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North Carolina  - By far, the leading U.S. export to Iran is Cigarettes. Also among the leading exports are Bra’s and Bull Semen. Bull Semen? This may explain Iranian women and those facial scarves.

When asked about the export of American Cigarettes to Iran an anonymous source at the Pentagon replied "can you think of an easier way to conquer Iran?" He paused momentarily and then continued "If we can’t send in Rambo we’ll send in the Marlboro Man. If we can’t send in Chuck Norris we’ll send in Joe Camel. Who needs Smith and Wesson when you have Benson & Hedges"?

Tobacco One, Inc. announced today that they have purchased a regionally popular cigarette brand from a Mexico City businessman for cash plus common stock. The previous owner will stay on as a consultant to Tobacco One, Inc. for a minimum two-year term.

The brand was first introduced in Mexico City in 2006. It remained a regional brand until recently when Tobacco One’s international marketing team finished a three-month feasibility study focusing on national expansion and consumer acceptance. During this study, Tobacco One in partnership with the Mexico City marketing firm Integra Marketing, S.A. de C.V. obtained numerous commitments that will result in expanded distribution nationwide.

Currently, the brand is sold throughout Mexico City in premier retailers. Recently, these global chains have authorized the brand to immediately expand to all of their locations nationwide. This new authorization will add approximately 90 club locations, 120 big-box style stores and 80 super-centers to the brand’s current base of participating retailers. This new rollout will feature the brand at over 4,000 cash register locations within these new stores. This program will be implemented during the months of July and August, 2008. Tobacco One, Inc. will provide the necessary resources and manpower needed to expand this brand into each targeted trade class in all major population centers throughout the country.

"Along with the new expansion, and the additional contracts currently under review, Tobacco One, Inc. expects unit volume over the next 12 months to exceed 200 million sticks (cigarettes) for the cigarette brand, resulting in revenues of over $12 million, and net earnings (EBITDA) of nearly $3 million or 25%," stated Shawn Ulizio, Tobacco One’s President and CEO. He continued, "The new brand is clearly positioned to be a market leader in Mexico’s newly emerging discount cigarette price tier, and Tobacco One is nicely positioned to dominate in this specialized tobacco category."

DUBAI— The Gulf emirate of Dubai on Saturday banned the sale of tobacco to anyone under the age of 20 with immediate effect and barred young people from public areas in which smoking is allowed.

The announcement was made in public advertisements in Arabic-language newspapers as part of a "Youth Without Tobacco" campaign.

A spokesman for Dubai municipality told AFP that cigarette vendors and managers of public places such as cafes and restaurants have been instructed to ask clients for proof of identity even to smoke water pipes.

Those breaking the law would be fined, he said without elaborating.

Before Saturday’s ban the sale of cigarettes in Dubai was prohibited to anyone under 18 and smokers were not allowed to light up in public places including hotels, restaurants, cafes and offices.

The campaign was launched to coincide with World No Tobacco Day on Saturday.

The World Health Organisation said on Friday that only a total ban on all forms of tobacco advertising can stop the "constantly mutating virus" of the marketing industry and protect vulnerable young people.

Dubai, one of the seven United Arab Emirates, is a regional tourism and business hub that attracts millions of visitors each year.

The Federal Government’s top adviser on preventative health, Dr Rob Moodie, says increasing the tax on tobacco would be a very effective way to curb smoking.

The Government is set to reap $2 billion in extra revenue after it increased the tax on the sweet, ready-mixed alcoholic drinks which it says are responsible for a significant rise in binge drinking, particularly amongst young Australian women.

Dr Moodie, chairman of the National Preventative Health Task Force and professor of global health at Melbourne University’s Nossal Institute, says it is time to act as there has been little movement in the price of cigarettes in the past decade.

"One of the major successes, I guess, in Australia’s battle with tobacco over the last 10 to 20 years has been an increase in price - gradual - but it hasn’t increased over the last 10 years," he said.

"It’s now time we did increase the cost of cigarettes, [which are] after all, the major killer in Australia.

"We know that if for example we added an extra 2.5 cents to every cigarette stick, that would across the board drop consumption by nearly 3 per cent.

"It’s a major contribution to public health."

Dr Moodie says that increasing tax on cigarettes could be instituted relatively rapidly.

But a recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health questioned the effectiveness of price increases to cut consumption, and raised concerns about the burden placed on poorer smokers.

