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Warren officials say they adamantly support a local ban on all billboards that carry advertisements for cigars and cigarettes. The ban is the idea of council President Jim Fouts, whose goal is to make it tough for tobacco companies to influence impressionable minors. "Children are often exposed to billboard advertising of tobacco simply by walking to school or playing in their neighborhoods," Fouts said.
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The Wegmans supermarket chain has taken an extraordinary step to protect public health by announcing that effective February 10, 2008, it will stop selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in all of its stores. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids congratulates Wegmans for putting health and lives ahead of profits from selling deadly and addictive tobacco products. Wegmans has set an example for other supermarkets and retailers to follow.
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Modern cigarettes produced after the 1950s, although composed mainly of shredded tobacco leaf, use a significant quantity of tobacco processing by-products in the blend. Each cigarette's tobacco blend is made mainly from the leaves of flue-cured brightleaf, burley tobacco, and oriental tobacco. These leaves are selected, processed, and aged prior to blending and filling. The processing of brightleaf and burley tobaccos for tobacco leaf "strips" produces several by-products such as leaf stems, tobacco dust, and tobacco leaf pieces ("small laminate").[15] To improve the economics of producing cigarettes, these by-products are processed separately into forms where they can then be possibly added back into the cigarette blend without an apparent or marked change in the cigarette's quality. The most common tobacco by-products include:
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The end result of this nine-page spread is exactly what the tobacco settlement sought to stop, which is the use of cartoon characters to market cigarettes. It is outrageous and irresponsible for Rolling Stone to create a layout that associates cartoons with cigarettes. It is hard to believe that this not intentional as the tobacco company involved, R.J. Reynolds, is most notorious for using cartoon characters to market cigarettes to children with the now-banned Joe Camel.
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IMPERIAL TOBACCO, the Embassy cigarettes company that was demerged from Hanson last year, has seen a sharp acceleration in the decline of the UK tobacco market (Paul Durman writes). The UK market, in which Imperial holds a 37.9 per cent share, contracted by 5 per cent last year to about 77 billion cigarettes.
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David E. Townsend, Reynolds Tobacco's executive vice president of research and development, says that Eclipse burns only about 3 percent as much tobacco as other cigarettes. This results in a much simpler smoke chemistry, consisting primarily of glycerin and water, with only 20 percent of the smoke being "tar" (minus glycerin) and nicotine. "That's almost the exact opposite of other cigarettes," Townsend says.
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