University passes smoking ban

As students come back to campus, they may see information about a new policy posted on sidewalks, doors and banners across campus.
The Clean Air Policy will go into effect Jan. 1 and states that students, faculty, staff and University visitors can only smoke in designated areas in parking lots or in their car.

“It’s asking people to really respect the rights of others,” said University President Mary Ellen Mazey.
Campus discussion of the policy began in July 2012, when the Ohio Board of Regents, a coordinating body for Ohio higher education, suggested all Ohio university campuses go tobacco free.
This summer, the University Board of Trustees approved the Clean Air Policy, after about a year of gathering opinions from five different representative groups, said Jill Carr, dean of students and senior associate vice president of Student Affairs.
Undergraduate Student Government President Alex Solis thinks the policy is a compromise of sorts.
“Students come from all walks of life,” he said. “If they choose to smoke, that’s why there’s designated areas.”
This policy won’t come without it’s problems, he said. Karelia cigarettes.
“There’s going to be problems with this policy— bring it to someone’s attention,” Solis said. “What I don’t want people to think is this is the end all, be all policy. We want this to be realistic.”
A potential “tricky” part of the policy may be enforcement, Solis said.
There won’t be specific people to enforce the designated areas, instead, it will be a community effort, Carr said.
“The whole community has to embrace this, we’re not going to have smoking police walking around,” Carr said.
The idea is that students, faculty and staff will go up to others and ask people to stop smoking.
Solis doesn’t think students will “go out of their way and confront someone.
“That’s an intimidating conversation, that’s uncomfortable,” he said.
If students don’t listen to their peers, an incident report may be filed and the student will be charged with a violation of the student code of conduct, which may lead to a hearing, said Michael Ginsburg, associate dean of students. There is also a process for faculty and staff through human resources, he said.
“I think some students will adapt and go to the nearest area,” Solis said. “I think other students will be frustrated that there is this newness. This transition is going to be challenging.”
So far, the University has spent $9,000 on materials to help educate students about the policy during the fall semester.
The campus is marked with signs, door clings, stress balls, banners and fliers about the policy and the designated areas— which are cigarette receptacles in parking lots— have information about programs to help them stop smoking and about the policy.
“Culture shift takes time and you need to educate people,” Ginsburg said.
The policy will be reviewed on an annual basis and could change as early as next year, Ginsburg said.
He said the goal of the policy “is not to encourage people to stop smoking, but to present them with choices.”
But Mazey said it has to be both.
“I think we want to help people,” she said, “because I think that tobacco is a health issue, it’s a health issue for them, it’s a health issue for their colleagues. You really don’t want to be around cigarette smoke.”
Solis said it’s not his place to tell students what to do, instead, he wants them to take away that the policy’s purpose is to strive to make BGSU a healthy campus.

Casino smoking lounge to be reconsidered

Sky City says it will work to comply with smoke-free laws after a High Court judge ruled the Ministry of Health can't use its calculator for deciding if a room can be considered "open" for smoking.

The Cancer Society, along with the Salvation Army and the Problem Gambling Foundation, took health authorities and Sky City to court, arguing the Auckland casino's Diamond Lounge broke the rules of the Smoke-free Environments Act.

The lounge is a roofed area ventilated by louvres and gamblers can smoke there because the ministry's "open areas calculator" classes it as an open area.

Justice Rodney Hansen said the Ministry of Health calculator, which takes into account the room's area, openings and airflow to determine whether a room is "substantially enclosed" or not, is contrary to the Act.

He said the ministry cannot legally replace a simple factual question of whether a space is substantially enclosed by an airflow calculation, and asked it to reconsider the decision in this light.

Sky City general counsel Peter Treacy said the ministry had used the calculator for years and it had potential implications for many other venues.

He said it was important to note the case was about the ministry's calculator and not a ruling on the Diamond Lounge.

"Should the Diamond Lounge be found not to be an open area following this judgment, Sky City will work to comply with the law."

Cancer Society national health promotion manager Jan Pearson says the society is delighted by the result, saying it was the logical outcome given what the Act says.

A ministry spokesman said it would be reviewing the judgment and considering the long term implications for workplaces and licensed premises.

Cigar aficionados get fired up for festival

One had only to follow the nose to find the 2013 Tampa Cigar Festival taking place beside the Hillsborough River this weekend.  Stogie and cheroot aficionados from across the country gathered at Cotanchobee Fort Brooke Park, south of the Forum in downtown Tampa, to sit back and enjoy their passion.  “When you clip a cigar, you have to smoke it, so you’ve given yourself permission to relax for an hour,” said Bill Snyder of Sarasota as he perused one of many smoke shops set up at the festival  The consensus among this crowd was that cigar smoking is a lot more about relaxation and camaraderie than the actual act of smoking.  Tampa remains Cigar City, a hotbed for cigars short, slim, long and fat, with such names as La Bamba, Romeo and Juliet, Diamond Crown and Cuesta-Rey Centenario Aristocrat.  “It’s a celebration of cigars, and cigars are a celebration,” said festival organizer Vienna Fuente, whose father-in-law, Arturo Fuente, started his famous cigar company in Tampa in 1912.  Fuente said the festival is all about bringing together people of like minds who enjoy the fellowship that cigars tend to offer. It also brings in support for local cigar retailers and means money in the bank for hotels and restaurants, she said.  Fuente said she expected this year’s festival attendance to hit 5,000.  Proceeds from a silent auction at the festival and a portion of the profits will go to Friends of Tampa Recreation, a nonprofit group that seeds new ideas, rewards initiative and promotes recreational programs offered by Tampa.  For Roy Santarella of Hudson, the festival was a great excuse to party with friends from across the country. At his table he had gathered friends from Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Rochester, N.Y., Stamford, Conn., and Cleveland.  “I’ve been smoking cigars for 20 years, and I find it very relaxing,” Santarella said as the nationally syndicated Cigar Dave radio show aired live from the festival and blared from nearby microphones. “It’s a fraternal kind of recreation.”  One couple came all the way from Wasilla, Alaska, for the festival. Irma and Marcel Bijak found the cigar fest a great excuse to get away from minus-5 degree temperatures and into the sunny mid-80s weather on Saturday.  “I was at the Smoke on the Water festival in Buffalo last year, and when I heard about this one I told Irma, ‘We need to go.’ And I’ve seen some of the same faces here I saw in Buffalo. It’s just a great way to socialize and vacation.”

