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Tobacco rehearing denied

theadmin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:25:11 +0000

In a round of orders, the Justices denied, without comment, a rehearing petition filed by British American Tobacco Co., which had argued that the Supreme Court’s decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank undercut a ruling by the D.C. Circuit.
In the last round of orders issuing during the Supreme Court’s summer recess, the Justices on Friday refused to give British American Tobacco Co. another chance to challenge the scope of the RICO anti-racketeering law. Without comment (and with Justice Elena Kagan not taking part), the Court denied a reheating petition to BATCo, thus leaving undisturbed its June 28 order refusing to hear the company’s legal claims.

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Why sick smokers are really on the nose

theadmin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:25:11 +0000

MEMO to Australian smokers: don’t expect much sympathy from your compatriots if you develop lung cancer.

Research has found Australians are the world’s least sympathetic when it comes to patients diagnosed with lung cancer.

Three in 10 Australians (29 per cent) said they would feel less sympathy for a lung cancer patient compared to people with other cancers - because of its known “link to smoking”. . .

The research took in the views of around 1,000 adults across each of 16 countries and it also found a general lack of awareness - including in Australia - that lung cancer was the most common cause of cancer death. . . .

The research was released on Sunday to mark National Lung Cancer Tree Planting Day.

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Australians least sympathetic on lung cancer

theadmin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:25:10 +0000

A study to be released today shows Australians are the world’s least sympathetic to those with lung cancer.

Nearly one third of survey respondents said they have less sympathy towards sufferers because lung cancer is linked to smoking.

The research included a survey of 16,000 people in 16 different countries.

Australia just edged out Brazil (28 per cent), then Great Britain (24 per cent) in terms of reduced sympathy levels.

Argentinians were the most sympathetic . . .

While lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer in Australia many respondents considered it to be third worst.

Lung Cancer Service chair David Ball says the findings show Australians wrongly assume most sufferers of lung cancer still smoke.

“In fact, the predominant proportion of patients, about 60 per cent are ex-smokers,” he said.

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Study shows Australians unsympathetic to lung cancer sufferers

theadmin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:25:10 +0000

A new study shows Australians are not sympathetic to those with lung cancer because they believe it’s only caused by smoking.

The Australian Lung Foundation is releasing the international report as part of national Lung Cancer Tree planting day.

The report found 60 per-cent of sufferers are former-smokers and around 20 per-cent have never smoked.

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Cigarette Smoking and Adenocarcinomas of the Esophagus and Esophagogastric Junction: A Pooled Analysis From the International BEACON Consortium : Contents: Volume 102, Number 17, 8 September 2010

theadmin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:25:03 +0000

Conclusions: Cigarette smoking is associated with increased risks of adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and esophagogastric junction in white men and women; compared with current smoking, smoking cessation was associated with reduced risks.

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ROSENBUSH: Tobacco Companies Get Rich Marketing to Kids: Smoking Rate Is Stuck At One Fifth Of Us Population

theadmin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000

The outlook abroad is even better. Philip Morris International has a market cap of billion. The company’s earnings growth is 28 percent on a year-over-year basis.

How is that possible, given the anti-smoking climate of recent years?

CDC director Thomas Frieden says the tobacco industry is better at “sidestepping government efforts to minimize smoking,” according to the Los Angeles Times. “Among their activities, he said, are targeting price discounts at children to get them to start smoking and finding new ways to promote products, such as introducing flavored lozenges to get around the ban on flavored cigarettes,” the newspaper said.

And in many other parts of the world, anti-smoking efforts are lax at best. Philip Morris International’s homepage even boasts a link to the Barclays “back to school” investor conference.

People throughout the world continue to smoke, and pay the price with their lives. Meanwhile, the tobacco companies are getting richer by the day, mastering the art of marketing their highly engineered cigarettes that optimize the delivery of addictive nicotine.

