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Ruyan America, Inc., Minneapolis, announced today that its products won two of the six awards presented at the 2008 Tobacco Plus Expo held at the Las Vegas Convention Center April 24th and 25th. The Company's E-cigarette was named 2008 Most Innovative Product and its Ruyan Vegas E-cigar was named Most Marketable New Product of the Year.
Both products are cigarette alternatives/smoking substitutes that allow users to satisfy their cravings for nicotine in places and situations where they otherwise cannot smoke. The Ruyan E-cigarette and the Ruyan Vegas E-cigar use ultrasonic atomization technology to create nicotine infused water vapor that users draw as if it were smoke. Additionally, the products allow users to effectively simulate the physiological and psychological attributes of smoking without creating any harmful second hand smoke.
Donald J. Bores, Chairman of Tobacco Outlet Business magazine, one of the Expo's sponsors, stated, "The Ruyan products represent a great opportunity for tobacco retailers to expand their product offerings, provide their customers with convenient smoking alternatives and allow them to choose when and where they are able to satisfy their desire to smoke
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For a preview of the next hot tobacco products to hit convenience store shelves, the place to be last week was the Tobacco Plus Expo here.
The Expo, which bills itself as the largest tobacco-focused show in the U.S., drew owners and operators representing the nation's approximately 12,000 tobacco outlets. The show floor featured more than 180 exhibitors with a wide range of products, from the traditional new flavors and sizes of cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco to myriad specialty items and accessories including hookahs, glass pipes, humidors, cigarette cases, cigar cutters, candles and incense.
The event was kicked off Wednesday evening by the NATO (National Association of Tobacco Outlets) Awards Dinner, followed the next morning by an educational program headlined by Convenience Store News Editor-in-Chief Don Longo and NATO President Andy Kerstein.
In the first presentation, Longo teamed up with Mike Kirkwood, executive vice president, Tobacco Outlet Magazine, to provide attendees with a comparison of the convenience store and tobacco outlet channels.
The Las Vegas Convention Center is a smoke free building. That means no smoking. But you might be surprised to learn over the last two days people are being allowed to smoke inside.
It's a story the News 3 Investigators are following. Mitch Truswell explains this temporary change. . . .
We are an economy that thrives on convention business. The tobacco expo has been coming to Las Vegas for 11 years.
Our calls to Tobacco Expo organizers were not returned. According to the LVCBA, the Tobacco Expo brings several thousand people to Las Vegas every year.
When it says the Convention Center is a smoke free building you would think that means all the time. Not exactly. On the doors leading to the Convention Center's north hall it says it is a smoke free building. Walk about 50 feet inside and the rules change.
Despite what the vocal minority claims, an easy way to immediately start adding tax dollars to state coffers would be to rescind the archaic, unconstitutional, anti-business smoking law deceitfully presented to the electorate.
When people were arguing "Yes on 4," "No on 5" and vice versa in 2006, I was calling for a no vote on both. That thousands of children were dying in our streets from secondhand smoke after hanging out in taverns was the most laughable excuse for this law ever conceived. Even the most deranged liberal can hardly make that connection. . . .
In the little tavern I frequent, four cooks and three waitresses, two of whom were teachers working part-time to supplement their income, lost their jobs. No longer are they employed as such.
Paul Sonner, owner of the Bully's Sports Bar & Grill locations in Northern Nevada, saw that the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act was hurting his business.
The law, approved by Nevada voters in the 2006 general election, banned smoking in most indoor public places except for casino floors and bars that did not serve food.
The law hurt Bully's and many similar businesses, Sonner said. If bars or taverns served food, they could not allow smoking.
So, smoking customers no longer patronized their businesses to have a beer, cigarette and perhaps a hamburger while playing the poker machines and watching sports on a big-screen TV.
"There are a lot of people who went out of business," Sonner said. . . .
Sonner, meanwhile, has come up with a unique -- yet expensive -- way to obey the law and get around it at the same time.
Sonner opened three "Smokin' Bully's" locations near his establishments.
So now, if his customers want to eat, drink and smoke, they can order food in the established Bully's, and the food will be served to them in the Smokin' Bully's in take-out containers.
Nevada’s high school students are being more responsible about their health and well-being, with fewer reporting they smoke, have sex or drink and drive, according to a new survey.
