Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Launches Butt Recycling Program

Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. (SFNTC) has teamed up with TerraCycle Inc., a developer of solutions for hard-to-recycle materials, to do something about cigarette butt litter. With funding from SFNTC, TerraCycle is launching a national program to collect and recycle cigarette waste. The Cigarette Waste Brigade will divert used cigarette butts from landfills. By sponsoring this program, SFNTC is not only taking responsibility for the end-life of its products, but also for the products of its competitors, it said. "You don't have to walk or drive very far to see that smokers often discard cigarette waste in ways that litter the environment. Our company has been committed to environmental sustainability since we were founded 30 years ago, and we're proud to be the exclusive sponsor of an innovative program to reduce and recycle cigarette butt litter, regardless of which manufacturer made the cigarettes," said Cressida Lozano, the head of sales and marketing for SFNTC.

Farmers sue Big Tobacco, Monsanto for knowingly poisoning them with deadly pesticides that cause birth defects j

A group of Argentinian farmers says corporate biotechnology giant Monsanto, tobacco behemoth Philip Morris, and several other tobacco companies coerced the farmers into using dangerous amounts of Roundup (glyphosate) and other pesticide and herbicide products on their tobacco crops, which eventually resulted in a major spate of birth defects throughout the local community.

According to Courthouse News Service (CNS), dozens of farm workers in the Misiones Province of northeastern Argentina say their children suffered "devastating birth defects" after Altria Group, the parent company for Philip Morris USA, Carolina Leaf Tobacco, Universal Corporation, and Monsanto convinced the farmers to switch from their native tobacco crop to a new tobacco crop specific to Philip Morris cigarettes, are Marlboro cigarettes or Chesterfield cigarettes.

Wanna sell more drugs? Push more tobacco...

Has anyone realized the huge conflict of interest in turning over tobacco regulation to the FDA? The FDA's biggest customers (corporations that pay the FDA money) earn their profits precisely from treating the very diseases caused by tobacco consumption. This creates an incentive for the FDA to promote more tobacco, thereby boosting the long-term revenue potential of its Big Pharma clients.

How Do Smokeless Cigarettes Work

Cigarette smoking is one of those addictive habits that can be harmful to health. It is the nicotine content in cigarettes that makes people addictive to this product. Once you get used to nicotine, you will develop a craving for the same. Apart from the craving, discontinuation of smoking will also make the person anxious, depressed and irritable. Puffing a cigarette provides an immediate fix for these problems. This cycle continues and the user may find it difficult to overcome the addiction of smoking cigarettes. It is under such circumstances that smokers seek help to quit smoking.

Cigarette Smoking: Harmful Effects on the Body

Cigarette smoking is a practice of burning dried or cured tobacco leaves and inhaling its smoke. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about one-third of the total male population in the world smokes tobacco. In addition to this, non-smoking women get exposed to secondhand smoke or passive smoking, which means inhalation of the exhaled smoke from another person's cigarette. Most people smoke tobacco in the form of cigarette. People smoke for a variety of reasons, some smoke for pleasure, others smoke thinking it looks cool. Many people start smoking during their teenage due to the influence of others (family members or friends). However, if one starts smoking for any reason, it usually ends in becoming a habit. Knowingly or unknowingly, people get addicted to smoking.

Electronic Cigarettes: General Information

In 2003 a Asian inventor, Hon Lik, developed the debut electronic cigarette as a healthier choice to filtered tobacco smoking. Electronic cigarettes emit a vapor that is meant to imitate the personalty and sensations of smoking, and is marketed as a smoking cessation instrument.

These devices, including electronic cigars provide a cleaner alternative to filtered cigarettes by eliminating the carcinogens, tar, and chemicals that are taken in by smokers.

Is green packaging enough to stop people smoking?

The grass is always greener, as they say, and so are cigarette packets. In Australia, at least. The country's MPs are set to back plans to render cigarette packets olive-green, supposedly because it's a dull, unappealing colour that will put off potential smokers. But will it work? Perhaps. Green-branded firms – BP, Starbucks and Carlsberg, to name three – may be successful, but are hardly adored. Everyone hates BP, everyone loves to hate Starbucks, and Carlsberg is forced to beef up its brand with the hopeful slogan: "Probably the best beer in the world." Coincidence? Possibly not. Some magazine editors even swear green covers don't sell well at the newsstand.

In the cigarette industry, green has long been considered drab. Raymond Loewy's re-branding of the Lucky Strike packet from bland green to the white-black-red version we know today was "one of the great transformations", says design critic Stephen Bayley. "Sales picked up enormously." But, he warns, green may be ugly, but not always off-putting. "Thing is," expands Bayley, "ugliness is an unreliable deterrent. It's actually very difficult to design something ugly. Usually it only happens by accident."

And what does the Green party think? It may have won its first seat last year, but could it have done better with, say, a vermilion logo? Ochre, maybe? Au contraire, says a spokesman. "Green is associated with regeneration, good luck, generosity, harmony and well-paced energy. Have you ever noticed that time moves faster in a green room? In contrast, TS Eliot used yellow to represent the decay of the modern world, blue is linked to sadness, and red with anger." Green with envy? Not the Greens.