Thursday, July 02, 2009

CIGARETTE CONSUMPTION

In Turkey, three basic types of cigarettes are marketed: Oriental blend, American blend and English blend. TEKEL produces all three types, while the two private companies produce only the American blend.
A national survey undertaken in 1988 reported that the overall prevalence of smoking among adults (age 15+ years) was 43 percent, with prevalence among males being much higher than among females, and the average starting age was falling.
Currently, 5 billion packs (100 000 tonnes equivalent) of cigarettes are consumed in Turkey annually. Over the last 30 years, the adult population has nearly doubled, with consumption increasing by almost 250 percent. The current per capita consumption rate is 2.55 kg/year, or more than one third of a pack per day per person. It is estimated that 70 000 to 100 000 people die from smoking-related health problems each year.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Alternative statements about smoking and health

Congress could have used more expansive language to reach statements in onserts had it chosen to do so, but it chose only to preempt the requiring of alternative statements about smoking and health “on any cigarette package.” Moreover, the district court and the parties appear to have recognized the distinction between packages and onserts throughout the trial. 
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Defendant corporations regarding nicotine addiction and smoker compensation

The Defendant corporations documented the results of the studies regarding disease, nicotine addiction, and smoker compensation in numerous memoranda and reports; the evidence at trial, including internal corporate documents, demonstrated that the executives crafted their corporate priorities and strategies in response to these findings.
Defendants’ own documents also support the inference that Defendants’ executives were aware that their public relations strategy of creating the impression of an “open question” about the link between smoking and disease did not square with their own knowledge about the established link between the two. For example, William Kloepfer, Vice President of Public Relations for the Tobacco Institute, wrote to Earle Clements, President of the Tobacco Institute, admitting that “[o]ur basic position in the cigarette controversy is subject to the charge, and may be subject to a finding, that we are making false or misleading statements to promote the sale of cigarettes.”
Other documents demonstrate that Defendants’ top officials were directly informed of negative research results. For example, in 1977 Philip Morris Assistant General Counsel Alexander Holtzman sent a “warning” to the company’s President, Joseph Cullman, informing him that a research project jointly sponsored by a group of the Defendant companies had concluded that exposure to cigarette smoke causes emphysema.
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Cigarettes lights

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Global tobacco control funding is inadequate

The lack of funding for the global fight against the tobacco epidemic is indefensible. The 89 countries that provided estimated tobacco control budgets spend US$ 343 million per year – with 95% of this amount spent by high-income counties and nearly 90% spent by seven of these wealthy nations. In contrast, about 4% of the global total is spent by medium-income countries, and less than 1% is spent by low-income countries.
Tobacco tax revenues have significant potential to fund tobacco control activities, and the data demonstrate that there is considerable room for most countries to use currently available national resources to substantially increase tobacco control funding. A comparison of countries’ total tobacco tax revenues with their tobacco control expenses is revealing. Data compiled from 70 countries, covering two thirds of the world’s population, show that aggregate tobacco tax revenues in these countries are more than 500 times higher than expenses for tobacco control activities.
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Monday, May 25, 2009

Royale - Good Iced Cigarettes

The clever 'ice-water' pack graphics on the tin sign below left, overwhelmingly coveys the idea of menthol coolness. Royale was advertised in Paris Match Magazine beginning August 1971 in this unique picture pack. Unfortunately for pack collectors, the beautiful 'ice-water' pack was never made; the design was just used in advertisements. The sexy Royale magazine ad on the right was published in 1968. Royale Cigarettes, which date from 1956, targeted women. Gitanes, Primerose, Egée and Naja are, or were, French cigarette brands that also appealed to women.
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Kent cigarettes Ad

kent cigarettes
Now, more than ever, you want a cigarette that really tastes fresh. Better change to Kent. It's the only cigarette with the Micronite filter... the filter of Kent that gives you high filtration to help you keep your smoking moderate. And besides, the Micronite filter smooths the flavor... If you really like to smoke a lot, why not make the change to Kent, today? And why not start with a cartonof Kent cigarettes?

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Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Marlboro Country Man Hold Horse and Smoking Camp Ad

1970 Marlboro Cig Campfire River Cowboys Horses Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.

1970 Marlboro Country Cigarette Man Horses Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country

1970 Marlboro Country Cigarette Man Horses Ad - Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country

1970 Marlboro Country Man Hold Horse Reins Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.

1970 Marlboro Country Man Smoking Camp Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.  

1970 Marlboro Country Man Hold Horse Reins Ad - Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.     

1970 Marlboro Country Man Smoking Camp Ad - Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.     
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Chesterfield - smoke for real!

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Effects of tobacco use on animals.

products of plant kingdom.
This is confirmed by the use of these organs in infants, including those children whose parents
do not use tobacco. Caspar Hausser, who served entirely on farinaceous food and water, with children aged
Sixteen or seventeen years old, was sick to vomiting walk for "a considerable amount of time on the side of the
tobacco field.
Dr. Franklin found that an oily material, which floats on the surface of the water, the flow
tobacco smoke being passed to it, is capable, when applied to the language of cats, to destroy the life within a few
minutes.
Mr. Brodie apply one drop of oil in empyreumatic tobacco cat language, but the
immediate convulsions and rapid breathing. Five minutes after the animal had laid aside, and
presented, from time to time, slight convulsive movements. A quarter of an hour later, he appeared well.
The same quantity of oil was again applied, and the animal died in two minutes.
In December of 1833 with the assistance of several gentlemen of the medical class, and sometimes in the presence of other
Others, I made some experiments on cats and other animals, with the distilled oil of tobacco.
EXPERIMENT 1.
A small drop of oil has been erased in the language of a big cat. Once the animal made a pitiful
and started shouting foam on his lips.
In 1 minute the students eyes were expanded, and the breathing was laborious. "2-1/2 to do. Vomiting and
staggering. "4 do. Evacuations; screams continued, voice hoarse and unnatural." 5 do. repeated attempts
to vomiting. "7 do. Breathing improved slightly.
At this time, a large drop was rubbed on the tongue. At the moment his eyes were closed, the cries were
stopped, and breathing was suffocative and shaking. In one minute ears were quick convulsive
movement, and now after this, tremors and convulsions of violence, extended body and limbs. In three
one-half minutes, the animal fell on its side and the senseless breathless and the heart stopped beating.
Small tremors of the voluntary muscles, especially in the limbs, is still more or less, for the nineteen
minutes after the animals were dead. Those on the right side was noted to be increasingly affected by thanthose left.
For half an hour after death the body was opened and the stomach and intestines, have been contracted and
firms, with the use of violence and constant muscle spasm of the coat. Lungs were empty and collapsed. Definite article
left side of the heart, aorta and its major branches were loaded with black blood. On the right side of the heart
and two CAV? contains some blood, but not distended. Pulmonary artery, contained only a small
amount of blood. Blood was everywhere liquid.
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