HADDAM — A periodic check of outlets selling cigarettes found that the overwhelming majority places that were checked were in compliance.
In the company of agents from the State Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the town’s resident state troopers conducted a check of the outlets on Friday.
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A federal judge extended Friday the Oneida Indian Nation’s temporary restraining order that is preventing the state from collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian enterprises to non-Indians. U.S. District Court Judge David Hurd reserved decision on issues in the case and extended the restraining order to Friday, Oct. 15, Oneida Indian Nation spokesman Mark Emery said. Ream more »
Women who smoke during pregnancy run the risk of adversely affecting their children’s coordination and physical control according to a new study from -rebro University, Sweden, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
- Moreover, we discovered that boys’ abilities may be affected to a greater extent than those of girls, says Professor Scott Montgomery at -rebro University. Ream more »
The $1 increase per pack in the state cigarette tax last year achieved the best of all possible worlds: a larger than expected increase in revenue combined with fewer smokers. According to the state Office of Policy and Management, the tax increase, which went into effect last October, was expected to generate an extra $99.3 million for the state during the last fiscal year. Ream more »
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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Smokeless tobacco’s adverse effects are not just limited to the mouth, it can also damage the normal function of a key family of enzymes found in almost every organ in the body, according to a new research. Read more
Electronic cigarettes have been on the market in the United States since 2006, but it has only been recently that the green aspects of the products have been brought to the attention of the masses. People have long associated traditional cigarettes with litter and unpleasant waste, but e cigarettes are quickly distancing themselves from that.
“Electronic cigarettes create much less waste than traditional cigarettes do,” says William Ellis of E Cigarette Junction. “Whether you’re measuring the amount of packaging that is wasted or how each pack of cigarettes is almost being replaced by a single refill cartridge, the numbers are staggering. Trillions of cigarette butts are thrown away every year, but if we can replace every 20 cigarettes with 1 cartridge, can you imagine the environmental benefit?”
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You probably can’t even pronounce it, but you’ve likely encountered this international item in one form or another. It’s slender, social and picking up steam – literally. It’s the narghile, more commonly referred to as hookah, and this national trend is hot in Chicago. According to the Chicago Hookah Review website, an outlet that promises to be the most extensive list of hookah establishments in Chicago – 30 businesses thrive in the city alone. The intercontinental import is especially popular in college towns, noted Dr. Jon Ebbert, associate director of the Medicine Nicotine Dependence Center at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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The tobacco giant’s private cops are going to new lengths to stop contraband smokes. On a clear February morning, a team of inspectors marches into the Subrina Mini Mart in the working-class Queens (N.Y.) neighborhood of Woodhaven. The shelves are stacked with instant noodles, Lysol, canned beans, and, of course, cigarettes. The clerk looks nervous.The inspectors, employees of a private-investigation firm hired by tobacco giant Altria (MO), are searching for counterfeit packs of Marlboros and any that have slipped past New York tax authorities.Three times over the past year this store allegedly sold fake smokes to an undercover agent employed by the Richmond (Va.)-based manufacturer. Altria sued the Mini Mart, one of 35 such suits it has filed in the past 10 months in New York and New Jersey. A federal judge in Brooklyn issued an order allowing the company to inspect the Woodhaven store and a number of others in the area. Read more
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! Read more