Story Highlights Expert panel calls for higher cigarette taxes, ban on Internet sales Tobacco products should be regulated by FDA, group says FDA should force gradual reduction in nicotine levels, panel suggests If cigarettes were introduced for first time now, expert says, they'd be banned Adjust font size: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U. Story Highlights Expert panel calls for higher cigarette taxes, ban on Internet sales Tobacco products should be regulated by FDA, group says FDA should...

Institute Urges Extensive Smoking Deterrents - washingtonpost.com Hello Change Preferences . Sign Out Sign In . Register Now Print Edition . Subscribe News Politics. But that is not enough -- not when there are 440,000 deaths a year from tobacco use and $89 billion annually in smoking-related health costs, the influential Institute of Medicine said yesterday in a report that called for several new measures to further drive down tobacco use. But that is not enough -- not when there are...

Dallas: Police say stealing of cigarettes is a growing problem 12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, May 31, 2007 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News teiserer@dallasnews.com Police captured two bandits Wednesday as one of them tried to walk out of a Greenville Avenue convenience store with a bag full of pilfered tobacco products, authorities said. Dallas: Police say stealing of cigarettes is a growing problem 12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, May 31, 2007 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News...

Tobacco industry using movies to recruit young smokers: Experts 30/05/2007 - 11:47:28 The tobacco industry is using cigarette advertising in shops and PG-rated Hollywood films to deliberately target children, a leading expert claimed today. Professor Ken Warner warned that point of sale advertising in shops is one method to lure teens to buy tobacco. He said one third of teenagers who saw more than 150 scenes of smoking in films in cinemas, on video or on television, had tried smoking....

A NUMBER of displaced Zimbabwean farmers who relocated to neighbouring countries to flee the chaotic land reform programme have started to troop back into the country after encountering fresh problems at their new bases, the Zimbabwe Independent heard this week. A NUMBER of displaced Zimbabwean farmers who relocated to neighbouring countries to flee the chaotic land reform programme have started to troop back into the country after encountering fresh problems at their new bases, the...

Later customers, though, are treated to a fresher micro-climate where you can actually smell the dark Peruvian roast and enjoy a ham roll that hasn t received the full tobacco treatment. Politicians smoke, their constituents smoke and thousands of employees depend for their livelihood on the growing, manufacturing, distributing and retailing of the poisonous weed. The problem can hardly be solved by dividing a coffee shop into smoking and non-smoking time zones or by physically splitting...