Monthly Archives: August 2011

Utah gives hookah the hook

Starting in mid-September, Utah bars and clubs cannot allow patrons to smoke most hookah products indoors.

State Preemption of Local Tobacco Control Policies Restricting Smoking, Advertising, and Youth Access

Preemptive state tobacco control legislation prohibits localities from enacting tobacco control laws that are more stringent than state law. State preemption provisions can preclude any type of local tobacco control policy. The three broad types of state preemption tracked by CDC include preemption of local policies that restrict:

Altria Fires Up Dividend Hike, Riding Smokeless To $30 Stock Price

On Friday, Altria increased its dividend by 7.9% to $0.41 per common share, making it 45 times in the last 42 years that the company has hiked the dividend. With a set of new product launches in addition to its strong product mix and pricing power, the Altria Group is well positioned to grow in the smokeless tobacco segment.

Tobacco crop up a bit, down from a decade ago

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SHELBYVILLE, Ky. — It’s harvest time in much of the nation’s tobacco patches, and this year’s harvest is expected to be among the smallest in at least a decade.

Michigan Bar Owners Bounce Lawmakers to Protest Smoking Ban

Some days, politicians could use a drink. But lawmakers in Michigan may soon find it harder to get one.

Debating Influence of Movies on Kids’ Smoking

France unveils new austerity budget

CIGARETTE and alcohol price rises and a new tax on France’s richest residents are among the measures unveiled by the goverment in an €11bn deficit reduction package.

Big tobacco to take Australia packaging fight to higher court

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World-first plain packaging for tobacco products becomes law in Australia

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Russia launches massive campaign to isolate smokers

An open public debate on the bill of the Health Ministry “On protection of human health from the consequences of tobacco consumption” started in Russia. The project was developed in connection with the accession of the Russian Federation to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. It will also fulfill the government’s Action Plan on implementation of the concept of public policy on combating tobacco consumption in 2010-2015.

Court deals new blow to tobacco giants over plain packaging battle in Australia

THE Federal Court has struck a major blow to the big tobacco companies trying to stop plain packaging legislation, with a judgment cigarettestoday dismissing British American Tobacco’s attempts to gain secret government legal advice on the controversial measures.

Extreme negative anti-smoking ads can backfire

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Health communicators have long searched for the most effective ways to convince smokers to quit. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that using a combination of disturbing images and threatening messages to prevent smoking is not effective and could potentially cause an unexpected reaction.

Government subsidies to the top-grossing US films that contain smoking

Governments in the UK, US and Canada are undermining tobacco prevention campaigns by subsidising top-grossing US films that contain smoking, a report by public health researchers says. The paper, published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, argues that films with tobacco imagery should be ineligible for public funding to ensure that film subsidy programmes do not conflict with public health goals.

Big Tobacco growing smokeless business

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is ramping up marketing for dissolvable tobacco products in Colorado and North Carolina test smokeless tobacco usemarkets, meanwhile the FDA is still reviewing whether and how it can control the new substances.

Hookah use on the rise in California

Cigarette smoking in California has fallen sharply in recent years, but new research finds that hookah use is on the rise, especially shisha smokingamong young adults.