Why Delta is the least respected brand in America

Delta is the least-respected brand in the world of business, beating out the likes of cigarette maker Philip Morris, says a survey by the research firm CoreBrand.

After looking at corporate brands that have been publicly traded for at least five years, CoreBrand determined the 100 brands with the greatest familiarity, then named those with the highest and lowest ratings from the survey. Cigarette smoke shop.

Coca-Cola and Pepsi tied for first; Delta was at the bottom of the pile, just edging out Philip Morris, Denny's, and Best Buy.

People's hate for Delta is well-documented online, on websites (NeverFlyDelta, DeltaReallySucks, and HateDelta are the first three that come up in Google), Facebook pages, and numerous comment threads on Yelp. Most complaints seem to focus on flight delays, poor service, and high luggage fees, but those are the same complaints that have been directed at the airline industry at large for years.

So how did Delta climb the ranks of suckiness to become the least respected of all?

Here are a few unique complaints against the airline:

It allegedly killed a catIn early 2011, Delta allegedly killed a woman's cat, then offered her the standard $50 lost luggage fee to make amends. Reports said the cat froze to death when a door latch malfunctioned in the cargo hold, exposed the poor guy to the cold.

It broke a vintage Gibson...
In January, the guitarist and singer for the Hanukkah-themed rock band The LeeVees was forced to check in his $10,000 vintage Gibson guitar on a flight from Buffalo, N.Y., to Detroit, Mich. When workers retrieved the luggage, the guitar got caught between the service elevator and a rail on the loading dock, causing damages to the bridge, neck, and tail that totaled almost $2,000.

...and Kenny Perry's lucky driver
Just this week, pro-golfer Kenny Perry said Delta broke his lucky driver, "the one I won all my tournaments with this year."

The golfer told The Seattle Times, "It broke the head right off the shaft. I’m very upset at this point."

“I represent Southwest Airlines and it’s in a Southwest (bag), and I flew Delta out here from New York and they snapped my driver. I’m pretty bummed out,” he said.

Sewing needles were found in their turkey sandwiches
The FBI opened an investigation into the airline last year when two passengers flying from Amsterdam to the U.S. found sewing needles in their turkey sandwiches. The airline stopped selling the sandwiches, which were assembled at Gate Gourmet's kitchens in Amsterdam. A search later uncovered two more needles. Delta now serves sealed prepackaged food on these flights as a precaution.

A quick Twitter search also reveals some strong anti-Delta sentiment, for varying reasons:

'No serious heart risks' linked to smoking cessation therapies

The American Heart Association claims that three different types of smoking cessation therapies do not pose serious heart risks, quashing concerns that certain products may increase the risks of heart attack, stroke or heart-related death.
Researchers looked at the results of 63 clinical trials involving 30, 508 people who were quitting smoking using either nicotine replacement gums and patches, the nicotine addiction treatment varenicline (Chantix), or taking the antidepressant bupropion (Wellbutrin), which can reduce cravings and other unwanted withdrawal effects.Doina cigarettes and Dunhill cigarettes.
The results, published in the journal Circulation, did not find evidence of any increased risk of serious heart events among participants.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 45.3 million Americans smoke and that it accounts for approximately 443,000 deaths a year - that is one in every five deaths.
However, the CDC also notes that there are more former smokers in the US today than there are current ones.

Irregular or rapid heart rates

Stopping smoking is associated with increased life expectancy, improved cardiovascular health, better quality of life and reduced health care costs.
But, the CDC acknowledges, nicotine dependency is a chronic condition that may require repeated interventions to achieve the goal. Withdrawal symptoms for nicotine include irritability, anxiety, difficulty in concentrating and increased appetite.
Scientists know that nicotine replacement therapies, such as patches and chewing gum, increase minor heart symptoms, such as irregular or rapid heartbeat.
The combination of both therapies, wearing a patch and chewing gum whenever there is the urge to smoke has been shown to be more effective but does lead to more side effects.
Edward J. Mills, study co-author and associate professor of medicine at Stanford University and Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, explains:

Not for any smoking ban

Although the proponents of banning smoking in bars and bingo halls would have us believe otherwise, what they are proposing is absolutely nothing other than expanded government dominance over individuals' lives.
Eliminating individual choice is certainly nothing new, but the claim that that's not what is being proposed now is simply not true. Arguments put forth by the proponents are contradictory.
They argue on the one hand that "studies have shown" that banning smoking in bars will increase the number of patrons, but on the other hand argue that all three local government entities have to ban smoking or none of the ordinances will take effect so as to not "give a competitive advantage" to some bars.
If the "studies" were right, that would be the last thing that would happen.
Also, if the "studies" were correct, why does it fall to government to ban smoking? Wouldn't an entrepreneurial bar owner realize that there was an unsatisfied demand for a smoke-free bar and open one voluntarily? Can anyone actually cite one of those "studies"?
Several articles and letters to the editor have talked about the "studies" but I have yet to see a citation. I'm beginning to wonder if the "studies" actually exist or if proponents simply think if they repeat those statements often enough people will just believe them.
Finally, much is being made about "protecting" the employees. The last time I checked, no one is forced to work anywhere. If someone didn't want to work in an environment where there is smoking, they could quit. But wait! Why would someone who was bothered by smoking apply for a job in a bar in the first place?
I urge all three local governments to reject the proposal and allow individuals to live their lives the way they see fit.

