Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Law to ban smoking in vehicles with children

The anti-tobacco federal law, which will come into force next year, will ban smoking in private vehicles if a child younger than 12 years is present in the car.
The Ministry of Health has announced the executive regulations of the anti-tobacco flaw, which were approved by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, in the Cabinet’s Resolution No. 24 issued on July 21, 2013.  The said resolution will come into effect six months from the date of its issuance.
The regulations are part of the government’s efforts to establish an effective national anti-tobacco strategy to protect public health. Parliament cigarettes.
The ban on the vehicles aims to protect children from being exposed to cigarette smoke. The law also aims to reduce smoking among youth. A study carried out in Abu Dhabi showed that 28 per cent of children aged 15 years and younger, are smokers, while 30 per cent of people aged 18 and above are smokers.
The law bans any content that advertises tobacco products, such as newspaper advertisements, TV commercials and animations. It also bans importing tobacco products that are not in line with technical standards set by the UAE, and any violations regarding such imports can lead to a one year prison sentence and a fine ranging from Dh 100,000 to Dh 1 million, in addition to the confiscation of products.
The law also provides specifications on the packaging of tobacco products. All products must now display a large warning label on the front to raise awareness on the dangers of tobacco, and not to mislead them. Violators will be fined Dh100,000 to Dh1 million, and the fines can be doubled if the offence is repeated.
Tobacco products cannot be displayed near items marketed for children, or sportswear, health, food and electronic products. Tobacco products are also forbidden to be sold in locations that are 100 metres away from places of worship, and 15 metres away from kindergartens, schools, universities and colleges.
Shisha cafes will also have to be at least 150 metres away from residential areas. The regulations also specify that these cafes’ working hours will be from 10am to 12pm. Shishas will not be served to customers younger than 18 years of age, and the cafes will be forbidden from delivering shishas to apartments.
Growing or producing tobacco for commercial purposes will also be forbidden, and current manufacturing plants have been given a grace period of 10 years to sort out their situation, and tobacco farms have been given a two-year grace period.
The UAE ratified the World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), the first international treaty negotiated under the auspices of WHO, in November 2005. The UAE anti-tobacco law was drafted by the Ministry of Health in 2006. In December 2009, the UAE issued its own federal anti-tobacco law.

Monday, December 16, 2013

New route to smoking addiction for adolescents: electronic cigarettes

E-cigarettes have been widely promoted as a way for people to quit smoking conventional cigarettes. Now, in the first study of its kind, UC San Francisco researchers are reporting that, at the point in time they studied, youth using e-cigarettes were more likely to be trying to quit, but also were less likely to have stopped smoking and were smoking more, not less.Parliament Cigarettes .
"We are witnessing the beginning of a new phase of the nicotine epidemic and a new route to nicotine addiction for kids," according to senior author Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF.
E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that look like cigarettes and deliver an aerosol of nicotine and other chemicals. Promoted as safer alternatives to cigarettes and smoking cessation aids, e-cigarettes are rapidly gaining popularity among adults and youth in the United States and around the world. The devices are largely unregulated, with no effective controls on marketing them to minors.
In the UCSF study, the researchers assessed e-cigarette use among youth in Korea, where the devices are marketed much the way they are in the U.S. The study analyzed smoking among some 75,000 Korean youth.
The study appears online in the current issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
"Our paper raises serious concern about the effects of the Wild West marketing of e-cigarettes on youth," said Glantz.
Despite industry claims that it markets only to adults, e-cigarettes have achieved substantial penetration into the youth market. In the U.S., the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that the majority of adolescent e-cigarette users also smoke regular cigarettes, and that the percentage of middle and high school students who use e-cigarettes more than doubled from 2011 to 2012. An estimated 1.78 million U.S. students had used the devices as of 2012, said the CDC.
In the UCSF study, the researchers report that four out of five Korean adolescent e-cigarette users are "dual" smokers who use both tobacco and e-cigarettes.
The authors conclude that young e-cigarette smokers "are more likely to have tried quitting smoking, which suggests that, consistent with cigarette marketing messages, some youth may be using e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid...Use of e-cigarettes is associated with heavier use of conventional cigarettes, which raises the likelihood that actual use of e-cigarettes may increase harm by creating a new pathway for youth to become addicted to nicotine and by reducing the odds that an adolescent will stop smoking conventional cigarettes."
The data for the study came from the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey, an annual, nationally-representative survey conducted by the Korea Centers for Disease Control in 2011. The sample included 75,643 youth in grades 7 through 12.
Sungkyu Lee, PhD, lead author of the paper and a UCSF postdoctoral fellow at the time that he conducted the study, noted that e-cigarette use has skyrocketed in Korea: less than one percent of youths had tried the product in 2008 when the device was first introduced, compared to more than nine percent in 2011. Lee is now on the staff of the National Evidence-Based Healthcare Collaborating Agency in Seoul, Korea.
Among students who used e-cigarettes, eight percent were concurrently smoking conventional cigarettes. After adjusting for demographics, current cigarette smokers in the study were found to be much more likely to use e-cigarettes than non-smokers.
The researchers also found that the odds of using e-cigarettes were considerably higher among students who had made an attempt to quit smoking than those who had not. Students no longer using cigarettes were rare among current e-cigarette users, the researchers said.

Friday, November 29, 2013

Teen makes miraculous progress nine months after synthetic marijuana nearly kills her

Emily Bauer's family was told in December the teenager would never recognize them again. She had suffered multiple strokes after smoking synthetic marijuana, and a large portion of her brain was damaged. She would be unaware of her surroundings and never regain control of her arms and legs, doctors said.
Nine months later, 17-year-old Emily returned to Cy-Fair High School in Cypress, Texas.

