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See New FDA Ads About Cigarette Sales

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 date, more than 100,000 compliance checks have been completed by teams of state or local officials and young people at retail outlets throughout the country ...
In addition, the ads will run in 11 other markets including Bridgeport, Connecticut; Lafayette, Louisiana; San Antonio, Texas; Springfield, Missouri; Rockford, Illinois; Rochester, New York; Roanoke, Virginia; Lawton, Oklahoma; Augusta, Maine; Washington, DC, and Macon, Georgia ...

Critics Say Flavored Smokes Cater to Kids

He said it is no coincidence Camel's flavored blends appeared after the 1998 settlement that banned tobacco companies from marketing to young people ...
In a sense they are able to use their customers as guinea pigs to find out whether any of ...
Tobacco retailers interested in receiving a free campaign kit should contact FDA at 888-FDA-4KIDS ...

Study: Most States Get Short End of Landmark Tobacco Agreement

Rather, the MSA allocates percentage shares, which are purportedly based on each state 's smoking population, related health care costs and other considerations ...
In a sense they are able to use their customers as guinea pigs to find out whether any of ...
As part of the landmark 1998 accord, major tobacco companies agreed to make about $206 billion in annual payments over more than two decades ...

Read What the Judge Ruled, Then See The Docs Themselves

But Weber said the court's release of the documents, both those from Liggett and possibly the Tobacco Institute papers, does not mean the jury will ever see them ...
to prevent or delay further regulation of the tobacco industry, while at the same time individual industry members were internally writing such things as ...
In a sense they are able to use their customers as guinea pigs to find out whether any of ...
By far the largest of the pacts is the Master Settlement Agreement ...
Rutter found that about 300 documents of the Tobacco Institute contain evidence of fraud by the industry ...

Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

We expect the documents Rutter thinks should be released to us contain even more damning information,'' he said ...
Even a small drop in smoking rates may increase the risk for investors who've bought bonds that are backed by payments to state and local governments from tobacco companies ...
If the returns were unfavorable, they could be destroyed and there would be no record in any office of the nature of the returns,'' the document said ...
DRI-Wefa performs cigarette consumption forecasts for bond underwriters ...

The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up

By far the largest of the pacts is the Master Settlement Agreement ...
New York City's cigarette sales tumbled last month, when the local tax rose to $1 ...
Surveys have found that almost 11 percent of men and 2 percent of women smoke cigars ...

States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales

In the same time period, cigar sales jumped from $ 613 million to $ 876 million, representing the purchase of 4 ...
Advocates of tobacco bonds say they permit local governments faster access to the settlement funds while shifting the risk of default to investors ...
Tobacco retailers interested in receiving a free campaign kit should contact FDA at 888-FDA-4KIDS ...
One Web site told buyers ``We do not report to tax authorities in ANY state ...
The media often picture athletes, celebrities, and politicians puffing away on giant stogies at parties or awards ceremonies ...

Proposes Root Beer Smelling Cigarette

The unsigned document describes discussions about the taste of the cigarette, including possible ``nicotine enhancement'' and packaging ...
The officials can then pursue the buyers to make sure they pay local sales taxes ...
It describes the creation of a cigarette brand that ```breaks the rules' to appeal to a new generation and shock their parents to make conventional brands look bland and weary,'' according to The Palm Beach Post and USA Today ...
Two flavors which were discussed as options were Root Beer and Brazilian Fruit Juice, both of which appeal to the younger generation while being rejected by their parents,'' the memo said ...
But Internet cigarette vendors openly flout the law, known as the Jenkins Act, according to a report by the U ...

Cigarette Major Source of Beach Litter

The media often picture athletes, celebrities, and politicians puffing away on giant stogies at parties or awards ceremonies ...
Under the MSA, Richmond's Philip Morris USA and other large cigarette companies have paid about $4 for every carton they sold ...
THIS MATTER came before the undersigned Special Master for hearing on April 21, 1997 as a result of Plaintiffs' March 21 ...
The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...

The "Bidi Buzz" Continues

The National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids reported that bidi smoke also contains elevated levels of ammonia and carbon monoxide ...
The two-page memo -- from the files of the British American Tobacco Co ...
Tobacco companies) don't have to tell the government the principal ingredients," Banzhaf told UPI ...