Tobacco Use in Movies Increased, Kids Smokers

Onscreen tobacco use increased by 34% per movie last year in films targeted at children and teens, according to a new study. Researchers say the dramatic rise in smoking scenes in top-grossing U.S. movies with a G, PG, or PG-13 rating ends five years of steady decline in onscreen tobacco use. “The growth in onscreen tobacco use in 2011 reversed years of progress toward tobacco-free youth-rated movies,” write researcher Stanton Glantz, PhD, of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues in Preventing Chronic Disease.

Contraband Cigarettes Grabed at Beit Bridge

Contraband cigarettes worth about R3 million have been confiscated at the Beit Bridge border post, the Tobacco Institute of SA (Tisa) said on Thursday. On Tuesday, SA Revenue Services (Sars) customs officials found the cigarettes in a fuel tanker coming into Limpopo from Zimbabwe, Tisa said in a statement. Around 25 000 cartons were concealed in the fuel tanker and its trailer. The tanks had been fitted with false compartments around the top access hatch, which meant that a dipstick test would have indicated the tanker was empty.

Advertisements Tempts Local Smokers

As the young boy ran from the translucent cloud of toxic cigarette smoke, he sent a powerful message about harm reduction.The No Durri for this Murri campaign aims to reduce indigenous smoking rates by getting the community thinking about harm reduction. North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health yesterday launched its second advertising strategy aimed the local Indigenous community.

Tobacco Products Advertising Banned, Ukraine News

The law banning tobacco products advertising has come into force. The document was signed by President Viktor Yanukovych and published in March, but has come into force as of September 16 according to transition provisions.

Smokers in the Vale Urged to Quit

SMOKERS in the Vale are being urged to stub their cigarettes out and join a 28-day quitting challenge. Stoptober, the first ever mass quit attempt launched by the Department of Health, gets underway on Monday, October 1. The campaign is backed by Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation and is bidding to encourage the nation's eight million smokers to give up.

Big Tobacco Against Cigarettes Ads Ban

Big Tobacco is fighting a multi-pronged battle to defeat a global wave of laws to force them to use graphic warning labels and plain packaging. It has won a major legal battle in the U.S. this month but it has lost in Australia.