Experts have found

Tobacco plays social function, reducing number of elderly people-dependents.
As informs El País, in the late seventies the tobacco industry endured the critical moment as communication between smoking and a cancer of lungs was already obvious.
The edition marks, what exactly the report which some positions obviously intended only for the internal use then in Great Britain by agency Campbell-Johnson has been prepared and became known just now.
«Tobacco plays social function, reducing number of elderly people-dependents which the economy» is compelled to contain, - quotes the given document the edition.
Thus the author of the report recognises that, certainly, this argument cannot be used publicly, at the same time marking: «With the general increase in life expectancy we need something that people died. The cancer which is considered as illness of the rich and developed countries, should play a role of war, poverty and hunger».
Therefore, the author of the report continues, it is necessary to take advantage of that people consider smoking as something pleasant, though it and a dangerous habit.
At the same time, the edition writes that if medical defence of tobacco in 1978 when the report was written, already has been completely broken, there was still a social fight. «The tobacco smoke can not be pleasant, and inability of smokers to consider opinion of others - one of major factors because of which this habit condemn», - is told in the report.
At last, for struggle against it authors of the report suggest to create «the code of behaviour of the smoker» that it looked not «the neurotic and the fetid outcast», and «the extrovert and the sociable person».
One more method of struggle - creation «from blessing of the tobacco industry» associations of smokers for upholding of the right of smokers on a free choice and their protection against unfair discrimination and restriction of their rights to enjoy tobacco.

