Movies with Smoking Scenes Should Have R- rating

Brad Pitt’s personage in Snatch, Mickey O'Neil, possesses all traits of classic Hollywood film. He is fully confident and attacks as a real professional, and as Al Pacino in Scarface, he smokes. It is already proved that children imitate media. The Surgeon General declared that smoking really makes teens smoke. It is prohibited to light up in TV commercials, so why can we smoke in movies?

Actions to prohibit smoking in movies have started several years ago; however no formal policy is currently in place. James Sargent, representative of the Cancer Control Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, analyzed the consequences of exposing teenagers to any movie showing smoking scenes. The results demonstrated that after watching such films, children were more likely to pick the habit. There was an evident link between the film industry’s use of smoking scenes in films and the increasing number of youngsters trying as well as regularly smoking. And after another study, Mr. Sargent and his team found all answers – the movie rating.

Film smoking exposure (FSE) was evaluated basing on the monitoring of 530 block busters. Each movie was divided according to the respective ratings fixed by the Motion Picture Association of America as: G/PG, PG-13, and R respectively. Despite the fact that median FSE was higher for PG-13 movies in comparison to that of R-rated films, their relation to smoking was similar. All these results provided scientists with an amazing conclusion – it was the smoking itself that prompted teenagers to smoke, and not the vulgar behavior often associated with adult movies. Thus, Mr. Sargent and his colleagues concluded that allowing R rating for any movie depicting smoking “could significantly decrease adolescent smoking.” He adds that it might even guarantee a 16% drop. So, Mr. Sargent calls on the film industry to undertake similar actions as they did in considering scenes of violence and sex.

A new R rating could decrease smoking among youngsters, but wouldn’t it just delay the eventual affirmation of tobacco use? Such a rating might prevent some things, but it is unable to prevent the inevitable. Mr. Sargent agreed with the above statement; however he added that older teens of 17 years old and higher are more likely to make right choices, than children at 12 or 14, as they have a higher maturity level.

The Right to Free Speech

Altria Group and Reynolds American both cited liberty of speech to the U.S. Constitution as the reason behind a civil legal proceeding looking to reverse a coming ban on displaying smoking products in stores in the Rockland County, N.Y. According to a source, Lorillard, Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco have filled the suit on June 27.
Respondents in the legal proceeding are the village agencies and representatives that were attributed the responsibility for introducing the cigarette display ban once it becomes effective in October 2012. Calling the ban as “an evident attack on the content of tobacco advertising” that infringes their First Amendment right to free speech, they required the court to name the local law unconstitutional and prohibit the Hudson Valley village to implement it. The village board passed similar ban in April, declaring that the sight of packages of cigarettes on a store shelf attracts teenagers to this habit.
According to the law, retail stores could proceed to sell tobacco products, without displaying it, and instead giving age-verified clients, only after request, a price of tobacco products to order from. “Philip Morris and Reynolds American are trying to challenge a currently adopted local law that stops retailers from displaying smoking products in their stores. If passed, this local law would infringe free speech rights by prohibiting cigarette manufacturers and retailers from advertising adult smokers about the varieties, prices of their tobacco product brands,” David Sutton, representative of the Richmond, Va.-based Altria, declared in an interview.
Bryan D. Hatchell, representative for R.J. Reynolds stated that: “We think that this new law prohibiting the display of smoking products is not concordant with monitoring Supreme Court decisions under the First Amendment, and we starting this legal proceeding first of all to protect our First Amendment rights. This law is not about keeping youngsters from smoking, but it is probably about banning advertisement of a legal product to adults who enjoy smoking.” “All retailers have a full right to communicate with their customers about the brands they offer by displaying those cigarettes within their own premises,” added James Calvin, the New York Association of Convenience Stores president.

Big Tobacco Lift Prices of its Key Cigarette Brands

Altria, producer of Marlboro and Parliament cigarette brands, will pass the price raise on June 18. Reynolds American, who makes such famous brands as Cameland Winston, will make its price boost effectual at the end of the week. The pricing move by the two leading U.S. cigarette manufacturers by profit is the first turn the industry has undertakes this year.All three tobacco giants have passed two turns of price increases in 2011. The growth has come just at the time when state excise duties have been quietly weakened and as some experts underline domestic cigarette retail prices are not the same as international income-adjusted average levels.
Industry experts in last weeks had been calling for the tobacco companies to raise prices, an action required to help boost profitability as cigarette volumes proceed to drop. Many estimate that Lorillard will follow the example of its main competitors over the next days as the Big Tobacco often moves on pricing within a small window. A Lorillard representative declared that the company is not ready to comment on coming pricing actions. Reynolds American said the same, though it had told earlier about the attempt to increase prices, including a 10% increase on smokeless product Camel Snus.
Analyst Bonnie Herzog has already included Altria’s estimated price growth into the bank’s revenue estimates. Ms. Herzog stated that the tobacco industry’s 2Q cigarette volume will be positive as wholesalers have been building up their inventories within several weeks in anticipation of price boost and because of the fact that inventory levels were not so high at the beginning of the quarter. In case the price growth was to be matched mostly by Reynolds American and Lorillard, Citi expert Vivien Azer declared a 6 cent raise would constitute a 1.5% boost for Reynolds American’s Camel brand and 1.6% for Pall Mall in comparison with 1.5% for Lorillard’s Newport.
As about Altria’s Marlboro, which comprises 85% of the company’s whole volume, the raise seems to be a 1.6% boost, Ms. Azer stated. That is a 2.5% increase since June 2011, but at the same time higher than December’s raise. Altria’s shares constituted 1.3% to $33.50, while Reynolds American raised 1.6% to $41.33 and Lorillard boosted 1.5% to $125.06.

