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Smokeless tobacco does not increase the user’s risk of cancers other than oropharyngeal and prostate cancer, according to an industry-sponsored review of data from 89 studies.
Action Points
* Explain that a study funded by a smokeless tobacco group found no increased risk of cancer except for oropharyngeal and prostate cancer.
* Note, however, that the risk of [...]
Researchers in the United Kingdom looked at 89 studies from the United States and Scandinavia. After adjusting for smoking, they said they could find no link between snuff and the risk of cancer.
“It is clear that any effect of smokeless tobacco on risk of cancer, if it exists at all, is quantitatively very much smaller [...]
Japan Tobacco Inc., the world’s third-largest publicly traded cigarette maker, said first- quarter operating profit plunged 24 percent as domestic sales dropped and the yen gained.
Operating profit fell to 84.3 billion yen (7 million) for the three months ended June from 110.5 billion yen a year earlier, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement today. [...]
British American Tobacco, the world’s second-biggest cigarette maker, beat forecasts with a 25 percent rise in first-half earnings and predicted strong full-year growth, helping to boost its shares.
The London-based group, which makes Kent, Dunhill, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall cigarettes, said on Thursday its wide geographic spread and strong brands helped it defy the downturn [...]
With most of the world in recession, expensive habits are fading fast. But international tobacco companies are still making smokers pay up for a hit.
While many consumer-products companies have capped prices, the likes of Philip Morris International and London-listed British American Tobacco are raising them. With cigarette sales likely in permanent decline in some markets, [...]
Conclusions
The available data relating to ST use have a number of weaknesses, including inadequate control for smoking in many, and limited data for never smokers.
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Nevertheless, it is possible to conduct meta-analyses based on smoking-adjusted
estimates for a relatively wide range of cancers. These show no indication of an increased risk of cancer for [...]
Smokeless tobacco products, as used in Europe and North America, do not appear to increase cancer risk. A large meta-analysis, published in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has shown that snuff as used in Scandinavia has no discernible effect on the risk of various cancers. Products used in the past in the USA may [...]
Imperial Tobacco has attributed a fall in tobacco sales in the UK and the rest of the European Union (EU) for the year ending June 2009 to a reduction in foreign travel and lower duty-free sales. Despite the decline, the company said sales for the financial year ending September 2009 remain in line with expectations. [...]
Results from a number of the world’s tobacco companies this week demonstrate the resilience of the industry, with developing markets continuing to drive volumes, while price rises offset volume declines in more mature markets.
The long-term trends in the cigarette industry of declining volumes, but rising revenue in the developed world and rising volumes and premiumization [...]
Imperial Tobacco, the FTSE 100 company, said today that the reduced level of foreign travel has hurt its sales in Spain - although it has helped UK sales.
Sales of cigarettes in Spain were down by about 4 per cent in the year to the end of June, as travel sales - in airport duty-free shops [...]
On CBS Radio the news of [Ed Murrow's] death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial.
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