06 novembre 2009
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TOBACCO-CONTROL ACTIVITIES
DoD and each of the armed services have a stated goal of a tobacco-free military, but
tobacco-control efforts have not been given high priority by the Office of the Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Health Affairs, OASD(HA), or the individual services’ Office of the Surgeon
General. There have been recent signs, however, that tobacco control is receiving more attention
with the rollout of DoD’s “Quit Tobacco. Make Everyone Proud” public-education campaign.
DoD policies to prevent smoking and encourage cessation are outlined in the Code of Federal
Regulations, Title 32, Part 85, which charges each armed service to develop its own healthpromotion
plans. The service plans typically cover where military personnel may use tobacco,
requirements for access to tobacco-cessation programs, and specifications about the role of
commanders and staff in promoting tobacco cessation and deglamorizing tobacco use.
In 1999, the Alcohol and Tobacco Advisory Counsel in the OASD(HA) developed a
Tobacco Use Prevention Strategic Plan that outlined goals and tasks; metrics and objectives;
policy, program, practice, and resource requirements; and a timeline. That plan, which is still in
effect, has eight goals:
• Reduce smoking rates by 5% per year and reduce smokeless-tobacco use to 15% by
2001.
• Promote a tobacco-free lifestyle and culture through education and leadership.
• Educate commanders in how to encourage healthy and tobacco-free lifestyles.
• Promote the benefits of nonsmoking and provide tobacco counteradvertising.
• Decrease accessibility by increasing tobacco prices and by restricting smoking areas and
use.
• Have the MHS identify users and provide targeted interventions.
• Have the MHS provide effective cessation programs.
• Continually assess best practices in tobacco-use prevention.
The strategic plan covers many of the key components that make up a comprehensive
tobacco-control plan, including the existence of a strategic plan itself, policy review and
development, public-relations and education activities, the use of evidence-based tobaccocessation
interventions, and surveillance and evaluation. It also has requirements for specific
policies on tobacco pricing, access, and restrictions of when and where tobacco can be used on
installations.
The committee found that DoD and the services had not been able to achieve the goal of
reducing smoking rates or rates of smokeless-tobacco use. Tobacco use declined overall from
1980 to 2005, but there has recently been an increase in consumption, possibly because of
increased tobacco use by deployed troops.
DoD and the services have promoted tobacco-free lifestyles through public-education
campaigns, commander training, a complete ban on tobacco use during basic military training in
all the services, and prohibition of tobacco use by training instructors in the presence of students.
Tobacco use is addressed in health-education programs, including those for commanding
officers. The services also encourage—but do not require—that commanders lead by example
with regard to tobacco use. The Air Force has been the most successful in reducing tobacco use,
particularly among officers.
Tobacco counteradvertising is a complex issue in the military and is not consistent among
the services. DoD’s counteradvertising campaign “Quit Tobacco. Make Everyone Proud”
includes a Web site, posters, games, and educational materials tailored to young military men.
DoD tobacco-cessation activities conducted by health-promotion personnel include health fairs,
Web sites, and other activities that raise the profile of tobacco cessation. The committee was
unable to determine whether public-affairs staff are engaged in tobacco counteradvertising, but it
noted that many of the services’ newsletters and Web sites contain articles on tobacco-control
activities.
17 juillet 2009
Tobacco Impacts
CBO also estimates that the amount of tax revenues and settlement funds collected by state and local governments would decline as a result of the federal regulations authorized by this bill because of lower consumption of tobacco products.
However,
those declines in revenues, estimated to total over $1 billion during the 2010-2014
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period, would not result from intergovernmental mandates. Rather, the decline in
revenues would be an indirect effect on state and local governments resulting from the
new federal regulations imposed on companies that manufacture and distribute tobacco
products.
In 2008, state and local governments collected about $19 billion in revenues from excise
and general sales taxes levied on tobacco products. CBO estimates that this bill would
lower consumption of those products and that excise taxes collected by state and local
governments would fall by about $20 million in 2010, with that reduction growing to
over $300 million in 2014. Similarly, CBO estimates that state and local governments
would see a decline in sales-tax revenues of about $160 million over the 2010-2014
period.
