A new youth smoking examination, conducted by RTI International for the state Department of Health, confirms that 26 percent of teens who saw the most smoking in films tried smoking cigarettes compared to 8 percent of teens who saw movies with less smoking. The study looked at teens aged 13-16 during 2004-2006 and finds a straight association between the number of shows seen by teens depicting smoking...
Labor has received payments from the controversial tobacco giant Philip Morris and an industry pressure group lobbying against plain packaging for cigarettes. Philip Morris has hired a prominent stall in the exhibition hall at the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton, the cost is run to several thousand pounds. Labor agreed to sell exhibition space […] Related Posts: UK tobacco packaging...
American TV series Mad Men has caused a dramatic boom in sales of cigarettes Lucky Strike, causing outrage among anti-smoking campaign. Sales of the world-famous cigarettes belonging to British American Tobacco, has reached 33 billion packages last year, compared to 23 billion in 2007, when the show first aired. Mad Men features New York advertising agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in 1960, and...
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received two separate grants from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today in the ongoing inter-agency partnerships. UNC will accommodate two 14 Tobacco control … Continue reading → Related Posts: Agency recommends tobacco companies use third-party… FDA Reorganizes at the Top Cigarette...
Russia’s media watchdog has threatened to block Facebook in Russia if an investigation confirms social media company’s ads for smoking mixtures. The country’s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Communications has warned that it is ready to block the social media site if it finds evidence those smoking blends ads did indeed […] Related Posts: Why...
Nigeria is one of the ten largest tobacco markets in the world, says Managing Director, British American Tobacco, Mr Keith Gretton.British American Tobacco is the producer of Pall Mall cigarettes and Dunhill cigarettes. The Federal Government of Nigeria and rakes N15 billion taxes annually from the bat, its managing director added. Speaking when he visited Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos at the...
Last week, when I was in Paris, I was surprised by the number of young women smoking vkafe outdoor pavement. Parisian woman smoke with glamour, confidence and style, combining smoking with their morning coffee. It seems to me that many … Continue reading → Related Posts: Women take up smoking as they get more power Tobacco manufacture attract smokers Why Americans aren’t living longer A...
A federal arbitration on Tuesday dismissed the Big Tobacco to dramatically reduce the annual payment it makes to New York State under the benchmark in the industry in 1998 master settlement agreement with the state governments. Tobacco companies – including the three largest manufacturers in the industry , Altria Group Inc. (formerly Philip Morris Cos […] Related Posts: Delaware Says Tobacco...
Along a busy road in Calvert County, Maryland, the crop being harvested, which may surprise some : tobacco . “This material is made of Southern Maryland, what it is, ” tobacco farmer SL Brady said . Twelve years after the state of Maryland began paying farmers not to grow tobacco, and encouraging them to switch to other crops, Brady is still ongoing. Brady farms of 45 hectares, which is...
Ukraine and Honduras are reviving a dispute at the World Trade Organization (WTO) challenging Australian laws, which provide for a uniform gray green packaging and large graphic health warnings on cigarettes, diplomats said on Friday. This step sets the wheels … Continue reading → Related Posts: Australia says the Big Tobacco WTO help applicants Cuba Calls Australian tobacco rules Australia...
Confidential documents has revealed a formidable lobbying operation that waged by a tobacco giant seeks to undermine the efforts to make cigarettes less attractive to children and women, and the power packs to perform large health warnings. Documents obtained by the Observer show how Philip Morris International (PMI) employed 161 people to deal with the […] Related Posts: Tobacco giant’s fear...
The U.S. has a rare opportunity this week to rein in the tobacco industry, and claim its mandate to protect and save lives, while proudly carrying out cross-border diplomacy. U.S. Trade Representative should accept the offer to cut the defense of Big Tobacco Trans -Pacific Partnership (TPP), a mega – trade transactions among the 12 Pacific Rim nations, including the U.S. Americans generally like...
At least five former Fine Gael aides are working as public relations consultant for the tobacco industry in Ireland, the UK and Brussels. The industry has increased its lobbying not only on the issue of cigarette smuggling, but also in … Continue reading → Related Posts: Plibersek angry over the UK How the tobacco industry hides behind lobbyists David Cameron urged to examine the claim...
As some of the largest companies in the world trumpeting their arrival in the hot market of the border of Asia, the tobacco industry has a different strategy: it slips into Myanmar without fanfare. Poor country nation of 60 million … Continue reading → Related Posts: Philip Morris plains to plant the flu vaccine in China India may ban Foreign Cigarette Companies in the Wholesale…...
Tobacco companies face a serious threat from the legislation that will be put to the vote in Europe next month to ban the sale of cigarettes in smaller packages, as well as flavored varieties such as menthol. Japan Tobacco International (JTI), owner of Silk Cut and Benson & Hedges, has estimated that more than 50pcs […] Related Posts: The tobacco giant Philip Morris “has spent millions in...
What do electric chairs, water and the periodic table of elements have in common with the typical cigar smoker? Until recently, the practical answer is probably no nothing. Now that the company has formed Foundry General Cigar Tobacco Co., the fantastic, the bizarre and the experimental all take shape in the form of Foundry’s unusual […] Related Posts: Cigars Announced for Big Smoke Las Vegas...
One part of the financing plan created in spring of this year, in addition to the state’s ability to pay its share of a new Vikings stadium, appears to be coming about as expected. A one-time tax on cigarettes will … Continue reading → Related Posts: Tobacco bonds in MN budget come at hefty price California, Ohio Use Reserves for Tobacco Bonds Louisiana Return market beating tobacco...
The Ministry of Health is once again holds to ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), despite serious deviations from the tobacco industry. “We have asked permission of the President of the ratification of the FCTC through the Foreign Minister and discuss it with other ministries,” Minister of Health, Nafsiah Mboi told reporters at […] Related Posts: Tobacco control...
Today, I had the rare opportunity to meet with Craig Nabat, founder of the Los Angeles Freedom Laser Therapy and inventor of the Freedom Quit Smoking System. My goal was to understand why Craig thinks Hollywood strongly influences young people … Continue reading → Related Posts: Healthy youth Tobacco firms bypass marketing restrictions with clever web… A Cuban cigar for women: Julieta...