Now she rolls through the hallways with the help of aides who also read materials to her and take her notes. Emily is still partly blind and can no longer read or write, but she spends her mornings in class and afternoons taking steps and working toward recovery in therapy.
Emily's family believes her near-death experience was caused by synthetic marijuana, a dangerous substance also known as Spice, K2 or fake weed. It contains dried, shredded plant material and a variety of chemical compounds that are supposed to give users a high similar to smoking pot. Fake weed is marketed as a "safe" and "legal" alternative to drugs — although the National Institute on Drug Abuse says it is neither — and is sometimes sold as potpourri or incense at gas stations, head shops and convenience stores.

Smoking vet allowed to stay in home

A 90-year-old, WWII veteran was on the verge of being evicted from his apartment in Newington over a smoking rule and on Tuesday, he went to Housing Court in Hartford to avoid eviction.
Andy Nowicki, who is on oxygen and has trouble walking, and his 90-year-old wife, who suffers from dementia, live at his apartment at the Cedar Village Elderly Housing Complex.
Cedar Village is run by the Newington Housing Authority.
Nowicki received eviction papers this summer after he said he isn't able to follow the new rule requiring residents to smoke at least 10 feet outside their homes.
War wounds and other ailments can make it tough for Nowicki to get outside. He said he has done the best he can on his scooter, but sometimes he could only make it to a breezeway outside his apartment.
"I think there's nobody here to stand up for our elderly," said his daughter Janet Nowicki. "And if I wasn't here, my brother wasn't here, my family wasn't here, where would they be?"
On Tuesday, Nowicki was surrounded by fellow veterans at Housing Court. He said he would rather be in battle with them, than deal with the Newington Housing Authority.
"I'd rather go back to the infantry and be in the outfit I was with," Nowicki said.
Janet Nowicki spoke up for her parents, contacting state Sen. Paul Doyle, who volunteered to represent Andy Nowicki for free.
"I think today common sense prevailed," Doyle said. "This should have happened months ago."
Tuesday after hours of mediation, both sides reached an agreement.
The Housing Authority director left court without talking to Eyewitness News, but the station did learn they won't evict Andy Nowicki and his wife.
Andy Nowicki will still have to abide by the 10 foot rule when he smokes, but in order to make that possible the housing authority will make his apartment handicapped accessible in the next 30 days. Nowicki and his wife will also be moved to the top of the list for a fully handicapped accessible apartment when one becomes available.
Doyle said he is also working with the veterans affairs commissioner to put in a ramp and canopy. Veterans told Eyewitness News they were happy to help, but are disappointed it got to this point.
"I just learned one thing today," said veteran Russ Meek. "I saw how the state of Connecticut can really waste money on something so inappropriate as trying to pick on a 90-year-old veteran."

Monday, November 25, 2013

Illegal Tobacco Cost Australia A$1 Billion: KPMG Report

Illegal tobacco sales deprived the Australian government of about A$1 billion ($946 million) of taxes in the 12 months ended in June, according to a report commissioned by cigarette makers. Winston cigarettes online.
Accounting firm KPMG LLP released the study today as the first since a federal law prohibiting the sale of cigarettes in branded packages took effect Dec. 1 to discourage smoking and reduce related spending on health care. Illicit sales increased 1.5 percentage points to 13.3 percent of total shipments, while consumption didn’t drop in the year, according to the report.
Planned increases in tobacco taxes will cause illegal sales to increase, the report said, citing Scott McIntyre, a spokesman for British American Tobacco Plc’s Australian unit. Australia announced plans in August to boost tobacco excise to raise more than A$5 billion and help narrow the country’s fiscal deficit over the next four years.
“Instead of steep excise hikes, more resources for agencies and greater enforcement of plain pack laws by the health department will see a reduction in illegal tobacco sales,” McIntyre said.
Officials from Australia’s health department didn’t immediately respond to an e-mailed request for comment on the report, sent to the department’s media section.

Price Differentials

Taxes made up about 63 percent of the price of a packet of cigarettes last year in Australia, where a pack of 25 costs about A$20 for the best-selling brands. A pack of 20 Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) Marlboro brand cigarettes sells for A$15.96, compared with A$1.08 in Vietnam, A$2.66 in China and A$10.29 in Singapore, according to the KPMG report.
British American Tobacco, Philip Morris International Inc. and Imperial Tobacco Australia Ltd. commissioned the KPMG report.
About 17.4 million kilograms (38 million pounds) of tobacco were consumed in Australia in the year, matching the level in the previous 12 months and compared with 18 million kilograms in 2011, according to the report.
Australia last year banned the sale of cigarettes in packaging depicting tobacco companies’ trademarks and logos. Cigarettes are now sold in olive green packs, with graphic and written health warnings covering 70 percent of the front of a package. Brands are shown in uniform font at the bottom of the package.
Australia’s top court upheld the validity of the law on Aug. 16, 2012, dismissing a challenge from the tobacco companies arguing that the government illegally seized their intellectual property.
KPMG said tobacco companies set specific terms of reference and the report was issued to the parties “for information only.” The accounting firm didn’t specify the terms of reference in the report, which covered the 12 months ended June 2013.

Why Consumers Change Brands

Decades ago, a major cigarette brand won a lot of attention with the tagline “I’d rather fight than switch.” Today, U.S. consumers are switching brands to the tune of $1.3 trillion, and marketers appear to be swinging back with empty gloves. According to the recently released Accenture Global Consumer Pulse Survey, 51 percent of U.S. consumers switched their retailers, banks, cable companies and other service providers in 2013. That is up 5 percent from 2012, and it represents $1.3 trillion in lost sales to the dropped brands. Worse, to a loyalty marketer like me, is that only 18 percent of those surveyed said they feel like their service providers offer them tailored experiences. As the report states: “The gap between the use of digital technologies and the ability of companies to use them to improve customer experiences is highlighted by the survey’s findings that, among the 10 industries covered by the report, none made noticeable progress in providing customers with a tailored experience in 2013.