The Nevada Youth Risk Behavior Survey, conducted biennially statewide in grades seven through 12, asks students about their alcohol and tobacco use, personal habits and school safety. . . .
According to survey results, the teen smoking rate has hit a six-year low, with 14 percent of high school students reporting they had smoked in the previous 30 days. By comparison, about 25 percent of high schoolers in 2001 said they’d smoked.
Authorities say a deadly house fire that killed a Fallon woman was sparked by a burning or smoldering cigarette.
An autopsy found Connie Jean Winterton, 41, died of asphyxiation.
The Churchill County sheriff's office said the fire Monday began in a recliner.
The woman who died in a Fallon-area house fire Monday afternoon at 3270 Duane Drive has been identified as 41-year-old Connie Jean Winterton, according to a press release from the Churchill County Sheriff’s Department. Winterton, along with her boyfriend and 6-year-old daughter, had been living in the Fallon area for the last several months and came from Southern Nevada.
A man died Friday morning after his apartment at the Sunrise Vista Motel on Charleston Boulevard was gutted by a fire. . . .
The cause of the fire wasn't known, but investigators believe the man was smoking while using a medical oxygen tank. Although no cigarettes were found, the remains of an exploded tank were found on the bed next to the man, and people who live in the complex told investigators that he had a history of smoking while using his oxygen, Szymanski said.
A man and woman were seriously burned Monday morning when the woman's cigarette sparked a fire with her oxygen tank, a spokesman for the Clark County Fire Department said. . . .
The fire was the third in two weeks involving cigarettes and oxygen tanks.
In one of those cases, a man died Friday morning after his apartment on Charleston Boulevard near Interstate 15 was gutted by a fire. . . .
For the second time in less than a week, someone smoking while using oxygen caused a fire. This time two people were critically injured.
The column of smoke was visible across the valley. The fire started around 6 a.m. Monday at a home near Mountain Vista and Desert Inn. . . .
The victim's mother, Pam was also in bad shape but she was able to tell firefighters that she was using oxygen and smoking a cigarette.
"It flashed on her. She had facial burns. She had upper body burns. It spread fast because there was a very large fire load," continued Scott Allison.
Corder added, "We have been telling her for years."
Neighbor Steve Corder says the 68-year-old used to come over to his house with the oxygen and smoke. "Used to scare us. She would bring that mobile over here and oh God, she is going to blow our house up. But this time she did it." . . .
The second incident was Friday.
Investigators say smoking while using oxygen may have caused a fire that led to the death of a man in his sixties in an apartment complex on East Charleston near US-95/I-515.
Many food places, bars and taverns have coal in their Christmas stockings this year. The loss of revenue is solely because they aren't allowed to accommodate the thousands of tourists and locals who enjoy smoking while dining. . . .
I am not a business owner but I have many friends, relatives and associates who travel to Las Vegas and a majority do in fact enjoy smoking and eating in the same establishment, as do thousands of tourists. Since this smoking ban took effect, people lost and closed their businesses and many employees lost their jobs. Sin City? No way - Politically Correct City is more like it.
Most Carson City businesses have followed a state smoking ban enacted last year, but health officials are still deciding how to enforce the rules.
Voters passed the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act last year, banning smoking in most indoor businesses. Casinos, stand-alone bars, tobacco shops and adult entertainment clubs are exempt.
But the city health department, which helps enforce the ban, has gotten few complaints and found few problems during routine inspections, said Dustin Boothe, a department supervisor.
Nevadans are smoking less but are heavier and often lack health insurance, making the state 39th in the country in overall health, a new study has found.
United Health Foundation's 2007 rankings found that weight woes and insufficient access to care also led to a decline in the country's overall health last year, the first time for such a decrease.
The annual report by United Health Foundation ranks Nevada 39th in the country in overall health. Last year, the state ranked 38th. . . .
On the bright side, the report said Nevada's smoking rate has dropped significantly over the last seven years. Nevada climbed to 36th, up from 39th last year. The state ranked 49th in that category in 2000 and 50th in 1990, the first year the annual health rankings were done.
State health officials said increased media attention and community programs have helped lower Nevada's smoking rates.
"The decrease in smoking prevalence is certainly good news, but we also have to be cautious that we don't let our guard down," said Martha Framsted, spokeswoman for the Nevada State Health Division. "Hopefully, the message will continue to resonate with people."