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- Altria Stubs Out Marlboro Ultra Smooth: Report
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Altria Group Inc's MO Philip Morris USA has cancelled its Marlboro Ultra Smooth cigarettes, highlighting challenges it faces in trying to grow its tobacco business despite a decline in U.S. cigarette sales, The Wall Street Journal reported...
- News items 2008-06-22
- Imperial Tobacco Says Rights Issue 97.2% Subscribed
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Imperial Tobacco Group, the world's No. 4 cigarette group, said on Thursday all but 2.8 percent of its shareholders subscribed for its 4.9 billion pound rights issue. Imperial Tobacco said in a statement the rights issue's underwriters would place the remaining 9.5...
- News items 2008-06-11
- Why Bother Being Two-Faced?
- Grocery store giant Safeway found itself between a rock and a hard place yesterday, and it didn't do a very good job wiggling its way out. Here in San Francisco, there was an event to talk about corporate efforts to reduce smoking. Safeway participated and announced...
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Imperial to Cut 2,440 Jobs in Altadis Merger
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - Imperial Tobacco Group IMT on Thursday said it was to cut around 2,440 jobs from its global workforce of 40,000 following its acquisition of Franco-Spanish tobacco group Altadis earlier this year. The brunt of the job losses of almost 2,000 will occur...
- News items 2008-06-19
- New Cigarette Brands With Flavors That Appeal to Youth: Tobacco Marketing Strategies
- Tobacco manufacturers have recently introduced a proliferation of exotic brands featuring candy like flavors. This paper reviews the internal tobacco industry documents and patents to assess the role of flavored cigarettes in the targeting of young smokers. This research reveals the development of flavor delivery technologies hidden from consumers and...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Acute Effects of Cigarette Smoking on Inflammation in Healthy Intermittent Smokers
- Chronic smoking is the main risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Knowledge on the response to the initial smoke exposures might enhance the understanding of changes due to chronic smoking, since repetitive acute smoke effects may cumulate and lead to irreversible lung damage. The paper investigates acute effects of...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Pyrazine Derivatives in Cigarette Smoke Inhibit Hamster Oviductal Functioning
- The goals in this study were to identify pyrazine derivatives in cigarette smoke solutions that inhibit ciliary beat frequency, oocyte pickup rate, and infundibular smooth muscle contraction in the hamster oviduct and to determine their lowest observable adverse effect levels LOAELs using in vitro bioassays. This work shows that very...
- White papers 2004-05-12
- C/SCAPE: Managing the Dynamics of Cigarettes
- With the rampant surge in state excise taxes on cigarettes, many retailers are expressing interest in the discount, sub-generic, and fourth-tier segments as a way to offer customers more value for their dollar. However, before embracing these "value" segments, questions surrounding the true profitability of each segment must be addressed....
- White papers 2003-12-01
- New Inroads in Preventing Adolescent Drug Use: Results From a Large-Scale Trial of Project ALERT in Middle Schools
- This paper evaluates the revised Project ALERT drug prevention program across wide variety of Midwestern schools and communities. The revised Project ALERT curriculum curbed cigarette and marijuana use initiation, current and regular cigarette use, and alcohol misuse. Reductions ranged from 19% to 39%. Program effects were not significant for initial...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Cigarette Smoking Behavior of Adults: United States, 1997-98
- This paper presents national estimates for lifetime and current cigarette smoking status, average number of cigarettes smoked, age of smoking initiation, and smokers' attempts to quit in the past year. Data are from the adult component of the 1997-98 National Health Interview Survey NHIS, conducted by the National Center for...
- White papers 2003-02-07
- Study of the Effectiveness of the US Safety Standard for Child Resistant Cigarette Lighters
- The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission's CPSC Safety Standard for Cigarette Lighters, which requires that disposable cigarette lighters be resistant to operation by children younger than age 5. Fire data on children playing with lighters were solicited from selected...
- White papers 2003-01-31
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- The passing of the mama stalls
- THE CONVENIENCE stalls that were found along five-foot ways and under staircases of shop houses are a dying breed. Fondly called Mama stalls, they are run by Indian "uncles" who managed to make a living selling everything from condoms to toy xylophones. They are sure to have the daily newspapers...
- Articles 2008-12-01
- Summer arrives along with the first fire restrictions in S. Utah
- Instead of calling it summer in Utah, some might dub it fire restriction season -- and it's begun. Combined state and federal agencies announced Wednesday fire restrictions on all public lands and unincorporated state and private lands in Washington County and areas along the Utah/Arizona border starting...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- Smoke without fire
- One year after the smoking ban, Teri Judd (30-a-day) tests a new hi-tech alternative to cigarettes. But will the 'e-fag' ever catch on? There are those who remember where they were when they heard that Kennedy had been shot. Others recall the fall of the Berlin Wall...
- Articles 2008-06-26
- Concise Crossword #6768
- Across 1 Fossil fuel (4) 4 Prevail (5) 9 Stupid (7) 10 Milky coffee (5) 11 African language group (5) 12 Captivate (7) 13 Hard layer on teeth (6)...
- Articles 2008-06-25
- Young Pop Star's Emphysema Startles Experts
- The shocking revelation by her father that 24-year-old British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse may have a mild form of emphysema leaves experts with more questions than answers. It's possible that Winehouse, in addition to her well-publicized use of drugs and cigarettes, has a congenital condition that contributed to her current crisis,...
- Articles 2008-06-24
- Winehouse damaged lungs by smoking, her dad says
- Soul diva Amy Winehouse has damaged her lungs by smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes, her father said in an interview published Sunday in Britain. The Sunday Mirror quoted Mitch Winehouse as saying that Amy has early stage emphysema and an irregular heartbeat and has been warned that...
- Articles 2008-06-23
- A true romance? Get real
- John Maybury's stylised imagining of the passions of Dylan Thomas fails to get to the heart of the matter, whereas a feast of real life is served up in southern France The Edge of Love John Maybury 110 MINS, 15 Couscous Abdel...
- Articles 2008-06-22
- Health service in Dundee to offer people free groceries if they can
- :: SMOKING Smokers in the poorest areas of Dundee, Scotland, are being offered 150-worth of groceries by the health service if they give up cigarettes. Participants in the 12-week scheme will be given 12.50 a week by NHS Tayside health board if a carbon monoxide breath test...
- Articles 2008-06-22
- JUDGE TREAD: WARNING IS A REAL DRAG
- Q LAST year I was sent a letter from my local council advising me I had been seen throwing a cigarette end out of my car window. It was a warning that if I was seen doing this again, I would be fined pounds 80. I...
- Articles 2008-06-22
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