Smoking restrictions a natural societal shift

Smokers kicked to the curb (News, Oct. 4)
About five years ago, I was in Port Angeles, Wash. While there, I observed many signs that said it is unlawful to smoke with 25 feet of a doorway.
My handy metric converter tells me that 25 feet is 7.62 metres.
So, it would seem that our neighbours just to the south of us have been living with much stricter restrictions then we have for quite some time. Although, I am an advocate for civil rights, I am surprised that the B.C. Civil Liberties Association has chosen to weigh in on this issue, as there are no “rights” involved here (human, natural, legal, or otherwise). Lucky Strike cigarettes.
One’s rights end at the end of their nose, i.e. one can not impinge on the rights of others without a very good reason such as traffic laws that prevent mass chaos on the roads, convicted criminals losing their right to freedom, etc.
Smoking is something that very much impinges on the rights of others, yet there is no good reason for smoking.
It is very much detrimental both to the smoker and to society at large, and has no redeeming qualities. Thus there can be no “right” to smoke. Thus restrictions on smoking can not be said to violate civil liberties.
You quote Dani Kong who asks why it is legal to smoke when it is such a problem. I suspect that it is legal because people have been smoking for hundreds of years, and it’s only in the last 50 years or so that we have known how detrimental it is.
It takes time to change society; however, I fully expect that smoking will be outlawed within my lifetime, and increasing restrictions are just a step along the way.
Also, I will point out that there are other things that are legal but which are restricted. You can’t walk down the street with an open bottle of alcohol, for instance.
One last thing, I must ask: why aren’t smokers fined for littering when they throw those dirty disgusting cigarette butts down on the ground?

Hospital works to stub out smoking

Maury Regional Medical Center is renewing efforts to educate the public about smoking hazards as cigarette use continues to be a problem on the hospital’s campus.
Hospital Chief Executive Officer Alan Watson said all properties owned by the hospital have been smoke-free since 2008 — but not all visitors have been obeying the smoking ban. He told county commissioners during the health and environment committee meeting Monday it has been “very difficult” to enforce the ban during the past five years.
“We are seeing some sign blindness among our visitors,” Watson said. “We actually have some visitors leaning up against ‘no smoking’ signs as they are smoking.”
As a result, Watson said the hospital intends to renew efforts to educate the public, volunteers, physicians, nurses, patients and employees about smoking hazards. He said additional signage will be put up on Maury Regional properties and extra efforts will be made to communicate the smoking ban to patients and visitors.
Additionally, Watson said the hospital will be asking security to help enforce the ban in a “non-confrontational manner” and educating the public through more signage and information about smoking. He said the hospital will also be doing more to pick up cigarettes left on the ground.
“It’s not a pretty picture when you come onto our campus and see cigarettes all over the grounds,” he said.
Rita Williams, a spokesperson for the hospital, said the ban will also include the use of e-cigarettes on the hospital’s campus.
“There are some unknowns with the e-cigs,” she said. “They do create a vapor, and it still isn’t certain what is in that vapor.”
Williams said the hospital has done several studies in the local community about the effects of smoking and lung cancer on residents.
“We found lung cancer is a huge problem in this area,” she said. “We see it in our cancer center every day. We are trying to be a leader in the community and to protect people from second-hand smoke.”
Watson said Maury County places “in the worst quartile among more than 2,800 U.S. counties” for lung cancer-related deaths. He said smoking is the largest contributing factor to diagnoses of lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary heart disease, stroke and other cancers.
Watson said it is the hospital’s responsibility to keep all of its patients and visitors protected.
“Our goal is to ensure that everyone who visits one of our facilities is protected from the dangerous effects of tobacco products,” Watson said. “As the regional leader in health care, it is our responsibility to prohibit smoking on the grounds of our facilities in an effort to protect everyone from the dangerous effects of smoking.”
Tennessee’s “Non-Smoker’s Protection Act” went into effect on Oct. 1, 2007, which makes it illegal to smoke in most workplaces including health care facilities and “common-use areas” of buildings.

Cheaper brands keep smokers puffing, data show

Cigarette consumption in the country fell—but only marginally—in the second quarter from a year ago, with an increase in the production of cheap P1 per stick brands helping demand stay afloat despite a hike in sin taxes.
Industry data showed average cigarette consumption at 14.13 sticks a day in the second quarter compared to 14.84 sticks in the same period last year.
Daily consumption was an average 13.53 sticks in the first quarter of the year, but rose back to over 14 percent between April and June as some cigarette firms increased production of the cheaper brands.
Data showed the market share of brands costing P1 per stick rising from 5 percent last year to 30 percent in June this year.
Industry players said the market share of the cheap brands could rise further as the tax on cigarettes increases annually.
Brands selling for P1 a stick include those produced by Mighty Corp. and Philip Morris Fortune Tobacco Corp.
The sin tax reform law, which took effect in January, mandates an annual increase in the excise taxes on cigarette and alcohol products. The rates of increase are specified for this year up to 2017. Afterwards, cigarette tax rates shall rise 4 percent annually to cover inflation.
The new cigarette tax rates effective this year are: P12 per pack for brands with a net retail price of P11.50 and below, and P25 per pack for brands with a net retail price of more than P11.50 per pack.
The objectives of the law are to boost government revenues and to discourage smoking.
Some cigarette firms, however, are trying to prevent a substantial drop in demand by producing cheaper brands.
For 2013, the government projects a collection of P51.6 billion in excise taxes on cigarettes. This is on top of the P6.2 billion in value-added taxes and P6.7 billion in corporate income taxes that it aims to collect from cigarette firms this year.
The excise tax collection target for this year includes P33.9 billion in incremental revenues estimated to come from the tax rate hike.
The incremental revenues targeted for the succeeding years are P42.86 billion for next year, P50.63 billion in 2015, P56.86 billion in 2016, and P64.18 billion in 2017.
Some industry players have expressed concern the higher tax rates could result in a rise in smuggling of cheap foreign-made cigarettes into the country. They said the government would not achieve its revenue goals if smuggling became a problem.

