BAT Unconstitutional Cigarette Law

British American Tobacco Plc (BATS) said Australia’s planned cigarette plain-packaging law is unconstitutional and if enacted, the company will sue in the nation’s top court in a bid to repeal it. The Australian Senate is scheduled to vote on the legislation today after debating it. The government will push back implementation of the law by five months to December 2012 because of delays in parliament’s upper house in passing the bill, Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon said Nov. 2. Passage would make the country the first to ban logos on cigarette packaging. Cigarettes would have to be sold in plain dark-olive packages, with no company...

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Probable Changes to Smoking Ban in Springfield City

It has been seven months since Springfield voters banned smoking in public, five months since the law kicked in, and city leaders are already being urged to make changes. Opponents of the measure have been writing, calling, and emailing city council members urging them to modify the law. At Tuesday afternoon’s luncheon, council members will begin discussing a handful of possible changes to the smoking ban. They will, for instance, consider exemptions for theatrical productions, veterans organizations, some tobacco shops and cigar bars. Any change or repeal, though, could only happen by a unanimous vote. “It’s the power of one. If one person...

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Jennifer Aniston and other selebrities that quit smoking cigarettes

Jennifer Aniston wants everyone to know that she hasn’t gained weight because she’s pregnant – the actress has been packing on the pounds because she quit smoking. So did she do it for new beaux Justin Theroux? Maybe, but there’s always the chance that she tossed her cigs because she’s hoping to get pregnant and wants her body to be all detoxified for a baby. Jennifer Aniston arrives at ELLE's 18th Annual Women in Hollywood Tribute held at the Four Seasons Hotel on Oct. 17, 2011 in Los Angeles, Calif. In a recent interview, Aniston told Britain's Hello! Magazine that she "gained a couple pounds" since she quit smoking. Aniston had pledged to...

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Michael Douglas caught smoking again after beating throat cancer

LOS ANGELES -- Actor Michael Douglas was photographed smoking on a yacht last week - less than a year after "beating" stage IV throat cancer. The Oscar winner appears on the new cover of Star Magazine and in photos inside puffing on what appears to be a hand-rolled cigarette July 21. He looks tanned and relaxed in the exclusive Star photos, leaning on the yacht's railing while traveling with his wife Catherine Zeta-Jones along the Italian Riviera. "Are you calling about the photos, because we have no comment," a rep for Douglas' spokesman Allen Burry told the Daily News. The Hollywood icon, 66, was diagnosed with stage IV throat cancer last...

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TOLL OF TOBACCO IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

• High school students who are current (past month) smokers: 19.5% or 3.4 million [Boys: 19.8% Girls: 19.1%] • High school males who currently use smokeless tobacco: 15.0% [Girls: 2.2%]• Kids (under 18) who try smoking for the first time each day: 4,000• Kids (under 18) who become new regular, daily smokers each day: 1,000+• Kids exposed to secondhand smoke at home: 15.5 million• Workplaces that have smoke-free policies:75.1%• Packs of cigarettes consumed by kids each year: 800 million (roughly $2.0 billion per year in sales revenue)• Adults in the USA who smoke: 20.6% or 46.6...

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Tobacco Consumption in Rajasthan

In Rajasthan, tobacco chewing is on the rise. It has increased by 0.1% as compared to smoking. In the state, around 18.9% of the total population chews tobacco while 18.8% population smokes Hilton cigarettes. The figures were released by the World Health Organization last week.Asthma and tobacco specialist Dr Virendra Singh said, “The number of people chewing tobacco is rising. Chewing tobacco is more dangerous than smoking as it increases chances of cancer. The risk is three times higher in chewing tobacco than smoking because in chewing tobacco essence and supari is mixed, which make it more risky.” The newly-released figures show...

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Cigarette brands reviews

Westport FF King: Made in Canada. Length: 3 5/16, 84 mm; filter 13/16 inch, 20 mm. The tobacco is mostly medium-brown ribbons, and nothing foreign was found in the mix. About 1/8 inch of tobacco compressed in our tamp-down test. The Old Guy thought this was a pretty okay brand; it went down easily and was strong enough to be rightfully called full flavor. He said he may have detected a bit of vanilla, but it wasn’t overpowering. Also, he was satisfied with the burn rate. Though this isn’t his favorite brand (he has a favorite brand?), he said there would be nothing stopping him from smoking more of them.Quest Low Nicotine King: Made in the...

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Japan Tobacco Advances on Domestic Shipment

Japan Tobacco Inc. rose the most in six weeks after saying it planned to resume shipments of all Beverly cigs and other cigarette brands disrupted by the March 11 earthquake earlier than previously announced.The world’s third-largest publicly traded cigarette maker climbed 4.3 percent to 312,500 yen as of the 11 a.m. break on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, its biggest gain since May 13. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average added 1 percent.Japan Tobacco will restore deliveries of all brands by July 18 instead of early August, as it had planned earlier, the company said yesterday. The 9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami forced Japan Tobacco...

