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Regulating Tobacco in the Retail Environment: Walking Through the Corner Store 

Tue, 03/06/2012

Start Time: 12:00PM CST

This webinar will discuss tobacco control policies that apply at the point-of-sale, using the perspective of a customer standing in the midst of a tobacco retailer’s store. Concepts will include how tobacco products are placed, promoted and advertised within the store, the types of products available for sale, and where the store itself is located. The webinar will discuss both practical and legal issues associated with these policy options.

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Cigarettes in Algeria - Market Report 

The Cigarettes in Algeria report offers a comprehensive guide to the size and shape of the market at a national level. It provides the latest retail sales data 2006-2010, allowing you to identify the sectors driving growth. It identifies the leading companies, the leading brands and offers strategic analysis of key factors influencing the market - be the new legislative, distribution or pricing issues. Forecasts to 2015 illustrate how the market is set to change.

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Justice Department Wants Public Release of Tobacco Warning Statements  

The Justice Department plans to ask a federal judge to make public the proposed statements the government wants tobacco companies to publish about the dangers of their products.

Department spokesman Charles Miller said the agency planned to file the proposed statements in a Washington, D.C., court Thursday, but ran into resistance from cigarette makers about whether the information should be made public now.

"It was our understanding that this would be publicly filed, but there is a difference of opinion on that," Mr. Miller said.

He said the agency will now raise the issue with U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler, who ruled in 2006 that tobacco companies violated federal racketeering laws by engaging in a decades-long scheme to deceive the public about the dangers of smoking.

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Please avoid smoking and walking 

Due to the dry, hot weather the Comox Valley Regional District asks the public not to smoke while walking in one of its 31 parks.

Signs are being posted at the more popular destinations, providing a reminder of the extreme fire risk. The smoking ban applies to all district parks, including Nymph Falls, Wildwood Forest, Seal Bay, Tsolum Spirit and Masters in the Courtenay/Comox area, as well as Mount Geoffrey and Grassy Point parks on Hornby Island.

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The Impact of Repeated Cycles of Pharmacotherapy on Smoking Cessation: A Longitudinal Cohort Study 

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Smoking cessation pharmacotherapy can double quit rates.1 However, smokers often fail after a single quit attempt, and quitting smoking often involves multiple quit attempts over the course of months or years.2-5 Few studies have tested the impact of providing repeated courses of pharmacotherapy to help smokers recover from relapses and engage in new cessation attempts.6-11 As part of a study of chronic disease management for smoking cessation, we followed a cohort of smokers that was offered up to 4 courses of pharmacotherapy over 2 years. We examined their continued interest in using pharmacotherapy and the effect of that treatment.

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Marlins To Support "Tobacco Free Florida Week" Statewide Campaign  

As part of the upcoming "Tobacco Free Florida Week" statewide campaign, the Florida Marlins are set to host and support a series of "tobacco free" initiatives during the Marlins vs. Cardinals Spring Training game on March 1 at Roger Dean Stadium. The "tobacco free" program is designed to promote smoke-free living while reminding tobacco users of programs and support that are available to help their habits.

On Sunday, March 1, the Florida Marlins will incorporate several creative Tobacco Free Florida messaging platforms into their game presentation in-stadium.

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15,000 smokers die every year in Algeria 

Smoking kills over 15,000 people in Algeria every year. Some of 7,000 smokers die of heart attack, a specialist in respiratory diseases said Wednesday.

"Smoking causes deadly diseases including heart attacks," said Professor Salim Nafti, president of the Algerian Association of Respiratory Diseases and Tuberculosis.

In a seminar in Boumerdes Province (50 km east of Algeria), Professor Nafti mentioned that 2,000 to 3,000 smokers in Algeria die of lung and throat cancer.

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5 days without Tobacco- plan to start next week 

If you happen to be a cigarette – addict and eager to shun Tobacco for good, don’t hesitate to join the anti-smoking therapy sessions due to be organized as early as next week in a relaxation centre located at 8 Hamani Street in Algiers.

This commendable initiative, spearheaded by Doctors and Psychologists, comes in the framework of a 5 – day plan aimed at curtailing Tobacco addition among large segments of the Algiers population, notably the youth.

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• Smoking bans reduce heart attack admissions ($$) 

Bans on smoking substantially reduce hospital admissions for heart attacks, research has shown.

On the first anniversary of the ban on public smoking in England, a report shows that smoke-free laws worldwide reduce admissions by almost one fifth (Preventive Medicine 2008 Jun 18; doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.06.007).

This meta-analysis of published studies shows that the effects were immediate. . . .

The analysis is based on eight studies published since 2004, when the first report of such a drop was reported for the town of Helena, Montana.

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"No smoking" at Algiers University  

Algiers University decided to forbid as of Sunday tobacco addiction in all its faculties, institutes, restaurants and transport cars.

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• University of Algiers issues order banning smoking at institutes and faculties 

The University of Algiers has issued an order forbidding smoking at Youcef Benkhedda faculty, while this order will be extended to all the University institutes and faculties, Algiers University Director, Mr. Tahar Hadjar told El Khabar.

According to the same speaker, the order has been issued after the awareness campaigns on smoking and drugs dangers; the university was used holding in the few last years. “The order banning smoking through Youcef Benkhedda faculty has been released in accordance with the Algerian and international law prohibiting smoking in companies and public places,”

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• British American Tobacco to move from Morocco to Algeria 

Well informed sources told El Khabar that the international tobacco group British American Tobacco, BAT is closely following the privatization file of the state owned sulphur and tobacco company, SNTA.

Meanwhile, it has started transferring its activities based in Morocco to Algeria in order to back up its position in the local market.

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Gas and food products against drug and cigarette 

Coast Guards seized, during last September, more than 100 thousands litres of gas, not less than 10 thousands kg and 6 thousands boxes of different food products, as well as 787 boxes of medicines and about 150 heads of livestock that were smuggled across the border in the east and west of the country. In this regard 80 smugglers were arrested during the same period. . . .

the gendarmerie commandment pointed out that smuggled products oriented to Algeria, during last September, were varied. Drug ranked the first with 180 kg of Kif i.e. an increase of more than 48 per cent comparing to August, while seized cigarettes reached 140 cartons

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Protocol agreements sealed to cope with cigarettes counterfeiting 

The State is losing yearly $162mn as a result of losing control over tobacco counterfeited products, which owners evade taxes imposed by the State, while traders sell normally that counterfeited products or banned trade marks because of loopholes in control due to be undertaken by trade ministry. International specialized institutions, however, estimate the losses resulting in smuggling, fraud and copycat at $500mn a year, worldwide. In this respect, an official in anti-smuggling direction at customs services Mr. Nadir Redouane told El Khabar that customs managed to confiscate 100 thousand cartons of smuggled and counterfeited cigarettes especially those US trade marks at the southern borders during 2007 first five months of coming mainly from Mali and Niger.

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• BAT, LORILLARD APPEAL TO DCCA 

BAT and Lorillard have filed their appeals with the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

NOTE: BATCo is also appealing Judge Kessler’s Order #904, which dealt with Gulson/Foyle issues and fined BATCo $250,000 for “reckless misconduct and bad faith dealings with the Court.” * This was one of the major incidents Sharon Eubanks told of in Insights into USA v. Philip Morris, et. al. from Sharon Eubanks

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