears that any move to further strengthen cigarette sale restrictions will displace the country’s tobacco farmers.
Full story at pinoypress.net
6 Mar. 2008
Smoking targeted
THE Nationals want to ban smoking in cars and make it unlawful for those under 18 to smoke, a proposed Private Members Bill outlines. Nationals leader and Shadow Minister for Regional and Rural Development Peter Ryan yesterday spoke about the proposed underage smoking laws to Catholic College Bendigo students. His visit to the school was part of a state-wide consultation with teenagers and communities about the proposed laws.
Full story at bendigo.yourguide.com.au
3 Mar. 2008
Assurance on tobacco price
The government today gave the assurance that it would retain the price of tobacco at RM13.80 per kg until 2012 for the benefit of the 12,000 tobacco growers in the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, in making the announcement, said the promise was not a general election sweetener but a reflection of the desire of the Barisan Nasional (BN) government to guarantee the livelihood of tobacco growers.
Full story at nst.com.my
29 Feb. 2008
Two laws target smokers in Mexico City
Smokers and restaurateurs and other business owners in Mexico City on Wednesday were debating the ramifications of not one but two groundbreaking laws seeking to curb smoking. Some were scratching their heads over which they would have to obey, and many others expressed skepticism that either would be effectively enforced.
Full story at latimes.com
27 Feb. 2008
F1 a victim as Bahrain stamps out smoking.
Despite the sport having banned such sponsorship since 2005, posters advertising tobacco products using the forthcoming Bahrain Grand Prix are to be pulled down as the country attempts to fall into line with increasingly popular smoking restrictions.
Full story at crash.net
25 Feb. 2008
Hookah bars fly under smoking ordinance radar
El Paso's anti-smoking ordinance has freshened the air in the city's bars and restaurants, but a visitor to a local hookah bar on a weekend night is likely to find young adults puffing away on sweet smelling tobacco from traditional Middle Eastern waterpipes and exhaling clouds of billowy white smoke. Those establishments, several of which are found around the UTEP campus, have been operating just under the radar of the police and health inspectors charged with enforcing the landmark anti-smoking ordinance that City Council approved in 2002.
Full story at elpasotimes.com
22 Feb. 2008
R.J. Reynolds revamps Camel brand
The iconic Camel cigarette pack has undergone its first makeover since it hit store shelves almost a century ago, as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company tests new ways to market its biggest brands in a lagging market for smokes. Though the enduring image of the Camel has not changed in the updated packaging, the animal is surrounded by a fresh look - rounded graphics to highlight the oasis scene, larger and clearer pyramids in the distance, darker lettering emphasizing the Camel name and color-coded ribbons to identify the style.
Full story at myrtlebeachonline.com
18 Feb. 2008
WHO takes aim at tobacco smuggling with new pact
Nearly 130 countries have taken the first steps towards a new treaty to combat tobacco smuggling, blamed for higher consumption and up to $50 billion in lost tax revenues each year, officials said on Friday. The officials, from several international agencies, were speaking after the first negotiations under the World Health Organisation (WHO). They called for the pact to be ready for adoption by 2010, adding that political will was needed.
Full story at clpmag.com
15 Feb. 2008
Tobacco company appeals $20 million wrongful death case
A tobacco company's attorney told the Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday that the firm shouldn't have to pay $20 million in damages to the husband of a Kansas City-area woman who smoked for decades.
Full story at bnd.com
13 Feb. 2008
Columbia restaurant goes "smoke free"
Another effort to help keep you healthy, this time coming from a local restaurant. The Columbiana Sticky Fingers is going "smoke free." The restaurant is the first in that retail area to do away with smoking sections.
Full story at wach.com
11 Feb. 2008
Bar smoking ban takes effect tonight
To many nightlife lovers, cigarettes have long been part of the fun. "On a night out with friends, I love to drink and smoke," 25-year-old Komkrit said without giving his surname. "If cigarettes are excluded, my pleasure from such times will drop."
Full story at nationmultimedia.com
8 Feb. 2008
Smoke ban rebel launches appeal
A BLACKPOOL pub landlord has launched his appeal against losing his licence for breaking the UK's smoking ban.
Hamish Howitt is fighting Blackpool Council's decision to revoke the licence at his Delboys Sports Bar, on Rigby Road, South Shore.
Full story at blackpoolgazette.co.uk
6 Feb. 2008
Passage of Smoking Ban Gets In Tobacco Country's Eyes
At the Chesterfield Diner south of Richmond, just about everything comes with a side of smoke.
Ashtrays line the speckled green counter, and a hazy glow emanates from the fluorescent lights overhead. The smell of cigarettes permeates the small roadside restaurant, despite the Smokeeter air purifier whirring in the corner.
Full story at washingtonpost.com
4 Feb. 2008
Bars slow to snuff smoking
If no one had ever complained about smoking at the Oakland Park Bar & Grill, city health inspectors wouldn't have dropped in Thursday night.
Full story at dispatch.com
1 Feb. 2008
‘Our smoking is nobody’s business’
Smokers in Delhi University sent out a message to the Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU), which is pressing hard for zero-tolerance against smoking and tobacco consumption in varsity premises. “Our smoking is nobody’s business,” they said.
Full story at dnaindia.com
30 Jan. 2008
Altria U.S. Sales Languish as Overseas Spinoff Nears
Altria Group Inc., the biggest U.S. tobacco company, is becoming more dependent on shrinking American cigarette sales for profit as the spinoff of its international division approaches.
Full story at bloomberg.com
28 Jan. 2008
Tracking Tobacco Trends
The long-predicted demise of cigarettes has not come to fruition, nor is it likely to. But the effect of tobacco taxation and smoking restrictions has made it much more difficult to rely on cigarette sales as the primary category for driving in-store profitability.
Full story at csdecisions.com
25 Jan. 2008
Smoking bans a smoldering issue
With little chance a smoking ban will pass Parliament in the near future, Czechs should continue to puff away on their cigarettes in pubs and restaurants undisturbed this year. In the neighboring La"nder of Saxony and Bavaria, however, smokers are getting some government-imposed fresh air. Both German states have passed bans on smoking in public places; Bavaria’s ban came into effect Jan. 1 and Saxony’s will begin Feb. 1.
Full story at praguepost.com
23 Jan. 2008
Imperial Tobacco wins control of Altadis
A new tobacco giant incorporating well-known brands Regal cigarettes and Montecristo cigars emerged Tuesday as Britain's Imperial Tobacco won control of Franco-Spanish peer Altadis.Imperial said in a statement that Altadis shareholders overwhelmingly backed its takeover bid for Altadis worth 12.8 billion euros (18.8 billion dollars). The takeover will create Europe's second-largest tobacco company, behind Altria Group's Philip Morris, making about 312 billion cigarettes a year.
