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.

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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)

Impact of cigarette taxes on demand for cigarettes

A number of studies have examined the effect of cigarette taxes on retail prices. When those studies conclude that increases in cigarette and other tobacco taxes would certainly result in a higher price for these products, differences exist in the estimated magnitude of the increase in retail prices for a give level of tax increases. Early studies concluded that pricing behaviour of the cigarette industry was similar to that of firms in a competitive industry in spite of its oligopolistic structure, thus cigarette taxes were fully passed to the price of cigarettes at the retail level. Recent studies, which accounted for the dynamic nature of an oligopolistic industry, or modelling the demand and supply for cigarettes simultaneously, however, found that cigarette prices were increased by more than amount of the tax increase.

Large Meta-Analysis Purports to Find Huge Effect of Smokefree Laws

In the largest meta-analysis to date of studies examining the effect of smoking bans on heart attack admissions, a paper published this week in the journal Circulation concludes that smoking bans lead to an immediate 15% decline in heart attack admissions or deaths. The typical follow-up period in the reviewed studies was approximately one year. Thus, the paper is concluding that smoking bans produce a 15% decline in heart attacks in the first year following implementation of these bans. Furthermore, the paper argues that the observed decline is due to a reduction in secondhand smoke exposure.

n What Passes for Science in Tobacco Control

A study published in the journal Preventive Medicine in 2011 purported to demonstrate that a tobacco-free campus policy led to a decrease in smoking among students at Indiana University.

(See: Seo D-C, Macy JT, Torabi MR, Middlestadt SE. The effect of a smoke-free campus policy on college students' smoking behaviors and attitudes. Preventive Medicine 2011; 53:347-352.)

The study was a quasi-experiment, using a repeated cross-section design with a comparison group.

Reynolds Seeks Success In 'Total Tobacco Space'

It's no secret that cigarettes, while on the decline, are still the key driver in tobacco sales. Reynolds American Inc. producer of Camel cigarette brand recognizes this and as such, will continue to devote 80% of its brand support budget and 90% of its other resources (such as research and development) on combustible products; however, as Reynolds president and CEO Daniel Delen shared on Monday's annual Investor's Day, the company's pioneering efforts on smoke-free products will set Reynolds up for long-term success in the total tobacco market. "Everything we're working on from an innovation standpoint has a higher margin than cigarettes," Delen said, noting the company's recent forays into snus, electronic cigarettes and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT). "I think we're very well positioned in an evolving market."