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Three charged over cigarette haul
Three men are charged over an alleged plot to smuggle 4,500,000 cigarettes into the country....
2008-10-10 11:34:17
Smoking bus driver given &pound50 fine
A bus driver who puffed on a cigarette as passengers boarded his bus in Clackmannanshire is fined &pound50....
2008-10-10 08:13:26
Study asks if gene testing motivates healthy living - Newsday
E Canada NowStudy asks if gene testing motivates healthy livingNewsday&ampnbsp;- 5 hours agoBOSTON - A 20-year study will help determine whether people who learn from gene testing that they are at...
2008-10-10 08:00:00
Cheaper smuggled cigarettes killing more people than drugs
INT39International/Environment/Health/CrimeCheaper smuggled cigarettes killing more people than drugsLondon, Oct 10 IANS Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year or four times the number of fatalities caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together, but the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem, said experts.Robert West from the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre HBRC and colleagues argued that more smokers would quit if cigarettes cost more, but at around half the price, smuggled tobacco is keeping the prices down.Around 21 percent of all tobacco smoked in the UK is smuggled into the country. If there were no smuggling, the price of legal tobacco would increase by around 12 percent. According to the authors of the study, this would lead to five to eight percent of smokers kicking the habit - saving at least 4,000 lives a year.A reduction in tobacco smuggling would also help reduce health inequalities because low income smokers are more likely to use smuggled tobacco and they are also more likely to quit because of price increases, according to HBRC release. While the authors acknowledge that tobacco smuggling has reduced considerably since the government's 'Tackling Tobacco Smuggling' strategy was announced in 2000, they argue that more needs to be done and call for more action and resources to tackle the problem. For example, the UK government has not followed the lead of all the other European Union countries and has failed to sign up to legally enforceable agreements with the two tobacco companies, Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International, to ensure that they tightly control and regulate distribution and stop supplying contractors involved in smuggling.The report appeared in the British Medical Journal.--Indo-Asian News Servicest/dg306 Words10101447
2008-10-10 05:01:07
Smuggled tobacco 'causes 4000 deaths a year' in UK
London, Oct 10 ANI: Tobacco smuggling is causing around 4,000 premature deaths a year in Britain, which is four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together, claims experts.According to the British Medical Journal, UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem, say the experts.Professor Robert West from the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre and team insist that more smokers would quit if cigarettes cost more, but at around half the price, smuggled tobacco is keeping the prices down, reports the British Medical Journal.Around 21percent of all tobacco smoked in the UK is smuggled into the country. If there were no smuggling, the price of legal tobacco would increase by around 12percent. According to the researchers, this would lead to 5-8percent of smokers kicking the habit - saving at least 4000 lives a year.The boffins said that a reduction in tobacco smuggling would help reduce health inequalities because low-income smokers are more likely to use smuggled tobacco and they are also more likely to quit because of price increases. The experts urge the UK Government to set out comprehensive measures and clear targets for the UK Border Agency to control the illegal tobacco, and for the government to support negotiations, currently underway, for a strong international treaty to tackle smuggling. ANI
2008-10-10 02:54:38
Old Cigarette Ads Evoke Smoky Nostalgia
Many of the ads make claims that seem laughable now, when packs of cigarettes come emblazoned with warnings about "serious risks to your health." ...
2008-10-08 10:20:31
Boxer was casualty of smoking ban
A man is convicted of murdering a former British heavyweight boxing champion who was shot after asking him to stub out a cigarette....
2008-10-08 09:47:21
Fears over electronic cigarettes
Fears are being raised about the boom in sales of so-called electronic cigarettes which are not covered by the smoking ban....
2008-10-08 05:13:09
Fight over 'light cigarettes' begins in US
Lawyers for the biggest US tobacco maker went before the Supreme Court to argue that Washington is to blame if anyone felt tricked into thinking that light cigarettes are less dangerous than regular s...
2008-10-07 15:00:00
Cigarettes worth thousands taken
Cigarettes worth more than &pound10,000 are stolen in Aberdeen, sparking a police appeal for information....
2008-10-07 11:44:18