Montag, 15.03.2010
Smoking Prevalence
EBTs for smoking cessation include nine pharmacotherapies and three types of counseling (intra- and extratreatment social support, skills building) conducted with three types of modalities
(individual, group, and telephone; Fiore et al., 2008; Hughes, 2008). What has not yet been answered is whether these treatments and modalities will prove efficacious in various subpopulations of
smokers who are underserved.
This article defines underserved smokers as meeting the following criteria:(a) have 10% higher smoking prevalence than the general population, (b) have disproportionate tobacco-related health disparities, (c) have lack of access to effective treatments or have other barriers to treatment, and (d) are understudied in terms of the availability of prospective, longitudinal treatment trials.
Table 1 lists the groups of smokers who meet these criteria. For example, compared with the general population of smokers, smoking rates are doubled among young adults with cancer, tripled among those with psychiatric disorders, and quadrupled among
homeless persons.
(individual, group, and telephone; Fiore et al., 2008; Hughes, 2008). What has not yet been answered is whether these treatments and modalities will prove efficacious in various subpopulations of
smokers who are underserved.
This article defines underserved smokers as meeting the following criteria:(a) have 10% higher smoking prevalence than the general population, (b) have disproportionate tobacco-related health disparities, (c) have lack of access to effective treatments or have other barriers to treatment, and (d) are understudied in terms of the availability of prospective, longitudinal treatment trials.
Table 1 lists the groups of smokers who meet these criteria. For example, compared with the general population of smokers, smoking rates are doubled among young adults with cancer, tripled among those with psychiatric disorders, and quadrupled among
homeless persons.
Mittwoch, 13.01.2010
The military and veteran populations who smoke
The military and veteran populations differ in some respects from the general US population. For example, military populations are overwhelmingly male, younger, healthier, and less educated; veteran populations are predominantly male, older, and of lower socioeconomic status and are more likely to be in poorer general health than either the military population or the general population. The populations considered in this report include military retirees and, to a lesser extent, spouses and dependents; the veteran populations considered are primarily men and women eligible to receive health care through the Veterans Health Administration. This unique combination of demographic factors may require some modification of general-population tobacco-control programs to address the specific needs of military and veteran populations.
Dienstag, 15.12.2009
Reynolds American Inc.: Strong 2Q results, improved outlook
On July 23, 2009, in its Second Quarter Earnings Release, Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI) announced second-quarter 2009 earnings of $1.29 per share, up 4.9 percent from the year-ago quarter on both a reported and adjusted basis. For the first half of 2009, reported EPS was $1.32, down 55.1 percent from the prior-year period, driven by first-quarter non-cash trademark impairment charges and a prior-year joint-venture (JV) gain. Excluding trademark impairments and the JV gain, first-half adjusted EPS was up 3.1 percent at $2.30 as increases in pricing, productivity and moist-snuff volume more than offset cigarette volume declines and higher pension and legal expenses.
Freitag, 27.11.2009
Public subsidies and kids’ movies with tobacco
How much public subsidy now goes to producers of youth‐rated movies with smoking? To estimate the answer, we surveyed the 147 top‐grossing films released to US theaters in 2008 (Appendix B). Overall, 59 percent included tobacco imagery:
• 18 percent (5/28) of films rated G/PG,
• 65 percent (50/77) of PG‐13 films, and
• 76 percen (32/42) of R‐rated films.
Where films were made
Of all the films in the sample, 37 percent (55/147) were youth‐rated films that featured tobacco imagery.
• 18 percent (5/28) of films rated G/PG,
• 65 percent (50/77) of PG‐13 films, and
• 76 percen (32/42) of R‐rated films.
Where films were made
Of all the films in the sample, 37 percent (55/147) were youth‐rated films that featured tobacco imagery.
Freitag, 06.11.2009
Long-Term Quiet and Calm
Imagine entire days, weeks, months and after a few years, maybe even years without your mind ever once feeling an urge to use nicotine. Imagine living in a constant state of 100% total comfort with no nicotine use related anxieties whatsoever - none, zero, nil,
complete and total tranquility. It's where hundreds of millions of comfortably recovered ex-users reside today. Were any of them truly stronger than nicotine? Were any of them stronger than us, or is that just another lame excuse we used?
complete and total tranquility. It's where hundreds of millions of comfortably recovered ex-users reside today. Were any of them truly stronger than nicotine? Were any of them stronger than us, or is that just another lame excuse we used?
Donnerstag, 22.10.2009
Cue exposure therapy
Cue exposure therapy or CET is intentional exposure to drugrelated use cues in order to more quickly extinguish learned associations.376 Although a tool of modern drug treatment programs, it can be our tool too. We can either wait for time and life to bring nicotine use cues to us, or seek out and extinguish use cues as quickly as we desire. For example, it’s likely that nicotine use cues are associated with our daily work schedule or chores. We can fear and delay encountering these use work related use cues or target them for extinction.