Bangladesh Has the Cheapest Prices for Cigarettes In the World

In a striking discovery, a report states cigarette prices have been decreasing steadily since 2003 in Bangladesh due to “incorrect” taxation, encouraging new users. It states the real prices have, indeed, dropped as the different taxes were charged on various price slabs and were never grounded on inflation.

Raising real incomes have made the smoking products affordable, the report states and advices special cigarette tax of Tk 34 for 10 cigarettes, Tk 4.95 for 25 bidis and concluding the present price slabs. “It would support about 7 million cigarette and 3.5 million bidi smokers to stop smoking and keep 10 million teenagers away from starting lighting up,” stated Professor Abul Barkat, at the press conference.

Professor Barkat added, “If the government passes the policy, it will generate Tk 15 billion more in tax profit from cigarettes and Tk 7.2 billion from bidis.” He also said that the most effective method to decrease smoking is to boost the price of smoking products through tax increases and guaranteeing that the tax boost are reflected in prices. Decreasing cigarette and bidi prices lead to rise in smoking while lifting prices will drop tobacco consumption. For instance a 10% growth in mean cigarette prices in Bangladesh will reduce about 5% of smokers, while a 10% in bidi prices will decrease their use by approximately 7%.

As cigarette manufacturers fight each year to stop tobacco tax increase in order to keep their sales unchanged, anti-smoking activists stood against the move this year. The government increased cigarette prices in various slabs and additional taxes imposed on cigarettes vary from 33% to 55% in four tiers. Such a difference in price tiers, anti-smoking activist’s state, rather helped people to switch from expensive to lower cost smokes.

Cigarette consumption has increased by 40% between 1997 and 2010 from about 48.8 billion to approximately 69.6 billion cigarettes in Bangladesh. As cigarette manufacturers state that they pay Tk 73 billion for healthcare and lost productivity costs. Employment in tobacco growing sector and manufacturing comprises only 0.5% of the whole labor force. Concerning about the loss of profit, the Ministry of Finance currently postponed its plans for a more sever tobacco control law.

Bangladesh occupies the 20^th place in the tobacco-manufacturing countries rating and also has the cheapest cigarettes in the world.

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Why Cannabis is Permitted and Cigarettes not?

Scientists found that cannabis use is less harmful than drinking or smoking cigarettes, and that’s why many people think that it should be legalized.

The Beckley Foundation’s Global Cannabis Commission said: "Although cannabis can have a negative impact on health, including mental health, in terms of relative harms it is considerably less harmful than alcohol or tobacco."

Why is cannabis safer than cigarettes and alcohol? Only one answer can be, statistically only two deaths worldwide attributed to cannabis, whereas alcohol and tobacco together are responsible for an estimated 150,000 deaths per annum in the UK alone.

For example many of the harms associated with cannabis use are the result of prohibition itself, particularly the social harms arising from arrest and imprisonment. The Beckley Foundation’s Global Cannabis Commission thinks that legalizing cannabis would allow it to be regulated, and make it easier to stop children becoming users. They write: "It is only through a regulated market that we can better protect young people from the ever more potent forms of dope, known as ’skunk’."

In 2004 police was unlikely to arrest people carrying small amounts of cannabis that was downgraded to class C. But Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has pledged to reclassify the drug to class B to avoid "risking the future health of young people". In recent year mental health experts found that cannabis became stronger, more damaging, and more widespread and this is not a good result.

British American Tobacco project is about to start a single SAP

British American Tobacco is expected to begin in September 2012 to try out new single SAP enterprise resource system.

More than 180 markets in the business of the company, is planning to 2016 in all business aspects of a comprehensive new system began trial from Malaysia, and is implemented in the Asia Pacific region.

It will replace the British American Tobacco is currently in the global business in the SAP system using six, and three years ago using the SAP system and CS3 62 local ERP systems.

British American Tobacco would like to take a new, single global SAP system, because more than one SAP system to the existing standard is difficult.

"The biggest problem is trying to regulate the SAP system has been used it is very, very difficult to change."

"We have to add more things for them to make them ... This standardization increases the global cost. In the same way using several SAP's efficiency is very low," BAT data in a single SAP project director Joan · Wei Neisi said.

The company's independent quality assurance and external management consultants partner with a magnet to implement the system.

