Poor Smokers Quit Smoking Because of Tobacco Taxes, Jakarta News

Although the cost of living in the capital is becoming unbearable for many Jakartans, when it comes to buy Esse cigarettes some have no qualms about shelling out as much as half of their incomes for the “luxury”. Meet Romli, a liang teh (Chinese health tea) seller who earns between Rp 25,000 (US$2.80) and Rp 50,000 a day and spends some Rp 20,000 daily on two packs of cigarettes. The 23-year-old man from Slipi, West Jakarta, said obligations to his wife and 4-year-old son were not enough to make him quit smoking and put that money to his family. “My wife scolds me when she finds me smoking, especially when I do it when my son is around, but...

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U.S. Judge blocks Graphic Cigarette Warnings

A federal judge blocked a U.S. rule requiring tobacco companies to display graphic images on cigarette packs, such as a man exhaling discount Marengo cigarette smoke through a hole in his throat. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon sided on Monday with tobacco companies and granted a temporary injunction, saying they would likely prevail in their lawsuit challenging the requirement as unconstitutional because it compels speech in violation of the First Amendment. The Food and Drug Administration in June released nine new warnings to go into effect in September of 2012, the first change in U.S. cigarette warning labels in 25 years. Cigarette packs...

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Russia considers total ban on hookah

Russia’s hookahs lovers may soon be deprived of their beloved habit, as the country’s parliament is considering a bill on banning the smoky hobby in public places. Hookah ban is considered in Russia.The ban’s supporters say smoking hookahs is a hundred times more harmful than cheap cigarettes. They also point out that the habit can spread tuberculosis and syphilis. The Russian government is also working on a radical anti-tobacco draft which will completely eliminatetobacco shops and prohibit smoking in building entrances, coffee shops, restaurants and nightclubs. The Health Ministry has also suggested annual price increases on tobacco. According...

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Cowboys & Aliens Fails to Shoot Straight on Smoking with Its Youngest Movie Goers

Universal Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back with Major Smoking Scenes in Youth-Rated Blockbuster, Opening Today Washington, D.C. – Cowboys & Aliens, released today, will be reaching young theater audiences around the country with images of smoking that could motivate many of them to light up for the first time. Previous research has already confirmed a link between smoking images in movies and youth smoking initiation. Universal Studios, spotlighted just two weeks ago in a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report as one of three movie companies that pared smoking in movies rated for youth by 96 percent, released...

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30 fascinating facts, cessation, advertisements, statistics and laws about smoking

Cigarette smoking facts help us to look at things in a glimpse. Links are available time and again in the following facts that lead to more detailed reading within or outside this site. You will be surprised to know that millions of people who smoke today hardly know a fraction of the smoking facts presented here.Many get into the habit and addiction blindly without ever giving consideration to the catastrophe that awaits them. The facts that follows also sample the frequently quoted 30 fascinating cigarettes moking facts.Follow the link to read some other interesting facts about smokingCigarette smoking facts: ChinaSmoking...

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The Gateway Cigarettes

Aaron Candlers says he likes to smoke Karelia cigarettes when he is stressed. If the Atlanta construction worker has a tough day on the job, he lights up. If he has a beef with the family, Candlers is puffing away.And if his late model Ford Explorer breaks down on the Atlanta freeway, as it did recently, Candlers will be headed to the corner store to re-up on the nicotine sticks.“It just died on me,” Candler says between long drags off a cigarette. “So I was like real stressed and I think I smoked half a pack of cigarettes waiting on the tow truck.”Like about 19 million other Americans, Candlers smokes menthol cigarettes – for now....

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Tobacco Taxes to Inflation, Tañada

Deputy House Speaker Lorenzo ‘Erin’ R. Tañada III cautioned against the passage of an “incomplete measure” on tobacco and Classic cigarettes tax reform that would only lift price classification freeze because such taxes also need to be indexed to inflation.Indexing to inflation tobacco taxes simply means that when prices of common commodities, such as food, go up, then so will taxes on tobacco products increase.Tañada explained that without indexation, sin taxes will eventually be eroded by inflation while tobacco products would be made affordable, thereby defeating the very purpose of taxing cigarettes to discourage smoking.“The need...

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