Monthly Archives: September 2011
Russia to impose smoking ban during Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014
The Russian health ministry is to outlaw smoking in public places, starting with a ban on public transport, including airports and train stations, in time for the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. It will be followed by a ban on smoking in hotels, cafés, restaurants and nightclubs in 2015. The ban will include hookah pipes, which are often smoked in … Continue reading
Chinese primary schools sponsored by tobacco firms
The schools often bear the names of Chinese cigarette brands, such as Zhongnanhai or Liqun, over their gates and in some cases have slogans in the playground. “Talent comes from hard work – Tobacco helps you become talented,” says one slogan, in foot-high gilt letters, on the front of the Sichuan Tobacco Hope Primary School. The school, which was built … Continue reading
Gwyneth Paltrow’s image goes up in smoke
And finally, to Elle magazine’s in-depth profile of Gwyneth Paltrow. In among the usual guff about her ongoing role as the light of the world – “people come up to me and say, ‘I want to have two kids and wear a bathing suit and not feel terrible about myself. I see how hard you work and it makes me … Continue reading
Five films that children might be banned from viewing if smoking attracted an 18 certificate
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) Gandalf the wizard has a huge fondness for smoking tobacco through a pipe in Peter Jackson’s fantasy trilogy based on the novels by JRR Tolkien (himself a keen smoker). Hobbits Pippin and Merry also enjoy a puff of the Shire’s finest pipe-weed. 101 Dalmations (1996) Glenn Close’s Cruella DeVille (via a sleek 20s-style … Continue reading
BAT posts US$2m profit
BRITISH American Tobacco Zimbabwe has posted a US$2 million profit for the interim period ended June 30, 2011 on the back of the improving economic environment. During the period, turnover for the group increased 88 percent to US$17,5 million resulting in an operating profit of US$2,7 million up from US$367 000 recorded in the prior year. In a statement accompanying … Continue reading
Youth too smart to be sucked in by smoking actors
An expert on youth, tobacco use and the media does not think that classifying films that feature smoking will make any difference to the habits of young people. A new European study has added weight to claims that young people are more inclined to take up smoking after they see it being done in films. The findings have led to … Continue reading
Giving up smoking can restore everyday memory
Giving up smoking isn’t just good for your health, it’s also good for your memory, according to research from Northumbria University. Research published in this month’s online edition of Drug and Alcohol Dependence reveals that stopping smoking can restore everyday memory to virtually the same level as non-smokers. Academics from the Collaboration for Drug and Alcohol Research Group at Northumbria … Continue reading
“After Tobacco” book: what would happen if Americans stopped smoking
The number of New Yorkers who smoke dropped to an all-time low of 14 percent this year, Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced late last week. That’s down from 22 percent in 2002 and translates into 450,000 fewer adult New Yorkers who smoke than did a decade ago. The New York drop mirrors a nationwide decline, where smoking rates have fallen by … Continue reading
Japan Tobacco Gains After Minister Says Cigarette Prices Should Rise 75%
Japan Tobacco Inc. (2914), the world’s third-biggest publicly traded cigarette maker, climbed to the highest in three years on speculation it can lift prices more than the tax increases proposed by the health minister. Japan Tobacco rallied 5.4 percent to 368,000 yen, the highest since October 2008, at the 3 p.m. close of trading in Tokyo. It had the second-biggest … Continue reading
New graphic warning labels to impact cigarette industry
The tobacco industries have less than a year to integrate new cigarette-warning labels on all cigarette packs, cartons and ads in order to be complicit with the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which was signed into law by President Obama back in June 2009. The new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved labels will need to be … Continue reading