Toronto Public Health recommends wider outdoor smoking ban

In an unguarded moment on Monday, President Barack Obama joked that he was able to successfully quit smoking “because I'm scared of my wife.”
Following a Civil Society Roundtable at the opening day of the United Nations General Assembly meeting, an open mic caught the president questioning U.N. Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai about his smoking habit.
“I hope you quit smoking,” Obama said as the two greeted each other after the event.
Kiai said he still enjoyed a smoke from time-to-time, and asked Obama if he had been able to kick the habit.
“I haven't had a cigarette in 6 years...that's because I'm scared of my wife," Obama told him with a grin.

The commander-in-chief’s nicotine habit has gotten plenty of attention since taking the White House. While pushing for passage of health care reform in 2009, he admitted that he still struggled with cigarettes and has continued to smoke on occasion as president “I've said before that as a former smoker I constantly struggle with it.  Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes?  Yes.  Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker?  No,” he said at a press conference in 2009. “I don't do it in front of my kids.  I don't do it in front of my family. And, you know, I would say that I am 95 percent cured.  But there are times where...There are times where I mess up.”In an 2012 interview with iVillage, First Lady Michelle Obama said her husband had been motivated by their daughters to successfully quit for good."I know that his ability to ultimately kick the habit was because of the girls, because they're at the age now where you can't hide," Michelle Obama said. "I think that he didn't want to look his girls in the eye and tell them that they shouldn't do something that he was still doing.

Smoking drivers in grave danger

While travelling towards my house one evening recently, I was shocked to see a driver smoking in the car while driving, and throwing the cigarette on the road, totally unconcerned about the danger he was causing to other drivers.

Studies have shown that smoking while driving increases the probability of a crash. The authorities have also instituted a financial penalty of Dh500 and four black points for such careless drivers. Despite this, I was shocked to see drivers smoking at leisure and throwing cigarette butts out on the road. The cigarettes can ignite other flammable substances, which could be disastrous for other vehicles on the road and lead to a great calamity.

According to local news reports, the number of road accident deaths in the first eight months of this year is much higher than the total number of deaths in the previous year and such an alarming fact could also be attributed to the careless attitude of such drivers. Despite the number of campaigns held and punishments instituted, these drivers are adamant that they would not change. Such drivers need to be caught and punished in a way that they would never repeat this offense again.

As a concerned resident, I appeal to all drivers to drive safely without causing harm to yourself and others. Keep your belts buckled, phones at the side and cigarettes inside. After all, everybody aims to reach their destination safe and sound!

UK scientists: quit smoking and you can still save your skin

The good news is that if you do give up, the skin will start to repair itself. The bad news for those who can't or won't give up (such as devoted smoker Kate Moss) is that the later you leave it, the more irreversible the problems.

Smoking affects the entire body and when it is put under stress  -  in this case with a toxic concoction of carbon monoxide, cyanide, tar, formaldehyde and other chemicals  -  the brain diverts vitamins away from your skin to be used elsewhere.

Cigarette manufacturers: FBR accused of introducing complicated FED system

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has introduced a very complex 'slabs system' of the Federal Excise Duty (FED) for the cigarette manufacturers which has only benefited the multinational companies with stagnation in the incidence of taxes ie sales tax/FED on most popular brands of the product. Tax experts told Business Recorder here on Thursday that the multinational companies and the FBR had deliberately implemented a very complicated excise duty system to charge less amount of FED on popular brands of cigarettes.

Smokers Earn Less Money, So Here Are 7 Frugal Tips to Help You Quit

It’s no secret that smoking is not only horrible for your health but also ridiculously expensive. It’s also true that indulging in the habit causes you to earn less money — about 20 percent less, says a study by researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
It’s not that smokers are less productive. About 60 percent of the pay difference can be attributed to factors like having less education than nonsmokers. But another factor seems to be that people who smoke face a bias in the workplace. A press release about the study, conducted by economists Melinda Pitts and Julie Hotchkiss, explains:
Perhaps their most surprising finding is that the wage gap doesn’t vary by smoking intensity. “A person who smokes one cigarette per day faces a similar penalty as a person who smokes a pack a day,” explained Pitts, who directs the Atlanta Fed’s Center for Human Capital Studies. “Since smoking more cigarettes is known to result in greater health problems and work absences, the fact that the penalty doesn’t increase as smoking intensity increases suggests that the wage penalty is more related to a bias in the workplace against smokers than it is related to lower productivity among smokers,” she continued. Capital cigarettes online.
It’s a nasty habit

New effort under way for St. Joseph smoking ban

A St. Joseph group seeking to ban smoking in most public places is trying a new tactic to put the issue before voters.
The St. Joseph News-Press reports ( http://bit.ly/19LXdRL) members of Smoke-Free St. Joseph are gathering signatures from registered voters on a petition. They'll need nearly 2,200 certified signatures to get their proposal on a future ballot.
Smoke-Free St. Joseph began drafting the proposed ordinance after the City Council voted in May to drop all considerations of a smoking ban.
The group's proposal would ban smoking in all indoor public places except for 10 percent of hotel rooms and private clubs when no employees are present.
It also would allow smoking on the gambling floor of the St. Jo Frontier Casino until casinos in Jackson, Platte or Clay counties go smoke-free.

Smoking down among youngsters

The survey of 3,416 primary and secondary school pupils found that 80 per cent had never tried smoking, compared to 70 per cent when the study was last carried out in 2011.
It also found that four per cent of pupils described themselves as occasional or regular smokers, falling from nine per cent in 2011.
Year five pupils from primary schools and year nine youngsters from secondary schools took part in the Health Related Behaviour Survey.
The study is used by district NHS bosses to collect information about young people’s lifestyles.
Health experts said tobacco use among young people had declined because of new laws on smoking in public places, a ban on tobacco advertising and better education of the dangers of smoking.
Dr Andrew Furber, the

Cigarette Taxes Deter Heavy Drinking, Study Says

Higher cigarette taxes help reduce drinking among certain groups of people, U.S. researchers say. To assess the impact that increases in cigarette taxes between 2001-02 and 2004-05 had on drinking behavior, researchers analyzed data from more than 21,000 drinkers who took part in a survey from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
The cigarette tax increases were associated with modest to moderate reductions in drinking among "vulnerable groups," according to the study, which was published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
"Results suggest that increases in cigarette taxes were associated with reductions in alcohol consumption over time among male smokers," corresponding author Sherry McKee, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine, said in a journal news release. "The protective effects were most pronounced among subgroups who are most at risk for adverse alcohol-related consequences, including male heavy drinkers, young adults and those with the lowest income."

