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??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 [...]
In stark contrast to my previous article on socially responsible and green exchange-traded investment vehicles, the accompanying table (click to enlarge) presents the Top 10 companies by market cap and statistics for the ETF Innovators (ETFI) Global Tobacco Index, which easily outpaced the overall market and benchmark ETFs over the last year.
The Top 25 Rated [...]
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., [...]
In a paper to be published in Nature Genetics on 2nd November, a worldwide consortium of investigators present a major breakthrough for understanding the genetic basis of lung cancer.
The results are based on the largest genetic study of lung cancer ever conducted, and was organised by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, Lyon, [...]
TEMPO Interactive, Semarang:The implementation of the 2010 Provincial Regulation regarding Cigarette Smoking in Semarang will be followed by the construction of smoking areas in some government offices.
“So that non-smokers are not disturbed by smokers,” said Central Java Health Services head, Hartanto, yesterday (30/11).
The government of Colombia took historic action this week to protect the health and lives of its citizens by implementing a sweeping smoke-free decree that applies to all indoor workplaces and public places. The decree was first introduced in May of 2008 and went into effect this week. It requires that all indoor workplaces [...]
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 [...]
South Africa’s tough anti-smoking legislation will not be relaxed for the 2010 soccer World Cup. Instead, the health department is working to ensure that the world’s biggest sporting event is smoke-free.
Health Director-General Thami Mseleku confirmed on Monday that the department was negotiating with Fifa’s local organising committee to get its approval to ensure that soccer [...]
“The quick fix is that when we are under pressure we light up,” said Dr Michael Boyne, senior lecturer at the Tropical Medicine Research Unit at the University of the West Indies, at a Gleaner Editors’ Forum at the company’s North Street offices in Kingston yesterday.
Health officials attending the forum also said the global crisis [...]
On CBS Radio the news of [Ed Murrow's] death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial.
— Alexander Kendrick
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