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Tobacco Stories: Follow the money: How the billions of dollars that flow from smokers in poor nations to companies in rich nations greatly exc..
The business of selling cigarettes is increasingly concentrated in the hands of five tobacco companies that collectively control almost 90% of the worlds cigarette market, four of which are publicly traded corporations. The economic activities of these cigarette manufacturers can be monitored through their reports to shareholders and other public documents. ...
Tobacco Stories: Ex-Imperial chief moves to William Hill
Former Imperial Tobacco chief Gareth Davis has emerged as the surprise choice to replace Charles Scott as chairman of William Hill.Davis, who stood down from Imps after 14 years at the helm in May, will take the bookies chair in September.Scott has been chairman of William Hill (down 1.9p to 169.3p) since 2004 and said in January he planned to move on.
Tobacco Stories: The Business On... Gareth Davis, Chairman-elect, William Hill
Dont I know him?Youll remember Mr Davis - who William Hill said yesterday would become its chairman on 1 September - from his lengthy tenure as chief executive of Imperial Tobacco. He ran the company - owner of Lambert & Butler - from 1996 until his retirement in May. Since then, hes been tipped for a high-profile chairmanship and this would appear to be ...
Tobacco Stories: Uruguay bows to pressure over anti-smoking law amendments : Tobacco giant Philip Morris accused of corporate bullying follow..
Uruguay has promised to water down anti-smoking laws after pressure from the tobacco giant Philip Morris, prompting accusations of corporate bullying.The government said it would amend legislation which slaps large health warnings on cigarette packets and bans the sale of those branded as "light".The laws, among the toughest in the world, were introduced fou ...
Tobacco Stories: Electronic Cigarette Nation Warns Consumers Against Free Trial E Cigarettes
Popular E Cig review site, Electronic Cigarette Nation, is speaking out against the free trial offers that many companies offer. When Electronic Cigarettes arrived on the scene in 2006, there were only a few established companies that sold the electronic cigarette online. Now in 2010,you Google electronic cigarette and come up with 9,380,000 sites. Rest assu ...
Tobacco Stories: BOB DOPPELT: Climate-change deniers follow script of tobacco industry
A new book, "Merchants of Doubt," by Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway shines the light on the strategy behind these efforts. It documents how a small group of well-connected scientists, driven mostly by the fear that acknowledging the reality of human-induced global warming will lead to government regulation that stifles the free market and private enterprise, ...
Tobacco Stories: FDA & Journalists at Odds with Electronic Cigarette Cos. Over Use as Smoking Cessation Device
Online PR News - 26-July-2010 - With all of the information that is widely published on electronic cigarettes since a steady rise in popularity over the past 18 months , it can be difficult for consumers to know which source(s) to trust. At the popular electronic cigarettes review website, http://www.ElectronicCigarettesReviews.n et a.k.a. ECR, nearly 1000 c ...
Tobacco Stories: New state law aims at keeping tobacco beyond kids reach: Tobacco -- whether smoked, chewed or otherwise ingested -- must be ..
A new state law is requiring convenience stores and other retailers to keep tobacco products behind the counter, rather than in appealing displays within easy reach of young customers. It also broadens the definition of tobacco products -- which cant be sold to minors -- to include items that can be "chewed, smoked, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sn ...
Tobacco Stories: Adolescents Perceptions of Tobacco Control Measures in the United Kingdom
Twelve focus groups, comprising adolescent smokers (N = 32) and nonsmokers (N = 35) aged 11 to 16 years were conducted in Glasgow and Lothian, Scotland. Each focus group explored factors adolescents encounter in everyday life that they perceive to facilitate or impede smoking, and about smoke-free legislation, smoking in domestic situations, access to cigare ...
Tobacco Stories: BAT lifted by purchase of Indonesias Bentoel
British American Tobacco said on Wednesday that price rises and its acquisition last year of Indonesias Bentoel helped push up revenues for the first half of the year, in spite of people buying fewer of its cigarettes in every region of the world but Asia.Market volumes were down in the reporting period but BAT saw the trend improving. Paul Adams, chief exe ...
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·Follow the money: How the billions of dollars that flow from smokers in poor nations to companies in rich nations greatly exc...
