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Auction prices have declined since 1996, when they were around US$2.27/kg for flue-cured tobacco and US$1.61/kg for burley tobacco. In 2000, the average auction prices were US$1.35/kg for flue-cured tobacco and US$1.01/kg for burley tobacco, which dropped by 40 and 37 percent, respectively. As a result, the total output of burley tobacco in 2000 was 20 percent higher than in 1996, but the total revenue was 24 percent lower than in 1996. Along with lower production, the total revenue for flue-cured tobacco in 2000 was 58 percent lower than in 1996.

Thus, although more inputs – including land, labour, fertilizer and others – were used in tobacco production in 2000, and more tobacco leaf was produced, the revenue was much less than in 1996, when about 25 percent less land was used for tobacco. Two major factors appear to have been responsible for the significant decline in prices over the past few years. First, the growth in production outpaced the growth in export demand, which resulted in lower export prices for Malawi tobacco, and, second, the increasing involvement of new and marginal growers tended to produce low quality tobacco leaf because of their lack of experience and inputs. The Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (ADMARC), the government tobacco marketing agency, which bought tobacco leaf directly from small-scale growers, received only half of the average price for tobacco leaf at the auction market in 2000. According to Tobacco Association of Malawi (TAMA) estimates, the cost of production in 2000 was about K 72 136/ha. If all production expenses were financed by bank loans, the total production cost including interest payment would have been nearly K 108 000/ha, so some tobacco growers would make no profit from tobacco if they had to rely on hired labour and transportation.

Malawi average tobacco production cost estimates for 2000/01 Value (K) Cost share (%) Wages for hired labour 17 000 15.6 Fertilizer 15 380 14.1 Transportation 14 400 13.2 Insurance and licence 1 400 1.3 Rations 8 100 7.4 Ploughing 5 000 4.6 Chemicals 2 100 1.9 All other costs 8 756 8.0 Subtotal expenses 72 136 66.3 Interest 36 679 33.7 Total 108 815 100.0 Source: Tobacco Association of Malawi (TAMA) ISSUES IN THE GLOBAL TOBACCO ECONOMY 67 summarizes the estimated production budget. Labour, fertilizer and transport accounted for more than 60 percent of the total cost.

Defendants assert the MSA prevents their participation in a RICO enterprise because the organizations that allowed for joint activity no longer exist, and neither the government nor the district court identified any “joint activity” between Defendants after 1998, the start of the MSA.

Defendants’ post-agreement activities belie these statements. For example, though the MSA required Defendants to dissolve CIAR, only two days after signing the MSA Lorillard’s general counsel wrote Philip Morris, Reynolds, and Brown & Williamson asking to “discuss the status of the plan to reinstate CIAR.”

Shortly thereafter, Covington & Burling LLP informed the CIAR contractors “[t]he members of CIAR have decided to create a new organization to continue the work . . . . The members of CIAR that will be members of the new organization intend to continue to fund the research.”

Subsequently, in 2000, Philip Morris initiated a new research program that had the same offices, phone numbers, and board as CIAR and many of the same employees, management, researchers, peer reviewers, and grantees. Philip Morris

According to World Health Organization, almost one billion of adult men from all corners of the world light up regularly. This rate varies from country to country, as statistics shows that in developed states smokers rates include 35 percent of male population whereas the same rate in developing and poor countries is 50 percent of males.

It was proven that men have been attracted to smoking by seeing colorful pictures and having vivid associations of perceiving smoking as a habit for real, brave men, like those cowboys from a famous Marlboro ad. Cigarettes have been marketed as a path for power, fame and wealth, with the subsequent success among women. However, in reality cigarette smoking is a harmful habit, causing many health complications.

Monitor tobacco use and prevention policies. Assessment of tobacco use and its impact must be strengthened. Currently, half of countries – and two in three in the developing world – do not have even minimal information about youth and adult tobacco use. Data on other aspects of the epidemic, such as tobaccorelated disease and death, are also inadequate. Good monitoring provides information about the extent of the epidemic in a country, as well as how to tailor policies to specific country needs.

Both global and country-by-country monitoring are critical to understanding and reversing the tobacco epidemic. Protect people from tobacco smoke. All people have a fundamental right to breathe clean air. Smoke-free places are essential to protect non-smokers and also to encourage smokers to quit. Any country, regardless of income level, can implement smoke-free laws effectively. However, only 5% of the global population is protected by comprehensive smoke-free legislation.

In most countries, smoke-free laws cover only some indoor spaces, are weakly written or are poorly enforced. Once enacted and enforced, smokefree laws are widely popular, even among smokers, and do not harm businesses. Only a total ban on smoking in public places and workplaces protects people from second-hand smoke and helps smokers quit.

Little needs to be said about this poster. It is a typical Marlboro poster but note that the original was a photograph of the ad taken through a protective glass screen. This means that there are also reflected images in the picture. The contents are more subtle than some of the Marlboro ads depicted elsewhere on this site (click here for one such page) and the Marlboro ad discussed above. In this ad it is possible to perceive, on the mountainside the letters S E and X.

The extract with S and X present the most obvious letters and these can be found to the top left above the Mar of Marlboro. Additionally, somewhat less clearly, on the lower river bank, in the lower right hand corner above the EA of HEALTH, there is artwork that is open to interpretation. This second extract contains a ‘face’ that may also be surrounded by ‘lettering’. Given the long history of manipulative, semi-subliminal, embedded artwork in Marlboro ads, it would be remiss to point out that this is yet another poster that contains a sexual message. Proof that such embedding exists is impossible to provide, given the subjective and interpretive nature of the perceptual process and the ambiguous nature of the artwork.

However, since Marlboro ads contain a continuum of sexually oriented material, from the relatively obvious at the top end of the perceptual spectrum to the debatable, ambiguous but not quite semi-subliminal embedded elements, it would seem to be overly generous to presume that their artwork stops short at a level where the elements can be clearly perceived. Even when there are fairly obviously interpretable elements in Marlboro ads, such as in the phallic rock ad commented on above, the more obvious elements are often simply cues intended to bias perceptions should viewers also process the more subtle material embedded in the artwork. The overt and covert messages are, in other words, intended to function in a complementary manner, albeit unconsciously - and thus manipulatively.

