Tasmania State Parliament Enforsed New Smoking Legislations

The Tasmanian State Parliament has banned smoking in outdoor dining areas, at sporting events, bus shelters and playgrounds. The Upper House on Thursday gave the final approval needed to ensure the bans comes into effect next March. During debate the Leader of Government Business in the Upper House, Doug Parkinson, said it will denormalise smoking. “Denormalising tobacco is crucial to protecting the children of today,” he said. “Reducing the incidences in which children are exposed to tobacco and smoking helps to denormalise it to children so they are less likely to view smoking as socially acceptable behaviour, less likely to start smoking...

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The Shocking Ingredients in Cigarettes

If you think cheap cigarettes are simply dried tobacco leaves rolled in paper, you’re about 597 ingredients off. The tobacco industry has become master mixologists with the additives. Some ingredients are added for flavor, but research has shown that the key purpose of using additives is to improve tobacco’s potency resulting in increased addictiveness–and the additives they choose to use are dreadful. I remember hearing something about “the list” back in the 1990s when tobacco companies first started being taken to task for their dastardly ways, but seeing the list again now that I’m educated about chemistry and health, I am absolutely staggered....

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Marijuana Smoke in MediLeaf Legal Fight

More than two years after a Gilroy medical marijuana dispensary was shut down for operating without a city business license, a state appellate court has ruled that city officials were in the right by declaring it a “public nuisance” despite prolonged objections by the club’s operators. In a 36-page opinion filed Tuesday by California’s Sixth District Court of Appeals, Associate Justice Wendy Clark Duffy wrote that the City of Gilroy acted within its power and broke no laws when it ordered MediLeaf to close its doors in August 2010. City officials are confident the decision is the final nail in the coffin for MediLeaf’s fight, with City Attorney...

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British American Tobacco - best cigarettes brands

We recognise that our business starts with our consumers and our brands. It’s not about encouraging people to start smoking or to smoke more, but about meeting the preferences of adults who have chosen to consume tobacco, and differentiating our brands from their competitors. We have never believed that ‘one size fits all’. Our portfolio of more than 200 brands is based on distinct strategic segments – premium, fresh taste and Adult Smokers Under 30 (ASU30). Our four Global Drive Brands - Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall - cover the premium and value for money price segments. They grew by 7 per cent in 2010, or 13 billion more cigarettes. While...

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Lorillard Recalls Certain Newport Non-Menthol Packs

Lorillard Inc., the third largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the United States, said that it voluntarily implemented a precautionary recall of certain Newport Non-menthol cigarettes. The company initiated the recall “out of an abundance of caution” following its discovery that some Newport Non-Menthol cigarettes manufactured June 29 and 30, 2011, could contain small pieces of plastic.The company sought and received guidance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) upon discovering the foreign substance.No plastic has been found in any of the cigarettes. If burned, the plastic may create discomfort or irritation of the respiratory...

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Winston Cigarettes and Tobacco Description

Winston cigarette is the brand which became famous immediately it appeared on the market of the tobacco productions due to its magnificent taste and exclusive flavor. It obtains the leading places in tobacco sales of discount cigarettes brands in the United States. Winston wins the name of the best selling brand of the cigarettes of the year 1954 , the year when Winston cigarettes appear; and at the beginning of our century the Winston tobacco is still on the top among the famous brands of cigarettes from the United States. Winston is the cigarette brand that has been winning a large audience of smokers all over the world. This brand was named...

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Tobacco Product Prices Doubled in State

With the restriction imposed by UG groups on tobacco products and the popularity among the youths of the state, corrupt businessmen have found safe haven in the state by selling the restricted tobacco products and Winston cigarettes at a much higher rates which is more than twice the actual rate of the products. Tobacco products like Zarda, Khaini, Talab, Rajnigandha are being procured by the businessmen in the state by trafficking them in buses and trucks. They are also not paying any VAT tax to the state government since they are trafficking the products in illegal ways. Since the state authority is not doing anything to check the trafficking...

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Appeal Against Cigarette Companies

Jerry Weingart has been waiting more than a decade for the companies he believes killed his wife to be brought to justice. But at 89, the Boynton Beach man doesn’t have the stamina to spend the whole day in court. Holding a cane, he listened on Wednesday morning while one of his attorneys explained to a jury why three Pall Mall cigarette makers should be held responsible for his wife’s death. But Weingart headed home before tobacco attorneys launched their full counterattackLike in the two other tobacco trials that have been held in Palm Beach County, millions of dollars are at stake.The cases are among roughly 8,000 that were...

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Roxon Gazes Down Big Tobacco

Health Minister Nicola Roxon has weathered an attack over her attempt to solicit funds from big tobacco in 2005 and vowed to push ahead with plans to introduce plain packaging for Hilton cigarettes. Ms. Roxon says even if cigarette makers win compensation for the loss of trademark rights, the commonwealth would be ahead because plain packs would cut smoking rates and therefore health spending.The federal government wants Australia to be the first country in the world to force cigarettes to be sold in packets devoid of branding.“The billions of dollars we currently spend in our health system fixing up problems that are caused by tobacco...