Full story at news.yahoo.com
21 Jan. 2008
Attendants will monitor Laurel Crest smokers
Residents of Laurel Crest – who are allowed to light up cigarettes, cigars or pipes in a smoke hut outside of Cambria County’s nursing home – soon will have an attendant on duty round the clock. It’s described as a cost-saving measure for a monitoring task that had been done by higher-paid employees, including nurse’s aides, President Commissioner P.J. Stevens said.
Full story at tribune-democrat.com
18 Jan. 2008
In a smoke-filled gloom
As 19-year-old Jon Little crossed Magnolia Boulevard on Dec. 10, cigarette in hand, he failed to notice the police officer on Olive Avenue. As he crossed the street, Little, a student at Antelope Valley College, was cited and fined $200 for smoking in Downtown Burbank, a violation of the citywide smoking ban that bars smoking on all sidewalks, alleys and other pedestrian areas Downtown, as well as on city property, including Chandler Bikeway and in parks.
Full story at burbankleader.com
16 Jan. 2008
Cigarettes & Advertising…ideal Bedmates!
The reason tobacco has relentlessly moved its main marketing efforts overseas are obvious to all – in one word – Cancer! And the reason the big advertising groups are moving their efforts overseas are also obvious to all – in two words – clutter and unaccountability! Advertising is about as distasteful to its supposed target audience in the Western World as smoking!
Full story at articledashboard.com
14 Jan. 2008
Will smoking ban lead to violence for edgy state inmates?
While restaurateurs and bar owners try to placate crabby patrons who don’t like Illinois’ new smoking ban, prison guards are facing much tougher customers: tens of thousands of hardened inmates who have been forced to quit cold turkey.
Full story at pantagraph.com
4 Jan. 2008
Hookah Smoking as Tough on Lungs as Cigarettes
A leisurely hour of puffs from a hookah -- a kind of tobacco water pipe that's popular among college students -- packs the same carbon monoxide punch as a pack-a-day cigarette habit, a new report claims. The research only looks at a single toxic gas, making it impossible to directly compare hookah use to the well-known hazards of cigarette smoking. Still, the findings suggest that hookah fans should think twice before lighting that pipe, said study co-author S. Katharine Hammond, chairwoman of the division of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
Full story at kndu.com
2 Jan. 2008
Local hospitals go smoke free
Now, several local hospital systems are doing their part to help. Starting January 1, the Conway Medical Center is smoke free, along with Loris Healthcare, Carolinas Hospital System and McLeod Regional Medical Center in Florence. The hospitals made their joint announcement last April, saying no one would be allowed to use tobacco products on hospital property, including doctors, nurses, workers and visitors.
Full story at wpde.com
28 Dec. 2007
Smoking ban could spell the end for France's shisha bars
The 800 shisha bars -- half of which are in the Paris region -- will be joining tens of thousands of cafes, bars and restaurants where smoking will be banned under a law already enforced in workplaces and other public areas."There are rumours that we will have to close, but nothing is clear," said Ali Arfa, owner of the Blue Diamond shisha bar in central Paris. "The situation is confused and no one knows what is going on," said Arfa, seated with two friends in a packed room of his bar, painted in cobalt blue.
Full story at physorg.com
26 Dec. 2007
BD20 fine for mall smokers
A BD20 fine for violators of a smoking ban in Bahrain malls will be implemented soon, a health official announced yesterday. A smoking ban was introduced in Bahrain on the World No Tobacco Day on May 31 this year, but it has so far been "voluntary" and fines have not been imposed on violators.
Full story at gulf-daily-news.com
24 Dec. 2007
Lorillard Tobacco to Separate from Parent
Loews Corp., a conglomerate with interests in financial services, hotels and watches, plans to spin off the third largest cigarette maker in the U.S., Lorillard Inc., as a separate publicly traded company, The Associated Press reported.
Full story at Csnews.com
21 Dec. 2007
Tobacco use gradually declines in W.Va despite funding gap
Tobacco use is gradually declining in West Virginia, a state with one of the highest percentage of smokers and dippers. And despite a roughly $21 million gap between what the state spends on prevention and what the federal government recommends, health officials say some indicators suggest the state’s efforts to reduce tobacco use are paying off.
Full story at Theintermountain.com
19 Dec. 2007
Marijuana Smoke Contains Higher Levels Of Certain Toxins Than Tobacco Smoke
David Moir and colleagues note that researchers have conducted extensive studies on the chemical composition of tobacco smoke, which contains a host of toxic substances, including about 50 that can cause cancer. However, there has been relatively little research on the chemical composition of marijuana smoke. In this new study, researchers compared marijuana smoke to tobacco smoke, using smoking machines to simulate the smoking habits of users. The scientists found that ammonia levels were 20 times higher in the marijuana smoke than in the tobacco smoke, while hydrogen cyanide, nitric oxide and certain aromatic amines occurred at levels 3-5 times higher in the marijuana smoke, they say. The finding is "important information for public health and communication of the risk related to exposure to such materials," say the researchers.
Full story at Sciencedaily.com
17 Dec. 2007
UK: Cigarette Vending Machines To Be Banned
Cigarette vending machines will be banned from pubs and clubs under Government plans to fight cancer and stop youngsters taking up smoking. Research found many children under 15 bought their cigarettes illegally from vending machines in pubs, bars, hotels and social clubs. There are 70,000 of them, selling 750 million cigarettes a year.
Full story at Progressivenewsletter.com
14 Dec. 2007
Tobacco regulation waits until next year
A plan to give the Food and Drug Administration the power to regulate cigarettes is on hold, but supporters said it likely will resurface in Congress early next year. "By no means is it dead," William V. Corr, executive director of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said yesterday. The campaign is a public-health advocacy group that has long sought FDA regulation of cigarettes.
Full story at Inrich.com
12 Dec. 2007
Tobacco seized in Customs raids
The biggest single haul of tobacco came from a property at Holyhead, Anglesey, where 155kg (342lbs) was found. At one house in Deeside, officers seized 47,000 cigarettes, and the total duty evaded was £40,000. Pete Turner, of HM Revenue and Customs, (HMRC) said: "These results show that HMRC is continuing to tackle criminality in north Wales."
Full story at BBC.co.uk
10 Dec. 2007
Mozambique: New tobacco regulations take effect
A new set of regulations for the marketing and consumption of tobacco products took effect in Mozambique over the weekend. From Saturday it was illegal to smoke in any public place, including all state institutions, restaurants, schools, libraries, hospitals, airports, train stations and all forms of public transport.
