Jessica Miller | November 12, 2012
It may only be a game to most inhabitants, but to Rockhampton’s Emily Christie it could be the first stage of a lifelong battle with a smoking addiction. The University of Sydney has discovered that apps featuring pro-smoking content have earned more than 11 million smokers worldwide, with a majority of them believed to be kids. There are a number of pro-smoking apps available, all of them simulating the burning of a cig. Some have even made a game out of the speed the user can “roll” and smoke the cigarette. Emily, who is a CQUniversity student, argued that she believed these apps sent the wrong message to all kids.
Category: smoking addiction, Teen Smoker |
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Jessica Miller | November 9, 2012
In a tender to stamp out organized crime in the country, Uruguay has legalized the sale of approximately 20 marijuana cigs a month to its inhabitants. Users will be able to buy 40 grams – or 1.4oz – a month, about enough to roll up 20 joints and the sale will be regulated by the state with the dope being sold at a tobacco market price of almost $34. To regulate their purchases, smokers will be given a card with a bar-code that keeps track of the amount of pot each person purchases. Uruguayan President José Mujica, who previously announced new plans to grow up to 150 hectares of marijuana for sale to smokers, declared that his government hopes to remove the black tobacco market trade in pot – and related violence – by implementing this regulation.
Category: Illegal Tobacco, Marijuana Use |
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Jessica Miller | November 8, 2012
Karnataka is emerging as a big market for illegal tobacco trade in the country. These locally manufactured, tax-evading cigs have an impressive share of the cigarettes market, which is steadily growing in the state. According to the Euromonitor’s study, the illegal cigarettes trade is an alarmingly large and well-organised tobacco business with some of country’s largest makers of illegal cigs supplying more than three crore unlawful cigs in the state every month. Therefore, the government suffers an annual tax ruin of more than Rs60 crore.
Category: Illegal Tobacco, Smoke-Free Regulation |
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Jessica Miller | November 7, 2012
One of the biggest problem Missourians decided on Tuesday was whether to raise taxes on cigs, and late Tuesday night the issue was remoting 46 percent to 54 percent with only 48 percent of the limits reporting. You Decide 2012 Election Results Currently, Missouri has the lowest state taxes on all cigarettes in the nation. Inhabitants especially smokers pay 79 cents in state taxes on cigs in Kansas and only 17 cents in Missouri. Prop B would add 73 cents in state taxes per package, for a total of 90 cents. And if you do the math, it’s a 429 per cent tax hike, not 760, as opponents require.
Category: Cigarette Tax, Tobacco Control Law |
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Jessica Miller | November 6, 2012
Approximately one in five smokers continued to smoke tobacco while hospitalized, an observational research in a large urban hospital found. In general, 18.4 percent (95% CI 16.8 to 20) of patients who smoked cigs before admission also reported cigarettes use during their inpatient stay, in spite of the fact that almost two-thirds were given nicotine patches, according to Susan Regan, PhD, of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and colleagues. This represented a drop from 25 percent of inpatients who smoked tobacco during hospitalization a decade earlier, the scientists noted online in Archives of Internal Medicine.
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It may only be a game to most inhabitants, but to Rockhampton’s Emily Christie it could be the first stage of a lifelong battle with a smoking addiction. The University of Sydney has discovered that apps featuring pro-smoking content have earned more than 11 million smokers worldwide, with a majority of them believed to be kids. There are a number of pro-smoking apps available, all of them simulating the burning of a cig. Some have even made a game out of the speed the user can “roll” and smoke the cigarette. Emily, who is a CQUniversity student, argued that she believed these apps sent the wrong message to all kids.
