The state of Montana has run a quit line before, but it was canceled 10 months after its August 2000 launch. Georgiana Gulden of the Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program said many state programs were cut during 2001's budget crisis.
Sen. John Chichester, R-Stafford, has also proposed raising the state tax on cigarettes to 35 cents, while allowing localities to levy an additional tax up to 55 cents after June 2006. Chichester's bill would also impose a 10 percent tax on other cigarettes to 35 cents, while allowing localities to levy an additional tax up to 55 cents after June 2006. Chichester's bill would also impose a 10 percent tax on other tobacco products.
Other bills would raise the tax on cigarettes in varying amounts--one would raise it to $1 per pack.
Thirteen to 15-year-olds were selected for the study. “It is at this age that children begin to get addicted to Cigarettes
urged anyone involved in a robbery to be cautious.
"No one should resist over property, like cash or cigarettes," Wilson said. "Property is not worth getting seriously hurt or losing a life over it. The best thing people can do is comply with the robber and get a good description of what they look like, what they are wearing and what they are driving."
Marlboro use produces significant health problems in teens, including an increase in the number and severity of respiratory illnesses, like asthma and bronchitis, and decreased physical fitness. Cigarettes use also increases the risk for cancer, heart disease, stroke, emphysema and other health problems later in life. The first symptoms of nicotine dependence among 12- and 13-year-olds can appear within days to weeks after occasional use begins, often before the onset of daily smoking.
Sources in national broadcaster Doordarshan (DD) said the channel was forced not to bid for rights to telecast this year's Formula One Racing event as it would have meant showing the sponsor - a major international tobacco player - on the players' T-shirts, on the cars and all across the venue of the race.
SET Max officials said the channel has not received any notice from the Government on any violation as far as sports and tobacco advertising is concerned, but conceded that such a regulation may be tough to follow.
However, senior officials in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) said every television channel "should, at all costs, conform to the law of the land in which it is telecasting its programmes. Indian laws have completely banned advertising by cigarettes ;having dull skin and hair, and yellowed nails; and being out of shape and breathless.
The cashier said the man asked for two cartons of cigarettes .she placed them on the counter and began to ring them up, the man reached across the counter and grabbed the cigarettes to take them. The cashier said she held onto the cigarettes and a struggle occurred.
During the struggle, the cashier said she was struck in the face.
The cashier told officers she was able to bite the suspect, possibly on the hand, during the attack.
The robber took the cigarettes and ran out of the gas station, heading north and disappearing into a nearby apartment complex.
The nation's largest cigarettes maker is disputing a study by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health that found nicotine in cigarettes has risen about 10 percent in the past six years.
Philip Morris USA, which manufactures Marlboro cigarettes, said its review of nine years of data that it provided to the state found fluctuations in nicotine levels, but no steady increase.
The health department study released last month examined nicotine levels in more than 100 brands over a six-year period. The study showed a steady climb in the amount of nicotine delivered to the lungs of smokers regardless of brand, with overall nicotine yields increasing by about 10 percent, according to state health officials.
The study also found the three most popular cigarettes brands with young smokers - Marlboro , Newport and Camel - delivered significantly more nicotine than they did years ago.
Massachusetts is one of three states to require tobacco companies to submit information about nicotine testing according to its specifications and the only state with data going back to 1997.
Philip Morris said when it looked at all the data they sent to the state there were only year-to-year variations that "occur as part of the normal processes of growing tobacco and manufacturing cigarettes ".
Donna Rheaume, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Health, defended the report, which concluded that the higher nicotine levels made it easier to get hooked on cigarettes and harder to quit.
The tobacco companies are appealing the ruling and have asked for a stay of Kessler's order while they pursue that appeal.
Wallace pointed out that the flavored exotic blends are premium-priced, and sell for upward of $7 a pack in some parts of the country. She also said all cigarettes - except two that advertise themselves as "additive-free" - contain flavorings and said the new Camel blends follow that trend.
Tobacco exotic blends are seen as an occasional smoke for an adult smoker," Wallace said from her office in Winston-Salem, N.C. "We do not market any of our products to children."
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., did not vote on the amendment July 15 due to an injury he suffered in a July 3 motorcycle accident, but his press secretary said he supports the amendment.
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Donna Rheaume, a spokeswoman for the Department of Public Health, defended the report, which concluded that the higher nicotine levels made it easier to get hooked on tobacco and harder to quit.