September 5th, 2011
E cigarette report on the safety of electronic cigarettes has raised a million eyebrows as this apparent report was FDA approved. Nonetheless, owing to several loopholes in the final text, smokers couldn’t help but chuckle at the outcome
E Cigarette usage is on the rise and is all set to boom in the year 2012. In a recent article published by the Journal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies, which apparently was FDA authorized, certain hypothetical dangers of smoking electronic cigarettes which apparently do not exist, shook the very foundation of the final analysis. In the recent past, there have been speculations that an attempt was also made to ban the use of electronic cigarettes, which of course was declined by a Federal judge.
September 2nd, 2011
STV
More than half of shopkeepers in Scotland are aware of smuggled tobacco being sold in their area, according to a survey.
The poll by the Tobacco Retailers Alliance also found that 45% of independent retailers knew about “proxy purchasing” from their shops, when adults buy tobacco for under-18s.
A total of 53% said they knew smuggled tobacco was being sold in their area.
August 26th, 2011
Sun Sentinel
By Richard DrainaAugust 25, 2011
I applaud the tobacco companies’ lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration for infringement of free speech, caused by government-mandated lurid and graphic pictures to be placed as part of cigarette packaging. Once again, a regulatory agency has overstepped its bounds with little thought and with great hypocrisy in its quest to control a society that never elected it to office.
August 22nd, 2011
The Dickinson Press
From the time we are young we are taught that smoking is bad. It’s made pretty clear in a number of places, from teachers and parents to billboards and quit-line commercials on TV and the radio.
To slap a photo of diseased lungs next to a healthy set of lungs, or a picture of a sewn-up corpse on a package of cigarettes, is not the answer to helping people quit and it’s downright distasteful.
Smoking is distasteful, you may say. However, it is legal and people have that right. So where do we draw the line with government intervention?
August 18th, 2011
Los Angeles Times
If the FDA gets its way, by Oct. 22, 2012, every pack of cigarettes sold in the United States will carry one of nine graphic, full-color, gross warnings reminding people of just how horrible smoking is for their health. The image might be a pair of healthy lungs next to a pair of blackened and diseased lungs. Or a man smoking out of a hole in his throat. Or a mouth with sores on the lips and teeth all yellowed and decayed.
But tobacco companies are fighting that plan. On Tuesday, five U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government, saying the mandatory warnings would violate their free speech rights.