The business of selling cigarettes is increasingly concentrated in the hands of five tobacco companies that collectively control almost 90% of the worlds cigarette market, four of which are publicly traded corporations. The economic activities of these cigarette manufacturers can be monitored through their reports to shareholders and other public documents. Reports for 2008 show that the revenues of these five compa ...
·Ex-Imperial chief moves to William Hill
Former Imperial Tobacco chief Gareth Davis has emerged as the surprise choice to replace Charles Scott as chairman of William Hill.Davis, who stood down from Imps after 14 years at the helm in May, will take the bookies chair in September.Scott has been chairman of William Hill (down 1.9p to 169.3p) since 2004 and said in January he planned to move on.
·The Business On... Gareth Davis, Chairman-elect, William Hill
Dont I know him?Youll remember Mr Davis - who William Hill said yesterday would become its chairman on 1 September - from his lengthy tenure as chief executive of Imperial Tobacco. He ran the company - owner of Lambert & Butler - from 1996 until his retirement in May. Since then, hes been tipped for a high-profile chairmanship and this would appear to be it.From one vice to another?Careful. Bookmaking is a perfect ...
·The Business On... Gareth Davis, Chairman-elect, William Hill
Dont I know him?Youll remember Mr Davis - who William Hill said yesterday would become its chairman on 1 September - from his lengthy tenure as chief executive of Imperial Tobacco. He ran the company - owner of Lambert & Butler - from 1996 until his retirement in May. Since then, hes been tipped for a high-profile chairmanship and this would appear to be it.From one vice to another?Careful. Bookmaking is a perfect ...
·Uruguay bows to pressure over anti-smoking law amendments : Tobacco giant Philip Morris accused of corporate bullying follow...
Uruguay has promised to water down anti-smoking laws after pressure from the tobacco giant Philip Morris, prompting accusations of corporate bullying.The government said it would amend legislation which slaps large health warnings on cigarette packets and bans the sale of those branded as "light".The laws, among the toughest in the world, were introduced four years ago by the then president, Tabaré Vázquez, who as an ...
·Electronic Cigarette Nation Warns Consumers Against Free Trial E Cigarettes
Popular E Cig review site, Electronic Cigarette Nation, is speaking out against the free trial offers that many companies offer. When Electronic Cigarettes arrived on the scene in 2006, there were only a few established companies that sold the electronic cigarette online. Now in 2010,you Google electronic cigarette and come up with 9,380,000 sites. Rest assured that there are not 9 million electronic cigarette compan ...
·BOB DOPPELT: Climate-change deniers follow script of tobacco industry
A new book, "Merchants of Doubt," by Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway shines the light on the strategy behind these efforts. It documents how a small group of well-connected scientists, driven mostly by the fear that acknowledging the reality of human-induced global warming will lead to government regulation that stifles the free market and private enterprise, have collaborated with conservative groups and fossil fuel c ...
·FDA & Journalists at Odds with Electronic Cigarette Cos. Over Use as Smoking Cessation Device
Online PR News - 26-July-2010 - With all of the information that is widely published on electronic cigarettes since a steady rise in popularity over the past 18 months , it can be difficult for consumers to know which source(s) to trust. At the popular electronic cigarettes review website, http://www.ElectronicCigarettesReviews.n et a.k.a. ECR, nearly 1000 consumers have voiced an opinion on the various brands of ele ...
·New state law aims at keeping tobacco beyond kids reach: Tobacco -- whether smoked, chewed or otherwise ingested -- must be ...
A new state law is requiring convenience stores and other retailers to keep tobacco products behind the counter, rather than in appealing displays within easy reach of young customers. It also broadens the definition of tobacco products -- which cant be sold to minors -- to include items that can be "chewed, smoked, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed or ingested by any other means.The law is designed t ...
·Japan Tobaccos Quarterly Profit Drops 47% on Domestic Sales, Stronger Yen
Japan Tobacco Inc., the worlds third-largest publicly traded cigarette maker, said first- quarter profit fell 47 percent after domestic sales dropped and a stronger yen reduced the value of overseas earnings.Net income dropped to 22.8 billion yen ($261 million) for the three months ended June, compared with 42.9 billion yen a year earlier, the Tokyo-based company said in a statement today. Last years profit was inf ...
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