More work to be done about teen tobacco use
There’s good news/bad news about teens and tobacco. A new report shows that tobacco use among teens continues to decline but here’s the down side: It’s only decreasing by a percentage point or two – not nearly as much as the sharp declines recorded over the past decade. The findings are included in the report, Teens and Tobacco in Minnesota 2011; Results from the Minnesota Youth Tobacco and Asthma Survey. Dr. Ed Ehlinger, Minnesota commissioner of health, summed up the report this way: “We’ve made great progress in reducing tobacco use since 2000, but the most recent findings in this new report give us little to celebrate. We are failing our youth when you consider that they use tobacco at higher rates than adults and are still being exposed to secondhand … Read entire article »
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E-Cigarette Bans Are Absurd
Despite the best efforts of anti-smoking advocates to educate, tax, and ban tobacco users out of their habit, millions of people continue to smoke and 400,000 of them die each year in the U.S. as a result. Such statistics may lead you to think that any safe smoking alternative would be cheered by public health advocates — and you’d be wrong. Enter e-cigarettes ( or “e-cigs”). These amazing little devices mimic the look, feel and taste of traditional cigarettes, and deliver the dose of nicotine a smoker craves without most of the 10,000 chemicals contained within cigarettes. That means we have a way to save thousands of lives and the anti-smoking lobby is standing in the way without a shred of evidence in support. According to the Boston Globe, 10 communities in … Read entire article »
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Smoking Is A Lifestyle Coping Tool
For many people, smoking is a reliable lifestyle coping tool. Although every person’s specific reasons to smoke are unique, they all share a common theme. Smoking is used as a way to suppress uncomfortable feelings, and smoking is used to alleviate stress, calm nerves, and relax. No wonder that when you are deprived of smoking, your mind and body are unsettled for a little while. Below is a list of some positive intentions often associated with smoking. Knowing why you smoke is one of the first steps towards quitting. Check any and all that apply to you. ___ Coping with anger, stress, anxiety, tiredness, or sadness ___ Smoking is pleasant and relaxing ___ Smoking is stimulating ___ Acceptance – being part of a group ___ As a way to socialize ___ Provides support when things go … Read entire article »
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Law Department eyeing Brooklyn’s roll-your-own cigarette shop
City lawyers are probing Brooklyn’s first roll-your-own cigarette shop – even though the owner wants investigators to leave him alone. A Law Dept. spokesperson confirmed that Jack Wang’s City Smokes on Coney Island Avenue in Sheepshead Bay is now on their radar, making it the latest tobacco store under investigation. Last month, the city filed suit against the Island Smokes chain, with shops on the Lower East Side and Staten Island claiming they were skirting tax laws by allowing customers to use an automatic rolling machine to make cheap packs of cigarettes. Wang, 43, told The News that he opened his store last week unaware of the puff probe. “I don’t want to fight with the city. I don’t want any trouble,” said Wang. “I need to pay the rent. I have no choice.” But … Read entire article »
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Seneca cigarette dealer files for bankruptcy
One of the biggest movers of Native American-made cigarettes has filed for federal bankruptcy protection, a month after a court said the wholesaler is responsible for potentially tens of millions of dollars in federal tobacco assessments. The Chapter 11 reorganization filing by Arthur Montour, owner of Native Wholesale Supply on the Seneca Indian Nation’s Cattaraugus Reservation, lists more than $50 million in liabilities by the businessman who has become wealthy by moving billions of cigarettes made on an Ontario reservation to other tribes across the United States. The company and its Ontario cigarette partners, the subjects of a 2009 investigation by The Buffalo News, also listed as creditors a half-dozen states that have brought various lawsuits against Native Wholesale Supply over its tobacco-distribution practices. But Montour’s biggest creditor — at $43 million — … Read entire article »
Filed under: Cigarette taxes
Cigarette maker tenders unconditional apology
A cigarette manufacturer has placed an unconditional apology to the Tobacco Control Cell for printing attractive advertisements of its cigarette brands in print media and magazines with the commitment to avoid serious violation of the ‘The Prohibition of Smoking in Enclosed Places and Protection of Non Smokers’ in future. Sources told Business Recorder here on Wednesday that on November 22, 2011 the Executive Director, Health Services Academy, and in-charge of Federal Tobacco Control Cell ultimately decided to take some enforcement actions against the violators. The Executive Director issued a formal detailed show-cause notice to the company to explain, within seven days of the receipt of the notice, why they were advertising cigarettes in violation of anti-tobacco rules. According to sources in Tobacco Control Cell, the company has now submitted its reply to the … Read entire article »
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Today’s Featured Tobacco Winner