Dr Moodie says funding for quit smoking programs would address these concerns.

"Certainly the work that Quit Victoria have been doing on this, still shows that there is a very close relationship between price and consumption," Dr Moodie said.

He says money raised by this increased tax, suggested at the recent 2020 summit, should go towards a national preventative health agency.

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Shopkeepers could be banned from displaying cigarettes under Government plans.
The Department of Health said it was launching a consultation to look at ways to stop children smoking. In a bid to cut the number of smokers and prevent children taking up the habit, ministers have drawn up proposals including a bar on displaying tobacco products and the removal of pub vending machines.
Measures making it easier to sell nicotine replacement gums and patches are also on the table. The proposals follow on the July introduction of the ban on smoking in public places.
According to the Department of Health, the strategy - coupled with wider smokefree legislation - will save hundreds of lives. Someone who starts smoking at 15 is three times more likely to die of cancer due to smoking than someone who starts in their late twenties, the department said.
Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo said: "Children who smoke are putting their lives at risk and are more likely to die of cancer than people who start smoking later. It’s vital we get across the message to children smoking is bad. If that means stripping out vending machines or removing cigarettes from behind the counter, I’m willing to do that." According to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, the proportion of adults who smoke has dropped by two per cent from 24 to 22 per cent. About 165,000 smokers quit between April and September - an increase of 28 per cent compared with the same period the previous year.
The Government has set a target of reducing the proportion of smokers in England to 21 per cent by 2010. In this year’s Budget, Chancellor Alistair Darling increased the duty on tobacco, adding 11p to the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes and 4p to five cigars. He said the Government was continuing the five per cent reduced rate of VAT on smoking cessation products beyond June 30.
Mark Littlewood, communications director of liberal think tank Progressive Vision, said: "Cigarettes are a product for adults and steps need to be taken to prevent youngsters buying them. But banning the display of cigarettes would be petty, pointless and patronising."

You support taxing my cigarettes an additional $1 per pack for the benefit of two things you like: providing money to programs that help poor Floridians, and discouraging smoking.
I would prefer taxing the Orlando Sentinel $1 a copy, for the benefit of two things I like: reducing property taxes in Central Florida, and discouraging people from reading Orlando Sentinel editorials that propose raising my taxes.
Both ideas are crazy, because they advocate a funding source for a desired program that would cause income from that source to decline. In fact, both ideas will produce zero income for the first goal if the second goal is attained. But both ideas are politically viable because they tax a minority group of people for the benefit of a larger group of people.
If you truly want to achieve the dual benefits envisioned by your editorial, you should seek a reliable funding source for the government programs you like, and call for making cigarettes illegal. If your position really is that enough smokers will keep smoking to fund your desired program, then you are simply advocating a regressive tax, and should say so plainly.

A meeting of emergency services ministers in Canberra on Wednesday deliberated upon the need for introducing "fire-proof" cigarettes that get extinguished on their own as the smoker drops the butt, a measure that may help reduce the risk of fires in homes and the bush.
New South Wales (NSW) Emergency Services Minister Nathan Rees moved the resolution to make the reduced fire risk (RFR) cigarettes, which are already produced overseas in Canada and New York, mandatory under the Trade Practices Act as early as next year.
"We hope this will be law by early 2009, requiring all cigarettes manufactured and sold throughout Australia to be self-extinguishing," the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.
"Every day’s delay is another day we live with the risk that someone will be killed or injured or homes or bush land destroyed because cigarettes keep burning when they are dropped or thrown from a car window," he added.
Each year, around 4500 fires are caused by cigarette ignitions in Australia. Fires, directly attributed to cigarettes, claimed about 65 lives between 2000 and 2005.
A significant decline has resulted in fire deaths in New York since the introduction of RFR cigarettes in New York in 2004, according to preliminary data.
According to NSW Fire Brigades, a normal cigarette dropped on furnishings may start a fire in less than 18 minutes, whereas an RFR cigarette extinguishes on its own.
Rees said that some people in the industry had expressed non-acceptance to the introduction of the RFR cigarette, complaining about costs, difficulties in testing, and compliance and production lead times.
"NSW does not accept that the industry needs an 18-month to two-year time frame to introduce these cigarettes, which are already being produced and sold in Canada and a number of states in the US," he said.
The newspaper report says that the Australian tobacco industry is concerned that no testing has been done to ensure that the cigarettes do not pose a further risk to smokers’ health.