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1942 Lucky Strike Ad-GEORGES SCHREIBER Artwork - IN A CIGARETTE, IT’S THE TOBACCO THAT COUNTS With men who know tobacco best—it’s Luckies 2 to 1     1942 Lucky Strike Ad-GEORGES SCHREIBER Artwork
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Camel is a popular sigarets brand which was introduced by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (RJR) in 1913. Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Turkish and American tobacco. Camel cigarettes were blended in a way that made them easier to smoke, in comparison to other much harsher popular cigaretts brands at the time of its debut on the tobacco market. They were also promoted by a careful teaser advertising, which merely stated that "the Camels are coming". At the beginning, the most famous variety of Camel cigarettes was the simple pack of the regular, unfiltered variety, which is much too harsh for today’s smokers. Camel regular sigarettes became very popular thanks to famous actor Humphrey Bogart who popularized Camel brand in the “Casablanca” film. It also became well-know through news broadcaster Edward Murrow, who smoked up to four packs of Camel regulars per day, actually using a Camel cigarette as his trademark. The reverse side of most packs or boxes of Camel cigarets display the following text: “Turkish tobacco is the world’s smoothest, most aromatic leaf. Blending it with more robust domestic tobaccos is the secret to Camel’s distinctive flavor and world-class smoothness.” Or alternatively can be seen displaying the following text (later removed from some packets with the introduction of warning messages): “Camel, a premium blend of the finest quality tobaccos, provides genuine smoking pleasure“. In 2005, Camel made new changes to the Turkish flavors by inserting the Camel title on the rolling paper and also changing the filter color and design. Also, this year the blend called "Turkish Silver", a light version of either the Turkish Gold or Royal varieties became available. Even when smoked, the text on the paper is often still visible on the ashes. The dromedary (Arabian Camel) it is used as the brand’s logo.

It was not so long ago that British American Tobacco was considered to be among the least fashionable stocks in the FTSE 100. Its history includes a foray into the insurance business and owning Saks Fifth Avenue.

But having shed its surplus businesses and turned its focus back to its tobacco roots, the maker of Lucky Strike Cigarettes among others has in recent years transformed itself into a City darling - a status likely to be confirmed when it posts annual results on Thursday.

The stock has tripled in value during the past five years. Paul Adam, the chief executive, has beaten the company’s goal for high single-digit growth in earnings per share every year since he took over in 2004.

This week, he is expected to do it again.

The consensus among analysts is that sales will climb 1.2 per cent to £9.87bn and earnings before interest, tax and exceptional items will increase by 7 per cent to £3bn. Earnings per share growth is expected to be about 9 per cent.

Like its competitors, BAT has seen cigarette sales in the US, parts of Europe and other mature markets fall amid increasing health concerns, smoking bans, higher taxes and advertising restrictions.

Liggett & Myers offer good choice of L&M menthol cigarettes: L&M One: A unique combination of quality tobacco and various additives. L&M Menthol: Fine menthol taste makes this cigarette a real smoking pleasure and fresh menthol taste distinguish it from other menthol cigarettes. L&M Menthol Lights: A lighter version of L&M’s exclusive Menthol taste - smooth and tender.

L&M One presents a pleasant combination of quality tobacco and several additives. L&M Menthol is a cigarette with distinguishing menthol taste, which makes this cigarette stand out among its menthol counterparts. L&M Menthol Lights is an even lighter version of L&M’s with very smooth and tender menthol taste.

Hilton Cigarettes is a cigarette brand made by PriLucky Tobacco Company at British American Tobacco. British American Tobacco is the world’s most international tobacco group, with brands sold in 180 markets around the world. British American Tobacco make high quality tobacco products for the diverse preferences of millions of consumers, span the business from seed to smoke. British American Tobacco has been in business for more than 100 years, trading through the turbulence of wars, revolutions and nationalisations as well as all the controversy surrounding smoking. The business was formed in 1902, as a joint venture between the UKs Imperial Tobacco Company and the American Tobacco Company founded by James ‘Buck’ Duke. Despite it’s name, derived from the home bases of it’s two founding companies, British American Tobacco was established to trade outside both the UK and the USA, and grew from it’s roots in dozens of countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and continental Europe.

Philip Morris started in the 19th century, when it, a small tobacco manufacturer, began selling cigarettes in a small store. Now the business is a company with well known cigarette brands.
The highest achievement of Philip Morris International was in 2005. The company sales have grown by 5.7% to 804.5 billion units, sold on tobacco markets of Indonesia, Sampoerna and Columbia. The sole cigarette brand Marlboro has registered an increase by 2.0% to 322.1 billion units sold in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Japan. This demand of Marlboro was seen in such big markets as Egypt, France, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
The most profitable markets for Philip Morris tobacco products are four key states: of France, Germany, Italy and Spain. This region accounts 2/3 of the entire PMI economic budget. Asia accounts 18% of Philip Morris International profits. The leading place with the biggest demand is the cigarette market of Japan, also the international leader in tobacco sales.

An hour after he was sworn in yesterday, New York City’s Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Mark Green, took on one of the nation’s largest tobacco companies, R. J. Reynolds, saying that it was ‘’inducing children to smoke.'’

An hour after he was sworn in yesterday, New York City’s Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Mark Green, took on one of the nation’s largest tobacco companies, R. J. Reynolds, saying that it was ‘’inducing children to smoke.'’

Mr. Green’s specific target was an advertising campaign that uses a cartoon character of a camel - sometimes dressed in a tuxedo or wearing sunglasses, but always smoking and always with a beautiful woman nearby - to promote Camel Cigarettes. He said the use of a cartoon figure clearly appealed to young people.

In a letter sent yesterday to Nabisco’s chairman, Louis V. Gerstner Jr., Mr. Green wrote, ‘’As the father of two young children and the new Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, I am appalled at your ‘Smooth Character’ Camel advertising campaign that risks addicting children to cigarettes.'’

In the past month, R. J. Reynolds - a division of RJR Nabisco - has been criticized for its plans to market two cigarette brands, one aimed primarily at blacks and the other at young, blue-collar white women.

