Jessica Miller | October 23, 2012
Drink green tea to get over the nicotine addiction, declared Chinese scientists — and this is a finding that medical professionals in Kerala have reacted positively to. A recent research titled `A Revolutionary Approach for the Cessation of Smoking Tobacco`, published in Science China Life Sciences, a peer-reviewed open-access journal, cites how investigators used custom-developed cigs with components of green tea as filters in a bid to treat addiction to smoking habit. Phinse Philip, a lecturer in the Community Oncology Division of the Malabar Cancer Centre, argued that pharmacotherapy such as nicotine replacement therapy had generally been found effective in getting smokers to quit smoking.
Category: Nicotine Addiction, quit smoking |
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Jessica Miller | October 22, 2012
Rates of illegal tobacco products sales into the UK have dropped despite earlier requests from the tobacco company that tax increases would prompt a raise in the illicit tobacco trade, official figures showed. An estimated nine percent of cigarettes in the UK in 2010/11 were illegal, in comparison with 11 percent in the previous year, according to HM Revenue & Customs. There was also a decrease in smuggled hand-rolled tobacco products too, from 42 percent to 38 percent.
Category: Contraband Smokes, Tobacco Sales |
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Jessica Miller | October 19, 2012
The West Chester Borough Council voted to enact a new law that would fine smokers at least $100 if they’re caught littering their cigarettes butts. “We have a big problem with the clearance of our streets,” said borough council president Holly Brown. “The cigarettes butts get stuck in our brick sidewalks, and this is an effort to try to ameliorate some of those problems.”
Category: Cigarette Business, smoking ban |
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Jessica Miller | October 18, 2012
The fact that it is an important election season has not slipped by anyone. Everyone is being attacked by campaign advertisements from the presidential race to the Missouri senatorial race. However, there is one thing that has not been publicized as much in the northwest part of the state that will be on the ballot this election. Missouri residents will have a spot on their votes this November for Proposition B. Prop. B is a ballot initiative designed to increased taxes on cigs and other smoking products. The proposed tax increase would raise the tax on all cigarettes by 73 cents.
Category: Cigarette Business, Cigarette Tax |
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Jessica Miller | October 17, 2012
Here it comes, couched in an otherwise rather obtuse debate about state tax ordinance — one more erroneous from the people who profit from the deadly and addictive smoking habit. “We’re still just selling free tobacco,” declared Renia Liu about her family-owned tobacco business, the Tobacco Roll shop in Clifton Park. Not quite. It’s selling tobacco products, all right, but in a way that horrible, if cleverly, dodges the appropriately high taxes on manufactured cigs.
Category: Cigarette Market, Tobacco tax |
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Drink green tea to get over the nicotine addiction, declared Chinese scientists — and this is a finding that medical professionals in Kerala have reacted positively to. A recent research titled `A Revolutionary Approach for the Cessation of Smoking Tobacco`, published in Science China Life Sciences, a peer-reviewed open-access journal, cites how investigators used custom-developed cigs with components of green tea as filters in a bid to treat addiction to smoking habit. Phinse Philip, a lecturer in the Community Oncology Division of the Malabar Cancer Centre, argued that pharmacotherapy such as nicotine replacement therapy had generally been found effective in getting smokers to quit smoking.
