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Russia Takes Severe Measures Against Smoking

Friday, March 30th, 2019

A bill significantly tightening the rules for smoking in public places will be submitted to the Russian parliament this week, the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily said on Thursday. The document stipulates a total ban on smoking in restaurants, government, education, medical, cultural and sports facilities as well as work places, including elevators, public transport and in transport terminals. Smokers will be officially allowed to smoke only at home and outdoors. On Friday, Russia’s Chief Sanitation Doctor Gennady Onishchenko said a tough anti-smoking bill should become law despite opposition from business groups.

The plans to toughen regulations for the sale of tobacco and to prohibit smoking in public spaces have been discussed for a long time. In April 2008 Russia joinedthe WHOconvention on tobacco control. Over the next five years it must tailor its legislation to conform with this document. The bill currently under review should serve this purpose.

According to Rospotrebnadzor (the service for the oversight of consumer protection and welfare), almost 50 million people in Russia, or more than 40% of the population, are smokers. More than 60% of men between the ages of 19 and 64, and over one third of women between 19 and 44 are tobacco-dependent.

According to Rospotrebnadzor, since 1995, cigarette production in Russia has increased considerably. In the mid-1990s Russia produced 499 cigarettes per capita, while in 2017 that figure had reached 2,838.


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Smoking Allergies Among Kids

Thursday, March 29th, 2019

The severe detrimental effects of passive smoking on Maltese children can no longer be questioned now that hard evidence is available for the first time to substantiate these concerns. A study by Maltese doctors has finally established that cigarette smoking plays a major role in the significant problem schoolchildren have with allergic conditions.

And if mothers were worried about smoking during pregnancy because of its effects on their unborn children, they should be equally worried about doing so in the first year of their lives, warned one of the authors, consultant respiratory physician Stephen Montefort.

The study found that 31 per cent of five- to eight-year-olds were passive smokers, followed by 51 per cent of 13- to 15-year-olds – in both age groups their father was more likely to be the smoker. The child’s first year of life is vital, according to the research, part of the International Study on Asthma and other Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). Children were more likely to be wheezers if their mothers smoked in their first year.

The study also shows the developing lung is more affected given that, if the mother smokes in the first year of life, the child seems to suffer more.

Looking at about 8,000 schoolchildren, it provides unprecedented concrete evidence that passive smoking in the home and personal smoking in teenagers already “really affects” allergic conditions in children.

Prof. Montefort’s main message is that the evidence is no longer anecdotal, so an even stronger argument can be used to stop parents from smoking.

“Mothers are concerned about harming their babies in their womb but they are not really worried about them when they are born. They should continue worrying,” Prof. Montefort insisted.


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New Cigarettes Label Lunched in USA

Wednesday, March 14th, 2019

Convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. (ATD.B-T) has launched a private-label cigarette in the United States to offset the impact of lower margins foisted on it by the makers of cigarettes. The Quebec-based company said it has had trouble keeping its Crown brand on store shelves since it was introduced about five weeks ago. “We’re very, very excited with the market share we have taken so far over such a short period,” chief executive officer Alain Bouchard said Tuesday during a conference call.

“It has exceeded our year target after five weeks so it’s very, very exciting.”

The chain beat analyst forecasts for the third quarter as its net earnings soared nearly 25 per cent to $86.8-million (U.S.).

The company said it earned 48 cents per diluted share for the period ended Jan. 29. That compared with 37 cents a year earlier, or $69.6-million.

Couche-Tard’s shares hit a new all-time high before closing at $31.91 (Canadian) each, up 49 cents, in Tuesday trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The profit increase in the quarter was due to acquisitions, high merchandise sales and lower financial expenses, partly offset by higher depreciation and amortization costs and acquisition expenses.

Couche-Tard was expected to earn on average 46 cents per share on $6.1-billion of revenue in the third quarter of its fiscal year, according to analyst estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters.

Same-store merchandise sales increased by 3.4 per cent in the United States and by 3.1 per cent in Canada. But the U.S. sales were up 6.7 per cent if excluding tobacco products.

Phillip Morris instituted a policy that forced retailers to reduce markups in order to lower consumer prices.

It wasn’t immediately clear how Couche-Tard’s Crown brand cigarettes differ in price and margins from the popular name cigarettes brands.

“We have a shortage of inventory after a couple of weeks after launch so we are very happy,” Mr. Bouchard told analysts.

He said Couche-Tard benefited from its focus on increasing store traffic through promotions and an improved fresh-food offering.

Total revenue increased to $6.6-billion from $5.5-billion a year earlier.

“Looking at the results of the last few quarters, I believe we can say that we are on the right path considering stores newly acquired, [and] programs we are currently testing and implementing.”

Same-store motor fuel volume increased by 1.1 per cent in the U.S. as total volume grew 14 per cent. Canadian fuel volume was up 4.6 per cent but same-store volume decreased three per cent.

Motor fuel gross margins increased 13 per cent to 14.84 cents per gallon (3.79 litres) in the United States. Margins fell in Canada by 8.3 per cent to 5.19 (Canadian) cents per litre.

Mr. Bouchard said Couche-Tard continues to look at acquisition opportunities in North America and Europe, although prices being asked in the U.S. are higher than it is prepared to pay.

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Philip Morris Feels the Compression in Pakistan

Friday, March 9th, 2019

Philip Morris Pakistan is beginning to feel a financial pinch, and is already reducing the scale and scope of some of its manufacturing operations inside the country. In a statement released to the press on Saturday, the company announced that it will be reducing the operations in its smallest factory, located in Mandra, near Rawalpindi. The company cited “difficult economic conditions” including high taxes and low consumer purchasing power as a primary reason for the decision. The decision was described by Philip Morris as “difficult, but necessary.”

