Archive for February, 2008

Now at Hotels: The $250 Cigarette

Major Chains Get Tough With Fines for Smoking; Busted for Butts in the Trash Continue

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Yesmoke Cigarette Factory – Secondary – The cigarette manufacturing

The shredded tobacco arrives from the treated tobacco silos and shaped into two small, continuous, twin cylinders of cut tobacco with paper around it. The machinery picks up the filter cylinders, cuts them to size and glues them to the tobacco cylinders. The finished cigarette is made. The machine fits the cigarettes into the packs.

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Big brains payrolled by Big Tobacco

IT IS well known that when the dangers of smoking became increasingly obvious in the 1950s, tobacco companies funded scientific research aimed at downplaying the risks. Continue

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UK: Smokers could be forced to buy £10 licence just for the privilege of lighting up

Coughing up: Smokers could be forced to fork out £10 for a tobacco permit.

Smokers could be forced to pay for a Government tobacco licence in order to carry on buying cigarettes under draconian proposals being considered by ministers. Continue

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Margaret finally gives up smoking – after 60 years

After almost 60 years as a smoker, Margaret Thompson has proved that it's never too late to kick the habit.

For it has now been one year since the 75-year-old smoked her last cigarette. Continue

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