The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association is objecting to new tobacco tax proposals by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and two alderman in the City of Chicago by calling them ‘jobs-killing and business-busting.’ Preckwinkle has proposed a county tax on other tobacco products (OTP) which includes all tobacco products other than pre-packaged [...]
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Smokeless Tobacco Not a Harmless Alternative
The James Graham Brown Cancer Center and the University of Louisville’s campaign to get smokers to switch to smokeless tobacco is ill-advised and dangerous. Smokeless tobacco isn’t a safe alternative to smoking. In fact, smokeless tobacco can give you cancer, and it can kill. In addition to various cancers, the Centers for Disease Control reports [...]
From Smoker to Smokeless
The James Graham Brown Cancer Center and the University of Louisville have brought a “Switch and Quit” campaign to Owensboro, Ky. The program uses print, radio, billboard and other advertising to urge smokers to switch to smokeless tobacco and other products that deliver nicotine without smoke, according to a report from the Associated Press. The “Switch [...]
Health Officials Wary of Camel Orbs
Health officials are manning the school ramparts for a fresh tobacco assault they feel sure is about to happen, if it hasn’t started already. Colorado is a test market for RJ Reynolds new line of dissolvable tobacco products. They just can’t prove it. It was May when the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco company introduced its new [...]
Athletes Smoke Cigars
The smoking athlete is an endangered species. Last weekend, nicotine missed the cut of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of prohibited substances for 2019, but Wada says that nicotine sanctions are discussed with increasing regularity. One day soon, we will wonder how we ever lived in a world where the potential for Dot Cotton to [...]
New Warning on Chewing Tobacco
Health officials and police have issued a new warning on the use of illegal chewing tobacco after their biggest find in three years. The municipality has seized 62 kilograms of naswar in recent weeks. In the most recent raid, police and municipality officials confiscated 40kg of boxed naswar from a Sharjah-registered car at 7.30am on [...]