Self-extinguishing cigarettes could be mandatory from next year, following a meeting of emergency services ministers in Canberra.
A final decision will be up to Treasurer Wayne Swan but federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland said a commitment was reached at the meeting.
"We have committed to implementing a national standard for the introduction of reduced fire-risk cigarettes," he told reporters in Canberra.
"We’re making recommendations to the treasurer," Mr McClelland said.
"The reality is that while there is commitment from all governments to implement it, there will be some consultation with industry.
"The timetable we have asked treasury to work towards is early 2009."
Mr Swan will have the final call because making the change mandatory would require an amendment to the Trade Practices Act.
NSW Emergency Services Minister Nathan Rees, who initiated the debate, said 67 people died last year from fires started by cigarettes.
"This issue has been around since 2005," Mr Rees said.
"In NSW, we have up to 20 deaths each year directly attributable to cigarettes that can’t extinguish themselves and that’s in addition to property damage which in some cases is up to $80 million a year."
A spokesman for the Australian arm of British American Tobacco said the company was broadly supportive of the aim.
"British American Tobacco supports the goal of reducing the incidents of fires caused by the careless disposal of lit cigarettes," spokesman Bede Fennell told AAP.
"We have been an active participant in the consultation process with the ACCC and Standards Australia and are grateful of the opportunity to ensure the practicalities of such a change and all unintended consequences are ironed out."
Mr Fennell warned smokers not to treat the new cigarettes as "safe".
"It is important, however, that smokers are aware that cigarettes produced to meet the proposed reduced-fire risk standard are not fire safe and all lit cigarettes should be carefully disposed of."

Results of a new survey from the Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program (TRIP) found minors staged to by tobacco were successful in their purchase nearly 13% of the time.
Aaron Jones with TRIP says even though it’s the first time the rate has increased in several years it’s still a big improvement over seven years ago when 40 percent of state retailers sold cigarettes products to minors.
In Indiana it is illegal for a clerk to sell tobacco products to anyone under the age of 18.
Jones says TRIP conducts over 6,600 unannounced inspections of retail outlets across the state each year. An inspection team consists of a minor without an ID, an adult assistant and an excise police officer. The minor attempts to buy a cigarettes product and if successful, the officer issues a violation notice to both the clerk and the store.
Fines range from $50 to $500 depending on the store’s violations history.
Tobacco retailer inspections usually occur on evenings or weekends because the minors recruited for the inspection teams are in school on weekdays and most of the police officers work only part-time as inspectors.

India’s tobacco and cigarettes exports to Russia have declined by over 92 per cent to 144 tonnes in February, compared to 1,576 tonnes in the same month last year, mainly due to Moscow imposing a ban on the commodity.
"The ban has affected exports to Russia. Especially in February, the overseas sale has slided significantly," Tobacco Board Chairman J Suresh Babu told PTI.
The total exports flu cured Virgina tobacco stood at 114 tonnes in February, against 1,576 tonnes in the corresponding period last year. While in value terms, exports slipped to Rs 36.01 lakh, from Rs 1235.08 lakh, the Board said.
Russia, one of the top export destinations for Indian tobacco, had imposed a ban on Indian commodities including tobacc.
FCV tobacco known for its lower nicotine and tar content has a major share in cigarettes blends.
Meanwhile, export to other countries like Belgium increased to 1,178 tonnes in February, from 843 tonnes in the same month last year, the Board said.
The country’s total FCV tobacco export increased by 11 per cent to 1.13 lakh tonnes during the first 10 months of the current financial year, compared to 1.02 lakh tonnes in the previous year.
India produces about 700 million kg of tobacco annually, out of which 30 per cent is FCV tobacco. On an average, 50 per cent FCV tobacco is used by the domestic cigarettes industry, while the rest is exported.

MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin businesses would have to sell fire-safe cigarettes that automatically extinguish when they’re not being smoked under a bill that has passed the state Senate.
The measure now heads to Gov. Jim Doyle for his consideration. The Assembly has also passed it.
Wisconsin would join 22 other states in allowing only fire-safe cigarettes to be sold. Firefighters and emergency responders support the measure.
Tobacco companies have not fought it. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company plans to voluntarily switch all its cigarettes to the fire-safe kind by the end of next year.

