Attempts to classify e-cigarettes as a medicinal product have been made in Holland and Germany but the industry successfully overturned the decisions in court.
Although cigarette companies would try to neutralise the impact of lower volumes by higher prices, we expect revenues to be negatively impacted as well, largely due to increase in illicit trade of cigarettes as a consequence of higher excise taxes.
As small as a BlackBerry, as light as a pack of cigarettes, as complicated as eating a banana, the Flip shoots hi-def video that rivals cameras costing many thousands of dollars.
As small as a BlackBerry, as light as a pack of cigarettes and as complicated to use as eating a banana, the Flip shoots hi-def video that rivals cameras costing many thousands.
Research has repeatedly shown that low social interaction is as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, being an alcoholic or never exercising, and it is twice as bad for your health as obesity.
E-cigarettes are currently classed as a general consumer product and regulated by trading standards.
Chewing tobacco doubled the chances of having a heart attack, as did smoking eight to 10 cigarettes a day.
But Malawi - the world's biggest grower of burley tobacco, used by manufacturer as a filler in cigarettes - has not.
In moments that required contem-plation, Anne Marie smoked the kind of very thin, sleek cigarettes that, in my experience as a watcher of women, only very thin, sleek women are inclined to smoke.
In most cases, police plant property an iPad, a pack of cigarettes in plain sight as the bait for thieves but make sure the car is locked so that a suspect would have to take the extra step of breaking in before being arrested.
Counterfeit cigarettes, for example, can result in a very large loss in taxes as well as perhaps less safe cigarettes.
Sarna saw the implications of this first hand: Chinese women dressed up as Marlboro Cowboys giving away free cigarettes at a local shopping mall.
FORBES: A Nurse's Mission To Keep Chinese Women From Smoking
Last month, the Bloomberg administration unveiled a proposal to keep cigarettes out of sight in stores until an adult customer asks for a pack, as well as stopping shops from taking cigarette coupons and honoring discounts.
In other large product-liability cases, such as cigarettes or asbestos, there seems to be a well-established link between the products and a specific disease, such as asbestosis or lung cancer.
ECONOMIST: Product liability: Of cigarettes and silicone | The
Devotees tout them as a way to break addiction to real cigarettes.
That is plotting cigarette tax revenue as a percentage of GDP (vertical axis) against the percentage of the pricer of a packet of cigarettes that is tax (horizontal axis).
In it he described the soldier he knew only as "Ginger" who smuggled cigarettes, chocolate and even a letter from his sister in England into the Jewish camp for him.
As the men were filling a bag with money and cigarettes, police said a number of pub customers burst in.
Like lotteries, which can be viewed as harmful but also help to fund state budgets, cigarettes are not a golden goose that one stubs out randomly or quickly.
Some hooksters claim that the water-pipes are healthier than cigarettes: even though hookah also involves puffing on flavoured tobacco, the water acts as a filter.
Mr Noda's ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) had recently proposed slapping another two yen tax on cigarettes and selling down the government's stake in Japan Tobacco, which many people saw as a sensible way for a debt-strapped government to help pay the huge costs of post-tsunami reconstruction.
ECONOMIST: The new prime minister takes a leaf out of the LDP��s book
's first-quarter profit rose about 16 percent as it commanded higher prices for its cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products and it benefited from adjustments to a longstanding legal settlement.
As everyone knows, our children are targets of a massive media campaign to hook them on cigarettes.
Then there is his response to a tale told at the bank, that a BritArm employee once sat politely silent as a couple had sex in his train car, then objected only when the couple lit cigarettes.
In explaining the policy change, Samantha Levine, a spokeswoman for Mr. Bloomberg, said the mayor has supported a number of initiatives that he had not supported before, such as requiring stores to remove cigarettes from public view, in hopes of further cutting youth smoking.
Its sales may be enjoying a multi-year boost as emerging market smokers trade up from cheaper local competitors to premium Western cigarettes, but worldwide demand for their products is shrinking, and fast.
应用推荐