Health experts uncover pro-smoking smartphone apps

Health experts are warning that pro-smoking smartphone apps could tempt young people to start using cigarettes after new research found that dozens of them have been downloaded millions of times. Researchers who uncovered the existence of such apps, some of which use cartoons, fear it is a new way for tobacco companies to exploit loopholes in restrictions on their marketing activities in order to promote their products. Australian researchers, writing in the medical journal Tobacco Control, say they came across 107 apps that promoted smoking in some way when they checked the Apple and Android Market app stores in February. Sixty-five were in the Apple App Store and the other 42 in Android Market's equivalent. By that month a total of about 11 million people used the 42 apps held by Android Market. Their paper "identifies a new trend of promoting tobacco products in a new medium with global reach, a huge consumer base of various age groups and less strict regulation policies", they write. The apps included images of particular brands, told users where they could buy tobacco products, provided cigarette brands' packaging to use as wallpaper on their smartphone and let users simulate smoking behaviour.

Anti-smoking campaigners accuse tobacco lobby after office break-in

Brussels police have swept the offices of two major public health organisations for bugs following a break-in at a building in the rue de Tréves in which laptops and documents relating to their battles against the tobacco industry were stolen. It is a convenient address for those involved in lobbying and monitoring the European political process, just five minutes walk from the Parliament building, and there are eight floors of well-equipped offices for burglars to investigate. But it appears they were interested only in those of the European Smoke Free Partnership and the European Public Health Alliance on the 5th and 1st floors. A third office – a company that has clients on the other side of the argument – was also entered, but nothing was taken. The burglars struck within 48 hours of the resignation of the European health commissioner, John Dalli. On Wednesday, he revealed that he had been forced out by commission president José Manuel Barroso over a report by EU anti-fraud investigators accusing a fellow Maltese of attempting to sell influence over the commissioner to a Swedish tobacco company.

Cigarettes Full Impact, Women Smokers

The largest-ever study of a million women has found that those who smoke lose a decade of their lives, while kicking the smoking habit before the age of 40 avoids more than 90 percent of the increased risk of dying caused by continuing to smoke, while stopping before the age of 30 avoids over 97% of it. The research has just been published in the online edition of the British journal The Lancet, to mark the100th anniversary of the birth of Sir Richard Doll, one of the first people to identify the link between lung cancer and smoking. A total of 1.3 million women were recruited to the study between 1996 and 2001, at ages 50 to 65 years. Participants completed a questionnaire about lifestyle, medical and social factors and were resurveyed by mail three years later.

The National Health Service’s central register notified the researchers when any participant died, giving the cause of that death. Women were traced for an average of 12 years from the time they first joined; thus far, 66,000 study participants died. Initially, a fifth of the study participants were smokers, 28% were ex-smokers and 52% had never smoked. Those who were still smokers at the three-year follow-up survey were nearly three times as likely as nonsmokers to die over the next nine years, even though some reduced their risk by stopping smoking during this period. This threefold death rate ratio means that two-thirds of all deaths of smokers in their 50s, 60s, and 70s are caused by smoking, as most of the difference between smokers and nonsmokers came from smoking-related diseases such as lung cancer, chronic lung disease, heart disease, or stroke.

Best 5 Cigarette Brands For Smoking Pleasure

Best 5 Cigarette Brands For Smoking Pleasure

Illegal tobacco sniffed out

Illicit and unregulated tobacco destined for Lancashire’s streets has been seized from several shops in a major operation in Preston city centre. Illicit and unregulated tobacco destined for Lancashire’s streets has been seized from several shops in a major operation in Preston city centre. A team of officers from Lancashire Trading Standards, Customs and Lancashire Police, which are backing the Evening Post’s Don’t Let Them Make a Packet Campaign, searched nine retail outlets in Preston city centre accompanied by three specially trained dogs. It is the first time sniffer dogs have ever been used in Lancashire to hunt down illegal tobacco.