KOLKATA: Finance minister P Chidambaram did not spare cigarette manufacturers for the fourth consecutive year. He increased the total excise duty on non-filter cigarettes to bring them on par with filter cigarettes in Union Budget 2008-09. The move is estimated to put an additional burden on the industry, which will get passed on to the consumers.

Airing its disappointment on the excise increase on non-filter cigarettes, which account for nearly 30% of the total industry volume, the Tobacco Institute of India said in a statement: “Duty on micro plains (cigarettes of length upto 60 mm) has gone up by almost five times — from Rs 173.04 per 1,000 to Rs 843.57) and on plains (cigarettes of length between 60-70 mm) by about 2½ times — from Rs 562.38 to Rs 1,362.69.”

“Put together, the plains segment constituting over a quarter of the industry volume, will get wiped out. Cigarette consumers will now be compelled to shift to cheaper forms of tobacco consumption which are even more toxic. This kind of unprecedented treatment of the Indian cigarette industry is senseless and retrograde,” the institute stated in the media release.

Industry sources, too, are a disgruntled lot primarily because cigarettes account for only 15% of overall tobacco consumption and generates as much as 85% of the total revenue from tobacco. Revenue mopups from the cigarette industry have increased by more than eight times to an estimated Rs 8,350 crore in 2007-08 from Rs 988 crore in 1984-85 (when the tax was ad valorem) despite an 11% growth in volumes over the last 23 years.

Corroborating, ITC’s corporate communication VP Nazeeb Arif said: “The cigarette industry has been hit once again following the increase in excise duty on plains. The move is expected to drive users to revenue inefficient forms of tobacco products.”

Sources said the finance minister had, in his speech, stated that he is raising the tax on non-filters as these are more toxic than filter cigarettes. He must also know that beedis, which have a higher tar content than cigarettes, are also non-filter,” the institute said.

Incidentally, non-filters are by and large consumed by relatively weaker economic sections of the society and offers the beedi smoker a chance to upgrade to a better quality product.

Companies like ITC Ltd, Godfrey Phillips and VST Industries have reasons to cheer as the finance minister has doubled the basic customs duty on cigars, cheroots and cigarillos to 60% with immediate effect.

It’s not a new idea - twenty-two other states are already doing it. Requiring only "fire safe" cigarettes to be sold in stores. Hawaii could be next.

"We’re looking at ways to improve Hawaii’s ability to protect against brushfires and fires in general," says Rep. Ryan Yamane, (D) Mililani, Waipahu, Waipio.

Lawmakers are pushing forward with a bill to ensure "fire safe" cigarettes are the only kind of cigarettes sold in Hawaii. Made with a special paper that’s supposed to go out if it’s not puffed on every few minutes.

Watch the difference when we compare a regular cigarette on the left with a "fire safe" cigarette on the right. Within minutes the "fire safe" cigarette goes out and the regular one keeps on burning.

"It will actually prevent people from those who fall asleep at home with the cigarette burning in an ashtray, when it reaches that band the cigarette is supposed to go out," says Yamane.

A difference that could have saved the life of a Makiki woman who died when her apartment caught fire in ‘99. A blaze that started from a lit cigarette.

The same start to last years 600-acre brushfire on Maui.

"Tthese fire safe cigarettes will prevent fires," says Rep. Cindy Evans, (D) North Kona, South Kohala. "The fire chief’s totally believe it will save lives, it will prevent fires so I think we should support this."

So far the bill has faced little opposition - even from cigarette manufacturers themselves.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has said they already plan to convert all of their brands to "fire safe" cigarettes by the end of next year.

Hawaii is among fifteen other states considering this type of legisaltion. The bill now goes before the full House for their vote.

British American Tobacco has won the auction for Turkey’s state-owned tobacco group Tekel, with a bid of $1.72bn (£894m), in the company’s first major takeover in five years.

The acquisition by the world’s second biggest tobacco group comes just weeks after Turkey’s parliament passed a law banning smoking in public places and raised the country’s consumption tax on tobacco.

Richard Hodgson, in charge of investment at BAT, said the ban would hit consumption but he expected the decline to be less than 10pc. Turkey is the world’s eighth biggest tobacco market with consumption of 115bn cigarettes a year in a country with a population of 71m people. The acquisition will give BAT a 36pc share of the market, behind market leader Altria which has 41pc.

