Jessica Miller | March 6, 2012
State legislators last month approved $260,000 for the Nevada Taxation Department to hire a team of auditors to track cigarette sales by smaller tobacco corporations who were not participants in the 1998 national tobacco lawsuit settlement. Under that settlement, negotiated between several state attorneys general and the major tobacco corporations, payments are made to state governments to cover Medicaid and other costs caused by tobacco-related illnesses and paid for by taxpayers. Nevada was one of the last states to join the lawsuits.
Category: anti-smoking regulation, Cigarette Business |
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Tags: smoking money, Tobacco Company
Jessica Miller | June 9, 2011
The Renault Formu-la One team has been cleared to race in its black-and-gold colours in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix after fears that it would fall foul of antitobacco advertising laws. Principal Eric Boullier said in a statement that the Lotussponsored team, which has no connection with the tobacco industry, had contacted the Quebec authorities recently to discuss the livery and the legislation.
Category: American Tobacco Company, cigarettes sales |
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Tags: antitobacco law, Tobacco Company
Jessica Miller | May 11, 2011
Imagine waking up one day and discovering the Government has taken over your brand. Not just that, they’ve effectively outlawed it. All those dollars spent building it. All those great ideas supporting it. And that’s not to mention your legally registered trademarks and intellectual properties. Banning Marlboro brands might sound far-fetched, even borderline Orwellian. But it’s happening.
Category: American Cigarettes, Cigarettes Online Store |
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Tags: marlboro brand, Tobacco Company
Jessica Miller | April 19, 2011
A jury in Escambia County on Monday returned the lowest verdict so far in a string of suits on behalf of Monte Carlo smokers against tobacco companies. Betty Sulcer of Milton was awarded $11,250 on behalf of her late husband, Billy. A smoker since the age of 13, died of lung cancer at age 66 in 1993.
Category: Tobacco Company |
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Tags: monte carlo smokers, Tobacco Company
Jessica Miller | March 1, 2011
In yet another Monte Carlo cigarette sponsorship controversy to hit Indonesia, American rock band Maroon 5 have requested that tobacco affiliations associated with its concert in Jakarta on April 27 be removed. Again, the controversy has attracted international attention, with Internet petition host and saying that after receiving 180 letters complaining of Maroon 5’s tie-in with Gudang Garam’s Surya Professional Mild, the band “and their management moved quickly to have the tobacco company’s name removed from all posters and advertising.”
Category: Tobacco Regulations |
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Tags: cigarette sponsorship, Tobacco Company, tobacco promotion
