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Tobacco Industry Opposes Britain’s Plan to Introduce Plain Packaging

Friday, May 24th, 2013

Cigarettes pack British authorities are still thinking about prohibiting company logos on cigarette packages despite the fact that it disregarded recommendations from its legislative schedule presented in parliament several days ago, Prime Minister David Cameron mentioned.

Britain is planning to become the first European country to demand cigarette manufacturers to introduce plain packaging, an action toughly opposed by the tobacco industry, which views it as damaging their revenue. Cameron stated the parliament that the government was still looking at the matter.

The Department of Health conducted more than 4 months of discussions in 2012 to collect facts on whether standard cigarette packaging would dissuade young smokers and support present smokers quit the habit. “This is a crucial decision and we are carefully looking at what is going on all over the world,” a department representative stated. A year ago, Australia applied a legislation stating cigarettes should be sold in green packages using graphic health warnings.

Cuba, whose luxurious cigars are well known all over the world and feature distinct packages, released a challenge against the Australian law at the World Trade Organization last week. Regardless of its shortage from the government’s strategies, the chief of the opposition Labour Party proposed to assist pass through any offered legislation. “If he prefers the bill on cigarette packaging, we will support him get it through,” Ed Miliband mentioned. “It is the proper issue to take care of public health and it is the right thing for the country.”

Miliband also put in doubt the position of government advisor Lynton Crosby in the conclusion, stating his consultancy firm had worked with cigarette companies. A representative for David Cameron explained Crosby had no effect over the details of the Queen’s speech.

Campaign groups expressed their dissatisfaction regarding the inaction of the plan from the government’s programme. “The inability to bring forward legal guidelines greatly disrupts the Government’s reliability on public health challenges,” according to the Smokefree Action Coalition.

Companies like Philip Morris and British American Tobacco worry that plain packaging would promote the worldwide black market in tobacco.
Imperial Tobacco shares have increased partially since studies published in the British media declared that Cameron had dropped the initiative.

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Tobacco Farmers are Pushed out of the Farming Business

Friday, April 26th, 2013

tobacco farmers Tobacco farmers in Manicaland have blamed the “good crop and weak price” disaster getting at the country’s auction floors disagreeing that the trend was slowly pushing them out of the farming business.

Farmers interviewed these days argued their expectations of obtaining a profit of their investment was being canceled by a cartel of tobacco buyers who were holding prices in order to increase on revenue when exporting the gold leaf. Consequently, the growers are accumulating substantial cutbacks because of the stagnation of prices at the tobacco auction floors.

Growers stated the nose-diving price regime affected them adversely, and led them in significant debt.

They are blaming the buyers of deceiving them by creating a two-tier purchase program in which the gold leaf from non-contracted growers was getting the least prices in comparison to their hired competitors. The farmers reported the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) was doing absolutely nothing to secure them. He stated that top quality tobacco was sold at a lower price, and ultimately brought excessive prices on the international market.

Mr. Mutasa further suggested that TIMB must guard growers by assuring that tobacco prices were chosen on quality no matter of whether it was cultivated under contract or non-contract. “The present price program makes it attainable for low quality tobacco to get huge prices than top quality gold leaf cultivated by self financing farmers. “This is an effort by association to drive people into a contract farming system.”

The Tobacco Association of Zimbabwe president Mr. David Guy Mutasa advised growers not to hurry to sell their crop before prices were proved. “What is happening is not honest in any way to the grower. Even if they were to purchase at $6, you will discover that the farmer would have been cheated since they export the same leaf at between $16 and $20. Because of the low prices offered for the tobacco crop, growers were no longer capable to pay transporters, their employees and bank loans.

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Cigarette Giants Presented 3Q Results

Tuesday, December 11th, 2012

Cigarette GiantsAltria, Reynolds American and Lorillard all together presented 3Q profits this week, offering perspective on how the giant cigarette companies performed and what these performances may demonstrate for the financial quarter of 2012. “With all cigarette companies having presented, the main topics… emerged from 3Q,” Andrew Kieley, industry expert declared at the press conference under the name “Tobacco Wrap For Q3”. Such trends include the estimated: Cigarette volume decreased by 3% to 3.5%, with Altria’s volume up by 1.5%, Lorillard’s declined 2%, and Reynolds’ dropping 6.5%. To oppose low volumes, Mr. Kieley declared that cigarette pricing increased a bit: Lorillard les the charge, with pricing higher by 5.5%, followed by Reynolds – 3% and Altria – 1.5%. So how these estimates could affect cigarettes in the 4Q? “Promotion is quite competitive into the 4Q, and is affecting the stocks, however we do not believe that there would be a war. Manufacturers are for share, mostly in menthol, but are trying to stay rational,” stated Mr. Kieley.