Full story at Visao.Com
7 Dec. 2007
Smoking-ban bills flame out
Raela Stabile works the day shift at Molly Brannigans in Harrisburg for one reason: she despises cigarette smoke. "It's not half as much smoke [as the night], so I can handle it," the nonsmoker said in the pub's smoking section. "I hate cigarette smoke." She looks forward to the day when a proposed indoor smoking ban becomes the law of the land, and hopes it will include bars and restaurants.
Full story at Pennlive.Com
4 Dec. 2007
New Tobacco Regulations Take Effect
A new set of regulations on the marketing and consumption of tobacco products took effect in Mozambique at the weekend. From Saturday onwards it became illegal to smoke in any public place, including all state institutions, restaurants, schools, libraries, hospitals, airports, train stations and all forms of public transport (though it should be added that in most of these places, smoking had already been frowned upon, if not completely banned, long before these regulations were published)
Full story at Tobacco.org
3 Dec. 2007
Sheffield: City's Shock Smoking Toll
If just 28 deaths from smoking related illness were prevented each year health services in Sheffield would be ?1.6 million better off. The figure has been calculated by health chiefs to show the huge financial benefits to the NHS of saving relatively few lives by persuading people to give up smoking. In Sheffield, 1,200 people die prematurely each year from diseases caused by smoking, such as heart attacks, strokes and lung diseases including cancer. John Soady, public health spokesman for Sheffield Primary Care Trust, which runs Sheffield Stop Smoking Service, said: "If 28 smoking related deaths are avoided each year there are savings of ?1.6 million to Sheffield NHS."
Full story at MedicalNews.com
30 Nov. 2007
Las Vegas bars look for ways around smoking ban
Dale Wageman is the kind of barfly this city's taverns are desperate to woo. He settles onto a bar stool each Saturday, glues himself to college football on the tube and polishes off beers. But to win him, Vegas bartenders must contend with his drinking buddy: a pack of USA Gold cigarettes. A law voters approved a year ago has outlawed smoking in many businesses that sell food, including some bars and taverns. It drove Wageman to abandon his favorite watering hole.
Full story at NewsDay.com
28 Nov. 2007
Smoke-Free Apartments Project fights residential smoke
According to a press release from the Yolo County Health Department, a poll of Davis residents taken in 2004 found that 84 percent think smoking restrictions should be implemented in shared housing, and 70 percent support completely smoke-free housing. Now finding a cigarette-free apartment is easier than ever before, thanks in part to the Yolo County Smoke-Free Apartments Project.
Full story at CaliforniaAggie.com
26 Nov. 2007
Anbumani says Chennai will become 'smoke-free' by 2010
Chennai, Nov 26 (UNI) This burgeoning metropolis will become a smoke-free city by 2010 and Tamil Nadu a smoke-free State two years later, according to Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss. Taking the first step in the direction, he launched the Tamil Nadu Tobacco Control Coalition (TTCC) and an audio CD on ''Smoke-Free World'' at a function here yesterday. In his address, the Minister said he would urge Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to make Tamil Nadu the first smoke-free State in the country by 2012.
Full story at Uniindia.com
23 Nov. 2007
Opposition MLA tables private member's bill to ban smoking in cars
A B.C. Opposition MLA is spearheading an attempt to ban smoking in any car carrying children. The move by Nanaimo New Democrat Leonard Krog comes just days after Wolfville, N.S., became the first jurisdiction in the country to adopt such a policy. He wants B.C. to follow suit and he has introduced a private member's bill to that effect.
Full story at Princegeorgecitizen.com
21 Nov. 2007
Vitale Hopes To Ban Smoking At State Psychiatric Facilities
On Thursday, Nov. 15, Sen. Joseph F. Vitale voiced his support for the 31st annual Great American Smokeout, and spoke about key legislation that he will soon introduce to call upon the State Department of Human Services (DHS) to develop a smoking cessation pilot program, with eventual goal of banning smoking at all five of New Jersey’s State-run psychiatric hospitals. Started in 1976, the Great American Smokeout was designed by the American Cancer Society as an event to encourage cigarette smokers to quit for at least one day, in hopes that they would go on to quit permanently.
Full story at CMDMedia.com
19 Nov. 2007
Sri Lanka high tobacco taxes bring benefits
Sri Lanka's high tobacco taxes and new laws have brought big benefits, with smokers and consumption falling, information filed by the multinational that has most of the island's cigarette market showed. Ceylon Tobacco Company, a Colombo listed firm owned by British American Tobacco and Phillip Morris said revenues increased 12.6 percent to 11.8 billion rupees as prices were raised."Driven by the decline in the number of smokers and their average daily consumption levels, total industry volumes continued to decline during the period under review," the company said in a stock exchange filing.
Full story at LankaBusinessOnlie.com
16 Nov. 2007
Smaller "Smoke Out" trades smokes for raffle prize
An annual event promoting SF State’s “smoke-free campus” policy and encouraging smokers to quit populated a solitary table Thursday, sharing the Quad with a larger and louder cultural festival. SF State’s third “Great American Smoke Out” since the campus prohibited smoking on campus except within designated smoking areas enjoyed less support than in previous years, promoted by volunteers from Health Education Student Association (HESA) with materials provided by Student Health Service (SHS).
Full story at Xpress.sfsu.edu
14 Nov. 2007
Smokers Remain Unaware of the Health Effects of Smoking, New Survey Finds
Despite major efforts to educate the public on the dangers of smoking over the past 40 years, a new national survey conducted by the American Legacy Foundation and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, an industry leader in smoking cessation, indicates major knowledge gaps exist in what smokers believe to be true about the risks associated with smoking compared the actual realities of tobacco-related disease and death. Experts believe these misperceptions may prevent smokers from trying to quit and successfully utilizing proven smoking cessation treatments. According to the survey, while many smokers are aware that smoking can lead to serious health problems including lung cancer, many underestimate the risk of getting the disease from smoking.
Full story at KSNT.com
12 Nov. 2007
Cigarette vending machines to require ID from March
From March 2008, smokers in Japan will need an ID card that says they are adults before they can buy cigarettes from vending machines. The Tobacco Institute of Japan (TIOJ), Japan Tobacconist Federation (JTF) and Japan Vending Machine Manufacturers Association (JVMA) will introduce vending machines with adult identification functions across Japan, as part of an industry-wide initiative aimed at tackling the problem of underage smoking. Customers purchasing cigarettes will be asked to provide proof of age with the use of a pre-issued IC card, called "Taspo1," which the machine is able to read.
Full story at JapanToday.com
9 Nov. 2007
Smokers urged to quit this month
The St. Clair County Health Department would like to remind smokers Nov. 15 is the day of the 31st annual Great American Smokeout.M
The event is designed to highlight the dangers of tobacco use and encourage smokers to quit.
A higher percentage of adults in St. Clair County, 27%, smoke than the national average of 21% and state average of 22%.
