The dynamism and profitability of the tobacco industry is outstanding, leading to high and sustainable dividend payments to shareholders. One of the best companies within the industry is Philip Morris International (PM), the owner of seven of the top 15 cigarette brands in the world, including the top cigarette brand Marlboro. Philip Morris is the second-largest tobacco company in the world, after government-controlled China National Tobacco. Philip Morris has a market capitalization of $136 billion and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Company Profile
Philip Morris International is an American global cigarette and tobacco company, with products sold in over 180 countries and more than 87,000 employees. Its market share of the cigarette market outside of the U.S. is above 16%. Philip Morris was part of Altria (MO) until 2008 when it performed a spin-off of Altria Group. Altria was a conglomerate which had several divisions. Altria sold off its beer unit, spun off the Kraft (KRFT) division as a standalone company, and split the cigarette business into Philip Morris USA, which retained the name Altria, and Philip Morris International. Altria controls the U.S. market, while Philip Morris does all of its business abroad.Philip Morris International producer of LM cigarettes.
Because tobacco, the main constituent of cigarettes, is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally and is addictive, the industry is highly controversial and is increasingly the subject of litigation and restrictive legislation from governments concerned about the health impacts of its products. Therefore, Philip Morris' geographical exposure is a major positive factor especially compared to Altria, as the U.S. tobacco industry has been penalized by litigation for years. On the other hand, the rest of the world does not have the same issues for tobacco companies and Philip Morris simply doesn't have the same litigation costs eating its profits that Altria does, nor does it have the uncertainty of future litigation issues. In 2012, the company held an estimated 16.3% share of the total international cigarette market outside of the U.S. The company has very good geographical diversification, generating about 35.7% of its sales in Asia, 27.2% in European Union, 26,5% in Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and 10.6% in Latin America and Canada

Tom Hanks had to stub out Walt Disney's heavy smoking habit in new movie Saving Mr. Banks due to strict ratings guidelines. Hanks portrays the movie mogul in the new drama, about the battle to bring Mary Poppins to the big screen, but had to omit scenes that featured the animator puffing on cigarettes in order to satisfy censors. The actor reveals producers endured protracted negotiations over the issue, but they were prevented from showing Disney smoking onscreen. Hanks says, "We had a hard enough time trying to have him smoke... If we smoked cigarettes in this movie about Walt Disney making Mary Poppins, it would be rated R (restricted). That's just the way it works. You couldn't believe the negotiations. It came down to us not being able to light a cigarette or inhale a cigarette. "You do see one big scene where Emma (Thompson) as (Poppins author P.L. Travers) storms into my office and you see me putting out a cigarette in the ashtray on Walt's desk. "I did always have a pack of cigarettes in my shirt pocket and sometimes I was playing around with them and a cigarette lighter here and there, but I never could smoke one. "The man smoked three packs of cigarettes a day. People who knew Walt say that you could always hear him coming down the hall, because you'd hear him coughing from smoking all those cigarettes." Disney died of lung cancer in 1966 at the age of 65.

What Makes Altria Group A Good Buy?

The tobacco industry is under the scanner of the FDA on approval of menthol usage in cigarettes. Major cigarette manufacturers will get affected by this decision but not Altria group (MO). It has been able to create a broad product portfolio with large brands in the cigarette category. The company has shown dividend growth rate of 7.3% during last year. In the 2nd quarter of fiscal 2013, it has achieved 5% growth in earnings and reported EPS of $0.62. Now, let's discuss a few points in detail.
Diversification towards smokeless products will drive growth
The smokable cigarettes segment is strictly regulated and with other alternatives available now, this segment is facing decline in consumption. Altria Group is diversifying its product portfolio more towards smokeless products. Chewing tobacco and snuff are two other product categories which are also preferred by consumers. In the 2nd quarter of 2013, smokeless products posted strong results with sales growth of 7.6% and operating margin growth of 12.5%. At present, smokeless products category has ~20% share in the total sales but it will increase with growing Copenhagen and Skoal brands. The company will drive its long term sales growth through its diversified products portfolio. Marlboro cigarettes online.
Pricing can be decisive in margins growth
Altria group has achieved operating margin growth of 1.5% in the smokable cigarette category, despite missing the volume target. It has increased prices to offset the decline in cigarette consumption. The demand of cigarettes is declining and it throws a challenge to the company for right pricing to drive sales growth. As industry trends for volume growth are very low, price-mix along with cost savings in the category will drive margins in the short term.
E-cigarette launch can be growth driver
E-cigarette is another fast growing category and came across as an alternative to traditional cigarettes. E-cigarette is now a worldwide $3 billion category and Altria group is also coming up with a new e-cigarette brand. The company is all set to launch MarkTen e-cigarette in the test markets of Indiana. This is a key innovation for the company and if successful, it will be rolled out across the markets to drive sales growth. This product category has seen better margins, which will help it to establish itself in the emerging markets.

Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato Touch Joe Jonas Smoke Weed

Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato Touch Joe Jonas Smoke Weed

Tobacco Plain Packaging New Government Move

Tobacco Plain Packaging New Government Move

Will the FDA Stub Out Menthol Cigarettes?

Here we go again. The FDA is putting menthol cigarettes in its crosshairs again, not because they're any more likely to cause illness than regular cigarettes, but because they can serve as a gateway smoke for kids.
The regulatory agency released its "preliminary scientific evaluation" yesterday and admitted there's little evidence showing menthol cigarettes are any more toxic than non-menthol ones, but that doesn't mean it doesn't think they should be more stringently regulated. Of course, it's "for the children."
Because the mint-flavored cigarettes mask the harshness of tobacco, teenagers may be more willing to start smoking, get addicted, and find it harder to quit. It was one of the reasons that flavored cigarettes, such as those infused with candy, fruit, or spice flavors, were banned back when the FDA was first given regulatory power over the cancer sticks. According to studies, half of all teens prefer menthol-flavored cigarettes, though the FDA itself says 30% of adults and 40% of teens enjoy smoking menthols.