Mr. Kieley also added that Lorillard is the most deliberate of the rest cigarette giants, with a need to decrease Newport’s gap, and he also underlined that Reynolds is paying greater attention on Pall Mall brand. “Altria is the leader among its competitors and it didn’t change its position. Management repeated profit-focus that this is a kind of unique year, and it is slowly easing promotion. We estimate a round of pricing in November to December, but it will be example to follow in the promotions within the 4Q.” And while tobacco companies are trying to maintain volume from other plummeting using their products, approximately two cigarette leaders are facing smokeless competition increase he segment: Mr. Kieley announced that volume raised by 6.55 for Reynolds and 5.6% for Altria, which plans to introduce another smokeless product in 4Q with Skoal Readycut.

With falling cigarette volumes, such innovative products is a essential factor to profitability in the overall tobacco category, a sphere Altria has realized to dominate, although Mr. Kieley supposes that the company may meet rather growing competition. “So, till now innovation remains with Altria, and Reynolds is trying to overtake it. Lorillard is still under pressure of FDA, however it decided to introduce e-cigarettes in order to stand the difficult situation,” Mr. Kieley said.

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Cherry Hill Starts Smoke-Free Campaign

Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

discount camel cigsMayor Chuck Cahn and several anti-smoking representatives from the region gathered in DeCou Park on Thursday, Nov. 15 to announce a campaign that will prohibit smoking tobacco on township-owned property. The law, which will have a public hearing and potential adoption at Monday, Nov. 26’s 7:30 p.m. council meeting, will make the township’s 52 parks, trails, recreational facilities, town hall, the Cherry Hill Public Library, the Department of Public Works, Croft Farm and Barclay Farmstead smoke-free areas. “It’s called ‘Smoke-Free Cherry Hill,’” Cahn declared, and the campaign officially launched following the Nov. 8 council meeting’s ordinance approval on first reading.

The significant change, said Cahn, is in regards to the enforcement power. Previously, the township had a resolution in place to prohibit smoking on township property, but there are no penalties for violators. “Why are we doing this? Cherry Hill residents deserve to breathe clean air,” Cahn declared. There are serious diseases related to smoking tobacco products, he said, including cancer, heart disease, asthma and a host of other respiratory issues. Kids who are exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke face an serious risk to several diseases, he declared. “This is about protecting our children,” explained Cahn. “It’s about smoke-free areas.” “It encourages healthy environments,” he added.

The legislation will give inhabitants the right to enjoy the facilities and help to minimize cigarette butt litter that pollutes land and water and is bad when ingested by kids, pets and wildlife alike. In addition, said Cahn, the legislation will reduce maintenance prices, make smoke-free areas the norm, establish healthy smoking habits early and set an example for other organizations. Through Cahn’s Mayor’s Wellness Campaign, he has encouraged healthy living habits for the past year. Keeping cigarettes smoke out of open space will aid in that effort, he added.

According to Kim Burns of Tobacco Free for a Healthy New Jersey and the Department of Health, the ordinance is one of the most comprehensive in the South Jersey region. “This regulation is designed to protect the health of the inhabitants of Cherry Hill,” said Burns. “This is not just an issue of secondhand smoke.” This is the de-normalization of smoking and the impact on future generations, she continued. “We want our kids to grow up in a world where smoking tobacco is not the norm,” she explained. The American Cancer Society’s representative, Jackie Craig, spoke of the Great American Smoke-Out, now in it’s 37th year, which coincided with the campaign announcement. Every third Thursday of November, the day is in the spotlight as a time to quit smoking. According to Craig, research shows that smokers are most successful when using tobacco smoking cessation hotlines, groups, nicotine replacement methods, prescriptions or support and encouragement from family and friends.

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Tobacco Capital Drop, Smoking Rates

Thursday, November 8th, 2012

order marlboro cigsThe Victorian government is investing more than $100 million in tobacco industries despite efforts to reduce smoking tobacco rates among inhabitants. The state government’s investment management organisation, the Victorian Funds Management Corporation, says of its investment assets, worth $37.9 billion, that 0.3 percent is placed in the tobacco company. This brings its tobacco investment to almost $117 million — approximately four times the New South Wales government’s allocation of $30 million. The VFMC manages investments for public sector organisations including insurers and superannuation funds.