Smoking fans flames of memories

The subject of smoking keeps coming up in conversations lately, and it’s funny how times have changed.
My mother and I were taking a tour of Clarksville, where our family lived for one year when I was a teenager.
When we drove by the high school where Mom taught, she pointed out where she had smoking-pit duty.
I asked Mom if she smoked with the students. She told me no; she smoked in the teachers’ lounge.
When another teacher complained, the principal (also a smoker), told the teacher he could work in his classroom, but Mom couldn’t smoke in hers, so tough, basically.
Wow. The outcry that would happen today if someone lit up in the lounge.
Once when my brother was a little boy, he asked Mom if one of his beloved elementary teachers, Mrs. Howard, smoked.
Mom said, “I don’t think so.”Glamour cigarettes.
Shane said: “I didn’t think she was that kind of woman.”
I’m not sure what that meant in his little mind, but his mother apparently was.
Last weekend, my brother recalled that he had bought cigarettes for Mom, and I remember running in the store to get them, too.
I also volunteered to buy them when having a bunking party with some friends, and we smoked the cigarettes under a bridge. We sprayed perfume and everything aerosol we could find when we got back to the girl’s house — it was a daring thing for me, a future goody-two-shoes.
Of course, there were cigarette vending machines, where anybody with some change could buy a pack. My kids were pretty incredulous that those ever existed.
I also remember Mom giving me a lighted cigarette to light fireworks, and I’d steal a puff.
(Mom quit cold turkey about 30 years ago, by the way. She has apologized for the trips with cracked windows and the ensuing allergy headaches my brother and I got from the smoke.)
My husband said that when he was in high school, his band director smoked like a chimney. When the high school band was selected as the Bicentennial Band of Arkansas and got to play at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (one of my husband’s proudest lifetime achievements), the students rode in three buses, with one designated for the students and chaperones who smoked.
When they made a pit stop, the doors to the one bus would open, and smoke would roll out like a five-alarm fire.
In college, I didn’t have many friends who smoked, but people could smoke in their dorm rooms, and just about anywhere except the classroom.
When I got my first newspaper job, smoking went with the stressful job. I didn’t smoke, except second hand.
The clouds of smoke hung above the short walls dividing the departments. My husband and I would go home reeking of smoke. I hated having my hair smell like smoke, and I developed an attractive habit of obsessively pulling my hair to my nose to smell it.
I also bought a battery-operated ash tray for the worst offender in the office, which helped, until the batteries died and she didn’t replace them.
One editor had a cigarette going nonstop, sometimes two, if he forgot, which was often.
My husband and I were thrilled with the prospect of working in a nonsmoking newsroom when we came to Conway. (My hair-sniffing habit died down, too.)
Nobody in my immediate family smokes now, but my mother does not deny how much she loved it back in the day.
When we toured the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville a few weekends ago, we saw a piece called Smoker #9, a woman’s hand holding a cigarette to giant red lips, exhaling smoke.
My mom posed and mimicked holding a cigarette to her lips.
I’ll bet Mrs. Howard never would have done that, but Shane, I hate to tell you. Mom was trying to protect your young innocence.
Mrs. Howard was a smoker.

Domestic cigarette sales drop

BAT Zimbabwe’s cigarette sales volumes declined by 16% in the first half of the year ended June 30 2013, compared to the same period last year.
This was experienced across most of the company’s brands such as Dunhill, Newbury, Everest, Kingsgate and Berkeley.
Company chairman, Kennedy Mandevhani said BAT Zimbabwe’s prime brand, Madison, proved more resilient on the market.
“Successive increases in excise duty which impacted cigarette retail prices in 2011 and 2012 have been compounded by coinage constraints, resulting in consumers often paying higher prices than recommended by manufacturers simply due to the unavailability of coins,” he said. Classic cigarettes.
Mandevhani said industry cigarette volumes had reduced as a result of the slowdown in GDP growth, and the ongoing general affordability challenges that consumers in the country continue to face.
“Total revenues were US$23,1 million for the first six months of the year…mainly due to manufacturer increases net of excise on key brands in December 2012, which offset on part the impact of lower sales volumes,” he said.
Mandevhani said the economy showed signs of stagnation in the first half of this year. He said despite limited growth being achieved in the agricultural and mining sectors, investment in the economy has been constrained by domestic liquidity challenges and restricted availability of external credit lines.
One of the company’s highest expenses was the provision for a share-based payment expense of US$10 606 000 as part of compliance with indigenisation laws.
“On a non adjusted basis, operating profit reduced to US$2,4 million, as a result of an IFRS 2 share based payment expense of US$10,6 million.
“This expense represents the fair value of share awards made to employees by our Employee Share Ownership Trust as part of the company’s compliance with Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment legislation plus the associated payment of dividends to employees participating in the trust of US$0,4 million,” he said.

