Category Archives: Cigarette News
Cigarette Ads Kicked Out of 26th SEA Games 2011
Jakarta Environmental Management (BPLHD) asked Inasoc, as SEA Games management to exclude cigarette advertisement in SEA Games XXVI, especially in Jakarta. Therefore, Jakarta BPLHD has sent a letter to Inasoc regarding the request. Moreover, similar rule was also applied in previous SEA Games event. As we know, this year SEA Games will be held in two cities, Jakarta and Palembang, … Continue reading
Cigarette Companies File 2nd Suit Over Warnings
Five tobacco companies filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington late Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of regulations and graphic warning labels under the 2009 law that imposed federal regulation on tobacco. The companies lost a similar complaint last year in the United States District Court in Kentucky when District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., ruled they could be forced … Continue reading
President Obama 's Smoking Struggle moves Tobacco Insider to Reveal a Fresh, No-Nonsense Quit Method
As an Australian, let me be blunt, ONLY a smoker knows how bloody difficult it is to give up. ONLY a smoker knows the fear of no more cigarettes, ever. ONLY a smoker knows how often they have thought of giving up, have tried to give up, and have failed, leaving them feeling inadequate, and demoralised. I was a heavy … Continue reading
“Cigs for kids” on sale
A WAVERLEY woman says she is outraged after finding packets of lollies designed to look like cigarettes for sale in Launceston. Consumer Affairs and Fair Trading director Chris Batt said under the Public Health Act, selling a toy or confection that resembles, or is intended to represent, tobacco or a tobacco product, is prohibited. Shirelle Rigby said she found the … Continue reading
33 lakh kg of tobacco sold at Karnataka auctions
The Tobacco Board sold around 33 lakh kg of Flue Cured Virginia tobacco at an average of Rs 109.30 a kg at auctions in Karnataka. According to Mr KN Vishakantaiah, Regional Manager, Tobacco Board, this year, prices of tobacco grades are trading higher than last year by Rs 4.25 to Rs 5 a kg. Arrivals at auction platforms are picking … Continue reading
Illegal cigarette business takes off in Mexico
The bootleg cigarette business is flourishing fast and now accounts for about 10 percent of a sum tobacco marketplace in Mexico, gaining 8 commission points in a past year, a Alliance Against Illegal Products, or ACPI, said. “More than 100 bootleg brands seemed on a marketplace opposite a 30 rescued in 2010,” ACPI orator Gerardo Velazquez said. The series of … Continue reading
Tyra Banks: "America's Next Top Model is smoke-free"
The program is watched by high numbers of preteen and adolescent girls. Regular exposure to smoking on television and in movies increases a child’s risk for trying cigarettes and becoming a smoker, studies show. Ms. Banks, along with co-executive producer Ken Mok, had assured through a spokesman that they were concerned about the impact the smoking models could have on … Continue reading
Is Adele’s Smoking Killing Her Voice?
The singer, who has been forced to cancel her ten-date US tour because of a vocal cord complaint, said: “Smoking is not the reason I got laryngitis – it was because I was talking too much. “I damage my voice offstage, not onstage. “Onstage I am fine as apparently I am technically great, but when I talk I damage my … Continue reading
Sienna Miller Loves SKYCIG Electronic Cigarettes!
A-list starlet Sienna Miller has become the latest fan of NEW SKYCIG electronic cigarettes! The style icon has been spotted puffing on the odourless, tar and tobacco-free cigarettes, on the Chicago-based film set of her new movie “Just like a woman”. Voted “Best Electronic Cigarette in the UK” in 2011, this revolutionary new brand offers smokers the chance to light … Continue reading
Seven fights tobacco ruling
CHANNEL Seven Adelaide has asked that a finding that it breached tobacco advertising rules in a 2010 news story about cheap cigarettes entering Australia be quashed. The Australian Communications and Media Authority found the broadcast breached the Broadcasting Services Act and the Tobacco Advertising Prohibition Act. It found the story constituted an advertisement as it showed the names, trademarks and … Continue reading
