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July 4, 2008

Acquisition of Popular Mexican Cigarette Brand

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."

June 30, 2008

Japan Makes Cigarettes Kinda Kool Again

Living in America, we all know that smoking cigarettes is probably the worst sin you can possibly take part in. I’m actually a long time smoker myself, but hopefully I’ll quit in the next month or so. The Japanese recently modified the Kool cigarette to help out smokers who simply aren’t getting enough flavor with every draw. The modification is a simple one where a tiny ball inside the filter can be squeezed to shoot extra flavor into the smoke you are inhaling. At first I thought it was a joke, but then I remembered that the Japanes introduce really odd things like this on a daily basis. The Kool “Boosts” were originally designed in 2007.

April 25, 2008

Society wants cigarettes hidden from view

The Society says it is incomprehensible that cigarettes can be sold in the same way as bread and milk.
The New South Wales State Government is proposing to remove tobacco products from open display and keep them behind counters and the society’s tobacco control adviser Belinda Hughes says the idea should be adopted in New Zealand.
Ms Hughes says positive anti-smoking initiatives include images on cigarettes packages showing the consequences of smoking but shops have been used as a selling vehicle since other forms of advertising were banned in 1990.
She says children should have the right to grow up without being influenced by tobacco marketing and it is society’s responsibility to protect them from smoking.

April 18, 2008

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April 8, 2008

Behind the counter proposal for cigarettes

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. cigarettes
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."

March 28, 2008

Govts seek self-extinguishing cigarettes

 

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."

March 25, 2008

Survey: Minors Successful in Buying Tobacco 13% of Time

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.

March 21, 2008

India’s tobacco exports to Russia slips by 92 pc

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.

March 18, 2008

Harry Potter is now Harry Puffer

LONDON: The warning ‘Smokers Die Younger’ doesn’t seem to ring a bell with superstar Daniel Radcliffe who has been nicknamed ‘Harry Puffer’ by his co-stars for puffing about 20 cigarettes a day.
The young wizard rushes to light a stick whenever the director yells "Cut" and has now been advised by one and all on the set of the new Hogwarts movie to kick the butt.
The teenage star finishes around a pack per day and has pals, including fellow Potter star Rupert Grint, pretty worried.
"Daniel has recently been smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day. Every time they call ‘Cut’, he lights up. It’s disgusting. Friends and co-stars including Rupert Grint have been warning him about the dangers of smoking. But he doesn’t take any notice," The Sun quoted a source, as saying.
Also worried are the producers of the final flick in the series, who believe that his puffing habits may destroy his schoolboy image. They have now warned him not to be seen smoking in public.
"He’s been having late nights out with stars like Kevin Spacey and Stephen Fry and seems to have picked up bad habits from the luvvie set," revealed the source.
In fact, Radcliffe was so nervous doing a stunt himself and turned to his cigarettes while his double was absent.
"He was sparking up constantly," said the source.

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