Another Risk for Babies of Smoking Moms

Women have been told it's important not to smoke while they're pregnant. Some women may not realize how much smoking in pregnancy might affect their children later on.
A recent study found that children may be more likely to catch an infectious disease requiring hospitalization in their first year if their mothers smoked during pregnancy.
In fact, children born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy were at higher risk for dying from an infectious disease than children born to non-smokers.
The most common types of infectious diseases among children born to smokers were respiratory illnesses, but the babies were affected by other diseases as well.
This study, led by Michael J. Metzger, PhD, of the University of Washington in Seattle, looked at whether mothers' smoking during pregnancy increased children's risk for infectious diseases later.
The researchers compared two sets of children, each including a group of babies born to smokers and a group of babies born to non-smokers. The children were all born in Washington between 1987 and 2004.
First, the researchers compared 47,404 babies who had been hospitalized with an infectious disease within their first year of life to 48,233 babies who were not hospitalized with an infectious disease before age 1.
In their second analysis, the researchers compared 627 babies who died from an infectious disease in their first year to 2,730 babies who survived their first year.
In both groups, the researchers found that babies born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy had 1.5 times greater odds of being hospitalized for or of dying from an infectious disease than children not born to smoking moms. Kent Convertibles cigarettes.
In particular, babies born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy had 1.7 times greater odds of being hospitalized for a respiratory infectious disease than babies born to non-smokers.
When the researchers took into account differences in the babies' birthweight and the pregnancy week when they were born, it did not affect the results of hospitalization risk.
Interestingly, however, when the researchers looked only at children with low birthweight, children born to smokers were no more or less likely to die from an infectious disease than children born to non-smokers.
Overall, however, the researchers concluded that smoking during pregnancy was linked to a higher risk of a wide range of infectious diseases among the babies after they were born.
"These findings suggest that full-term infants of normal weight whose mothers smoked may suffer an increased risk of serious infectious disease morbidity and mortality," the researchers concluded.
“We’ve known for a long time that babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy are at high risk for serious medical problems relating to low birth weight, premature delivery and poor lung development,” said study co-author Abigail Halperin, MD, MPH, in a prepared statement.
“While respiratory infections have been recognized as a common cause of these sometimes life-threatening illnesses, this study shows that babies exposed to smoke in utero also have increased risk for hospitalization and death from a much broader range of infections—both respiratory and non-respiratory—than we knew before," she said.
Andre Hall, MD, an OBGYN at Birth and Women's Care, PA in Fayetteville, NC, said it's not news that smoking is an unhealthy habit.
"It is also generally understood that it is especially unhealthy for pregnant women and their unborn children," he said.
"In addition to problems such as intrauterine growth restriction, this study now suggests a link between a mother's smoking and the future development of infectious diseases in an unborn child," Dr. Hall said. "This attack on a developing child's immune system which may increase a child's diseases over their lifetime, should be avoided at all costs."
This study will be presented October 27 at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition in Orlando.
This study has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, and its findings should be interpreted with caution.
Information was unavailable regarding funding and possible conflicts of interest among the authors.

Study: Flavored small cigars are popular with kids

Small cigars flavored to taste like candy or fruit are popular among teens, according to the first government study to gauge their use.
About 1 in 30 middle and high school kids said they smoke the compact, sweet-flavored cigars. The percentages rise as kids get older, to nearly 1 in 12 high school seniors, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
The results - based on a 2011 survey of nearly 19,000 students, grades 6 through 12 - were published online Tuesday by the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Since 2009, the government has banned cigarettes with candy, fruit and clove flavoring, though it continued to allow menthol flavoring. There is no restriction on sales of cigars with such flavorings except in Maine, New York City and Providence, R.I.
The sale of cigarettes and cigars to those under 18 is illegal, but according to an earlier CDC report, about 16 percent of high school students were smokers in 2011.
Health officials say sweet flavoring can mask the harsh taste of tobacco and make smoking more palatable.
"The so-called small cigars look like cigarettes, addict as much as cigarettes and they kill like cigarettes," said CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden.
Tobacco companies have said they oppose smoking by those under age 18. But the marketing of flavored cigars suggests companies are trying to interest kids in smoking, Frieden and others said.
"The tobacco industry has a long history of using flavored products to attract kids," said Danny McGoldrick, of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy and research organization.
Sales of regular and flavored cigars have boomed in the last 12 years, from 6 billion to more than 13 billion annually, according to calculations by his group.
The CDC survey also asked about menthol-flavored cigarettes. When those were included, more than 40 percent of kids who were current smokers in the survey said they were using flavored cigars or cigarettes.

American Airlines plane makes emergency landing

An American Airlines plane made a safe emergency landing Tuesday after the pilot reported a fire in the cockpit, a smoking engine and a loss of fuel, Turks & Caicos Islands officials said.

A spokeswoman for American Airlines disputed the report of a fire, saying the jet made the emergency landing due to a ‘‘mechanical issue related to one of the engines’’ and an indication of ‘‘low oil.’’

‘‘There was no fire anywhere,’’ spokeswoman Laura Masvidal said. She said a maintenance team was still evaluating the aircraft. Lucky Strike cigarettes.

The British Caribbean territory’s disaster management and emergencies department said there were no injuries among the 175 people aboard the Boeing 757. It said the flight was traveling from Trinidad & Tobago’s capital of Port-of-Spain to Miami when the pilot requested clearance for an emergency landing.

‘‘The pilot reported a fire in the cockpit and that the left engine was smoking and dripping fuel. The aircraft had one hour and thirty minutes of fuel on board,’’ the department said in a statement.

It said the plane landed safely at 10:23 a.m. at the international airport on Providenciales, the tiny Caribbean territory’s most populous island.

American Airlines provided a replacement aircraft and the flight arrived in Miami late Tuesday afternoon, Masvidal said.

Additional 27 Cent Cigarette Tax Begins October, Estimated $150,000 Gains for Fiscal Year in Farmville

Starting Oct. 1, cigarette cartons will be taxed an additional 27 cents with stamps applied to cigarette cartons to reflect the change.

All businesses must replace the brands of cigarettes that sell out during the month of September with the applied tax stamps before being sold, according to the Town of Farmville website.

The current federal cigarette tax per carton is $1.01, while the current state tax per carton is $0.30, according to the Tobacco- Free Kids website.

The cigarette tax rate of 27 cents per 20 pack of cigarettes adds to the Town Budget. The Town Budget includes the real estate tax of 12 cents per $100 of assessed value and the personal property taxes for businesses of $1.50 per $100 of assessed value.

