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The cost of smoking has always been high, but this week in Cook County, the price climbed even higher. Taxes on cigars, loose tobacco and smokeless tobacco increased as part of a policy implemented Thursday. Large cigars will levy a 25-cent tax and taxes on smaller cigars will increase by 5 cents. Smokeless tobacco will carry a 30-cent tax per ounce. The county board approved the increased tobacco taxes as part of its 2012 budget and hopes to raise more than $9 million. Though the income will likely be a welcome financial boost for the county, some still lament that more money is not going toward prevention of tobacco use.

"The state of Illinois is in a lot of financial trouble right now, and in this case, prevention programs are some of the first things to be cut," said Lisa Currie, Northwestern's director of health promotion and wellness. "It's unfortunate, but it's not unusual." Although some universities have received government funds to implement smoking prevention measures, NU has not garnered the same help from Illinois. Currie said because NU is a private university, the state does not directly provide funding for smoke-free initiatives.

Though NU has not received any funding from Illinois directly, Currie said state funds allocated to the Evanston Health Department went partially toward benefiting NU students who wish to quit smoking. Health department community intern Lindsey Kreutzer said the department received money from the Illinois Tobacco Free grant. Among the grant recipients is Break the Habit, a program which provides free nicotine patches to smokers who want to quit, Kreutzer said. Since the program's start in November, Kreutzer said Break the Habit has allowed residents to pick up the nicotine patches at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. However, Currie said NU Health Service is working with EHD to make the patches available at Searle Hall .

"We're still working with the details and we don't have the patches in hand yet, but I think by next quarter we'll have that worked out," Currie said. Despite the availability of Break the Habit's services, Currie said NU students have not made much use of the University's current tobacco cessation program, which consists of six one-hour sessions. She added the few students she sees are on the brink of graduation. "Many undergraduates smoke so infrequently that they don't really view it as a problem, but sometimes the habit really sticks," Currie said. Communication junior Agata Bogucka smokes, but she said she thinks she will quit the habit when she finishes college.

"It's definitely not something I intend on doing for the rest of my life, so once I'm out there trying to get a real job, (I'll quit)," she said. "Once your body starts getting older, it can't handle as much, either. Right now I'm young, but in a few years my lungs are going to start hating me." But Currie said quitting is usually a difficult feat to achieve and can take six or seven attempts to complete successfully. She said it is important the state does all it can to provide funding for prevention programs.

"I think they should always be doing more because it's an effort we've seen a huge amount of success in (during) the last couple of decades," she said. "There's still some work to be done, but most people agree that smoking is bad for you. If I hand people some tools to work with in the future, then it's still a partial win, even if they haven't quit yet."

State lawmakers and Gov. Lincoln Chafee announced a compromise Thursday that they say will allow three medical marijuana dispensaries to open soon without the risk of a federal prosecution. The deal, which must be approved by the state’s General Assembly, would limit the amount of marijuana dispensaries could possess. Chafee blocked three state-approved dispensaries from opening last year after the state’s top federal prosecutor warned that large-scale drug distribution could run afoul of federal drug laws.

“Our main concern is getting compassion centers up and running for the many suffering patients who still have no legal way to obtain their prescription medicine,” said state Sen. Rhoda Perry, D-Providence, one of the lawmakers who crafted the compromise. “It’s been three years now since we approved compassion centers. That’s a long time for patients to wait for relief from pain and illness.”

The compromise is good news for the 4,416 people now enrolled in the state’s medical marijuana program, according to JoAnne Leppanen, executive director of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, a group which called on Chafee to allow the dispensaries to open. Rhode Island already allows qualified patients to possess small amounts of marijuana to treat conditions including chronic pain, severe nausea, seizures and multiple sclerosis. Lawmakers approved the compassion center law after patients said there were few safe and reliable sources for medical marijuana.

“This is a huge relief,” Leppanen said. “The dispensaries have had their licenses for almost a year now. We can’t get them open soon enough.” Leppanen said she hopes the dispensaries could be open within a few months. It would be up to the state’s Department of Health to set limits on how much marijuana a dispensary may possess. Department spokesman Peter Hanney said Health Director Michael Fine plans to hold public hearings on the limits if the bill passes. He said there’s no estimate as to how long the process might take.

