http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/category/society.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/celebrity/hrithik-espouses-smoke-free-bollywood_105530.htm http://tobacco.org/news/333614.html Bollywood hunk Hrithik Roshan has stopped blowing smoke rings around him, thanks to Alan Carr’s book ‘Easy Way To Stop Smoking’. Duggu’s last ciggi was three months back and the actor can’t stop raving about this book which helped him stop fagging. Zee News India Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Global-Tobacco-Control-Governance-Transfer/dp/0230200044/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328847703&sr=8-1 http://tobacco.org/news/333610.html The first major book by political scientists explaining global tobacco control policy. It identifies a history of minimal tobacco control then charts the extent to which governments have regulated tobacco in the modern era. It identifies major policy change from the post-war period and uses theories of public policy to help explain the change. Editorial Reviews Review "This is an excellent case study in which the authors provide a thorough account of global tobacco control issues using political and public policy analysis. The book is clearly written, accessible and will be of great interest to students of politics, policy analysis and public health." - Rob Baggott, Professor, Health Policy Research Unit, De Montfort University, UK amazon.com Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.thedaonline.com/news/professor-s-new-book-takes-political-cultural-look-at-tobacco-policies-1.2770188 http://tobacco.org/news/333609.html West Virginia University political science Professor Donley Studlar has published a new book that evaluates tobacco policies around the world. "Global Tobacco Control: Power, Policy, Governance and Transfer," explores the history of the tobacco industry and major concerns in the market. The book focuses on the gap between policy problems in the industry and government response across the globe, in addition to the vast changes in the system over the past 60 years, Studlar said. "Smoking is a very culturally and economically embedded practice in many countries. One of the most remarkable things is how much change there has been," he said. "While policies still vary in Western, industrialized countries, there's been a convergence of policies as information has diffused concerning the dangers of cigarette smoking, as well as how different countries have dealt with them." Studlar said the modern view on smoking in the United States has contributed to economic shifts in the marketplace. "In the 1950s, cigarette smoking was just normal and no one really objected to the situation. Today, smoking is denormalized, and there are restrictions on tobacco," he said. "What we're trying to do in this book is explore that shift - how it came about and the differences across countries." "Smoking is usually thought of as a public health issue, but it's also a very political issue, and the fact that it is perceived differently in different countries indicates that." Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the world, but many countries do not possess any laws regulating smoking, he said. Daily Athenaeum Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.pardaphash.com/news/is-ranbir-kapoor-a-smoker/688186.html http://tobacco.org/news/333601.html Mumbai: Ranbir Kapoor may be the chocolate boy of Bollywood but perhaps he is fed up of that image and wants to show a different side to his persona. According to reports, he was spotted smoking near the airport. He had a cigarette pressed between his fingers when he was spotted. He was accompanied by his bodyguard. Ranbir was not spotted smoking but only holding the cigarette. Parda Phash India Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.amazon.com/Tobacco-Capitalism-Growers-Changing-Industry/dp/0691149208/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328842300&sr=1-1 http://tobacco.org/news/333576.html Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antitobacco movement, the globalization and industrialization of agriculture, and intense debates over immigration, Peter Benson draws on years of field research to examine the moral and financial struggles of growers, the difficult conditions that affect Mexican migrant workers, and the complex politics of citizenship and economic decline in communities dependent on this most harmful commodity. Benson tracks the development of tobacco farming since the plantation slavery period and the formation of a powerful tobacco industry presence in North Carolina. In recent decades, tobacco companies that sent farms into crisis by aggressively switching to cheaper foreign leaf have coached growers to blame the state, public health, and aggrieved racial minorities for financial hardship and feelings of vilification. Economic globalization has exacerbated social and racial tensions in North Carolina, but the corporations that benefit have rarely been considered a key cause of harm and instability, and have now adopted social-responsibility platforms to elide liability for smoking disease. Parsing the nuances of history, power, and politics in rural America, Benson explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming and offers concrete recommendations for the tobacco-control movement in the United States and worldwide. amazon.