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- Manages on a day to day basis allocated human, material, financial and other resources in pursuance of the TSEM Tobacco Control Strategy.
- Administers the DoH grant, through taking responsibility for the budget, ensuring it is spent in accordance with plans outlined in the proposal.
- Reports to funding body and TSEM HoS Group.
- Prepares and maintains the TSEM Tobacco Control Strategy within agreed timescales and in accordance with the priorities agreed by the TSEM Heads of Service.
- Monitors the effectiveness of TSEM activities against the Control Strategy and initiates appropriate corrective action.
- Contributes to the preparation of the national and TSEM Strategic Threat Assessments.
- Informs and advises the TSEM Heads of Service and TSEM specialist groups on developments in tobacco control related legislation, policy and strategy.
- Attends the TSEM Regional Tactical Co-ordination Group and other tobacco enforcement related meetings and fora.
- Works with and responds to media requests.
- Prepares and submits applications to attract further resources related to regulation of age restricted products

MUMBAI, - India is likely to export a record $600 million of tobacco in 2008/09, as a shortfall in global output boosted demand and pushed up prices to new highs, a senior official said.

"Prices have risen about 70 percent from last year and importers are buying at these levels also. At this price, exports will touch $ 600 million (in 2008/09)," J Suresh Babu, chairman of the Tobacco Board, told Reuters on Thursday.

In the year ending March 2008, tobacco exports rose 32 percent to $503 million, he said.

The average price of Flue Cured Virginia (FCV), a premier grade used for cigarette-making, has risen more than 78 percent to 84.67 rupees per kg, from 47.47 rupees a year ago.

A shortfall in other main producing countries like Brazil has pushed up prices, which will sustain at these levels until global production rises, Babu said.

India is the second biggest producer of tobacco after China and the fourth-biggest exporter of unmanufactured tobacco.

However, rising exports and higher prices are hurting Indian cigarette makers like Kolkata based ITC Ltd, the biggest cigarette maker in the country, and Godfrey Phillips India Ltd.

This week in the New York Times there was an article by the author Tony Horwitz, an Obama supporter and fellow Nicorette addict, urging him to start smoking again in order to win the support of the blue-collar workers who flocked to Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries, and who may well determine whether he makes it to the White House in November. Horwitz made the point that Americans on low incomes smoke at twice the rate of the better off, and that most of these smokers are in the states where Obama polled worst in the primaries. To them he might seem "aloof, overgroomed and fussy about eating the right foods and getting enough exercise"; and taking up smoking again "would go a long way towards dispelling his effete image".

Horwitz also pointed out that "indulging in a vice stigmatised by most Americans is an easy way to bond with people with whom you otherwise have nothing in common", and from my own experience I have found this to be the case. I had planned, for the umpteenth time, to give up smoking during my stay in the US this month, but once again I failed. Perversely, I found the opprobrium it attracts a stimulus to go on doing it. I wanted to be on the side of the oppressed, and oppression has a way of bringing its victims together.

At a splendid country wedding in Virginia, where I knew only a handful of the hundreds of guests, I met some really nice and interesting people only because we shared the same disgusting habit. Nowadays smokers gravitate instinctively to each other for they feel at ease in each other's company.

Even on the streets of New York, when people stop you to bum a cigarette or a light, they do so in a modest and courteous manner, knowing that most of the world regards them as pariahs.

For Obama and his supporters, it must be depressing to learn that the Clintons are convinced he cannot win in November. It is not necessarily that they do not want him to. Hillary pledged unequivocal support for him in her concession speech, even echoing his campaign slogan, "Yes, we can". But it's clear that what she really thinks is, "No, he can't".

The journalist John Heilemann, who knows her well, writes in this week's New York magazine: "It would be hard to overstate the private pessimism that Hillary and Bill Clinton feel about Obama's general-election prospects."

Hillary, he says, would feel obliged to accept the vice-presidential slot if it were offered her, for fear of being blamed for Obama's defeat if she refused, "even though in her view his downfall is foreordained and has nothing to do with her". She just doesn't believe that her female and white working-class supporters will cross to him in sufficient numbers to secure his election as president.

