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Canadian Health Experts Complain Over "Light" Cigs.

Under the Competition Act, manufacturers are responsible for the explicit claims they make for their product and the impression they create with their consumers about what their product can and cannot do ...
Robert Cushman needed to look no further than his own office to collect what he calls evidence of fraudulent marketing of "light" and "mild" cigarettes by tobacco manufacturers ...
Cushman, the City of Ottawa's medical officer of health, says that evidence came from a security guard he spoke with about quitting smoking ...

Where to Get DC Tax Free Cigs? The Senate and House Office Buildings

residents -- who pay a 65-cent cigarette tax each time they buy a pack and another 5 ...
If they do sell cigarettes, the price includes all applicable local taxes and the cigarette tax, she said ...
75 percent sales tax on top of that -- especially while lawmakers increasingly look at cig-arette-tax increases as a way to reap new revenue while deterring smoking ...

Supressed Research On 'Safer Cigs.' Revived

Members of Congress and other Hill insiders can buy cigarettes in the House and Senate without paying the District's hefty cigarette tax or its sales tax ...
But the products developed there by Bertram Eichel, a biochemist, were suppressed by the tobacco companies, which feared lawsuits from cancer sufferers if they learnt that the manufacturers knew their products ...
The studies investigated the effects of cigarette smoke on the lungs, and particularly how it led to the lung disease emphysema ...

Lobbying Delays Fire-Safe Cigs.

Under the Competition Act, manufacturers are responsible for the explicit claims they make for their product and the impression they create with their consumers about what their product can and cannot do ...
Three years after the Legislature required that cigarettes sold in New York be manufactured so they would cause fewer fires, the Pataki administration has yet to issue regulations to put the law into effect, partly because of heavy lobbying by the tobacco industry, opponents of smoking said today ...
On the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, executive branch buildings are permitted to sell cigarettes, though they are banned from vending machines, said ...
He said the proposed New York regulations were flawed and would result in cigarettes that went out, causing consumers to seek cigarettes made for ...
Once the standard is in force, the industry will have six months to comply ...

Flavored cigs harmful

Bidis have been determined to be carcinogenic and a cause of cardiovascular disease ...
Requests Regulation of Bidi Cigarettes Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has filed a legal petition with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the FTC to halt the unfair and deceptive trade practices surrounding bidi cigarettes ...
acknowledged that the industry would prefer a national standard, but he denied that the industry was trying to delay putting ...
Bidis have been shown to contain even greater amounts of tar and nicotine then regular U ...
Under the Competition Act, manufacturers are responsible for the explicit claims they make for their product and the impression they create with their consumers about what their product can and cannot do ...

Expert Says No Need for Nicotine in Cigs

Within two or three years, they (smokers 18 or younger) move from smoking for social reasons, to smoking for the effects of nicotine, saying 'I smoke for stress ...
The administration first proposed a standard in late December, but the tobacco industry asked for more time to submit comments, stretching ...
Yet, bidis have been shown to contain even greater amounts of tar and nicotine then regular U ...

Heavy-duty battle looms on light cigs

Still, the uncertainty brought on by the case has already affected Philip Morris parent Altria, which is one of the defendants ...
If companies "are forced to stop" using "light" and "mild" designations for cigarettes ...
In August, a federal court judge in Washington ruled, in a case brought by the Justice Department, that the tobacco industry had engaged in long-term deception about the health risks of smoking ...