Health as national idea

Doctors and demographers say that Ukraine as territory will always exist. Other question: what people will live on it if we, Ukrainians, continue in the same spirit — so irresponsibly to concern the health.
Bermudas triangle on-ukrainski
If to try to analyse a situation, it turns out that ourselves ruin the health. Today it is possible to blame the government, a condition of medicine, secret enemies that Ukrainians as the nation dies out, but the fact remains the fact — practically all in this life depends on the person. “When speak: to improve a demographic situation in Ukraine, it is necessary to carry out reform in public health services sphere is a bosh, — the director of institute of a demography and social researches НАН of Ukraine Ella Libanova speaks. — By definition of experts the CART only 20 % of health of the population depend on a medicine condition, and 50 % are a way of life: a food, abusing alcohol, smoking, absence of physical activities”.
Huge problem in our country — absence of an ideal of health as public prestige. And after all so accents in the developed society, in which good health — necessary attribute of a life are placed. At us, as well as in other countries of the post-Soviet territory, the prestige is estimated through a material well-being: the good car, apartment, a summer residence. In achievement of these purposes the person puts all health, without reflecting that after it will construct the house, will plant a tree and will grow up the son, it has every chance not to see the grandsons.
“Ukraine takes a penultimate place in Europe on life expectancy, the situation only in Russia is worse, — Ella Libanova continues. — I always say that at Ukraine there is a certain Bermudas triangle — men at the age from 40 to 60 practically vanish”.
Root of all evil in this case in a devil-may-care attitude of the person to the health and the big resourcefulness in selection of pretexts ("all of us" there we "will be" or “is not present time”) that for it not to watch. Those "heroes", with the dominating "socialist" relation to the health more often suffer: to transfer illness standing it it is good, means, the person endows itself for the sake of collective and "common cause". Besides it all time postpones a campaign to the doctor, and then, probably, get to it already on a stretcher. Excuses lose the urgency only when the person hears a verdict of the doctor it is necessary what to live few days or months.
“If to take statistics now in our country superdeath rate among men — every fourth dies of a cancer of the lungs, every tenth from a cancer простаты, every fifth from a stomach cancer, and this list can be continued and continued, — the doctor of medical sciences, ex-Minister of Health Jury Spizhenko makes comments on a situation. — On what life expectancy depends? From three most important components: environment, a medicine condition in the country and a way of life. Yes, is now unreal to clear all rivers, to utilise all waste, but a way of life to change after all it is possible. If to speak simple words, a major principle of a healthy life: is less, to move more. And it already will give much. There would be a desire. Having bought the car, the person knows that that demands special leaving — checkups, high-quality oil and gasoline because in the car the big money has been put up. And now estimate itself. Why we are lazy time in half a year to descend to the doctor on survey?”.
One more moment — self-treatment. By the main source of reception of "councils" that it is useful to eat and than is better to be treated, there were mass media and friends. On the TV show, how workers of office support vivacity of spirit "superuseful" soup or noodles of fast preparation, flakes or chips are necessary for children every morning. And the person in a white dressing gown tells about the different wonderful medicines, capable to cure you from all illnesses. As after such stream “the medical information” not to believe that you know much more dietician and the therapist sitting in the nearest polyclinic.
The price — health?
But all the same it is impossible to charge with all cargo of responsibility only citizens. To transition to more civilised way of health protection the state should give an impulse. According to the executive secretary of Association of psychiatrists of Ukraine, the director of the Ukrainian-American bureau of protection of human rights Simeon Gluzmana, Ukrainians concern the health, than, for example, Dutches not is worse. “At us it is simple conditions others — we have not got used, when to us explain that we, for example, eat. We have not got used to go in for sports, only for the reason that we simply do not have money”. Some simply do not presume to visit to themselves sections or the fitness centres. “Recently I with the colleague was on business trip in Switzerland. The four-hour campaign in the centre of health with all procedures has managed to us already in hundred grivnas”, — Ella Libanova speaks. Certainly, the ordinary Ukrainian can dream of such prices only.
Huge obstacle in a way to a healthy way of life and to the health in general is level of a material well-being of the person. After all if the person knows that is sick, but it does not have money for treatment while it will collect the necessary sum, in an organism irreversible processes when treatment already simply will not help can already begin. And what already to speak about qualitative inspection in private polyclinic in which the general inspection of an organism will manage about two thousand grivnas. For example, 800 dollars should be laid out for inspection in private clinic of one body about disease by a cancer which occupies one of leading places among the reasons of death rate of the population.
It is necessary to notice that on the decision of our citizens on that to go to hospital or not, the recent fashion of doctors influences to co-operate with some pharmaceutical firms.
“What sense to go to the doctor if the patient is assured that it understands system of public health services not worse it, — Simeon Gluzman speaks. — Or the doctor thinks of how from the patient to pull out money for medicines unnecessary you. We — result of such education. After all for eighteen years reform in public health services sphere has not been spent. Therefore, having received the recipe on medicines, the patient now twenty times will think, before them to accept. It does not have confidence that the doctor does not co-operate with any firm. First of all, the patient will reflect on, whether the doctor to it has registered these preparations because they will help to restore health, or well-being of the doctor”.
With thought on the future
It is necessary to reflect on a nation state of health already now, caring of health of the future generation. “That fact is very unpleasant to me that about health of our children start to reflect and speak only when there are accidents, — the deserved master of sports Denis Silantev speaks. — On the statistican last year at school has died four pupils who had problems with cardiovascular system. And a unique exit from this situation officials see only in reduction of loadings. I, as the sportsman, can tell that swimming as anything else helps to struggle with these diseases. But as children can be engaged in this kind of sports if not in each region there are pools and if those and are they it is simple in an awful condition. There are no government programs on public health services. I wish to note such moment: in Ukraine beer and cigarettes are more accessible, than a campaign in sports hall”.
It is supported by the Olympic champion on sports gymnastics of Stella Zaharova: “Many politicians say that they put up money in health of children, charitable actions are carried out. Reflect, in what this money — in treatment, but at all is put up warning disease”.
Demographers notice what to "alter" consciousness of people which for fifty years, and to change their outlook concerning the health is already useless, therefore the basic accent to cost to do on people of younger age group — to thirty and is younger.
The requirement for health appears, as a rule, in case of its loss. As we do not reflect on our requirement for air, and the healthy person does not notice importance of care of the health, perceiving it as a reality. He trusts in its indestructibility and does not consider it necessary to undertake any special actions on preservation and health strengthening, as and so all is good. It is time to change opinion that health will think of yours the state or somebody else. The cycle of materials on a site "Editor-in-chief" within the limits of the national program of Media holding "Editor-in-chief-media" “also will be devoted a question of a healthy way of life Keep nation health”.