Donnerstag, 24.09.2009
Celebrating Two Weeks of Healing from smoking!
The beauty of two weeks is that while recovery is still ongoing, our physical addiction is no longer doing the talking. We’ve traveled far enough to begin sampling what it will be like arriving home. The number of minutes each day, during which we do not entertain thoughts of wanting to bring nicotine into our body, are beginning to grow.
The body and mind are nicotine-free, nearly all recovery symptoms are now behind us, the vast majority of subconscious use cues have been extinguished and we are now focusing more on the final leg of recovery, overcoming the influence of years and piles of use rationalizations and memories associated with them.
The body and mind are nicotine-free, nearly all recovery symptoms are now behind us, the vast majority of subconscious use cues have been extinguished and we are now focusing more on the final leg of recovery, overcoming the influence of years and piles of use rationalizations and memories associated with them.
Dienstag, 15.09.2009
Fruit juices accelerating nicotine removal
A 2008 study examined the effects of drinking 480 milliliters or 16 ounces of unsweetened, normal-calorie cranberry juice (280 calories) upon blood sugar.
Spectrometry analysis found that while low-calorie cranberry juice (38 calories) and water produced no significant changes in blood sugar levels, that normal-calorie cranberry juice resulted in significantly higher blood glucose concentrations within 30 minutes, which were no longer significant after 180 minutes
Spectrometry analysis found that while low-calorie cranberry juice (38 calories) and water produced no significant changes in blood sugar levels, that normal-calorie cranberry juice resulted in significantly higher blood glucose concentrations within 30 minutes, which were no longer significant after 180 minutes
Dienstag, 25.08.2009
I smoke to relieve boredom
It's easy to relate nicotine use to boredom. However, in reality we need to replenish whether we are bored to death, having the time of our life, and when things are normal or somewhere in-between. It makes sense that nicotine use might be more noticeable and thus more memorable when we are bored and doing nothing at feeding time. If excited or busy we may not even notice nicotine refueling. The half-life of nicotine in the human body is about 2 hours. Most don’t wait for the onset of depletion anxieties before tanking up again. Most do so early and often, whether bored or not. Have you ever noticed the minor anxieties that occur when bored?
Mittwoch, 12.08.2009
Brown & Williamson
Brown & Williamson (B&W) was a cigarette company that merged with RJR in 2004.
B&W’s brands - now owned by RJR - included Barclay, Belair, Capri, Carlton, GPC, Kool, Laredo, Lucky Strike, Misty, North State, Pall Mall, Private Stock, Raleigh, Tareyton and Viceroy. Here are a few quotes from once secret B&W corporate documents:
July 18, 1977 - “How to market an addictive product in an ethical manner?”
June 24, 1978 - “Very few consumers are aware of the effects of nicotine, i.e., its addictive nature and that nicotine is a poison.”
March 25, 1983: “Nicotine is the addicting agent in cigarettes. It, therefore, seems reasonable that when people switch brands, if they have a certain smoking pattern (i.e. number of sticks/day), they will switch to a brand at the same nicotine level.”
B&W’s brands - now owned by RJR - included Barclay, Belair, Capri, Carlton, GPC, Kool, Laredo, Lucky Strike, Misty, North State, Pall Mall, Private Stock, Raleigh, Tareyton and Viceroy. Here are a few quotes from once secret B&W corporate documents:
July 18, 1977 - “How to market an addictive product in an ethical manner?”
June 24, 1978 - “Very few consumers are aware of the effects of nicotine, i.e., its addictive nature and that nicotine is a poison.”
March 25, 1983: “Nicotine is the addicting agent in cigarettes. It, therefore, seems reasonable that when people switch brands, if they have a certain smoking pattern (i.e. number of sticks/day), they will switch to a brand at the same nicotine level.”
Mittwoch, 05.08.2009
what is dopamine?
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter. It is one of many brain chemicals that allow brain cells to communicate with each other. But as it relates to drug addiction it plays a much larger role. It is the brain reward pathway neurotransmitter responsible for giving us a prize when anticipating or experiencing species survival events associated with eating, thirst quenching, accomplishment, companionship, group acceptance, sex or nurturing.
Freitag, 17.07.2009
Reduced mortality from smoking
Reduced mortality from smoking would increase costs for Social Security, because individuals would live longer and claim more benefits. Many of those affected by the legislation are under age 25, however, so the full effect on Social Security expenditures would not be realized by 2059—the end of the 50-year period covered by the budget enforcement mechanism in the current budget resolution.
Mittwoch, 01.07.2009
Tobacco trade
Turkey is a major trader of tobacco on world markets, exporting about 150 000 tonnes (55 percent of its production) and importing about 50 000 tonnes (half the level of consumption) of processed and unprocessed tobacco. It ranks fourth among tobacco exporting countries, with a share of 6 to 8 percent 78 Tobacco in Turkey in total world exports, and twelfth among tobacco importing countries, accounting for 2 percent of world imports.