Full story at TheTimesHarold.com
7 Nov. 2007
Thank You For Smoking
"If I were God, I'd Make the Usefullest Animals," reads a frame of Emily Flake's comic, Lulu Eightball.
Underneath this headline are sketches of a "house-keeping ant," a "mouth-sized teeth-cleaning monkey-let," a "disposable talking sea-horse for bath-time companionship" and "motivatin' spiders," who dangle above your face prodding you to "Git up outta that bed or [it] will bite and bite and bite you."
Full story at HartfordAdvocate.com
5 Nov. 2007
Pikeville Smoking Ban Goes Into Effect
Starting Thursday, you'll have to smoke outside in some Eastern Kentucky restaurants as a city smoking ban goes into effect. On the first day of the Pikeville smoking ban, Pike County Health Department workers went to every restaurant posting no smoking signs.
"We are really excited," said Octavia Dales with the Pike County Health Department. Health department workers fought six years for this moment.
Full story at CJOnline.com
2 Nov. 2007
Higher cigarette tax central to health reform
It took the head of the Kansas Health Policy Authority about an hour Thursday morning to lay out the agency's 21 recommendations on how to reform the state's health care system. Marcia Nielsen, KHPA executive director, unveiled the $158 million plan — the result of months of reviewing health reform options and meeting with more than 1,000 Kansans — before the Legislature's Joint Committee on Health Policy Oversight.
Full story at CJOnline.com
31 Oct. 2007
Imperial Tobacco FY07 Profit Rises
Imperial in mid-September had said that its full year performance remains in line with management's expectations, helped by continuing growth in cigarette volumes and margin in the second half with particularly strong performances from key brands Davidoff, West and JPS.
Full story at quote.com
25 Oct. 2007
Smoking Dulls Taste for Sweets
Women who smoked were less sensitive to sweet tastes than women who did not smoke, according to a study in the November issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and amp; Experimental Research.
Full story at wflxfox29.com
22 Oct. 2007
Bloomberg Brand Cigarettes
This is underscored in the new study. It found that the enormous increase in cigarette taxes that the city put through in 2002 — raising the city tax rate to $1.50 a pack from 8 cents a pack — hardly touched the proportion of the population of New Yorkers who smoke. Smoking dropped to 19.2% in 2003 from 21.5% in 2002.
Full story at nysun.com
17 Oct. 2007
My Personal Plan to Stop Smoking
In order to successfully give up smoking, there has to be a desire to quit. Even though there had been a social push for all smokers to quit, I was enjoying the seven minutes of inhaling and expelling the smoke from a cigarette after a meal or when taking a break.
Full story at lasvegassun.com
01 Oct. 2007
Ban on selling tobacco to under-18s
The Department of Health hopes the move will cut the number of teenage smokers and has promised a hard crackdown on retailers who flout the law. Shop owners will have to display signs in their windows and could face fines or prosecution if they sell tobacco to those under-age.
Full story at orange.co.uk
24 Sep. 2007
Passive smoking affects study results
The researchers, from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA, found that exposure to second hand smoke at home decreased the odds of passing standardised achievement tests by 30% 16- and 18-year-olds.
Full story at irishhealth.com
21 Sep. 2007
Von Behrens warns students against dangers of tobacco use
On the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 12, Von Behrens told a group of students at Bethel Elementary School that he first used spit tobacco when he was 13 years old and growing up in Illinois. He said he first used it to “fit in,” but he soon became addicted. “I thought cancer wouldn’t happen to me; that happened to old people,” he said.
Full story at mountaintimes.com
14 Sep. 2007
Tax increases hot topic at state Legislature
The House is concentrating on plans to raise taxes, while the Senate soon may consider votes to continue the current budget plan into next fiscal year, or eliminate the projected deficit entirely through spending cuts. Both opponents and supporters of tax increases have swarmed the Capitol in anticipation of the upcoming votes, trying to sway undecided lawmakers.
Full story at examiner.com
12 Sep. 2007
Teens push for smoking ban
The group of teenagers that got cigarettes kicked out of the courthouse last year have set their sights on local restaurants. More than two dozen members of the Pike County Youth Leadership Council — representing teens from every Pike high school — came before the Pikeville City Commission Monday night supporting a ban on smoking in restaurants.
Full story at news-expressky.com
11 Sep. 2007
Phoenix, Glendale put tax to voters
Arizonans pay some of the country's highest sales taxes, and they could go even higher with voters in Phoenix and Glendale poised to approve $80 million worth of increases Sept. 11.
Full story at eastbay.bizjournals.com
10 Sep. 2007
Zim tobacco auctions wrap up
Zimbabwe's annual tobacco auctions wrapped up with almost 70 million kilogrammes of the leaf sold, after pricing disputes delayed the start of the selling season, officials said on Monday.
Full story at iafrica.com
07 Sep. 2007
Teens smoke more pot than cigarettes, report says
The report paints an alarming portrait of drug and alcohol use by youth. By the time they are in their first year of high school, about two-thirds of students had consumed alcohol, according to one survey. Another survey of youth age 15-24 showed that 83 per cent were currently drinking or had consumed alcohol within the past year. If it's any comfort to parents, the students characterized their drinking as light to infrequent.
Full story at canada.com
06 Sep. 2007
No smoking and no place to get away
The truth is beginning to surface about why some people oppose Decatur’s new no-smoking ordinance. One man told The Daily that his wife doesn’t like to go into smoky places, so he can go alone and enjoy a beer with friends. He’s afraid his social life may change after the ordinance takes effect Oct. 1.
Full story at decaturdaily.com
05 Sep. 2007
Smoking In Movies Has Impact On Teens
The researchers coded displays of smoking in 532 hit movies in the five years prior to the survey, then asked the teens if they had seen a random selection of 50 of these movies. Follow-up interviews to assess smoking status were done after eight months, 16 months and two years.
Full story at 96rocksyou.com
03 Sep. 2007
Dave Grohl eats cigarettes!
Dave Grohl loves cigarettes so much that he apparently even eats them. The Foo Fighters singer, who performed a secret show on the 4Music stage at V festival under the name 606, told Rolling Stone that he enjoys puffing away on cigarettes even more when he's in the studio.
Full story at channel4.com
29 Aug. 2007
Study spits on tobacco chew
People who use chewing tobacco expose themselves to even higher levels of NNK, one of the prime carcinogens in tobacco, than tobacco smokers do, according to a study by University of Minnesota Cancer Center researchers in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Full story at nypost.com
28 Aug. 2007
Tobacco may play key role in fighting cervical cancer
Inside a small, temperature-controlled room in tobacco country, researchers are doing work that could give a lifesaving purpose to a plant best known for causing cancer. The aim of the work is to coax from tobacco plants a drug that could be used to prevent cervical cancer in India, where four times as many women get the disease and eight times as many die of it as in the United States.