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” Not surprisingly, then, that the rate of loyalty among those surveyed consumers rose just 1 percent in the year, while their likelihood to recommend a brand rose 2 percent. These are troubling numbers, but it does not mean we loyalty marketers are down for the count. Rather, we should take these stats for what they are: an alarm bell. The loyalty marketing industry invests billions of dollars in personalization technologies, yet 82 percent of people do not think they are provided relevant experiences. Something is breaking down, and I suspect it is in that pipeline that runs between acquiring the technology and deploying the experience. The data insights are not being used to woo and wow the customer, but to craft eye-catching promotions that are relevant only to the expiration date. Companies tend to default to price as competition heats up, but you can only cut so far before hitting bone. To prevent the switch, brands should sprinkle their price tactics with some true personalization, which can be achieved through analysis of customer data. Why not try to create a brand experience that stands apart, based on what you know about customers? I’m not sure how dire the situation is and how far we are going to have to go to really push the metrics upwards, but it’s a complete miss if we are not taking advantage of the investments we make in this area. I’ll underscore the point with another finding from the research: 51 percent of those surveyed said they expect specialized treatment for being a good customer. Read more at http://www.business2community.com/loyalty-marketing/consumers-change-brands-0669505#E06Y8yWi1cmbtVwW.99

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Tobacco Is No Longer Tolerated at Valley City Parks

On the heels of a state wide smoking ban in public places, a North Dakota city is taking it one step further. Tobacco use is now against the law in city parks and several other city-owned areas in Valley City. Valley News team's Eric Crest clears the air on where smoking is, and is not, allowed in the city.
It wasn't long ago that the state of North Dakota decided it was time to embrace a new smoking ordinance.
"I loved it I absolutely loved it," says, Heather Hildebrant of Bismark.
The state wide ordinance kept cigarettes out of businesses and the approach to their entrances.
"I can bring my son outside and go anywhere and not worry about people smoking outside of buildings or inside of them anymore," adds Hildebrant. Cigaronne cigarettes .
Recently Valley City took it one step further. A handful of city property will be tobacco free now too.
"They can't smoke in any park owned property, any activity arenas outside, in any of our buildings," explains Dick Gulmon the President of the Park and Recreation Board for Valley City.
That includes playgrounds, spectator areas, athletic fields, concession areas, and even parking lots on nearly all of the cities property.
"It's our responsibility in managing the parks and recreation programming to set an example of a healthy lifestyle," says Gulmon.
"It drives me insane. They're not only effecting their body they're taking the choice away from everyone else around them that don't want it in their system," adds Hildebrant.
The Tobacco Prevention Coordinator in Valley City says by eliminating all tobacco use in public parks in town their not just reversing the normalization of tobacco use, but they're also impacting generations to come.
"I think it's the effect on the youth. I think promoting that healthy lifestyle and not seeing cigarette butts in the parks, and (not to mention) what that can do to the environment. But promoting that for the youth and setting that example," says Gulmon.
Because as the state and cities alike continue taking steps like these, it's the youth, that will reap the benefits.
"It's their choice I guess. What they want to do with their body. But it just bugs me when they do it around other people cause then we're stuck with the consequence of their choices," says Hildebrant.
Not all public parks in Valley City are tobacco free just yet. The local Tourist Park Campground and Bjornson's Public Golf Course did not end up on the list. The park board mentioned that out of concern for a loss of business to neighboring communities, they made an exception.

Vt. says time for addicts to quit smoking, too

Cigarettes and alcohol addiction are so strongly linked there's a running joke among those trying to quit, says T.K. Blanchard, who's been sober for a year and smoke-free for eight months.
"The joke is that when you see a lot of people smoking outside a church, you know where the (Alcoholics Anonymous) meeting is," the Montpelier 24-year-old says.
Now the state Department of Health wants to put into place a tobacco-free policy at state-funded addiction treatment centers. It's a policy that dozens of other states have already adopted. Vermont plans to put the policy into place July 1. Galaxy cigarettes.
Barbara Cimaglio, deputy health commissioner in charge of Vermont's alcohol and drug abuse prevention program, said the department can set the policy because it licenses the facilities and because the state's Medicaid program provides about 70 percent of the centers' funding.
She said tobacco is one of the biggest burdens of the population of people with addiction or mental illness. And "people say, 'Oh gosh, this poor guy is giving up alcohol and drugs — you expect him to give up cigarettes, too?' Yet we know from a health perspective, this is the thing to do."
At Another Way, a peer-support center where recovering addicts and former psychiatric patients gather, people getting ready for a meeting Tuesday offered a range of perspectives.
Blanchard was among them. He said he spent 50-days at a residential treatment center, Valley Vista in Bradford, last year, and wasn't ready during his stay there to give up tobacco. "That was the last thing I had ... It was a comfort," he said.
But four months into sobriety after leaving the center, he quit cigarettes, too. "The techniques I had learned for staying sober from drugs and alcohol made me ready when I decided to quit smoking," he said.
Others were skeptical, the new policy can work.
"That's going to be a rough one," said Ed Woods, 50. "AA, cigarettes, coffee — they kind of go hand-in-hand."
At the Brattleboro Retreat, a private psychiatric hospital that takes some of its patients under contract with the state, Kurt White, director of ambulatory services, said tobacco use was "vastly more prevalent" among people with substance abuse and mental health problems than among the general population. He said the Retreat has had a smoke-free campus for several years, but will offer nicotine patches to inpatients who arrive with a cigarette habit.
"There's a growing body of evidence that people do better with both their addictions and smoking cessation if they quit everything at once," White said. Often there are "paired associations," he said. "That drink of alcohol might have gone with a cigarette. The cigarette might have been a cue to drinking."
Cimaglio cited hospitals and newsrooms as among the places where smoking once was part of the culture but no longer is.
"This is sort of the last place where we haven't changed the culture," she said of mental health and substance abuse programs. "And there's really no reason we shouldn't do better."

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Electronic Cigarettes Get Amended to Anti Smoking Law

After further discussion on electronic cigarettes, Benicia Council upheld amending these battery functioned devices to the city’s anti smoking laws. As per the law, use of electronic cigarettes would be restricted in indoor places including restaurants, offices and stores etc. E cigarette reviews lay claim that these products are being widely used by consumers at these places including bars but the ordinance does not ban its use in bars. So, till then, the users would be able to use one’s favorite and the best electronic cigarette brands as per their choice.