Will Philip Morris Beat Earnings Estimates?

Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) is set to report 2Q13 results on Jul 18, 2013, before the opening bell. Last quarter it posted a 4.4% negative surprise. Let’s see how things are shaping up for this announcement.

Factors to Consider This Quarter
We are primarily concerned about Philip Morris’ declining shipment volume as the tobacco industry is facing pressure due to stricter anti-smoking campaigns, higher excise tax and gasoline prices. Governments across the world are imposing higher taxes, forcing companies to increase prices. These tax increases are forcing the company to raise prices of both their premium as well as low priced products.Philip Morris International is the producer of Bond cigarettes and Cheapest Chesterfield cigarettes.

Proposed NJ smoking ban would extend to beaches, parks

The list of outdoor places where smokers would be permitted to light up would shrink significantly if a pair of bills introduced by two state legislators become law.
Smoking is already banned at all Burlington County parks and recreation areas as well as those in at least seven county municipalities. Under the two bills written by 8th District Republicans Sen. Dawn Marie Addiego and Assemblyman Chris Brown, smoking would also be banned in all state parks, beaches and wildlife management areas, and “any property acquired or developed with the help of state funds for recreation and conservation purposes.”
The latter provision effectively would make smoking off-limits in nearly all municipal parks and recreational fields because most have received funds through the state’s Green Acres program.
“As a mother, I am troubled by anything that threatens the health of our children,” Addiego said in a statement. “Parents should be able to drop down a beach blanket without worrying about being downwind from smokers and exposing their family to secondhand smoke.”
Brown also cited health concerns.
“The data is definitive. Smoke is detrimental to health, and even indirect exposure to cigarette smoke is harmful,” the assemblyman said. “It is especially dangerous for young lungs.”
Karen Blumenfeld, executive director of Global Advisors on Smokefree Policy (GASP), said that the idea of banning smoking at state parks and beaches is not new, but that support has grown steadily in recent years as more and more towns and counties have approved restrictions.
“More than 190 towns and counties combined in the state of New Jersey have enacted ordinances. That’s about one third of all counties and towns,” Blumenfeld said Friday. “There’s a grass-roots effort by local and county officials especially.”
The Burlington County Board of Freeholders recently enacted a policy banning smoking in all county parks. Beverly, Burlington Township, Delran, Edgewater Park, Evesham, Mansfield and Palmyra also have local ordinances banning tobacco use at their parks and ballfields.
Mount Holly has proposed making all of its playgrounds and parks smoke-free, but has yet to finalize the ban.
In addition to the dangers posed by secondhand smoke, Blumenfeld said banning smoking in parks and recreational areas discourages children from taking up the habit, helps smokers quit, prevents wildfires, and saves towns money on the cost of cleaning up cigarette-butt litter.
The measures sponsored by Addiego and Brown would provide some much-needed uniformity across the state, Blumenfeld said.
“There’s plenty of places without the bans. From our standpoint, it’s best to provide equal protection to all residents and visitors,” she said. “Since there’s no safe level of secondhand smoke, it’s best to educate people about the dangers of exposure, and these types of policies do that.”
Representatives from the Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment could not be reached for comment Friday. The group’s founder told the Burlington County Times in March that claims about the dangers posed by secondhand smoke in outdoor environments are dubious.
“While harm from another’s cigarette smoke indoors remains debatable, there is zero valid scientific evidence that someone smoking outdoors is harmful to anyone,” said Audrey Silk, founder of the nonprofit organization based in New York City. “They cherry-pick from the only study they have to point to and ultimately fail to report the author’s final conclusion: When the cigarette goes out, the smoke is gone — not like in a bar, where it hangs around for hours.”

Cigarettes were always about being a rebel-Marlboro Man

It’s one of branding’s eternal truisms that when you find an idea that works, you stick with it. It’s why fatherly CEO Dave Thomas appeared in over 800 TV spots for Wendy’s, why Aflac has stuck with the duck since 1999 and why Go Daddy has held tight to Danica Patrick’s bumper for 11 Super Bowl spots now. There’s a corollary to this rule, too. Once one brand discards a great idea, there’s nothing stopping a similar brand from taking it up. Case in point: the Marlboro Man and what looks like his kid brother in the ads here. But be it a tobacco smoke from the ‘50s or one of the many electronic alternatives on the market now, cigarette brands love associating themselves with the All-American bruiser.

“Cigarettes were always about being a rebel,” observes Gwenaëlle Gobé, creative director of marketing think tank Emotional Branding and a filmmaker who recently explored gender representations on American billboards in her film This Space Available. “The imagery connects because it’s an ideal,” Gobé said. “Who doesn’t want to be some version of the tough guy? This is what everybody demands men to be.”



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This rugged but successful marriage between tough guys and cigs goes back to 1954 when Philip Morris introduced Marlboro as its first brand to feature a filter. Fearful that the foam tip would make the brand seem soft and feminine, the company hired legendary adman Leo Burnett, who understood that making Marlboro a real man’s smoke meant showing real men. While most people recall the Marlboro Man as a cowboy, he was actually a variety of characters for the first few years: mechanics, hunters and, like our hairy-chested friend here, a coach (ex-Navy at that, judging from the tattoo on his right hand). The hitch worked. By 1972, Marlboro was the best-selling cigarette brand on the planet.

Of course, all the muscles in the world weren’t enough to fight off the attorneys general in most every state in America. The $206 billion Master Settlement of 1999 sent the Marlboro Man riding off into the sunset. But good ideas are tough to kill—as this 2013 ad for Blu e-cigarettes demonstrates. “My intuition is that Blu purposely went to the Marlboro Man to give this ad the same look,” Gobé said. Even if the brand didn’t do that literally, the similarities are striking. Chances are you wouldn’t pick a fight with either of these dudes.
It’s anyone’s guess if the tough-guy image will work as well for Blu as it did for Marlboro. Blu is a battery-driven vapor generator that comes in flavors including Cherry Crush and Vivid Vanilla—facts that are a little tough to reconcile with the Brando-esque aura of our denim-clad stag here. Still, there’s no denying the logic of the presentation. “If you walked up to anyone who’s lived long enough, they can immediately conjure the Marlboro Man’s image and describe it to you,” Gobé said. “That icon is endless.”

