Russian Federation (Russia) has one of the highest smoking rates in the world.

Background

The Russian Federation (Russia) has one of the highest smoking rates in the world. The purpose of this study is to analyze past and current trends of the tobacco epidemic in the Russian Federation, review current tobacco control policy responses, and identify areas of opportunity for policy priorities.

Methods

We used a policy triangle as analytical framework to examine content, context, and processes of Russian tobacco control policy. The analysis was based on secondary data on supply and demand sides of the Russian tobacco epidemic, tobacco-related economic and health effects during Russia’s economic transition, and compliance of Russian tobacco policy with international standards and regulations.

Earnings Preview: Altria Group Inc.

Altria Group Inc., parent of the biggest U.S. cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, should give investors a sense of whether its top-selling Marlboro brand can keep its command of the market when it releases its second-quarter financial results before the stock market opens Tuesday.

WHAT TO WATCH FOR: The premium Marlboro brand has been under pressure from competitors and lower-priced cigarette brands as consumers face economic stress and high unemployment.

The Real Cost Of Smoking

You know about the many health risks associated with smoking, but do you have a sense of how it impacts your financial health? Take a guess at how much smoking can cost a smoker per year. Did you guess $15,000? From dental costs to laundry to property damage to productivity loss, the incidental costs of smoking can really add up to a whole lot more than you might think. The Obama administration recently passed a bill that will prevent tobacco companies from creating flavors and slogans that make some cigarettes appear less dangerous than others. But although some companies might claim to be healthier for your body, all smoke-related products are unhealthy for your wallet.Explicit CostsSmoking causes one in five adult deaths in the U.S. That's a steep cost in itself, but there are a lot of lesser-known economic costs that go along with smoking. Let's start with the most obvious

Philip Morris Tobacco Smoker Medical Monitoring Class Action Lawsuit Certified

A class action lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts alleging that Philip Morris designed cigarettes that delivered excessive levels of carcinogens, has been certified as a class action lawsuit by federal Judge Nancy Gertner, according to a class action lawsuit news report.
The Philip Morris class action lawsuit reportedly includes as class members thousands of Massachusetts smokers age 50 and older who have smoked at least one pack of Marlboro cigarettes a day for at least 20 years.
The Philip Morris class action lawsuit complaint reportedly seeks to have Philip Morris pay for medical monitoring (i.e., regular screenings to detect early signs of lung cancer) in the form of a low-dose computed tomography scan (which typically cost $400 to $500 per year).

Spreading the ‘no-smoking’ message

For a change, celebrities turned up on time for an event. Vivek Oberoi and other guests spoke of the ill effects of tobacco, and girls Shweta Pandit, Akriti Kakkar and Shilpa Rao threw away cigarette packets into a mock flame to make their point.
Also here were Maharashtra Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik, Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa, Deepshikha, Raghav Sachar and Atul Kasbekar.

Celebrities smokers

Brad Pitt cigarette smoking cigarette Celebrities while other people have the same needs, the same enjoyment in your life as well as bad habits. One of many bad habit they share with us can be cigarette smoking. Celebrities will always be in view of the public and their look could be the basic criteria which make them popular and asked-for. Mostly, this considerations ladies. Well-known actresses and also singers and even governmental women spend a lot of their time and generating to have the best appearance and to carry their years well. The keep on different diet plans, deprive themselves through various delicious meals, drinks, exhausting themselves in sport health clubs, to be in good suit and look. They experience this, but ignore the single fact, in which smoking damages their own health and look and cause premature aging.

UK government delays decision on cigarette branding ban

Australia passed law last year ordering plain packets
* Health campaigners criticise the delay
* Industry welcomes, says law would encourage smuggling
By William James
LONDON, July 12 (Reuters) - The British government on Friday delayed plans to ban company branding on cigarette packets in England, saying it wanted to first see the impact of a similar decision in Australia.

Pupils advised against cigarette smoking

The Vision for Alternative Livelihood Development (VALD) has advised pupils against cigarette smoking because it is harmful to the human body and leads to death.

Mr Labram Musah, Programme Director of VALD, a non-government organisation fighting against tobacco smoking, gave the advice at a day’s event at a community forum organised for pupils of the Nurudeen Islamic School and community leaders of Kanda Ruga, a suburb of Nima West, in Accra.

It was to sensitise the pupils on the hazardous effects of tobacco smoking.

The programme, supported by the Norwegian Cancer Society (NCS), was also aimed at building the capacity of the community members on the Part Six of the Tobacco Control Measures of the Public Health Act, 2012 (Act 851), which gives legal backing to the ban of cigarette smoking in public places in the country.

Mr Musah said tobacco smoking and use lead to dreadful heart diseases, lung, oral, and throat cancers as well as respiratory diseases, poverty and deaths.

He asked the pupils to spread the message on the harmful effects on the product in their homes and among their peers.

The Programme Director took the gathering through the 13 key areas of the measures of the Act, which says: “A person shall not smoke tobacco or a tobacco product or hold a lighted tobacco product in an enclosed or indoor area of a work place, or in any other public place.”

“A person shall not advertise either directly or indirectly tobacco or a tobacco product. A Person shall not promote tobacco or a tobacco product by retail sale through the mail or any means of communication.

“A person, who contravenes any provisions of the Tobacco Control Measures...subject to section 56 of the Criminal and Other Offences (Procedure) Act, 1960 (Act 30) shall be prosecuted by a court of competent jurisdiction.

“Anybody, who violates the Tobacco Control Measures ... commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than 750 penalty units or to a term of imprisonment of not more than three years or to both and in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine of 10 penalty units for each day during which the offence continues.”

Mr Musah said tobacco use in any form is dangerous, and it is the most single cause of deaths and disabilities.

Alhaji Shamsu Alawiye, Chairman of the event asked the children not to attempt indulging in the habit of tobacco smoking and should communicate what they have learnt to their parents in a polite manner so that they would not be enraged.

He said: “Just respectfully say no to your parents and other persons when they send you to buy cigarette,” and advise your peers not to attempt indulging in cigarette smoking.

Alhaji Alawiye commended VALD and the Norwegian Cancer Society for bringing such informative programme to their doorsteps, which would go a long way in helping the children to shun cigarette smoking, and for those who are already engaged in it to stop.

Local group wants smokers to pay a dollar deposit per pack

As part of Car Free Day in Vancouver on Sunday, one group wanted to see if they could get people to pick up and return cigarette butts in exchange for money.
Just like a bottle return program.
The West End Cleanup group decided to offer one penny for every butt returned. That translated into $20 for every one pound of butts turned in. It took the group three hours to burn through their $500 budget.
52,000 butts were collected in total.For more info about cigarettes please click here.
But the bigger province-wide plan is to see smokers pay a dollar per deposit per pack, and the money would be reimbursed when the cigarette butts are returned.
“If they feel like they don’t want their money back, this is not a tax, this is a returnable thing, they’re free to litter, and then what I propose would be one cent per butt picked up by whoever is interested in picking that up,” said Dr. Stuart Kreisman, an endocrinologist at St. Paul’s Hospital and founder of the Cigarette Deposit Commmittee.
“Once you put a value on cigarette butts, littered or otherwise, they’re all going to disappear.”
In the greater Vancouver area five million cigarettes are smoked everyday, and it’s estimated, by the Cigarette Deposit Commmittee, that around one million butts are not disposed of properly.
The program is getting some traction and backing from local politicians.
“The rates of litter are staggering,” said Kreisman. “About one in three cigarette butts gets littered, is the statistic.”
He estimated about 13 per cent of Greater Vancouverites are smokers.