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September 3, 2007 - U.S. Presidential Candidates Receiving Money from Tobacco Companies. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 438,000 deaths, or about 1 of every 5 deaths, each year. This estimate includes approximately 38,000 deaths from secondhand smoke exposure. More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. On average, adults who smoke cigarettes die 14 years earlier than nonsmokers. Based on current cigarette smoking patterns, an estimated 25 million Americans who are alive today will die prematurely from smoking-related illnesses, including 5 million people younger than 18. (U.S. DHHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Presidential Candidates receiving tobacco money: Rudolph Giuliani - $69,500 , Christopher Dodd - $45,400 , Hillary Clinton - $32,300 , Mitt Romney - $31,400 , Barack Obama - $7,885 , and Joe Biden - $4,000 . (Derrick Z. Jackson, The Boston Globe, Raleigh News & Observer) Click on image to enlarge..
August 31, 2007 - Camel SNUS ad appeared in the What's Up Section of the Raleigh News & Observer. Raleigh is one of the new market test sites. What do you think?? Does this ad target hard-nosed, firmly and long established, deep-rooted cigarette smokers that refuse to consider trying to quit smoking tobacco or a much younger crowd of young adults and any kids they can entice along the way - witness the tagline for Camel SNUS: "Pleasure for wherever." See related Newsbriefs:August 24, 2007 August 17, 2007, August 14, 2007, August 10, 2007, August 3, 2007, July 27, 2007, July 23, 2007, July 13, 2007, July 12, 2007 and July 2, 2007. Click on image to enlarge..
August 30, 2007 - Convenience Store excitement - With the release of Marlboro SNUS this month and Marlboro MST in October - the Marlboro franchise remains active on the cigarette front as well with the September, 2007 introduction of Marlboro Virginia Blend, a single leaf blend (Click on images to enlarge.), and Marlboro Smooth 100s Box - menthols following the national launch of Marlboro Smooth - menthols last March, 2007. The RJ Reynolds Tobacco salesperson claims Camel SNUS is selling like hotcakes - they've taken out the Camel No. 9 video display and replaced it with a Camel SNUS video display. Swisher International has introduced a very inexpensive little cigar in 5-varieties called Santa Fe. Cost on these cigars is 49 cents for a 20-pack and should retail for around 75 cents a pack. It must be made of scraps of tobacco stems that were going to be discarded. (TobaccoWatch.org)
August 30, 2007 - The Altria Group plans to spin off Philip Morris International, the overseas maker of Marlboros and other cigarette brands, in a move intended to give it more freedom to pursue sales growth in emerging markets. The plans, announced yesterday, would leave Altria with its much smaller domestic tobacco business, which still is the biggest in the United States. The spinoff would clear the international tobacco business from the legal and regulatory constraints facing its domestic counterpart, Philip Morris USA. The company’s board announced it would confirm its decision and give the exact timing of the spinoff at its board meeting on Jan. 30. Sales at Philip Morris International, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, are more than double those at the United States unit, with 2006 revenue of $48.26 billion, compared with Philip Morris USA’s $18.47 billion. Last year, Philip Morris International sold 831 billion cigarettes, making it the world’s largest nongovernment tobacco company by volume. It holds 15.4 percent of the global market.
August 29, 2007 - An article written by Dr. Sanjit Bagchi in the September issue of Health Care News summarizes a study that appeared in the June 16, 2007 issue of The Lancet ("Assessment of Swedish snus for tobacco harm reduction: an epidemiological modelling study," by Carol E. Gartner et al.). Gartner and colleagues found snus could produce a net benefit to health at the population level if it is adopted in sufficient numbers by inveterate smokers. It was concluded that relaxing current restrictions on the sale of snus is more likely to produce a net benefit than harm, with the size of the benefit dependent on how many inveterate smokers switch to snus. Please note the subjects were hard-nosed, firmly and long established, deep-rooted cigarette smokers that refuse to consider trying to quit smoking tobacco. For this population SNUS may help but it is impossible to limit distribution to this relatively small number of smokers. Over 70% of smokers have expressed the desire to quit using tobacco products. But tobacco companies have an entirely different goal in mind - targeting a much younger crowd of young adults and any kids they can entice along the way - witness the tagline for Camel SNUS: "Pleasure for wherever." We’re afraid this generation of youngsters will not be able to reach their full potential – their crutch will always be nicotine addiction. Kids are well aware of what is happening.. they’ve been told over and over again how bad tobacco smoking can be - it kills. Now – you have public health officials telling people how safe this alternative is and you can still get the same amounts of nicotine (perhaps even more) and much lesser chance of developing a disease. Please see http://snus.biz for many more examples. (TobaccoWatch.org)
September 3, 2007 - U.S. Presidential Candidates Receiving Money from Tobacco Companies. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States. Cigarette smoking causes an estimated 438,000 deaths, or about 1 of every 5 deaths, each year. This estimate includes approximately 38,000 deaths from secondhand smoke exposure. More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined. On average, adults who smoke cigarettes die 14 years earlier than nonsmokers. Based on current cigarette smoking patterns, an estimated 25 million Americans who are alive today will die prematurely from smoking-related illnesses, including 5 million people younger than 18. (U.S. DHHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) 