As Hitler was engaged in the recovery of the planet

Today is not like to recall that the first all-out war on smoking at the national level announced by none other than Adolf Hitler ...
Perhaps this is why the sixtieth anniversary of this event remained prudent unnoticed ...
The idea of quitting occurred to Hitler as soon as he was discharged from the army. And it should be noted that while the head of the future Fuhrer's going full confusion. It mixed up different ideas and theories, which was rich in postwar Germany, superimposed on his personal feelings and gave rise to suggestions, sometimes shocking even his "Parteigenosse.
Well, for example, adopt a law on protection of animals, including responsibility for the mistreatment, and even a ban boil lobsters alive. In Europe, the beginning of XX century it was nonsense. And the former officers of the Kaiser's army, survived the horrors of the First World, and do spinning finger to his temple. However, later, in the 30 years, the law did have - and this was the first such law in the Western world. What defenders of little animals, too, do not want to remember.
However, given that, in response to a question that perplexed scientists, to whom are they now carry out experiments, Hitler defined the category of "laboratory animals" ... Jews and Gypsies, no reason to enroll him in the humanists obviously not.
His aversion to smoking, as has been written by historians, began with the fact that Hitler identified smoking as throwing money down the drain - in the literal sense. Perhaps he simply did not have money, and a cigarette "freeloader" no one has given, perhaps, it just leaped "toad", but once he decided that smoking will no longer be. But only a few years later, Hitler began to get all the lectures that nicotine is harmful to health.
It should be noted that the first appearance of tobacco in Europe in the XVI century was met with very negative. In many countries, monarchs fought overseas habit "to smoke, like a devil" very strict methods: smokers in England beheaded, in Russia since Ivan the Terrible was beaten with sticks, and the kingdom of Alexei Mikhailovich executed very painful way. But then the aristocracy realized that the tobacco business - a very profitable business. And Europe lit, contracted the habit of Peter the Great.
Two centuries old and the new world strenuously puffed pipes and cigars. Tobacco chewing, sniffing and even used as medicine. Attempts to persuade the public that smoking - health harm, ridicule. However, activists in a healthy lifestyle will not be discouraged and persevered. And even sought with some success: for example, in 1890 in the 26 states of the North American Union were prohibited from selling tobacco to minors.
But the attempt by the authorities of New York in 1908 to ban smoking in public places for women, encountered fierce resistance angry suffragettes (future feminists). Who responded began to smoke in principle, to emphasize that its independence and to protest against the "male tyranny.
Society of opponents of smoking have arisen in Germany. However, these were only voluntary organizations, which attempted to deal with nicotine through the publication of magazines and distributing leaflets. The First World War dealt a crushing blow on them - since 1914 the number of smokers increases sharply, and at the front clouds of tobacco smoke rose above the dugouts, as if breaking the chemical shells. Of course, that while Europe etched, the American tobacco companies counted a huge profit.
So the fight against smoking was not the idea of Hitler, but it was he who brought it to the absurd. However, today such an absurdity was the norm "democratic countries".
It all started with the fact that in the 30 years the Germans doctors (at the request of the Fuhrer) began intensive study of the effect of tobacco smoke on the human body. And just what they have become sponsors of such discoveries as the impact of smoking on lung cancer and heart disease, the effect of smoking on fetal growth and health of infants. And also coined the famous term "passive smoking» (Passivrauchen), ie, inhalation of tobacco smoke with the air in the smoke-filled room, transport, places of gatherings.