Last spring, federal prosecutors wrote to officials in several states contemplating dispensaries that large-scale medical marijuana operations could face criminal prosecution for drug crimes. The prosecutors said they wouldn’t target medical marijuana users who grow or possess small amounts for personal use. In response, Chafee blocked the dispensaries from opening and said he would work on finding a workable compromise.

“I look forward to passage of a bill that will avoid federal intervention and bring needed medicinal relief to those who stand to benefit,” Chafee said in a statement Thursday. A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Peter F. Neronha of Rhode Island said Thursday that Neronha’s office has yet to review the proposed compromise. The three dispensaries to be licensed are Thomas C. Slater Compassion Center in Providence, Summit Medical Compassion Center in Warwick and Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center in Portsmouth.

The Department of Health started the legal process to ban cigarette vending machines in February 2009, before the Assembly gave its full backing a month later. The legislation was passed in January 2012 and Health Minister Edwin Poots said the ban was an important step in the fight against tobacco related diseases and the efforts to prevent sales of cigarettes to under-age children. According to statistics from the Department of Health, approximately 8% of 11 to 16-year-olds in Northern Ireland are current smokers.

And of these young people, 14% claim that vending machines are a usual source of tobacco. Children who smoke are three times more likely to eventually die from cancer than those who take up the habit in their 20s. Mr Poots said: "Reducing smoking prevalence is one of the biggest challenges we face in public health. "Over 300,000 adults in Northern Ireland still smoke and it causes around 2,300 deaths each year.

"The majority of smokers start while still in their teens. These children are becoming addicted to using tobacco well before they are of an age where can make an informed adult choice. "Cigarette vending machines are often unsupervised and present an easy option for children wishing to purchase cigarettes.

"By banning them we are removing that option and hopefully preventing young people from taking up this life-limiting habit." Northern Ireland follows Wales and England where vending machine bans have been introduced recently.

British American Tobacco PLC (BATS.LN), Thursday cautioned the consumer outlook remains uncertain, even as it posted a rise in profit on higher revenue, boosted by demand in emerging markets. BAT is further building its position in growth economies such as Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, where adult and middle-class populations are rising. Developing economies account for around 75% and 60% of the industry's total volumes and profit, respectively.

BAT, the world's second-biggest listed tobacco company, and its competitors--U.S.-based global market leader Philip Morris International Inc. (PM), Japan Tobacco Inc. (2914.TO) and U.K. peer Imperial Tobacco Group PLC (IMT.LN)--account for around 75% of the total cigarette market, excluding China, the word's biggest single market, where state-controlled China National Tobacco Co. has a virtual monopoly. Still, Chairman Richard Burrows cautioned the global economic climate remains "far from settled".

Smokers in more mature markets are switching to low-cost brands as spending is squeezed amid government austerity measures like tax hikes and spending cuts. To compensate, tobacco companies are phasing in price rises to maintain and build margins. London-based BAT, the maker of Dunhill, Kent and Lucky Strike cigarettes, said net profit in the year to Dec. 31 rose to GBP3.1 billion from GBP2.9 billion a year earlier.

Pretax profit excluding exceptional items, the figure closely watched by analysts, increased 11% to GBP5.52 billion from GBP4.98 billion, missing a company consensus forecast of GBP5.68 billion. Revenue increased 3% to GBP15.4 billion from GBP14.9 billion. Still, the company's total volumes, excluding acquistions, fell 0.4% to 705 billion sticks from 708 billion, as smokers struggle with tough global economic conditions.

This compares to Imperial's 7% first-quarter volumes fall as constant currency revenue slipped 1%, hit by a trade ban in Syria and destocking. Philip Morris notched up full-year volume growth of 1.7%, or 0.5% excluding acquisitions. At 0919 GMT, BAT shares were down 24 pence, or 0.8%, at 3109 pence, in a higher London market. Deutsche Bank analysts said the results are solid, while the group's valuation is attractive to investors, leading to profit-taking. In the U.K., BAT has been generally favored by investors due to its balance between mature and emerging markets, while around 65% of Imperial's business is in developed economies. Even as cigarette sales are under attack by advertising and display restrictions, as well as smoking bans in public places, tobacco stocks have maintained their outperformance in the downturn as consumers are reluctant to crimp habits.