BAT fought off bids from Citigroup’s international venture capital arm and private equity group Cinven. The acquisition has been opposed in Turkey where factory workers staged a sit-in in protest against the sale, the first sell-off in a state privatisation programme.

BAT, which makes Dunhill, Kent, Pall Mall and Lucky Strike cigarettes, said the deal would be earnings enhancing from 2009. BAT shares rose 16p to £18.74.

1492- Columbus Discovers Tobacco. In his journal, Columbus mentions tobacco for the first time. Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres first observe the native smoking ritual and try it themselves. Jerez becomes the first smoker of western decent.
1556-Tobacco use spreads to the old world through Spain and Portugal. The plant that grew from these seeds is christened Nicotina tabacura by Linnaeus, thereby immortalizing Jean Nicot’s name. Later the addictive alkaloid is called nicotine.
1548 - The Portuguese begin to grow tobacco for export in Brazil.
1770 - The first tobacco shop is established in Lancaster.
1826 - England is importing only 26 lbs of cigars per year. By 1830, England is importing 250,000 lbs per year. 1847 - Philip Morris is open for business in England. They sell hand rolled Turkish cigarettes.
1854 - Philip Morris begins making its own cigarettes in London, on Bond Street
1881 - James E. Bonsack invents the automated cigarette-making machine. It can produce 200 cigarettes per minute, a production rate which would have previously taken 50 workers, thereby markedly reducing the cost of production. Within one year the largest cigarette manufacturer sells more than a billion cigarettes annually.
1832 - The cigarette is invented by an Egyptian artilleryman during the siege of Acre. The Egyptian’s cannon crew had improved their rate of fire by rolling the gunpowder in paper tubes. For this, he and his crew were rewarded with a pound of tobacco. Their only pipe was broken, so they took to rolling the pipe tobacco in the paper tubes.
1864 - First American cigarette factory opens and produces almost 20 million cigarettes annually.
1875 - Allen & Ginter cigarette brands, Richmond Straight Cut No. 1 and Pet, begin using picture cards to stiffen the pack and protect the cigarettes. The cards, with photos of actresses, baseball players, Indian Chiefs, and boxers are enormously successful and represent the first modern promotion scheme for a manufactured product.
1901 - 3.5 billion cigarettes and 6 billion cigars are sold. Four in five American men smoke at least one cigar a day.
1902 - Tiny Philip Morris sets up a corporation in New York to sell its British brands, including Philip Morris, Blues, Cambridge, Derby, and a cigarette named after Marlborough Street, where its London factory is located. Marlboro is one of the earliest woman’s cigarettes, featuring a red tip to hide lipstick marks. It does not catch on with the public.
1910 - Most popular brands: Pall Mall, Sweet Caporals, Piedmont, Helmar and Fatima.
1913 - RJ Reynolds introduces Camel, considered by historians as the first ‘modern’ cigarette.
1917 - During World War I cigarettes become the smoke of choice as pipes and cigars prove unmanageable at the front. Between 1910 and 1919 cigarette production increases by 633% from under 10 billion/year to nearly 70 billion/year and cigarette smoking begins to become fixed among American men. The American Red Cross and the Young Men’s Christian Association, previously opposed to the propagation of cigarettes, actively supply them to the troops overseas.
1921 - RJ Reynolds spends $8 million in advertising, mostly on Camel. Inaugurates the highly successful "I’d Walk a Mile for a Camel" slogan.
1924 - Philip Morris re-introduces Marlboro with the slogan "Mild as May," targeting "decent, respectable" women. "Has smoking any more to do with a woman’s morals than has the color of her hair?" the advertisement reads. "Marlboros now ride in so many limousines, attend so many bridge parties, and repose in so many handbags."
1927 - A sensation is created when George Washington Hill blatantly aims Lucky Strike advertising campaign at women, urging them to "reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." Smoking initiation rates among adolescent females triple between 1925-1935, and Lucky Strike captures 38% of the American market.
1936 - Brown and Williamson introduce Viceroy, the first national brand to feature a filter of cellulose acetate. Advertising increases the use of physicians to counter the claims that cigarettes are a major health problem.
1940 - Adult Americans smoke 2,558 cigarettes per capita a year, nearly twice the consumption of 1930
1945 - Smoking is now socially acceptable for women. Another generation of Americans is now habituated to tobacco as a result of free cigarettes distributed by the Red Cross and other organizations to our fighting men and women.
1952 - Kent introduces the ‘Micronite’ filter, which Lorillard claims "offers the greatest health protection in cigarette history." It turns out to be made of asbestos. Kent discontinues use of the Micronite filter four years later.
1954 - RJ Reynolds:- introduces:- Winston:- filter cigarettes, but promotes the taste benefit, not health. Winston dominates the US market for the next 15 years.
1954 - Marlboro advertising taken over by the Chicago ad agency Leo Burnett. "Delivers the Goods on Flavor" ran the new slogan in newspaper ads. Design of the campaign, which features ‘Marlboro Men,’ is credited to John Landry of Philip Morris. Prior to initiating this campaign, Marlboro had <1% of the US market.
1963 – Marlboro dispenses with tattooed sailors and athletes as the Marlboro Man and settles on the exclusive use of cowboys. For several years, Philip Morris research had shown that sales increased whenever they cowboys appeared in their campaigns.
1964 - Marlboro Country ad campaign is launched. "Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country." Marlboro sales begin growing at 10% a year.
1968 - Philip Morris introduces Virginia Slims with the slogan, "You’ve come a long way, baby." Five yeas later, Billy Jean King, wearing Virginia Slims colors, defeats Bobby Riggs in the televised ‘Battle of the Sexes.’ Virginia Slims continues to promote tennis matches to this day.
1972 - Marlboro becomes the best-selling cigarette in the world. It remains so today by a wide margin. 1999 - About 10 million Americans smoke cigars.
2002 - CDC estimates smoking health and productivity costs reach $150 billion a year, according to a new study published in this week’s WMMR. CDC estimated the total cost of smoking at $3,391 a year for every smoker, and even itemized the per-pack health/productivity costs at $7.18/pack. Further, it estimated the smoking-related medical costs at $3.45 per pack, and job productivity lost because of premature death from smoking at $3.73 per pack.
Current campaign Fire-safe cigarette legislation has been passed or introduced in many states. To maintain regulatory uniformity, all states and countries are using the “model” FSC regulatory bill based on the New York FSC law. With identical fire safety regulations for cigarettes in all states and countries, cigarette manufacturers can voluntarily produce FSC worldwide. Until then, legislative campaigns mandating FSC will continue.