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Reynolds continues to protect trademarks in e-cigarette suits


Protecting the Camel and Winston trademarks from misuse by small electronic-cigarette retailers has kept a Reynolds American Inc. subsidiary quite busy over the past four years.
Reynolds Innovations Inc. has filed 29 lawsuits in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of N.C. since August 2009, with the last being submitted July 1.
In all 21 closed cases, the Reynolds subsidiary won a final judgment and/or permanent injunction to keep the companies from marketing products similar to the Reynolds brands in taste or logo. In many cases, Reynolds received damages. Another four have either reached a settlement or the judgment stage.

Old tobacco playbook gets new use by e-cigarettes


Companies vying for a stake in the fast-growing electronic cigarette business are reviving the decades-old marketing tactics the tobacco industry used to hook generations of Americans on regular smokes.
They’re using cab-top and bus stop displays, sponsoring race cars and events, and encouraging smokers to “rise from the ashes” and take back their freedom in slick TV commercials featuring celebrities like TV personality Jenny McCarthy.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Smoking Leads to More Drinking, Researchers Find in Mice Models

Researchers have repeatedly observed that smokers tend to drink more alcohol than other people. Smoking alone is already extremely detrimental to one's health, adding excessive drinking to the mix can cut one's lifespan severely. In order to find ways of preventing people from excessively indulging in both vices, figuring out the association between smoking and alcohol would be vital. In a recent study, researchers decided to analyze why smokers tend to drink more in mouse models."It's pretty well understood by most people that those who smoke are more likely to drink," professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, John Dani said according to NPR. "And these people are ten times more likely to abuse alcohol."

Assemblywoman Glick Slams Report, Accuses Reporter of Smoking Pot

Assemblywoman Deborah Glick is dismissing as “fiction” a report alleging she is leading a coup of female lawmakers to depose Shelly Silver as Assembly speaker.
The New York Post’s Fred Dicker reported this morning that Mr. Silver is facing a “serious leadership threat’’ from 30 Democratic Assemblywomen fed up after being forced to defend him in the wake of the Vito Lopez sexual harassment scandal.
“Assembly insiders” reportedly told Mr. Dicker that the women “may be looking to topple Silver next year”—with Ms. Glick described as the most likely challenger to the speaker.
But Ms. Glick, who represents parts of Manhattan, immediately took to Twitter to dismiss the story, accusing Mr. Dicker–the dean of the Albany press corps–of being high. Gauloises Cigarettes online.

Foreign groups to observe Davao’s stiff anti-smoking measures

Anti-smoking advocates from nine Asian countries will be meeting here with their Filipino counterparts in this month to observe the city’s toughened ordinance against smoking and its high-regulated sale of tobacco products.
Dr. Domilyn Villarriez, deputy chair of the city’s Anti-Smoking Task Force, said anti-smoking advocates from Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam, spend a whole day to visit smoke-free places here and will also discuss ways on how to effectively adopt and implement similar laws in their respective homes.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Smokers welcomed back inside the work place

Chris Putnam lights up at his desk several times a day. And, surprisingly enough, nobody seems to care.
“We can pretty much do it anywhere we want,” said Putnam, who is allowed to smoke electronic cigarettes while he handles phone and front-counter sales for XL Parts in Fort Worth.
By being allowed to use the e-cigarettes inside the workplace, Putnam and his co-workers at the auto parts distribution company who also use the devices say they get more work done. They are commonly known as “vapers.”
A pro-vaping policy “helps the company and me,” said Putnam. “To smoke here you have to go completely outside the building, a good 15-minute round trip that you’re not working.”
XL Parts may be part of a growing number of employers who still don’t want to see tobacco smoke in the workplace, but who turn a blind eye to e-cigarette vapors, changing policies that often banish employees to the far corners of the property, advocates of smoking alternatives said.
Some companies, unlike XL Parts, are reluctant to publicize that they allow vaping, the Star-Telegram found. Many of the 1,200 or so members of North Texas Vapers — an organization that has more than doubled its membership in the last year — have a don’t-ask-don’t-tell-like arrangements with their employers, said Mike Wright, founder of the group.
They can use their e-cigarettes in their cubicles or offices “as long as it doesn’t draw negative attention,” he said. “That improves efficiency about 30 percent because they’re not stopping work to get up and go somewhere to vape. But if there are one or two yoyos that want to make smoke signals, it ruins it for everybody.”
It’s difficult to tell how many employers are pro-vaping, said Carl V. Phillips, a spokesman for Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association.
Unfortunately, there’s “an enormous amount of political pressure to shut down the freedom of e-cigarattes that has nothing to do with anything legitimate,” he said.
Stop-smoking aid
An e-cigarette simulates smoking by vaporizing a liquid inserted into the device into an aerosol mist. The vapor produced by e-cigarettes isn’t completely odorless, but the aromas aren’t unpleasant and don’t hang in the air or cling to the users like tobacco smoke.
For the vapers, the devices give them the nicotine hit they crave, and they are often used by individuals who are trying to stop smoking. Putnam, for example, is a former cigarette smoker who kicked tobacco by switching to an e-cigarette.
Linc Williamsthe director of We Are Vapers , a documentary on the vaping movement, said e-cigarettes help people quit smoking, but don’t encourage anyone to smoke, or vape.
“The ASH UK, which is an anti-smoking group in the United Kingdom, did a survey of people and found no evidence to support this gateway argument,” he saie tobacco alternative is growing. According to studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 10 percent of adult cigarette smokers had tried e-cigarettes in 2010. In 2011, that number grew to 21 percent. A CDC spokesperson said that about 6 percent of all adults surveyed in 2011 had tried e-cigarettes, roughly double the number in 2010.
Despite claims that e-cigarrettes are a better alternative, anti-smoking organizations are also anti-vaping.
The American Cancer Society’s advocacy arm, the Cancer Action Network, has called on the Food and Drug Administration to regulate e-cigarettes, said spokeswoman Joy Donovan Brandon.
“There has been a dramatic increase in use, so there’s a push for the FDA to regulate these products,” Donovan said. “We think people have the right to know what they’re inhaling.”
The American Lung Association also is concerned about e-cigarettes “because no one knows what’s in them and what the ultimate impact on our health will be,” said spokeswoman Mary Havel McGinty.
“We don’t know what the long-term consequences of the use of electronic cigarettes are, and whether or not it will start kids on a lifelong addiction to nicotine,” McGinty said.
Vapers who mix their own or buy liquids from specialized dealers and online sources know what they’re inhaling, Wright said. It is a vaporized solution of water, propylene glycol and/or vegetable glycerin, food-grade flavoring and nicotine in strengths that typically vary from about 18 milligrams to zero, he said.
But many vapers are just as interested in FDA regulation of e-cigarettes, said Spike Babaian, president of the National Vapers Club. Td.
Awareness of thhe group has concerns about the health of its members who have consumed an unregulated product “and we hope that the FDA will expedite the process of proposing safety regulations for e-cigarettes in the interest of public health,” she said.
Secondhand vapor
The perception that the e-cigarettes are at least safer to those who sit around someone who is using them was enough for the new owners of XL Parts, who banned smoking in the warehouse but did allow e-cigarettes to be used by employees at their desks.
“We have several people who use them, probably six or eight,” said Cecil Traister, a shop supervisor who has never smoked. “They’re basically odorless.”
Junior Del Angel, a vaper who’s on the management team of a Fuzzy’s Taco in Arlington, said he and other vaping employees don’t do it around the food or in the dining area. But his occasional vaping behind the cash register hasn’t upset anyone. Smoking news online.
“Sometimes people see me do it and they’re curious about the e-cigarette,” he said. “But I explain it to them and they’re OK with it.”
So far, the city of Arlington’s OK with it, too, despite the fact that tobacco use is forbidden almost everywhere. The use of e-cigarettes is not prohibited under the city’s smoking ordinance, said spokeswoman Sana Syed.
“Since vaping is not prohibited under our current smoking ordinance, it would be left to each property or business owner to set their own policies regarding the use of the product,” she said.
Area cities that don’t treat vaping and smoking differently include Fort Worth and Colleyville.
The issue of whether to allow or prohibit vaping hasn’t come up in Southlake, said spokeswoman Pilar Schank.
Euless also doesn’t have an official policy on vaping. But it imposes a monthly surcharge on health insurance for employees and their spouses who use tobacco products, said spokeswoman Betsy Deck. Tobacco cessation products prescribed by a physician are 100 percent covered by the city, but not e-cigarettes.
“With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, electronic cigarettes are no longer considered a viable option for quitting smoking,” she said. “I’m not sure the reason.”
But policies and opinions aside, Wright said that clever vapers can do it virtually anywhere with impunity. Because the vapor dissipates so quickly, stealth vaping can be done practically under people’s noses without them being aware.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/07/13/4999807/smokers-welcomed-back-inside-the.html#storylink=cpy

Review to examine if e-cigarettes should only be sold in pharmacies

The review has been ordered by Health Minister James Reilly who said he wants to get more information before deciding if they should be licensed.
Dr Reilly has already said he has not decided if he will follow the UK and make them licensed here. He said the Department of Health is carrying out a review first.
The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) would then decide, on the recommendation of Dr Reilly, whether the e-cigarettes would be licensed.
A spokeswoman for the IMB said yesterday it is waiting for a recommendation from the department.
It comes as the European Parliament voted to classify e-cigarettes as a medicinal product, meaning they can be prescribed by doctors to help smokers cut down or quit.
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E-cigarettes are inhalers that vapourise liquid nicotine into an aerosol mist, simulating the act of tobacco smoking.
They are without the cancer causing ingredients of cigarettes, but contain nicotine which is addictive.
There are no regulations here setting down the provisions for their sale or advertisement.

So much for workplace smoking bans?

Chris Putnam lights up at his desk several times a day. And, surprisingly enough, nobody seems to care.
"We can pretty much do it anywhere we want," said Putnam, who is allowed to smoke electronic cigarettes while he handles phone and front-counter sales for XL Parts in Fort Worth.
By being allowed to use the e-cigarettes inside the workplace, Putnam and his co-workers at the auto parts distribution company who also use the devices say they get more work done. They are commonly known as "vapers." Cigarettes regular cheap.
A pro-vaping policy "helps the company and me," said Putnam. "To smoke here you have to go completely outside the building, a good 15-minute round trip that you're not working."

