All posts tagged "Cigarettes"

  • This Tuesday, July 15, 2014 photo shows the tobacco in cigarettes in Philadelphia. A study ties a host of new diseases to smoking, and says an additional 60,000 to 120,000 deaths each year in the United States are probably due to tobacco use. The study by the American Cancer Society and several universities is published in the Thursday, Feb 12, 2015 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. It looks beyond lung cancer, heart disease and other conditions already tied to smoking and adds breast cancer, prostate cancer and even routine infections to the list. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    San Francisco raises age to buy tobacco to 21

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to boost the legal age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21, despite arguments from opponents that cities and counties cannot trump California law. San Francisco...

    • Posted March 1, 2016
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    Lamborghini cigarettes introduced in S. Korea

    By Lee Hyo-sik KT&G (Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation)) introduced the Tonino Lamborghini L6 cigarettes. The country’s largest cigarette maker said that to manufacture its latest product, it imported tobacco leaves from Europe and other regions and...

    • Posted January 25, 2016
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    Philip Morris Korea to receive export award from government

    By Park Si-soo Philip Morris International (PMI) Korea will receive an export award from the government in recognition of shipping $100 million worth of cigarettes this year, the company said Wednesday. The Korean unit of the British...

    • Posted September 30, 2015
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  • A North Korean soldier smokes a cigarette as he takes a rest with his comrade along the river bank of the North Korean town of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong Friday, May 24, 2013. A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, in an apparent victory for Beijing's efforts to coax its unruly ally into lowering tensions. (AP Photo)
    N. Korea joins smoke-free movement

    By Lee Min-hyung North Korea is making a concerted effort to reduce the regime’s high cigarette-smoking rate by banning the act in public places as well as outlawing the sale of foreign cigarettes. “We have also prohibited...

    • Posted June 1, 2015
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  • This Tuesday, July 15, 2014 photo shows the tobacco in cigarettes in Philadelphia. A study ties a host of new diseases to smoking, and says an additional 60,000 to 120,000 deaths each year in the United States are probably due to tobacco use. The study by the American Cancer Society and several universities is published in the Thursday, Feb 12, 2015 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. It looks beyond lung cancer, heart disease and other conditions already tied to smoking and adds breast cancer, prostate cancer and even routine infections to the list. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    Study ties more deaths, types of disease, to smoking

    (AP) — Breast cancer, prostate cancer, and even routine infections. A new report ties these and other maladies to smoking and says an additional 60,000 to 120,000 deaths each year in the United States are probably due...

    • Posted February 11, 2015
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  • S. Korean cigarette tax hike higher than expected

    By Park Si-soo An unexpected bipartisan agreement to raise taxes on cigarettes by 2,000 won ($1.80) a packet has caught cigarette manufacturers, smokers and anti-smoking organizations as well as lawmakers by surprise. “We are taken aback,” one...

    • Posted December 3, 2014
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  • A Los Angeles "vape shop" that sells electronic cigarette products. (The Vape Source)
    Electronic cigarettes banned in Santa Monica, Calif.

    SANTA MONICA (CNS) – Electronic cigarettes will be banned in all non-smoking areas in Santa Monica beginning today, including the Santa Monica Pier, beaches and the Third Street Promenade. An ordinance approved by the City Council last...

    • Posted November 13, 2014
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