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Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama recently told the Diet that an increase in the tobacco tax should be considered from the viewpoint of improving people's health. He has instructed the government's Tax System Council to study the...
ANKARA, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- Turkey will add visual health warning messages to cigarette packages produced as of Jan. 1, 2010, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported Sunday. Chairman Mehmet Kucuk of the Turkish Tobacco...
Togo is considering a bill to ban smoking in public. The Ministry of Health of the West African country said tobacco related deaths in the country has reached alarming proportions and it is about time it saves its citizens....
In 1998 Kentucky joined other states in filing lawsuits to make Big Tobacco pay for the fraudulent and deceitful manner in which they were advertising cigarettes. When negotiations to settle the lawsuits ended, Kentucky and 45...
There are two things I've got to tell you up front. The company I have in mind is cigarette maker Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM). No. 10: One product Unlike conglomerates such as General Electric (NYSE: GE) with...
The FTSE 100 fell and the banks collapsed. But as Patrick Collinson reports, the only shares that didn't go up in smoke were tobacco companies In a decade dominated by the rise of China, the expansion of the internet and the...
Stars and Stripes|by Charlie Reed CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Military health workers were full of gimmicks for the 2009 Great American Smokeout, an American Cancer Society campaign supported by bases around the world. “The military...
Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial...
Compared to non smokers impotence is approximately 85% higher in male smokers and it is a key to erectile dysfunction (ED). Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the leaves of the plant of genus Necotiana .In...
New Florida cigarette tax boosts state budget A new tobacco tax is doing just what its proponents envisioned: reducing cigarette sales while fattening state coffers. Cigarettes sales are down 27 percent in Florida during the...
