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Cigarette Regs OK'd by Senate Panel
Senate Committee Approves FDA Regulation of Tobacco WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Senate committee Wednesday embraced legislation that would for the first time allow federal regulation of cigarettes. The bill, approved 13-8 by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, would require the Food and Drug Administration to restrict tobacco advertising, regula...
Kraft "Quick Meals" Slow to Catch On
Kraft Continues to Be Plagued With Market Share Losses Despite New "Quick Meal" Products NEW YORK (AP) -- Kraft Foods has introduced a new products in a bid to turn around its slumping sales, but early results indicate consumers have so far been slow to bite. Analysts say even though the products -- which range from all-in-one sandwich kits to gourmet froz...
Higher inventories cut into Reynolds' profit
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Higher inventories and the lack of a tax benefit cut into Reynolds American's second-quarter earnings, the company said Wednesday, even as it posted higher margins and market share gains for some premium cigarettes and smokeless tobacco lines. Before the start of trading, Reynolds said that it $325 million, or $1.10 a share, on the per...
Law mandates new cigarettes
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Firefighters said a new measure could save the lives of smokers and people around them. cigarettes A new law signed by Gov. Sarah Palin today means that only fire-safe cigarettes can be sold in Alaska starting next year. The Anchorage Fire Department is very happy about the development. Officials said it means house fires may decreas...
Convenience Stores' Case for Cigarettes
Convenience-store owners are citing congressional criticism of the FDA’s handling of food safety to argue that lawmakers shouldn’t give the same agency power over retailers that peddle cigarettes . “There’s a disconnect,” argues Lyle Beckwith, senior vice president of the National Association of Convenience Stores. A bill likely to be passed next week...
Smokers Cant Helped Pay For Health Insurance
Tobacco Tax Could Go Up To Fund Improved Children's Health Care Coverage (AP) WASHINGTON The United States' 45 million smokers will probably help pay for the spending increase that Democrats want for children's health insurance, say analysts familiar with deliberations in Congress. Democratic lawmakers will push for $50 billion in new funding for the St...
Anti-Smoking Pill May Help Curb Drinking
Newest Anti-Smoking Pill May Help Curb Drinking (AP) WASHINGTON A single pill appears to hold promise in curbing the urges to both smoke and drink, according to researchers trying to help people overcome addiction by targeting a pleasure center in the brain. The drug, called varenicline, already is sold to help smokers kick the habit. New but preliminary r...
Some Foods Affect Taste Of Cigarettes
Research suggests certain foods affect the taste of cigarettes and may even make quitting a little easier. Addicted smokers say there are times a cigarette tastes even better. " Caffeine and liquor will make you smoke," said a man on the street. "When you eat dinner or lunch, which is the heaviest meals, for some reason the cigarette tastes better," another men said. But scientists have f...
Revealed: tobacco giant's secret new weapon in the age of smoking bans
AS STRICT indoor smoking bans come into force across Victoria this weekend, tobacco giant Philip Morris has secret plans to launch Australia's first hand-held electronic smoking device, which it claims will reduce second-hand smoke by more than 90 per cent. The controversial "Heatbar" is about the size of a mobile phone and is said to heat specially designed cigarettes without burning them. ...
WA state tribe looking to take cigarette venture coast to coast
SQUAXIN ISLAND INDIAN RESERVATION, Wash. - Tens of thousands of cigarettes roll off an assembly line every day at a warehouse on this small reservation, each carton destined for stores around the state of Washington. By the end of the year, those cartons could be stacked in stores around the nation. The Squaxin Island tribe, which became the first in the West to manufacture its own tobacco produc...
What Smoking People Read
Today's guest: James Nolan, CEO of Sara Lee Fresh Bakery and an executive vice president of Sara Lee Corp. (SLE) who like smoking cigarettes
What he's reading now: Great People Decisions: Why They Matter So Much...
Philip Morris USA Files Lawsuits to Stop Importation of Counterfeit Cigarettes
RICHMOND, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Philip Morris USA filed, cheap cigarettes a lawsuit in federal court yesterday in the Central District of California against Nice Pak Products, Inc. of Orangeburg, N.Y. The lawsuit...
Something new about cigarettes
L&M
Created by the company Liggett & Myers, L&M is a brand of cigarettes produced by Philip Morris Companies Inc., now known as Altria Group. They aren't very common in the continental US, but are sold almost ev...
Marlboro is a brand of cigarete made by Altria
Marlboro is famous for its billboard advertisements and magazine ads of the Marlboro Man. In 2001 it was the most popular cigarette brand in the U.S.
Philip Morris, a London-based cigarette manufacturer, crea...
Justices Offer Preview In Drug-Suit Case
WASHINGTON -- Next fall, the Supreme Court will take up cigarettes the controversial issue of whether lawsuits relating to pharmaceuticals are foreclosed by federal regulations. Yesterday, the justices offered a ...