Cigarette prices go up

British American Tobacco (BAT) Malaysia has announced a new price increase for its cigarette brands effective today.
The new price for a pack of 20 cigarettes for Dunhill, Kent and Benson & Hedges will now cost RM12 each.
Pall Mall and Lucky Strike Plains will cost RM12.50 and Pall Mall and Peter Stuyvesant will cost RM10.50.
The last price increase for BAT cigarette brands was in June.
Meanwhile, a taxation expert said excise tax hikes needed to be implemented gradually to avoid destabilising the legal cigarette market.
International Tax and Investment Centre president Daniel A. Witt said an increase that was too high implemented over too short a term could shock the market and create a demand for black market goods.
“Increasing excise tax should be done in a predictable way to stabilise the legal market, meaning those who can be taxed,” said Witt, who presented the “Asia-11: Illicit Toba­cco Indicator 2012” study to the media yesterday.
Asia-11 is a report on the illicit cigarette trade among 11 countries in 2012.
He was speaking on the recent increase of tobacco excise tax of 14% that was gazetted by the Government last Friday.
Witt said illicit cigarette trade had increased by 40% in the past eight years, caused by the steady increase of tobacco excise tax to its current level of 48%.
The report also stated that the Government lost an estimated RM1.9bil in taxes last year and had the third highest consumption levels of illicit cigarettes among the countries surveyed.
Meanwhile, Netizens and observers said the price increase would make no difference to smokers here.
Facebook user Benjamin Azad said while it was easy to blame tobacco products for health issues, it was unfair to do so.
“Why is no one taking action against fast food, processed meats, carbonated drinks or even the cooking oil used in restaurants? This is an unfair judgment,” he said.
Steven Lee said trying to curb smoking by increasing the price was pointless as it would “just drive smokers to smoke smuggled cigarettes.”
Chief activist of Malaysian Islamic Consumers Association Datuk Nazmi Johan said the price increase, while good, wouldn’t do much to stop people from smoking.

Exhibition, Film about Landmark Smoking Report Featured at UA

“The Surgeon General vs. The Marlboro Man: Who Really Won?” That’s the provocative question posed by an original exhibition at The University of Alabama’s Gorgas Library to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the landmark 1964 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health.
On Nov. 20, a reception will be held in conjunction with the exhibition to honor the memory of Dr. Luther Terry, an Alabamian who was the country’s Surgeon General when the 1964 report was released.
Honored guests at the reception will include: Celia Wallace, chair of the Mobile-based Springhill Hospital board of directors and wife of the late Dr. Gerald Wallace; Terry’s son, Michael Terry, a Memphis businessman; Dr. Robert Robinson, former associate director of the Office on Smoking and Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Donald Shopland, a staff member to the advisory committee that wrote the 1964 report on smoking and health.
The reception will feature the premier screening of the short documentary “Blowing Smoke: The Lost Legacy of the Surgeon General’s Report,” by exhibit curator Dr. Alan Blum, the Gerald Leon Wallace MD Endowed Chair in Family Medicine at UA’s College of Community Health Sciences; his son, Samuel Blum; and UA alumnus Jake Buettner.
“The 50th anniversary of the report is not a celebration, but rather a sobering reminder of missed opportunities to curb the nation’s number one avoidable cause of cancer, heart disease, emphysema and high health care costs,” said Blum, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the tobacco industry and the anti-smoking movement and director of the University’s Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, which he founded in 1998.
Following the film, an open discussion to consider future efforts to counter smoking and its promotion will include remarks from Dr. Richard Streiffer, dean of UA’s College of Community Health Sciences; Dr. Rebecca Kelly, director of UA’s Office of Health Promotion and Wellness; Fayetta Royal, a tri-county tobacco control officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health; and Zac McMillian, a UA pre-medical student working for a smoke-free campus.
The exhibition, reception and film premier, together titled “Exhibition, Film Commemorate Landmark Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking,” will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library Pearce Foyer and adjacent room 205 (second floor).
Through more than 130 artifacts, from packages of candy cigarettes that look like real ones to copies of medical journals with physicians endorsing various cigarette brands, the exhibition traces the promotion of smoking in America throughout the past century. Highlighting the exhibition, which will be shown at the Gorgas Library through Dec. 1, is a copy of the Surgeon General’s report, as well as headlines from the front pages of six newspapers the day the report was released.
From the 1920s through the 1960s, actors, actresses and athletes were models in cigarette advertisements. Baseball greats Joe Dimaggio and Lou Gherig were quoted in the ads in the Sunday newspaper comic pages saying, “Camels don’t get my wind,” and “I can smoke as many as I please.” Even Jackie Robison promoted Chesterfield, “The baseball man’s cigarette.”
Blum said for most of the 20th century, the tobacco industry claimed that reports of smoking and disease had been based on statistical associations and not biological and pathological evidence; meanwhile, the industry’s own researchers were acknowledging that smoking caused cancer.
On January 11, 1964, at a packed press conference in the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., Surgeon General Luther Terry released what would become one of the most important documents in the history of medicine. The report was the culmination of a year-long analysis of the world’s literature on smoking by a 10-member scientific advisory committee that also included Dr. Charles LeMaistre, a distinguished UA alumnus. The committee’s conclusions: “Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer in men … and is a health hazard of sufficient importance to warrant appropriate remedial action.”
“Yet, even after the Surgeon General’s Report was published, cigarette manufacturers continued to deny the evidence and sought to allay public anxiety by assuring that new filtered, low-tar, light and ultra-light brands were not harmful,” Blum said.
The exhibition illustrates how cigarette maker Philip Morris ingeniously associated smoking with the women’s liberation movement beginning in the late 1960s with the launch of its Virginia Slims brand, along with TV and the print advertising containing the slogan, “You’ve come a long way, Baby.” For nearly 25 years, telecasts of the Virginia Slims Women’s Tennis Circuit circumvented the 1971 Congressional ban on cigarette advertising on television. By 1985, lung cancer had surpassed breast cancer deaths among U.S. women, while women’s magazines continued to accept cigarette advertising.
“One part of the exhibition highlights the way in which magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Ebony, Rolling Stone, Ms., and others played down the risks of smoking—even in stories about cancer and heart disease—so as not to displease their cigarette advertisers,” Blum says.
The exhibition concludes with the reminder that “Fifty years after the Surgeon General’s landmark report, the heath and economic toll taken by smoking remains devastating.”
“Surgeon General Terry’s indictment of cigarettes in 1964 might have been expected to mark the beginning of the end of the Marlboro man,” Blum said. “But far from riding off into the sunset, the tobacco industry is riding high in the saddle, while maintaining the nicotine addiction of nearly 50 million Americans. The tragic result is that cigarette smoking is still the nation’s No. 1 avoidable health problem, accounting for 440,000 deaths a year, including 7,600 in Alabama — more than the annual deaths from AIDS, illegal drugs, alcohol, motor vehicle accidents, homicides and suicides combined.”
UA’s Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society holds Blum’s vast ethnographic collection of more than 100,000 original items related to tobacco — including more than 3,000 books and pamphlets, several thousand cigarette ads and promotional items, 1,300 editorial cartoons, thousands of original photographs and memorabilia from tobacco-sponsored sports and cultural events, and 2,000 videotapes, DVDs and audio recordings of tobacco-related news stories, cigarette commercials and documentaries.
In 1977, Blum founded Doctors Ought to Care, the first physicians’ organization dedicated to ending the tobacco pandemic. As editor of the Medical Journal of Australia and the New York State Journal of Medicine in the 1980s, he published the first theme issues on tobacco of any journal. He was awarded the Surgeon General’s Medallion by former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, and, in 2006, received an honorary doctor of science from Amherst College for his efforts to end the tobacco pandemic.
The current exhibition is Blum’s 10th on tobacco-related subjects since 1988. “Cartoonists Take Up Smoking,” which looked at the battles over smoking during the last 50 years as seen through the eyes of the nation’s editorial cartoonists, was on view at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C., as well as at 12 other venues in the United States. “Up in Smoke,” the history of the airline flight attendants’ struggle to end smoking on airlines, was hosted by the Louis A. Turpen Museum of Aviation at the San Francisco International Airport and two other airports.
Accompanying the current exhibition at Gorgas Library are three banners with a timeline of the history of tobacco. The banners were co-curated by Blum with the Texas Medical Association in 2010 for an exhibition, “Smoke and Mirrors,” at the TMA’s medical museum.
After Dec. 1, a version of the exhibition at UA will travel to the Lyndon Baines Presidential Library in Austin and the Texas Medical Center Library in Houston.