Global brand volumes rose 9%, with Lucky Strike rising 14% and Pall Mall increasing by 11%. Asia Pacific volumes rose to 191 billion from 188 billion, but volumes in the Americas and Western Europe fell. Director of corporate and regulatory affairs Michael Prideaux said Russia, Mexico and Brazil performed well, even as he estimated the profitability of the Turkish market has halved due to higher excise duties. Still, Prideaux said strong pricing in Europe last year, which boosted profit, should continue. The company recommended a full-year dividend of 126.5 pence, up 11% from 114.2 pence. It will also buy back further shares, to the value of GBP1.25 billion, after completing a buyback of GBP750 million in 2011.

Prideaux said the company has a "strong case to argue" against legislation to introduce plain packaging, which comes into force in Australia at the end of this year. He expects the U.K. to launch a consultation next month. If the policies are eventually implemented, the U.K. would become the first European Union country to introduce plain cigarette packs. "You would hope that other countries would wait and see if it's the disaster that we think its going to be," Prideaux said.

The tobacco industry says there's no evidence plain packaging impacts smoking uptake by young people. It's also claiming intellectual property and international trade infringements. The industry is also concerned that generic packs--which would prevent manufacturers from using logos or colors--will increase illicit trade.

Customers of Tobacco Mizer save $30 on the equivalent of a carton of cigarettes by buying loose tobacco and hollow tubes and then renting a machine that rolls their cigarettes. The finished cigarettes come cheap because they aren't subject to the same state and federal taxes as those from companies considered manufacturers under Arizona law.

For Bob Mizer, the store's co-owner, this allows his operation to compete with tobacco stores on reservations, where customers pay less in excise taxes. That's why Mizer and other roll-your-own shop owners say a bill advancing in the state Legislature would be a death blow.

House Bill 2717, authored by Rep. Jim Weiers, R-Phoenix, would classify businesses with cigarette-rolling machines as manufacturers and subject them to the same regulations and taxes as companies that produce finished cigarettes. The House Commerce Committee endorsed the bill earlier this month.

Mizer said if he were classified as a manufacturer, he would be required to obtain a state manufacturing license. However, those seeking a state license must first obtain a federal manufacturing license, and with that comes a prohibition against selling directly to customers in the area where they manufacture cigarettes.

Mizer said he'd have no option other than giving up his three rolling machines and put his 13 employees out of work. John Mangum, an attorney representing Altria Group Inc., which manufactures cigarettes, told the committee that without a law customers will migrate to stores such as Mizer's. That will cut into revenue from the federal manufacturer's tax and state manufacturer's tax, he said.

British American Tobacco, the world's second-biggest cigarette maker, increased its share buyback to 1.25 billion pounds ($2.0 billion) after it raised prices and saw strong growth in emerging markets to help boost full-year earnings. The London-based maker of Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall Blue cigarettes bought back 750 million pounds of shares in 2011 and has raised its 2012 programme, confident it has growth ahead and firepower for acquisitions.

BAT, which made 705 billion cigarette last year, has seen smoking decline in Western Europe and North America and offset that with higher prices and by making gains from growth in developing markets such as Brazil, Mexico, Romania and Russia. "The economic climate around the world is far from settled but we remain confident that our strategy should continue to generate growth for our shareholders in the years ahead," chairman Richard Burrows said on Thursday.

BAT, the most globally spread of the big tobacco groups, has not been immune from tough economies, excise tax rises and higher unemployment which have pushed smokers to give up or switch to cheaper -- and sometimes illicit -- cigarettes. Higher prices meant that while underlying global volumes fell 0.4 percent last year, revenue rose 3 percent to 14.4 billion pounds. Marlboro-maker Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette group, saw its underlying 2011 volumes rise 0.5 percent.

BAT Chief Executive Nicandro Durante said he expected industry volumes ex-China to be down 1-2 percent this year after a decline of 2 percent in 2011, while BAT would continue to outperform as it gained share in a number of markets. "We face a very difficult economy with disposable income not up and unemployment high," he added. Durante said the group was flexible enough to conduct bolt-on acquisitions but he said it was difficult to see big deals happening with the world's four largest listed cigarette groups controlling 80 percent of the global market outside China. BAT said it gained from its good spread of businesses with 60 percent of profit and 75 percent of volume coming from emerging markets. In mature Western Europe, where it cut costs as well as raising prices, profit rose 10 percent.

