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See New FDA Ads About Cigarette Sales

For the first time, FDA will run state wide ads throughout the year in Colorado, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Michigan, and Nevada ...
Tobacco retailers interested in receiving a free campaign kit should contact FDA at 888-FDA-4KIDS ...
The FDA rule, published in August 1996, requires retailers to check for photo identification of anyone younger than age 27 who attempts to purchase cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and prohibits the sale of these items to anyone under age 18 ...

Study: Most States Get Short End of Landmark Tobacco Agreement

The deal was structured so that smokers would have to pay this wrote Bulow ...
Rather, the MSA allocates percentage shares, which are purportedly based on each state 's smoking population, related health care costs and other considerations ...
The FDA rule, published in August 1996, requires retailers to check for photo identification of anyone younger than age 27 who attempts to purchase cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and prohibits the sale of these items to anyone under age 18 ...

Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

The forecast assumed tax increases also would be enacted in California -- where the Assembly yesterday rejected a $3-per-pack tax -- and in two smaller, unidentified state s this year ...
DRI-Wefa performs cigarette consumption forecasts for bond underwriters ...
4 billion in municipal bonds, has sold all the tobacco settlement bonds it once owned, based on expectations they would lag other bonds ...

States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales

Our Internet search efforts identified 147 Web site addresses for Internet cigarette vendors based in the United State s ...
The report recommends shifting primary enforcement of the law from the Federal Bureau of Investigations to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, in part because of the FBI's heightened focus on terrorism ...
The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...
Without this year's tax increases, as many as 20 billion more cigarettes would have been consumed by the end of next year, he estimated ...

Highlights Advantages of State Lawsuits Over Flawed Global Deal

It also shows how reluctant the industry is to have the truth about the lethal dangers of tobacco come out in a court of law ...
The Florida settlement,therefore, should strengthen the resolve of other state s and the U ...
The Florida settlement came in the fourth week of jury selection in the case, and less than a week after the chief executives of tobacco giants Philip Morris and R ...
This may just be the beginning of series of revisions'' to DRI-Wefa's cigarette consumption forecasts, said Josh Gonze, a money manager at Thornburg Investment Management Co ...

Korea Will Ratify the FCTC in June '05

Cigarette smoking is estimated to cause more than 10 trillion won in socio-economic damage here and to cause some 40,000 deaths per year ...
The officials can then pursue the buyers to make sure they pay local sales taxes ...
4 billion in municipal bonds, has sold all the tobacco settlement bonds it once owned, based on expectations they would lag other bonds ...
If taxes are imposed, prices will increase to over 2,000 won a pack, similar to those in the market ...

Number of Adult Smokers Fell by 11% in NYC from 2002 to 2003

The surveys, to be released today, show that after holding steady for a decade, the number of regular smokers dropped more than 100,000 in a little more than a year, to ...
In fact, according to the report, 78 percent of the sites indicated that the vendors do not comply with the law ...
Anti-tobacco policies have to be accompanied by environmental policies ...
The surveys also found a 13 percent decline in cigarette consumption, suggesting that smokers who did not quit were smoking less ...

Appeals Court Upholds $1.3 Billion Fee Award in CA Tobacco Case

The FDA rule, published in August 1996, requires retailers to check for photo identification of anyone younger than age 27 who attempts to purchase cigarettes or smokeless tobacco and prohibits the sale of these items to anyone under age 18 ...
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 with the federal law ...
The payments, mandated by a 1998 legal settlement, are based on annual sales of cigarettes in the U ...
Germany raised the prices from 4 euros to 5 euros per pack last year, while France aims to more than double the price to 6 euros ...
The six firms who represented New York in the settlement won $625 million in fees ...

New Study: Smoke-free Cities Have Lower Indoor Air Pollution

Last year, researchers in Montana reported that heart attacks in Helena had dropped sharply during the first two months its smoking ban was in effect ...
As the home country of the WHO Director-General Lee Jong-wook, South Korea will agree to the FCTC no later ...
That positive health news may have negative implications for investors in tobacco bonds ...
So far, 58 nations among 192 WHO member countries have ratified the tobacco control treaty ...
As part of the landmark 1998 accord, major tobacco companies agreed to make about $206 billion in annual payments over more than ...

U.S. Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

But the ratification of the pact needs to be advanced to kick off stronger measures, including additional price hikes, according to an official at the Ministry of Health and Welfare ...
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 ...
3 billion award represented 5 percent of California's $25 billion share of the settlement, and, if it stands, will be paid in addition to ...