Tighter regulation on smoking

In January this year, Indonesia finally passed a long-awaited tobacco control regulation that imposes certain restrictions on cigarette advertising.
One of the restrictions will bar companies from portraying children, teenagers or pregnant women in their ads. The ads are also prohibited from glamorizing smoking or encourage people to take up the habit.
The regulation will require cigarette ads on television to devote 10 percent of their running time to written warnings with a pictorial warning. Ads on the radio would have to devote 10 percent of their duration to verbal warnings, while still-image ads would be required to devote 10 percent of their area for a warning.

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Marlboro brand originally was exposed in 1847 at the London market but soon repositioned in the US and advertised as lady’s cigarettes. That marketing policy failed in a while and Philip Morris focused the Marlboro advertising campaign to male audience.

Reduce Smoking in Scotland by 2034

Reduce Smoking in Scotland by 2034


Scotland became the first part of the UK to introduce a public smoking ban in 2006 and a ban on the display of cigarettes in Scotland's large shops will come into effect on 29 April this year.
 

ITC synchronizes 3% volume growth in cigarettes

Unlike most consumer companies that have reported relatively weak top line numbers, ITC did not come up with any unpleasant surprises, not even in the cigarette business.

1. After a steady increase in excise duty for several consecutive years, the Street was expecting cigarette volumes to plunge. However, these have risen by 3.5 % due to a bunching of demand before the Union Budget Cigarettes volumes will grow 2-2.5 % in FY14, analysts believe.

Ministry eager to enforce anti-tobacco law

The Ministry of Health is currently following up on restaurants and other facilities to ensure that they all comply with the Control of Smoking Act (CSA), Anti-Tobacco Network (ATN) interim director Dr Bontle Mbongwe has said.
 Mbongwe was speaking in an interview after the World No Tobacco Day commemoration last Friday, noting that the public is becoming aware of laws surrounding tobacco advertising, promotion and tobacco industry interference.

Zim tobacco farmers forge ahead despite odds

The Zimbabwean economy is agro-based and tobacco farming is traditionally the backbone of the economy followed by mining. The past decade has seen the emergence of young new farmers who have been empowered through the land reform programme launched in 2000 by President Robert Mugabe.
The controversial land reform programme is beginning to pay dividends as evidenced by the bumper tobacco harvests being delivered to the country's auction floors. This season tobacco sales have generated US$300 million in 44 marketing days. The tobacco industry used to be dominated by white commercial farmers whilst the indigenous black people worked as labourers on the commercial farms where they were paid low wages. However, things have changed, as Zimbabwean young men have become masters on their own farms, thanks to the government's empowerment programme.

Marijuana: The next diabetes drug?

Toking up may help marijuana users to stay slim and lower their risk of developing diabetes, according to the latest study, which suggests that cannabis compounds may help in controlling blood sugar.

Although marijuana has a well-deserved reputation for increasing appetite via what stoners call "the munchies," the new research, which was published in the American Journal of Medicine, is not the first to find that the drug has a two-faced relationship to weight.

Three prior studies have shown that marijuana users are less likely to be obese, have a lower risk for diabetes and have lower body-mass-index measurements. And these trends occurred despite the fact that they seemed to take in more calories.

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NY cigarette-smuggling ring may have terror link

A cigarette smuggling scheme that cost New York state millions of dollars in sales tax revenue may have raised funds for militant groups, authorities said.

Sixteen Palestinian men, some with ties to convicted terrorists, were indicted Thursday in the alleged scheme that spans New York, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and New Jersey states.

Investigators say they uncovered $55 million in illegal cigarette sales.
Study: Most NY cigarettes sold illegally
Bloomberg targets cigarettes in NYC

Although it is unclear where the illicit proceeds ended up, similar schemes have funded organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah, according to Ray Kelly, commissioner of the New York Police Department.

"This case started because we were being vigilant about terrorism," Kelly said in a statement. "We discovered that individuals who were on our radar for links to known terrorists were engaged in a massive raid on the New York Treasury in the form of cigarette tax avoidance."

One of the suspects had financial ties to Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric serving a life sentence for a conspiracy to blow up New York City landmarks.

New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said authorities are still working to trace the "astounding profits" generated by the scheme.

A family affair

Electronic cigarettes Not FDA approved

In 2009, the FDA established the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act to regulate tobacco-related diseases. According to the FDA, tobacco-related deaths kill more than 440,000 people per year.

The FDA has been striving to categorize e-cigs as a “tobacco product” which will make them subject to registration, product, and ingredient listing, among many other requirements. They have said that laboratory analysis from e-cig samples showed the products contained carcinogens as well as toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol, an ingredient used in antifreeze.

After observing e-cig labels, the FDA concluded that cartridges claiming not to have nicotine actually do. The study also showed that similar e-cigs emit different varieties of nicotine.

Physcians fear the unknown about e-cigs.

“The e-cigarette is not regulated by the FDA,” said Medical Director Victor Marchione, M.D. of Liberty Health’s Smoking Cessation Program at Jersey

Blue mold alert issued for east Kentucky tobacco

Growers located in the vicinity and east of the initial find, especially those with young plants, should scout their fields for the disease and apply a preventative fungicide, said Kenny Seebold, Extension plant pathologist in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.

The disease was present on nearly 100 percent of tobacco in two fields totaling about 15 acres, and significant levels of the disease were present in nearby fields. The disease likely arrived over the July 4 weekend. The find is significant because the disease is widespread in the infected areas, and recent weather conditions were favorable for the disease to spread.

"In many years, blue mold shows up in an isolated case or the weather is too dry to promote rapid spread,"

Tobacco board to begin asset sale

A different kind of auction sale will be held this week at the tobacco auction exchange in Delhi.

No tobacco will be tendered. Instead, it will be the tools, equipment and furnishings that were used in recent decades to bring the golden leaf to market.

The sale is a visible reminder that the Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers Marketing Board, as previously constituted, is no more. The board, as a marketer of tobacco, passed into history this spring. An interim board was installed June 1 whose major responsibility is getting a fair dollar for its assets.

Once the forklifts, pallet carts, roller tables, oak desks and office chairs are sold this Wednesday, the board will set its sights on its real estate.