These discoveries, the first time in history, reinforced the anti-tobacco campaign of scientific facts, to this day is the main argument against smoking. And to make war with the State of cigarettes, total scale enabled the ideology of the Third Reich.
Since Germany was declared the nation the steepest in the world, were presented to her and the relevant requirements. The "true Aryans" were supposed to destroy the mighty fists head "subhuman", and their wives - give birth to a healthy and strong children. Thus, smoking was declared not just harmful habit, now they became the enemy of health and future of the nation.
The funny thing with that against the backdrop of the fight against nicotine in Germany allowed the use of amphetamines, which are then considered "the cure for fatigue," and even declared less harmful to health than strong coffee. They betrayed the soldiers who used them and Hitler himself is said to strongly podsevshy on them by the end of the war, which explains his morbidly nervous state.
Of course, not without blame game. First, Hitler invented the famous dictum ironic that tobacco - a "revenge of the red white man for the fire water." And then everything fell to the Jewish tradition: that is they invented the lime Nordic race nicotine! Since the beginning of the war the German anti-tobacco propaganda used associative images: cigar symbolized Churchill and Britain, the tube - Stalin and the Bolsheviks, well, and cigarettes, of course, Americans.
However, the mere propaganda yielded few results - the Germans did not want to listen to a popularly elected to the Fuhrer. On the contrary, they have to smoke even more! And smoked even closer to Hitler, skipping past the ears of his appeals and exhortations. Therefore, the Third Reich has decided to fight the tobacco at the state level coercive methods. These, however today enjoys all of Europe.
For a start, in 1938, smoking is prohibited in aviation and in the post - under the guise of fire safety. And then, in 1939, total nicotine rink campaign began its movement. Smoking is prohibited in all institutions of Hitler's party, in hospitals and schools. Very strictly forbidden to smoke during working hours (anywhere else), midwives and the police. Restrictions imposed on all officers of the SS. So Stirlitz, for example, could only smoke at home, like bake potatoes.
Special excise taxes, which constituted 85% of the cost of a pack of cigarettes, made them more expensive and less accessible. This was accompanied by visual propaganda about how much the useful could buy savings stamps for smokers, they get rid of their habit. Since the beginning of the war and rationing system for fixing prices the state has gone the other way, banning the issuance of tobacco cards, women of childbearing age.
In 1941, the public was completely banned advertising of tobacco products (on radio, billboards), and smoking was prohibited in public transport 60 cities. In 1944 the ban has spread to the whole of Germany, as well as on commuter trains.
Winning smoking completely failed. Although the results were: in the period from 1938 to 1944 tobacco consumption in Germany decreased by 24%. However, these gains were immediately negated by the defeat of the Third Reich in the war. Country trying to flex its muscles a healthy lifestyle, has received a crushing blow from polluting the harsh tobacco Soviet soldiers.
Whether falling into the shock of shocks, whether the statute of nicotine company, the Germans began to smoke like never before. Prisoners "Aryans" the first thing asked for a cigarette or tobacco, Germans in exchange for a pack of cigarettes were even willing to "inter-racial ties." Tobacco consumption is officially grown in half, and taking into account smuggling - twice!
And almost all the profits ended up in the pockets of American companies that podsazhivaniyu actively contributed to the population of liberated Germany for their products. In the end, the Germans quickly entered the top five most smokers nations in the world. And until now, Germany still can not lower cigarette consumption to the level in 1944 ...

