Category Archives: Cigarette News
Tobacco and Heritage Festival 2013
In Logan County, Kentucky, there will be held 57th Annual Tobacco and Heritage Festival. It starts this week on Thursday with Queen’s Pageant and for the next days are prepared a lot of other interesting events worth visiting. Traditionally the Queen’s Pageant was held during the Tobacco Festival week. However, this year it was moved up in order to accommodate … Continue reading
Local Governments to Consider Smoke-Free Laws
The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living plans to introduce a smoke-free law in Monroe and West Monroe. If Ouachita Parish Police Jury apprived it, smoking will be prohibited in bingo halls and bars where smoking is permitted today. The proposed initiative will be presented to the West Monroe Board of Aldermen and Monroe City Council on September 10. It will … Continue reading
Japan Tobacco Appreciates Philippine Governemt Decision
Manos Koukourakis, general manager of Japan Tobacco Inc said recently that Philippine governemt can meet its excise tax collection target, if not exceed it, as the drop in usage is not as dramatic as it was expected. Koukourakis noted that in the country there are 52% smokers which means that one in two Filipinos smoke cigarettes. This ratio gradually reduced … Continue reading
2014 Games in Glasgow Will be Smoke-Free Zone
Chiefs from Commonwealth Games said that the event which takes place the next year will be smoke-free. Smoking cigarettes and sale of tobacco products will be prohibited across all venues and areas surrounding them. There will placed big screens and other signs with messages which will remind everyone of smoke-free restrictions. Glasgow 2014 has worked together with the Scottish Government … Continue reading
Illinois Cigarette Tax Revenue Increased Last Month
State officials said that in July cigarette tax revenue in Illinois more than doubled in comparison to the same period in 2012. According to data released at the beginning of the week by the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, last month revenue achieved $30 million. In 2012 it achieved $12 million State Journal-Register wrote that the increase is explained … Continue reading
Lorillard Announced About Results Conference Call
Lorillard is going to conduct a conference call for analysts and investors. The conference will take place on July 25 from 09.00 hours, after it has declared its second-quarter 2013 results. The conference call will be held by David H. Taylor, Executive Vice President, Finance and Planning, and CFO and Murray S. Kessler, Chairman, President and CEO. The conference call … Continue reading
Smoking Ban Fails in Oceanside
After the law which bans patio smoking did not got motion in Oceanside for City Council to vote on it June 26, business owners will decide by themselves to permit or not smoking in patio of their restaurants and bars. Jim Wood, the mayor of Oceanside, together with Gary Felien and Jack Feller, the councilmen, said they would not support … Continue reading
Fight against tobacco branding and smoking
In December 2012, Australia introduced ban on tobacco branding becoming the first country to launch plain cigarette packaging According to its plain-packaging law, all cigarettes are offered for sale in standardised, drab-coloured packs with graphic pictures of tobacco-related illnesses on the front and back. Under its supporters, pictures of rotted lungs and charred teeth are not the pictures Marlboro Man … Continue reading
Gangnam Style: Canadian company to launch Gangnam cigarettes
Beginning with this week, convenience shops across Ontario, Canada, can commence marketing Gangnam style cigarettes. On Feb. 15, Canadian Tobacco and Global Inc., an Ontario cigarette wholesaler composed of 38 Korean-Canadian convenience shop keepers, will launch three cigarette brands, such as Gangnam, which company President James Kang claims is not referred to as after the extremely popular song by South … Continue reading
Inefficient Marlboro packaging design to discourage smoking
Erik Askin, an industrial designer, invented a new, may be effective, method to discourage smoking and to help smokers quit smoking. He came up with new format for cigarette packaging. New packaging design will make life harder for smokers. The designer tried to demonstrate the inefficiency of the new packaging using and depicting a Marlboro Red pack.
