Daily Clove Cigarettes News Update
??Who likes a smoke?????GREECE has the highest smoking rate in the world, with each person puffing over eight cigarettes every day according to ERC, a market-research company. Of the 123 countries surveyed, 17 European countries feature in the top 20. Smoking rates tend to decline when countries get wealthier, thanks to higher taxes, bans and [...]
??ON APRIL 1st America’s government announced a big increase in taxes on cigarettes. Federal taxes leapt from 39 cents to .01 a packet. American smokers also pay state taxes ranging from 17 cents in Missouri to a whopping .75 in New York. Anti-smoking campaigners argue that higher taxes encourage smokers to quit and deter others [...]
According to the Southeast Farm Press, organic tobacco is “the biggest growth area in US tobacco production.” The stuff fetches about twice the price as regular tobacco on the open market. “Any tobacco without pesticide residues is more attractive than conventional in the current market,” said organic tobacco producer Micou Browne.
Browne’s company, Organic Smoke Inc., [...]
Background
Cigarette smuggling is a major public health issue, stimulating increased tobacco consumption and undermining tobacco control measures. China is the ultimate prize among tobacco’s emerging markets, and is also believed to have the world’s largest cigarette smuggling problem. Previous work has demonstrated the complicity of British American Tobacco (BAT) in this illicit trade within Asia [...]
Indonesian cigarette firms will have to pay an additional 7 percent excise tax next year, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, as the government seeks to curb smoking in one of the world’s largest tobacco markets.
A new ministerial decree, which will come into effect on Feb 1, 2009, will adjust the retail price range for [...]
The World Health Organization released its 2008 World Cancer Report Tuesday, and the numbers show that developing countries that adopt increasingly Westernized lifestyles and tobacco use are catching up to developed nations in the number of cancer deaths annually.
By 2010 cancer will surpass heart disease, AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis as the leading killer in the [...]
November 18 2008 at 07:17AM
Smokers will soon be confronted with grim pictures of people with cancer and rotten teeth when they buy their cigarettes, according to Health Minister Barbara Hogan.
Opening the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) meeting on tobacco control in Durban on Monday, Hogan praised the National Council of Provinces for passing a bill last [...]
As of today, Europeans travelling home from non-EU countries have the right to bring into the bloc more duty free products, the European Commission announced on Monday (1 December).
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The limit for cigarettes remains unchanged at 200, but EU states are now offered the possibility of reducing this figure to 40 if they [...]
Travellers arriving in Britain from outside the European Union can now benefit from an increase in duty free shopping allowances. . . .
The same flexibility has also been introduced for the tobacco allowance so travellers can buy a mixture of cigarettes, cigars or hand-rolling tobacco provided the total falls within the limit - a maximum [...]
Under the new regulations, which were agreed in 2006 but come into effect this week, someone travelling into the EU will be able to bring in one litre of spirits, . . .
The allowance for cigarettes has been a matter of strong debate, with some EU member states wanting the duty-free amount cut.
“Because of [...]
A nonsmoker is forced to find food, but for a smoker breakfast can be a cigarette and a cup of bad coffee.
— Brock Fiant
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