Cigarettes and Tobacco News

B.C. COURT NIXES OTTAWA AS PARTY IN TOBACCO SUIT
Source: Toronto Star
Jul 04, 2007 -- VANCOUVER–The B.C. Supreme Court has struck down an effort to tie Ottawa to a class-action lawsuit against Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. over the health effects of so-called light or mild cigarettes.
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ENGLISH SMOKERS GET SET TO STUB OUT CIGARETTES IN PUBLIC
Source: Edinburgh Evening News
Jun 30, 2007 -- ENGLAND slams the door on smoking in bars, workplaces and public buildings on Sunday in what campaigners hail as the biggest boost to public health since the creation of the National Health Service in 1948.
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FINED FOR HIGH-NICOTINE CIGARETTES
Source: New Straits Times
Jun 26, 2007 -- BUKIT MERTAJAM: A local cigarette manufacturer was slapped with a RM6,000 fine yesterday for exceeding the permissible amount of nicotine and tar in cigarettes.
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TEXAS WILL REQUIRE 'FIRE-SAFE' CIGARETTES
Source: Houston Chronicle
Author: Mark Babineck
Jun 22, 2007 -- Legislators couldn't agree to ban smoking in public places this session. But they did mandate that all cigarettes sold in Texas by 2010 be designed to snuff out after the last puff.
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CANDY CIGARETTES MAY ENCOURAGE FUTURE SMOKING
Source: Science Daily
Jun 18, 2007 -- New research suggests that playing with candy cigarettes may favorably set the minds of some children towards becoming future cigarette smokers. The study, reported in the July issue of Preventive Medicine, shows that in a nationally representative sample of 25,887 US adults, the percentages who had never consumed candy cigarettes were 12% in current and former smokers vs. 22% in never smokers, and the corresponding percentages of adults who had regularly (often or very often) consumed candy cigarettes were 22% in current and former smokers vs. 14% in never smokers.
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