Simon Cowell urged to stop smoking

Simon Cowell has been put under pressure to quit smoking ahead of the birth of his first child. The music mogul has been warned he could be putting the unborn child's health at risk if he lights a cigarette in front of pregnant lover Lauren Silverman. Concern was raised after the pair was caught strolling in St Tropez, in the south of France, with Lauren, who has given up smoking, carrying a packet of cigarettes as Cowell held her hand. A spokeswoman for U.K. campaign group Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) tells Britain's Daily Star, "Tobacco smoke contains at least 60 cancer-causing substances as well as other toxins. There is no safe level of exposure so it's important that pregnant women avoid breathing in other people's smoke wherever possible to protect their own health and that of their baby."

Greater Victoria smoking ban doesn't go far enough

Smokers shouldn’t even need to be told not to smoke in elevators, at bus stops and in doorways, yet they do anyways.
Electronic cigs don’t bother me one bit and maybe should be permitted everywhere, but cigarettes are extremely annoying.
I carry a bandanna to hold over my mouth at all times to avoid the smoke of the dozens of smokers who will pass me everyday.
I watch everyone approaching me, particularly their fingers, but still often smokers sneak up behind me. One huff can leave a nasty taste in your mouth for 20 minutes. I care about my health, I have suffered 20 years exposure to concrete dust and 10 years exposure to pesticide.
As a poor wage slave, my ability to survive absolutely depends on my physical health. Even smokers hate secondhand smoke.
If smokers want total rights and freedoms, go to China, where every household also burns coal.
As deaths from smoking and air pollution mount in China, eventually they will impose smoking bans in public spaces.
Smoking within a 40-foot radius of non-smokers is a hostile act.

Scary pictures put off Russians from smoking

A poll of Russian smokers shows that 9% have cut down on their puffs after seeing scary anti-smoking pictures on their cigarette packages.

The poll was conducted by the Superjob.ru web portal. It took in 1,600 smokers in 175 Russian cities, towns and villages.

Last June, President Putin enacted tough anti-smoking legislation which includes obligatory graphic health warnings in cigarette packaging.

Risk of early death from smoking more severe than thought, Australian study reveals

The risk of premature death from smoking is much more severe than previously thought for both light and heavy smokers, a large Australian study has revealed.

The study found that two thirds of deaths in current smokers can be attributed to tobacco use.
Professor Emily Banks from the Australian National University led the study, which followed 200,000 people over four years.
"The international rule of thumb is that half of all smoker deaths are directly caused by tobacco," she said.
"We found that [over the four years] people who are current smokers were three times more likely to die than people who had never smoked, and their life expectancy within that four-year period was diminished by 10 years compared to the never-smokers."
Professor Banks is also the scientific director of the Sax Institute's 45 and Up study, which collected the data on the health of 10 per cent of New South Wales residents.
International research has long confirmed the connection between tobacco smoking and premature death from heart problems and lung cancer.
Tobacco smoking is estimated to be responsible for 9.7 per cent of the total disease burden, but until now large-scale Australian data has not been available.
Professor Banks says the effect that smoking has on the population depends on the intensity of smoking and how long people have been smoking.
"So in a way we need our data for our epidemic, and this is the first time that we have had data from the Australian population," she said.
She says the death rate matches patterns in the Britain and the United States.
"When people have been smoking for decades having started smoking in their late teens, and actually smoking heavily ... it's the pattern you see with a mature epidemic," she said.
News also bad for 'light' smokers
Similarly, the news is not good for people who think of themselves as light smokers.
"The risk associated with smoking 10 cigarettes a day are similar to the risks of death associated with being morbidly obese, so with having a body mass index of 35 or more," Professor Banks said
"Most light smokers wouldn't think of themselves as having a risk that is similar to someone who is morbidly obese."Â
While the study did find it is better to be a light smoker than a heavy smoker, it did confirm that giving up improves health.
"On average smokers reduce their life expectancy by 10 years," Professor Banks said.
"Quitting at any age reduces the risks and the earlier, the younger you quit the better."
People who had cancer and heart disease were eliminated at the start and there were adjustments for alcohol, socio-economic factors, weight and age.
The preliminary data is to be presented to the 10th annual 45 and Up Collaborators meeting in Sydney on Friday
Professor Banks says the next step in the research is the basic building block to apply to the general Australian population to find more exactly how many deaths can be attributed to smoking.

