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Severe Tobacco Rules Set By Year’s End

Tuesday, September 27th, 2018

The government expects to finish by the end of this year a new set of smoking regulations designed to bring Indonesia closer to ratifying an international convention on tobacco control. At the center of the debate are rules concerning advertising and mandatory picture warnings on cheap Lucky Strike cigarette packaging.

Although last year Indonesia signed the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which states the dangers of tobacco and sets limits for its use, the country remains the only one in Southeast Asia and one of the last in the world that has not ratified it.

The government is contemplating how best to meet the six requirements required under the FCTC. These concern cigarette duties, advertising, picture warnings, smoking-free areas, anti-cigarette campaigning and anti-cigarette education.

“The regulation has for a year been discussed between ministries and related sectors, including the tobacco industry and the cigarette companies,” Health Minister Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih said after meeting with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the National Commission on Tobacco Control (KNPT) at the presidential palace on Monday.

“It has been decided that the draft should be issued as a regulation soon. The target is this year.”

Among the six components, Endang said the picture warning on cigarette packaging was the most difficult thing on which to reach agreement.

However, she claimed that cigarette executives said they would comply with the picture warnings if the regulation makes it mandatory.

The Health Ministry, Endang said, will cooperate with anti-tobacco groups to promote awareness as the government mulls a partial ban on cigarette advertisements.

Endang said that Yudhoyono had asked her ministry to educate the public, including children, about the dangers of smoking.

Any change to the rules would be gradual, she added.

“Regarding the ratification, the president said that it would be done in phases, rather than all at once,” Endang said.

Farid Moeloek, the tobacco commission chairman, said he hoped the House of Representatives would soon deliberate the regulation, which has drawn sharp criticism from tobacco farmers.

Cigarettes have long been a controversial issue in Indonesia. Earlier this year, a study by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease found the country had become home to the third-largest population of cigarette consumers in the world.

Indonesia has some of the lowest tobacco tax rates and the cheapest tobacco products in the world, and the number of smokers in the country has steadily increased.

Some 65 million Indonesians smoke, with 40 percent of them illiterate and 60 percent poor. In the last decade, the rate of smoking among 10-to-14-year-olds has grown from 9.5 percent to 17.5 percent.

The government has been reluctant to impose strict controls on tobacco. The industry generates significant tax revenue, and it is one of the nation’s major employers.

Despite that, however, Moeloek said the Indonesian people would benefit in the long run from increased regulation.

The KNPT chairman said Indonesians spent a total of Rp 138 trillion ($15.2 billion) a year buying cigarettes. The nation also spends Rp 2 trillion a year treating smoking-related illnesses.

He said smoking was responsible for Rp 105 trillion in lost productivity annually. The tobacco industry generates Rp 60 trillion a year in taxes and duties.

Anti-tobacco activists have warned that the regulation that would require tobacco companies to place graphic warnings on cigarette packs could face an untimely death because of the government’s insistence that all stakeholders, including the tobacco industry, have wide-ranging input wanted.

“If we keep letting people challenge this regulation, there is no way we can finish it this year,” said Kartono Muhammad, a prominent anti-tobacco activist.

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Graphic Images on Cigarette Packages Work

Wednesday, September 7th, 2018

A new report today shows there are about three million fewer smokers in America than there were five years ago. New graphic cigarette packaging, released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration June 21, 2018, shows a varied collection of dead bodies, diseased lungs and a man on a ventilator were among the graphic images for revamped U.S. tobacco labels, unveiled by health officials who hope the warnings will help smokers quit.

Proposed in November under a law that put the multibillion-dollar tobacco industry under the control of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the new labels must be on Lucky Strike cigarette packages and in advertisements no later than September 2019. They represent the first change in cigarette warnings in 25 years.

The new vital signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that 19.3 percent of American adults — or 45.3 million people over the age of 18 — are smoking cigarettes, down from 20.9 percent in 2005.

Researchers credit the trend to high-profile anti-smoking campaigns, higher taxes on cigarettes, new graphics on individual packs, and an increased number of indoor smoking bans that now are in place in more than half the nation.

Getting Americans to smoke less has been U.S. government policy since the 1960s. Under its Healthy People initiative, the Department of Health say they want to bring the national prevalence of smoking to below 12 percent by 2021.

“People who are continuing to smoke are smoking less — but we can do much better by continuing to invest in tobacco control programs at all levels,” the CDC report said.

Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Tobacco use and exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke kill an estimated 443,000 Americans each year.

For every one smoking–related death, another 20 people live with a smoking–related disease, according to the CDC.

“In many ways, the findings we are releasing today are good news,” Tim McAfee, director of the CDC’s office on smoking and health, told reporters in a telephone conference today.

“It is definitely a slower rate of decline, but we are still moving in the right direction.”

The cost of cigarettes varies between states, but prices per pack have increased substantially over the past few years. For instance, a pack of Virginia Slims Menthol sells for about six dollars, according to cigaretteprices.com.

The American Council for Drug Education reports there are about 47 million smokers in the U.S. About 23 percent of adults smoke, and about 30 percent of adolescents.

It is widely acknowledged that people who haven’t used tobacco by age 21 are likely to remain non-smokers. So it would seem reasonable for much tobacco advertising to target potential adolescent users, although tobacco companies deny this. What is undeniable, however, are statistics showing that the average age of first tobacco use in the United States is 13, drug educators say.

“We know what works: higher tobacco prices, hard–hitting media campaigns, graphic health warnings on cigarette packs, and 100 percent smoke–free policies, with easily accessible help for those who want to quit,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden.

“States with the strongest tobacco control programs have the greatest success at reducing smoking.”

Smoking is most prevalent in West Virginia and Kentucky, with about one in four adult smokers in both states. There are also elevated numbers in California and Utah.

Smoking costs about $193 billion annually in direct health care expenses and lost productivity, according to the CDC.

Last month, four US tobacco companies filed a lawsuit against the US Food and Drug Administration over new rules calling for graphic health warnings on cigarette packing, calling them “unconstitutional.”

Tobacco control programs that have been proven to reduce smoking also have been proven to reduce the health care costs directly related to tobacco use.

Did you know?

Nicotine, perhaps the most commonly recognized ingredient of tobacco, is an addictive central nervous system stimulant. When nicotine is taken into the lungs, it is transmitted to the brain in seconds. It causes the heart to beat more rapidly, drawing in and pushing out more blood. It also makes the veins and arteries constrict, thus requiring the heart to labor harder. This results in increased blood pressure and heart rate.

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Higher Prices Best Way to Beat Smoking Habit

Tuesday, July 19th, 2018

cheap lucky strike cigarettesIt is rare for much time to pass without a new front being opened by anti-smoking crusaders. This month has seen a particularly high level of activity. Legislation dictating that tobacco products, Lucky Strike cigarettes and advertisements will have to be kept out of sight in shops from next July was passed with the support of all but three Act MPs.

Not to be outdone, George Wood, the chairman of the Auckland Council’s community safety forum, proposed a ban on smoking in inner-city streets. Then, most astonishingly, the Auckland District Health Board said it was looking at refusing to hire smokers.

All these initiatives highlight the pressure on policymakers not only from anti-smoking lobbyists but from a community that has rapidly come to vilify the practice. People once enjoying an acceptable pastime now find themselves literally out in the cold. A wide range of measures have been used to drive that message home, yet about 20 per cent of people continue to light up. Thus new means to persuade that stubborn minority to quit keep being proposed.

To their credit, some policymakers have recognised that some of these suggestions are, quite simply, a step too far.

They acknowledge what many anti-smoking advocates do not – that smoking is a legal pastime enjoyed by a significant number of people, and that their rights must be balanced against other people’s protection from secondhand smoke.

Such was the case when Mr Wood’s plan to have smokers banned from gathering in front of inner-city buildings was rejected. The spectacle of smokers huddling together outside workplaces is certainly unappealing. But if this were denied them, it is reasonable to ask where would they smoke. And if this were the home or the family car, how long before anti-smoking lobbyists would be trying to dictate what happens in these places, even though this is generally considered the individual’s own business?

More questionable still is the Auckland District Health Board’s proposal to refuse to hire smokers, an approach which is said to recognise the responsibility of doctors and nurses “to be positive role models in dealing with patients and the public”. Logically, that means obese people will also not be hired. Like smokers, they hardly fit the health and wellbeing ideal that the board seems to think its staff should embody.

All this posturing by pressured policymakers is largely a waste of time, effort and money. Their initiatives are likely to be no more successful than most of those tried over the past few years – the likes of education campaigns, smoke-free areas, subsidised quit programmes, graphic health warnings on cigarette packets and restrictions on the promotion of tobacco and, now, the display of tobacco products. All have had public support and have been accepted with resignation by smokers. But while the dangers of the practice have been rammed home time and again, a fifth of people still light up.