The higher buyback and slightly better than expected 2011 earnings prompted analysts to upgrade forecasts, with Rae Maile at JP Morgan increasing his 2012 earnings estimate 0.5 percent to 213.85 pence per share and put 2013 up 1.5 percent. "The company continues to offer shareholders a compelling mix of earnings growth, dividend growth and modest valuation," he said. BAT shares, up 9 percent over the past month, were down 1.4 percent at 3,088 pence by 1300 GMT in a 0.2 percent higher London blue-chip stock market.

The group posted a rise of 11 percent in 2011 adjusted diluted earnings per share to 194.6 pence, compared with a Thomson Reuters poll forecast for 193.9 pence and a BAT-compiled consensus of 194.3 pence. The full-year dividend, set at 65 percent of earnings, also rose 11 percent to 126.5 pence. Rival and world No. 4 Imperial Tobacco said fourth-quarter volumes fell 7 percent and price rises did not prevent its sales dipping 1 percent as it was hit by a tough Spanish market, Syrian sanctions and destocking in Ukraine and the United States.

Pub-owners have been congratulated for complying with the law banning the sale of cigarettes from vending machines. Last October new legislation, The Protection from Tobacco (Sales from Vending Machines)(England) Regulations 2010, was introduced with a fine of up to £2,500 for non-compliance.

West Yorkshire Trading Standards inspected pubs that had a known history of illegal sales. It found that 49 out of 50 premises had either removed their vending machine or taken measures to stop consumers using them. Graham Hebblethwaite, chief officer for West Yorkshire Trading Standards said: “I am pleased with the level of compliance.”

Starting in the New Year, Winchester’s policies on the sale of tobacco and related products got much tougher. The most prominent change prohibits the sale of tobacco products at health care institutions, including pharmacies. Other changes include banning minors from purchasing nicotine delivery products such as e-cigarettes, which are chargeable cigarettes that allow users to blow water vapor instead of smoke. Fines and penalties for the sale of tobacco products to minors have also been increased.

Finally, the new regulations prohibit smoking bars, which are establishments such as hookah bars or cigar bars that are primarily engaged in the sale of tobacco for consumption. Currently, there are no smoking bars in Winchester. Board of Health Chairman David Heinold said the changes were meant to make some of the town’s smoking regulations clearer.

“We wanted to clarify some issues related to our smoking policies,” he said. “There was some vague language that we wanted to tighten.” He said some of the new regulations just made sense. “Given that the idea of a pharmacy is to promote health, we didn’t want them to be selling a product like tobacco that goes directly against that,” Heinold said. He said the only business in town that was affected by the change was CVS; the town’s other pharmacy, Winchester Drug, does not sell cigarettes. Heinold said local businesses were notified about potential changes to the town’s smoking regulations months ago, but that the town did not receive any responses during the public comment period.

Jennifer Murphy, the town’s public health director, said the changes were enacted because Winchester is part of the Mystic Valley Tobacco and Alcohol Program. The program is a seven-community consortium that promotes awareness about the dangers of alcohol and tobacco. Murphy said the town had to adopt the regulations as part of being involved with the program. The program provides member communities with compliance checks. For example, they check that businesses are displaying signage properly and they employ undercover teenagers to enter local business to make sure the stores are not selling to minors.

“One of the things the state asks us to do, as a collaborative, is to adopt the model regulations that the state puts out,” Murphy said. She added that many of the regulations would benefit Winchester and other communities. “Given that other communities around us were doing this, our Board of Health thought it was a great opportunity,” she said.

Two people have been arrested by officers from Revenue's Customs Service at Dublin Airport over cigarette smuggling in recent days. A 23-year-old Moldovan woman who had arrived on a flight from Moldova, via Zurich, was found in possession of 7,200 cigarettes today.. The 'L&M' and 'Marlboro' brand cigarettes had an estimated retail value of over €3,000 and were discovered in her suitcase. She appeared in the Criminal Court of Justice before Judge Mary Malone, who remanded her in custody until Friday 27th January. On Monday, officers seized 7,000 cigarettes from a 48-year-old Lithuanian man who arrived from Moscow via Amsterdam. The brands seized were 'Kiss Superslim' and 'Bond one' and had a retail value of approximately €3,000. The man appeared in the Criminal Court of Justice yesterday and was remanded in custody by Judge Denis Mc Loughlin, to appear at Clover Hill on Friday 27th January.