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/23322.aspx http://tobacco.org/news/333575.html What has been neglected is research on tobacco production in the United States, and specifically on the people who work and live in the rural, traditional tobacco-growing areas of North Carolina. Benson’s new book, Tobacco Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2011), examines the impact of the transformation of the tobacco industry on farmers, workers and the American public. It reveals public health threats, the impact of off-shoring, and the immigration issues related to tobacco production. The book also examines the new public relations strategies of the tobacco industry and its recent corporate social responsibility “makeover”. “There are whole groups of people — farmers and farm workers — in our society who dedicate themselves to growing a crop that is vilified,” says Benson, assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences. “But this book is not just about good people doing a bad thing. What I found was, in going to North Carolina and going to these farms, that the story becomes much more complex.” Washington University in St. Louis jessica_daues@wustl.edu ( By Jessica Daues) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www2.desmogblog.com/node/2750 http://tobacco.org/news/333567.html Background Michael Fox was a retired nuclear scientist and university chemistry professor with experience in the field of energy. He passed away on November 4, 2011. [1], [2] Fox's bio at the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii (GIH) states he "is a retired nuclear scientist and university chemistry professor. He is the science and energy writer/reporter for the HawaiiReport.com. A resident of Kaneohe, Hawaii, he has nearly 40 years experience in the energy field." More recently, Fox lived in Washington State. [3] . . . Affiliations * The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition (TASSC) -- Past "Key scientist and academician." [6] * Grassroot Institute of Hawaii (GIH) -- Past Senior fellow. [3] * The Heartland Institute -- Past "Expert." [3] DeSmogBlog.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://truthdive.com/2012/02/09/JFK-ordered-1-200-Cuban-cigars-hours-before-authorising-them-as-illegal.html http://tobacco.org/news/333560.html John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as possible just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo, which subsequently made them illegal, it has been revealed. The 34th President of the United States asked his head of press and fellow cigar smoker Pierre Salinger to obtain "1,000 Petit Upmanns" on February 6, 1962, so he could have them in his hands before they were deemed contraband. Merely seconds after he was told the next morning that 1,200 of Cuba's finest export had been bought for him, he signed the decree to ban all of the communist state's products from the U.S. The re-surfacing of the story, initially recounted by Salinger to Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1992, comes with the passing of the 50th anniversary of the embargo on Tuesday. According to him, JFK called him into his office and said he needed "some help" to find "a lot of cigars". He wanted "1,000 Petit Upmanns" and needed them by "tomorrow morning". ANI Cuba USA Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2012/feb/08/1/auction-of-vast-reynolds-tobacco-collection-begins-ar-1908687/ http://tobacco.org/news/333558.html Talk about a garage sale to beat all garage sales. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s 7,000-piece collection of artwork, pottery, books, antiques and collectibles from its offices all over the world goes on sale Friday through Sunday to benefit the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Items range from small ceramics for $10 to $20 to large items such as grandfather clocks for $3,000. Reynolds acquired the pieces over more than 100 years and donated the collection to the arts council, which will use the proceeds for grants and programs. "One of our main goals at the arts council is to put it into the community again, so it's priced for that," said Rebecca Parker, who has been cataloging the vast collection since May in preparation for the sale. . . . "It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," New said. The sale gives people a chance to buy a piece of local history and support the local arts community at the same time. Much of the collection is antique. There are large sculptures, brass nautical items and a statue of a young man lighting a pipe. There are newer things, too. Many of the oil paintings, prints and photographs appear to date to the 1970s and '80s, Parker said. Winston-Salem Journal pgarber@wsjournal.com (PAUL GARBER * Winston-Salem Journal) Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2098269/Lady-Gaga-revives-male-alter-ego-Jo-Calderone-latest-music-video.html http://tobacco.org/news/333497.html