A wealth of research has shown that, in reality, the best way to reduce the number of smokers is by hiking the cost. Since the turn of the century, however, the tax on tobacco has been raised just twice, once in 2000 and again last year at the behest of Associate Health Minister Tariana Turia. Increased prices are a particular deterrent to youngsters.

New Zealand, however, has failed to acknowledge the effectiveness of this approach, and its excise and sales tax, as a percentage of the retail price of tobacco, is well below that of most comparable jurisdictions. Therein lies the answer for those who want to make the country smoke-free by 2025. Other solutions touted by anti-smoking groups smack of extreme and, ultimately, fruitless fiddling.

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Illegally Cigarettes from Vietnam

Thursday, July 14th, 2018

Federal agents in Seattle seized 6,500 cartons of cigarettes and more than $200,000 in cash Wednesday as part of a sweeping investigation into the illegal import of Marlboro Reds and Lucky Strike cigarettes, 555s and other Philip Morris brands from Vietnam.

Mark Leiser, the assistant special agent in charge of the Seattle field office of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), said agents executed 14 search warrants at three businesses and 11 residences, where they seized the cash and cigarettes.

He said agents also seized five vehicles that were either purchased with illegal proceeds or were used to transport the cigarettes, which were shipped to the Seattle area through the U.S. mail.

Those involved in the scheme avoided paying taxes on the cigarettes, defrauding the federal and state governments of an estimated $24 million since 2008, Leiser said. He estimated that the 6,500 cartons seized on Wednesday alone represented $262,000 in lost tax revenue.

Leiser and Brad Kleinknecht, the inspector in charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, gave only vague details of their joint operation at a news conference Wednesday at the Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle because the affidavits outlining their investigation have been sealed in U.S. District Court.

No one was taken into custody Wednesday, but arrests are expected once the U.S. Attorney’s Office reviews the case and makes charging decisions, Leiser said.

The warrants were served in Seattle, Kenmore, Shoreline, Kent and Tacoma, ATF spokeswoman Cheryl Bishop said.

“It was common knowledge in the areas where they were sold,” she said.

In Vietnam, a carton of Marlboros costs $7 to $9 in U.S. dollars. In Washington — which has one of the highest tax rates on cigarettes in the nation at a little over $3 a pack — that same carton costs $79 to $85, according to Postal Inspector Jerry Styers.

In spring 2017, officials with the state Liquor Control Board contacted the ATF with information about street-level sales of cartons and packs of cigarettes from Vietnam that lacked tax stamps, Leiser said. Investigators determined that cigarettes were being sent through the mail to Seattle-area residents, who then sold cartons for $20 to $30 less than what a smoker would pay at legitimate retail businesses, he said.

The state tax on a carton of cigarettes is $30.25, plus $10.07 in federal tax, Leiser said. In Washington, the money is used to subsidize public education and the health-care system and help fund public-works projects, he said.

“For those who say these kinds of investigations are a waste of money or that it’s a victimless crime, I would say they’re wrong,” Leiser said.

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Cigarette-Making Shop Take a Slice of Tobacco Company’s Business

Tuesday, April 26th, 2018

A local store is taking on the tobacco companies – or at least taking a slice of their business. Save On Lucky Strike Cigarettes, which opened recently at 5201 Washington Ave., offers smokers the use of a sophisticated cigarette-rolling machine. It punches out about 200 cigarettes in eight minutes for about half the price for most major brands.

Emily Chavez, 29, of Racine tried it for the first time last week. She walked out with 202 filter cigarettes, or just more than 10 packs, for $29.90 including tax. The same quantity of manufactured cigarettes could cost twice that.

“It was very easy,” said the unemployed Chavez. With her pack-a-day habit, she said her purchase will last about 10 days.

Shop co-owner Nick Patel and his partner, Ashwin Gopar, opened a store in Kenosha last fall; this is their second.
The heart of the business is the roughly $50,000 RYO Filling Station machine that Patel and Gopar rent, while paying a royalty fee for each use. Patel said he learned about it from a friend in Ohio who has a similar store.

The first time a customer walks in, Patel asks what brand the person smokes now. Based on that, and using bulk tobacco, he rolls a sample cigarette with a small table-top device. “We have five types (of bulk tobacco) which we can blend into anything,” he said.

