Category Archives: tobacco consumption

British American Tobacco Announces Largest Annual Revenue in 14 Years

BAT Tobacco
British American Tobacco Holdings (New Zealand), the nation’s major tobacco company, revealed its greatest annual revenue since at least 1999, after profits have increased by 15 % as it reduced costs whilst elevated excise tax boosted prices.

Imperial Tobacco’s Key Brands Demonstrate Positive Performance

Imperial Tobacco
Imperial Tobacco not too long ago held its expectancy for minimal revenues per share growth at solid exchange rates in 2013, with an around 10% boost in dividend, even after facing a drop in claimed tobacco net profit in the quarter concluded December 31, 2013.

Why do young women start smoking?

Last week, when I was in Paris, I was surprised by the number of young women smoking vkafe outdoor pavement.
Parisian woman smoke with glamour, confidence and style, combining smoking with their morning coffee. It seems to me that many of the French, at least occasional smokers and maybe this are one of the secrets of why the French stay so slim.

Celebrities and how they affect our young people to start smoking

Today, I had the rare opportunity to meet with Craig Nabat, founder of the Los Angeles Freedom Laser Therapy and inventor of the Freedom Quit Smoking System. My goal was to understand why Craig thinks Hollywood strongly influences young people lighting up a cigarette.

Man takes on Big Tobacco in lawsuit

“My breathing is difficult, when I do any work on the house,” the state-deposition. “If I mop the floor, if I sweep, vacuum if I, if I will go down. Changing the sheets on my bed I get really out of breath. I stopped doing a lot of things I used to do.” In a recent deposition, Rizzuto said he continues to suffer from a “severe” COPD.

Wisconsin manufacturers give Maryland to try tobacco

Larry Oberdeck stood in his 3 acres of tobacco fields to the west of Edgerton, Wis., last week, checking his crop ripening.
He looked at his Wisconsin-flowering variety of plants, with their high, deep green leaves were prone under dusty-pink flowers. This kind of tobacco – loose-leaf chewing tobacco – that Oberdeck and other producers were to increase the area for decades.
Nevertheless, this was mixed with that occur entirely different species of tobacco. He has a broad, hanging leaves, velvety to the touch. It’s squat — about half the height of Wisconsin tobacco.

Children who chew tobacco often smoke too

About one in 20 middle and high scholars who use the “chewing gum”, snuff, or other smokeless tobacco usually add it to their cigarette habit, the study showed resistance to the idea of a less harmful smoking replacement.

David Cameron urged to examine the claim

Labour has urged David Cameron to investigate claims that the contract, which his campaign strategist, Lynton Crosby, signed to provide a cigarette company Philip Morris International with lobbying services, could cost as much as £ 6 million.

Louisiana Return market beating tobacco bonds

Louisiana is refinancing of $ 638 million in bonds backed by payments tobacco companies such as debt beats broad $ 3.7 trillion Muni market this year.
This week’s sale by the Tobacco Funding Corporation, which is the return of the securities sold in 2001, based on revenues from 1998 settlement between tobacco companies and USA state to cover medical costs associated with smoking.