Carol Anne Seal, treasurer of the Farmville Town Council, estimated a $150,000 gain for the first fiscal year with the cigarette 

tax.

According to the Farmville Town Council minutes for Aug. 14, Dr. Edward Gordon, Ward A council member, suggested that the Finance Committee should begin discussion on possible other revenue sources as well.

The stamps that will be applied on the cigarette cartons are capable of being bought as either self- adhesive or heat applied.

For cigarette vendors, there is a mailing fee of $14 per roll or $6 per sheet.

Self-adhesive stamps are only sold in sheets of 100, and heat applied stamps are only sold in rolls of 15,000, according to the Cigarette Stamps Order Form.

To receive the cigarette tax stamps, cigarette vendors must sign a Monthly Cigarette Distribution Form by the 20th of each month to be sent to the Treasurer’s Office along with a Cigarette Tax Stamps Order form, a Cigarette Distributors Form and a Retail Additions and Deletions Form.

Mickey is a small business owner who owns a tobacco shop in the Town of Farmville, called Mickey’s Shop. Mickey’s Shop has been in business since 2004 and is located 

at 300 N. South Street in Farmville, Va.

Mickey commented on the tax, saying, “This is really too much.”

He added, “It’s going to be hard for a smoker to pay 25 cents extra for the town tax for each carton ... If it’s 10 cents or 15 or maybe more, easy, but now people are going to go out of the county or out of the Town to get some cigarettes, so it really hurt businesses, especially a small business like us.”

Mickey predicted that people won’t notice the cigarette tax stamps within the first two or three weeks of October. 

Mickey expects that the residents of Farmville may travel outside of the town to buycigarettes or make their own cigarettes, whichmay causeMickey to have to raise the prices of his cigarettes to keep up

revenue. “It’s very hard 

right now for everybody, and the Town is trying to get some money, and some people here don’t have work and are always smoking,” Mickey said.

Mickey commented on the efficacy of a cigarette tax possibly convincing smokers to quit their addiction, saying, “People are going to smoke anyway ... It might make them go somewhere else for a cigarette.”

2013 Smoke-Free Doesn’t Kill Appetites

Smoke free laws did not affect restaurant revenues

(dailyRx News) When you’re hungry, you may want to inhale a meal but not secondhand smoke. State laws prohibiting smoking in restaurants are delivering health benefits and not eating away at business.
Even if you don’t smoke, breathing in the tobacco fumes from others can harm your health in many ways. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that secondhand smoke can cause heart disease, stroke and lung cancer.
In one of the largest studies to date, the CDC has found that statewide smoke-free laws would not have an economic impact on restaurants and bars.

Anti-smoking charity: 'cigarette packets are appealing'

It's stopping the bright colours saying "oh, that looks pretty that looks nice".
We actually had a child say to us it looked like lego, we had a child say it looks like sweets and we had a child say one girl say to us "that's lush".
It goes to show how appealing these packets are even though they know the contents are obviously very bad for them.

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Amanda Bynes gets kicked out of Ritz-Carlton hotel

Smoking weed and making the staff cry

Just when we thought Amanda Bynes’ nasty attitude couldn’t get any worse.
Bynes has, according to Perez Hilton, been kicked out of the Ritz-Carlton hotel for smoking weed in her hotel room and making the young woman at the check-in desk cry. Apparently, she told the woman at the front desk she was “too ugly” to check Bynes in, causing the woman to burst into tears. Bynes even went so far as to recommend the woman a plastic surgeon.
Bynes has been taking digs at celebrities on her official Twitter, calling them “ugly” and making fun of their appearance. She has also been very vocal about her love for plastic surgery. On July 17 she posted “surgery is my favorite topic.” Perhaps this was in reference to the “conversation” she had with the check-in girl from the Ritz-Carlton.
Despite her bad attitude and obvious rudeness, Bynes has been offered advice from fellow celebrities. Recently, at the 2013 Comic Con, someone dressed as Dr. Mrs. The Monarch told Bynes, “We are all very concerned and very worried about you. So be a lamb and knock it off! It’s tacky.”

Celebrities smokers

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.

Twenty years ago researches started that smoking dehydrates skin, damages collagen along with destroy vitamin C, which in turn accelerates skin
growing older with 10-15 years. This also fact does not scare smoking celebrities. They will continue to have thousand of advisers and keeping in
various diets, not thinking about getting rid of cigarette smoking.

Smoking among superstars is the main problem, which they ignore and do not desire to quit. Why First of all, this is the question of
their style, cheap Cigaronne tobacco online. Kate Moss, the well-known super-model, may be found at any picture being with a cigarette and a elegant cellular phone, cheap discount tobacco.
Even the proven fact that she cant get pregnant due to smoking couldnt help the woman's to quit smoking. The girl just decreases the quantity of
the smoking cigarettes each day, from 30 to fifteen.

The key cause of disagreement between Brad Pit and his wife Jen Aniston has been smoking. Brad Pit finally quitted smoking, whilst Jen
Aniston continues doing this until today.

Researches revealed the fact that smoking is much more psychological problem than nicotine dependent a single. May be this may explain the
phenomenon associated with why do celebrity people who smoke are keeping about this harmful habit. They can be on the public and the've strain work
timetable. Whenever they go, whatever they do, they are as well as paparazzi. Celebrities usually have a stressful life and that may
explain the fact what they take a cigarette when they have one or more free minute. They even can do not have any wish to stop this,
disregarding the warnings of health concerns caused by smoking. Whenever Catherine Zeta-Jones was asked precisely why she quitted smoking, the girl replied
that she would not want her kids to find out that and to put her questions. Your woman did not mention that the reason was the harm for the
health.

