tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47740068090769954392024-02-08T02:37:49.772-08:00Cheap Internet CigarettesKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-58310678413327167262011-11-14T00:26:00.000-08:002011-11-14T00:35:42.603-08:00Most Smokers Want to Quit Few SucceedMost smokers want to quit and a majority have tried, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released on Thursday. The CDC numbers show that most tobacco users know that they should stop— but still struggle to kick the habit.In 2010, 68.8 percent of American adult smokers said they wanted to quit and 52 percent said they have tried to within the past year, according to Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-36322454656762934662011-11-09T05:06:00.001-08:002011-11-09T05:08:20.583-08:00Students Call For a Smoke-Free CampusUndergraduate Student Government weighed in on the debate over creating a smoke-free campus Tuesday night by passing a senate resolution calling for the enforcement of designated smoking areas and a clarification of current smoking policy.The administration will take an official position on changing smoking policy on the University Park Campus once it has heard from the different constituencies Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-72937314727944612052011-10-31T02:50:00.000-07:002011-10-31T02:53:18.318-07:00Passive Smoking Hurts KidsChildren exposed to passive smoking are at risk of developing hearing deficiencies during their adolescence. Hearing deficiencies among adolescents occur mostly in the low frequencies.The reason for this surprising discovery lies in the repeated ear infections caused by tobacco smoke during the early years of life.Researchers in New York monitored adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19, all ofKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-71343371331923853092011-08-30T05:50:00.000-07:002011-08-30T05:56:39.240-07:00Utah gives hookah the hookStarting in mid-September, Utah bars and clubs cannot allow patrons to smoke most hookah products indoors.“The purpose of the clarification is to protect people from exposure to second hand smoke. Even minimal amounts of exposure is considered harmful,” said Steve Hadden, a health program specialist in the department’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program.Utah banned hookah use in bars and Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-85047835976373424582011-07-31T23:40:00.000-07:002011-07-31T23:50:49.180-07:00Best Tips to Stop Smoking | Tips For Stop SmokingThough tobacco has a well know repute about the outcome on physical condition, smoking remains a vice that each person discovers tough to break. Individual who smoke may feel the require to end that practice, however can’t indeed start doing it since they’re tied to it since a long time. Most liable, persons who wish to quit however discover it tough to do, they search further than help for Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-51608067391476815822011-07-24T23:18:00.000-07:002011-07-24T23:37:08.306-07:00Higher Prices Best Way to Beat Smoking HabitIt is rare for much time to pass without a new front being opened by anti-smoking crusaders. This month has seen a particularly high level of activity. Legislation dictating that tobacco products, Lucky Strike cigarettes and advertisements will have to be kept out of sight in shops from next July was passed with the support of all but three Act MPs.Not to be outdone, George Wood, the chairman of Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-45613250916273822532011-07-19T01:12:00.000-07:002011-07-19T01:21:10.203-07:00Altria Launches New ProductsRecently Altria declared that it will launch its new products -Skoal Sticks and Marlboro Sticks. In such a case, Altria continues to do whatever Reynolds does even if it doesn’t know why.Earlier, David Howard of RJ Reynolds spoke in an interview about the Camel smoke-free products such as: Camel Orbs, Camel Strips, and Camel Sticks, which are dissolvable tobacco products. In the course of Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-64597115781905762472011-07-10T23:24:00.000-07:002011-07-11T00:07:40.762-07:00Light Up and Laugh at the Anti-Smoking Policies PostedDespite four years this month of the smoking ban in England, and a vigorous anti-smoking campaign paid for by the taxpayer, it has not lowered the number of Esse cigarettes smokers. Their number remains at about 20 per cent – the hardcore, of which I am one. It might kill me, although if it doesn’t, something else will.Bohemia has been banned. We might pay a heavy price for that. New York City isKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-41357908439106344002011-07-05T03:15:00.000-07:002011-07-05T03:20:12.637-07:00Roll-your-own cigarette shops popping up in regionTom Maier smoked Winston cigarettes for 40 years.Now in his 60s, he has decided to start rolling his own cigarettes at Cheap Smokes in White Center to save money. He said he didn’t think he’d like the taste. But, it “turns out I like these better.”Maier sits on a stool catching his smokes in a plastic tub as they fly out of a slot at the bottom of the 600-pound maroon machine that hums and bangs Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-6338496419961209802011-06-27T07:13:00.000-07:002011-06-27T07:18:47.440-07:00Julia Gillard Stands on Cigarette Plain PackagingPrime Minister Julia Gillard says she won’t be intimidated by big tobacco after Philip Morris launched legal action to try to force the government to back down on introducing plain packaging for Salem cigarettes. Ms. Gillard said the government was confident it could deliver its reforms and that they would make a difference to the number of people who smoke. “We’re not going to be Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-65260991345452848542011-06-20T23:46:00.000-07:002011-06-20T23:49:30.785-07:00Merchants Learn Importance of Checking IDs for Beer, CigarettesThe first line of defense to keep young people from becoming addicted to alcohol and drugs just might be the local grocery store. A “Merchant’s Roundtable” was held Tuesday at Moundsville’s Grand Vue park, presented by the Marshall County Anti-Drug Coalition and the Ohio County Substance Abuse Coalition. They are explaining how to make it clear to their customers that they won’t sell beer or Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-983266898099887602011-06-13T23:21:00.000-07:002011-06-13T23:31:06.987-07:00Reduced smoking saves state moneyOhio once had a model tobacco-prevention and cessation program that helped reduce smoking rates among adults and children in Ohio.Currently, more than one-fifth of Ohio adults smoke. About the same percentage of children smoke and 17 percent use other tobacco products.The new state budget will destroy Ohio’s program, since it does not fund prevention programs, enforcement of the Smoke Free Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-52968336841443349562011-06-08T23:56:00.000-07:002011-06-09T00:01:01.239-07:00Barack Obama Smoking a CigaretteYou know that quitting smoking is difficult when even the most powerful man in the world can not stop himself from smoking cigarettes! Barack Obama Smoking a Cigarette To his credit, Mr. Obama has apparently not been seen smoking cigarettes for quite a while now, although he acknowledges that not smoking is a daily struggle. What is certain is that with young children at home and the entire Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-41786941804589205092011-06-07T00:45:00.000-07:002011-06-07T00:49:58.126-07:00Most support smoking ban in youth moviesThree-quarters of Ontarians support a ban on smoking in youth-targeted films, a new survey released Tuesday on World No Tobacco Days shows. “Research shows the more youth see smoking in movies, the more likely they are to start,” said Dr. Rosana Pellizzari, medical officer of health, Peterborough County-City Health Unit, one of the organizations endorsing policy recommendations to remove Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-82417752232142334712011-06-01T02:28:00.000-07:002011-06-01T02:33:33.631-07:00Tobacco companies violate ad normsIn a clear violation of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act 2003, (COPT), a non-governmental organisation, Salaam Bombay has exposed how tobacco brands are indulging in rampant surrogate advertising to promote their product under the guise of selling ‘pan masalas’. A recent survey conducted among 3,000 Mumbaikars revealed that majority of them associated ‘pan masala’ with gutka. The Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-11269706047186107282011-05-25T04:17:00.000-07:002011-05-25T04:39:24.189-07:00Smoke free at NICBeginning July 1, the use of all tobacco products will be prohibited on the community college campus.Students, employees and visitors will not be allowed to smoke cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, electronic cigarettes, pipes or hookahs. The use of smokeless tobacco products – dip, chew, snuff, snu – will also be prohibited. Well known cigarettes are Dunhill cigarettes and Gauloises cigarettes.“Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-43237212912301744722011-05-17T01:16:00.000-07:002011-05-17T05:29:34.381-07:00Tobacco Trust Fund key to N.C. agriculture’s futureThe N.C. House’s version of the state budget proposes to permanently eliminate the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission, putting that money into the General Fund to help cover the budget shortfall. Since 2001, the Tobacco Trust Fund has received an annual appropriation of several million dollars from the General Assembly. These funds were awarded to the state under the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-24427278880439133732011-05-12T05:46:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:54:17.702-07:00Tobacco-Facts ads Philip Morris International: Alternative Annual Report » Combine tobacco tax hike with effort to get rid of low-cost cigarettesMissouri hospital executives who lost a long-simmering lawsuit against tobacco companies last month shouldn’t fret over the potential loss of more than $455 million in civil damages.A better method exists to collect that revenue, and if the hospitals are smart about it, they’ll make the tobacco companies their partners, not their enemies.It is time for the state of Missouri to get serious about Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-25403439844217371242011-04-14T04:20:00.000-07:002011-04-14T04:34:11.867-07:00Smokers are influenced by package colorPACKAGING colour, slim cigarettes, a smooth taste. Many smokers believe these three factors each represent a safer smoke cigarette packageA study published in the journal Addiction reveals that one-in-five smokers believe “some cigarette brands could be less harmful than others”, with many basing their idea of risk on the colour of the packaging.In fact all conventional brands of cigarettes Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-77742186731543053282011-04-12T02:39:00.000-07:002011-04-12T02:44:53.558-07:00Electronic cigarettes and vapingElectronic cigarettes are battery powered drug delivery machines that allow a consumer to breathe in a high dose nicotine aerosol. (See previous article “Electronic cigarettes, nicotine and antifreeze?” with research source citations in the comments section at Examiner.com/Roanoke Longevity Examiner.) No tobacco is used in the plastic machine cartridges, just pure nicotine in an artificially Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-10470919725928905722011-04-04T00:50:00.000-07:002011-04-04T06:50:44.339-07:00Smoking ban a limit on freedom but a big step forward for SpringfieldAs members of civilized society, we all accept limits on our freedom.We know we can’t drive 60 mph in a school zone.We understand we shouldn’t dump raw sewage into a lake.We know it’s wrong to yell “fire” in a crowded theater.On April 5, we strongly urge city voters — smokers and nonsmokers alike — to accept another limit on freedom: Vote “yes” on the proposed ordinance to ban smoking in all Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-26475626891138531172011-03-31T10:09:00.000-07:002011-03-31T10:36:25.888-07:00History of menthol cigarettesMenthol cigarette smokers can exhale in relief: their Kools won’t be losing their cool anytime soon.salem mentholA Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has declined to recommend a ban on menthol cigarettes, even though the study group conceded that a ban would improve public health. The decision follows a 2009 federal ban on candy flavorings in cigarettes because of their potential allure Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-31479113308141074332011-03-28T02:40:00.000-07:002011-03-28T02:49:10.781-07:00Police Hold Smokes in Tobacco RoadAllegedly stolen tobacco leaf and cigarettes with a value of $50,000 have been found in a car stopped by police in southern New South Wales. Police pulled over the Holden Commodore Holden Commodore on the Hume Highway about 45km north of Goulburn just after 6pm (AEDT) yesterday.Inside were 23kg of compressed tobacco leaf, 70,000 cigarettes, and almost $8000 in Australian and US currency, police Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4774006809076995439.post-53552501976457387702011-03-24T04:11:00.000-07:002011-03-24T04:24:04.640-07:00Nebraska retailers oppose cigarette tax increaseIncreasing the statewide cigarette tax by three times would affect Nebraska retailers significantly, as the customers would switch to Iowa and Missouri tobacco shops, where they would be able to save nearly $18 per carton, according to state lawmakers.Mark Whitehead, owner of convenience store chain across the state testified that sales of tobacco products make up 35 percent of total sales. “ThisKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14555141687453989587noreply@blogger.com0