Altria Group (MO) pushed the Tobacco industry higher today making it today’s featured tobacco winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.4%. By the end of trading, Altria Group rose 54 cents (1.9%) to $28.76 on average volume. Throughout the day, 13.8 million shares of Altria Group exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 14.3 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $28.33-$28.95 after having opened the day at $28.38 as compared to the previous trading day’s close of $28.22. Altria Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, smokeless products, and wine in the United States and internationally. Altria Group has a market cap of $58.42 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company … Read entire article »
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Prawns and Tobacco Find a Home Together on Some Farms
A cash crop is a crop grown for money. Four hundred years ago the first cash crop for European colonists in North America was tobacco. American Indians were already growing it. Then in sixteen twelve an Englishman named John Rolfe found it would “grow well in Virginia and sell profitably in England,” says tobacco.org. But tobacco kills millions every year. Farmers face increasing government restrictions on tobacco use. They also face less demand from developed countries and more competition from developing ones. Download this story as a PDF Some farmers now grow niche crops instead of or in addition to tobacco. Niche crops are aimed at a particular market, but choosing what to plant can be difficult. Professor Tony Johnston at Middle Tennessee State University says most tobacco farms are relatively small. TONY JOHNSTON: … Read entire article »
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Insurance on cards for tobacco crop
The Centre is seriously contemplating bringing the crops that are being managed by independent boards such as tobacco, tea and rubber under insurance purview shortly. The Union commerce ministry has reportedly asked for detailed reports from the chiefs of the boards with observations of the stakeholders of the crops. After a meeting in Delhi, senior officials of the commerce ministry asked the Tobacco Board to initiate discussions with the growers in order to implement the scheme. With Parliament in session, Tobacco Board chairman G Kamalavardhan Rao deputed its executive director K Subbarao to the high-level meeting held to discuss the crop insurance scheme. According to information, the Union government has prepared to take 50 per cent of the financial burden of the scheme. “The Centre wants the role of the respective state … Read entire article »
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UK Smoking Ban in Cars?
The British Medical Association has called for a ban on smoking in cars. The British Medical Association has called for a ban on smoking in cars. This is considered, by some, to be important as cigarette toxins within confined spaces can be extremely potent. Furthermore – putting aside the well publicised health risks – British Car Auctions has concluded that smoking in your vehicle can significantly reduce its second-hand value. After all, unfortunate smells, cigarette burns, and stained fabric put-off buyers. Tim Naylor, PR Manager at British Car Auctions, commented: “This is an incredibly important health issue – and we don’t want to undermine that by any means – but if drivers aren’t motivated by the health of their passengers, perhaps they will be by the diminishing health of their finances. Lighting … Read entire article »
Filed under: Tobacco laws
Alternative to Cigarettes
“Joe Volcano” saw an opportunity in the ban on smoking in workplaces and restaurants, so he quit his job selling ad space on tourist maps two years ago to launch Volcano E-cigs. The company says it is one of the country’s largest sellers of electronic cigarettes online, and now has two locations on Oahu and a handful of franchises on the mainland. Joe Volcano, the name he uses with his business, says e-cigs are a healthier alternative to smoking because the vapor inhaled by the user is primarily purified water, nicotine, flavoring and propylene glycol. Compare that, he says, to nearly 600 compounds and additives in some cigarettes. He started the business in his Kailua home, but booming sales prompted him and his partners to open what they call the world’s first … Read entire article »
Filed under: Quit smoking help
Boy forced to eat cigarette butt
A three-year-old boy was forced to eat a cigarette butt by his Child, Youth and Family (CYF) guardians. Despite continued complaints, the boy and his brother were left with the Christchurch guardian family for five years. CYF has begun an investigation into the caregivers, and no more children will be placed in their care until it is completed. The boys were placed in the guardians’ care in 2006. Their mother, who approached The Press, has made a sworn affidavit to the Family Court in Christchurch in a bid to end the guardianship order. She said she approached CYF for help in 2004 because of her “drug use” and “transient lifestyle” and a violent relationship with the children’s father. The affidavit refers to several CYF reports on the children. In 2007, CYF was told one of the boys … Read entire article »
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Tobacco facts
- Healthier alternative to conventional cigarettes May 18, 2012
- Healthier alternative to conventional cigarettes May 18, 2012
- Monterey County passes through tobacco sales law May 17, 2012
- The new target audience of Big Tobacco May 16, 2012
- Philip Morris CEO’s $6 Million Sale May 15, 2012
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