Online stores fall foul of tobacco law
The Foodtown and Woolworths supermarket chains will remove the words “light” and “mild” from cigarette adverts on their online shopping websites, after the Herald told them of an official warning against using the “potentially misleading” terms.
The Commerce Commission in 2008 issued a public warning to New Zealand’s three main tobacco companies over “light” and “mild” on tobacco packaging, saying the terms may mislead consumers and therefore risked breaching the Fair Trading Act.
The commission said consumers may believe they were exposing themselves to less harm by smoking those cigarettes, but there was “no such thing as a safe, or safer, cigarette”.
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Let your family and friends know that you are trying to quit smoking as it can help you achieve success, revealed a recent study. We talk to a few smokers, healthcare experts and chemists to know if it’s true and the latest products available off-the-shelf that stave off smoking. In your department there would be at least two smokers, minimum of seven on your floor and in your office … far too many to even count. And what about your neighbourhood? And if at home there is someone who smokes, your life is surely up in smoke!
Barbara Izzarelli was in her early teens in the 1970s when she began smoking Salem cigarettes. She was soon hooked by the nicotine. She smoked heavily every day — all day – for more than 20 years.In 1996, at age 36, she developed larynx cancer. The following year she underwent a total laryngectomy. That was followed by radiation and chemotherapy treatments. The Norwich woman can no longer breathe through her mouth or nose; she uses a tube in her throat. Her diet consists of soft foods like pudding and mashed potatoes.Last week, she became a footnote in legal history. A federal jury in Bridgeport awarded her $8 million this week in what is believed to be the first successful product liability lawsuit in Connecticut by an individual plaintiff against a tobacco company. 
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