Your views: Smoking ban would be unfair

I smoke a pipe and an occasional cigar. To me, it is a relaxing activity and sometimes, I enjoy smoking in a bar while having a drink.
Twenty to 30 percent of the public enjoy this activity. Today, the only places one can exercise this legal right is in his home, car, outdoors or in a bar, casino or bingo hall.
My comments will focus on smoking in a bar, but I believe they are applicable to casinos and bingo halls.
It is stated the (Ouachita Parish) smoking ban is being considered to protect the health of employees. This assumes that employees have no choice but to work in a bar.
This is not true. Employees to have a choice.
The Yellow Pages has 340 pages of companies that employ workers. More importantly, in Monroe and West Monroe, alone, there are 350 restaurants listed. Many of these serve liquor. There are only eight bars listed. As it stands now, a worker has much more choice in terms of employment than a smoker has in terms of where to smoke.
This ban would take away a legal right to smoke in a bar in which the owner has elected to permit smoking. A bar is the only public place a smoker can relax and socialize and have a drink.
One employee serves an average of nine patrons. Thus to help one person, who has the choice to leave, this ban eliminates any choice nine other people have to frequent a bar and socialize.
Is this fair? Please remember, smokers are citizens of this parish too.
The bar owner already has the freedom and legal right to ban smoking in his bar. He does not need a new law to ban smoking. It is his private business earned through investing and hard work. He should have the right to permit smoking if he chooses to do so.
I believe it is wrong to tell a business owner he cannot offer a legal service.
I do not think we need a law banning smoking in bars. Very few cities and parishes have deemed it necessary to adopt a no-smoking ban. No one is adversely affected because everyone has a viable choice if they do not want to be in a bar that permits smoking.
This is an issue of fairness and reasonableness. Twenty to 30 percent of people smoke. There are only a few places that allow us to socialize. Why prohibit a legal activity that many enjoy to protect a few that can choose not to be there?
This situation does not require the government to intervene and further reduce the right of citizens to choose how they live.

Cigarette making still going strong in South Richmond

When Philip Morris USA opened its cigarette manufacturing plant in South Richmond in 1973, the factory could produce about 200 million cigarettes per day.
Now, 40 years later, the plant just off Interstate 95 on Commerce Road can produce about three times that much — around 600 million cigarettes per day.

Half of all the cigarettes consumed in the U.S. are made at the nearly 2 million-square-foot manufacturing center. It is Philip Morris’ only plant.
The company, a subsidiary of Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc., has made more than $200 million in investments to the local plant since closing its only other factory in Cabarrus County, N.C., in 2009 and consolidating production here.

Pembroke smoke shop Brennan's faces tax increase

With the price of taxes on cigarettes and other smoking products rising tremendously, local smoke shop Brennan’s faces unique problems.
“When dip (chewing tobacco) and snuff went up 200 percent, it doesn’t make sense anymore,” said Bill Nickerson, the manager of Brennan’s Smoke Shop in Pembroke. “We’ll probably stop selling it.”
The recent increase in state taxes has brought the tax on an average pack of 20 cigarettes to $3.51, a pack of 25 to $4.38, increased the tax on cigars and smoking tobacco by 40 percent and raised the tax of smokeless products like chewing tobacco by 210 percent.
Brennan’s is a small chain of smoke shops across the South Shore, going as south as Wareham, west as Raynham and north as Brockton. With the increase in taxes, Nickerson said the Pembroke location would most likely see some changes.

Another blow for Ipswich smokers

HOT on the heels of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan to bring in tobacco excise increases comes more bad news for Ipswich smokers.
Interim smoking laws that were brought in from February 1 have now been made permanent, with smokers no longer permitted to light up in pedestrian malls and at public transport waiting points in Ipswich.
Planning and development committee chairperson Cr Paul Tully said the council had taken into account community views when making the decision.

Smoking Ban Postponed at AHFC Facilities

The Alaska Housing Finance Corp. is postponing its ban on smoking in state-subsidized public housing apartments.

The ban against smoking was to have gone into effect in August, but officials now say the policy is being reevaluated.

Residents of senior housing in Juneau and Fairbanks sent in petitions against the proposal.

AHFC Public Housing Division Director Catherine Stone says the public comments on the proposed ban were about even. But they were expecting the comments to reflect a 2010 survey showing most residents in senior and disabled facilities preferred a smoke-free policy.

She says there will be more consideration given before they make a second attempt at a no-smoking policy.

Smoking ban now in effect at ASU's campuses

A smoking ban has gone into effect at Arizona State University's campuses.
But how it will be enforced and how violators will be punished remains unclear.
The Arizona Republic  says the ban prohibits smoking and the use of smokeless tobacco at all ASU's properties including the main campus in Tempe and all other campuses in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
The policy also applies to privately owned vehicles in the university's parking lots and garages as well as property leased by the school.
Before the ban took effect Thursday, people could smoke outside of buildings at ASU as long as they were 25 feet from entrances.
ASU campus police say officers won't be fining or arresting people who violate the ban, but they'll let smokers know about the new restrictions.

Black diabetic smokers face major concerns about their health

Another major health concern has arose for diabetic tobacco users, especially for African-Americans. Those who have been diagnosed with diabetes and are smokers should know the health risks they face.
According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), diabetes is a group of diseases with high blood glucose levels resulting from a defect in the body’s ability to produce and use insulin.

The ADA found that African-Americans are disproportionately affected by diabetes compared to the general population. They are 1.8 times more likely than whites to have diabetes. This is caused by the food selection and obesity rates of African-Americans.

Alexander Local Schools says 'No Smoking'

Starting this upcoming school year, Alexander Local School District will be implementing a 100 percent tobacco-free policy, making the district one of only a few in Ohio to adopt the practice.
The policy is based on guidelines created by the Ohio Department of Health’s Tobacco Use and Prevention Program. The coordinator of the program, Kim Knapp-Browne, began meeting with Jeff Cullum, the district’s superintendent, earlier this year.

When celebrities shilled for cigarettes

Remember when President Obama was trying to quit smoking? Updates of his progress were doled out to the White House press corps alongside world-moving news of war, the economy, and health care reform.
These days, more and more smokers, especially public figures, are shamed out of the unhealthy habit. But 60 years ago, celebrities were often the face of cigarettes, shilling for their favorite brands like smokes were just another household item. Here are three such vintage ads featuring three very proud, very famous, smokers.