The 25-year-old singer has revived her male persona Jo Calderone for another video to accompany her single You and I. The simple black and white fashion film shows the odd character puffing on a cigarette and stripping down to his white underwear while swearing and groping himself. . . . Can't quit: Calderone smokes a cigarette throughout the black and white video . . . Stripping off: The alter ego begins taking off his clothes while chain smoking The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2012/feb/08/100-years-ago-law-against-cigarette-sales-spelled-/ http://tobacco.org/news/333479.html From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 8, 1912: . . . * "Who is selling cigarettes in Lawrence? Following a brief item in the Journal-World concerning the selling of cigarettes in Lawrence a number of Lawrence dealers in tobacco have come out with very emphatic statements that they are not law transgressors. They are Griggs, Hilliard and Carroll and 'Swede' Wilson's pool hall. The protest against the violation of the cigarette law does not apply alone to the High School boys who can be seen smoking them almost any morning coming from the High School, but against any one buying such a contraband article in Kansas. The law is very strict on the matter. It reads 'Sale of cigarettes prohibited . . . This is the law on the matter and yet any day in Lawrence boys much under age may be seen walking up and down Massachusetts puffing a cigarette." Lawrence Journal-World Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2097199/Looking-smoking-like-idol-Troubled-actress-Lindsay-Lohan-clutches-cigarette-Marilyn-Monroe-inspired-shoot.html?ito=feeds-newsxml http://tobacco.org/news/333456.html It's not a good habit to have, but anything Lindsay Lohan can do to look like her idol, she'll do. The troubled actress can be seen clutching cigarettes in yet another Marilyn Monroe-inspired photoshoot. The 25-year-old looks smoking as she poses seductively on a bed for Love magazine. Her bad habits: Lindsay Lohan took inspiration from Marilyn Monroe in her latest photoshoot, for LOVE magazine She lays back on the white sheets, arms above her head with a smoke between her neatly manicured fingers. An ashtray can be seen next to her and her bare arms show off her array of tattoos. The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.omaha.com/article/20120207/LIVING/702079967 http://tobacco.org/news/333428.html What happened in the Midlands on this day? Here's a sampling from the World-Herald archives. CIGARETTE TAX STAMPS HERE Feb. 7, 1946: Four million cigarette tax stamps arrived at the City Hall. Finance Commissioner Carl Jensen and Comptroller Charles Stenicka announced, "Cigarette tax stamps are now on sale." The 2-cent-per-package question, however, was: Would the stamps make their debut in Omaha February 15th as scheduled? Messrs Jensen and Stenicka said there was nothing at present to prevent the proposed tax from going into effect. In the week to come, however, there was to be a court hearing on whether the city should be prevented from placing the tax in effect. Omaha World Herald Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20120205/NEWS/120209902/1063/NEWS&ParentProfile=1055 http://tobacco.org/news/333370.html Bobbie DeRamus doesn't remember things as well as she did. She's been diagnosed as being in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease, a neurological disorder devastating to short-term memory. So she thinks about the distant past. One memory that keeps coming back is when she spoke up for a ban on indoor smoking. DeRamus, 86, of Roseburg suffered severely from the secondhand cigarette smoke she inhaled at work in the 1970s and '80s. She testified several times in front of a state Senate committee when legislators were considering what became the Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act. The ban on indoor smoking in public buildings except in designated areas went into effect in 1983, the same year DeRamus left her job as a bookkeeper for Children's Services Division in Roseburg due to the damage secondhand smoke had done to her body. The ban provoked strong feelings. In a Gallup poll in 1983, 55 percent of smokers agreed they should refrain from smoking around nonsmokers. But 39 percent disagreed, and about 30 percent did not believe that secondhand smoke was hazardous to nonsmokers. Roseburg News-Review ccegavske@nrtoday.com Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.boston.com/sports/golf/articles/2012/02/04/levin_63_puffs_his_way_to_top/ http://tobacco.org/news/333313.html Spencer Levin took one last drag on his cigarette, stamped it out in the rough and climbed into the bunker behind the 17th green. He set up quickly, took a quick glance at the hole and splashed out. The ball landed about 10 feet from the hole, bounced twice and rolled into the cup for an eagle-2 that pushed him to 14-under par yesterday in the second round of the Phoenix Open at Scottsdale, Ariz. A few minutes - and another cigarette - later, he parred the 18th for an 8-under 63 and a three-stroke lead. Associated Press Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT