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Critics Say Flavored Smokes Cater to Kids

Tobacco companies) don't have to tell the government the principal ingredients," Banzhaf told UPI ...
Banzhaf said that, like soft-drink manufacturers, tobacco companies try to secure brand loyalty at a young age ...

States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales

Officials in California estimated a tax loss of approximately $13 million from May, 1999 through September, 2001 because of the failure of Internet cigarette vendors to comply ...
The cost to state s can run into the millions, according to the report ...
In Massachusetts lawmakers recently approved a 75-cent hike on a pack of cigarettes, a move officials hope will bring in an extra $190 million annually ...
Calls to several Internet cigarette vendors advertising ``tax free cigarettes'' were not returned to The Associated Press on Monday ...
requested the report, which he said reveals a burgeoning market of online cigarette sales ...

The "Bidi Buzz" Continues

Tobacco companies) don't have to tell the government the principal ingredients," Banzhaf told UPI ...
But Internet cigarette vendors openly flout the law, known as the Jenkins Act, according to a report by ...
In Massachusetts lawmakers recently approved a 75-cent hike on a pack of cigarettes, a move officials hope will bring in an extra $190 million annually ...
Known as a bidi (pronounced BEE-DEE), the Indian imports have enjoyed a recent flurry of national media attention fired by the sweet-scented smoke reportedly wafting through clubs, coffee shops and trendy East and West Coast neighborhoods ...

Korea Will Ratify the FCTC in June '05

We will submit the FCTC to the National Assembly during an extra session in June for ratification,'' said Lee Jong-koo, chief of the Health Promotion Bureau at the ministry ...
Ireland has started a total ban on smoking at bars and all public places, while the state of New York in the United State s has declared all bars, restaurants and public venues as smoke-free zones ...
The nicotine wallop they pack can produce the dizzy, light-headed, vaguely intoxicated sensation dubbed a said Dr ...
In fact, according to the report, 78 percent of the sites indicated that the vendors do not comply with the law ...

President Pressures Industry on Radio

We saw parents building futures where their children will be free from want, free from injustice, free from disease, and free to go as far as their God-given talents will allow ...
Anti-tobacco policies have to be accompanied by environmental policies ...
This week's progress in the Senate shows that we have real momentum in both parties'' to stop tobacco companies from selling to minors and to protect them from the ``cruel and deadly lure of smoking ,'' he said ...
I know that many of you traveled along with us day by day through television and the Internet, but I wish every American could have seen up close the renewed hope and restored pride that is evident in the six countries we visited ...
Other nations have also used the price increase measures to reduce the number of smokers ...

Industry Bankruptcy Threat May Be a Bluff

Known as a bidi (pronounced BEE-DEE), the Indian imports have enjoyed a recent flurry of national media attention fired by the sweet-scented smoke reportedly wafting through clubs, coffee shops and trendy East and West Coast neighborhoods ...
The rate of smoking in Britain, to cite one example, is still close to that in the U ...
Anti-tobacco policies have to be accompanied by environmental policies ...
But Internet cigarette vendors openly flout the law, known as the Jenkins Act, according to a report by ...

WV Supreme Court Upholds Tobacco Verdict Rejecting Smokers' Medical Claims

It would raise the price of cigarettes, give the FDA full authority to regulate tobacco products, ban advertising aimed at children, and protect tobacco farmers ...
The South Korean government is also planning a series of measures to change its status as the country with the highest ratio of male smokers among the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development at 61 ...
Moreover, the government plans to expand the size of warning signs on tobacco packets from the current 20 percent of the surface to over 30 percent, in accordance with the FCTC standards ...
Clinton's comments today closed out a topsy-turvy week of action and threats on Capitol Hill, where the Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation that would cost tobacco companies $506 billion over 25 years, increase cigarette prices by $1 ...

CA Retailers Must Now Be Licensed to Sell Tobacco Products

Bidis are small, but federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials reported they release three to five times more tar and nicotine than regular cigarettes ...
If the McCain bill passes, the Treasury Department estimates that consumption of cigarettes will drop 29% to 17 billion packs a year from current levels of 24 billion packs over five years ...
Studies show that the younger a person starts smoking , the more difficult it is for them to quit ...
In addition, while bankruptcy-court protection offers benefits, it has so many drawbacks for most of the tobacco companies that many legal experts consider it only a remote possibility - ...

U.S. Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

The traffickers purchase a large volume of cigarettes in state s where the tax is low, such as Virginia and North Carolina, transport them up Inter state 95 to state s such as Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey and then sell them at a discount without paying the higher cigarette taxes in those state s ...
Of the members, 168 nations, including South Korea, have vowed to adopt the pact ...
Three years ago, appalled by how many children were becoming addicted to cigarettes every year, the Vice President and I committed this administration to stopping the sale and marketing of cigarettes to children ...
The government unveiled the plan during a meeting of ministers in charge of social policies on Tuesday ...
In a sense they are able to use their customers as guinea pigs to find out whether any of these things are toxic ...

Bill Takes Aim at Delivery of Tax-Free Cigarettes in Mail

And several post office officials questioned why state s do not devote more resources to crack down on illegal cigarette sellers ...
The South Korean government is also planning a series of measures to change its status as the country with the highest ratio of male smokers among the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development at 61 ...
This week's progress in the Senate shows we have real momentum in both parties to do just that ...
Suits filed across the country would be consolidated in one court, where the pressure to work out a settlement would shoot up drastically ...