Magnet company from the outset of this project to work with British American Tobacco, from the design stage to implementation and deployment phase. This is regarded as BAT's an unusual move, because the company usually only for the quality assurance stage.

"This is used to reduce project risk," Wei Neisi said. "The project is very expensive, requires a lot of time to do it right is absolutely important."

He added: "This is not a money thing - the first success of the project will be able to make savings."

Weinei Si said, with a magnet company, British American Tobacco on the project to a wider field of vision, technology and processes to help ensure effective implementation.

British American Tobacco also use a magnet to carry out similar projects in the advantages of previous experience.

In the first phase, the new SAP system will include a series of processes, including technology, spare parts management, production planning, purchasing and logistics. The integration of a number of different product specifications solutions, British American Tobacco will be the first time, start the SAP functionality in the product specifications.

After commissioning of the project, as the second phase of the system, it will be the implementation of human resources software and SAP's advanced planner and optimizer systems.

Cigarettes Grab Spain’s Tobacco Market

A number of increases in taxes on cigarette sales that were recently registered in Spain have prompted both price warfare between companies struggling for recession-hit consumers, and a sudden increase in the sale of cigarette products.
“At present the problem of cigarette market seems to worsen due to recession and an evident falling purchasing power,” stated José Luis Nueno, a professor of marketing.
According to a report realized by leading tobacco company Imperial Tobacco, about 6% of all cigarette sales in Spain belong to illicit market, more than 10% in Andalusia and nearly 20% in such regions as Málaga and Seville.
Within the past two years, tax increases in Spain have prompted a huge number of smokers switch to cheap cigarette brands or even rolling tobacco in comparison to earlier popular Virginia and such famous smokes as Marlboro and Camel.
One more option for the hard-pressed Spanish smoke lovers has been the chance to try something of Chinese-produced bootleg smokes that have become rather popular common, or to purchase cigarettes. The lowest prices for cigarettes and availability can make the illegal cigarettes more appealing.
Spain’s porous borders have always made it an appealing and very profitable market for contraband cigarette smugglers.
One of the most powerful cartels importing non-taxed tobacco products were Galician-based gangs who used high-speed boats in order to bring these products in the country. Very soon they switched to higher margin crimes, such as cocaine smuggling, and corresponding faced a wave of arrests. Mr. Nueno said that criminal operations in Spain have become much more divergent.
The great part of cigarettes confiscated by Spanish custom authorities comes through the country’s borders with Andorra, Portugal, and Gibraltar.
“Officially Spain has three regions where the use and demand for cigarettes is highest, namely Galicia, as it situated in the main proximity to Portugal. Andalusia, due to Gibraltar, and Catalonia, because of Andorra,” added Mr. Nueno.
The estimates for contraband tobacco products coming Spain are based on the extrapolation from the amount confiscated at customs.
According to statistics, in 2009, about 12.3 million cigarettes from illicit market entered Spain.

US Judge Suspends Health Graphic Warnings

The judge of the United States has suspended a US regulation regarding cigarette companies to display health graphic warnings on cigarette packages, like a man blowing cigarette smoke on his child and many others.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June of this year presented nine graphic warnings that should be introduced in September 2012, which is the first significant change in US tobacco health warnings in 25 years. Cigarette packages already have text warnings from the US Surgeon General.
The new labels have to cover the top half of the front and back of cigarette packages and also should contain color images demonstrating the health consequences of smoking, including diseased lungs, bad teeth and dead bodies.
“The Congress ordered the size and location of the graphic warning before charging the FDA with fulfilling the mandate, by doing so it doesn’t empower this requirement to automatically adopt constitutional model,” said US District Judge Richard Leon.
The tobacco lawsuit is latest possible attempt by corporation to contest a right to free speech, a long and severe battle that could end before the US Supreme Court.
Reynolds American, Lorillard Inc, Liggett Group LLC and Commonwealth Brands Inc. sued the FDA in August this year.
They declared that the given labels force them to take part in anti-smoking advocacy on the government’s behalf infringing their right to free speech.
The cigarette industry has required Leon to suspend the FDA's new requirements, delaying the decision onhttp://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5313138106530688848&postID=1342925761538679584 their constitutionality.
They declare that they needed a fast resolution because they would have to launch in November and spend millions of dollars in order to comply with the requirements.
Justice Department representatives had stated that the money was an insignificant fraction of the company’s net sales, so they would not go through irremediable hazard without the temporary injunction.
Government attorneys declared the labels communicated the hazards of smoking more efficiently than words alone, and were required to discourage more people from smoking, especially youngsters.
Floyd Abrams, Lorillard’s lawyer stated that the given case was in it early stages and there was a “positive chance” that it will finally reach the US Supreme Court.
The Dow Jones www.cigarettespub.biz index, whose participants are Altria, Lorillard and Reynolds American, was only 0.05 % higher in today’s trading.
Altria Group is not covered by the given lawsuit.
The given case covers R.J Reynolds Tobacco, US Food and Drug Administration and US District Court for the District of Columbia.