“They look and taste like normal cigarettes”.
It is said that it takes advantage of some sort of trionic filter and a new way of preparing the tobacco…
Rumors were running around in the UK press that this new cigarette can reduce cancer risk by 90% compared with “normal cigarettes”. A spokesperson for British American Tobacco (BAT), Emily Brand, says that it is not true: reports about a new type of cigarette were —misleading—. What a pity! Read more »
A single “Anti-smoking Nazi” forces a change to the script.
Italy: a stunned Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator complained, forcing the theater to change the script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free.
The lady-fustigator was sitting in the second row of the parterre at the Teatro Toniolo of Mestre ( Venice ), when at a certain point, she addressed the actor on the stage who — following the script — was holding a cigarette between his lips.
“Put out that cigarettes”, shouted the woman, totally insensitive to the requirements of the performance. Read more »
The tobacco giant's device, invented years ago in secret, could be a boon for addicted smokers.
The tobacco giant's device, called "Aria", was invented years ago in secret
Cigarette maker Philip Morris has developed an inhaler that could deliver a nicotine mist deep into the lungs, giving smokers a satisfying dose of the addictive drug without the carcinogens, gases and toxic metals that make tobacco smoke so dangerous. But the project appears to have stalled.
Cloaked in secrecy, the device was invented nearly a dozen years ago at a time the tobacco industry was vigorously denying that nicotine was addictive, internal company documents show.
It was part of an effort by the top cigarette maker to explore the possibility of offering a “clean” form of nicotine to those who can't or won't quit.
“The cigarette manufacturers don't want to kill their customers”, said Kenneth Warner, dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
“That's simply an unfortunate side effect of use of the product”. Read more »
It is the only carrier left that continues to deliver cigarettes to individuals in the US.
A few months from the neutralisation of the credit card companies, now it's the turn of the shipping carriers: after DHL, also UPS Inc., the world's largest, will stop delivering cigarettes to individuals in the United States under an agreement announced Monday, October 24th with state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
“It is an embarrassment that major private companies have stopped carrying contraband cigarettes, but the Federal Government continues to accept them”, said Spitzer, a Democrat running for governor. “Congress needs to step in and stop this practice immediately”.
Spitzer's battle against “cigarette traffickers” appears to be a defence of the privileges of the major cigarette makers, their middleman courtesans, and their distribution system.
How much would the cigarettes purchased from the Yesmoke online shop have to cost if the US Customs applied the duty-tax when the goods are delivered, like their Canadian colleagues do? Herès how Big Tobacco fights the “forbidden” pricelist! Read more »
Cigarette Smuggling in the European Union - Philip Morris won't have to pay.
On May 22nd 1995 the General Manager of the Italian State Monopolies, Ernesto Del Gizzo, transmitted to the SECIT (the Italian Tax Inspectors Office), a report on the unpaid tax on Philip Morris revenues in Italy: a total of 60,591 Billion lire (37.5 Billion dollars) over a 20-year period. So how much was the total amount of unpaid taxes in all the European Union countries combined?
Del Gizzo added that income from cigarette smuggling in Italy, thanks to the profits on products passed on through the illegal market, amounted to a net annual profit for the multinational manufacturer of about 1,100 billion lire (650 million dollars).
On July 9th 2004 an important agreement was signed by the EU and Philip Morris, the leader of European smuggling. The tobacco giant agreed to pay 1.2 Billion dollars, in instalments over a ten-year period and interest free, to bury the hatchet on all the past activities. Why so little? Read more »
“With our beer you won't have to go outside the pub for a quickie”.
The next "Nicotine dispenser"?
NicoShot beer, produced by the German company Nautilus GmbH, contains three milligrams of nicotine alkaloids per 250ml can, equivalent to a few regular filtered cigarettes.
One 250 ml can of NicoShot contains 6.3 percent alcohol by volume. Three cans of the brew are comparable to an entire pack of cigarettes.
Nautilus Laboratoriumsbedarf describes the lager as having “cigarette satisfaction in a beer without the smoke”.
However, nobody knows the taste and the satisfaction this beer can give. How about the taste of combining beer with nicotine? Will this be better than smoking? Read more »
These days FDA can regulate macaroni, not cigarettes, but maybe something is about to change
Imagine if a new, consumable product containing arsenic, formaldehyde and ammonia was introduced into the market, but federal law wouldn't let the government do anything about it. Such a product already exists – cigarettes. And under current law, the federal government cannot take action to reduce or eliminate the dangerous chemicals additives in cigarettes.
According to the American press, about 85% of US adults surveyed in August 1996 favored the Food and Drug Administration policy on tobacco, and roughly the same percentage said Congress should support the FDA ruling. What the remaining 15% had to say is not clear, as certainly they are not lovers of chemical additives. Read more »
The german war against cigarettes
Germany had the world's strongest anti-smoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, during the Nazi period. Hitler, who was a chain-smoker, was expelled from school at age eight after being caught smoking. He gave up smoking when he was 35 years old and dreamed of making all Germans quit, too.
Bans on smoking in public spaces were introduced along with bans on advertising, restrictions on tobacco rations for women, and the world's most refined tobacco epidemiology, linking tobacco use with the already evident epidemic of lung cancer.
Today, in the German (and European) war against cigarette smoking, German Consumer Affairs Minister Renate Kunast has stepped up the offensive: Kunast published, in 2005, a list of about 200 cigarette additives, and wants those deemed carcinogenic or addictive banned — throughout Europe. Read more »
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