Jessica Miller | August 21, 2012
Four cigarette companies, being pleaded by the New Brunswick government over health care costs, declared that the province gathered more on tobacco products taxes than it paid providing medical services to smoking inhabitants. British American Tobacco P.L.C., B.A.T. Industries P.L.C, British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd., and Carreras Rothmans contend the lawsuit should be thrown out. The provincial government is suing several big cigarette makers in a tender to recover the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses in the years the companies rejected to hid the health risks of tobacco smoking. It’s not clear how much money the province is seeking, but the four major companies dispute the cigarettes sold in New Brunswick were not their cigs.
Category: Cigarettes Makers, Tobacco Regulations |
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Jessica Miller | August 20, 2012
An absolute smoking ban doesn’t seem that unrealistic when you consider how limited the ordinances surrounding the sale and consumption of cigs have become. Smokers can no longer smoke any tobacco inside bars, restaurants, or even at work, and moves are afoot to prohibit smoking in public places. The ever-increasing price and advertising ordinances are part of the Government’s main moves to discourage young New Zealanders from starting smoking. The latest offensive in the war against smoking tobacco is the Smoke-free Environments Amendment Act, which came in to effect starting with last month.
Category: anti-smoking regulation, Cigarettes Business |
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Jessica Miller | August 17, 2012
The Australian Government’s constitutional victory over well-known cigarette makers is hopping to control a new international move against tobacco marketing. The High Court’s finding that plain pack laws, due to come into force in December, are legal has set a previous that other countries including New Zealand, Britain and India are interested in following. In April the New Zealand Cabinet agreed in principle to follow Australia, subject to public consultation.
Category: cigarettes sales, tobacco industry |
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Jessica Miller | August 16, 2012
Cigarette smoking among teenagers in Kentucky is higher especially in rural places, because there tobacco products are cheaper. That’s the main conclusion of the American Lung Association study, “Cutting Tobacco’s Rural Roots: Tobacco Use in Rural Areas.” Young Smokers in rural places are also more likely to start smoking habit earlier, and are twice as likely to use smokeless tobacco. 24.8 per cent Kentucky’s adult population smokes and 41.62 per cent lives in rural places.
Category: anti-smoking regulation, Smoke-free ordinance |
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Jessica Miller | August 15, 2012
The federal government’s High Court victory against tobacco company should encourage other countries to push ahead with plain packs ordinance, Attorney-General Nicola Roxon declared. The win also become stronger Australia’s ability to maintain itself against challenges under way in the international arena. The High Court on Wednesday ruled Labor’s world-first plain packaging ordinances are constitutionally legal. That means all cigs and smoking products will be sold in boring olive-brown packages starting with December.
Category: Cigarette Market, Tobacco Sales |
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Four cigarette companies, being pleaded by the New Brunswick government over health care costs, declared that the province gathered more on tobacco products taxes than it paid providing medical services to smoking inhabitants. British American Tobacco P.L.C., B.A.T. Industries P.L.C, British American Tobacco (Investments) Ltd., and Carreras Rothmans contend the lawsuit should be thrown out. The provincial government is suing several big cigarette makers in a tender to recover the costs of treating smoking-related illnesses in the years the companies rejected to hid the health risks of tobacco smoking. It’s not clear how much money the province is seeking, but the four major companies dispute the cigarettes sold in New Brunswick were not their cigs.