"We plan to advertise for a request-for-proposals for the possible sale or lease of the Delhi Exchange," president Fred Neukamm of Aylmer said.

The assets of the tobacco board belong to former quota holders. A report tabled at last week's meeting estimates the board's net worth at $2.7 million.

This spring, the federal government bought out 271 million pounds of tobacco quota. At $1.05 a pound, the payout amounted to $285 million. Now that the money has been paid, the board has been dissolved as a marketing agency.

Once the board's assets are sold, former quota holders will be entitled to a share of the proceeds based on the total amount of their poundage. They will also have the option of pooling their share into a collective undertaking in some other area such as green energy.

Neukamm said the tobacco belt has great potential as a producer of biomass for the production of clean electricity. Ontario Power Generation is exploring the feasibility of converting the coal-fired generation station in Nanticoke to biomass.

The new tobacco board consists of five members. They were appointed this spring by the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission. The board has an interim operating budget of $220,000. The funds are derived from a penny-per-pound charge on the 22-million pound crop being grown this year by licencees under contract to manufacturers.

The interim board plans to hold a membership vote this fall on its future direction. It remains to be seen whether the 118 licensees are interested in having a trade group like the tobacco board represent their interests. There were strong indications that former quota holders don't want their interests entangled with those who continue to grow tobacco.

Oxford University won’t take funding from tobacco companies. But Shell’s OK

Those in the strongest position to challenge climate change are instead lending it their ‘moral prestige’. Illustration by Daniel Pudles

In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published a piercing attack on the intellectuals of his day. They should, he argued in La Trahison des Clercs (the treason of the scholars), act as a check on popular passions. Civilisation, he claimed, is possible only if intellectuals stand in opposition to the demands of political “realism” by upholding universal principles. “Thanks to the scholars,” he said, “humanity did evil for two thousand years, but honoured good.” Europe might have been lying in the gutter, but it was looking at the stars.
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But those ideals, Benda argued, had been lost. Europe was now lying in

Help Curb Your Smokers Cough by Switching to a Chemical Free Cigarette

If you're a smoker, the word cough can mean something entirely different to you that it does to others. For you, a cough is no simple "ahem." You can feel it start deep in your chest, and while you cough, it shakes your entire upper body. You sound something like a cross between a garbage disposal and a misfiring engine. If you've smoking for some time, the wet, wheezing noise of your own cough has probably given you cause for concern more than once. If that doesn't worry you, the chunks of diseased looking phlegm certainly should. Many smokers can tire their diaphragms by coughing too much. Some have even reported giving themselves pounding headaches, because they shake so violently when they cough. Truly, the smoker's cough is probably one of the most obvious and unavoidable signs that smoking is definitely having a negative effect on your health. After all, no matter how well you can turn a blind eye to the constant barrage of warning labels and anti-smoking ads, your own body is much harder to ignore.

Think of the children – but not just the children

One of ASH Scotland’s priorities is to raise awareness of the harm that tobacco smoke causes to others, and to find the best ways of protecting people from that harm.
Now that we have smoke-free enclosed public spaces, children’s exposure to second hand smoke most often happens in the car or at home. The health risks from second hand smoke, particularly to children, are well known – so the question is what are we going to do about it?
Ideally we would create a smoke-free “bubble” around our children – starting with a smoke-free house and smoke-free car. We know from our involvement in the REFRESH project that parents who smoke want to protect their children but often don’t know enough about the harm caused by second hand smoke or what they can do about it. The REFRESH “How To” guide provides a wealth of information on this. We do not want to see legislation regarding how parents or carers smoke in the house, but we do believe that a strong and ongoing public awareness campaign about smoke free homes could reap real benefits. The Scottish Government has recently announced that it will set a target for reducing children’s exposure to second hand smoke, and it is difficult to see how such a target could be achieved otherwise.
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The evidence for plain, standardised packaging

Japan Tobacco International (makers of Silk Cut and Benson and Hedges) are up to their old tricks again. Just weeks after the Advertising Standards Authority ruled their last advertising campaign to be misleading and in breach of the advertising code of practice, they are throwing money at a (no doubt grateful) newspaper industry again.

Over the weekend rumours started to spread of a new tobacco industry advertising campaign, trailed in the Scotsman and Independent. To the great excitement of tobacco industry supporters on Twitter we heard this would reveal civil servants admitting there is “no hard evidence” for plain packs. But when it arrived it was a bit of damp squib.Marlboro Red cigarette, Marlboro Gold cigarette best types in demand by most of the smokers worldwide.

Use economic incentives to help people quit smoking

While I recommend we stop providing taxpayer-funded health care services for people who smoke, I think we should also offer health care service incentives to help people quit smoking. For example, stop-smoking seminars, hypnosis programs, and other educational efforts should be offered for free (paid for with taxpayer dollars), and anyone who quits smoking should be openly accepted back onto government-funded health care programs. (There are blood tests that can easily detect nicotine and other cigarette chemicals in the blood...)

We should provide economic incentives for people to stop smoking while putting in place severe economic penalties for those who continue to smoke. That's the smarter way to keep individual liberty intact while encouraging consumers to take responsibility for their own behaviors. Education programs combined with appropriately-structured economic incentives will drive millions of Americans away from cigarettes without taking away consumer freedoms.

Should the FDA Regulate Tobacco? Health Freedom Advocate Says Criminalizing Cigarettes is a Mistake

The U.S. Congress has just voted to categorize tobacco as a drug, handing the FDA regulatory authority to control the advertising, marketing and sales of cigarettes. This hilarious move, if approved by the Senate and signed by the President, would put the FDA in the position of approving the sale of a "drug" that the entire medical community openly admits kills millions of people. According to the CDC, tobacco kills 438,000 people each year in the United States alone (1). Now, thanks to the U.S. Congress, the FDA could soon be the government office responsible for allowing these 438,000 deaths each year!

Think about it: Right now, FDA-approved drugs kill around 100,000 Americans a year, and that's if you believe the conservative figures from the American Medical Association (the real numbers are at least double that). Add tobacco deaths to that list, and you come to the startling realization that if tobacco is considered an FDA-approved "drug," then FDA-approved drugs will kill well over half a million Americans each year! (538,000 fatalities a year due to FDA-approved drugs, using government statistics.)

That's a level of fatalities that terrorists haven't even come close to approaching.