Mineral wool from Ukraine contained the cigarettes

In the Lviv region. prevent the smuggling of cigarettes worth nearly 400 thousand UAH, the press-service of Customs Service.
Contraband was found during the clearance at the checkpoint "Rava-Russian" truck Volvo, driven by 31-year-old Polish citizen. According to documents vehicle drove nearly 9 tons of corrugated mineral wool, which the firm from the Zhytomyr region. trafficked to the Netherlands. During the inspection of cargo customs officers found 45 thousand packs of cigarettes LM and 27,5 thousand packs of cigarettes Lucky Strike.
Detect contraband seized and handed over to Customs. Cigarettes experts valued at almost 400 thousand UAH.

How to buy cheap cigarettes

Searches of cheap cigarettes these days became almost impossible. And the governments of states have the federal government have fallen down on new taxes, after payment of taxes, having risen in the price for cigarettes far beyond their true cost. The latest Obama cigarettes have raised the prices for a pack of cigarettes more than for gasoline gallon. It is so much for its promise not to raise taxes on bottom and middle class of Americans.

It actually is not present anything surprising that the states in America are their increase law-enforcement attention to contraband of cigarettes which manage in billions state of annual tax revenues, The Wall Street Journal has informed recently. In total some years ago, those who pushes to more to steal your money at the expense of taxation increase has told to us that rise in prices for cigarettes will not create the black market. As well as in days of the dry law of 1920th years, with each new tax comes additional possibilities for the businessmen wishing rivalries with Revenuers.

Many Americans resort to search of the help in the next states where the burden of the state tax cannot be so high. For example, people to reserve with the low taxation of the state as Virginia and Missouri, and to accept them back with state heavy taxes, as Michigan and New Jersey.

Other Americans test some tax economy for purchase of cigarettes in American Indian reservations.

Since 2005, the majority of online sources on cigarette purchase under lower prices, have been closed by the government in arrangement to the companies-emitters of credit cards. The same companies of credit cards wish to throw the interest rates to 29 percent or above on those who cannot pay, have received a favorable mode, so far as concerns deleting debts according to chapter 7 bankruptcy, in exchange for the Discount of a cigarette it-lajn does not accept transactions on credit cards with the companies, selling.

Besides, the government has forced the discount of a cigarette of sellers the report of sales of the cigarettes made their clients of the state tax departments. Thus, though it can seem to you to save on your initial purchases when you late to receive the account from your state tax service, you will find out, you have not kept anything.

Depending on that the state you deal... Some states aggressively occurs after that tax revenues and forcing collections from citizens whereas others it is valid only a smoke about toothless attempts to convince the citizens voluntary taxes pay. For example, they can send you the formal notice about looking because of taxes but if you simply ignore it, you never heard from them once again.

Eventually, if you want to save money for purchase of cigarettes, you should work with tax a question. Here where there is the greatest cost of your cigarette and that where you are going to keep most. While you cannot avoid federal taxes to cigarettes, the state taxes are one more question.

The decision to buy cheap cigarettes it is possible to find private methods for purchase of the inexpensive are released from the taxation of cigarettes without risk to be have informed in any state agency and without any the state has imposed taxes to tobacco products!

STATES PUSH fireproof CIGARETTES

The states to bypass more than 30 years of the tobacco industry opposition to the federal legislation safe cigarettes, having transferred own laws which demand from sale by self-fading cigarettes.

The list of the states, with such laws on books will extend to 32 in 2009, almost three times number, such laws in the beginning of 2007.

After the federal legislation - for the first time it is offered in 1974, and it was not possible to the last in 2006 with opposition from outside the tobacco industry - the decision to change the strategy and assistance to the state requirements was accepted, Manager Grigory Kejd has declared American Fire.

The end of 2009 14 states will join to 18 that sellers already demand to buy and sell only fireproof cigarettes which are intended to leave if they have fallen or is cancelled, Charles Lotaringii, the vice-president on communications on National association of fire protection and the Coalition for fireproof cigarettes has told.

Fireproof cigarettes will be carried by a binding character in the State of Delaware, Iowa, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas the beginning has told on January, 1st it. Laws come into force within a year in the State of Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Washington and Wisconsin. Six more states intend to pass laws, in 2010 and seven others there are offers in work, Charles speaks.

Senator Richard Durbin, D-Ill. Has submitted for consideration federal fireproof cigarettes of the legislation in 2005 and congressman Ed of Mark, D-Mass., have made it in 2006, according to Dzhessika Shefer, the director of Mark of communications. She has told that has been met with strong opposition from lobbist firm, and, considering success at the state level, there is no plan to restore it.

"The government essentially did not want... To pass the laws limiting trade", Kejd has told.

David Hovard, representative R.J. Reynolds, taking the second place in the USA the largest tobacco company, speaks, RJ Rejnolds against the federal legislation, not because of cost, but as it does not include "anticipating language," the Prevention of the states and settlements from the near, different positions.

John Banzhaf, the professor of responsibility for quality of production at George Vashingtona's university and the founder of actions concerning smoking and health, National board on struggle against organisation smoking, has the major value as the tobacco industry "has very openly struggled practically all.