This would seem to be reason enough for Obama not to choose her as his running mate, for how could he want a comrade in arms who thinks he is doomed to lose? Another good reason would be the problem of her husband; for Bill, having proved a liability in Hillary's campaign, would probably be even more of one in Obama's.

French biotechnological company Biosyntec wants to invest in Zakłady Tytoniowe Lublin (ZTL), the last state-owned company on the tobacco market in the EU. "The first meeting concerning terms for the sale of company shares has been held," announced Agnieszka Żukowska of the Treasury Ministry, which plans to finish the privatization procedure in Q2 2008.

ZTL has been losing its share of the cigarette market over the past few years, however, it is the leading domestic producer of tobacco.

Biosyntec's capital should open ZTL to the global market. The firm has plans to produce a new type of cigarette filter that would reduce the risk of cancer cells caused by cigarette smoke by 80%.

Experts from the tobacco industry unofficially said that if the performance of the filters is confirmed, no tobacco company will be able to ignore them.

The cigarette market in Poland is worth almost zł.20 billion annually.

BROOME COUNTY, N.Y. -- With the rising cost of a pack of cigarettes, some groups in the Southern Tier say it's just time to quit.

Groups like Tobacco Free Broome-Tioga, Reality Check and the TEAM-ACT Cessation Center believe the new tax is an incentive for people to quit smoking. The groups predict that the tax increase will prevent more than 243,000 from smoking and lead more than 140,000 smokers to quit.

"People need deterrents. They need the information about the health risks of smoking and they need a deterrent that's going to say you know what, it's really not worth it to smoke anymore. Because I don't have anything. At the end of a $180 habit a month, I have nothing to show for it," said Christie Finch, Chair of the Tobacco Free Broome and Tioga Coalition.

According to the groups, national statistics show every 10 percent increase in the price of cigarettes will reduce overall cigarette smoking by four percent.

STEPHENS CITY — A pack of smokes will cost 25 cents more in town when a new tax adopted Tuesday takes effect.

The Town Council voted 6-1 at its regular meeting to approved an ordinance creating a 25-cent excise tax on a pack of 20 cigarettes. Mayor Ray Ewing, Vice Mayor Joy Shull and councilmen Ronald Bowers, John Hollis, Lindel Fravel Jr. and Micheal Grim voted to approve the ordinance on the final reading. Councilman John Harter gave the dissenting vote.

"There were enough people in this town that didn't like the idea, and somebody had to vote against it," Harter said, explaining his vote.

Bowers disagreed.

"I think it's a fair tax because you're putting it on an elected product," Bowers said.

Currently, four businesses within town limits sell cigarettes and would have to charge the tax. Sellers must display a cigarette stamp provided by the town. Taxes will be collected by the town treasurer. The tax per individual cigarette will be 1.25 cents, but the total revenue should be around $25,000, according to Town Manager Mike Kehoe.

In other business, the council:

* Adopted a resolution to address "Virginia's transportation funding crisis," by which the town supports the efforts of the governor and the General Assembly "to act swiftly and decisively to approve legislation that will address the transportation funding crisis at the statewide, regional and local levels."

The resolution also states that such legislation should include new tax and fee revenue, including tolls on new highways, to ensure safe roads, ease congestion, promote economic development and provide consumer choices.

* Held a public hearing on the proposed 2008-2009 budget. No one spoke during the hearing. The total budget is proposed at $1.45 million, compared to $1.66 million for the current fiscal year. The council scheduled a June 12 special meeting at which they plan to vote on the budget.

Also, the council approved a motion extending the deadline to pay real estate and personal property taxes to June 30. Bills were to be due Thursday.

* Voted unanimously to award a contract to American Disposal Inc. for refuse collection. The contract is for one year at $101,192. Evergreen Waste Inc. currently provides the service for nearly $90,000 but submitted a bid of $125,881 for the next year, the second-highest of three bids.

* Voted unanimously to adopt a resolution requesting that the Virginia Department of Transportation reduce the speed limit on U.S. 11 (Valley Pike), 0.95 miles south of the previous town limits, from 55 mph to 45 mph.