Why the FDA doesn't want to regulate tobacco
Obviously, the FDA does not want to find itself in this position, because if regulatory authority over tobacco is shoved onto the FDA, it would be forced to declare tobacco an unapproved, unsafe drug and ban its sale.

Why? Because there have been no clinical

Despite all the anti-smoking campaigns, cigarette taxes, novel smoking alternatives, and even smoking bans in some areas, millions of people still smoke cigarettes both out of habit and for pleasure. Sadly, many these people, if asked, would say they do not actually like smoking cigarettes

but feel as though they are hopelessly addicted with no effective way to quit. But if you or someone you know is serious about quitting smoking, there is hope apart from trying to quit cold turkey, wearing nicotine patches, and taking anti-smoking drugs. Here are five natural approaches to kicking the smoking habit for good:

1) Lobelia. Also known as "Indian tobacco," Lobelia inflata has long been used as a folk remedy to treat asthma and certain bronchial disorders. In fact, American Indians actually smoked lobelia in pipes for the purpose of healing these and other respiratory conditions. But lobelia can also be taken in the form of a tincture or supplement to discourage the smoking habit. Lobelia contains 14 unique alkaloids including lobeline, which has been shown to stimulate the nerve cells that would normally respond to nicotine. This mode of action not only reduces nicotine cravings, but also minimizes the effect of nicotine when it is smoked, which has helped many people kick the habit.

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The lucrative business of cigarette smuggling

Yeah, it's illegal. But that's how much can be made from selling a tractor trailer's worth (that's 800 cases, each holding 600 packs of cigarettes) of low-tax Virginia cigarettes in high-tax New York, based on estimates from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. And that's exactly what criminals are doing. In 2011, more than 60% of all cigarettes sold in New York were smuggled in from another state, according to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a free-market think tank. That's up from about 36% in 2006. It's not just happening in New York. Mackinac says 15 states have smuggling rates that top 20%. Add in counterfeit cigarettes from overseas, and ATF estimates the lost government revenue at more than $5 billion a year.

New Zealand Customs Service said the tax increases led to rampant tobacco black market is an alarmist

Official documents show that the major cases, time is not illegal cigarettes, the tobacco industry forecast the tax hike to cultivate the prophecy of the black market never seems to achieve. General Administration of Customs said in the past three years did not intercept a large number of illegal cigarettes. Despite industry assertions, to intensify tobacco control will allow illegal market growth. Since the Special Committee of Maori Affairs in 2010 to carry out the investigation, the industry has issued these warnings, such as tax increases and paperback policy,

During this time, about the illegal tobacco market in New Zealand, British American Tobacco released a commissioned report "out of Shadow. " "Herald," according to the Customs Information Act 2010 summary, intercepted by the amount of tobacco, including the illicit cultivation of local tobacco, that are likely to increase, because from the beginning with the year to raise taxes, "... However, despite the increase in excise duty , but that is not the case.


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Customs indeed intercepted 4.8 tons of raw tobacco market value estimated at 1 kg $ 500, and $ 2.6 million in unpaid taxes. With the 2010 tobacco area Motueka seized illegal tobacco in the past, in June, two men due to the illegal production of tobacco and was fined. Customs said the illicit trade of tobacco and cigarette "is usually confined to the intercepted exceeds the limit of one to two cigarettes - passengers arriving in New Zealand, to carry through the mail transport. There is evidence that the tour group or crew members of individual organizations to import duty-free quota or more products, then sell their products to local retailers, but these trade "is considered to be negligible. Through an ordinary phone number associated with different addresses in an organized manner the imported cigarettes - but this is irrelevant, cigarette intercepted from merchant seamen in excess of limits is also irrelevant.

Kim Jong Il 's death: was smokers have a three" fatal wound"

Kim Jong Il 's death: was smokers have a three" fatal wound" The North Korean National Defense Commission Kim Jong Il on December 17th local time eight thirty in his 17 field train ride, sudden severe acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock, died, at the age of 69. According to Chosun Ilbo Chinese report, this year 69 years old Korean national defense chairman Kim Jong Il 's state of health and the Korean Peninsula as whirling. According to medical expert analysis, Kim Jong Il three" fatal wound"! Kim Jong Il 1 can overcome the sequelae of cerebral hemorrhage? Kim Jong Il 2008 suffering from cerebral hemorrhage, has gradually entered the recovery stage. But when walking or dragging the left, left hand is inconvenient. In addition, the left shoulder to shoulder droop muscle atrophy. These physical barriers to rehabilitation treatment improved gradually.


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Does Smoking Make You Slimmer?

No, actually studies show that smokers are more likely to gain weight. A 50-month study of 7,565 people showed that smokers, and even ex-smokers, gain more weight than those who have never smoked. The study also showed that in people who quit smoking during the study, the more cigarettes they smoked before they stopped equaled more weight gain. Those who continued to smoke during the study gained more weight that the non-smokers as well. More Smoking Facts: 21 percent of Americans over the age of 18 smoke, and another 21 percent are former smokers. Smoking not only won't make you skinnier, it also will give you wrinkles — and not only from puckering your lips to take a puff. Nicotine causes a reaction in the body that narrows blood vessels, resulting in less oxygen and fewer nutrients getting to the skin. Burning cigarettes contain more than 4,000 chemicals, including arsenic, formaldehyde and lead.

New year's resolutions: can you really change your life?

The dawn of a new year is when we make pledges for self-improvement. But by the end of January, 90% of us will be back to our old ways. So can human beings really make lasting changes to their behaviour? If so, how? Irma Kurtz, agony aunt at Cosmopolitan for 40 years, and philosopher Jules Evans try to work out a formula for success. Joanna Moorhead listens in. Irma Kurtz: There are some things we can't change – our lineage or our genes or our animal urges. But practically anything else we can … and I think we're the only animals who can do that. Jules Evans: I'm not sure I'm very good at changing myself, or that I'm a self-controlled or morally good person. But about 10 years ago I did manage to change, over the course of about a year. I managed to get out of a phase of anxiety and depression. From that I've taken the idea that you can change yourself – but it's definitely hard work, and you need a really strong motive to do it. IK: A lot of change depends on accepting what can be changed – you need to know what's unchangeable as well. JE: I got into philosophy through cognitive therapy. And one of the tenets of that is that acceptance is active, not passive. It's actually quite transformative to allow yourself to like yourself. IK: Acceptance is success, not failure – sometimes change isn't for the better.

