E-cigarette company to launch TV advertising campaign

An e-cigarette company is set to test the UK's almost 50-year ban on promoting smoking on TV, with a controversial advertising campaign telling smokers of the virtues of puffing on a product that uses nicotine.
E-Lites, which makes electronic cigarettes which do not contain tar but do use addiction-forming nicotine, is to launch a national TV advertising campaign on Saturday, 19 January.
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Poorly conducted research is a gift to the opponents of tobacco control

While our genes may well interact with the environment we live in, statistically modelling this is fraught with difficulty. Photograph: Matt Morton/PA

A recent research paper has suggested that the reason tobacco control policies do not work for everyone could be down to genetics. Blanket policies are unlikely to ever reach everyone, and evidence of their lack of success is often seized upon by those who believe any attempt at tobacco control is "nanny state nonsense".
But how likely are these genetic results to be true? The research, conducted in the USA, compares rates of smoking, amount of taxation on cigarettes (which varies widely between states, from 2 cents per pack to 56 cents) and a gene that has been linked to how much people smoke. The results showed that current levels of smoking were associated with variation in the gene, and also with the amount of taxation.
That's not really a surprise. Where taxes were higher, there was less smoking. What was a little more surprising was that people with one variant of the gene were less likely to be smokers when taxation was higher, whereas those with another variant didn't differ as much in smoking status depending on taxation levels.

Can genetics help explain why some policies only work on some people?

Suzi Gage wrote an article describing a study I recently published in PLOS ONE that shows new evidence of why tobacco taxation policy effects may have stalled in the US. The novel aspect of the paper is that it is the first to explicitly examine whether genetic variation may partially explain the different reactions of people when faced with higher taxes.
Tobacco control policymakers face a puzzle in that some people seem not to care about high prices on cigarettes – they continue to smoke in the face of higher and higher rates. My paper suggests that genetic differences, which could be measuring differences in the pleasure people receive from nicotine consumption, may be partially responsible for the reactions (and non-reactions) we see in the world to tobacco taxes. The main finding is that people who are at high genetic risk of being a smoker seem to be unpersuaded by higher taxes.
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Smoking Problems in Europe

For a continent that spearheaded workplace smoking bans and slaps some of the highest tax rates on cigarette sales of any region in the world, Europe has a serious smoking problem. In 2011, according to a report commissioned by the European Union and carried out by auditing firm KPMG, one in ten Winston cigarettes sold in the 27-nation bloc was contraband–that’s around 65 billion cigarettes. Making matters more difficult is the growing influx of so-called “illicit whites,” which are legally manufactured in places like Ukraine and Russia under brand names like Jin Ling and Raquel, then smuggled into the EU duty-free, according to the study.
The influx of smuggled cigs has implications not just for public health–cheap smoking products which widely thought to establish with high smoking rates–but also for tax revenues. At a time when many member states are desperate for cash, the report estimates the EU’s annual losses from contraband cigarette sales at €11 billion. While some of the findings have been questioned by independent tobacco-industry analysts, there is no denying the scale of the problem. Here in Brussels, where the Russian border is 900 miles away and tobacco taxes relatively low, vendors outside a weekend market make their rounds, mesh bags full of contraband cartons slung from their shoulders. Your correspondent was able to purchase a pack of what appeared to be Dutch Marlboros for €3.00 ($3.69)–40% percent off the cigarettes online store price.
The seller had no Jin Lings on hand, but that would seem an anomaly. Illicit whites, according to the report, make up 24% of all illegal cigarettes, up from 4% just five years ago. The EU’s anti-smuggling strategy has changed significantly over the last decade, with Brussels shifting from confrontation with the cigarette companies to something closer to collaboration. Early last decade, Brussels sued Philip Morris for secretly encouraging the smuggling of its own cigarettes.

People Worldwide Consume Tobacco Products

A new Lancet research reveals that there are more smokers worldwide than previously thought and that the global tobacco burden may have been underestimated. In the light of these revelations, does India need tighten its anti-tobacco campaign? The new study showed that over half the world's population consumes discount cigarettes. That's approximately 852 million people worldwide according to the new estimates. 661 million worldwide smoke and 247 million are smokeless tobacco users, 206 million in India alone. China has maximum consumers at an estimated 301 million.

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Directors locked up over tobacco heist

THREE directors of a local company, Ticoz Protection Services, yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates’ Court charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, after a tobacco firm — Savanna Tobacco Holdings — lost consignments worth over R5 million to robbers in South Africa. REPORT BY CHARLES LAITON SENIOR COURT REPORTER The three Hosea Manzunzu (46), Tarwireyi Tirivavi (48) and Tinashe Cosygene Dekeya (35) were not asked to plead when they appeared before Anita Tshuma, who remanded them in custody to today, after their lawyers argued against their placement on remand. According to the State, the three directors allegedly acted in connivance with one Edmore Muronzereyi — at large — after tasking him to collect details of vehicles leaving and entering Savanna Holdings. The information was later conveyed to robbers who waylaid the trucks in South Africa between August and September this year. The State alleges the three were at one point employees of a local firm, Forest Security, a company once contracted by a South African firm, Forensic Security to carryout surveillances on all the country’s tobacco manufacturing firms.

Savanna tobacco heist: director freed

The Attorney-General’s office (AG) on Friday withdrew charges against a local company director facing allegations of conspiracy to commit robbery in a case where Savanna Holdings lost tobacco consignments worth over R5 million to hijackers in South Africa between May and August. REPORT BY CHARLES LAITON SENIOR COURT REPORTER Ticoz Protection Services director Hosea Manzunzu was released after a night behind bars. But his co-directors Tarwireyi Tirivavi and Tinashe Cosygene Dekeya remained in custody after Harare magistrate Anita Tshuma dismissed an application challenging their placement on remand. They were remanded to January 4 and advised to apply for bail at the High Court.

The Four Main Stages of Smoking – It Can be Quick to go from Curiosity to Addiction

Every smoker has their particular story of how they progressed through their habit. Although everyone has their own distinctive progression there are a few primary stages of using tobacco that most smokers go through.
Stage 1 – Experimentation
This is the way each and every smoker begins. Either through curiosity or peer pressure, and typically at a young age new smokers start by way of experimentation. They may want to fit in with a group of new friends, look cool, be rebellious or just see exactly what the big deal is all about smoking. Numerous new smokers never make is past this phase. Frequently cigarette smoking makes them feel sick or they come to their senses and know that it’s not for them. A lot of people do make it through this particular phase and smoking cigarettes becomes a larger part of their life.