Tag Archives: tobacco products
Smartphone Apps Are Promoting Smoking, Often in Kid-Friendly Ways
The latest research posted in the journal Tobacco Control presents worrying facts that smartphone applications are an emerging element of advertising cigarettes to youth. The research, carried out in February 2012, identified 107 pro-smoking applications in Apple’s App Store and Google’s Android Market, two biggest smartphone app stores in the world. The majority of the pro-smoking applications are free of … Continue reading
Candy-flavored tobaccos target Florida children
Florida’s Collier County Health Department is worried about candy-flavored tobacco that, as they say, targets children. Candy is one of the tobacco companies’ favorite strategies on Halloween. Fruit- and candy-flavored cigarettes were prohibited according to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in 2009. Nevertheless, menthol cigarettes and other smokeless products are amongst some of the products not included. … Continue reading
Tobacco products to face higher taxes
The Ministry of Health has suggested that the Government raises the price of tobacco for smokers in order to reduce the high smoking rates of smokers and passive smokers in Vietnam. The suggestion requires a higher level of duty on all tobacco products and for the lowest price for cigarettes marketed in duty free shops to be more tightly controlled. … Continue reading
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is the second largest tobacco manufacturer in the United States of America. The tobacco products of this company are distinguished and characterized as qualitative and affordable. It was founded in 1875 by the son of tobacco farmer R. J. Reynolds. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company became extremely successful incredibly fast. During the first years after … Continue reading
Cigar smoking jumps among African-American teens
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published new study that the rate of cigarette smoking among young people continues to decrease, but the situation with another tobacco product is not so good. The study revealed that, from 2009 to 2011, cigar smoking by African-American youth increased from 7.1% to 11.7%. 15.7% of high school boys are cigar smokers, a … Continue reading
Tobacco company ads ‘waste of money’
Ministers have criticized a campaign sponsored by British American Tobacco New Zealand against the plain packaging of cigarettes, saying that it is a waste of money and a diversion from the damage that smoking causes. On Tuesday the tobaсco company started a print and mass media campaign that costed hundreds of thousands of dollars in reply to the Government’s measure … Continue reading
UTA smoking ban continues one year later
A smoking ban that was implemented at UTA one year ago did not make students quit smoking. Students said some people continue smoking on campus. There are no data whether or not smoking ban had an impact on smoking on campus as the UTA Police Department has not disclosed figures how many people were caught smoking on campus. The smoking … Continue reading
Japan Tobacco feels UK has decided on plain packets
The government of the UK has already made a decision to enact legislation on tobacco products to be sold in plain packets without brand name even though consultation on the issue it was not completed, according to the statement of the cigarette maker Japan Tobacco on July 6. The cigarette maker, which produces Benson & Hedges, Silk Cut, Winston and … Continue reading
Tobacco firms must not target female smokers
The statement by the Irish Cancer Society that the tobacco companies are “actively targeting” women will not be a surprise. Anyone, smoking or non-smoking people, who has visited any time a pub or smoking zone must be aware of the fact that women make a great part among smoking population. The study that was shown at a conference held in … Continue reading
Court rules against British American Tobacco on cigarette advertising
On June 20, the Supreme Court of Appeal made a decision that the health risks of smoking exceeded the interests of smoking people as a group. It rejected the British American Tobacco of South Africa’s appeal against an order by the North Gauteng High Court. British American Tobacco of South Africa (Batsa) manufacturers and distributes more than 20 cigarette brands … Continue reading