Please don't take away my menthol cigarettes, Brussels Borg

Like many smokers, I am actually supportive of some of the restrictions put upon our noxious activity. I'm all in favour of the smoking ban in pubs because it means I can easily extricate myself from tedious people and hang out with the cool kids outside. Even generic packaging should lead to an upsurge in cigarette cases, which is the kind of accessorising I approve of. But the faceless Brussels anti-cancer bureaucrats have gone too far now. The health commissioner, Tonio Borg, has threatened to ban cigarettes with a "characterising flavour" such as menthol, strawberry or vanilla, on the grounds that they encourage young people to start smoking. The Borg went on to say: "If it's tobacco, it should look like tobacco and taste like tobacco." This can only come from a man who has never smoked menthol cigarettes. There are many reasons why menthols became my fag of choice. Primarily it's because I like to freshen my breath as I smoke. Menthol flavouring rarely takes away the taste of tobacco, rather it augments the taste with a chemical, metallic overtone akin to inhaling a lit screwdriver. It would be a "learner's" cigarette only if you intended to go on to smoke tool bags.

As cigarette prices go up, Pinoy smokers try e-cigarettes

f you really want it, you'll find a way. This is what some Filipino smokers have been practicing after cigarette prices increased due to the new sin tax law. Since cigarettes have become more expensive by P.50 to P1 per stick, smokers have turned to an alternative: the e-cigarette. "Mahal na din po 'yung sigarilyo eh. Kaya naisip kong gumamit nun," Rodel Areta, who switched to e-cigarettes, said in a report on GMA News' News to Go on Wednesday. The Bureau of Internal Revenue imposed higher excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol products, after President Benigno Aquino III signed into law Republic Act No. 1035 or the Sin Tax Reform Law last Dec. 20, a previous report said. Designed as an alternative to cigarettes, the e-cigarette, an electronic inhaler, vaporizes a liquid solution that turns into aerosol mist, the News to Go report said.

Smoking cessation treatment may help beat early dementia

The finding is not a conclusive one, the researchers note clearly, warning people against the dangers of misinterpreting it as a license to continue smoking. Citing expert opinions, the British news channel too reminds smokers that the dangers of nicotine outweigh any of its conjectured merits by a long margin.

The Dripping Method

When vaping on your electronic cigarette, there is an abundance of methods you can use. You can however split these into categories: Systems that use a filling material which soaks up e-liquid / uses its material to wick the e-liquid closer to the heat source Systems that use no filling material The drip method is a rather odd system, seeing as no one ever invented this – it came about by mistake, and it started as a system that used a filling material, but ended up being one without.

Australian Health Ministry to Pass High Increases on Cigarette Taxes

Australian Health Ministry to Pass High Increases on Cigarette Taxes

Bulgarian Government Launches Actions against Cigarette Smuggling

Bulgarian Government Launches Actions against Cigarette Smuggling

Indonesia to Demand Graphic Images on Cigarette Packages

Indonesia to Demand Graphic Images on Cigarette Packages

America’s Best Selling Brand – Marlboro

Highly recognizable brands can be priceless, but they require a permanent attention. Their importance can rise or even fall because of state management decisions, changes in the competitive environment, and the beliefs that a brand has aged beyond its useful lifetime. Very often the precise causes of decrease in Marlboro smoking brand value are mistake and arrogance. A recent study investigated nine popular brands and it found that even the most powerful tobacco products cannot survive horrible government decisions. A brand obtains its value from several main factors. And the most evident being how much it can earn. This is not the least evident with Marlboro — the best-selling smoking brand for its two owners, tobacco companies Philip Morris and Altria.

E-Cigarettes Are Popular For A Different Reason For Each Smoker

E-cigarettes, short for electronic cigarettes, are gaining popularity every day. E-cigarettes have become a popular choice as either an alternative to traditional tobacco cigarettes, or have become the choice for many smokers to use as a smoking cessation device, even though e-cigarettes aren’t officially approved as a smoking cessation device. However, many claim that e-cigarettes are a more effective way to stop smoking than any other cessation device. Most of this is attributed to the way e-cig juice is available.

Marlboro Red cigarette, Marlboro Gold cigarette best types in demand by most of the smokers worldwide.