Ok, we may understand their hard life, full of stresses. Nevertheless, the experiments shown that movie star smokers have an
relation to youth smoking price increase. Teenagers are susceptible to emulate the stars, following their glamorous life and celebrations.
The most common cigarette brand name among youth is Marlboro, as the many celebrities smoke this specific brand. Teenagers disregard the fact of
harmfulness, each of the warnings at the e cigarette packs. They start to smoking to imitate manners with their idols, which becomes a national
problem. Mostly, smoking girls imitate his or her idols by smoking method. Even there exists a judgment, that smoking celebs by
themselves started to be influenced by the charisma that is usually related to cigarette smoking.

Thus, celebrities as simple people might choose between health and using tobacco. The only fact that is really a distinction between them
and others is that they should be more responsible and take into consideration their influence on ever rising generation.

Camel tobacco

Camel is one of those handful of brands that are well-known throughout the world and are considered to be any universal quality standard. Richard Joshua Reynolds is the founder of the Camel cigarettes trademark along with the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJR); he occurred in history not only being a successful businessman, but also as a talented professional. The son of the Virginian planter he was the first to label every package deal of his chewing tobacco with colourful and catchy trademarks. In the beginning of 1913 RJR advertised 4 cigarette manufacturers at once and Camel was one of them. The actual producers planned the actual Camels look and tastes to evoke the actual romantic spirit from the Middle East on the list of Americans. The very mixture of the dark tart Turkish tobaccos and the light Virginian types suited smokers tastes, discount cigarettes on the internet. Which revolutionary receipt occurred in history as American Blend along with became the world normal for the whole tobacco business. Reynolds staked on Camel possessing spent the lion’s discuss of his advertising money on its strategy to introduce a new hero – Old Joe, an Arabian camel from your famous Barnum and Bailey Circus. Ultimately Old Joe took over as most popular animal at any time.

Call to print warnings on cigarettes

A university health professor is calling on the Government to increase taxes on tobacco by 30 percent immediately, and print warnings on the cigarettes themselves.

Massey University College of Health pro-vice chancellor Paul McDonald made the comments on Firstline this morning, as World Smokefree Day kicks off. 

Smoking kills 5000 Kiwis every year – 350 of them non-smokers who are killed by second-hand smoke.

The Government wants New Zealand smokefree by 2025. A ban on cigarette displays in stores came into force last year, and taxes on tobacco go up 10 percent every year.

Prof McDonald says the measures are working.

"Absolutely. There's no doubt. We have evidence from multiple countries now," he says.

A University of Canterbury study backs this up, showing not only are more people quitting, but those who continue to smoke have cut down.

But Prof McDonald says if the country's to go completely smokefree by 2025, more needs to be done.

"I know the Government's quite committed to 10 percent tax increases [but] it needs to be higher," he says.

"We need a short, sharp shock to smokers to have the maximum effect, so instead of looking at a 30 percent increase over say three or four years, it should be a 30 percent increase right away.

"In addition, [we should follow] Australia's lead in terms of plain packaging – strong evidence that that's effective. Looking at things like registries of people who sell tobacco. Looking at ideas such as licensing tobacco users themselves. There's a myriad of things we could do.

One idea which Prof McDonald says resonates with smokers is to put warnings on the cigarettes themselves.

"Smokers have a right to understand the nature of the activity they're engaging in, how difficult it is, how dangerous it is. When we looked at different possibilities, one of the things that came up was, can we put it on the cigarette? And they loved the idea. They really understood for the first time how intensive the danger was."

"The one that really resonated was when we put little rings around it, identifying that every time they smoke past one of those, it was the equivalent to one minute of their life that they were sacrificing.

"As one smoker vividly said to me, 'It's the first time that I really understood how dangerous this was. You put the warnings and you made it clear, and it was right under my nose each and every time I lit up.'"

The theme of this year's Smokefree Day in New Zealand is "Quit Now". Prof McDonald says the best thing a smoker can do, if they want to quit, is to get help from their friends and family.

"Ask them – if they're smokers – to quit along with you," he says. "Certainly call the Quitline, get some advice. There's a myriad of things that are available."

Australia's war against tobacco

Here in New York, a pack of cigarettes can cost over $12. However, maybe smokers in the Empire State should thank their stars that they do not live in Australia. A pack of cigarettes could cost more than $20 which, if approved, would be the second 25-percent hike in cigarette prices in just three years, the Huffington Post reports.


This is not the first time that Australia has come after cigarettes. In 2010, Australia enacted a 25-percent tax increase on cigarette packs. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the tax prompted a rise in "panic buying", in which consumers rushed to buy cigarettes before the prices went up. Last month, Australia enacted a law that stripped cigarette packs of brand names, covering packs instead with black letters, an olive color and grotesque images of the ill health effects of smoking.

FDA Approves 2 New Cigarettes, Despite Not Being Any 'Safer' Than Other Products On Market

In its first decision on new tobacco products since being given authority over all tobacco product regulation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two new types of cigarette while denying four others.
FDA officials issued a press release stating that although these products are not considered safe, they are no more hazardous than current tobacco products on the market, Reuters reported.
"While the new products have different characteristics than the predicate products, the new products do not raise different questions of public health," the release stated.

European Cigarette Brands

Many European cigarette brands are becoming more and more popular among smokers in the whole world and among US smokers too. Many persons who are smoking believe that there are great tobacco products manufactures only in U.S., but this is far from true. Almost all the best cigarette brands are made in European Union only.