Carefully Orchestrated Campaign

A spokesman for R. J. Reynolds, David Fishel, said: ‘’As usual, he chose to release it to the media before he gave it to the company, which says to us that what he has done today seems to be part of a very carefully orchestrated campaign by anti-smoking activists to provide a publicity backdrop for the anti-smoking legislation hearings held in Washington today.'’

The Senate Labor Committee is considering a bill that would give the Federal Government the power to ban dangerous additives from cigarettes and require that cigarette packs both list additives and carry a warning that smoking is addictive.

‘’The Camel campaign is three years old,'’ Mr. Fishel said. ‘’It is not aimed at kids. We have seen no evidence in the three years of the program that it has any particular youth appeal.'’

Mr. Green said his concern had been focused by an advertisement in Rolling Stone magazine, offering posters of the ‘’Smooth Character'’ cartoon.

‘Effort to Lure Children’

‘’It wasn’t until I spotted the perforated fold at the bottom of the ‘Rolling Stone’ poster,'’ which allows readers to delete the congressionally mandated warning label, that I decided to write you,'’ Mr. Green wrote to Mr. Gerstner. ‘’Isn’t this ad campaign an obvious effort to lure children into smoking in violation of the tobacco industry’s own 1964 code against advertising directed at children?'’

The letter went on to ask: ‘’Who watches and talks about cartoon characters, kids or adults? Who is impressionable enough to associate smoking and success and money, kids or adults?'’

Mr. Green, 44 years old, was sworn in to the $97,000-a-year post by Mayor David N. Dinkins at noon, in the Board of Estimate Room at City Hall, with his wife, Deni Frand, and his two children, Jenya, 11, and Jonah, 5, at his side.

A senior campaign adviser to the Mayor, Mr. Green has long been a consumer advocate.

The second largest manufacturer and seller of tobacco products in Russia - the company Japan Tobacco International - early reduction in the number distributors. At the end of last week, JTI has signed an agreement with Fort, providing for exclusive sale of cigarettes Japanese company in the territory of the Northwest region. Now Other companies receiving products earlier JTI directly, will be working through the "Fort". Most experts believe that, following the North-West JTI hold similar reductions in other regions.
Japan Tobacco International - second only to Philip Morris sells cigarettes in Russia Camel, Winston, Peter I and others. According to the company’s "Business Analytica, the share of JTI in the Russian tobacco market at the beginning of last year was 15%. The company owns a factory Petro (St. Petersburg) and JTI-Yelets. The volume of sales in the past year, an estimated " ‘" amounted to about $ 810-830 million
In the JTI to make any comments about changes in its distribution network categorically refused. However, the head distributors of Fort Igor Bykov confirmed on Friday that his company had signed an exclusive contract with JTI cigarettes for distribution companies in the Northwest for three years. If the parties remain happy with each other, that agreement can be carried. Two other dealer from St. Petersburg, as well as six regional companies received subdilers contract and now will buy cigarettes from the "Fort". According to Mr. Bykov, no special requirements for sales JTI to its new distributor not pulled out.

The Spring Collections featured ‘boater’ hats in all shapes and sizes, lightweight and elegant for alfresco eating (though only British Vogue’s most soignée readers would have tackled a bistro chair with such confidence). Balmain’s colossal boater came with wheeled rings like a child’s spinning top and was worn as low as the eyebrows.

Whatever the money spent on it, a Christmas present has to be the most beautiful, the most original or at least the most colourful, considered Vogue cigarettes. Some, though, like this fabulous diamond necklace by Wartski are dependent on ‘fairy godfathers, oil wells or sheer size of bank balance’. It has certainly entranced its recipient, the more so perhaps when converted cleverly into a tiara.

I’ve been reading and hearing a lot of opinions about the extra dollar per pack tax on cigarettes and it reminds me of what we were taught in school about how America first became a country of its own.

The English were charging too much tax on tea and there was a term called taxation without representation. Shouldn’t we tax hamburgers, French fries, doughnuts and candy bars, and anything else fattening? Then we can tax things with too much salt or caffeine. Do you see where this is going? You can’t fairly tax one thing more than another, and the real problem is the budget and the lack of revenue and it’s not fair to pick one group of the population to bail out the rest.

The government can’t manage the budget with the taxes they have now and can’t cut anymore then raise taxes on everything evenly.

For years, Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. has worked to bring Utah into the mainstream, including efforts to modernize the state’s liquor and cheap cigarettes online laws.
But his continued push this year has the wildly popular governor going head-to-head with lawmakers who feel he’s going too far in a state that prides itself on the lowest percentage of alcohol-related accidents in the country.
Huntsman and the state’s $6 billion-a-year tourism industry want to eliminate requirements that customers pay a fee and fill out an application to enter a bar, according to The Associated Press. Utah is the only state in the country with such a law.
While some lawmakers have expressed interest in at least examining such an option, others are proposing even stricter rules. New Senate President Michael Waddoups, for example, wants alcohol at restaurants hidden away so that children can’t see it. The Taylorsville Republican says that even seeing the bottles can entice children to want to drink.

Gov. Jon Huntsman wants the Utah Legislature to increase the state tax on a pack of online cigarettesby $2.30. And smokers, myself included, are fuming.
We understand that the state needs money, but why do they have to get it all from us? I’m not worried. I’ll keep smoking. I’m no quitter. But the cats will have to go hungry and my daughter will have to go barefoot and I’ll be forced to find a second job.
Maybe I’ll start a shuttle service. I’ll call it the Evanston Fun Bus, with scheduled stops at the tobacco shop, the beer distributor and the dirty-video store. We’ll sing "Ninety-nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall" and "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!
Seriously, Utah will have more bootleggers than Tennessee if cigarettes cost $5-$7 a pack. So many will be driving to Evanston for cheap cigarettes that UDOT will have to add lanes to I-80. Huntsman will go down in history as the best governor Wyoming ever had.
Or maybe smokers will decide to grow their own cigarettes. You can buy seeds online at coffinails.com and other fine Web sites. Some smokers may even switch to tax-free marijuana. It would probably be cheaper. Utah will have the highest cigarette tax in the nation at $3 per pack if the proposal passes, displacing the Empire State. For the first time in the history of Utah, state government officials are actually aspiring to be more like New York. What’s next? Gun bans? Sex-ed in schools? Minimum wage increases?
A minimum wage increase would be a good idea. That way, smokers could still afford cigarettes, and the state could collect the tax. After all, mostly poor people smoke. Rich people have too much to live for.
If Huntsman is trying to make smokers quit and keep others from starting for the sake of their health, well, maybe he’s on to something. The health impacts of smoking go beyond the simple inhalation of tar and nicotine. For example, I had to quit jogging because of smoking. It’s nearly impossible to light a cigarette while running.
But if breaking bad habits by making dangerous products obscenely expensive is the objective, then the governor should consider a Twinkie tax. Those tasty little golden sponge cakes with the cream filling are a gateway drug, leading to ice cream, bonbons, candy bars and — unless we jack the price up to about $20 a box — a lifetime of obesity. Actually, junk food will be cheaper if the cigarette tax increase is approved. Huntsman wants to use the proceeds to offset the removal of the state’s grocery tax. I’m in favor of dropping the food tax. It doesn’t seem fair to tax people for buying the necessities of life — food, clothes, shoes, televisions. But the governor needs to find a way to shift the tax burden to people who actually have the money to pay. Here’s an idea: How about a special tax on millionaire governors? Or maybe the state could start charging rent for that mansion.

