Dec 20, 2011

Quit Smoking With Green Smoke E-Cigs


Although people know and get been focused on the evil results with smoking and tobacco for years. Respected as a substitute for tobacco cigarettes, essentially, they’re cigarette-shaped devices that do not require a higher flame. Nicotine is stored inside the green Smoke cartridge. While smokeless cigarettes do contain nicotine, it’s the only chemical that users inhale, letting them satisfy their cravings.

Green Smoke is the world’s largest distributor of electronic cigarettes it is committed to providing smokers along with the nicotine sensations they are acustomed to devoid of the added social and medical problems.

Dec 15, 2011

Dutch no-smoking drive takes a hit


It's getting surprisingly easy to light up in the Netherlands these days — cheap Leana cigarettes, that is. Even as the Dutch government hardens its famous tolerance policy on marijuana, it is taking an increasingly relaxed stance toward tobacco, bucking the trend in nearly every other developed country.

Dec 13, 2011

Smoking Shows Remind us of Progress


Americans love to revisit history, whether it is inside the doors of a museum, on the pages of a history book or on television. This includes the millions of us who love watching Enoch “Nucky” Thompson on “Boardwalk Empire,” which is set during Prohibition, as well as “Mad Men’s” Don Draper and his coworkers at Sterling Cooper Advertising in the 1960s.

Dec 8, 2011

The Perils of Cigarette Smoking to Pregnancy


The research of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the US maintains in an online post through social networking sites that smoking during pregnancy causes a multitude of health problems for both the woman and her unborn baby such as complicated pregnancies, premature birth, low birth weight, stillbirth and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Dec 7, 2011

Altria Details Marlboro Performance Options


The new year will bring new options for Marlboro cigarette retailers. Although Philip Morris USA extended its Marlboro Leadership Price (MLP) option through the end of this year, its incentive program is being updated, and will offer an additional option beginning January 1.

Nov 30, 2011

Snuffing Out the Smokers

“The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health.” That’s what the Food and Drug Administration tells us on its website. My intuition makes me grateful that the FDA is there to protect me — to make sure that every drug is proven both safe and effective — but “protection” kills people. Last week, I discussed how the FDA kills by keeping useful medical devices off the market. Now, we learn the FDA threatens the health of cigarette smokers who want to quit.

Nov 28, 2011

Tobacco Giant Drops Demand to See Research on Teenage Smokers


The world's largest tobacco company has backed away from its demands to see thousands of confidential interviews with British teenagers gathered as part of a university research project into children's attitudes to smoking.

Philip Morris International, the makers of discount Marlboro cigarettes, has quietly dropped its Freedom of Information request to see the interviews held by researchers at Stirling University, after the company was widely condemned following revelations by The Independent in September.

Nov 25, 2011

Cigarette Giant Philip Morris Sues Australian Government

The Australian government is facing a lawsuit that could cost billions after tobacco giant Philip Morris instigated legal action over the incoming law forcing cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging. The controversial law, which comes into effect from late next year, is being closely watched by other governments in Europe, Canada and New Zealand as they consider similar moves.

Nov 22, 2011

Low-Tax Cigarettes Made in Online Store

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, as Freud supposedly said, but when is a cigarette a cigarette?

The city filed suit last week against a “roll your own” cigarette shop in Chinatown and a related one on Staten Island, where a pack of cigarettes can cost less than $5, because the stores are not collecting cigarette taxes. The stores, both called Island Smokes, do not sell packs of Marlboros and Newports. Instead, they sell loose tobacco and cigarette papers, and have machines that let customers fabricate their own cigarettes.

Nov 14, 2011

E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit

If you want a truly frustrating job in public health, try getting people to stop smoking. Even when researchers combine counselling and encouragement with nicotine patches and gum, few Dunhill cigarettes smokers quit. Recently, though, experimenters in Italy had more success by doing less.

Nov 9, 2011

Law Would Ban Smoking in Nation's Federal Buildings


As a way to protect the federal workforce and visitors to federal facilities from secondhand smoke, Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-CA) introduced legislation Friday to ban all smoking in federal buildings across the nation.

“Exposure to secondhand smoke is a serious health issue that drives up health care costs for all of us,” said Davis. “Federal workers should be able to work in a healthy, smoke-free environment.”

Nov 1, 2011

Burglar Loaded Up on Beer and Cigarettes


Whoever burglarized an Englewood convenience store is probably partaking of a smoke and a beer.

Charlotte County sheriff’s deputies responded to a burglary alarm at the RJR convenience store, 3725 South Access Road, at 10:45 p.m. Sunday. They discovered that someone entered through a broken rear window and stole an estimated $20,000 worth of merchandise, including 90 cartons and 42 packs of best quality Marlboro cigarettes, two cases of incense and seven cases of beer.

Oct 27, 2011

Tobacco Cessation Class


The U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa’s Health Promotion Department, in conjunction with the Occupational Health Clinic, provides a tobacco cessation program to assist service members and their families with their battle against nicotine addiction.

The program provides classes every Tuesday morning at the hospital for those who are interested in decreasing their tobacco intake or would like to quit, said Joanne Haynes, a health promotions specialist with the hospital.

Oct 26, 2011

Smoking Ban in Oconee County Parks

Oconee County’s parks could move from limited tobacco use to tobacco-free properties if county commissioners approve an advisory committee’s suggestion.

“It’s a lot easier to be a tobacco-free park,” said John Gentry, director of Oconee County Parks and Recreation Department.

The county’s Citizens Advisory Committee on Recreational Affairs recently suggested the policy change to commissioners. Oconee County currently has tobacco zones in its public parks where people can go to smoke cigarettes or use smokeless tobacco, but that arrangement confuses people, Gentry said.