Smoking and tobacco: news and resources round up

Research has found that more than a third of smokers still believe that the health risks associated with smoking are "greatly exaggerated". The Department of health has responded with this hard-hitting campaign showing the direct link between smoking and cancer. As well as highlighting health risks to your students, this video could be a good starting point for a debate on the impact of advertising, too. The tobacco atlas of the world - map This fascinating data map, the tobacco atlas, published by the American Cancer Society and World Lung Foundation, looks at key indicators of the tobacco industry from cigarette consumption to share of the total cigarette market by country. There's some analysis of the data here too. Why Zimbabwe's tobacco industry is unhappy with WHO

Branded Cigarettes More Attractive

As a major tobacco company continues to lobby against plain packaging new research shows smokers find branded packets more appealing, stylish and sophisticated. British American Tobacco (BAT) - which represents nearly three-quarters of the country's tobacco market - launched a major advertising campaign against plain packaging earlier this month. It is in response to a Government consultation document which proposes stopping tobacco companies using the design of packaging to promote their Lucky Strike discount Cigarettes.

BAT's main focus in the campaign is that plain packaging shows New Zealand has little respect for international brands and says this will cause trade problems. "New Zealand has signed a number of international trade agreements which are very clear about the need to protect intellectual property," general manager of BATNZ Steve Rush said. However, those in favor of plain packaging say tobacco companies are only concerned that the change will reduce the number of smokers - a statement backed up by research revealed this week.

Health minister powerless against cigarette stickers

Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek says she cannot do anything to stop stickers being placed on plain-packed cigarettes. Ms Plibersek, however, says she is confident the stickers will not undermine the Government's efforts to reduce smoking rates. The Government's plain packaging laws came into effect just over a month ago. But it has also been a month since a Queensland company launched the stickers, which are designed to cover the plain packets and are marked with the slogan "It's your box, it's your choice".

New push at Capitol to outlaw electronic cigarettes for kids

To a state senator, nicotine is nicotine regardless of whether the product delivering it is chewed, smoked or inhaled as mist, and all forms should be illegal for minors. SB 1209, authored by Senate Majority Whip Adam Driggs, R-Phoenix, would add electronic cigarettes to a list of products including cigars, cigarettes and chewing tobacco that are illegal for minors to possess. “These new products have a lot of the same materials and the same concerns, so it’s basically just updating our current laws with modern changes in the industry,” Driggs said. Similar bills have been proposed for the last several years but failed to pass both chambers. “I think it’s a meritorious bill,” Driggs said. “We already have the underlying bill that we want to keep cigarettes and other tobacco products from our children.” The Senate’s Judiciary and Commerce, Energy and Military committees unanimously endorsed Driggs’ bill this week, sending it to the floor by way of the Rules Committee. Don Isaacson, who represents tobacco company Reynolds American, said electronic cigarettes aren’t intended to appeal to children. “The main attraction (of electronic cigarettes) appears to be allowing people who currently smoke cigarettes to get off of smoking,” he said. Isaacson noted that a recent law against selling hookah pipes to minors has been successful. HB 2034, passed in 2012, made selling the pipes to minors or minors possessing them a petty offense. As with the hookah pipe law, Driggs’ bill would make it a petty offense for minors to possess electronic cigarettes and for others to sell, provide or give them to minors. Electronic cigarettes heat liquid solutions containing nicotine, which users inhale as mist. This does away with the smell, smoke and many of the harmful carcinogens in traditional cigarettes, said Ben Palmer, spokesman for Tobacco Free Arizona. “A lot of folks think it’s safe,” he said. However, electronic cigarettes can be just as dangerous for children, he said. “It still mimics the behavioral aspects of smoking,” he said. “It looks too much like smoking and precipitates the notion that smoking is cool.”

The Night They Burned Tobacco Down

By Jim Callahan, Convenience Store Solutions

I recently saw a statistic that declared tobacco was no longer king in convenience stores. While that is not yet true for most of us, it’s about to become an indisputable fact.

The entire country now gets to enjoy the extra $6.10 per carton federal tax. Now my home state of Georgia is not satisfied with its measly $3.70 per carton tobacco tax and is keen on following the feds lead.

Tobacco Companies Fight Display Ban In Britain

Britain’s three biggest tobacco companies are fighting for the right to display their products, asking for a judicial review of the Government’s upcoming ban on the display of cigarettes and other tobacco products in stores, Brand Republic reported. Britain’s Health Act 2009 requires all cigarettes, cigars, pipe and rolling tobacco products to be hidden from view in England, Wales and Northern Ireland starting October 2011 in large shops and beginning October 2013 in smaller stores. “The display ban will damage both competition and the livelihoods of tens of thousands of small businesses by imposing high compliance costs on them,” said Michelle Healy, general manager of British American Tobacco UK. “Driving the legal trade from public view will also play into the hands of illegal traders.”

Commonwealth Brands To Relocate

Tobacco company Commonwealth Brands is relocating its headquarters, WBKO News reported. Now stationed in Bowling Green, Ky., Commonweath Brands is moving its headquarters to Goodlettsville, Tenn. Some 83 employees will make the move, no later than April of 2011. Formed in Bowling Green, Ky., in 1991, Commonwealth Brands also has a cigarette manufacturing plant in North Carolina. It is a subsidiary of the Imperial Tobacco, which bought Commonwealth in 2007.

Selling Tobacco Products: How To Obtain Cigarette License.

A Tobacco license or a retail cigarette/tobacco license is a legal document issued by the concerned state department (as well as city/county) which signifies that a business is legally allowed to sell cigarettes and other tobacco products in accordance with the state law from a specified location to the consumers who are allowed to buy them.
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Women’s Emotions Tranquilizer is Simple Cigarette

Emotions (derives from Latin word “emoveo”, signifying “exciting, amazing”) is a special class of psychological phenomena, exhibited in a form of spontaneous, biased experience of a person connected with life sense of these phenomena.

The given class is presented by some types such as emotions of wanting: anticipation, greed, hope, envy, desire, love; emotions of not wanting: fear, shame, repulsion, contentment; emotions of having: happiness, pride, guilt, jealousy; emotions of not having: anger, sadness, distress and others. Emotions are what we feel inside of our bodies.