Many cigarettes produced in Europe can be purchased online. The cigarettes have an outstanding quality and follow the international tobacco standards.

Premium category

Kent cigarette brands represent the largest premium brand manufactured by British American Tobacco. Today this tobacco brand is sold in 75 countries and has a big popularity among smokers who want to feel their great invigorating taste and luxury quality. A few years ago BAT launched a landmark line of Kent Nanotek, which represents king-size slim cigarettes, they have an advanced filter technology special designed and introduced for women who smoke.

Davidoff cigarettes represent an iconic cigarette brand and are produced by Imperial Tobacco Co. This tobacco company is the fourth-largest tobacco group in the entire world. Davidoff cigarettes are being sold in 100 countries and more .Davidoff cigarette brand has an impressive and successful performance in almost all those countries. The traditional size of this brand is king-size and other 100s styles, but this interesting tobacco brand also offer us the possibility to try original Davidoff Super Slims Silver and Davidoff Super Slims Gold cigarettes. These cigarettes provide a special, unique tobacco taste.

Mid-value category

Marlboro cigarettes are a real legend in the last centuries among all cigarette brands. They are well known in the U.S and in Europe. Smokers who have more experience in smoking admit that Marlboro brand has some differences in the taste of European-made cigarettes and American-made Marlboro. However many of them do not feel any difference. U.S. smokers might not know about the next styles of Marlboro brand: Marlboro Gold Edge and Marlboro Filter Plus.

Winston cigarettes are the second best selling brand of cigarettes in the whole world. Winston brand is produced by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. This Tobacco Company is known as manufacturing the highest-possible quality cigarettes. Winston cigarette brand has many varieties of styles which are different in length and strength.

Camel cigarettes are the iconic tobacco product of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Camel cigarettes are the fifth top-selling cigarettes in the world and still continue to have successes and grow annually. They have a recognizable flavor, a perfect taste and high quality. Also has a big popularity in more than 100 countries.

Low-end category:

Red & White: this special cigarette brand was produced by Philip Morris International for smokers, who don’t want to spend too much money on their tobacco, but still smoke a high quality product. Red & White cigarette is marketed in five different styles: 2 super slim styles and 3 traditional king-size styles. You can also try Red&White Special Cigarettes.
Red&White Fine Cigarettes 

Monte Carlo cigarettes are manufactured by Japan Tobacco International. This brand has a high quality and gains territory in many countries. It grows in popularity among smokers who love their nice flavor and pleasantly low price.

Bond cigarettes represent another low-cost cigarette brand produced by Philip Morris International. This tobacco brand is a perfect combination of high quality, unique taste and interesting styles. Bond brand offers from classic varieties to innovative ones.

Stop Smoking - A recommended method from the US Surgeon General

Here is a five day countdown pretty much as stated in the US Surgeon General's report. Stop Smoking a 5-Day Countdown Follow this 5-day countdown to your quit date.  5 Days Before Your Quit Date Think about your reasons for quitting. Tell your friends and family you are planning to quit. This creates peer pressure for you to follow through. Stop buying cigarettes. 4 Days Before Your Quit Date Pay attention to when and why you smoke.

Where can I buy cheap cigarettes online?

With an increase in the price of cigarette in the past few years, it has become really difficult to find cheap cigarettes. Every regular smoker is looking for a better and cheaper way to afford cigarettes in daily life. Until a decade earlier it was very difficult for a smoker to get quality cigarettes at an affordable price. They had to rely on their local stores for the supply of smokes. But things have changed and technology has allowed smoke enthusiasts to purchase cigarettes at affordable prices. Internet is one such technological invention that has made purchase of good quality tobacco products at cheap price possible. Internet has developed tremendously in past few years and it has become really easy to find cheap cigarettes over the internet. There are so many websites which are designed to cater the daily smoking needs of regular smokers. So where can I buy cheap cigarettes online? In this article, we are going to explain some of the best places for purchasing cigarettes over the internet. One of the most famous websites for purchasing cheap cigarettes is My-Cheap-Cigarettes. 
This website was developed with the purpose of providing cheap cigarettes for smoking lovers. Most of the major cigarette brands are available at discounted price over these portals. My-Cheap-Cigarettes have been rated as the number one cigarette selling site by its users. Moreover the discount offered on regular price is another benefit offered by My-Cheap-Cigarettes.com If you are looking for a website with better user interface and the facility of purchasing all the major cigarette brands of the world at a single place, then Smokin4free.com is the perfect place for you. The site provides multiple payment options including credit cards, electronic checks, and cash payment in advance to its customers. The 24/7 customer support offered by the site makes it the best place to buy cheap cigarettes. It is very important that the site offers excellent customer service because if you have any doubts or want any information about the cigarettes you have ordered or about to order then the site’s customer service should be fully competent and knowledgeable to help you.