Clients include the Department of Health, the Transport Accident Commission, Victorian Managed Insurance Authority, WorkSafe, the Royal Kids’ Hospital and the University of Melbourne. Doctors and health groups declared the investment was outrageous and hypocritical when governments were trying to lessen the damage tobacco products caused to people’s health. The executive director of Quit Victoria, Fiona Sharkie, called for the government to abandon its investment because it undermined Australia’s smoking control regulations including plain packs. “It’s really in conflict with the governments’ health purposes. Tobacco has been on the health agenda for the federal and state governments for years, so on the one hand they’re argued that we’re investing in tobacco control but on the other hand they’re saying we’re investing in the companies,” she reported.

The chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health Australia, Anne Jones, said if the VFMC abandoned investments in cluster munitions, it should pull its money out of cigarette manufacturers. “Cluster bombs injure and kill almost 17,000 people a year and tobacco kills just under 6 million people a year worldwide,” she added. Ms Jones said deaths caused by tobacco products were predicted to reach 10 million by 2025, with most of the deaths in poor and middle-income earning countries. “It’s shocking  These are countries we are sending AusAID to to reduce tobacco diseases,” she said. Dr Bronwyn King, a radiation oncologist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre who successfully lobbied a superannuation company to drop its investments in cigs this year, also called for the Victorian government to follow suit. “As a cancer doctor, every single day I see the devastating effects tobacco has on individuals and their families,” she concluded.

While the NSW government committed to reviewing its investment in cigarettes companies this week, a spokeswoman for Victorian Treasurer Kim Wells would not comment on the matter except to explained that the VFMC was required to invest in accordance with its commercial objectives. “Under legislation, the Treasurer cannot direct the VFMC in relation to an investment new decision,” she said.

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Tobacco Factory in Petone Gives Free Cigs

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

cheap ok cigaretteA tobacco factory in Petone is continuing to give free cigs to its workers, even as health officials investigate the practice. This month, Imperial Tobacco’s commercial boss Brendan Walker declared that free cigarettes were available to staff during their breaks, for “product testing”. Hutt Valley Regional Public Health authorities met the tobacco company last week to discuss the new policy. Today, an Imperial Tobacco spokeswoman argued that “product testing” would remain in place in the meantime.

Earlier this month, Greater Wellington environmental regulation manager Al Cross said they had received four complaints about smells coming from the tobacco smoke.

The factory has raised its tobacco production and reported that the “sickly odor  local inhabitants can smell is a result of steam from blending tobacco leaf and water.

After one investigation in April, Imperial Tobacco was fined $1000 for breaching ordinances relating to odor  In the other cases it was discovered no breach had occurred.

“There is a big difference to what there used to be, but evidently they’re burning a lot more and they’ve got more business to do,” explained Kevin Lummis from Lummis Joinery.

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Big Tobacco Dependence on Tobacco Taxes

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

order kent cigaretteThe battle against smoking tobacco would be closer to victory if our provincial governments ended their dependence on tobacco taxes and lawsuits against Big Tobacco. Last month Prince Edward Island filed suit against tobacco industries to recover health care costs going back to 1953, making it just the latest in a long list of Canadian provinces to do so. P.E.I. knows its chances for a big revenge are good. The tobacco industry looks like a cash-cow to provincial governments desperate for additional income.

Yet P.E.I.’s lawsuit is without value. It feeds off the popular view that Canadians have been helpless victims of tobacco businesses which have tricked them about the dangers of tobacco smoking. But the whole idea of holding the tobacco company uniquely responsible for the health consequences of smoking cig is a gross act of history.

Big Tobacco has had a lot of enablers, including our own provincial governments.

As anyone who was alive in the 1960s and ’70s will confirm, it has long been common knowledge that there were significant health risks from tobacco smoking. As early as 1964 the U.S. Surgeon-General linked smoking cigarettes and lung cancer.

This was followed by a succession of similar smoking warnings from numerous national and international public health organizations. In 1968, terminally ill actor William Talman from the Perry Mason TV show filmed a extended broadcast commercial in which he censured his lung cancer on a three-package-a-day habit.

By the 1980s there was no excuse for anyone to be ignorant of the smoking facts. Cigarette packs carried labels warning of the health risks of smoking habit. Advertising by tobacco industries in magazines, TV, and radio was illegal. Airlines prohibited smoking tobacco on flights.

As evidence that the message was sinking in, Canadian smoking rates dropped. As of 1987, 44 percent of inhabitants who had started smoking tobacco had quit.

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