Full story at marshfieldnewsherald.com
24 Aug. 2007
Obese people will be punished after smokers
It's time to start passing laws to make cigarettes illegal or get off the backs of smokers. I do not think that people understand what is at stake here. When you start making policy to charge extra for insurance to those who smoke because the medical costs are higher, then who do you think is next. I do not smoke anymore.
Full story at dnj.com
20 Aug. 2007
Herrin Bowl going smoke-free
"We're basically getting a jump on the state law, which goes into effect in January," LaBotte said. "This facility's still virtually new. The ceiling tiles are still white. No smoke means a fresher, cleaner environment and makes us even more family-friendly."
Full story at brisbanetimes.com
15 Aug. 2007
Finley left untouched in cabinet shuffle
Haldimand-Norfolk MP Diane Finley held on to her job as Citizenship and Immigration minister Tuesday, in the latest Conservative cabinet shuffle. But critics say the changes won’t be good for the area, with new faces in the agriculture and Indian affairs portfolios. “From a local perspective, it’s disappointing,” said Brant MP Lloyd St. Amand, a Liberal.
Full story at brantfordexpositor.ca
09 Aug. 2007
Smoker begs to be jailed
An American woman has begged authorities to jail her so she can kick her two-packets-a-day smoking addiction.
Jodi Perkins, from the US state of Iowa, says she's tried everything to beat the habit but has failed. She had hoped a short stint in jail would help her break the habit, which she says has left her unable to breathe.
Perkins last week called the local sheriff's department to ask if officers would help her by locking her up for a few days.
Full story at brisbanetimes.com
07 Aug. 2007
Tobacco industry invested in agriculture
China's tobacco industry has invested between 50 and 65 billion yuan in helping tobacco farmers over the 21 years from 1985 to 2006, according to the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA), but health experts argue the figure is far from sufficient.
Full story at chicagotribune.com
02 Aug. 2007
Fighting Addiction, on a Variety of Fronts
ONCE one accepts the premise that addictions are as unique as snowflakes or thumbprints, the addiction confessed by Karen M. Carpenter-Palumbo, commissioner of the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, seems practically legitimate.
Full story at nytimes.com
31 July 2007
Cigarette tax hike urged
The state's cigarette tax would increase by 75 cents under a measure Senate Democrats are pushing as Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the General Assembly struggle to find a way out of the overtime standoff that enters a record 55th day on Wednesday.
Full story at chicagotribune.com
30 July. 2007
Molins site goes up for sale
THE Molins site in Saunderton is up for sale for ?18.85 million, it has been revealed.
Full story at croydonguardian.co.uk
26 July 2007
Our police are hopeless
The truth is, in this country you can commit crime, any crime and never be arrested or even when arrested you will still see freedom because our officers are ineffective in detection, prosecution and even simply giving evidence in courts.
Full story at midweeksun.co.bw
25 July. 2007
Michigan House Passes Smoking Ban
A Michigan House committee has passed legislation that would ban smoking in the workplace, including bars and restaurants.
Full story at wwmt.com
20 July 2007
Panel votes to expand insurance for kids
WASHINGTON -- Brushing aside threats of a presidential veto, a Senate committee Thursday approved a five-year, $35 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program that would be financed through higher tobacco taxes.
Full story at delawareonline.com
19 July. 2007
Taiwan top up tobacco trade
TAIWAN plans to buy about 920 million metric tonnes of flue cured tobacco this year, a figure it says would increase next year. Embassy officials Monday said country would buy 691 million of the leaf through Premier Tama Limited and rest from Limbe Leaf.
Full story at dailytimes.bppmw.com
17 July 2007
Safer cigarettes? FDA may soon regulate the industry
A bill is expected to pass through the Senate today that would put regulation of the tobacco industry into the hands of the FDA -- something the tobacco companies and the FDA aren't sure they want. The new legislation would require cigarette makers to follow regulated guidelines (if the FDA created them) in creating new products and some could one day lead to a "safer" cigarette -- one with lower levels of nicotine and toxins.
Full story at thatsfit.com
16 July. 2007
New bill key to a safer cigarettes
The federal agency charged with keeping food and drugs from harming people may soon be asked to take a consumer product that kills more than 400,000 people a year and make it safer. The product is the cigarette — generally acknowledged as anything but safe. Smoking accounts for nearly one in five deaths in the United States.
Full story at al.com
13 July 2007
Menthol Cigarettes – A Comparison with Classic Cigarettes
Mark Pletcher, MD, states "The primary goal of public health officials, physicians, and patients should be to reduce all tobacco smoke exposure regardless of menthol content." This categorically places dangers from non-menthol cigarettes on par with menthol cigarettes.
Full story at articleteller.com
11 July. 2007
Ignornace about smoking ban
With the smoking ban now firmly in place across England and Wales, businesses in the UK now face hefty fines if staff or visitors smoke inside their premises.
Full story at edgwaretimes.co.uk
03 July 2007
The Age of Tobacco Has Ended
Company's Nicotine Solution Provides Far Greater Psychoactive Effects Than Tobacco Without The Negative Effects Of Carcinogens WEST JEFFERSON, N.C. -- Next Safety, Inc.'s pulmonary drug delivery device delivers extremely high arterial levels of nicotine -- with effects felt less than ten seconds after inhalation -- and provides higher psychoactive effects than cigarettes or any other tobacco product on the market.
Full story at keyt.com
28 June. 2007
Corralling the illegal guns in our streets
THE DOMINOS pizza arrived at the home of Liquarry Jefferson about the same time as Boston police. The night the 8-year-old died of a gunshot wound was just another night in the life of a typical dysfunctional American family. Go ahead, rail against their dysfunction. That won't stop it.
Full story at swindonadvertiser.co.uk
22 June. 2007
We're in good shape
SWINDON emerged with flying colours in a new profile put together by the Department of Health. Figures released today reveal that people from the town are leaner, greener and less accident prone than those living elsewhere in the country. The statistics have been used to create a health profile for the town and show that Swindon is significantly better than the country's average for obesity and the ecological footprint.
Full story at swindonadvertiser.co.uk
20 June 2007
Bill to Protect Worker Rights
State lawmakers are considering a new piece of legislation, one that would protect workers from getting fired or not hired for their "out of work activities and choices." The issue first came up two years ago when four local workers lost their jobs because they did not quit smoking outside of work. Supporters of the bill say firing someone for their legal behavior is wrong.
Full story at ezinearticles.com
18 June. 2007
Who's your idol?
Was reading a little baseball news on Father's Day and thought some about my dad. He loved baseball. He spoke wonderingly and admiringly of the timeless baseball hero, Babe Ruth. But Dad always said that it was wrong to "idolize, adore and glorify" famous people who were only using talents and abilities given to them by God, and that they and everyone should give God the glory for their success.
