The People Against Tobacco Foundation announced today that it has concluded negotiations with four tobacco manufacturers to settle healthcare and smuggling claims of the foundation’s international membership. Read more
Muslims have been told to quit smoking because “cigarette filters may contain pig extracts and alcohol”, says a leading South African halaal authority.
But the tobacco industry has refuted the claims, with one manufacturer saying the information was “irresponsible and reckless”. Read more
It has been two weeks since Kevin Rudd and Nicola Roxon made their historic announcement that from 2012, all tobacco products will need to be packaged in plain boxes, with only a standard font brand name to differentiate brands. The announcement drew well over 1000 Google global news hits, a glowing editorial in The Lancet, and green light analyses from very senior constitutional, trademark and international trade treaty lawyers. Read more
Cigars, eh? So many great men have been habitual Havana puffers, the Schwarzeneggers, Nicholsons, Churchills and Che Guevaras of this world, making their mark and having a hand-rolled to draw on at the same time. Read more
The North End Cigar Lounge offers not only one of the finest selections of cigars this side of San Antonio, it creates a warm, relaxed, mellow atmosphere to enjoy them in. Read more
Federal officials are planning new regulations on tobacco products, including those marketed as alternatives to smoking — such as dissolvable tobacco tablets sold by Camel. But some of the men and women on the government’s official advisory panel have financial ties to the drug companies selling competing products, such as Nicorette. One government adviser even holds a patent for a new nicotine gum. Read more
There has been much media coverage in both domestic and foreign outlets of a comprehensive smoking ban supposed to go into effect in China next year. With more than 300 million smokers nationwide and a deeply entrenched smoking culture, that seems a formidable challenge. Read more
Party animal Kate Moss has decided to clean herself up by stopping smoking and drinking alcohol so she can have a baby with her partner Jamie Hince.
Kate has been a part of the Jet Set party scene on a global level for many years and changing her lifestyle is not going to be easy. Read more
With the government announcing a budgetary allocation of Rs30 million per year over next two years for tobacco control, the woes of the financially-starved Tobacco Control Cell have finally been heard. And with this financial cushion comes the commitment to make 2010 a year that will go down in the history of tobacco control in Pakistan as one marked by tangible progress in ‘enforcement’ of anti-tobacco laws. Read more
Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc. said it’s seeing signs of recovery in the global economy, but the seller of Marlboro and other brands overseas cautioned that taxes and stringent tobacco regulation remain challenges for future growth. Read more