Cigarette brand marketed to females

Because cigarette brands developed exclusively for women (e.g., Virginia Slims, Eva cigarettes , Misty, and Capri) account for only 5% to 10% of the cigarette market. Many women are also attracted to brands that appear gender neutral or overtly targeted to males. Research has shown that women’s magazines that accept tobacco advertising are significantly less likely to publish articles critical of smoking than are magazines that do not accept such advertising. The tobacco industry has targeted women through innovative promotional campaigns offering discounts on common household items unrelated to tobacco. For example, Philip Morris has offered discounts on turkeys, milk, soft drinks, and laundry detergent with the purchase of tobacco products. Cigarette brand clothing and other giveaway accessories have been use to promote cigarettes products to women and girls. Virginia Slims offered a yearly engagement calendar and the V-Wear catalog featuring clothing, jewelry, and accessories coordinated with the themes and colors of the print advertising and product packaging. Capri Superslims used point-of-sale displays and value-added gifts featuring items such as mugs and caps bearing the Capri label in colors coordinated with the advertisement and package. Misty Slims offered color-coordinated items in multiple-pack containers. The manufacturer also offered an address book, cigarette lighter, T-shirt, and fashion booklet. Evidence suggests a pattern of international tobacco advertising that associates smoking with success, similar to that seen in the United States. This development emphasizes the enormous potential of advertising to change social norms. As western-styled marketing has increased, campaigns commonly have focused on women. For example, in 1989, the brand Yves Saint Laurent introduced a new elegant package designed to appeal to women in Malaysia and other Asian countries. National tobacco monopolies and companies, such as those in Indonesia and Japan, began to copy this promotional targeting of women. One of the most popular media for reaching women—particularly in places where tobacco advertising is banned on television – is women’s magazines. Magazines can lend an air of social acceptability or stylish image to smoking. This may be particularly important in countries where smoking rates are low among women and where tobacco companies are attempting to associate smoking with Western values.

Despite federal ban, tobacco ads continue to lure teen smokers

Despite decades of efforts to keep the tobacco industry away from children, tobacco companies are successfully promoting their products to nine out of 10 middle and high school students in the U.S., according to the study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control.
What’s more, the dramatic decline in tobacco use among California high school students appears to have flattened out, a troubling development both because of the health effects and because tobacco use is strongly associated with failing to graduate from high school on time, according to recent research.

The fag end of the argument

Yesterday, I received an email from Amanda Sandford, research manager of the anti-smoking organisation ASH UK: ‘We understand that a report published by the human rights “watchdog” organisation Privacy International has been released today. Please note that this is a tobacco industry-funded report published over a month ago in association with the tobacco manufacturers front group, FOREST.’
Phew! Not only has ASH long been a guardian of the nation’s collective health, protecting us from the nasty smoke spewed out by cigarette abusers, but now it is stepping up to the plate as moral guardian, too. Many easily led people may simply have checked out the report, Civil Liberties: Up in Smoke by Simon Davies, and fallen into the trap of judging the arguments within on their merits. Never fear, because ASH has saved us from that. Some money from Big Tobacco helped to fund the report, so there’s no need to read a word of it or engage in any debate about it.

Marlboro brand of cigarettes

Triumph history Marlboro cigarettes began in 1847 in England. The new brand was named after the Marlborough Street in London. In 1902, Philip Morris, British cigarette manufacturer, based subsidiary of the corporation in New York. Marlboro cigarettes were submitted to the U.S. market as the cigarette choice for women. Marlboro cigarettes women, it was announced under the slogan "soft as May." A series of ads in 1926 depicted a woman's hand reaching for a cigarette. The special design of shows a red tip, which hid lipstick marks that women would leave while smoking. However, the Marlboro brand of cigarettes faltered during the Second World War and had to be withdrawn from the market. The brand was re-introduced to the market in the 1950s, when many smokers began to worry about the health aspects of their habits. While most of the cigarettes is not filtered.

Smoking drink easy to rustiness

Hoarseness is a common but then symptoms, especially in low humidity, dry autumn, have occurred from time to time.But the most common voice problems, yet many patients with palpitation.Reporter was informed that, in the otolaryngology clinic, every day a hoarse voice hoarse voice in elderly patients, proportion is very high, especially for smoking, drinking, throat chronic diseases mainly.Light sound rough, hard or pronunciation, hoarseness, aphonia can appear."Most people would be the worst aspects of thought, such as tumors, malignant transformation.

Cognition of diseases is the direct cause of lack of panic."Armed Police Hospital otolaryngology professor Dong Yuli expresses, hoarseness are all causes of vocal ailments, the thickening and the degree of stiffness increases, the closure of the glottis fissure enlarged.The patient after the onset of symptoms, should go to hospital for examination, to exclude the possibility of malignant transformation, some still need biopsy, can accurately diagnose. Smoking for more than 40 years Hoarseness psychological burden As a smoker, Chen Bomei of 65 years old to think a little smoke also addictive, a sucker is the 40 years.


Many persons love to smoke  Parliament cigarettes, Camel cigarettes

Smart quit smoking tips

Today, edited several smoking cessation tips, suffer from quitting smoking friends can test.

In the small mirror affixed to his dark complexion, yellow teeth photos.

② to buy cigarettes save up the money, use the money to reward yourself.

③ find something (except food) for your hands.Like to do arts and crafts, gardening, and even crossword puzzles.

The cigarette will all collected in a transparent glass bottle, to cultivate the sense of revulsion against smoking.

The dentist, the removal of smoke left tooth ban, to keep our teeth white.

Ukrainian customs intercepted six months, $ 13 million smuggled cigarettes

According to the Forum from the Customs news agency was informed in January to July, Ukrainian customs seized more than 2000 cases of illegal trade in illegal tobacco products, intercepted 41 million cigarette case value of $ 13 million.

In most cases, Ukraine is a country or destination of an illegal transportation of sale of tobacco products, rather than the country of origin. Belarus, Moldova and Russia, tobacco products, often illicit trafficking, because they are cheaper than domestic products.

The report said that "the fight against tobacco products, illegal transport-related, the most important activity is to observe the border areas of Ukraine - Romania, Ukraine - Moldova, Ukraine - Poland, Ukraine - Russia and Ukraine - Belarus."

Should I Quit Smoking Cold Turkey?

