Major cigarette companies have been devastated by the bill requiring generic cigarette packaging approved by the Australian government and prepare to challenge the excessive bill in court.Last week Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister declared the government has adopted two measures aimed at reducing smoking rates – a 25-percent in ciga ...
Cigars have been making up an essential part of human life and a great tradition for more than six centuries. Cigar smoking was discovered by Columbus colonists who arrived in the West Indies in 1492 and saw local people puffing on the aromatic plants rolled in tobacco leaves.As the majority of the territory of modern South and Latin Ame ...
Imperial Tobacco Group, the fourth largest tobacco company in the world admitted it is facing a 4 percent decline in cigarette sales over the first quarter of the year because of certain problems in supply in the Middle East and several shrinking markets. Nevertheless, in a statement to its investors the company ensured that its full-year ...
Congress decided to ban smokeless tobacco in sport because chewing tobacco is not less harmful than smoking cigarettes. However baseball players are against this legislation of course. “Good luck. Guys do what they do. We work out. It’s been a segment of the game for 100 years,” San Francisco Giants reliever Brandon Medd ...
Most of universities and colleges system have planned to ban smoking on campus or even prohibited it already, because they consider that a smoking ban would help improve the health of a lot of people on campus. And of course it will help smokers who want to quit but can’t. For example Chris Lazo, has smoked for 14 years and consider ...
Altria group, the owner of Philip Morris USA, is the leading tobacco company in the USA. According to the 2009 Annual Earnings Report, it was not the flagship cigarette brands, like legendary Marlboro, that maintained the company’s profits.The smokeless tobacco brands helped to compensate the double-digit drops in cigarette sale vo ...
As it is known, only some of Christians or Muslims speak openly about sex. But recently, last month Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced that their latest weapon in the war on smoking is a graphic warning label of a declining cigarette, meaning the possible for tobacco-induced impotence, putted on every pack sold throughout the coun ...
Star Scientific Inc. has recently filled a request to the Food and Drug Administration to get a formal allowance to advertise its smokeless tobacco troches as safer products, establishing a major examination for the FDA’s latest authority over tobacco industry.The company, a small-scale business headquartered in Richmond, produces ...
One of the largest tobacco enterprises in the world, Philip Morris, whose smoking brands long time ago won the international tobacco market and still have stunning success, launched a fantastic, inimitable smoking product, that tobacco industry ever seen. The name of this masterpiece is Vitasmoke.The analogue of such type of cigarette y ...
Almost all tobacco consumers, adults and kids, like Gutkha, a preparation of crushed betel nut, tobacco, catechu, lime and sweet or tasty flavorings. It is manufactured in India and exported to a few other countries. In general it is consumed much like chewing tobacco.Highly addictive and a known carcinogen, gutkha is currently the subj ...