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02 juillet 2009

Value of unprocessed tobacco

The value of unprocessed tobacco production in 1999 was US$1 100 billion, over 9 times the value for 1970, an increase only partly attributable to increased production.

Comparing domestic prices with international prices, using the so-called Nominal Protection Coefficient (NPC), gives an estimate of the magnitude of market price distortion resulting from agricultural policies. During the 1970s, domestic and international price trends for unprocessed tobacco were very similar, in both direction and magnitude. However, in the first half of the 1980s, domestic prices declined while international prices were increasing slightly, tobacco producers were taxed rather than being supported. In contrast, in the 1990s, domestic prices began increasing faster than international prices indicating that protection to producers was increasing.

24 juin 2009

Package onserts

One of the vehicles for the corrective statements is a cigarette package onsert, which the district court ordered Defendants to “affix to cigarette packaging, either on the outside of or within the outer cellophane wrapping around the package . . . in the same manner as certain Defendants, such as Philip Morris and Brown & Williamson, have utilized package onserts in the past.”
Defendants object that the onserts violate the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act (“Labeling Act”), which provides that “[n]o statement relating to smoking and health, other than the statement required by section 1333 of this title, shall be required on any cigarette package.”
The Labeling Act defines a “package” as “a pack, box, carton, or container of any kind in which cigarettes are offered for sale, sold, or otherwise distributed to consumers.” A package onsert is “[a] communication affixed to but separate from an individual cigarette pack and/or carton purchased at retail by consumers, such as a miniature brochure included beneath the outer cellophane wrapping or glued to the outside of the cigarette packaging.”

09 juin 2009

Newport cigarettes ads

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02 juin 2009

Countries can save lives by raising tobacco taxes

Tobacco tax increases are the most effective way to reduce tobacco use, and also have the benefit of increasing government revenues. Although many countries have raised tobacco taxes, they remain low in the overwhelming majority of countries. With inflation and increased consumer purchasing power, cigarettes are becoming relatively more affordable, even in many countries where the tax accounts for a large proportion of the purchase price. Furthermore, in many countries, low levels of taxation on smoked tobacco products other than cigarettes (e.g. bidis and kreteks) and low prices for inexpensive brands of cigarettes reduce the potential health benefits of tobacco taxation and can undermine other tobacco control interventions.
Countries could cut tobacco use significantly and save lives through higher tobacco taxes. Among 152 countries that provided information, cigarette tax rates range from near zero to more than 80%. Most countries could increase taxes significantly. One quarter of countries report tax rates less than 25% of the tobacco retail price. Only four countries, representing 2% of the world’s population, have tax rates greater than 75% of retail price. While more than four fifths of high-income countries tax tobacco at more than 50% of retail price, less than a quarter of low- and middle-income countries tax tobacco at 50% or more of retail price. This pattern is particularly disturbing given the shift in the epidemic from high-income countries to developing countries. Increasing taxes in all countries is essential. Many are already raising taxes – without increasing smuggling or experiencing other negative economic impacts predicted by the tobacco industry.
In South Africa, tobacco tax increases led to a doubling of the retail price of cigarettes and a large increase in tax revenues in the 1990s. During the same period, cigarette consumption declined dramatically; approximately 40% of the decrease was due to smokers quitting. The largest decreases were among young people and low-wage earners, those who reduce smoking most when prices increase.107 Increasing taxes is the most effective tobacco control measure. Higher taxes reduce consumption, lower health-care costs, help households save money by reducing tobacco use, and increase government revenues, which can help pay for tobacco control interventions and other policy priorities.

25 mai 2009

Smokers lawsuit against tobacco companies

The California Supreme Court ruled against the people who smoke last year, saying a federal law on tobacco products advertising and the companies’ First Amendment rights to commercial speech allowed the marketing campaigns.
The federal legislation confirms the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to control deceptive or unfair practices in cigarette advertising. The smokers sued under a California law that bars unjust competition. The competition is alleged to be unfair in this case because competing tobacco companies that respected state law acted at a disadvantage. Urging the Supreme Court to turn down the case, the tobacco companies said the federal legislation pre-empted any state law ban on cigarette ads if the ban was based on health and smoking.
In January, the court decided another tobacco case, where smokers in the northeastern state of Maine are suing tobacco companies for alleged deceptive advertising of «light» cigarettes.

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18 mai 2009

John Player Cigarettes

Old magazine ad for John Player Special brand cigarettes.

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05 mai 2009

68 Marlboro Smoking Cig Ad

1968 Marlboro Cig Frederic Remington art Dbl-Page Ad
The Remington Masterpieces. A special offer from Marlboro Country: set of four, $1.50; any two prints, $1.00.

