Topics covered include sociology of cigarette use, social shaping of health scares, industrial structure and political influence, advertising, cultural images, gender and age issues etc.
Phones have replaced cigarettes as the thing people fiddle with
* When nervous, waiting for a to meet or hear from someone, or trying not to look out of place.
* They are [...]
In the 2009 General Assembly session, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine didn’t get no-excuse early voting, a closed “gun-show loophole” or “green” construction requirements in local government buildings.
Legislators did not back his call for a bipartisan panel to redraw the state’s election districts, or to pay for Medicaid deficits by doubling the state tax on a [...]
SINGAPORE : Over 570 people were caught with duty-unpaid cigarettes within the first month of a new law that requires all
legal cigarettes to have a special SDPC (Singapore Duty-Paid Cigarettes) marking. The law came into effect on January 1.
In its annual enforcement report, Singapore Customs said the number of cigarette offenders has gone down [...]
Marlboro Cigarettes – the most famous cig brand, the top selling cigarette, the most required tobacco product, the first from the first appeared, the brand that has the Own Country… The list can be continued endlessly. The status that reaches the Marlboro cigarette is the result of the smoker’s preferences around the world at all [...]
(Buffalo News, The (NY) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 30–Federal attorneys have filed suit against a tobacco wholesale company owned by Arthur “Sugar” Montour, a former Seneca tribal councillor, for failing to pay $18.4 million in federal tobacco settlement assessments.
Montour’s company, Native Wholesale Supply Co., located on the Cattaraugus Reservation, is the exclusive American distributor [...]
Millions of Americans smoke “low-tar,” “mild,” or “light” cigarettes, believing those cigarettes to be less harmful than other cigarettes. However people who switch to low-tar or light cigarettes from regular cigarettes are likely to inhale the same amount of cancer-causing toxins and they remain at high risk for developing smoking-related [...]