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WHO, tobacco and farmers
Recently, thousands of tobacco farmers from Indonesia, China, Pakistan, Vietnam, South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia, India and Thailand protested against the stance of the chairman of the World Health Organization (WHO) on tobacco. The government...
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Philip Morris says no relief owed in suit over light cigarettes
Lawyers for Philip Morris say that plaintiffs' arguments for reinstating a landmark $10.1 billion judgment arising out of a Madison County, Ill., court have not come close to showing and "cannot show" they meet any of the requirements for relief. The...
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Tobacco co-ops competing for place in current market
Perhaps the most drastic changes among the tobacco cooperatives has been made by the Burley Stabilization Corporation (BSC), which served Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. • In 2010, it moved its headquarters 200 miles to get closer to its primary...
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Cigarette prices on the rise
Cigarette prices are going up much to the dismay of smokers. Winston-Salem based Reynolds American has announced that it will match a price increase by competing cigarette maker Altria Group. That means both companies are raising prices by 6 cents a pack...
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Bulgarian Cigarette-maker's Profit Grows Eightfold in H1 2012
Bulgaria's largest cigarette-maker Bulgartabac Holding has seen its consolidated profit grow 8.5 times in the first half of 2012 year-on-year, the company announced Wednesday. Thus, in H1 of 2012, Bulgartabac, which was sold by the Bulgarian government...
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Eating houses banned from selling tobacco related products
The Government of Goa has issued directives to all the eating premises and establishments in the State not to keep or sell or provide any tobacco or tobacco products in any form of cigars, cigarettes, biddies, Gutka, hukkahs, etc at their respective eating...
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Cigar shop lights up Willoughby's north side
David Somrack could see the wood paneled walls, the comfy sofas and the large seascape of Havana in his mind for 20 years. On June 30, Somrack made that vision a reality by opening Royal Havana Cigars, a cigar store and lounge on Willoughby's north side...
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Cigarette brawl lands friend in jail
The magistrate said statements had revealed that the two had a history of mutual understanding in their friendship; they were drinking buddies who shared beer and cigarettes together. According to the complainant, the two got involved in a brawl on April...
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Cigarette smuggling a growing problem in Maryland
The number of people caught smuggling untaxed cigarettes into Maryland is on the rise, and it's costing the state hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost tax revenue, authorities say. "If they can buy them in Virginia or the Carolinas for $5 a pack,...
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Gillette Stadium going smoke-free
Gillette Stadium is going completely smoke-free. The home of the New England Patriots and New England Revolution had some designated smoking areas near pedestrian ramps, but they will be eliminated. Stadium officials were expected to make an official...
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Films free of ‘anti-tobacco’ warnings
Now every time SRK would smoke on-screen, his fans would be spared of the distracting scrolls running below the screen reading the statutory warning. According to a new directive of Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Bollywood can now get through...
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Tobacco tax means one company can never leave the arena zone
t Arena developers aren't saying how much tobacco tax money will help build the development around Allentown's hockey arena complex, but they admit it's so much money that the cigarette-selling wholesale company generating it is forbidden from ever leaving...
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Electronic Cigarette Company Wants to Help Americans Beat the Heat
Automatic Cigarettes is offering a deal on starter kits between July 9 and July 16 to help consumers beat the heat. Automatic Cigarettes, already the best priced electronic cigarette on the market today, is offering 50% off of all starter kits for one...
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Time to pass a statewide smoke-free workplace ban
Every day, thousands of Texas employees are forced to work in conditions where they are exposed to the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. Additionally, the patchwork of city smoking ordinances that exists across our state creates an inconsistent playing...
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Russia launches anti-smoking crackdown
Russia launched a crackdown on smoking on Tuesday with a bill to ban tobacco advertising and raise taxes on cigarettes to help tackle a public health crisis in the world's second largest tobacco market after China. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said...
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Doin' it right: put that cigarette down
If an upbeat music video filmed in a hospital emergency ward isn't quirky enough for you, add in a shot of an icy morgue drawer being opened to reveal a skeleton with a cigarette, says The Vancouver Sun. No one can say the Vancouver Coastal Health authority...
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Dr. Thurstone discusses medical marijuana legislation in Colorado
On Monday night Megan Johnson, health promotion club, introduced Dr. Thurstone to a packed Memorial Union Sun Room. With a round of applause and some hoots and hollers Dr. Thurstone took the stage. “I don’t think we should have medical marijuana,” said...
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Philippine leader ignores call to quit smoking
PHILIPPINE President Benigno Aquino will not quit smoking despite the country's top medical body publicly appealing for him to lead by example and kick the habit, his spokesman said Saturday. The Philippine Medical Association called on Aquino to give...
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State could get unexpected $46 million from tobacco tax
An unexpected payoff for state government comes with the Affordable Care Act -- about $46 million a year in tobacco tax money with no home. Known as "Obamacare" to its opponents, the federal health care law is designed to make sure nearly all Americans...
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US Report Studies Youth Tobacco Use, Prevention
More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products to deter youth, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report released Thursday. The report said it's...
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Steeper fines needed for illegal cigarette transport
A man accused of smuggling 600 cartons of unstamped cigarettes through Cecil County is on the lam after failing to appear for a pretrial hearing on Friday. As a result, Cecil County Circuit Court Judge Keith A. Baynes issued a bench warrant calling for...
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Tobacco store robbed, front door smashed in Seabrook
Police continue to search for a suspect who robbed a Seabrook tobacco store early Sunday morning. Around 3:10 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 8, police responded to a burglary alarm sounding from the Tobacco Depot on 167 Lafayette Road. Once on scene, officers...
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Tobacco firm open to reasonable sin tax hike
Philip Morris and Fortune Tobacco Corp. said it is open to a ‘reasonable increase’ in sin taxes but opposed proposals, including those of the Department of Finance, on ‘indexing’ tobacco taxes to inflation. “We’re not opposed to a reasonable increase...
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Dollar-a-pack cigarette tax measure falls behind
A ballot measure that would increase state taxes on cigarettes by a dollar a pack fell behind early Wednesday, the secretary of state's office said. Proposition 29, which would raise $810 million a year for cancer research and smoking cessation programs,...
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Penberthy: Big tobacco's social cost
They argue that cigarettes are a legal product, smoking is a matter of choice and that when it comes to telling us how we can live our lives, the nanny state can go stick it in its pipe and smoke it. This is all fine, up to a point. And that point is...