XL Parts may be part of a growing number of employers who still don't want to see tobacco smoke in the workplace, but who turn a blind eye to e-cigarette vapors, changing policies that often banish employees to the far corners of the property, advocates of smoking alternatives said.
Some companies, unlike XL Parts, are reluctant to publicize that they allow vaping, the Star-Telegram found. Many of the 1,200 or so members of North Texas Vapers -- an organization that has more than doubled its membership in the last year -- have a don't-ask-don't-tell-like arrangements with their employers, said Mike Wright, founder of the group.
They can use their e-cigarettes in their cubicles or offices "as long as it doesn't draw negative attention," he said. "That improves efficiency about 30 percent because they're not stopping work to get up and go somewhere to vape. But if there are one or two yoyos that want to make smoke signals, it ruins it for everybody."
It's difficult to tell how many employers are pro-vaping, said Carl V. Phillips, a spokesman for Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association.
Unfortunately, there's "an enormous amount of political pressure to shut down the freedom of e-cigarattes that has nothing to do with anything legitimate," he said.
Stop-smoking aid
An e-cigarette simulates smoking by vaporizing a liquid inserted into the device into an aerosol mist. The vapor produced by e-cigarettes isn't completely odorless, but the aromas aren't unpleasant and don't hang in the air or cling to the users like tobacco smoke.
For the vapers, the devices give them the nicotine hit they crave, and they are often used by individuals who are trying to stop smoking. Putnam, for example, is a former cigarette smoker who kicked tobacco by switching to an e-cigarette.
Linc Williamsthe director of We Are Vapers , a documentary on the vaping movement, said e-cigarettes help people quit smoking, but don't encourage anyone to smoke, or vape.
"The ASH UK, which is an anti-smoking group in the United Kingdom, did a survey of people and found no evidence to support this gateway argument," he said.
Awareness of the tobacco alternative is growing. According to studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 10 percent of adult cigarette smokers had tried e-cigarettes in 2010. In 2011, that number grew to 21 percent. A CDC spokesperson said that about 6 percent of all adults surveyed in 2011 had tried e-cigarettes, roughly double the number in 2010.
Despite claims that e-cigarrettes are a better alternative, anti-smoking organizations are also anti-vaping.
The American Cancer Society's advocacy arm, the Cancer Action Network, has called on the Food and Drug Administration to regulate e-cigarettes, said spokeswoman Joy Donovan Brandon.
"There has been a dramatic increase in use, so there's a push for the FDA to regulate these products," Donovan said. "We think people have the right to know what they're inhaling."
The American Lung Association also is concerned about e-cigarettes "because no one knows what's in them and what the ultimate impact on our health will be," said spokeswoman Mary Havel McGinty.
"We don't know what the long-term consequences of the use of electronic cigarettes are, and whether or not it will start kids on a lifelong addiction to nicotine," McGinty said.
Vapers who mix their own or buy liquids from specialized dealers and online sources know what they're inhaling, Wright said. It is a vaporized solution of water, propylene glycol and/or vegetable glycerin, food-grade flavoring and nicotine in strengths that typically vary from about 18 milligrams to zero, he said.
But many vapers are just as interested in FDA regulation of e-cigarettes, said Spike Babaian, president of the National Vapers Club. The group has concerns about the health of its members who have consumed an unregulated product "and we hope that the FDA will expedite the process of proposing safety regulations for e-cigarettes in the interest of public health," she said.
Secondhand vapor
The perception that the e-cigarettes are at least safer to those who sit around someone who is using them was enough for the new owners of XL Parts, who banned smoking in the warehouse but did allow e-cigarettes to be used by employees at their desks.
"We have several people who use them, probably six or eight," said Cecil Traister, a shop supervisor who has never smoked. "They're basically odorless."
Junior Del Angel, a vaper who's on the management team of a Fuzzy's Taco in Arlington, said he and other vaping employees don't do it around the food or in the dining area. But his occasional vaping behind the cash register hasn't upset anyone.
"Sometimes people see me do it and they're curious about the e-cigarette," he said. "But I explain it to them and they're OK with it."
So far, the city of Arlington's OK with it, too, despite the fact that tobacco use is forbidden almost everywhere. The use of e-cigarettes is not prohibited under the city's smoking ordinance, said spokeswoman Sana Syed.
"Since vaping is not prohibited under our current smoking ordinance, it would be left to each property or business owner to set their own policies regarding the use of the product," she said.
Area cities that don't treat vaping and smoking differently include Fort Worth and Colleyville.
The issue of whether to allow or prohibit vaping hasn't come up in Southlake, said spokeswoman Pilar Schank.
Euless also doesn't have an official policy on vaping. But it imposes a monthly surcharge on health insurance for employees and their spouses who use tobacco products, said spokeswoman Betsy Deck. Tobacco cessation products prescribed by a physician are 100 percent covered by the city, but not e-cigarettes.
"With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, electronic cigarettes are no longer considered a viable option for quitting smoking," she said. "I'm not sure the reason."
But policies and opinions aside, Wright said that clever vapers can do it virtually anywhere with impunity. Because the vapor dissipates so quickly, stealth vaping can be done practically under people's noses without them being aware.

Monday, July 8, 2013

Petaluma council toughens smoking restrictions

The Petaluma City Council unanimously voted Monday to broaden citywide restrictions on smoking to include private living spaces, medical marijuana and electronic cigarettes.
Most restrictions will take effect in a month in public places, such as bus stops, outdoor dining areas, city parking lots and commercial sidewalks.
The restrictions covering private living quarters will be phased in. In existing apartments, duplexes and condos -- any housing with at least one shared wall -- smoking will be prohibited beginning Dec. 16 to allow for leases to expire and to be changed. New multi-family housing units must be smoke-free by July 16.
Monday's action was a second-reading of the ordinance, usually capped by a pro forma vote with little dialogue.
But questions had been raised since last month's initial discussion, mostly about the inclusion of electronic cigarettes. No objections to regulating medical marijuana use were raised at either meeting.
Petaluma's ordinance was the result of efforts by the American Lung Association and other health groups to protect nonsmokers from exposure to carcinogenic second-hand smoke.
Police Chief Pat Williams and Pam Granger of the Lung Association urged the council to treat e-cigarettes the same as regular cigarette smoke.
An e-cigarette consists of a battery, a heating element and a cartridge that contains a liquid suspension with nicotine. When a user inhales from the cartridge, the liquid is heated and a vapor is emitted. The devices often look like a cigarette or pen.

Why quitting smoking can seem so hard

Smoking tobacco is both a physical addiction and a psychological habit. The nicotine from cigarettes provides a temporary, and addictive, high. Eliminating that regular fix of nicotine will cause your body to experience physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings. Because of nicotine’s “feel good” effect on the brain, you may also have become accustomed to smoking as a way of coping with stress, depression, anxiety, or even boredom.
At the same time, the act of smoking is ingrained as a daily ritual. It may be an automatic response for you to smoke a cigarette with your morning coffee, while taking a break from work or school, or during your commute home at the end of a long day. Perhaps friends, family members, and colleagues smoke, and it has become part of the way you relate with them.
To successfully quit smoking, you’ll need to address both the addiction and the habits and routines that go along with it.

Your Personal Stop Smoking Plan

While some smokers successfully quit by going cold turkey, most people do better with a plan to keep themselves on track. A good plan addresses both the short–term challenge of quitting smoking and the long–term challenge of preventing relapse. It should also be tailored to your specific needs and smoking habits.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Act Now or Risk Being a Nation of Smokers

Without government initiatives to curb tobacco use, Indonesia’s legion of smokers could double from 74 million last year to 140 million by 2020, new research by the University of Indonesia estimates.
While 27 percent of the adult male population in Indonesia were smokers in 1995, the figure jumped to 67 percent in 2011, data compiled from the National Socio-Economic Survey, the Basic Health Care Survey and the Global Adult Tobacco Survey indicate.
From 1995 to 2011, the number of female smokers rose to 4.5 percent from 1.7 percent.
The university’s Demography Institute attributed the rapidly swelling ranks of smokers to increased spending power among the country’s growing middle class, which made cigarettes more affordable.
The researchers noted that cigarette producers are still not required to place graphic warnings on their cigarette packs, as required in many countries.

Friday, June 14, 2013

What Other Adverse Effects Does Tobacco Have on Health?



Cigarette smoking accounts for about one-third of all cancers, including 90 percent of lung cancer cases. Smokeless tobacco (such as chewing tobacco and snuff) also increases the risk of cancer, especially oral cancers. In addition to cancer, smoking causes lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and increases the risk of heart disease, including stroke, heart attack, vascular disease, and aneurysm. Smoking has also been linked to leukemia, cataracts, an On average, adults who smoke die 14 years earlier than nonsmokers.

Although nicotine is addictive and can be toxic if ingested in high doses, it does not cause cancer—other chemicals are responsible for most of the severe health consequences of tobacco use. Tobacco smoke is a complex mixture of chemicals such as carbon monoxide, tar, formaldehyde, cyanide,

Researchers have found a new technique that blocks an inflammatory protein

Researchers have found a new technique that blocks an inflammatory protein and reverses lung damage from tobacco smoke in a mouse study. The findings could lead to novel treatments for patients with COPD and smoking related lung diseases.

Granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is released from the effect of tobacco smoke and leads to lung inflammation, destroying the lung tissue and resulting in emphysema. Blocking GM-CSF reduced the inflammation and lung damage from tobacco smoke, reversing the harmful effect of tobacco smoke in mice given a GM-CSF blocking agent.

Ross Vlahos, Ph.D., a senior research fellow with the lung disease research group at the University of Melbourne says, "Cigarette smoke-exposed mice that were treated with an anti-GM-CSF had significantly less lung inflammation in comparison to untreated mice. This indicates that GM-CSF is a key mediator in smoke-induced lung inflammation and its neutralization may have therapeutic implications in diseases such as COPD."

The researchers exposed mice to tobacco smoke - half were given the GM-CSF blocking agent and the other half were used as controls. After subjecting the mice to tobacco smoke that was equivalent to nine cigarettes daily for four days, researchers killed the mice then examined their lung tissue, finding that the GM-CSF blocking agent "strongly reduced the number of potentially harmful white blood cells that infiltrate the lung after smoke exposure, as well as inhibiting the pro-inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF)" that could lead to lung cancer.

Quitting smoking is still the best way to prevent and reverse lung damage from tobacco smoke warns Dr. Vlahos. "Our treatment deals with cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation involved in COPD, not cancer and other smoking-related ailments. Quitting remains the best and only cure for smoking-related lung disease." The findings that damage from tobacco smoke was reversed in mice by blocking GM-CSF could also have clinical applications for other inflammatory related disease.

Monday, May 20, 2013

Marlboro Country Store

At its 'Country Store'a recent issue of the U.S. edition of "Advertising Age", announces the launch of a new promotion for Marlboro - the promotion of the country's Store. Double album spreads in magazines such as Life and Sports Illustrated illustrate the range of fourteen elements of Western-style ...Stetson hats, belts and buckles, lariats, saddles, outdoor cooking items and so on. Order form asks for two Marlboro bag or box end label to send it. "Owls: in life should be strong in the high country of Marlboro", says an editorial in Ad Age ", according to the price points of Philip Morris Inc., was driven into its new cheap Marlboro Country Store promotion.
" We are talking about prices range from $ 225 for the lining of the sheep Cowboy sheepskin wool coat, to $ 2.50 per set of four "chuck wagon coffee cup."

Thursday, May 16, 2013

American cigarette manufacturers increased advertising budgets by 85% since 1998 November throwing away the legal settlement with the states to curtail their marketing expenditure. The saga doesn't end just there; investigation reports reveal how inter-company feuds rage into wars decrying smokers of competitor brands as cowards and slobs so that they can push their brands harder.

Many cheap cigarettes manufacturers and exporters have their allegiance to the same manufacturers that can't watch their sales dwindling due to tax hikes and opened shops elsewhere in eastern European countries to take advantage of prevailing economic SOPs.

Buying cheap Marlboro cigarettes online or any discount cigarettes ordered over the internet may be legal and ethical as long as social responsibilities aren't breached. The only objectionable point here is silence of the importing governments and the practice of duality of taxation vis-a-vis locally manufactured cigarettes.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

The Massachusetts Smoking Ban Study

The anti-smokers claimed that, "The study, conducted by the state Department of Public Health and the Harvard School of Public Health, shows that a steep decline in heart attack deaths started as Boston and most of its neighbors adopted bans. Enforcement of the statewide law beginning in mid-2004 coincided with a further reduction, the study found. From 2003 to 2006, heart attack deaths in Massachusetts

Workplace Smoking Bans Don't Reduce Heart Disease Death Rates

The four states which banned smoking in most workplaces during 2002-2003 did not experience dramatic drops in the rate of death from acute myocardial infarction during the year after their smoking bans were implemented. They also have not experienced greater declines in death rates from acute myocardial infarction than the rest of the United States. Connecticut banned smoking in the workplace, including restaurants and bars, but exempting casinos and private clubs, as of Oct. 1, 2003. Delaware banned smoking in all public buildings and workplaces including bars, restaurants, and casinos, as of Nov. 27, 2003. Florida banned smoking in the workplace (including all restaurants), with stand-alone bars and smoking rooms in hotels exempt, as of July 1, 2003. South Dakota banned smoking in most workplaces, except bars and casinos, in July 2002.