If parents ever smoked, teens may be more likely to light up

Teens of a parent who smoked -- even if the mother or father quit before the teen was born -- are more likely to smoke than those whose parents are nonsmokers, a new study finds.
Having an older brother or sister who smokes also raises the odds that a teen will pick up the habit, the researchers report.
"These findings imply that any amount of smoking could have important influences on the next generation," said lead researcher Mike Vuolo, an assistant professor of sociology at Purdue University. "Given the influence on the oldest siblings, this is especially the case in heavy-smoking households."
Vuolo and co-author Jeremy Staff, an associate professor of sociology at Pennsylvania State University, analyzed data from a multigenerational study that has followed participants since 1988, when they were freshmen in high school, to 2011. They focused on 214 now-parents and 314 of their children aged 11 and older.

Reynolds American Reaches New 52-Week High (RAI)

Reynolds American (NYSE:RAI) hit a new 52-week high Tuesday as it is currently trading at $52.17, above its previous 52-week high of $51.76 with 352,089 shares traded as of 10:50 a.m. ET. Average volume has been 1.9 million shares over the past 30 days.

Smoking Higher – Tobacco Trumped

Why do people smoke?  There are apparently lots of reasons.  Some enjoy smoking as a social recreation, others use smoking to ‘hide’ from their problems.  It has been recognized that smoking fulfills certain oral fixations including childhood memories of breast-feeding.  Smoking feels ‘sophisticated’ to some people and to others it is medicinal or just plain addictive.  Tobacco itself is known to be highly addictive, especially with all the chemicals and additives put in commercial cigarettes these days.  Other herbs are being used to replace tobacco which offer not only a nice, soothing alternative, but some are so great it almost feels like smoking got trumped by the way certain herbs can ‘take you higher’, and I’m not talking about marijuana.
‘Rolling your own’ is an enjoyable part of the experience for numerous smokers.  In this case, reducing tobacco quantity and starting to increase other ‘replacement’ herbs can be a nice transition to get off regular cigarettes.  Herbs like lavender blossoms, mullein, skullcap, sage, blue lotus flowers and bulbs(or blue lily) and mugwort can be mixed up in various combinations in order to produce the desired effect and taste experience.
Lavender blossoms create a lovely taste in the mouth, counteracting any of the ‘burn’ flavor when starting to experiment with other herbs.  Lavender is calming and relaxing and can simulate the ‘chill factor’ received from tobacco.  Mullein leaves come from the road-side ‘weed’ mullein with long stems speckled with sweet yellow flowers.  When fresh, the leaves are soft and often referred to as ‘nature’s toilet paper’ due to their pleasant texture.  Mullein leaves act as an expectorant and are actually one of the few things you can smoke that are good for your lungs, helping to expel black tar and clear you out.
Skullcap is a nervine, meaning it helps to calm the nerves.  It’s a little stronger than lavender, though not as tasty.  Sage is often smoked as a clearing, cleansing herb and can facilitate clarity of mind and removal of ‘negative’ thoughts and feelings.  Mugwort can help to intensify dreams and has often been known as the ‘prophetic plant’, also inducing lucid dreaming in those who already remember their dreams.  With mugwort added to the smoking mixture, one can really start to take their experience ‘higher’ and find there are greater climaxes to be reached than can be found with tobacco alone.
Blue lotus flower and bulbs, also known as blue lily, was used in ancient Egyptian times in order to open the third-eye and enhance intuition.  The effects of blue lotus can be euphoric and tranquil, especially if drank along with tea of the same herb.

Because of the mythological, cosmological, symbolic, and artistic significance of the blue lotus, many feel that the ancient Egyptians used the blue lotus for its inebriating effects. Because of its mythological and cosmological symbolism, the blue lotus flower was seen as an elite flower that produced shamanic effects.

Over time of mixing different herbs with a small bit of tobacco, one can start to eliminate the tobacco all together and find the addictive qualities have started to wane, comforted by the beautiful properties of these other herbs.  Eventually, smoking will be just a choice and not a need.  Feeling higher than ever before, herbal smoking mixtures can ‘trump’ tobacco and even marijuana effects to produce clarity and consciousness like never before.  At this point, the user can claim control over their reality and choose from a place of power whether or not to engage in smoking – and if it benefits their reality or not.  This is a higher evolution of smoking, the experience of which can trump not only tobacco, but all addictive substances and emotions in life!  If you are going to smoke – smoke smart.

Massachusetts Residents Who Smoked Marlboro Cigarettes Could Be Part Of A Lawsuit Against Philip Morris.

The following is being released by the law firm of Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP.

A class action lawsuit has been brought against Philip Morris. The lawsuit seeks to have Philip Morris pay for medical monitoring in the form of a low-dose computed tomography (CT) scan.  Medical monitoring is a potentially life saving screening technique, which can often detect lung cancer at an early stage, greatly increasing the chances of survival.

The Court ordered this notice and decided that this case should be a class action. There are no benefits available now and no guarantee that there will be.

About the Case:  The lawsuit claims that Philip Morris designed, marketed, and sold Marlboro cigarettes that delivered excessive and dangerous level of carcinogens, cancer causing substances, in violation of Massachusetts state law.  This lawsuit does not include current or future personal injury claims involving smoking related diseases. Philip Morris denies these claims and denies it did anything wrong.  The lawyers for the Class will have to prove their claims in Court.

Who is Included:  Class Members include residents of Massachusetts as of February 26, 2013 who:

• Are 50 years of age or older;
• Have a smoking history equal to at least a pack a day of Marlboro cigarettes for 20 years (e.g., one pack a day for 20 years; two packs a day for 10 years; a half pack a day for 40 years);
• Currently smoke Marlboro cigarettes, or quit smoking Marlboro cigarettes on or after December 14, 2005;
• Have not been diagnosed with lung cancer and a doctor does not suspect that you have lung cancer as of the date of any judgment entered, or relief obtained, in this lawsuit; and
• Have smoked Marlboro cigarettes within Massachusetts.

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Law Firm Representing the Class:  The Court has appointed Phillips & Paolicelli, LLP, as well as Thornton & Naumes, LLP; Arrowood Peters, LLP; and Todd & Weld, LLP, to represent the Class as "Class Counsel."  You do not have to pay anyone to participate.  Instead, the attorneys will seek an award of fees and costs from the Court, to be paid by Philip Morris, or out of a fund created for the Class, if one becomes available.  You may hire your own lawyer to appear in Court for you, but if you do, you have to pay that lawyer.