According to the American fireman the administration, almost 1000 smoking and non-smoking people annually dies in the house fires caused by cigarettes and other products of smoking.

2004 fire New York safe cigarettes to the right was the first. Лорен Rivera, with New York State department has declared in 2004 was 31 smoking of the death connected with fire. By 2006, the latest available data, this number was reduced to 22.

Howard has told R.J. Reynolds will begin manufacture of all of the cigarette fire safe by the end of 2009.

Phillip Morris USA, the largest tobacco company, will not do cigarettes all by its fire safe, but "will continue to work with the states", representative David Satton has told.

Rumors about the rise in price of cigarettes subject to increasingly

Residents of Donetsk region are preparing to increase the price of cigarettes by buying their entire blocks. The journalists decided to check the veracity of such rumors.

By region spread information that the price of cigarettes has risen to 20 UAH. However, among those surveyed have never met anyone like the value of tobacco products in stores.

Typically, the cause of the rise in prices is the increase in excise tax rates on cigarettes. During the 2009 excise tax was increased by more than 5 times. Recent rises by almost a third took place in May. Representatives of manufacturing companies claim that information about price increases in October - no more than rumors.

According to Artem Skorikova, trade representative of the tobacco companies, distributors in these rumors do not believe, and information on the raised prices for cigarettes in supermarkets is false.

In the near future tobacco companies do not plan to increase the cost of production. However, in this case everything depends on government decisions. Cabinet has already sent to the Verkhovna Rada of the next bill to increase the excise tax on tobacco products. If accepted, the price of cigarettes will rise by 20-30 per cent.

Elena Pischenko, Communications Manager of the tobacco company, confirmed that the prospects of higher prices depend on the decision of the Cabinet. Today, prices remain unchanged. A small increase is observed only in the segment of cheap cigarettes. Thus, the price of cigarettes "Cossack" and "Prima" increased by 0.25 UAH.

Tobacco Company Plans to Cut U.S. Work Force

Reynolds American and tobacco unit, RJ Reynolds, said Tuesday that they would cut about 570 jobs, or 10 percent of their U.S. workforce.

The company expects the job cuts to save $ 100 million by the end of 2010 and $ 55 million per year thereafter. Employees will begin losing their jobs in the third quarter, but some reductions will take place before the end of 2009.

A day earlier, a great rival of Reynolds, Altria Group, which owns Philip Morris USA, said it would buy UST, the creator of Skoal and Copenhagen smokeless tobacco products, for $ 10.4 billion.

Goldman Sachs analyst Judy Hong said the restructuring was a natural move for Reynolds, as the tobacco industry finds ways to cope with falling sales of cigarettes. Americans are buying 3 to 4 percent less cigarettes a year, and the industry turned to alternatives like chewing tobacco, snuff, cigars and snus (a tobacco pouch meant to be held under the upper lip) for future growth. Sales of smokeless tobacco are growing about 5 to 6 percent per year.

Reynolds' plans are designed to focus on core businesses and redirect resources to areas of economic growth. Among the changes: The company scaling back marketing and promotional support for its Kool menthol cigarettes, despite the increase in spending on Camel menthol products. Pall Mall will remain one of the growth of companies and brands.

The company said jobs will be eliminated from both Reynolds American and RJ Reynolds in the company's headquarters in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, but some jobs lost at the parent company will be filled by employees of the branch.

All positions are under review except for those in the field of sales and marketing outside of headquarters and production in Winston-Salem.

The company said on Tuesday it hoped to record a $ 90 million before deducting the cost of restructuring in the third quarter of 2008.

Reynolds American shares fell 50 cents to $ 51.07.

Swedish pensioner without a passport refused to sell cigarettes

64-year-old resident of the city of Gallivare in northern Sweden, Karl-Erik Borg, vowed that his leg will never foot the local supermarket, because he would have refused to sell a stack «Marlborough» without identity cards, which he forgot at home, which could confirm his age. 

According to the pensioner, «if the cashiers can not distinguish a member of the six UN battalions of 18-year-old, why then did they distinguish between banknotes worth 50 and 500 kroner?». 