Poland will not oppose the increase in excise duty on tobacco products proposed by the European Union, according to Jacek Kapica, the deputy Finance Minister, who has stated that the European Union proposal to raise the duty to €90 per 1000 cigarettes by 2015 is reasonable, as Polish duty is still much lower than that of other EU countries. At present it is €54 per 1,000 items and will increase to €64 in January 2009.

According to Kapica, the higher tax will not remove smaller producers from the market. The Minister emphasised that the major aim is to limit access to cheap cigarettes in order to prevent young people from slipping into the habit of smoking.

BRUSSELS- The European Commission on Wednesday proposed the increase of minimum taxation on tobacco products in the European Union, aimed at narrowing the gap existing in the prices of cigarettes in the member-states, but also the reduction of cigarette consumption by 10% over the next five years. In Greece, the price of cigarettes must gradually increase by at least 21.2% by 2014. The Commission proposes that by 2014, minimum taxation on cigarettes must increase from 57% which is valid at present, to 63%. At the same time it proposes an increase in the minimum tax from 64 euros per 1,000 cigarettes which is valid at present, to 90 euros per 1,000 cigarettes by 2014.

The ban on indoor tobacco smoking in Holland affects the country’s coffee shops where patrons have been smoking marijuana with relative freedom since the mid 1970s. Following the ban, patrons of these bars cannot smoke marijuana mixed with tobacco; they can only smoke pure unadulterated marijuana.

The nation’s 720 coffee shops sell drinks, food, rolling paper and - more important to their patrons - pre-rolled marijuana joints at about 3.50 Euros each as well as hashish for as much as 18 Euros a gram. The law permits stocks of up to 500 grams on the premises, while individuals found with less than 5 grams are not prosecuted.

The Dutch have to tolerate some cynicism and possible bemusement from people around the world who are scratching their heads to figure out what seems to be one ingredient missing elsewhere that flourishes in Dutch society. In most countries the possession of a grain of marijuana will send someone to jail. The Dutch policy on marijuana is twofold.

First, drug use, including the use of marijuana is a health matter, not a justification for convicting a fellow citizen. You don’t send an alcoholic to jail; at the very least, you introduce him to Alcoholics Anonymous or help him to overcome the addiction in some other manner.

The second aspect of this policy distinguishes soft drugs and hard drugs. Marijuana is categorised as a soft drug and little law enforcement energy is directed against it.

In addition, most Dutch policymakers seem to be convinced that the problem of drug use has proved unsolvable, and therefore the best approach is to attempt to control it rather than throw resources into measures that have produced mixed results.

In other words, if you can’t beat them, tolerate them. The interesting fact is the policies seem to be working. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Holland ranks in the middle, lower than the United States, France, and England.

This partly explains the existence of the coffee shops in the Netherlands, where although, technically, cannabis is an illegal substance the authorities choose what is called a pragmatic drug policy that concentrates on control of hard drugs such as heroin.

But whatever the motives driving Dutch policy on drug use, it still seems odd that someone in Holland can get into more trouble smoking tobacco than marijuana.

In defending the decision to ban smoking in public places Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said, “It would have been wrong to move towards a smoke-free catering industry and then make an exception for coffee shops. People would not have understood that."

The Dutch would not have understood that, but the rest of the world is desperately trying to make sense of a country that is a signatory to the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances which requires states to criminalize drug possession, and yet in 2001 allowed the sale of cannabis worth $US1.86 billion.

Legal experts say there are enough loopholes in various conventions against illegal drugs to allow countries such as Holland some creativity in how it deals with drug possession. The conventions state that possession of drugs should be an offence under domestic criminal law. However, the conventions do not say that the law has to be enforced.

It would appear that prevailing Dutch policies, set by past and the current dministration,were geared at catering to the various needs of its citizens: in one instance allowing use of soft drugs to those who are addicted, and in another protecting the health of those who may be affected by passive tobacco smoke by imposing the smoking ban although the ban was also complying to EU regulations.

But there is fear that the current government is trying to reverse the existing relaxed attitude on drugs; when coffee shops close the government has not renewed licences.

On the other hand, the country is the second largest spender on anti-drug related programmes, after Sweden, in the European Union apportioning 75 percent of funds to law enforcement including police,army, and customs and finance guards.

If our parliament should pass legislation banning beer drinking effective today and yet continue to licence Tanzanians to operate bars, it would create considerable confusion among many except perhaps to the drinkers, the brewers, and the bar owners. I suspect similar sentiments are felt in Holland.

cigarettes : Philip Morris USA, the No. 1 U.S. tobacco company, said Monday it has ended test markets of Marlboro-branded cigarettes that use a high-technology filter.

The operating company of Altria Group Inc. said it pulled the plug on Marlboro Ultra Smooth and Marlboro Ultra Light cigarettes, which used an activated carbon filter to deliver nicotine with potentially less exposure to carcinogens than in conventional cigarettes.