26 mars 2009
Chesterfield cigarette trademark
Chesterfield was featured as the sponsor on some of the Dragnet radio
series. In the 1960's, print ads for Chesterfield featured color
photographs of 4 smokers from various walks of life with the headline
"Chesterfield People: They like a mild smoke, but they don't like
Filters." In the late 1960's, when other trademarks brought out
Extra-long 100 millimeter length Cigarettes, Chesterfield exposed its
own version under the brand name 101. The name came from the fact that
it was 101 millimeters in length, 1 millimeter longer than its
participants. That fact was the base for it’s advertise slogan "a silly
millimeter longer", which was used in TV commercials sung to the tune
of the popular Ritchie Valens song "La Bamba".
In the 20th century, the
Chesterfield cigarette trademark was one of the most distinguished in
the world and one of the three most smoked cigarettes. Chesterfield was
a favorite of Hollywood immense such as Lucille Ball, James Dean and
Humphrey Bogart along with other well-known names both on the silver
screen and the television. They put out a special red Christmas Edition
pack of cigarettes that symbolized the international love for the
Chesterfield brand.
The Chesterfield brand name was very involved in
American society in the early 20th century and until the new laws
banned the tobacco industry from many forms of advertising.
Chesterfield sponsored many early Radio and Television Shows such as
Glenn Miller’s Radio Show and early editions of Dragnet and Gunsmoke.
The cigarettes were also featured in several popular movies, but now
that the laws have limited them you might not see them very often any
more.
23 janvier 2009
Egypt's Eastern Tobacco
Egyptian discount cigarettes
monopoly Eastern Company made a net profit of 404.6 million Egyptian pounds (72.9 million) in the first half of the fiscal year, 9.5 percent higher than the same period a year before, the firm said in a statement.
Eastern Tobacco said the results were unedited, but gave no further details on performance.
Shares in Eastern Tobacco last traded 1.04 percent down at 180 pounds. ($1 = 5.5506 Egyptian pounds)
14 juillet 2008
Philip Morris USA and new filter cigarettes
RICHMOND, — Philip Morris USA, the nation's No. 1 tobacco company, said Monday it has ended test markets of Marlboro-branded cigarettes that use a high-technology filter.
The operating company of Altria Group Inc. said it pulled the plug on Marlboro Ultra Smooth and Marlboro Ultra Light cigarettes, which used an activated carbon filter to deliver nicotine with potentially less exposure to carcinogens than in conventional cigarettes.
Philip Morris said it stopped making new shipments of Marlboro Ultra Smooth to wholesalers on April 1. Those cigarettes were being tested in Atlanta, Tampa, Fla., and Salt Lake City for more than three years. Marlboro Ultra Lights in Phoenix and North Dakota, and Basic Ultra Lights in Washington state also were discontinued, the company said.
"We did see lower consumer acceptance of those products in some of the test markets," said spokesman Bill Phelps. "These are test markets and they're designed to help us learn a lot of things. In the case of Ultra Smooth, it was designed to help us understand consumer acceptance of those particular products' taste and flavor."
Phelps said the company had made no claims that the products reduced health risks.
Shares of Altria rose 12 cents to $20.90 Monday.
Philip Morris saw a 4.6 percent decline in cigarette sales volume last year, but said that is estimated to be down 3.6 percent when adjusted for calendar differences and other factors. The industrywide decline is estimated at 4 percent in the United States.
The company has projected that cigarette sales volume will fall between 2.5 percent to 3 percent in the U.S. over the next few years because of concerns about health, smoking bans and price increases.
In turn, Philip Morris is looking to growing its business in other tobacco categories and reduced-risk products, Phelps said.
"We remain committed to our overall objective of reducing the harm caused by cigarette smoking," Phelps said. "That work will continue both for conventional lit-end cigarettes as well as what we would describe as noncombustible tobacco products."
Last year, the company began testing of its Marlboro-branded moist smokeless tobacco product — cut tobacco placed in the mouth — in Atlanta and recently expanded to counties in the surrounding metropolitan area. It also began testing a moist powdered tobacco called Marlboro Snus in Dallas last year, and also has expanded the test to Indianapolis.