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Cheap Newport Cigarettes

Newport, introduced in 1957, is a brand of menthol cigarettes produced by Lorillard Tobacco Company of Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.  In the United States it is considered to be one of the most selling and preferable brands from the menthol category. Newport cigarettes are commonly referred to as “newies,” “new-pees,” , “ports,” and “ghetto breath mints.” They also have many slang terms such a “shorts” “longs” and “loosies”, all of which could be used for other brands but started in the 60′s with Newports and still usually refer to Newports. Newports are particularly popular among the African-American community; a 2005...

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Taking Tobacco Trouble to Duty

In most of the villages in the country, it is a common sight to see menfolk — and even children — chewing tobacco, a habit that becomes addiction and the cause of oral cancer. However, there are some villages in Belgaum district in Karnataka where the villagers have ‘banned’ tobacco. Fine is slapped on shops that are found selling gutkha. Also, those who were earlier addicted to chewing tobacco are now themselves supporting the campaign against it. The campaign involves everyone in the villages: farmers, women, school children and panchayat leaders. When Express visited some of these villages, it came to light that although the...

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Kelly Osbourne And Miley Share – Celebrity Bond

Kelly Osbourne has revealed she and Miley Cyrus hit it off on the set of their new movie ‘So Undercover’ because they both have famous parents. Kelly Osbourne and Miley Cyrus have bonded because of their famous parents. The pair became close while working on movie ‘So Undercover’ together and Kelly – the daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne and TV star Sharon – explained they became close because they are so similar and both understand the pressure of being the kids of celebrities. Speaking about Miley – whose father is ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ singer Billy Ray Cyrus – Kelly told the Daily Record newspaper: “I didn’t know Miley well before. We had...

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Panel Pushes Tobacco Law Change

In the waning days before Republican lawmakers present a reworked version Gov. Scott Walker’s 2011-13 budget, the Legislature’s finance committee pushed through major changes to the tax structure on some smokeless tobacco products. The Joint Finance Committee approved a provision put forth by Altria Client Services Inc., parent company of tobacco giant Philip Morris and U.S. Smokeless Tobacco, that would tax moist snuff, or chewing tobacco, by weight, not a percentage of what it costs distributors. The tobacco would be taxed at a rate of $1.76 per ounce, or $2.11 if it weighed less than 1.2 ounces. David Sutton, spokesman for Altria,...

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Snus focus of yearlong study

A University of South Carolina researcher is preparing to answer two questions with widespread implications for the tobacco industry and public-health community. Can a smokeless product, in this instance Camel Snus, contribute to a smoker quitting cigarettes — particularly one who doesn’t want to stop? If it does, could an increase in use of smokeless-tobacco products over cigarettes cause a net harm to the population? Trying to provide clarity is Matthew Carpenter, an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. Carpenter’s research...

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Imperial Tobacco aims for organic growth

Please respect FT.com’s ts&cs and copyright policy which allow you to: share links; copy content for personal use; & redistribute limited extracts. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights or use this link to reference the article – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12f6fb72-817a-11e0-9c83-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz1MmICfwRO On the first anniversary last week of Alison Cooper’s appointment as chief executive of Imperial Tobacco, an analyst at Investec Securities reminded investors of the fundamental question that she needs to answer: can the FTSE 100 tobacco company transform itself from the M&A machine it has been over the past two decades into a vehicle for organic growth? The tobacco marketShareholders may have been temporarily distracted from that question by the announcement...

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Philip Morris International: Alternative Annual Report

Every year, one of the world’s best-known corporations provides its shareholders a glowing image of a company that is handsomely rewarding its shareholders by expanding into new markets, developing new products, and overcoming market and regulatory challenges. The truth is that this corporation makes its billions of dollars in profits at the expense of people’s health and their lives. This report reveals the dark truth behind how Philip Morris International earns its profits. Philip Morris International (PMI) is the world’s largest, deadliest and most profitable publicly traded transnational tobacco corporation. PMI currently operates in 180...

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Marlboro cigarettes are registered brand cigarettes of Altria.

They are one of the most popular and preferable brands not only all over the world. Marlboro cigs were introduced in 1924 as a "women cigarettes" but during the World War II they disappeared because the sales dramatically decreased. It was decided to start new promotional campaign and advertise them to the male smokers. Marlboro reappeared and quickly became popular due to the wise advertising campaigns that used Marlboro man cowboy figure, which later became an American icon to capture attention of male smokers. The red cigarette pack was advertised for almost fifty years by all possible means of advertisement: on billboards, in store...

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Philip Morris vs Norway in front of the EFTA Court

This is one of the first legal challenges brought against the most recent tobacco control policy: display ban of cigarettes. Its outcome is expected to indirectly determine also the legality of the first display ban adopted within the EU (in EIRE) and to shape the ongoing reform of the EU tobacco products directive. In an attempt to cut impulse buys of tobacco products and to further reduce smoking rates, five countries (Australia, Canada, Iceland, Ireland and Norway) have recently banned the display of tobacco products at the point of sale. As with many tobacco control policies, both the scientific basis and the legality of display bans are...

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