Tobacco and Cigarette Events

• Tobacco Advertisements Can Affect Smokers but not Non-Smokers

  Published on July 25, 2008 2:48 AM

  Tobacco Companies reported that tobacco advertising doesn’t increase tobacco consumption, and also doesn’t encourage non-smokers to start smoking, as many scientists have said. Instead, tobacco advertising can encourage existing smokers …

• Japan Tobacco Groups Call for No Tax Growth

  Published on July 22, 2008 3:37 AM

  Japan Tobacco Inc. , tobacco farmers and cigarette retailers on at the same time called on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party not to raise the tobacco tax. The tobacco industry parties submitted the written claim to Sadakazu Tanigaki, who …

• Dutch smokers pine for the aroma of cigarettes smoke

  Published on July 21, 2008 3:04 AM

  Smoking ban goes into effect in Dutch cafes, on July 1. But smoking marijuana in Dutch cafes is still permitted under the new law, as long the drug is not mixed with tobacco . Owners of cafes and bars are bracing for a feared plunge in …

• Flavored cigarettes attract minors to smoking

  Published on June 30, 2008 6:42 AM

  Health researchers found that flavored cigarettes attract minors to smoking . That’s why for the first time, Congress is attempting to regulate tobacco by eliminating cigarette flavoring such as clove and cinnamon in an effort to minimize …

• Rising cigarette prices - bad idea

  Published on June 16, 2008 5:21 AM

  Lawmakers have proposed raising taxes on Japanese cigarettes , because Japan is a country where smoking kills about 100,000 people every year. Japan Tobacco Inc ., the world's third-largest cigarette maker, stated that the higher cigare …

• Otitis media and passive smoking

  Published on June 6, 2008 4:39 AM

  A group of researchers from Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research have found a strong link between childhood ear infections and passive smoking . The scientists investigated the causes of otitis media (middle ear infection …

• Should Multiple Sclerosis patients stop smoking?

  Published on June 2, 2008 3:53 AM

  Scientists have studied 368 smokers and nonsmokers with Multiple Sclerosis in order to find the effects of smoking . They have found that people who have multiple sclerosis should not smoke, because smoking can increase the size of brain ti …

• Smoking ban is supposed to save lives

  Published on May 29, 2008 7:25 AM

  World Health Organization has noticed that banning smoking in public places is supposed to save lives. It encourages people to smoke less, in that way they do themselves and those around them less harm. The way the smoking ban works may …

• Temp cigarettes are re-born

  Published on April 24, 2008 2:37 AM

  Recently, Tutun CTC , a Moldavian tobacco producer and seller, has launched a new variety of one of its famous Temp brand , Temp Export into the local market. As the producer stated, Temp Export is an improved variation of the old Temp bra …

• The quantity of decline in smoking is related directly to the cigarette tax increase

  Published on April 21, 2008 3:41 AM

  The USA Congress considers that higher cigarette taxes have produced sharp declines in consumption. Anti-tobacco researchers have also shown that the amount of decline in smoking is connected directly to the size of the tax increase. In …