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 »
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