Cigarette butts, plastic and glass bottles, bottle tops and cans were the most commonly found pieces of rubbish in last year’s Clean Up Australia Day.

And six of the top 10 items found were recyclable, Clean Up Australia chairman Ian Kiernan said.

Releasing the annual Rubbish Report, Mr Kiernan said more than 8000 tonnes of rubbish was collected in last year’s clean-up.

Cigarette butts remained the most commonly found rubbish item for the 12th year in a row, accounting for 12.2 per cent of all items found.

For the 13th consecutive year, recyclable plastics made up the majority of rubbish collected.

"Thousands of tonnes of recyclable rubbish are dumped in the environment each year," Mr Kiernan said.

"As a general rule, Australians are pretty good recyclers but these statistics prove there’s still a long way to go."

Mr Kiernan and federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett will launch this year’s Clean Up day with a new advertising campaign on climate change. The advertisement highlights how much of Australia’s unique natural environment could be lost without greater action to limit the impacts of climate change.

This year’s Clean Up Australia Day will be on Sunday, March 2.

Tobacco and cigarettes has a long history dating. The tobacco plant is believed to be widely spread in America since the 1st Century.

The written history of cigarettes dates back to the early 16th century when Spaniards conquerors witnessed the Aztec Indians smoking an ancient cigarette, it was a cane or reed tube stuffed with tobacco.

It was the Spaniards who introduced the cigar in the old world. Early in the 16th century, beggars of Seville picked up discarded cigar butts, shredded the contexts rolled them back in paper and termed those as cigarillos. Cigarettes spread through Europe in the wake of the Napoleonic wars and became common towards the middle of the century.

A cigarette factory was established in 1853 but it was after the Crimean war where British got the first taste of cigarettes, which was the outset of cigarette’s immense upcoming popularity. The French were the people who gave cigarettes their present name, which meant ‘little cigar’.

In 1882, the cigarette was a specialty item made by hand, sold for a penny apiece, and very much the stepchild of other tobacco products. However, that was about to change.

An automated cigarette rolling machine, developed by 18-year-old James Bonsack, was put into use in 1883 and revolutionized cigarette production. The retail price was cut in half, and volume, which in premachine days had never exceeded 500 million, leaped to 10 billion by 1910. American Tobacco was able to take advantage of this new technology and, like Standard Oil, was such a success that it, too, and was broken up by the feds in 1911.

