Monthly Archives: June 2011
Parents Warned about New Tobacco Sticks
McClatchy News Service — A new tobacco product being sold in Kansas has prompted warnings from state health officials, who say the tiny “smokeless tobacco sticks” could pose a danger to children. Altria Group Inc., the parent company of Philip Morris USA and U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co., recently began test-marketing the tobacco-coated sticks at select retailers in Kansas, including Wichita, … Continue reading
Manufacturer BULGARTABAC
BULGARTABAC Holding Group is one of the leading tobacco companies in Central and Eastern Europe. The structure of the Holding includes tobacco buying, processing and leaf trade, manufacturing and export of cigarettes, research and development. Bulgartabac’s headquarters are located in Sofia and its cigarette and tobacco affiliates are in the main tobacco growing areas of the country. Through its tobacco … Continue reading
Philadelphia No. 1 in Rate of Children who Smoke
Eighty percent of stores that sell cigarettes are located within 1,000 feet of a school. Kids who try to buy tobacco succeed 20 percent of the time. Merchants who sell illegally to people under 18 are mailed a $100 ticket for the first, second, or even seventh violation. The result, officials say, is the highest youth-smoking rate among comparable big … Continue reading
Hilton Cigarettes Brand
Hilton is a cigarette brand that is a result of combining smoking pleasure and tobacco quality. This cig brand is produced by the famous cigarette manufacturer British American Tobacco that aimed to create a special cigarette, which would find its place in hearts of cigarette smokers. British American Tobacco is the world’s most international tobacco group, selling its cigarettes brands … Continue reading
Cigarette Holder
A cigarette holder, less-frequently known as a quellazaire is a fashion accessory, a slender tube in which a cigarette is held for smoking. Most frequently made of silver, jade or bakelite (popular in the past but now wholly replaced by modern plastics), cigarette holders were considered an essential part of ladies’ fashion from the mid-1910s through the early-1970s, and are … Continue reading
Rationalizations for Smoking
Rationalization: I’m under a lot of stress, and smoking relaxes me. Response: Your body is used to nicotine, so you naturally feel more relaxed when you give your body a substance upon which it has grown dependent. But nicotine really is a stimulant; it raises your heart rate, blood pressure, and adrenaline level. Most ex-smokers feel much less nervous just … Continue reading
Smoking Ban in Argentina
Argentine lawmakers approved a nationwide law Wednesday that would ban tobacco advertising and smoking in public places, and require warning messages on product packaging. The effort, under debate for years in Congress, and strongly opposed by the tobacco industry, was approved overwhelmingly with 181 yes votes, one abstention and a single no vote. Members of the lower house of Congress … Continue reading
Cracking down on Tobacco Sales to Minors in Summit County
She’s no smoker, but Carli Seeba’s desk is full of tobacco products. There’s watermelon and cherry-flavored cigars, dissolvable tobacco strips and chewable mints laced with the stimulant. Seeba, 27, said she wasn’t carded for most of her purchases in Summit County; one retailer even let her behind the counter to pick out what she wanted. “It’s so easy for kids … Continue reading
IMPERIAL TOBACCO (JPS)
Imperial Tobacco was formed in 1901 when a group of British cigarette manufacturers decided to link up to stop James Buchanan of the American Tobacco company from taking over the British tobacco industry. As a result in 1902 American Tobacco and Imperial agreed that each would control its own market area and that together they would establish a third tobacco … Continue reading
Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products
Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Between 1964 and 2004, cigarette smoking caused an estimated 12 million deaths, including 4.1 million deaths from cancer, 5.5 million deaths from cardiovascular diseases, 1.1 million deaths from respiratory diseases, and 94,000 infant deaths related to mothers smoking during pregnancy. According to the Centers … Continue reading