Class Member Options

Stay in the Class:  Class Members do not need to do anything to stay in the Class. Class Members will be notified about how to ask for medical monitoring if benefits are obtained.  Remaining in the Class will not prevent Class Members from bringing a lawsuit against Philip Morris , producer of Chesterfield cigarettes for damages in the event that they contract cancer or another condition as a result of smoking.

Get out of the Class:  Class Members who want to keep your rights to sue Philip Morris on their own over the claims in this case need to exclude themselves by mailing a letter to the address below stating that they do not want to be included in this lawsuit.  However, Class Members who exclude themselves will not get medical monitoring from this lawsuit if it is awarded.  The deadline to ask for exclusion is August 19, 2013.

Ninety-three percent of Indonesian children are exposed to cigarette ads on television

Ninety-three percent of Indonesian children are exposed to cigarette ads on television, while 50 percent regularly see cigarette ads on outdoor billboards and banners, according to a survey conducted by the National Commission on Children Protection (Komnas Anak).
Tjandra Yoga Aditama, the Indonesian Health Ministry’s director general for disease control and environmental health, says the ads are designed to give impresionable youths the impression that smokers is “cool and confident.”

Tobacco Shops Online To Expand Tobacco

The most known health organizations expressed their alarm regarding how Internet is being used to promote the cigarettes and smoking. Tobacco companies say that they are not using the online world to promote their brands, but there are many concerns about the networking sites and how they are showing how glamorous smoking is and without risks. These concerns refer especially to young people. British American Tobacco, was forced to conduct a damage limitation exercise, because there was found out that on Facebook several of its employees had fan sites for the Lucky Strike and Dunhill brands, which are a production of BAT. The tobacco company didn’t have knowledge about that.

The smoke free group has also showed that BAT hired an online marketing firm, iKineo, to promote the Lucky Strike cigarettes in South Africa. iKineo wrote on its Web site that it had extended the Lucky Strike cigarette campaign into the digital space and using it to mobilize a powerful underground movement to advocate the brand.

 The research exercise in the tobacco market did not forbid advertising the tobacco, but Robin Hewings, Cancer Research UK’s tobacco control manager, said that the tobacco industry has an old history about searching for loopholes that allow its lethal products to target teens. There is not always clear who started with the pro-smoking sites. In 1997, RJR didn’t use any more Joe Camel cartoon in its Camel cigarette advertising, because there was a period when small kids were recognizing this character better than Mickey Mouse, reported the American Medical Association.

$200 Smokes at NYC Jails? What a Ripoff.

New York City officials have been waging all-out war on tobacco in recent years, pushing price hikes and proposing higher minimum purchase ages. But even at $10.50 for a single pack—the latest proposed citywide hike—you’re talking a steal of a deal compared to what some are reportedly paying for as many cigarettes behind bars.

Citing a Bronx District Attorney source, the New York Daily News says a pack of cigarettes now goes for up to $200 in New York City prisons. Not that a pack’s supposed to go for anything these days: New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration imposed a ban on smoking in city jails back in 2003.
But that’s apparently created a highly profitable black market for nicotine-laced contraband, culminating in 85 arrests since January 2012, and 20 so far this year. Just last Thursday, a deliveryman was apparently caught “sneaking” four bags of tobacco into the city’s primary jail complex, Rikers Island, on a truck loaded with produce — Freeman claims it was all his, but investigators say he was planning to sell it to inmates. Whatever the case, at $200 a pack, you’re talking $2,000 a carton, i.e. “nice work if you can get it.”
How much for a single smoke? Try $30, according to Daily News jail sources.
Correction officers have stepped up their game, despite the extra workload, employing dogs to locate contraband like tobacco and other drugs, but staffers are usually exempt from the searches, shielded by union arguments that they shouldn’t be subject to the same regulatory strictures as inmates.
That said, busts are up 40% since 2010, though tobacco accounts for just 16% of the total number.

Hotels that only maintain a partial smoking ban

Just because you choose the non-smoking hotel room doesn’t mean you’re completely protecting yourself from exposure.

A new study published in the journal, Tobacco Control, found hotels that only maintain a partial smoking ban still expose their occupants to cigarette smoke, and that compared to hotels with full smoking bans, nicotine levels on hotel room surfaces are two times higher.
The researchers studied the air quality and nicotine residue on the surfaces of smoking and non-smoking rooms in 30 hotels with partial smoking bans and 10 hotels with total smoking bans in California. They also took urine and finger swipe samples from non-smoking participants who spent the night in the hotels to assess their  exposure to nicotine.

Not surprisingly, levels of nicotine in the air were much higher in smoking than in non-smoking rooms, but levels in non-smoking rooms in hotels with partial bans were still 40% higher than in hotels with complete bans. The non-smokers who stayed in hotels with partial bans also had higher levels of nicotine and tobacco byproducts such as cotinine in their urine and finger residue samples. Rooms that previously housed smokers retained a legacy of nicotine and other potential cancer-causing compounds, known as third hand exposure, that were up to 35 times higher than levels found in hotels that enforced a complete ban on smoking.
The researchers suggest that non-smokers choose hotels that have full smoking bans, in order to truly reduce their exposure. As USA Today reports, the Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation says that many large hotel chains like Marriott, Westin and Comfort Inn, are becoming smoke-free, and by law, hotels must be smoke-free in four states and 71 cities and counties in the U.S..

New warning on pregnant smoking

Scientists examined 172 research papers published in the last 50 years to carry out the first comprehensive review of the physical effects of tobacco on newborn babies.
They found that smoking while pregnant increased the risk of having a baby with missing or deformed limbs by 26%.
The risk was raised by 28% for clubfoot, 27% for gastrointestinal defects, 33% for skull defects, 25% for eye defects, and 28% for cleft lip or palate.
A condition called gastroschisis, which causes parts of the stomach or intestines to protrude through the skin, carried the highest potential risk.
Smoking while pregnant increased the likelihood of giving birth to a baby with the condition by 50%.
The study, which looked at a total of 174,000 cases of malformation, was published online in the journal Human Reproduction.
Despite health warnings about the dangers of smoking while expecting a baby, 17% of pregnant UK women, and 45% of those under 20, still smoke.
Lead author Professor Allan Hackshaw, from University College London, said: "People may think that few women still smoke when pregnant. But the reality is that, particularly in women under 20, the numbers are still staggeringly high.
"Maternal smoking during pregnancy is a well established risk factor for miscarriage, low birthweight and premature birth. However, very few public health educational policies mention birth defects when referring to smoking and those that do are not very specific - this is largely because of past uncertainty over which ones are directly linked."

