Its report said current measures were failing and called for unhealthy foods to be treated more like cigarettes.
But the industry for handmade cigars argues that its product isn't like cigarettes.
According the National Eating Disorders Association, more than half of American teenage use unhealthy methods like cigarettes, laxatives, vomiting, and self-starving to lose weight.
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There is a push to tax e-cigarettes like regular cigarettes.
Casey's has also reconfigured cigarette racks, making room for cheaper names like Liggett and Kentucky's Best and crowding out less-popular products like menthol cigarettes.
Some of Dichter's preachings--among them: that marketers should offer absolution to consumers who indulge in guilty pleasures like smoking cigarettes or eating sweets--seem laughably simple today.
It's inelastic demand, the same as, like, cigarettes, that can go up in price and people keep smoking, because they don't really have much of an alternative.
So thousands of juries will be presented half a case, in essence, with some issues like whether cigarettes are defective and dangerous beyond their ability to decide.
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There is no reason, in principle, for them to look anything like regular cigarettes, but they frequently do, even going so far as to having the tip glow when you inhale.
He also imported commodities like sugar and cigarettes from traders at the Mombasa ports.
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While the stores get to keep just 5% of lottery sales, the tickets are a big draw, like gas and cigarettes.
The massive class-action lawsuit represents tens of millions of people, anyone who ever smoked cigarettes like Marlboro Lights or Camel Ultra Lights, since the products were put on the market more than 30 years ago.
Former inmate Shenelle Ngatai told TVNZ that cigarettes were like gold in prisons, where they are used as currency.
Saying that hierarchical bureaucracy is necessary is like arguing for smoking cigarettes.
The reality is that while taxes on cigarettes, like other sin taxes, might have a social goal, they have a significant side effect: revenue.
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While the study can't prove that one is related to the other, the findings would seem to support what critics have long said: Smoking by glamorous (or even not-so-glamorous) people on the silver screen is like free advertising for cigarettes.
Sin taxes are really excise taxes, like those on alcohol, cigarettes and candy.
Like many other products, cigarettes both give pleasure and cause harm.
The second point to consider is that since nicotine is an aid to maintaining a healthy weight, why are alleged health campaigners banning products like snus and e-cigarettes which not only get people off cigarettes but could control their weight as well?
If disclosure were complete and accurate, it often would look a lot like the warnings on packs of cigarettes.
Cigarettes and herbs seem like such sad little items to bring down one of the most highly-touted political uprisings of recent years.
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New prevention efforts include addressing marketing practices aimed at children like banning fruit and candy flavored cigarettes and working with states to keep tobacco out of the hands of kids by increasing enforcement at the retail level.
Adding what amounts to a ban on e-cigarettes will tie the hands of millions of EU smokers desperate to quit, and force a like amount of successful quitters back on to lethal addictive cigarettes.
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And yes, people choose to smoke cigarettes knowing those sticks are like coffin spikes.
Some e-cigarettes are made to look like a real cigarette with a tiny light on the tip that glows like the real thing.
Lane Dean imagined himself running around on the break, waving his arms and shouting gibberish and holding ten cigarettes at once in his mouth, like a panpipe.
While tales abound of models going on crash diets and Master Cleanses and publicists surviving on coffee, cigarettes and air kisses, for many like McCotry, it's a balancing act of limiting calorie intake while meeting basic nutritional needs.
Which is why higher taxes are often slapped on cigarettes, gasoline, sugary drinks and the like.
The BMA is worried that the more people start using e-cigarettes the more it will normalise something that looks like smoking.
Like Japanese using their newly accepted JTB card who brought back bags of Kent cigarettes, Coach bags, Dunlop golf clubs and Rolex watches in the pioneer days of Japanese tourism to the U.S. in the early 1980s, the cachet for Chinese visitors of appearing wealthy and successful to family, friends, and work colleagues is definitely also a factor.
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