State Sen. Rodney Tom, D-Bellevue, introduced legislation last Friday to reduce smoking rates by raising the state cigarette tax by $1. Tom described the bill as a critical public health measure. “We know that the medical cost of one pack of cigarettes is $8.47,” said Tom. “Smoking is a self-inflicted cost that we as a society can no longer continue to subsidize.”

In 2004, the last year that data was available, smoking accounted for an estimated $1.95 billion in health expenses in Washington. “The statistics around smoking speak for themselves,” said Tom. “Just this year, Washington had 7,600 smoking-related deaths.”

The state-run quit-line was closed down in recent years, leaving those wanting to quit with little help to do so. A small piece of revenue generated by the bill would be used to restore the service. “In this difficult economy, we should be leveraging our dollars where it counts the most – that means prevention.”

A full-time police national serviceman who was attached to the Subordinate Courts was found to have snuck tobacco and winston cigarettes to inmates who were being held in lock-up there.

Sulaiman Muhammad Firdaus, 23, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment on Wednesday. He pleaded guilty to three charges and three more were taken into consideration in the sentencing.

Between June and July 2008, Sulaiman who was a special constable then, was found to have snuck contraband items to inmates twice in return for money.

The court heard that between May and June 2008, Sulaiman had befriended a suspect called Thomas Cheng who was remanded in the lockup for a court hearing. The two exchanged contact numbers.

A student from North Side High School is Fort Wayne has been chosen as the ISHAA Role Model to help encourage others to lead tobacco-free lives.

On Wednesday, January 18, Jose Rodriguez will present a tobacco awareness program at Northwood Middle School to 7th and 8th graders who are currently using tobacco underage.

As part of his participation in the Indiana High School Athletic Association Role Model program, Jose will travel around Allen County to speak with middle and high school students about the effects of tobacco. His presentations are sponsored by Tobacco Free Allen County.

Jose’s peer presentations include a short video, several brief activities, and pictures of the traumatic effects of tobacco use.

From a health care perspective, the best cigarette is no cigarette, but for the millions of people who try to quit smoking every year, researchers from Cornell University may have found a way to make cigarette smoking less toxic. Using natural antioxidant extracts in cigarette filters, the researchers demonstrated that lycopene and grape seed extract drastically reduced the amount of cancer-causing free radicals passing through the filter.

The research will be the 1,500th article published in the ground-breaking Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), the only peer-reviewed, PubMed indexed video-journal. “The implications of this technique can help reduce the hazardous effects of tobacco smoke,” said Dr. Boris Dzilkovski, who co-authored the paper, “because free radicals are a major group of carcinogens.”

Scientists have tried to make safer cigarettes in the past. Haemoglobin (which transports oxygen in red blood cells) and activated carbon have been shown to reduce free-radicals in cancer smoke by up to 90 percent, but because of the cost, the combination has not been successfully introduced to the market. JoVE Content Director, Dr. Aaron Kolski-Andreaco noted that “practically, this research could lead to an alternative type of cigarette filter with a free radical scavenging additive.

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As the regulatory environment becomes more stringent in the West, Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM) is aiming to diversify its strategy based on the region it operates in. In advanced economies, tobacco companies have accepted the fact that cigarette consumption will decrease and are left with no option but to raise the prices periodically to make up for the declining volumes. In addition, the tobacco companies are pushing for smokeless tobacco products which are generally perceived to be less harmful than cigarettes.

On the other hand, lax regulations and rising disposable incomes in developing and emerging economies present a tremendous opportunity for the company to increase the cigarette volumes by predatory pricing, or cutting prices to grab market share. Philip Morris International competes with British America Tobacco (AMEX:BTI) and Imperial Tobacco Group (LSE:IMT) in its various geographical segments.

Buy marlboro cigarettes here. Cheap price and worldwide shipping. As the regulatory environment becomes more stringent in the West, Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM) is aiming to diversify its strategy based on the region it operates in. In advanced economies, tobacco companies have accepted the fact that cigarette consumption will decrease and are left with no option but to raise the prices periodically to make up for the declining volumes. In addition, the tobacco companies are pushing for smokeless tobacco products which are generally perceived to be less harmful than cigarettes. On the other hand, lax regulations and rising disposable incomes in developing and emerging economies present a tremendous opportunity for the company to increase the cigarette volumes by predatory pricing, or cutting prices to grab market share. Philip Morris International competes with British America Tobacco (AMEX:BTI) and Imperial Tobacco Group (LSE:IMT) in its various geographical segments.