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Renault Colour Scheme Link to Tobacco Companies

The Renault Formu-la One team has been cleared to race in its black-and-gold colours in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix after fears that it would fall foul of antitobacco advertising laws. Principal Eric Boullier said in a statement that the Lotussponsored team, which has no connection with the tobacco industry, had contacted the Quebec authorities recently to discuss the livery and the legislation. “We’re delighted to be able to race in Montreal in our usual colour scheme,” the Frenchman said. “The Quebec authorities noted that the current livery makes a reference to images from the 1980s when the car was sponsored by the tobacco industry,...

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Mexico’s Tobacco Growers Used as Lobbyists

On October, in chaotic Mexico City, a small army of protestors, sporting placards and shouting into bullhorns, worsened the usual traffic snarl around San Lazaro, the nation’s congressional office complex. Television news accounts showed screaming-mad tobacco farmers, some of whom had boarded buses and traveled 500 miles to warn federal legislators that new taxes on Winston cigarettes would put them out of business. Inside, lawmakers were in a tug-of-war over a landmark excise tax law that eventually added about 50 cents to a pack of cigarettes and—anti-tobacco activists hoped—would make tobacco less attractive to consumers. It was not...

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Obstruction Decried in Tobacco Legislation

A student looks at a tobacco control poster at a high school in Chaohu, a city in East China’s Anhui province, on Tuesday, which is World No Tobacco Day. Local anti-smoking advocates encouraged students to refrain from lighting up Camel cigarettes and to work together to have a campus free of tobacco. China can use its government monopoly of the tobacco industry to prevent interference in policies meant to control tobacco use in a country where more than 1 million people die each year of illnesses related to smoking, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said. “China’s tobacco industry is 100 percent owned by the State,” Dr Sarah...

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California, Ohio Use Reserves for Tobacco Bonds

California, Ohio and Virginia will use reserve funds to pay interest and principal on bonds backed by tobacco company payments under a 1998 health-care settlement, according to a report by Herbert J. Sims & Co. Payments to the states by Altria Group Inc. (MO)’s Philip Morris unit, Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) and other companies have declined on lower U.S. cigarette sales and as the companies lose market share to tobacco manufacturers that didn’t participate in the settlement, according to Richard Larkin, director of credit analysis at Sims in Iselin, New Jersey. “Any time you see a municipal bond go to their reserve fund, it’s a significant sign of trouble,” Larkin said in a telephone interview. “It’s not an imminent default, but it’s a sign that cash flow is certainly far weaker than...

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Smokers See Some Smoking Brands As Safer

One in five smokers believes some brands of Lucky Strike cigarettes are safer than others, a study has found. Smokers of ”gold”, ”silver” or ”slim” cigarettes were also more likely to think their brands were less harmful. The findings highlight the power that packaging can have on risk perception, and come as the federal government prepares to introduce its plain-packaging legislation. As part of an international study, published in the journal Addiction, researchers surveyed more than 8000 current and former smokers, including more than 2000 Australians, about their smoking beliefs. Females were more likely to believe some brands might be...

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Danville company proposes new use for tobacco

If a new company at Dan River Business Development Center has its way, that will happen — but the product will be used to create biofuels instead of cigarettes. Peter Majeranowski, a founder and managing director of Tyton BioSciences, said years of development have gone into the product, which will be genetically modified to produce “both ethanol and biodiesel at yields that far surpass the traditional crops of corn and soy.” And, because corn and soy are also food crops, using tobacco to create the same products can alleviate the complaints that food prices are rising because of demand for crops as fuel, Majeranowski said. Smoking-grade...

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Tobacco Company to Develop Products without Tobacco

British American Tobacco (BAT) PLC announced their plans to create a new company called Nicoventures Ltd. which will produce products made without tobacco and with only pure nicotine in an effort to offer a safer alternative to smokers. Even though a spokeswoman of the organization said the products the company is considering aren’t on the market yet and declined to give any more details, we do know that two subsidiaries of Altria Group are testing spit-free tobacco-coated toothpicks in an effort to offer tobacco in a less socially scrutinized way. If successful, the products of Nicoventures could help wean smokers off cigarettes. It is the...

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KT&G rules slim cigarette market with best-selling Esse

What is the best-selling cigarette brand in the world? Most smokers would name one from multinational juggernauts Philip Morris, British-American Tobacco (BAT) or Japan Tobacco. As far as super-slim cigarettes are concerned, however, Korea’s KT&G dominates with its Esse cigarettes brand, which has steadily remained in the lead. The country’s largest tobacco manufacturer said Monday that it sold 42.2 billion cigarettes of Esse last year to chalk up a 44.5-percent growth from 2009 when 29.2 billion were sold. In particular, the Seoul-headquartered outfit almost doubled its exports of Esse from 11.2 billion cigarettes in 2009 to 20.8 billion...

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Plainly put, cigarette packaging matters

This week our government committed itself to the removal, albeit slowly, of cigarette displays in shops. But plain packaging on cigarettes has been delayed for further consultation. The Unite union is unimpressed. It represents 6,000 people in tobacco production and distribution, and put out a statement: “Switching to plain packaging will make it easier to sell illicit and unregulated products, especially to young people.” This, the union added, “may increase long-term health problems”. Tory MP Philip Davies said: “Plain packaging for cigarettes would be gesture politics … it would have no basis in evidence.” Everyone is entitled to their...

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