Thursday, January 10, 2013

Jessica Alba pregnant….but still chain smoking tobacco?



Now that Jessica Alba's pregnant with baby #2, will the famously fit actress quit smoking for good? Known for her celebrity butt, the mother of one is also famous for chain smoking and puffing her way through photo shoots and movie sets. Will Jessica Alba finally kick the habit? SMOKING HOT JESSICA ALBA CAN'T QUIT SMOKING In 2008, the 29-year-old Alba and hubby Cash Warren, 32, welcomed baby girl Honor Marie, and while she quit smoking during pregnancy, Alba was quick to light up following the birth of their first daughter. She was seen smoking in France and was photographed chain smoking on the set of "Good Luck Chuck" and throughout her November 2010 covershoot with Elle magazine. ALBA: "EAT, DRINK AND SMOKE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE" IN 2003 A long-time celebrity smoker, Alba told the New York Post in 2003 that her New Year's Resolution was to "eat, drink and smoke as much as possible." Yet Alba's internet search for "fitness" is almost equal to searches for "Jessica Alba smoking" - 1.5 million to about 1.3 million, in comparison. She's a fitness buff applauded for her physique but rarely featured in the same fitness articles is her undying habit of smoking. KATHERINE HEIGL QUIT SMOKING WITH E-CIGS Hollywood mom and former celebrity smoker Katherine Heigl battled the same smoky archnemesis as Alba but eventually was able to find a remedy that helped her quit smoking for good. In Heigl's case, she reealed swapping her tobacco cigarettes for electronic ones and said it was the only thing that helped her quit.

Angelina Jolie Smoking Cigarettes



The picture below, of Angelina Jolie smoking a cigarette, must be responsible for millions of teenagers, boys and girls alike, starting to smoke. No seriously, Angelina Jolie always looks hot, whether she’s smoking a cigarette or not, and we wouldn’t want to impose upon her conscience the premature deaths of millions because she looks so hot with a cigarette!

Angelina Jolie Smoking Cigarettes

It is now rumoured that for the sake of her many adopted kids, and her real ones as well, she has stopped smoking and dragooned Brad Pitt into quitting as well. Perhaps she decided to withhold her wifely duties from him until he quit? That would work for me. Either way, it seems that Angelina Jolie has quit smoking – cigarettes that is!

November 10th marks one year since South Dakota’s smoke-free law went into effect.

The law bans smoking cheap Dunhill cigarettes in bars and restaurants. While smokers and business have adapted with outdoor smoking

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Godfrey to roll out new-look cigarette pack in Delhi

GODFREY Phillips India, the second largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the country, has given a new look to the packaging of its Red & White Cigarettes brand of cigarettes. After recently test marketing its new pack in Chandigarh, the company on Monday announced the rollout of its Red & White Cigarettes in a new look pack for the National Capital region. The pack also sports a bar code to improve traceability. The new pack has been designed by Phillip Morris, with which the company has a technical collaboration agreement. Customers in Delhi would continue to get Red &White Cigarettes with the same taste and at the same price of Rs 14,50 for a pack of 10, Mr Amrish R. Anand, Executive Vice-President — Marketing & Sales, Godfrey Phillips India, told presspersons here. So what has prompted the change to a new look pack, which now has a dominating presence of white shade? «The main reason is to bring freshness to the brand in tune with the changing times,» Mr Anand said.

Thirdhand Smoke Could Cause Lung Damage in Hotel Housekeepers

A study published last year in the American Journal of Physiology warns that exposure to thirdhand smoke could cause lung damage in hotel housekeepers who change the bed sheets in rooms of smokers, even when no smoking is occurring at the time the housekeeper is cleaning the room. The study concludes that thirdhand smoke is a substantial hazard that puts anyone exposed at risk of lung damage. Thirdhand smoke is exposure to tobacco smoke that off-gasses from surfaces on which it has deposited during active smoking, although the exposure occurs when smoking is not present.

New Study on Graphic Warning Labels Provides Further Evidence that They are Unconstitutional

A new study on the effectiveness of cigarette graphic warning labels published in the current issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine inadvertently provides evidence that the FDA's requirement that tobacco companies place these "warnings" on their cigarette packs is unconstitutional, as it compels speech that is not purely factual.

(See: Trasher JF, et al. Cigarette Warning Label Policy Alternatives and Smoking-Related Health Disparities. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2012; 2012;43(6):590–600.)

The study was intended to test the effectiveness of graphic warning labels in deterring smoking among adult smokers.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Analyst Predicts Cigarette Price Hike

Multiple signs suggest a cigarette price increase is on tap for the first half of December, according to a tobacco analyst.
"Our ... survey results indicate PM USA will likely lead a list-price increase of 6 to 7 cents/pack in mid-December," she wrote on Nov. 14. "This is expected to drive industry revenue and profit pool growth even if a portion of the list price increase is 'promoted away.' "