Philip Morris said it stopped making new shipments of Marlboro Ultra Smooth to wholesalers on April 1. Those cigarettes were being tested in Atlanta, Tampa (Florida), and Salt Lake City for more than three years. Marlboro Ultra Lights in Phoenix and North Dakota, and Basic Ultra Lights in Washington state also were discontinued, the company said.

"We did see lower consumer acceptance of those products in some of the test markets," said spokesman Bill Phelps. "These are test markets and they’re designed to help us learn a lot of things. In the case of Ultra Smooth, it was designed to help us understand consumer acceptance of those particular products’ taste and flavor."

Phelps said the company had made no claims that the products reduced health risks.

Shares of Altria rose 18 cents to $20.96 in midday trading.

Philip Morris saw a 4.6 percent decline in cigarette sales volume last year, but said that is estimated to be down 3.6 percent when adjusted for calendar differences and other factors. The industrywide decline is estimated at 4 percent in the United States.

The company has projected that cigarette sales volume will fall between 2.5 percent to 3 percent in the U.S. over the next few years because of concerns about health, smoking bans and price increases.

In turn, Philip Morris is looking to growing its business in other tobacco categories and reduced-risk products, Phelps said.

"We remain committed to our overall objective of reducing the harm caused by cigarette smoking," Phelps said. "That work will continue both for conventional lit-end cigarettes as well as what we would describe as noncombustible tobacco products."

Last year, the company began testing of its Marlboro-branded moist smokeless tobacco product — cut tobacco placed in the mouth — in Atlanta and recently expanded to counties in the surrounding metropolitan area. It also began testing a moist powdered tobacco called Marlboro Snus in Dallas last year, and also has expanded the test to Indianapolis.

As part of the ongoing progress towards the establishment of the Ma’an Development Area (MDA), the Ma’an Development Company (MDC), a subsidiary of the South Company for Construction and Development (SCCD), reached an agreement with Taj Company For Manufacturing Tobacco and Cigarettes for the lease of land and production space in MDA.

As a result of the agreement, Taj Tobacco and Cigarettes Company will establish a factory to manufacture tobacco and cigarettes in the ‘Industrial Park’ of the Ma’an Development Area.

The Tobacco and Cigarettes factory is expected to contribute to the job market in Ma’an by creating 150 job opportunities, once operational in 2009. The factory will be set up to accommodate a production capacity of up to 100 tons per month.

The agreement is one of the many steps being initiated by SCCD to attract investments and stimulate economic and social developments in the South of Jordan, through the mounting of projects that can provide job opportunities, and increase economic and social prosperity in the southern regions of the Kingdom.

Awni Motee’ commented during the signing: ‘We are pleased to institute this partnership, which will enhance the capacity building of workers in the Ma’an area while contributing to secure job opportunities and support the goals for the development of this vital region.’ He added: ‘We look forward to additional investments in the near future within Ma’an Development Area’s Industrial Park which we strongly believe will serve as a regional hub for industrial investments.’

Additionally, Mr. Motee’, who is also Chairman of the Health Aid Society that sponsors around 25 thousand patients through 14 health clinics in the Kingdom, announced his plan to establish health clinics in the Area of Ma’an which would treat ill patients free of charge.

Consisting of four complementary clusters including a residential community, an industrial zone, a Hajj city, and a vocational training center, the Ma’an Development Area (MDA) is set to become a regional hub for industrial activity and a centre of excellence for vocational training, as well as a religious landmark for pilgrims on their way to the Holy cities, offering them the ideal environment for their rest, relaxation and prayer.

MDA will also be home to a thriving and self-sustained city providing its residents and visitors with a quality living and working environment to fulfill their potential.

The specifics on Christensen’s proposal are not yet clear, but it is clear that the tobacco industry plans to fight it. Tobacco company lobbyists are already fighting against the regulation, said Christensen. She said the only company in favor of the menthol ban is Phillip Morris. But Lorillard, the cigarettes company that produces Newport cigarettes, is mounting what the Times called a "counteroffensive," sending out an email message to customers recently urging them to call their Congressional representatives.
"Urgent! Urgent!…Congress wants to make it illegal to smoke Newports and other menthol cigarettes. Call your member of Congress now and tell them to oppose any amendment to ban menthol cigarettes ," the email said. Newport is the number one selling menthol cigarette in the U.S.
Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, Lorillard is the nation’s oldest and third largest tobacco company. It was started in 1760 by Pierre Lorillard and now manufactures a wide range of brands, including Kent, True, Old Gold, Maverick, Satin and Max.
Television ads from decades ago depict menthol cigarettes as harmless additives that enhanced the flavor of cigarettes. "Newport is smoother," according to the jingle of one popular television commercial (shown below), "than any other menthol cigarette." All the people depicted in the ads are, of course, white.
But as times changed, Newport’s demographics seem to have changed too, and now African Americans are among the biggest consumers of the menthol cigarettes sold by the company that produces Newport. Blacks have also been the target of the industry’s advertising efforts, as seen by the two print ads in this article.
Perhaps as a result of the marketing efforts, Newport cigarettes have become popular in the black community. Just walk down 125th Street in Harlem or some other black inner city neighborhoods, and you might hear a familiar refrain: "Newport, Newport!" That’s the call of unlicensed cigarette dealers selling the cigarettes by the pack. With the cost of Newports at $8 in New York City, sometimes the cigarettes are even sold individually as "loosies" on the black market.
The combination of high cigarette prices and high demand have also fueled the black market. In Kansas City over the weekend, a robber broke into a convenience store and stole thousands of dollars of cigarettes, mostly Marlboros and Newports. In another incident a few weeks ago, a robber broke into a store and stole Newport and Kool cigarettes. And in Florida last month, a gas station was robbed and a thief again stole Newport cigarettes.
The debate over menthol cigarettes, like the debate over malt liquor — a beer with a high alcohol content — has been going on for years. Both are popular in the African American community, and many health advocates are concerned about the racial health disparities that may be caused by the use of these controversial products.

Yesterday’s gasp is tomorrow’s ho-hum and things move continually in and out of style — acceptance too.

Take the young in their swanky watering holes, downing quarts of the hard liquor the rest of us took a lifetime to kick, convinced at last it was bad for us.