Full story at timesanddemocrat.com
13 June 2007
Smoking about to get more expensive
Smokers will pay higher taxes on cigarettes starting July 1, the Alaska Department of Revenue advised in a news release this week. The tax will increase by 20 cents a pack, equivalent to an additional penny per cigarette. The new tax is the final increase in a series of phased-in increases established by the Alaska Legislature during the June 2004 special session.
Full story at homernews.com
12 June. 2007
Smoking ban case dismissed
The case against M & R Restaurant owners David and Cathy Judge was dismissed Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court because of the prosecution’s failure to provide necessary documents and fees. The Jackson County Board of Health was seeking an injunction against the Judges who have been cited several times for failure to comply with the county’s Clean Indoor Air Regulations, which went into effect Oct. 1, 2006.
Full story at parkersburgnews.com
11 June 2007
Police see little action after smoking bans take effect
A six-week-old smoking ban on Hilton Head Island has led to two cases of the bans' enforcement -- one a warning and the other a fine -- while five-month-old bans covering Bluffton and unincorporated Beaufort County have netted none. Officials with all three jurisdictions said the bans are not being proactively enforced and that complaints -- of which there have been few -- are driving the process.
Full story at islandpacket.com
08 June. 2007
Efforts to raise S.C. cigarette tax fail
Efforts to raise South Carolina's lowest-in-the nation cigarette tax have failed as lawmakers will adjourn today without resolving the issue. With record state revenues and disagreement on whether to spend the money on health care or tax cuts, lawmakers said there was no reason to raise the tax in the session's final hours.
Full story at heraldonline.com
07 June 2007
Reporter finds missing dog 1,500 miles from Az home
A sympathetic newspaper reporter's search for a missing dog turned up the stolen animal - 1,500 miles from home. Bobby, a brown-and-white beagle-terrier mix, was slated to take a free airplane ride on Continental Airlines on Wednesday from Fort Wayne, Ind., to his home in Apache Junction, where he vanished April 3.
Full story at tucsoncitizen.com
06 June. 2007
Cigarette Cases For The Fashionable Smoker
If you must smoke at all, why not do so in style? Cigarette lighters, cigarette holders, and cigarette cases help you light up with panache. Dual Purpose. Cigarette cases are often metal, hinged cases designed to store cigarettes in small amounts and keep them fresh, especially when traveling. Cigarettes are kept from falling out of their cases by a spring-loaded retaining arm.
Full story at articlebliss.com
05 June 2007
Farmers Welcome The Rain
Curled up corn leaves and dry, dusty fields. That was the scene last week on farms across Eastern Carolina. Thanks to this weekend's rain, fields were able to quench their thirst. The rain provided much needed moisture to crops such as corn, soybeans and tobacco.
Full story at witntv.com
04 June. 2007
Appeal to find missing mother
Police are hunting for a missing young mother whose toddler was found wandering the streets. Natasha Adekusibe, 22, from Charlton, south-east London, has not been seen since she left her flat early on Thursday morning.
Full story at itv.com
01 June 2007
Alberta to ban smoking in public places
Alberta is about to become one of the last provinces to ban smoking in all public places and worksites, a major turnabout for a Progressive Conservative government that has been reluctant to force bar patrons to butt out. The government caucus approved a plan Thursday to introduce legislation that will also prohibit retail tobacco displays and prohibit sales in pharmacies, health facilities, colleges and universities.
Full story at canada.com
31 May. 2007
2 men arrested in tobacco theft
Police captured two bandits Wednesday as one of them tried to walk out of a Greenville Avenue convenience store with a bag full of pilfered tobacco products, authorities said. The two men are suspected in a rash of cigarette and cigar thefts in what police are saying is a growing problem among petty thieves.
Full story at dallasnews.com
30 May. 2007
City to ban smoking in public
Smoking in public places like cinemas and department stores will become a thing of the past in this southern city under a forthcoming tobacco-control regulation. The regulation, which could take effect by the end of this year, will also make Guangzhou eligible for the title "National Sanitary City", as tobacco control is one of the major factors weighed in the selection of such cities, said Zhu Shunxian, vice-chairman of the Guangzhou tobacco control association, during a meeting last week.
Full story at peopledaily.com.cn
29 May. 2007
Longtime ally turns on insurers
Are you kidding me?" asked Sen. Trent Lott, a Mississippi Republican, when asked why he is so critical of insurance companies. Lott, 65, launched into a critique of the industry, peppering it with words such as "arrogant" and "mean spirited," statistics about company profits and executive pay, and angry questions about why its lobbyists are fighting a clutch of bills he is pushing, including one that would strip such Illinois-based insurers as State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and Allstate Corp. of their 62-year-old exemption from federal antitrust laws.
Full story at chicagotribune.com
28 May. 2007
Senate to consider tobacco settlement plan
The Republican-controlled Legislature appears poised to pass Gov. Ted Strickland’s plan for using Ohio’s tobacco settlement money to pay for the construction of new schools and create tax relief for elderly homeowners.
Full story at alemnews.net
25 May. 2007
An interest information about Tobacco
Cigarettes in today’s life play a very important role. Cigarettes have their own History, Culture, Industry , and they will always have customers, this is something without what people can’t live.Tobacco is used by million of people allover the world.
Full story at articleteller.com
23 May. 2007
Wedding dress, stilts snapped up
More than 20,000 things people left on planes and at airports, including a wedding dress and a pair of rudimentary stilts, were auctioned off Tuesday as Madrid's airport cleared out its lost-and-found department. The items were divided up into nine lots, such as clothes and jewelry, and prospective buyers submitted bids over a one-week period that ended Monday.
Full story at lubbockonline.com
22 May. 2007
Sound Off
You may speak your mind on any topic. Because of the large number of calls, we cannot publish all comments. We also may edit some comments for length and clarity. Appreciates crossing guards. I want to thank the crossing guards who protect our children in the area around our schools. Thanks for another great year.
Full story at al.com
21 May. 2007
Small cigarette maker files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
A small Triad cigarette maker has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after getting tied up in disputes over how various state laws and a massive tobacco lawsuit settlement agreement should apply to its business.
Full story at bizjournals.com
16 May. 2007
Venezuela to end tobacco output to curb smoking
TVenezuela plans to end tobacco production to rein in smoking, forcing consumers to buy costlier imported cigarettes, Health Minister Erick Rodriguez said. The ministry will send congress legislation designed to phase out cultivation and production of tobacco in Venezuela, Mr. Rodriguez said yesterday. President Hugo Chavez is also considering plans to assist households that make a living processing tobacco. "Our goal is clear: People who want to smoke will have to import cigarettes," Mr. Rodriguez said. Venezuela's tobacco industry pays more taxes per unit of production than any other in South America's third-largest economy.