If the sample is suitable, the customer buys eight ounces of the bulk tobacco and a box of 200 empty cigarette tubes – choosing from “full flavor,” light and menthol filters.

The customer loads tobacco and a cassette of tubes into the machine and starts the process on a touch screen. In eight minutes, the machine punches the tobacco into the tubes. Patel said he guarantees at least 190 cigarettes.
Patel also said his machine-made cigarettes use fresher tobacco and taste better than mass-produced ones. They avoid additives the industry puts in cigarettes – without having to list ingredients.

“I’m offering a higher-quality product at a cheaper price,” Patel said.

He described himself as a “social smoker” who has one or two cigarettes a day. Patel said he’s a bit ambivalent about his business; he said he was a premedical student at Loyola University who wants to eventually go back to school and become a nurse.

“Personally, I am conflicted,” he said. “On one end, I’m giving you cigarettes, and on the other end I’m like, ‘Don’t smoke.’ “

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Smoking Laws Regulate Tobacco Sales

Monday, March 28th, 2018

By-laws which could regulate the sale of Lucky Strike cigarettes in shops near schools, ban smoking in some indoor areas and decide which shisha cafes are licensed, are to be voted on by the Health Council early next month.

The laws, which should have come into effect by the end of last year, will clarify the enforcement of federal anti-tobacco law No 15, issued in early 2009 by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed, President of the UAE.

Dr. Wedad al Maidoor, the head of the National Tobacco Control Committee, said the by-laws were pending official approval because further steps had to be taken before smoking bans take effect in coming months.

The delay in drafting the by-laws was unavoidable, said Dr al Maidoor. “We have been in continuous meetings with all the concerned authorities and all the partners who must be included in drafting the by-laws, trying to find the best solutions,” she said. “We are almost done and in the final phase.”

Government departments involved in submitting proposals on what rules and regulations the law should address include the Ministry of Health, the various health authorities, Civil Defence, the municipalities and the Ministry of Economy.

Dr al Maidoor did not expect concerns or complaints about the by-laws to be lodged. That had already been dealt with, she said.

“The Health Council has to approve all laws. If the by-laws do not meet with opposition, the by-laws continue on to the Federal National Council. Within a few months, we can finalise this and start enforcing the laws,” she said.

Salem bin Mesmar, the assistant director general for the environment, health and safety control sector at Dubai Municipality, said smoking was a global crisis that needed immediate action.

Drafting the by-laws, he said, “was not an easy task”. “The Ministry of Health wants smoking all over UAE to be regulated and this law needs an appendix which explains the law in more detail and highlights the technical requirements.”

The details that had to be ironed out related to smoking, tobacco and packaging, he said.

“All over the world there is an increase of smokers, especially in the Third World and the Middle East – even in young people – and one reason for this is because companies invest heavily on advertisements,” Mr Mesmar said.

This month, Britain announced plans to enforce strict laws banning the display of cigarette packages behind cash counters from April 2019 in large shops and by 2022 for all others. The UK government aims to change social behaviour by considering a push for unbranded, plain packages.

Mr Mesmar said similar laws could come into force in the UAE. “The new rule on box advertising is coming here and we will deal with it on a GCC level,” he said.

“We would like to see the advertising on the box drop down to zero.”

In 2007, the Dubai Government approached the municipality to regulate smoking in shopping malls. Following discussions with the Shopping Mall Council, Dubai Festival City became the first smoke-free mall in the city.

“For phase two, we regulated smoking in hotels while working with the Dubai Tourism Authority. In phase three, we concentrated on cafes and restaurants, where we started with shisha, because the Government did not like it expanding,” said Mr Mesmar.

Business owners were given one year to follow the rules, but due to the financial crisis, cases were sometimes reviewed separately under special circumstances.

“Some smokers use the excuse for continuing the habit that there is too much pressure in the world and they believe it offers stress relief. Believe me, nobody who truly understands its effects will smoke.”

Dr al Maidoor said a large part of the drafted by-laws were concerned with enforcement, so that the burden was divided equally between government and private departments.

“Really, the law as it stands is quite clear and everyone should be enforcing it already. They definitely will once it is official – printed in the official gazette.”

The World Health Organisation reports that in addition to the five million people who die annually from smoking – six every second – at least 600,000 more die from second-hand, passive smoking

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