Like many smokers, you might try to quit smoking cold turkey — which means simply stopping smoking altogether on your own — but only about 10 percent of those who try this method actually succeed. Impulsively quitting without planning or preparation is partially responsible for this low success rate. Quitting cold turkey has its advantages, so you might give it a try, but cold turkey is generally considered the most difficult method of giving up cigarettes, and you might find that other methods improve your chance of success. It is possible for you to quit smoking cold turkey, and there are some good reasons to choose this method over others, most notably price and simplicity. The cost of cigarettes might be one reason you decide to quit, and that savings can be a strong motivator. Spending money on therapy or nicotine patches might feel counterproductive. When you quit smoking cold turkey, you don’t have to practice special resistance techniques, keep appointments or remember when you last put on a patch. Stopping cold turkey relies on nothing other than the will and desire to quit, making it the most straightforward method of quitting.

Roxon Gazes Down Big Tobacco

Health Minister Nicola Roxon has weathered an attack over her attempt to solicit funds from big tobacco in 2005 and vowed to push ahead with plans to introduce plain packaging for Hilton cigarettes. Ms. Roxon says even if cigarette makers win compensation for the loss of trademark rights, the commonwealth would be ahead because plain packs would cut smoking rates and therefore health spending.

The federal government wants Australia to be the first country in the world to force cigarettes to be sold in packets devoid of branding.

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Jerry Weingart has been waiting more than a decade for the companies he believes killed his wife to be brought to justice. But at 89, the Boynton Beach man doesn’t have the stamina to spend the whole day in court. Holding a cane, he listened on Wednesday morning while one of his attorneys explained to a jury why three Pall Mall cigarette makers should be held responsible for his wife’s death. But Weingart headed home before tobacco attorneys launched their full counterattack Like in the two other tobacco trials that have been held in Palm Beach County, millions of dollars are at stake. The cases are among roughly 8,000 that were spawned statewide when the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 threw out a $145 billion jury verdict in a class-action lawsuit. While upholding the jury’s findings that cigarette-makers lied about the dangers of smoking, the high court ruled that each smoker had to prove how they were uniquely harmed by cheap cigarettes.

Smokers are Always Censured

Higher cigarette taxes mean lost sales and business for retailers while unjustly burdening adult tobacco consumers. Retailers like convenience shops depend on cigarette sales for 36 per cent of their income. Although it may be a cynical argument, you actually don’t want too many smokers to quit because you want the cigarette-tax revenue. In recent years, you raised the Hilton cigarette tax accompanied by rhetoric about getting smokers to quit.

Flavored Cigar Sales Strong

Despite a demand from adult consumers, tobacco retailers are continually forced to defend their right to sell flavored cigars responsibly. While tobacco has long been a bread-and-butter product for convenience stores, accounting for millions in individual unit sales and boosting the profits from the average smoker’s market basket, it remains a category under attack at the federal and state levels. Consistent tax increases and society’s dim view of smoking, which has resulted in a spate of anti-tobacco legislation, have hurt overall sales and profits.
These efforts have also caused c-stores lose regular adult consumers that enjoy discount Cafe Creme cigars To keep tobacco sales strong and steady, retailers have turned to flavored cigars, which have seen a spike in demand since federal regulations outlawed flavored cigarettes. But even here storm clouds are gathering, warned Thomas Briant, executive director of the National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO) in Minneapolis.
Briant is concerning himself with a pair of recent ordinances—one in Providence, R.I., that bans all flavored tobacco products, including all flavored cigars, and another in Miami-Dade County in Florida, that would also place a ban on all flavored tobacco products. Why target flavored cigars specifically? Briant said the answer may be that the newest ordinances are viewed as an extension of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ban on flavored cigarettes.

Tobacco firm all of a sudden drops New York Dolls tour

LEGENDARY rock’n'roll band the New York Dolls have cancelled their Australian tour after their plans to play a series of tobacco industry promotional events were exposed.

The band’s October tour itinerary, posted on its website, included shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney for cigarette brand Peter Stuyvesant, owned by Imperial Tobacco, along with dates at New York-themed festival the Boroughs.

New York Dolls tour

But the entire Australian tour has been cancelled and the Boroughs website deleted after news of the tobacco gigs was posted on music website Mess & Noise on Monday.

Trade events, where tobacco companies ply retailers and nightclub operators with free alcohol and entertainment, are one of the few promotional tools left to the industry

Professor of public health at the University of Sydney Simon Chapman said Imperial Tobacco’s actions suggested they were ramping up their promotional efforts before plain-packaging legislation to be introduced today and likely to have taken effect by January.

Celebrities Caught Smoking - 1 Lilly Allen

Remember when Chandler (of Friends) says “Hey, you know, I’ve had it with you guys and your ‘cancer’ and your ‘emphysema’ and your ‘heart disease’. The bottom line is smoking is cool and you know it.“. Looks like some of these smoking celebrities took that seriously….Check it out! 1. Lilly Allen smoking Lily Allen in concert at the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels. 8 May 2009.

How to prevent from gaining weight by quiting smoking

When we stop smoking, our metabolism changes. When we are smokers, we are feeding our organism with food and with a poison such as the nicotine. When we get accustomed to nicotine, our body treats it like if it was food. Taking exercise instead of smoking It’s a hunger like sensation but be aware: its not hunger. Don’t confuse it with the normal hunger for food, its hunger for poison so you must be careful and don’t eat to calm this pseudo-hunger. You will not satisfy this sensation with food. You will only satisfy it quitting smoking and will go gradually in the next few days. In approximately two or three weeks will be gone completely. So, there are some simple things you can do to avoid to put on weight (or, at least, mitigate the effect of the nicotine withdrawal)