Among the key factors that specifically affected Mandra was a government regulation known as SRO 863(I), a 2017 law that effectively bans the marketing and sales of the smaller 10-cigarette packs, which were the mainstay of the company’s operations near Rawalpindi. Given the fact that Mandra is the company’s smallest factory, and that its main product is now illegal, the operational costs per cigarette at the plant would effectively become too high to be sustainable.

“The main activity of the factory has become obsolete,” said the company in its statement. It, however, declined to say whether the factory would be completely shut down.

Philip Morris did not disclose how many of its 2,363 employees in Pakistan work in Mandra and how many of them would be laid off. The company did, however, state that it would be paying the laid off workers a severance package that would exceed the legal minimum requirements.

“We are committed to ensuring that all retrenched employees are treated fairly and with dignity, and genuinely appreciate the contributions that each and every employee has made over the years,” said Arpad Konye, the managing director at Philip Morris Pakistan, in the statement released to the press.

The troubles at the Mandra facility are the latest in Philip Morris’ woes in Pakistan. The company had been operating as a joint venture with the Lakson Group (the parent company of Century Publications, the publisher of The ExpressThe troubles at the Mandra facility are the latest in Philip Morris’ woes in Pakistan. The company had been operating as a joint venture with the Lakson Group (the parent company of Century Publications, the publisher of The Express Tribune) until 2007. In that year, the global company bought out its local partner’s share to retain well over 97% of the Pakistani subsidiary.


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Smoking Habit in the US

Tuesday, March 6th, 2019

For many who are trying to take good care of their health, a study released late last week reaffirming that diesel exhaust can cause lung cancer, may be a major blow to their efforts to lead a healthy lifestyle. That’s because the study found an up to seven fold elevated risk of lung cancer – a disease typically associated with smokers – among miners who don’t smoke.The findings also relate to ordinary people who live in areas with high levels of diesel particulate matter (PM).

Millions of people in the US have the equivalent of a smoking habit, whether they want to or not, because they live close to busy freeways or in other areas with extremely high diesel PM levels.

Scores of studies have shown that diesel exhaust, a sooty mix of toxic air pollutants, smog forming gases and tiny particulates, is dangerous. It was recognized by the State of California as a carcinogen over a decade ago, and fortunately many laws and programs are in place to reduce diesel pollution.

However, even in California where there is a whole suite of diesel clean-up measures from low sulfur diesel fuel to retrofits and early retirements for trucks and equipment, thousands of people continue to die from exposure to diesel PM each year while these measures phase in over the next few decades.

Diesel engines are sturdy, lasting decades with older models polluting a hundred-fold more particulate pollution than modern replacements.

The study by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) evaluates diesel exposures and lung cancer risks among more than 12,000 miners and provides a rigorous analysis, adding weight to the already large vault of evidence that exposure to diesel PM can cause cancer.

No wonder a lobby group representing mining interests worked so hard to delay and obstruct the findings of the study since 1996. The study finds that among heavily exposed miners who typically work underground, the risk of dying from lung cancer was roughly three times greater than for other miners working on the surface. That risk jumps to a seven fold increase of lung cancer for miners who do not smoke.

The findings are consistent with previous large studies of truck drivers and rail workers that have found nearly a doubling of lung cancer risk among long-term workers in these relatively high diesel exposure occupations.

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Tighter Cigarette Store Regulations, Utah Senate Decision

Monday, March 5th, 2019

Anyone under the age of 19 would be prohibited from entering a store that specializes in tobacco products under a bill that has passed the Utah Senate. Republican Rep. Paul Ray of Clearfield says anyone under 19 would also not be allowed to purchase tobacco paraphernalia such as pipes or hookahs. State law currently bans those under 19 from purchasing tobacco products.

Ray says he is sponsoring House Bill 95 because of a concern about smoke shops illegally selling the synthetic drug known as spice.

The Senate passed the bill Thursday 17-7. It will go to Gov. Gary Herbert if the House approves amendments made by a committee.

Opponents of the bill question the need for stricter regulations on all smoke shops just because some stores are selling spice illegally.

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Dalli Desires Stricter Smoke-Free Legislation

Friday, March 2nd, 2019

EU Health Commissioner John Dalli declared that there was a need to revise EU legislation on tobacco products. “Tobacco remains the single most preventable cause of premature death and disease in the European Union,” the commissioner told a conference hosted by the Belgian Foundation against Cancer. “13 million Europeans suffer from diseases related to tobacco smoking. This is more than the entire population of Hungary or the Netherlands, or Portugal.

“Just think how many deaths, how much suffering, and also how much money in treatment we could save, if people did not smoke.”

He noted that the great majority of smokers start smoking when they are teenagers. In some Member States, a tird of 15 year old teenagers smokes.

His main concern, Mr Dalli said, was smoking by children and the factors which led them to start smoking.

“We know that young people start smoking because they are led to think it’s cool. They go on smoking because tobacco is addictive. And later in life, they die out of smoking because tobacco is highly toxic.
“This is why our action needs to focus on young people.”

He asked whether young people, when they looked at a packet of cigarettes, understood what the product was about.

“Do they get the right message about what this product can do to their health? and do they get a consistent message about the dangers of smoking?”

He said he did not think so.

“Our goal should be to ensure that tobacco products – cigarettes in particular – are produced and presented across the European Union in such a way, that they do not encourage or facilitate the uptake of smoking by young people. The key issue is indeed to reduce attractiveness of cigarettes.

“Cigarette packages are increasingly used as marketing tools. Slim, colourful, attractive packages are available on the market.

“Such appealing packaging can mislead people into believing that these products are harmless products like any other, when clearly they are not.”

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