In the 1840s the cigarette industry was born, although cigarettes were still rolled by hand, mainly by women. In 1881 the cigarette-rolling machine was invented, increasing production exponentially. Offering a cigarette and a light became a ritual of sociability. The two World Wars helped spread the habit widely.

During the 1920s women took up smoking as a sign of modernity. The development of mass media and advertising in the late 19th and 20th Century played a decisive role in securing the popularity of cigarettes . Today 93 percent of the world’s tobacco is consumed as cigarettes .

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The Marlboro man was the most powerful image of brand of the 20. Centry, that stands worldwide as the ultimate American cowboy and masculine trademark, helping establish Marlboro as the best – selling cigarette in the world. Marlboro man has unprecedented success as a global marketing tool for selling Philip Morris brand.

In the beginning back in the 1950, a time when cigarettes were accepted in even the politest society, Burnett created the macho icon as a way to reposition Marlboro from a woman “mild as May” ladies cigarette to a product with broader appeal. The original newspaper ad from Burnett carried the slogan “delivers the goods on flavor” and it immediately sent sales skyrocketing.
The brilliantly designed campaign, the strong image of the mythical American hero, the cowboy has created an immediately and universally recognized icon representing an idealized and appealing American lifestyle. The phenomenon is extraordinary, a fast unknown brand in 1950, has steadily increased sales for the past forty years. In 1955 top selling brand in the world. Marlboro remains today the most profitable brand of non – durable consumer good in the world.
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Misconceptions about smoking

They are many myths and misconceptions about cigarette smoking that people start to spread.  The more you here it, the more you start to believe it. Some myths stem from a misapplied understanding of what might seem to be common sense; others are deliberately promulgated by the tobacco industry to induce people to start smoking. Some of d this conceptions are crazy and do not make sense. Here are some misconceptions about smoking.

Nicotine is responsible for adverse health effects

   Nicotine is a natural occurring substance derived from the tobacco plant.
   The main adverse effect of nicotine in tobacco products is addiction, which sustain tobacco use. It is the other chemicals in cigarettes, not nicotine, which are responsible for most of the adverse health effects related to smoking.

Filtered or low-tar cigarettes make smoking safer

   There are no safe cigarettes. Some people try to make smoking habit safer by smoking filtered or low-tar cigarettes. They think that make smoking safer, but this isn’t true. There are no safe cigarettes and no safe level of consumption. Low-tar cigarettes are just as harmful as higher tar cigarettes.
   Smokers usually puff more frequently, take deeper puffs or smoke to a shorter butt length. Despite the filters, nicotine and other chemicals still get through when you smoke.

Lights cigarettes are healthier

      The smokers who use lights cigarettes are under the impression that they are safe. But there is no such thing as safe cigarettes. Research shows that lights cigarette is just as addictive as cigarette whit more tar and nicotine. The poisonous element of a cigarette is in the light cigarettes as well.

Tobacco is natural

   People say tobacco is natural because it comes from a plant. But inside a cigarette isn’t just tobacco. A lot of the filling is actually a tip of paper sprayed with tobacco pulp, nicotine and chemicals. These additives include ammonia to enhance nicotine’s brain effects. The paper is shredded to look like real tobacco, and then used to fill cigarettes.

Rollies have less chemicals

   Rollies (roll-you-own tobacco) contains many of the same chemicals as factory-made cigarette. Research suggests that roll-your-own tobacco is more harmful than manufactured cigarettes.

I can quit any time I want to

   Anyone who smokes is at risk of becoming addicted to nicotine. Nicotine stimulates the production of dopamine, which makes you feel happy and more animated when you start smoking. As you continue to smoke your body learns to depend on nicotine and you want to quit, you may fell hungry, sleepy, tired or irritable, In fact, only 7 percent of 35 million people succeed to quit smoking every year

Smoking Has Effect On Progression Of Multiple Sclerosis

   The study showed there is no association between cigarette smoking and the progression of MS. Due to the high number of smokers with MS, it had previously been suggested there was a correlation between the progressions of the disease related to smoking.
Because the cause of MS as well as reasons for progression is generally unknown, there have been many genetic and environmental factors tested. Cigarette smoking is one more factor we can rule out.