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Helping young people avoid smoking | Press Release Distribution Service | PressReleaseCircle

Amanda Bynes Kicked Out Of Gym For Smoking Weed On 4/20

Leave it up to Amanda Bynes to further baffle us after learning she was reportedly kicked out a New York gym for smoking weed this past weekend.
According to RumorFix, the former Nickelodeon star was booted from the Planet Fitness in Harlem and had her membership revoked, when she was discovered smoking marijuana in the women's locker room.
Of all the places to celebrate 4/20, we didn't think anyone would be doing it at a gym. A Planet Fitness employee, who told the website the gym "does not allow lunks to workout here, and especially no weed smokers," added that Bynes did not take the news that the company was canceling her membership very well, and was seen storming out.

Amanda Bynes flees apartment after threatened with eviction for smoking pot.

Amanda Bynes has reportedly moved out of her New York City apartment after receiving a threat of eviction from her building manager. The manager claims that Bynes was a shitty tenant, a “disrespectful rule-breaker,” a “building nuisance,” a scoundrel, a scofflaw, a scallywag, a Spicoli, and a fink. But rather than change her finky ways and stop smoking mountains of sticky marijuana-pot day and night (that’s the cool terminology, right? I am 100 years old), Bynes just packed up and moved. You’re not my dad, building manager! YOU CAN’T FIRE ME, I QUIT. Apparently things came to a head at Amanda’s building residence after a number of tenants began complaining about the overwhelming smell wafting into the corridors courtesy of her chilling the good shit. In fact the complaints escalated to that of Amanda even to at times smoking the good shit in the hallways. Then again management does stress it’s a no bullshit tolerating smoking building.

No more cigarettes means 10 more years for women

A massive new study about smoking cigarettes from the University of Oxford in the U.K. has reported breathtaking results. Doctors and researchers found the nasty effects associated with cigarettes years ago, but this study focused on the harms of smoking as well as the benefits of quitting. Putting aside the knowledge society has about cigarettes already, the findings of this study could serve as yet another motivation for smokers to quit.

One of the largest studies ever done on the subject, Sir Richard Peto - a professor at the University of Oxford -

Big Pharma = big-time poverty

Getting back to the main point of this, which is Big Tobacco and Big Pharma, we were talking about why people work for these organizations when these organizations are actually doing such evil, or engaging in the creation of such pain and suffering, and even death. Here in the United States, we're also talking about economic poverty created by both of these companies. Big Tobacco includes cigarettes.
Tobacco companies make people poor, because they hook them on a product that's expensive to buy; and they have to keep buying it, because they're addicted to it. You'll notice that people who smoke tend to be on a lower economic scale. Part of that is the vicious feedback cycle; if you start smoking, you will get poorer. As you get poorer, you will continue to smoke more because life is terrible and you need your nicotine high just to feel okay. Thus, it's a downward spiral into oblivion.

Cancer is no infectious disease

The idea that you can reverse cancer by taking a synthetic chemical compound or prescription drug is, at its very core, nonsense. Because there is no such infectious disease as "cancer," there is no microbial invader. In fact, there isn't even a tissue or a physical element that you can point to and look at under a microscope and say, "That is cancer."
Some people mistakenly say, "Well, sure you can. You can take a tumor out of the body, and you can put that under a microscope and call it cancer. However, that’s not cancer. That's the side effect of cancer, because cancer is a systemic failure of the immune system. It's a systemic disease. It is actually a condition. It is a lack of the body's ability to self-regulate its own cell growth, to clean up its own blood, tissues, bones, bone marrow, and so on.
This is the nature of cancer; you can't put that under a microscope and look at it. In the germ theory of disease, however, scientists are always trying to look at cancer under a microscope, where they can put it down and say, "This is the microbe, see? There's the virus" or "There's the bacteria" or "There's the parasite." They still try to do that today by saying, "Alzheimer's is based on the nervous system. Put it under a microscope and there you can see plaque. Plaque on the nervous system." They think that's the cause of the disease. It's not, it's just a side effect.

Miley Cyrus Questioned To Have Smoked Pot

Miley Cyrus Questioned To Have Smoked Pot

Top 10 Best Cigarette Brands

Smoking taste differs from one brand to other and due to high value in the market cigarettes are on the top and now  a days a recent research says that 80 percent of the world population is smoking cigarettes due to this intense rate market offer different brands depends on taste price and quality of tobacco so here is the list of 10 best cigarettes brands with their specific properties on the rank
1. MARLBORO CIGARETTE BRAND(The tobacco content is equally balanced. They are 0.5 mg nicotine, though.)

Green Smoke Stubs out Electronic Cigarette Rivals Says Ehefs.org

Ehefs.com reports that with quality electronic cigarette products, Green Smoke emerges in the market to subs out its competitors. With the continuous increment have been shown in the popularity of e devices in the market of US or world while, many brands comes into existence. It is not very easy for the brands to achieve a special or unique place in the mind of smokers and therefore, they all are trying to give their best by offering unique product line.

Minimum fine of two thousand six hundred in the Singapore subway smoking

The station is fully comprehensive utilization

25-year-old Singapore subway, opened to traffic four lines, respectively, with red (north-south line), green (east-west line), purple (Tohoku Line), orange (Link) four youthful colors labeled. The circuit diagram and instructions for use clearly marked in every subway station, the passengers to view the station name, and remember its color, etc. can be used.

Saudi Arabia promulgated a cigarette ban on the sale of minors and public places smoking ban

According to the Arab News Channel reported that the cabinet ministers of Saudi Arabia issued two ban, a ban on the sale of cigarettes to young people under the age of 18, another banned in many enclosed public places smoking.

Saudi Prince Ahmed Ben Abdul - Aziz (Ahmed Bin Abdul Aziz), enacted a smoking ban on the indoor and enclosed restaurants and cafes, and other business area, to prohibit government agencies.

"Since we are a Muslim country, so we must be a good example for other countries that believe in Islamic law, Islamic law calls for the protection of people's property and public health," he said in a statement.