Mittwoch, 24.06.2009
Business of manufacturing, designing, marketing, or selling cigarettes
The term “subsidiaries” in the remedial order cannot expand the scope of the injunction beyond that defined by Rule; however, subsidiaries of Defendants may be personally bound by the order to the extent that they are agents of or in privity with Defendants in the common corporate business of manufacturing, designing, marketing, or selling cigarettes.
Mittwoch, 17.06.2009
Legal entity enterprises
Congress provided an exhaustive list of legal entity enterprises by adding the phrase “or other legal entity” hardly converts the list of non-legal entity enterprises into an exhaustive list. Had Congress wanted to limit non-legal entity associations to those expressly listed, the most obvious way to do so would have been the way Congress wrote the five clearly exhaustive definitions in the same section: it could have said 25 “‘enterprise’ means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, or any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity.”
Dienstag, 09.06.2009
Cigarettes tast
Montag, 01.06.2009
Smoke-free laws
More than half of countries, accounting for nearly two thirds of the population of the world, allow smoking in government offices, workplaces and other indoor places. Consequently, most office workers worldwide are forced to breathe other people’s tobacco smoke. Only 24 (13%) of the 179 countries and 1 territory protect restaurant workers from tobacco smoke;...
Montag, 25.05.2009
Philip Morris Sues to Block Internet Cigarette Sales
Philip Morris Cos., the world's largest tobacco company, said it sued to block illegal sales of Marlboro and other cigarettes over the Internet, as black market sales increase because of higher U.S. prices. The New York-based company's cigarette unit, Philip Morris U.S.A., said it filed eight lawsuits in New York and Los Angeles against more than a dozen Web sites, seeking to block the sales.
Montag, 18.05.2009
Fortuna Cigarettes
Fortuna Cigarettes
Etonnante Pub de LOUSTAL pour la marque de cigarettes : FORTUNA. Un paquet de cigarettes en 3D format : 17,5X11,5 Cms Un dessin original sur chacune des faces. En bon état même si présence d'un adhésif metallique sur l'une des faces (Cf photo) puisque cet objet était destiné a être collé à un rayonnage de débitant de tabacs. Fortuna is a brand of cigarettes owned by Franco-Spanish company Altadis. Fortuna contain a blend of American tobacco made mainly from Virginia-type tobacco.In 2004 the brand was introduced to the Moroccan, French, Italian, Luxembourgian, Polish, Austrian, Panaman and Finnish markets.As of 2006, the brand is still the leader in the Spanish market
Etonnante Pub de LOUSTAL pour la marque de cigarettes : FORTUNA. Un paquet de cigarettes en 3D format : 17,5X11,5 Cms Un dessin original sur chacune des faces. En bon état même si présence d'un adhésif metallique sur l'une des faces (Cf photo) puisque cet objet était destiné a être collé à un rayonnage de débitant de tabacs. Fortuna is a brand of cigarettes owned by Franco-Spanish company Altadis. Fortuna contain a blend of American tobacco made mainly from Virginia-type tobacco.In 2004 the brand was introduced to the Moroccan, French, Italian, Luxembourgian, Polish, Austrian, Panaman and Finnish markets.As of 2006, the brand is still the leader in the Spanish market

Dienstag, 05.05.2009
1959 Marlboro Cig Ad
1959 Marlboro Cig Man Decisions Packs 3-Pg Ad
Decisions, decisions, decisions… Which will it be?....
1959 MARLBORO Cigarette Ad-Sculptor Chisels Statue - The better the makin’s, the better the smoke… You get better makin’s in a Marlboro If you’re thinking of changing brands, tattoo this in your mind…Marlboro’s exclusive Filter-Flavor Formula give you flavor you can get hold of. The improved Marlboro filter does what it’s there for…you’re smoking better when it’s Marlboro. 1959 MARLBORO Cigarette Ad-Sculptor Chisels Statue
The better the makin’s, the better the smoke… You get better makin’s in a Marlboro If you’re thinking of changing brands, tattoo this in your mind…Marlboro’s exclusive Filter-Flavor Formula give you flavor you can get hold of. The improved Marlboro filter does what it’s there for…you’re smoking better when it’s Marlboro.
Decisions, decisions, decisions… Which will it be?....
1959 MARLBORO Cigarette Ad-Sculptor Chisels Statue - The better the makin’s, the better the smoke… You get better makin’s in a Marlboro If you’re thinking of changing brands, tattoo this in your mind…Marlboro’s exclusive Filter-Flavor Formula give you flavor you can get hold of. The improved Marlboro filter does what it’s there for…you’re smoking better when it’s Marlboro. 1959 MARLBORO Cigarette Ad-Sculptor Chisels Statue
The better the makin’s, the better the smoke… You get better makin’s in a Marlboro If you’re thinking of changing brands, tattoo this in your mind…Marlboro’s exclusive Filter-Flavor Formula give you flavor you can get hold of. The improved Marlboro filter does what it’s there for…you’re smoking better when it’s Marlboro.

