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Smoking Among Kids Keeps Rising

Young people ages 16 to 24 interviewed across Southern California say it was often someone in their family who led them down that road, usually a relative they wanted to emulate, or a friend ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path ...
Some young smokers say they have no intention of quitting, but the new Proposition 10 tax, which raised the price of cigarette s by 50 cents a pack, may make them cut back on the amount they smoke ...

States Face Tobacco Dilemma

An Illinois judge (that state is panting for $7 billion to $9 billion from the 1998 settlement) negotiated a reduction of Altria's required $12 billion bond to $7 billion ...
Three years ago a Miami jury decided that cigarette s, even when used as intended, are often addictive and sometimes lethal ...
The Florida appeals court did not confine itself Wednesday to overturning the class-action $145 billion judgment against the tobacco industry ...
Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...

America's Highest Cigarette Tax in Mass.

Kalell said the average buy-down has increased from 10 cents to 20 cents a pack several years ago to an average of about 60 cents today ...
Assuming the Revenue Department's new policy becomes effective on July 1 and Philip Morris doesn't come up with an alternative discount ing scheme, the price of a pack of Marlboros will go up dramatically ...
According to a recent report from the Federal Trade Commission, the tobacco industry spent $3 ...
Young people ages 16 to 24 interviewed across Southern California say it was often someone in their family who led them down that road, usually a relative they wanted to emulate, or a friend ...
If the 75-cent-a-pack excise tax increase approved by the House is passed by the Senate and signed into law by the governor, the same pack of Marlboros could jump to $5 ...

U.S. Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

61, including sales tax, an overall increase of nearly 34 percent ...
Maybe Joe Camel was not the pied piper after all--the one who started young people down the path ...
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has more than 300 open cases of illicit cigarette trafficking -- including several with terrorist links -- up from only a handful five years ago, ATF sources said ...
This even though the three had chosen to use this legal product, the health hazards of ...

Online Tobacco Sales Linked to Terrorism

Have something they can go to right after school--at their school, not at another site ...
in a co-sponsored bill they introduced this week, the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2003 ...
But his behavior, although contemptible, is congruent with the increasingly cynical government policy of keeping tobacco companies prosperous enough to be worth looting ...
Massachusetts is the only state that has interpreted minimum pricing in this manner,'' said Ryan, the Philip Morris spokesman ...

Researchers Debate over the Safety of Smokeless Tobacco

The buy-downs apparently vary from retailer to retailer and differ in duration ...
Promotional allowances accounted for nearly 41 percent of all tobacco advertising and promotional expenditures in 2000 ...
At a CVS Pharmacy in Dorchester yesterday, the price of a pack of Marlboros was $4 ...

Safer Cigarettes NOT Safe

Getting FDA approval requires time and expense, driving up prices ...
An Illinois judge (that state is panting for $7 billion to $9 billion from the 1998 settlement) negotiated a reduction of Altria's required $12 billion bond to $7 billion ...
Tobacco products are exempt from Food and Drug Administration regulation, while safer, pure medicinal products are subject to FDA scrutiny because they are considered to be drug (nicotine) delivery systems ...
The new cigarette s contain fewer nitrosamines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carcinogens found in cigarette smoke, than premium cigarette s ...
5 percent to 2 percent), and a markup for the retailer (25 percent ...

Philip Morris Grows Thanks To Foreign Sales

The buy-downs apparently vary from retailer to retailer and differ in duration ...
Despite a constant erosion in the national demand for its cigarette s, the Philip Morris Companies said yesterday that its profits grew 14 percent in the second quarter, primarily because its prices continue to climb and the appetite for American cigarette s remains particularly strong overseas ...
The jury awarded compensatory damages for three people with cancer and punitive damages for 300,000 to 700,000 Florida smokers ...
Which state governments, those virtuosos of situational ethics, deplore ...
An Illinois judge (that state is panting for $7 billion to $9 billion from the 1998 settlement) negotiated a reduction of Altria's required $12 billion bond to $7 billion ...

FTC Report: Cig Advertising and Promotion Up

Department of Agriculture cigarette consumption estimates, which show a decline from 487 billion cigarette s in 1996 to 480 billion in 1997 ...
The second is the transfer of money from smokers to trial lawyers (their fees from the $246 billion settlement totaled upward of $15 billion) so they can transfer a portion to the Trial Lawyers Protection Association, aka the Democratic Party, that scourge of exploiters ...
If the 75-cent-a-pack excise tax increase approved by the House is passed by the Senate and signed into law by the governor, the same pack of Marlboros could jump to $5 ...

Last Defense Witness Testifies in Federal Tobacco Trial

The jury awarded compensatory damages for three people with cancer and punitive damages for 300,000 to 700,000 Florida smokers ...
If the 75-cent-a-pack excise tax increase approved by the House is passed by the Senate and signed into law by the governor, the same pack of Marlboros could jump to $5 ...