Tag Archives: tobacco products
Get cigarettes out of pharmacies
The use of tobacco products, including smoking cigarettes, remains a serious public health issue in the U.S. Despite many efforts, the CDC estimates that over the past 5 years, the rate of tobacco use has not significantly changed. About 1 in 5 adults in the USA continue to smoke regularly and over 50 percent of children are exposed to the … Continue reading
Philip Morris Could Get Smoked if Aussies Pass Ban on Branded Packaging
With Australia proceeding with its Plain Packaging Bill for tobacco products, Philip Morris International has much to worry about if it becomes a law as this likely hurt its market share in Australia as well as set a dangerous precedent for its other major markets considering similar laws. Philip Morris International is the world’s leading international tobacco company outside of … Continue reading
BAT Korea eyes premium cigarette market in Korea
British American Tobacco Korea is striving to shore up its presence in the Korean market with premium cigarette products. The Korean unit of the global manufacturer has been diversifying its portfolio of pricey cigarettes with Dunhill and Kent brands in a bid to boost profits amid stagnant population growth and rising health concerns. Although surging prices of tobacco leaves and … Continue reading
Cigarette sales drop 19% since the beginning of year
Cigarette sales have fallen 18.99% in the first seven months of 2011, with the commercialization of 1.733,36 millions of packs, 406 million less than in the same period of last year, according to recent data published by the Commissioner for the tobacco market. This year has been marked by the entry into force as of January the new antitobacco law, … Continue reading
Billy Connolly used Bible pages for roll-up
Comic Billy Connolly has confessed he used pages of the Bible to make a roll-up cigarette – and joked that he may go to hell as a result. The 68-year-old star revealed he and old friend Gerry Rafferty – the late chart-topping musician – resorted to the holy book after they ran out of “skins”. The pair, friends from their … Continue reading
Cigarette Manufacturers Declare War on FDA
Two months ago, the Food and Drug Administration launched a campaign of “shock and ewww!” against America’s cigarette manufacturers. Beginning on September 22, 2012, the FDA will start slapping anti-smoking posters across the top half of every cigarette pack in the nation. These are shocking, disturbing pictures — pictures of smokers breathing through tracheotomy holes in their necks, of a … Continue reading
Cigar ice cream, anyone?
Karl Heinz does not hesitate when he names the strangest ingredient he has used in his exotic ice creams. The asparagus ice cream sounds odd as do the requests from customers for wasabi, brown bread and pineapple curry flavours. But the cigar ice cream wins the prize as weirdest. No matter how unusual, the German ice-cream maker, who moved to … Continue reading
Most Expensive Cigarettes
Luxury tobacco products are not anything new. When trying to come up with a list of expensive cigarettes, Dunhill, or Treasurer may come to mind. But Lucky Strike brought a whole meaning to an expensive pack of cigarettes by introducing this one-off pack in 2006. Lucky Strike commissioned one pack of smokes to be produced that proudly boasts 18ct white … Continue reading
Tobacco Companies Look to Innovation to Boost Sales
Capsule filter technology and packaging NPDs For BAT, innovation is currently focused on capsule filter technology and packaging to offer improved freshness. By the end of 2010, capsules have been rolled out in about half of BAT’s main markets while the ‘Reloc’ resealable pack was used in all the main Dunhill markets. Cigarettes with capsule technology allow smokers to change … Continue reading
Camel down 10 cents its tobacco packs
Camel has decided to lower the price of its main cigarette packets, when just 20 days ago, the company had their price 15 cents. In this way, tobacco company thus responds to the price war of tobacco which is registering especially in the last month. As published by the official State Bulletin (BOE), Camel Blue 20 passes cost 3.65 euros … Continue reading