1968 Marlboro Cigarette Country Man Colt Horse Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country. Marlboro Red of Longhorn 100’s—you get a lot to like.

1968 Marlboro Country Man Smoking Cig Ad - Famous Marlboro Red! And new extra-long Marlboro 100’s— The Longhorns! Either way, You get a lot to like. Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.    

1968 Marlboro Country Man Yellow Shirt Ad - Marlboro Red of Longhorn 100’s—you get a lot to like. Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.    

1968 Marlboro Country Man Smoking Cig Ad
Famous Marlboro Red! And new extra-long Marlboro 100’s— The Longhorns! Either way, You get a lot to like. Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.

1968 Marlboro Cowboy Lighting Cigarette Ad - Famous Marlboro Red! And new extra-long Marlboro 100’s— The Longhorns! Either way, You get a lot to like. Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.    

1968 Marlboro Country Man Yellow Shirt Ad
Marlboro Red of Longhorn 100’s—you get a lot to like. Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.

1968 Marlboro Cowboy Man Leading Horse Ad - Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.    
1968 Marlboro Cowboy Man Leading Horse Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.

1968 Marlboro Cowboy Lighting Cigarette Ad
Famous Marlboro Red! And new extra-long Marlboro 100’s— The Longhorns! Either way, You get a lot to like. Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.

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30 avril 2009

Smoking Mannerisms

Smoking Mannerisms Usually the way we smoke is characteristic of our whole personality. The mannerisms of smokers are innumerable. Some people always have cigarettes drooping from their mouths. Others let the cigarette jump up and down in their mouths while they are talking. Men sometimes complain about the way women smoke: "A lot of women blow out the smoke with a gust of wind, right into your face. They just puff it at you." Some men, when they want to appear to be aggressive, hold their cigarettes with thumb and forefinger so that the glowing end shows toward the palm of the hand. Often smokers will assume a pose, because they have found that it fits their personality best, or at least they think so.
A not too modest glamor girl revealed to us some of her "smoking secrets": "I think it looks so much better to smoke with a holder. I studied that very carefully. Don't you think I'm somewhat of a Latin type? It all really depends on what type you are.... I always have holders that are long and dark. I think a long holder is somewhat like a big hat: it's alluring and 'don't dare come close' at the same time." While every smoker has to go through the motions of lighting and inhaling the smoke, the way in which these acts are carried out varies according to his mood. The nervous smoker has a faster smoking tempo than the relaxed one. The angry smoker blows the smoke in an aggressive way, almost as if he were trying to blow somebody down. A smoker who is about to ask for a raise in salary will press his lips tightly around the cigarette as if to gain courage by holding it that way. "Smoking Helps Me Think" The mind can concentrate best when all outside stimuli have been excluded. Smoking literally provides a sort of "smoke screen" that helps to shut out distractions.
This explains why many people who were interviewed reported that they cannot think or write without a cigarette. They argued that moderate smoking may even stimulate mental alertness. It gives us a focal point for our attention. It also gives our hands something to do; otherwise they might make us self-conscious and interfere with mental activity. On the other hand, our respondents admit that smoking too much may reduce their efficiency. Cigarettes Help Us to Relax One shortcoming of our modern culture is the universal lack of adequate relaxation. Many of us not only do not know how to relax, but do not take time to learn.
Smoking helps us to relax because, like music, it is rhythmic. Smoking gives us a legitimate excuse to linger a little longer after meals, to stop work for a few minutes, to sit at home without doing anything that requires effort. Here is a nostalgic comment contributed by a strong defender of smoking: "After a long day's work, to get home and sit in a chair and stretch my legs 'way out, and then to sit back and just smoke a cigarette and think of nothing, just blow the smoke in the air - that's what I like to do when I've had a pretty tough day."

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23 avril 2009

Chesterfield cigarettes

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16 avril 2009

GLAMOR FROM McCLELLAND BARCLAY

The beautiful woman who modeled for artist McClelland Barclay's glamorous Lucky Strike ad pictured below, wasn't Miss America. Atlantic City's famed beauty pageant wasn't held 1928 through 1932, but that didn't stop The American Tobacco Company from taking advantage of the popular contest. This striking advertisement was a "thank you" to American women for helping to make Lucky Strike Cigarettes the US's best selling cigarette in 1931. McClelland Barclay (1891-1943) was a popular illustrator whose paintings of handsome men and gorgeous chiffon-clothed women were often used as the covers of The Saturday Evening Post and The Country Gentleman magazines. This talented artist and naval officer died during World War Two when a Japanese torpedo sank the ship that he was aboard.

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