Tobacco News

Following a CTV News hidden camera investigation, the owner of a local business is defending his tobacco sale policy – and says it works.

“We I.D. every customer who looks under 18,” Store owner Inder Minhas said. His is the type of policy Action on Smoking and Health is pushing to become legislation. The tobacco control organization has been collecting data through compliance tests carried out in five major cities in Alberta – and found two-thirds of retailers were willing to sell tobacco products to a minor, even after checking for I.D.
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A MAN who was in possession of cigarettes for sale at Balbriggan Market was further remanded on continuing bail at last week’s sitting of Balbriggan District Court. Richard Smyth of Drive 2, Muirhevnamore in Dundalk is charged with the sale of 15 cartons of Superking cigarettes and 14 cartons of Rothmans cigarettes at the market on the Naul Road, Balbriggan on November 6th with a loss of revenue to the State of €5,000. Ream more »

British American Tobacco’s Nigerian subsidiary has a near-monopoly, commanding 80 per cent of the market—but this position has not been achieved without hard work and a positive strategy towards health and economic development.

Though British American Tobacco Nigeria (BATN) was incorporated as an indigenous entity only 10 years ago in 2002, we are now coming up to the centenary of the parent company BAT’s presence in Nigeria. So 2012 will be the occasion for a double celebration among the 14,000 or more Nigerians employed, Ream more »

A key advisory committee warned the Food and Drug Administration Wednesday that little is known about the health effects of so-called modified-risk tobacco products, suggesting makers of smokeless tobacco and other alternatives to conventional cigarettes face high hurdles before they can market them as less harmful.

The report by the Institute of Medicine coincided with another government-sponsored study showing cigarette use hitting historic lows among U.S. teenagers, even as more youths have turned in recent years to smokeless products such as moist snuff and pouches called snus.
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Falls County Precinct One Constable Jonathan Shoemaker, recently attended a class on Tobacco Compliance and initiated a program to enforce tobacco laws in Marlin.
The Precinct One Constable’s Office has completed the reporting period one of the Tobacco Compliance grant that was awarded to the Precinct One Constable’s Office in August 2011 by the State comptrollers Office.
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Both students and adults from the tri-county region support restrictions on tobacco sales to protect children from aggressive marketing efforts.

The Adirondack Tobacco Free Network, a grass-roots coalition focusing on reducing the number of adult and adolescent tobacco users in Clinton, Essex and Franklin counties, recently released statistics from a Summer Community Survey that addressed several tobacco issues. Ream more »

Kentucky’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control will be addressing the marketing practices of tobacco retailers, and has been awarded a federal contract to do so.

The Food and Drug Administration has given the ABC a $428,278 contract to make sure tobacco retailers in the state are observing the new marketing and sales rules under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009. Ream more »

U.S. tobacco stocks have luxurious yields. Yet, a big problem lurks: Cigarette companies are in a declining business. Americans are smoking less. Surprisingly, earnings have held up well, and are, in many cases, rising. Still, although those juicy dividends beckon, tobacco should look for companies bucking the trend and actually selling more product.
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On petition of the country’s giant tobacco companies, the Court of Appeals (CA) has nullified a resolution of the Department of Health prohibiting the tobacco industry from conducting promotional activities.

In a 21-page decision, Associate Justice Noel Tijam, of the CA’s Special Eleventh Division, agreed with Philip Morris Philippines Manufacturing Inc. and Fortune Tobacco Corp. that the DOH and the Bureau of Food and Drugs (Bfad) “committed grave abuse of discretion” in declaring that since July 1, 2008, all promotions, advertisements and sponsorships of tobacco products were already under Republic Act 9211, or the Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003. Ream more »

Smoke breaks in stairwells, between cars on commuter trains and just about everywhere else are a common sight all over Russia, which has more smokers per capita than any other country on the planet.

But this sight is becoming rarer, as laws get tougher and cigarette advertisements and places to smoke become scarcer.
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