NYC plan would keep tobacco products out of sight

Cigarettes would have to be kept out of sight in New York City stores under a first-in-the-nation plan unveiled by Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday, igniting complaints from retailers and smokers who said they've had enough with the city's crackdowns. Shops from corner stores to supermarkets would have to keep tobacco products in cabinets, drawers, under the counter, behind a curtain or in other concealed spots. Officials also want to stop shops from taking cigarette coupons and honoring discounts, and are proposing a minimum price for cigarettes, below what the going rate is in much of the city now, to discourage black market sales.

In Sweden, smokers have another option – Snus

I tried to quit smoking this month. I lasted a decidedly unimpressive five days. I have tried all the remedies – patches, gums and going cold turkey – but none of them worked. Meeting friends for a patch and a pint down the pub or joining a colleague for a stick of nicotine gum after work just doesn't have the same social appeal as smoking. In Sweden, ex-smokers have another option: Snus, small bags of moist tobacco that are placed under your top lip. Consumed in Scandinavia since the mid-19th century, the popularity of Snus rose significantly from the 1970s onwards, as people became increasingly aware of the dangers of smoking. The proportion of male smokers fell dramatically from 40% in 1976 to just 15% in 2002. Almost a third of ex-smokers used Snus when quitting, and those who did were about 50% more likely to succeed.

Why Zimbabwe's tobacco industry is unhappy with WHO

There is hustle and bustle on the tobacco trading floors of Zimbabwe these days. After a decade of agricultural turmoil that crashed the economy, this sector is seen as one of the few bright spots. The crop's value has bounced back from £105m in 2008 to more than £330m this year. Moreover, whereas tobacco production was once dominated by a white elite, now tens of thousands of farmers are black. Yet this precious gain is under threat, the industry claims, not from renewed political violence or economic turbulence, but from the global anti-smoking lobby. "In Zimbabwe we are very dependent on tobacco," says Dr Andrew Matibiri, director of the country's Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board. "It makes up 26% of our foreign currency exports. Any movement towards reduction of the exports will affect our economy, especially poverty alleviation."

Electronic Cigarettes History, Tobacco Market

The history of the e-cigarette is a fascinating one and one that stemmed from a Chinese pharmacist and inventor, who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, being determined not to die of cancer the way his father did. He set out to find an alternative. The electronic cigarette, alternatively known as an e-cig or e-cigarette, is an inhaler that looks like a regular cigarette but which uses a vaporizer that produces a pressurized jet of an aerosol mist that looks like real cheap Pall Mall cigarette smoke. This vapor dilutes the nicotine by using propylene glycol, a food additive used in consumer products and drug treatments.
The e-cigarette has many health advantages because it is tobacco free, ash free, tar free, carbon monoxide free and odorless. His education was in Chinese medicine using herbal remedies. He infused the propylene glycol with a flavoring and genuine nicotine to make it feel and taste like a genuine cigarette. He utilized a disposable cartridge in plastic which holds the liquid and provides a mouthpiece. First introduced to the domestic market in China in May 2004, Lik’s company changed its name to Ruyan, which means “resembling smoking”, and began exporting in 2005-2006. In 2007, the company received the first international patent. These electronic cigarettes were introduced in the United States in 2006-2007.

FDA Panel Finds Menthol Cigarettes Don’t Increase Risk of Disease

The Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee’s draft report finds that menthol cigarettes may not boost the chance of disease more than other cigarettes, the Dow Jones News Service reports. Released late Monday, the report found not enough evidence that menthol intensifies smoke inhalation or exposure to nicotine. The report also showed that menthol did not increase the risk of disease. Analysts reported that the study had no surprises, given what panelists had said before during public hearings.

New York Seizes Tribal Cigarettes

New York has seized more than 5 million cigarettes produced by Native American companies since June for failure to pay state excise taxes, the Buffalo News reports. State officials said the seizures represent roughly $1.5 million in taxes that its sellers were intending to avoid. Last summer and pursuant to a court ruling, New York began enforcing a state law prohibiting wholesalers from selling untaxed cigarettes to Indian retailers for sale to non-Indians.

Images of arterial plaque failed to motivate smokers to quit

A new Swiss study suggests that showing images of arterial plaque to the smokers in the smoking cessation programme doesn’t improve quit smoking rates, reports Reuters. Researchers at the University Hospital in Bern, Switzerland randomly assigned around 500 smokers aged between 40 and 70 years to a carotid plaque ultrasonographic screening group and a control group, notes the news agency. After giving individual counselling and nicotine replacement therapy to smokers in each group, study authors evaluated the participants twelve months later, to find whether they had quit smoking or not. The study published in Archives of Internal Medicine found that smoking cessation rates did not differ between the ultrasound and control groups (24.9% in screening group and 22.1% in control group).

Welsh government bans smoking in family cars

As the first phase of Fresh Start Wales campaign begins, the Welsh Government urges parents across the county to keep their cars smoke free for protecting children from the health risks associated with second-hand smoke in an enclosed space, reports BBC. A smoking cessation campaign organised by Fresh Start, which called the ban over smoking in the confined area like in the car where kids are present, was launched by Dr Tony Jewell, chief medical officer for Wales, the public service broadcaster learns. Supporting the campaign, Dr Jewell said chemicals in second-hand smoke can lead to sudden infant death syndrome and asthma in children, adding that research proves that the level of toxic chemicals is very high inside cars.

A Unique Smoking Experience with Smokeless Cigarettes

The best electronic cigarette is able to effectively mimic the effects that are produced by tobacco cigarettes. One of the differences between the best electronic cigarette and tobacco cigarettes is that there is no use of combustion with electric cigarettes. No smoke or tobacco will ever be found inside electronic cigarettes. With smokeless cigarettes that use e-liquid there is never any risk from second hand smoke. The second hand smoke that is caused from tobacco cigarettes is just as dangerous as the smoke that is directly inhaled by the smoker.
The vapor that is produced by electronic cigarettes is a simple water vapor. Smokers have the choice of an e-liquid that contains nicotine, and an e-liquid that is nicotine-free. This vapor looks very much like the smoke that comes from tobacco cigarettes. The truth is the vapor is a simple formulation of ionized air. This e-liquid solution is actually created from a food additive, and comes in the form of refill cartridges that go into the filter section of an electronic cigarette. When a smoker takes a puff from an electric cigarette, it initiates the atomizer to heat the e-liquid which then produces the smoke-like vapor that the smoker inhales.