Full story at theglobeandmail.com
15 May. 2007
UA Tobacco Ban Planned
Anyone smoking on the University of Arkansas campus a year from now had better be on fire. The entire campus will be designated tobacco-free beginning in July 2008, meaning cigarettes and other tobacco products will be banned on campus, both indoors and out, university officials announced Monday. Smoking has been banned in UA buildings and within 25 feet of building entrances since 2001.
Full story at arkansasnews.com
14 May. 2007
Safety body ‘wouldn’t support’ ban on smoking and driving
THE Road Safety Authority (RSA) yesterday said it did not support a ban on smoking and driving in an attempt to cut car crashes.
Full story at irishexaminer.com
11 May. 2007
Cohoes firefighters waging battle against junk food
Firefighters are throwing away the junk food and hitting the gym with the help of a local fitness guru and a new workout room located in the firehouse.
Full story at troyrecord.com
10 May. 2007
Moscow on the Pacific
The area's party-hearty Russian community keeps clubs and restaurants hopping into the wee hours. And if they'd like to revisit the Stalin era, the L.A. Philharmonic is happy to oblige.
Full story at latimes.com
8 May. 2007
Bomb kills man in Vegas casino garage
A homemade bomb left on top of a car in a casino parking garage exploded after 4 a.m. Monday, killing a man who tried to pick it up, authorities said. The blast left a 12-inch hole in the man's car on the second floor of the garage behind the Luxor hotel-casino, authorities said. A woman standing nearby escaped injury.
Full story at dallasnews.com
7 May. 2007
BETTING ON A BIG LOSS
It’s been six weeks since I started my quest to lose 40 pounds before I turn 40 in March. And despite a really tough setback over the past week that saw me making no progress, I’ve still managed to lose five pounds, take nearly two inches off my waist and lower my body-fat ratio by a full percentage point.
Full story at nypost.com
3 May. 2007
Imperial Tobacco profits up 6%
Imperial Tobacco Group PLC, which recently bought a major U.S. discount cigarette-maker and is bidding for Spanish rival Altadis SA, said yesterday that its first-half profit rose 6 percent as the volume of cigarette sales continued to rise.
Full story at wsjournal.com
2 May. 2007
Health chiefs deny smoker bias
HERTFORDSHIRE health chiefs have denied claims that they refuse joint replacements to severely overweight patients and smokers. According to reports in several national newspapers, the two county primary care trusts (PCTs) are among nine in Britain with a specific policy that such patients should not have operations for arthritic knees or hips.
Full story at harrowtimes.co.uk
28 Apr. 2007
Citigroup completes record takeover
Citigroup Inc. said yesterday it successfully took over scandal-tainted brokerage Nikko Cordial Corp. in a US$7.7 billion all-cash deal, the biggest acquisition ever by a foreign company in Japan. Citigroup raised its stake in Japan's third-largest brokerage to 61.1 percent through an offer to buy outstanding stock from shareholders for 1,700 yen (US$14.24) each, the company said in a statement.
Full story at taiwannews.com.tw
27 Apr. 2007
Smokers Turn To Hypnosis To Kick Habit
Many smokers are now turning to hypnosis to help them kick their habit. Nancy Feiner said she has been trying to quit smoking for years. Someone suggested that she try Positive Changes, a program that uses hypnosis to help people kick the habit.
Full story at wfsb.com
26 Apr. 2007
Alcoa weighs changes to boost stock
Seven years after Alcoa Inc. absorbed Richmond-based Reynolds Metals Co., more changes appear to be on the way for the company's 1,300 local employees.
Full story at dailyprogress.com
25 Apr. 2007
Some background on why people smoke
In recalling my experience smoking cigarettes, I can say it was a very enjoyable happening, however, I can also say I never defended the habit. I was always aware of the physical drawbacks. Not that I am wise, but because I was constantly being reminded of the fact by people who cared. Did I listen? Of course not!
Full story at timesrepublican.com
24 Apr. 2007
Police detective to be honored
Iowa City police detective Dave Gonzalez is among a handful of Iowa law enforcement officers that will be honored this week in Des Moines during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
Full story at press-citizen.com
23 Apr. 2007
Call to license cigarette retailers
Shopkeepers should be licensed to sell cigarettes in the same way as alcohol, doctors have said. The British Medical Association (BMA) wants 10-packs of cigarettes and tobacco-vending machines to be banned. It is calling for cigarette packs to be kept under shop counters instead of on display.
Full story at icnetwork.co.uk
20 Apr. 2007
Did He Buy the Guns Legally?
A federal background check cleared Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui to buy weapons. It should have stopped him cold. The disclosure that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui was once involuntary detained for mental illness may change the typical debate over gun control that inevitably follows gun-related tragedies.
Full story at msnbc.msn.com
19 Apr. 2007
JT buys Britain's Gallaher
Japan Tobacco took over Britain's Gallaher Group for $15 billion Wednesday, both sides said, in the biggest Japanese overseas acquisition ever. The move also allows Japan Tobacco, the world's third-largest cigarette company, to expand outside of Japan, which has seen declining smoking rates.
Full story at miamiherald.com
18 Apr. 2007
Social workers can help older smokers
Getting older smokers to quit can be a tough order, but enlisting social workers in the battle could help, a new study suggests. Even in old age, quitting smoking can have health benefits, but elderly smokers are less likely to receive smoking cessation counseling than their younger counterparts.
Full story at reuters.com
17 Apr. 2007
Liquor store should be allowed
The debate over liquor in Savannah has prompted me to put pen to paper for a couple of reasons and I would be grateful, Madam Editor, if you would allow me some space. I don’t understand what the outcry is all about. Have the Cayman Islands become a Muslim country all of a sudden?
Full story at caycompass.com
13 Apr. 2007
Keep smoke away from babies
Teens whose mothers smoked while pregnant with them and are themselves smokers have a harder time paying attention and focusing than their non-smoking peers who were not exposed to smoke in the womb, a US study shows.
Full story at smh.com.au
12 Apr. 2007
Smoking ban intrudes too much
I've washed a lot of sweaters and jeans that were clean except that I wore them for an hour or two in a smoky bar and grill. It annoys me to have to do that. The danger of secondhand smoke worries me some, and it would be comforting not to have to tempt fate just to go out for a beer and burger.
Full story at pinecitymn.com
11 Apr. 2007
Most child abusers are women: report
Women are responsible for more than half of all child abuse cases in Queensland and are much more likely to neglect their children than men, a new report has found. The Child Protection Queensland 2005-06 Performance Report, released on Wednesday, also shows a spike in the number of deaths of children known to child welfare authorities, including death by suicide.