Ot the magazine ad for St. Germaine’s Delice Du Sureau, a liquor billed as "the new absinthe." It shows a sepia-tinted 1890s photo of two young women faced away from the camera in filmy garments that would be decent in an ancient Rome kind of way, but for the two absolute peep-show windows in the back, exposing the twin peaches of their bare bottoms. Also, each girl has an arm draped around the other’s waist in such a way that her fingers ever so lightly dent the tender flesh of her friend’s derrière.

Now I’m a member of the generation that threw away its own undergarments, donned body paint and kicked over every sacred cow it could find, but this picture shocked me to my Reeboks - though I frankly thought I COULDN’T be shocked anymore with the way the young dress today, the girls in tops the size of potholders, the girls and guys alike in beltlines worn so low the bones flanking their bellies jut like tiny Mount Rushmores.

You can see this picture for yourself, either by getting the June issue of Vanity Fair or by following the link to my blog Exit Only, directions below, but let’s get back to the way trends change - so much that you come to wonder if there’s ANYTHING once banished that isn’t later welcomed back and celebrated.

This Delice Du Sureau likens itself to absinthe, a commodity that perfectly illustrates this principle: In the past everyone loved it. Then it was banned. Everyone loved it over here. Then it was banned over there.

A powerful brew made of wormwood, anise and fennel, it was THE drink of choice among all kinds of 19th century "artistes." I’m talkin’ about fun-lovin’ guys like Charlie-the-Chuckles Baudelaire. Crazy Vinny Van-Gogh-Gogh. Polly-Wolly-Doodle Verlaine. And of course my own personal hero, Oscar the Wilde Man, that rock-star of an author who took America by storm when he came here in the 1880s in his ankle-length greatcoat with the green fur trim.

Oscar himself said absinthe made him feel as though tulips were sprouting from his lips. Others claimed it gave them a "lucid drunk."

But many others lined up against it, like several giants of 19th century art who depicted its evil effects: See Degas’s "The Absinthe Drinker" in which a hatted lady in a bar sits staring stupidly at nothing. See Maignan’s "Green Muse," in which a cruelly grinning fairy in lime chiffon squeezes the temples of a tortured-looking poet.

One outraged citizen wrote that it makes "a ferocious beast of man, a martyr of woman, and a degenerate of the infant." (Wait, the infant?!) And one of Emile Zola’s novels has reports of an absinthe drinker who stripped himself naked in the street and died doing the polka.

But surely there are worse ways to die. I know I fell down doing the polka at Charlie Potzka’s girl’s wedding and Charlie fell too and the two of us were having a wonderful time.

Anyway, now tolerance for the stuff is "in" and absinthe must be back on the OK Today list because you can buy it again in the States, and also your Delice Du Sureau and even your shocking pictures too.

God knows what’s next. Maybe the revelation that that — wo, hey! — tobacco’s actually GOOD for you!

 

Yesterday a Chinese couple walked free from charges of possessing uncustomed goods. On November 18, 2007, Jianneng Mai and Bijin Zhong, were busted with $63,000 of un-customed goods – including Winston cigarettes, Wall Street cigarettes and Benson and Hedges cigarettes in a building at 89 Vernon Street. They were charged with recklessly acquiring possession of uncustomed goods but yesterday Revenue Magistrate Ed Usher threw out the charges because the warrant wasn’t signed by a Supreme Court judge or a Magistrate.

But more importantly it wasn’t read properly. It was Mai who read it to her common law husband. He doesn’t speak English well so she translated it for him. But according to the law, the Customs Department should have found a third party who spoke Chinese to translate it and read it to Zhong. The reason is that Mai – was a defendant – and a defendant cannot read a warrant to a co-defendant.

Despite the technicality though, the couple had maintained the goods weren’t theirs. If convicted, the couple would have been charged 3 times the value of the uncustomed goods – that’s roughly $189,000.

The government has approved legislation meant to shock smokers into stubbing their bad habit by placing graphic pictures of the dangers of smoking on cigarette packs.

This week the health portfolio committee approved the Tobacco Amendments Bill, tabled in parliament earlier this year to close the loopholes in the current anti-tobacco laws.

The bill, which is still to go to the National Assembly for a vote and possible debate, also raises the legal smoking age from 16 to 18.

In addition to warning messages already printed on cigarette packs, tobacco companies will now be forced to carry pictures of diseased lungs, gums and other hard-hitting images that might provoke smokers into quitting.

 

Angela Haygood lives and works in Chattanooga, but after Tennessee raised its tax on cigarettes, she regularly goes to Georgia to buy them.

“I usually buy a carton of cigarettes every couple of weeks, and buying them in Georgia has been saving me more than $3 for every trip,” the St. Elmo resident said while taking a smoke break from her job at Unum Corp. in Chattanooga. “That more than pays for the gas it takes to drive across the border. People I know who smoke in Nashville are driving all the way to Kentucky to buy cigarettes.”

When the Tennessee Legislature voted a year ago to more than triple the state’s tax on cigarettes from 20 cents to 62 cents a pack, the Volunteer State elevated its tobacco tax above all eight of its neighboring states. Tennessee’s higher general sales-tax rate and extra 25-cents-per-pack cigarette tax over neighboring Georgia is encouraging many Chattanooga smokers to head south of the border to feed their nicotine habit.

Proponents of the higher tobacco tax implemented last July insist it is helping limit health-damaging smoking, especially among price-sensitive teens, while also providing extra money to fund the state’s Basic Education Program. Combined with new limits that started last October on indoor smoking in most public places and a $10 million state campaign this year to help smokers quit, Tennessee quickly has emerged as a leading state trying to combat tobacco consumption while also being one of the top cigarette consumption states in the nation.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, nearly one of every four Tennesseans still regularly use some type of tobacco product — the fifth highest rate of any state in the United States.

“We call it the “Tennessee trifecta,’” said Pete Fisher, vice president for state issues for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, an anti-smoking advocacy group in Washington, D.C. “For a tobacco-growing state that still has one of the highest smoking rates in the country, the increase in cigarette taxes, smoking restrictions and anti-smoking education coming in the same year is truly historic.”

But critics suggest the higher tax on cigarettes in Tennessee also may be driving more smokers out of the state to buy cigarettes, leaving the state with less-than-expected revenues.

