Jessica Miller | January 5, 2012
Plans are under way to legally require the display of cigarette additives known to cause addiction by causing smoke to be inhaled more directly into the lungs or improving the cigarette’s taste. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday that current laws on cigarettes “are lacking in cigarette safety management, with no standards for managing the various cigarette additives with harmful ingredients, or regulations requiring their display.”
Category: Cigarette Market, Cigarettes Online Store |
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Tags: cigarettes additives, smoking policy
Jessica Miller | October 27, 2011
British American Tobacco has warned that a squeeze on disposable income and tax hikes by cash-strapped governments are pushing smokers into a growing illicit tobacco market. The world’s second largest tobacco company and producer of the Lucky Strike brand said a growing trade in illegal cigarettes was a threat to its business, overshadowing a rise in sales of BAT’s legitimate products.
Category: Cigarette Market, Contraband Smokes, tobacco industry, Tobacco tax |
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Jessica Miller | August 17, 2011
Lorillard, the maker of Newport cigarettes, said that it and three other tobacco companies sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday seeking to stop the agency from putting new warnings on Chesterfield cigarettes. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, Greensboro, N.C.-based Lorillard said in a statement. The company said it was joined in the complaint by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Commonwealth Brands and Liggett Group.
Category: Cigarette Market, Tobacco Regulations |
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Tags: chesterfield cigarettes, lorillard tobacco company
Jessica Miller | August 8, 2011
Electronic cigarettes are the newest thing for smokers who are facing continually greater difficulty engaging in their habit due to increasing anti-smoking regulations and public opinion. Smokeless cigarettes have been around for a few years now, providing smokers with the ability to smoke Camel cigarettes in a new way that is much less intrusive for others. Electronic cigarettes, or E-cigarettes or even E cigs as they are known, do not produce the harmful tobacco smoke that regular cigarettes do.
Category: Cigarette Market, Electronic Cigarettes |
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Tags: camel cigarettes, e-cigs
Jessica Miller | August 4, 2011
In regards to the news article dated Aug. 2, “Best of both worlds,” tell that to the smoke shop owner who will more than likely have to close his doors because his customers are going out of state to buy Virginia cigarettes. Of course, if you ask Rep. Paul Ray he will probably deny it and maintain that 20 percent of the population in Evanston, Wyoming suddenly decided to start smoking.
Category: Cigarette Market, Smoking Habit |
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Tags: smoke shop, virginia cigarettes