Full story at ninemsn.com.au
10 Apr. 2007
2007 session issues
Arrest records // Police records for those who are arrested but released without being charged will automatically be expunged under a bill the legislature approved and that Gov. Martin O'Malley has pledged to sign. Assault weapon ban // A bill to ban the importation, sale or possession of 45 types of semiautomatic handguns and long guns in Maryland died in a Senate committee, despite O'Malley's support.
Full story at baltimoresun.com
6 Apr. 2007
Cigarettes exact heavy toll on women
Awakened by her biological clock at 10:30 a.m., 22-year-old Toya Tonpea rolls over to grab the remote control. She turns on the television as she begins to mentally plan her day. Tonpea flips through the cable to watch her line-up of reality TV and talk shows. Two hours pass and it is now 12:30.
Full story at thecharlottepost.com
5 Apr. 2007
Mechanic was a Speedway regular
There are two reasons John Joseph Fisher had such a long motor racing career: He was a top-notch mechanic, and he was fun to be around. Mr. Fisher, who started in the business in 1958, died Saturday at age 69 of complications from heart surgery.
Full story at indystar.com
4 Apr. 2007
Miami cigars are on a roll
Specialty cigars made in Miami are gaining popularity. Just a few years ago, longtime cigar manufacturer Ernesto Carrillo stopped making cigars locally at his store, La Gloria Cubana, except for the symbolic few rolled out for tourists.
Full story at miamiherald.com
3 Apr. 2007
Cigarette Taxes Could Increase And Impact A Local Distributor
Right now South Carolina has the lowest cigarette tax in the nation, but that could soon change and increase by thirty cents. Something Larry Williams hopes won't happen.
Full story at morningnewsonline.com
2 Apr. 2007
Bingo fears over smoking ban
FOR many, bingo and smoking go hand in hand, but from tomorrow punters will be forced to stub out when playing. There are fears the industry could be hit hard by the ban because nationally around half of players are smokers.
Full story at globegazette.com
30 Mar. 2007
New State Bill Would Partially Ban Smoking In Cars
Smoking in cars could soon be banned in California - at least partially. A new bill would make it illegal for adults to smoke with minors in the car - whether the car is moving or parked.
Full story at cbs8.com
29 Mar. 2007
Cigarettes stolen from trucking company
Investigators are wondering how $60,000 in cigarettes disappeared in a puff of smoke from trucking company. They say it’s no coincidence that apparent theft occurred just after a new $1 increase in the state’s cigarette tax went into effect. Eleven cases of cigarettes — more than 500 cartons — were discovered missing from Boone Freight Lines on Sunday, officials with the Boone County sheriff’s office said.
Full story at globegazette.com
28 Mar. 2007
Johor to act to stop pollution of waterways
All sand dredging activities in the rivers in Johor will be stopped if they are found to cause heavy pollution to the waterways, Mentri Besar Datuk Abdul Ghani Othman said.
Full story at thestar.com.my
27 Mar. 2007
Kentucky bans conventional cigarettes
Traditional cigarettes essentially will be banned from this tobacco-producing state under a new law limiting sales to so-called fire-safe versions. Kentucky is joining seven others that require the special smokes in an effort to prevent fires ignited by cigarettes, according to the National Fire Protection Association.
Full story at islandpacket.com
26 Mar. 2007
Tobacco bill down in flames, but proposal should live on
If a cat has nine lives, the same could be said of legislative proposals. House Bill 1008, which would have increased Indiana's cigarette tax 25 cents to help fund health care initiatives, was killed Feb. 27 in the House of Representatives, on a 44-52 vote.
Full story at mid-day.com
23 Mar. 2007
LA airport workers accused of theft
The City Attorney's Office is expected to file misdemeanor theft charges against a group of screeners at Los Angeles International Airport suspected of stealing personal items from celebrities and other travelers.
Full story at al.com
22 Mar. 2007
Tobacco, liquor taxed; foodgrains spared
In a budget aimed at containing inflation and mobilising revenue for infrastructure projects, the Maharashtra government today spared foodgrain, flour and a few other essential commodities from VAT, but levied a whopping 12.5 per cent state tax on cigarettes, gutka and raised excise duty on country liquor.
Full story at mid-day.com
21 Mar. 2007
Business groups join coalition to support cigarette tax hike
Two statewide business organizations on Tuesday swung their support behind Gov. Phil Bredesen's proposal to hike the state's tax on cigarettes to increase funding for education.
Full story at knoxnews.com
17 Mar. 2007
Japanese railway bans smoking in express trains
Japan is becoming a less and less comfortable place for smokers after a major railway firm on Sunday imposed a complete ban in its express trains.
Full story at terra.net.lb
16 Mar. 2007
Smokers scramble to buy tobacco before price hike
Smokers rushed to stock up on cigarettes Thursday before prices jump by $1 a pack. The increase will begin Friday, a day after Gov.
Full story at timesrepublican.com
15 Mar. 2007
Cigarette tax issue still burning
While health-care advocates say the state should raise the cigarette tax as high as it can to encourage people to quit, convenience store owners told legislators last week the proposed $1-a-pack hike is just going to drive more business over the border into New Hampshire.
Full story at villagesoup.com
14 Mar. 2007
House Debate To Begin On Cigarette Tax Hike
Maryland's House of Delegates is poised to double the state tobacco tax to two dollars a pack to pay for better health care for the poor -- but the proposal's chances remain slim in the state Senate.
Full story at wbal.com
13 Mar. 2007
Tobacco tax should pass, Culver says
Gov. Chet Culver got an assist Monday from the Iowa leadership of the Catholic Church in pressuring the Legislature to approve a dollar-a-pack increase in the state cigarette tax.
Full story at desmoinesregister.com
12 Mar. 2007
Where Tobacco Ruled, Smoking Ban Gains Ground
A century ago, a battle called the Black Patch War raged across Robertson County, where Rick Gregory’s ancestors grew tobacco. In the vicious fight over prices, nightriders with rifles raided farms and dynamited equipment. Tobacco barns burned in the night, and salted beds lay fallow.
Full story at gadsdentimes.com
07 Mar. 2007
Smoking curb could "upset China stability"
China's stability could be threatened if the government tried to curb smoking, a senior official said on Wednesday at a discussion of the annual meeting of parliament. "Smoking harms people's health, but restraining smoking threatens social stability," said Zhang Baozhen, deputy chief of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration.
Full story at reuters.com
06 Mar. 2007
R-rated films tied to smoking
Customs officers yesterday seized 160,000 contraband cigarettes in Dublin airport. The cigarettes were seized from two flights that had arrived from the Canary Islands. The Revenue's Customs Service said the operation targeted organised smuggling gangs.
Full story at boston.com
05 Mar. 2007
Smoking isn't worth risks
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