Monthly Archives: August 2013

Tobacco giants quietly slip into emerging Myanmar market

As some of the largest companies in the world trumpeting their arrival in the hot market of the border of Asia, the tobacco industry has a different strategy: it slips into Myanmar without fanfare.

Tobacco board keeps his bargain till the end

One part of the financing plan created in spring of this year, in addition to the state’s ability to pay its share of a new Vikings stadium, appears to be coming about as expected.
A one-time tax on cigarettes will yield $ 26.5million for the stadium and about $ 4 million more for the general fund, the state Revenue Department said on Tuesday.

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.

Low volumes of clean-up ahead Tobacco Sales

TOBACCO auction floors yesterday received a low volume of flue-cured Virginia tobacco ahead of stripping in front of the sales that start today. By 12 am yesterday, Boka Tobacco Auction floors had the highest number after it received more than 415 packages. An official with BTF said the company expected more supplies as the day progressed.

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.