“States all over the country have raised cigarette taxes in the past couple of years and, in virtually every instance, the projected revenue comes out being less than what was forecast,” said Steve Stanek, a research fellow for The Heartland Institute and managing editor of its monthly “Budget & Tax News” publication. “State tax collectors hope people would keep smoking even as health officials hope people stop smoking. Higher cigarette taxes are bad for a host of reasons beyond the absurdity of government relying on smoking even as it tries to stamp out smoking.”

Numbers compiled by the state show cigarette sales in decline at Oneida Indian Nation stores and other Native American shops.

However, these numbers may not tell the whole picture about these locations that do not collect state taxes on tobacco products. Indian tribes do not collect state levies on the grounds that they are sovereign nations.

The Oneidas bought nearly 2.6 million cartons of cigarettes last year from state licensed agents, down from nearly 2.8 million in 2006, according to figures supplied by the state Department of Taxation and Finance. The drop amounts to approximately 7 percent.

The 2005 level was 2.1 million cartons.

Under the new state tax of $2.75 for each pack, the Oneidas’ reported cigarette purchases for last year would represent about $71.3 million in state revenue losses.

Department spokesman Tom Bergin cautions that actual cigarette sales could be higher because his department’s numbers do not include any sales to Indians by vendors not required to report such transactions to the state.

Statewide, the number of cigarette cartons sold to tribes dropped from 36 million in 2006 to 30.4 million last year, a decrease of approximately 18 percent, according to the state data.

The Seneca Indian Nation in Western New York fell from 17.8 million cartons in 2006 to 12.2 million last year. The Senecas sell the most cigarettes of the eight nations.

PENNSYLVANIA — New York smokers are buying lots of cigarettes in Pennsylvania.

"I actually make trips down here once a week or so," said Savona resident Tim Soporowski.

"I always buy my cigarettes in Pennsylvania. Simply because it is a little cheaper," said Big Flats resident Dave Kenyon.

Now it’s a lot cheaper, since a new tax raised the price of a pack in New York by $1.25 to some $5, $6 and even $7 a pack.

"It’s crazy," Soporowski said.

"We don’t like it," said Phyllis Gurnsey, a Campbell resident.

"Taxes on gas and cigarettes are already to the point where they’re really affecting the economy. It’s too much," Kenyon said.

Cigarettes typically are cheaper in Pennsylvania than in New York. But the new additional tax has more people leaving stores in New York and going into ones in Pennsylvania.

"I am buying mine strictly in Pennsylvania because New York’s prices are outrageous," Elkland resident Holly Allen said.

 

New York State health officials expect the tax will get some smokers to quit. People on the border have other plans.

 

"Everything is going to kill you someday or another. The air can kill you. People do what they want to do," Soporowski said.

 

One smoker says the tax actually may deter him from lighting up.

 

"No, it’ll probably force me to quit," said Elmira resident Charles White.

 

White said the drive to Pennsylvania saps the savings.

 

"It’s not worth it with the gas and all. It’ll be inefficient," White said.

 

Others disagree.

 

"We enjoy the ride down to Pennsylvania. It’s nice down here," Gurnsey said.

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nd at least for now, it’s cheaper, too.

One gas station owner in Pennsylvania says more customers have been coming in over the past couple of days. A New York gas station owner says business is down and he expects it’ll stay that way.

According to the World Health Organization, Russia has the largest number of smokers after China, India and Indonesia.
Russia has the largest number of male smokers in the world (70.2 percent). This is actually the limit, since others will not start smoking because of their education, principles, state of health and other reasons. That said, tobacco producers have found new customers in Russia – women and children. The nation has already witnessed an increasing number of smoking women: from 15.5 percent in 2001 to 23.2 percent in 2007. The new target audience for light cigarettes is women aged between 14 and 40.
Unfortunately, under the influence of advertising most Russians think that light cigarettes are less harmful. The Levada Center public opinion poll showed that 24.4 percent of respondents consider that light cigarettes cause less damage to health than ordinary cigarettes. Moreover, this illusion is much more popular among smokers – 34 percent of smokers agree with this statement.
“However, the usage of such terms as “light cigarettes ” or “cigarettes with low tar content” and other deluding statements is banned in 46 countries,” said Dmitry Yanin, the Chairman of the Board of the International Consumer Society of Russia. Among these countries are EU nations, China, India, Iran, Turkey, Thailand, Israel, Canada, Australia, Norway, Switzerland, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru, Uruguay, Chili and Panama. Armenia and Ukraine have also introduced the ban on the usage of the term “light”.
International scientific data showed that light cigarettes are not less harmful than other types and they are as addictive as ordinary cigarettes. In 2001 the US National Cancer Institute published the analysis of in-house documents of producers which showed that tobacco producers hide the truth about light cigarettes.
The level of tar and nicotine is measured with the help of “smoking devices”. Light cigarettes are not less harmful, for the apparatuses used to measure the level of tar and nicotine give wrong readings. In light cigarettes filter paper has small vent holes. When inhaling air is tested with a device, the air gets through these holes and triggers smoke formation.
But people smoke cigarettes in another way, differently from that used with smoking devices. A smoker pressures vent holes with fingers or lips during smoking.
Thus, the measurements taken by the above-mentioned devices show a lower level of tar and nicotine and the level of tar, nicotine and carbon oxide measure by ISO/FTC methods and indicated on cigarette packs are unreliable. This is the conclusion made by the WHO Scientific Consulting Committee on Smoking Production Regulation and the Canadian Ministry Consulting Council on Tobacco Control.
Addiction to nicotine is another argument against light and low tar cigarettes. Smokers become addicted to nicotine. The depth and frequency of inhalations changes to make up the lack of nicotine caused by the smoke rarefaction. To satisfy this addiction smokers take more light cigarettes every day, and inhale deeper and more often than they do when smoking ordinary cigarettes. The smoke from one light or low tar cigarette inhaled by a man or a woman may contain two or three times more tar and nicotine in comparison with the smoke inhaled by “the smoking device”. The same attitude is taken by Russian scientists of oncology.
The Federal Service for Consumer Rights Protection currently works on a legal opportunity to ban the use of such terms as “light”, “super light”, “ultra light”, “mild flavour and delicate odour”, because the usage of unreliable information violates the law on protection of consumer rights.