Curious fact: Borg friend bought the same cigarettes completely unhindered.

«So I'm not insulted yet never in a life », - approves retiree. 

However, the blessing in disguise is not. «This incident is brought me up that I'm going to quit smoking», - said Borg.

Cigarettes and Smokers

They are many myths and misconceptions about cigarette smoking that people start to spread. The more you here it, the more you start to believe it. Some myths stem from a misapplied understanding of what might seem to be common sense; others are deliberately promulgated by the tobacco industry to induce people to start smoking. Some of d this conceptions are crazy and do not make sense. Here are some misconceptions about smoking.


* Nicotine is responsible for adverse health effects


Nicotine is a natural occurring substance derived from the tobacco plant.
The main adverse effect of nicotine in tobacco products is addiction, which sustain tobacco use. It is the other chemicals in cigarettes, not nicotine, which are responsible for most of the adverse health effects related to smoking.

* Filtered or low-tar cigarettes make smoking safer


There are no safe cigarettes. Some people try to make smoking habit safer by smoking filtered or low-tar cigarettes. They think that make smoking safer, but this isn’t true. There are no safe cigarettes and no safe level of consumption. Low-tar cigarettes are just as harmful as higher tar cigarettes.
Smokers usually puff more frequently, take deeper puffs or smoke to a shorter butt length. Despite the filters, nicotine and other chemicals still get through when you smoke.

* Lights cigarettes are healthier


The smokers who use lights cigarettes are under the impression that they are safe. But there is no such thing as safe cigarettes. Research shows that lights cigarette is just as addictive as cigarette whit more tar and nicotine. The poisonous element of a cigarette is in the light cigarettes as well.

Tobacco industry

The specifics on Christensen's proposal are not yet clear, but it is clear that the tobacco industry plans to fight it. Tobacco Company lobbyists are already fighting against the regulation, said Christensen. She said the only company in favor of the menthol ban is Phillip Morris. But Lorillard, the cigarettes company that produces Newport cigarettes, is mounting what the Times called a "counteroffensive," sending out an email message to customers recently urging them to call their Congressional representatives.
"Urgent! Urgent!...Congress wants to make it illegal to smoke Newport and other menthol cigarettes. Call your member of Congress now and tell them to oppose any amendment to ban menthol cigarettes," the email said. Newport is the number one selling menthol cigarette in the U.S.
Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, Lorillard is the nation's oldest and third largest tobacco company. It was started in 1760 by Pierre Lorillard and now manufactures a wide range of brands, including Kent, True, Old Gold, Maverick, Satin and Max.
Television ads from decades ago depict menthol cigarettes as harmless additives that enhanced the flavor of cigarettes. "Newport is smoother," according to the jingle of one popular television commercial (shown below), "than any other menthol cigarette." All the people depicted in the ads are, of course, white.
But as times changed, Newport's demographics seem to have changed too, and now African Americans are among the biggest consumers of the menthol cigarettes sold by the company that produces Newport. Blacks have also been the target of the industry's advertising efforts, as seen by the two print ads in this article.
Perhaps as a result of the marketing efforts, Newport cigarettes have become popular in the black community. Just walk down 125th Street in Harlem or some other black inner city neighborhoods, and you might hear a familiar refrain: "Newport, Newport!" That's the call of unlicensed cigarette dealers selling the cigarettes by the pack. With the cost of Newport at $8 in New York City, sometimes the cigarettes are even sold individually as "looses" on the black market.
The combination of high cigarette prices and high demand has also fueled the black market. In Kansas City over the weekend, a robber broke into a convenience store and stole thousands of dollars of cigarettes, mostly Marlboros and Newport. In another incident a few weeks ago, a robber broke into a store and stole Newport and Kool cigarettes. And in Florida last month, a gas station was robbed and a thief again stole Newport cigarettes.
The debate over menthol cigarettes, like the debate over malt liquor -- a beer with high alcohol content -- has been going on for years. Both are popular in the African American community, and many health advocates are concerned about the racial health disparities that may be caused by the use of these controversial products.