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LEON: Horrific Malaysian Cigarette Labels Should Eradicate Smoking

theadmin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Fresh from taking part in Terra Incognita’s Ecotour of the remote jungles of Borneo, I arrived at the Kota Kinabalu airport. With wild elephants and orangutans sparkled in my jovial mind I was jolted back to nightmarish harsh reality in the airport gift shop by the cigarette warning labels that told the tales of smoking horrors unlike I’ve seen anywhere else in the world.

It was freaky enough when British cigarette packages added the ominous warning: Cigarettes Cause Death. But Malaysia takes the horrific cake when it comes to all-time graphic, stomach-churning, near vomit-inducing cigarette warning labels. Since June 2009, all cigarettes on sale must have pictorial warnings covering 40% of the front and 60% of the back, in the country’s two main languages, Malay and English. . . .

One quarter of the respondents in Malaysia said the labels have no effect in preventing them from smoking or stopping smoking. What more disgusting of a deterrent do these people need? The Kennedy assassination? Nude Dick Cheney?

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Nicotine Tob Res — Table of Contents (September 2010, 12 [9])

theadmin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:19:42 +0000

Tobacco control policy in developed countries: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Mapping U.S. government tobacco control leadership: Networked for success?

Subjective well-being, personality, demographic variables, and American state differences in smoking prevalence

Conventional and electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have different smoking characteristics

Effects of smoking cues in movies on immediate smoking behavior

Smoking and Cloninger’s Temperament and Character Inventory

Tobacco smoking in urban neighborhoods: Exploring social capital as a protective factor in Santiago, Chile

Changes in smoking expectancies in abstinent, reducing, and non-abstinent participants during a pharmacological trial for smoking cessation

Cigarette smoking in middle age and a long-term risk of impaired activities of daily living: NIPPON DATA80

A social contextual analysis of youth cigarette smoking development

Defining “smoker”: College student attitudes and related smoking characteristics

A qualitative case study of policy maker views about the protection of children from smoking in cars

Effects of anhedonia on days to relapse among smokers with a history of depression: A brief report

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Anti-fraud commissioner tackles China on cigarette smuggling

theadmin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:19:41 +0000

Cigarette smuggling and fake designer goods will top the agenda when Europe’s Anti-Fraud Commissioner Algirdas Šemeta meets Chinese officials in Shanghai this week. The commissioner told EurActiv the EU has an “enormous problem” with illegal goods entering the European market from China.

Background

The European Commission released a report on customs in July which showed that 64% of counterfeit goods entering the EU market originate in China. cigarettes accounted for 19% of seized goods, with other tobacco products accounting for 16%.

Over five billion illegal cigarettes were seized by customs in 2008, prompting the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) to dispatch a liaison officer to Beijing specifically to work with Chinese authorities on the problem.

Last year the EU signed an Action Plan with China designed to step up IPR customs enforcement which it plans to extend until the end of 2012.

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CANSECO: We Mind the Smoke, But Not Smoking

theadmin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Over the past three decades, a lengthy inventory of regulations has affected the way people smoke, and the way non-smokers interact with smokers. In England and Wales, having a cigarette at a pub is now harder than it was in 2007. Smoking bans in public spaces and workplaces now cover practically all of North America, and the way stores sell and advertise tobacco has changed drastically.

A three-country survey conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion sought to find out how Americans, Britons and Canadians feel about smoking. The first thing that jumps out when looking at the data is that the measures taken by several municipalities, provinces and even countries to deal with smoking are endorsed by a large majority of respondents. . . .

At least four-in-five people in the three countries agree with the one rule that has become almost universal: banning smoking in indoor public spaces and workplaces. At least two thirds are in favour of prohibiting smokers from lighting up in a bar, restaurant or casino, or inside a car when a child or teenager is present.

Americans are not as keen on two other regulations that have been in place in Alberta since 2009. Three-in-four Canadians and three-in-five Britons agree with banning cigarette sales in all stores containing a pharmacy, but just 43 of Americans concur. . . .

Overall, people in the three countries appear to be satisfied with the status-quo when it comes to the way smoking is being dealt with in their daily lives, and even smokers agree with the regulations that the have to abide by. The message is clear. If the smoke is on the sidewalk or the screen–and not at the office or dinner table–we don’t seem to mind that much.

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