Camel cigarettes

Camel is a popular cigarettes brand which was introduced by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (RJR) in 1913. Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Turkish and American tobacco.
Camel Blue Cigs were blended in a way that made them easier to smoke, in comparison to other much harsher popular cigarettes brands at the time of its debut on the tobacco market. They were also promoted by a careful teaser advertising, which merely stated that "the Camels are coming".
At the beginning, the most famous variety of Camel cigarettes was the simple pack of the regular, unfiltered variety, which is much too harsh for today's smokers.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Must quit smoking to relieve stress

Despite the belief that smoking relieves stress, it is those who successfully quit who feel less anxious afterwards, researchers say. Contrary to popular perception, smoking does not relieve stress but quitting it does, a research has revealed. British researchers measured anxiety levels in almost 500 smokers - before and after they tried to give up smoking.

One in five said that they smoked to help them deal with stress.

Friday, April 5, 2013

Real luxury is not a cigar, but the taste of the cigar's time

The real luxury is not a cigar, but products suck a cigar required time and space. If not like a the Victorian British celebrities home that cigar cellar, or a special smoking room, or to cigar club, like hidden in the bustling city at the Davidoff cigar clubs, here a cigar want to meet. Enjoy the beauty of a ritualized For ancient celebrities, cigar smoking is a pleasure ritual. The traditional place to smoke cigars is generally a bar or a private residence. Only those aristocracy have the ability to set in the wine cellar and cigar cellar at home, enjoy a meal after they single-handedly carrying cognac in one hand and holding a cigar, or interesting, alone or with friends.

The outer wheel before departure crew raw cravings disembark buy cigarettes almost makes a botch

The outer wheel has run the departure formalities, a Russian crewmen cravings intolerable, unauthorized disembark to buy cigarettes, almost delayed the ship departure. At 10:40 on October 31, border check points of the southern border immigration the police area Xingang Shipyard inspections found a foreign crew flustered ran inside to the shipyard, upon inquiry, the crew of Russian nationality "Yi Liya" the wheel on the crew, "Yi Liya wheel stops in the area on the 4th berth departure clearance procedures have been completed, according to the dynamic will be 20 minutes after punctual departure.


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Smokers sick absenteeism British corporate annual loss of 1.4 billion pounds

In the analysis of the results of the 1960-2011 worldwide to carry out 29 research studies of the University of Nottingham, smoking is the increase associated with short-term rates of absenteeism and long-term rates of absenteeism. People inquire about their life-long smoking habit, employment records can also be used to track the rate of absenteeism in the two-year period. Current smokers than non-smokers to rest the possibility of 33%, the average annual absence days increased by 2.7 days.

Employees work regular smokers rest, the losses caused by discarded cigarette caused the fire, these increased absenteeism loss of working hours affect. The study estimated that smokers only last year on a loss of 1.4 billion pounds of British businesses.

The researchers said, to encourage employees to quit smoking can help reduce the rate of absenteeism, and saving a considerable sum of costs to employers. "
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

KT&G rules slim cigarette market with best-selling Esse


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What is the best-selling cigarette brand in the world? Most smokers would name one from multinational juggernauts Philip Morris, British-American Tobacco (BAT) or Japan Tobacco.

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Need help with an assignment about marijuana?
My Law class is making us write an essay about the legalization of weed. I vote yes, that it should be legalized. It does so much less damage than standard tobacco that's in cigarettes, it gives you a high that only slightly varies from one you get from hookahs, which are also legal. Not to mention, it would become a massive industry, similar to the cigarette industry.

BUT, for the assignment I must show both sides of the argument.

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Monday, February 18, 2013

Traffic Q&A: No, smoking pot behind the wheel isn't legal

Question: “I was driving on Highway 16 the other day and passed a guy in the right lane who was very clearly smoking a marijuana pipe as he was driving. He was steering with his elbows while using a lighter to light the pipe bowl. I know times have changed with our new marijuana law, but could this possibly be legal? What would state troopers or the Tacoma Police do if they saw the same thing? — Jonathan, Tacoma Answer: We asked the Washington State Patrol and the Tacoma Police and got the same answer. The guy almost certainly would be pulled over, they said, and — if what he had in the pipe was in fact marijuana — he was breaking the state’s new law.

Monday, February 4, 2013

Cigarettes Full Impact, Women Smokers

The largest-ever study of a million women has found that those who smoke lose a decade of their lives, while kicking the smoking habit before the age of 40 avoids more than 90 percent of the increased risk of dying caused by continuing to smoke, while stopping before the age of 30 avoids over 97% of it. The research has just been published in the online edition of the British journal The Lancet, to mark the100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Richard Doll, one of the first people to identify the link between lung cancer and smoking.
A total of 1.3 million women were recruited to the study between 1996 and 2001, at ages 50 to 65 years. Participants completed a questionnaire about lifestyle, medical and social factors and were resurveyed by mail three years later. The National Health Service’s central register notified the researchers when any participant died, giving the cause of that death. Women were traced for an average of 12 years from the time they first joined; thus far, 66,000 study participants died.

Monday, January 14, 2013

Marlboro Cigarettes Made by Biggest Cigarette Maker

Marlboro Cigarettes Made by Biggest Cigarette Maker

Philip Morris USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Altria Group Inc. PM USA is over 150 years old. Just like PMI it was founded by Philip Morris, Esq., who in 1847 opened a small tobacco shop on Bond Street selling ready-made cigarettes. Over the years the company grew, changed owners and in 1902 it was incorporated in New York. In the 1960s, PM was the smallest tobacco manufacturer in the US but in 1983 it became the biggest.

 

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Celebrities With Cigars

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55).

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Aaron Candlers says he likes to smoke Karelia cigarettes when he is stressed. If the Atlanta construction worker has a tough day on the job, he lights up. If he has a beef with the family, Candlers is puffing away.