Archive for November, 2009
Penalty for selling cigarettes to underage decoy reduced
A tiny Chinatown store accused of selling cigarettes to an underage decoy had a tobacco license suspension reduced after it claimed that the decoy’s ID was damaged and difficult to read.
Sam & Son Market, which opens on Powell Street at 5 a.m. to sell newspapers, cigarettes, lottery tickets and snacks, was initially suspended by the [...]
Japan Tobacco’s UK Unit Closing Gap On Imperial Tobacco
Japan Tobacco Inc.’s (2914.TO) U.K. business is closing the gap on market leader Imperial Tobacco PLC (IMT.LN) and will retain its recent market share gains, despite pushing up prices at the end of this month, JT’s U.K. managing director said Wednesday.
Daniel Torras told reporters at a briefing in London that the company had increased its [...]
Danville market glutted with tobacco
In a big white warehouse just south of the Centre College campus, there are 1 million pounds of tobacco waiting to be sold. It could be part of one of the best tobacco crops in decades, but one warehouse owner is concerned a flooded tobacco market could be bad news for farmers.
Jerry Rankin, owner of [...]
Cig machines to be banned from October 2011
Cigarette vending machines will be banned from October 2011, but pubs will still be allowed to sell cigarettes over the bar. The government’s Health Bill, containing powers for the ban, became law yesterday – but the machines will not be outlawed for another two years.
Health Secretary Andy Burnham said: “The new laws passed will help [...]
Reynolds may buy cigarette-replacement maker
Trying to buy a company that specializes in products that help people quit smoking may seem like a radical change for Reynolds American Inc.
But analysts said yesterday that it all depends on how Reynolds potentially would use and market cigarette-replacement products in gum, pouch and spray form made by Niconovum AB.
Media reports have said that [...]
Ban on sweet hookah tobacco imminent
Health minister investigating ban on addictive water pipe tobacco as study shows greater risk to young people
The message from Health Minister Jakob Axel Nielsen is clear: young people are hitting the hookahs too much and the addictive tobacco used in the water pipes should be banned.
A parliamentary majority supports a ban on the sweet-flavoured tobacco [...]
Troubled times for New England tobacco farmers
They’re among the lucky few, John, Fred and Dave Arnold. There’s a good supply of crisp broadleaf tobacco drying in their 14 curing sheds and over the next couple of weeks they’ll be pulling it down, bundling it up and selling it for the best price they can get. Pretty much what their family has [...]
Smoking linked to baby behaviour
“Smoking during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of having a child with behavioural problems,” The Guardian has reported. This finding is based on a study which followed the early years of around 13,000 children.
The study found that, at the age of three, children whose mothers smoked throughout pregnancy were significantly more likely to have behavioural [...]
Switch to lights goes up in smoke
SMOKERS who switch to low-tar cigarettes have half the chance of successfully quitting the habit.
A study of the smoking history of almost 31,000 US adults found that the odds of smokers managing to leave the habit behind them were 46 per cent lower if they had previously tried to switch to a “lighter” cigarette for [...]