I never thought there’d come a time when lighting up a cigarettes would mean looking for an outlet rather than a lighter. Electronic cigarettes aren’t anything new though–remember Crown7’s battery-operated cigarettes? The Gamucci Micro Electronic Cigarette basically works the way as the Crown7 cigarettes do. To provide an even closer semblance to reality, Gamucci looks the same as ordinary cigarettes–the tip lights up too. Inside the stick is a chamber housing the cartridge which contains liquid, part of which is nicotine. When you take a drag at the e-cigarette, an atomizing chamber vaporizes the liquid to give users that "nicotine hit."
Gamucci claims that nicotine is the only ingredient, so you get to enjoy smoking sans the carcinogens. You can also supposedly use it in non-smoking areas as it does not have fire and only produces vapor, not smoke and hence, is not a cigarette. The electronic cigarettes is powered with a 3.7 volt battery, a single charge of which could last the whole day. The cartridges loaded into the electronic cigarettes could be "low" with only 6mg of nicotine, "medium" with 11mg, or "high" with 16mg. You can pick a package of the Gamucci Micro Electronic Cigarette up in I Want One of Those for $89.91 which includes two sticks, 5 "high" cartridges, and the charger, of course. You can also pick up a pack of 5 cartridges from the Gamucci web site for $14. A single cartridge, by the way, is equivalent to 20 normal cigarettes. Oh, and if you’re interested in puffing flavored smoke, Gamucci is also planning to release electronic cigarettes in Apple, Chocolate, Cherry, Mint, and Coffee variations.

Everyone has known for decades that that smoking can kill, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that hydrogen peroxide in cigarette smoke is the culprit. This finding may help the tobacco industry develop "safer" cigarettes by eliminating such substances in the smoke, while giving medical researchers a new avenue to developing lung cancer treatments.
"With the five-year survival rate for people with lung cancer at a dismally low 15.5 percent, we hope this study will provide better insight into the identification of new therapeutic targets," said Tzipora Goldkorn, senior author of the report.
In the research study, Goldkorn and colleagues describe how they exposed different sets of human lung airway cells (in the laboratory) to cigarettes smoke and hydrogen peroxide. After exposure, these cells were then incubated for one to two days. Then they, along with unexposed airway cells, were assessed for signs of cancer development. The cells exposed to cigarettes smoke and the cells exposed to hydrogen peroxide showed the same molecular signatures of cancer development, while the unexposed cells did not.

The high tobacco tax of Ush26 (US$0.012) per stick continues to press more people into the dangerous but lucrative trade of selling un-customed cigarettes that bring in bigger profits, according to analysts.
On the backdrop of mounting pressure to improve revenue collections among others, Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) although continues to play ‘cat and mouse’ with the often cunning smugglers, has also scored to the delight of complaint businessmen.
The latest show of strength by URA was the April 18 incineration of over 19 million cigarettes valued at about Ush423 million ($251,785) at the Bank of Uganda incinerator outside Jinja town in Eastern Uganda. Smuggled cigarettes in the 2005/06 financial year caused a loss of over Ush8 billion ($4.8 million) to the state in unpaid taxes. Polythene bags, electrical appliances and fuel are the other smuggled items.
Thousands of cartoons of cigarettes valued at billions of Uganda shillings from Kenya and DR Congo bearing fake Ugandan tax stamps and serial numbers have in the past been incinerated at the central bank facility. Of the Supermatch brand, the cigarettes manufactured by Mastermind Kenya and destined for Sudan and Somalia based on tax stamps embedded on the packets, found their way into Uganda.
Without providing names, Mr. Enoch Walugembe, URA’s assistant commissioner for enforcement told East African Business Week in Jinja that some very influential people were involved in the smuggling where government would have lost Ush511.42million ($304,416) in revenue had URA acted.
Although the incinerated cigarettes originated from Kenya, a finger has been pointed at the DR Congo as a source of uncustomed Supermatch. Ironically, supermatch is also manufactured by Leaf Tobacco Uganda Limited (LTC) and CTC Congo, sister companies to Mastermind Kenya. The other problematic cigarette brands include SM from Rwanda and Pakistan’s Boss.
In a peculiar incident in the past, officials from LTC were questioned, without any success over the continued smuggling of super match cigarettes into the country after consignments with the signage, "Made in Uganda by LTC" were intercepted.
Of recent, the taxman’s fingers seem to have stopped pointing at DR Congo following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with URA in January this year to check laxity exhibited in monitoring movement of cargo across the two borders. Unlike before, DR Congo now insists that cigarettes manufactured in the country have local tax stamps just like the EAC countries demand.
"There is a drop in transit consignments from Kenya to DR Congo," Walugembe said. While the tax on cigarettes in the region is 120% of the invoice value, Sudan levies a tax of 10% of the invoice value. Investigations by URA enforcement have showed that the Kenyan made Supermatch is transported to Sudan where taxes (10% of invoice value) are paid before being offloaded and brought into neighbouring Uganda.
Much as the supermatch problem has continued to taunt URA, British American Tobacco Uganda (BATU), the second local manufacturer is most frustrated over the increasing arrivals of smuggled cigarettes into the country. Although BATU paid Ush40 billion ($23.81 million) in taxes in 2005, it a year later announced a structural shift from manufacturing cigarettes in Uganda, leaving LTC as sole manufacturer in a sector that generated over Ush79billion ($47.02 million) in exchange earnings in 2005.

Smoking bans appear to have little impact on the number of smokers according to a survey by the Federal Health Office. Despite moves by the federal and cantonal authorities to outlaw smoking in public buildings and restaurants nearly three out of ten respondents said they smoked.
The number of smokers remained unchanged compared with 2006, with 33 per cent of men and 24 per cent of women saying they were cigarettes consumers.
However, the number of those wanting to kick the habit rose marginally to 54 per cent.
The survey – funded by a tobacco prevention fund and published on Monday - is based on 2,500 interviews. In a related move, the health authorities have launched a new series of anti-smoking posters and adverts.
Officials said the aim was to encourage cigarettes  consumers to reduce health hazards.
About 1,900 companies have pledged to provide smoke-free work places for a total of 200,000 employees as part of a campaign that started in 2006.