End of quota system, decline of small farmers cited as causes By CLAY CAREY Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD For generations, a large metal arch over the main highway into this town boasted that it was home to the World s Finest Dark Fired Tobacco. Tobacco warehouses dotted the landscape around Springfield s public square, symbols of the big business that tobacco was. End of quota system, decline of small farmers cited as causes By CLAY CAREY Staff Writer SPRINGFIELD For generations, a large metal...

Organizers said participants will learn how to speak out against tobacco use, secondhand smoke and the tobacco industry's marketing tactics. Young people ages 13 to 20 can sign up for Saturday's anti-tobacco youth summit at the War Memorial Convention Hall. The event is sponsored by REAL: Hawai'i Youth Movement Exposing the Tobacco Industry. REAL is coordinated through the Cancer Research Center at the University of Hawai'i and funded by the Master Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund.

I urge officials to tighten the proposed rules by requiring manufacturers to prove their products are cigars and establishing tougher standards for cigar content. Blumenthal feels that labeling cigarettes as "little cigars" helps the manufacturer avoid taxes, advertising bans and warning labels. He also said the manufacturers can evade payments under the national tobacco settlement that he helped orchestrate in the 1990s. That settlement will cost tobacco companies $246 billion, while...

The law only allows cigarette ads to be placed at the sites where tobacco products are either produced or sold. The Commission has lodged a legal claim against it, accusing it of infringing the collective interest of consumers in Bulgaria. One of the violations registered is that the print ads didn't use only the registered trade mark as stated in the law. After the Commission's check two of the companies brought down the advertisements, while the third refused. Cigarettes can also be...

Habanos is the arm of the Cuban state tobacco monopoly, Cubatabaco, which controls the promotion, distribution, and exportation of Cuban cigars and other tobacco products worldwide. trade embargo was imposed more than 40 years ago as part of President Kennedy's stand against the communist government, Americans have been banned from buying cigars from Cuba. The soil in the western part of the country is considered the best in the world for growing tobacco. There's no doubt tobacco...

Gustave Bock is credited with the invention of the cigar band in about 1854, and with helping to build the cigar industry in Cuba. It helps hold the wrapper intact, protects the fingers from stain and scent of tobacco, and is an eye-catcher due to the design. Gone, too, are the days when little girls slipped colorful cigar bands over their ring fingers, pretending to be engaged to the boy they had a crush on. By Barbara Carney Special to the Tribune-Star Gone are the days when cigars...