Tobacco Articles: category youth

Newsagents outline fears over shop crime and tobacco display ban

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Independent newsagents raised concerns about plans for a tobacco display ban and shop crime when a delegation from the National Federation of Retail Newsagents (NFRN) visited Northern Ireland. The delegation, including its national president Suleman Khonat, aired their concerns in a meeting SDLP deputy leader Patsy McGlone at a meeting in Stormont. They told the MLA for Mid Ulster that, while they were supportive of efforts to reduce tobacco consumption, especially among young people, they were concerned that banning displays would place a further burden on retailers rather than achieve the target of reducing youth smoking.

Cigarette Store Selling Cigarettes, Knives to Minors

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Over one hundred weapons seized from a Watsonville cigarette shop, but the store owner, gets off scott free. Last Friday night, police received a tip from the Watsonville Planning Commission that local discount cigarette stores were possibly selling tobacco and items that looked like weapons to minors.

Watsonville tobacco stores caught selling illegal weapons, cigarettes to underage kids

djones@santacruzsentinel.com (Donna Jones - Santa Cruz Sentinel) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Police seized 150 illegal knives and a variety of brass knuckles from two discount cigarette stores on Freedom Boulevard on Monday. The weapons for sale at Cigarette City and Discount Cigarettes came to light during a weekend decoy operation designed to check on tobacco sales to minors. No arrests were made. Police Chief Manny Solano said Kahlil Rahim, whose family owns the two stores and another on Main Street, cooperated with the investigation . . . At Discount Cigarettes, 1938 Main St., - also owned by the Rahim family - and at Jack's Cigar Store, 446 Main St., clerks checked cadets ID's and refused to sell to minors, police said.

Recent Cigarette Marketing Campaign Targeted Teen Girls, Study Reveals

spence@harbar.net — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

The 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) prohibits tobacco industry advertising practices that encourage underage teenagers to smoke, yet new research out of the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego has found that a 2007 marketing campaign for Camel brand cigarettes was effective in encouraging young girls to start smoking. The study, led by John P. Pierce, PhD, professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and director of the Cancer Center's Cancer Prevention and Control Program, will be published March 15 in an early online edition of the scientific journal Pediatrics. The research, part of a national study on parenting practices, involved 1,036 males and females who were 10 to 13 years old when enrolled onto the study. Between 2003 and 2008, scientists conducted five telephone interviews, which included questions about smoking. The fifth interview was conducted after the start of RJ Reynolds' "Camel No. 9" advertising campaign in 2007. Consistent with earlier research, the new study showed that youth who had never smoked but who reported having a "favorite" cigarette ad at the beginning were 50 percent more likely to initiate smoking.

Christian Coalition says no to cigarette tax, yes to tax on lottery and movie tickets: Political Insider

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

The Georgia Christian Coalition says it is now contacting lawmakers to urge them not to consider a $1-a-pack increase in the state tax on cigarettes. . . . “If you think money has any real meaning to teens,” Luquire observes, “then you haven’t checked their spending on cell phones, texting, video games, energy drinks and car accessories. A former smoker, he said, “A nicotine addict is going to have his fix and a nickel a cigarette is simply going to mean he has less money to spend on other things that also have taxes on them.” He said he quit smoking December 25, 1982. As to health claims he observed, “With those wanting to tax everything that tastes good in the name of helping your health, there is no end to the harassment they will bring. If so called unhealthy foods were killing you, there would be no old, fat people crowding buffets,” Luquire added.

Cigarette Ad May Have Targeted Teen Girls: Survey Suggests Camel No. 9 Ads in Magazines Caught the Attention of Teenage Girls

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

In a national survey of teens conducted soon after ads for the R.J. Reynolds brand Camel No. 9 appeared in leading women's magazines, 44% of the girls could name a favorite brand, based on advertising. Their average age was 15. In previous surveys, about 10% fewer girls named a favorite cigarette advertisement. The increase in the latest survey was almost exclusively for the Camel brand. The landmark 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between states' attorneys general and the tobacco industry prohibits all tobacco marketing aimed at children and teens. Since the agreement, the smoking rate among teens has dropped dramatically, from 35% to about 20%. R.J. Reynolds strongly denies marketing to teens, but longtime tobacco trends researcher John P. Pierce, PhD, who led the survey, disagrees.

Getting Teenage Girls to Smoke?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Anti-smoking activists say an advertising campaign to promote Camel No. 9 cigarettes was a direct appeal to teenage girls. The cigarettes, a sub-brand of Camel, come in a pack with a shocking pink trim and a name that smacks of perfume. Though R.J. Reynolds, the company that makes the cigarettes, pulled the ads in 2008, a new study says they had a big effect on teenage girls. The ads bore a striking resemblance to fashion spreads and ran in women’s magazines like Glamour and US Weekly, which are popular among teenagers. They offered promotional giveaway items like berry lip balm – and cellphone jewelry. . . .

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Did Camel Ads Encourage Teen Girls to Smoke?

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Does your teenage or college-age daughter read fashion magazines such as Glamour or Vogue? Does she smoke? If the answer to both of those questions is yes, she may have been influenced by a series of advertisements for Camel cigarettes that appeared in those and other magazines in 2007, a new study suggests. The four largest tobacco companies in the United States—including R.J. Reynolds, the maker of Camels—are prohibited from "directly or indirectly" marketing cigarettes and other tobacco products to young people, following the terms of a multibillion settlement the companies entered into in 1998 to compensate 46 states for tobacco-related health costs. But according to the study, which was published this week in the journal Pediatrics, R.J. Reynolds seems to have evaded the terms of the settlement by devising a marketing strategy that—deliberately or otherwise—successfully caught the eye of teen girls and probably encouraged them to smoke.

Study: Camel No. 9 cigarette ads appeal to teen girls

accuracy@usatoday.com (Liz Szabo, USA TODAY) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

A recent marketing campaign for Camel cigarettes appears to have attracted the interest of teen girls, a study shows. The ads for Camel No. 9 cigarettes -- which ran in magazines such as Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Glamour -- were a hit with girls ages 12 to 16, says a study of 1,036 adolescents published online Monday in Pediatrics. Promotional giveaways for the new brand, which was launched in 2007, included berry-flavored lip balm, cellphone jewelry, purses and wristbands, the study says. David Howard, a spokesman for R.J. Reynolds, which makes Camel, says the ads were aimed at adults, noting that 85% of the magazines' readers are over 18. . . . But the ads were clearly noticed by teenagers, says study co-author Cheryl Healton, president of the anti-smoking group the American Legacy Foundation, which interviewed teens about their awareness of cigarette brands. In 2008, within a year of the ads' debut, 22% of girls listed Camel as their favorite cigarette ad. That's twice the number who listed Camel as their favorite in four earlier interviews taken for the study. That suggests that it was the new campaign -- not older Camel products -- that captured girls' attention, Healton says.

Smoking ban slow to take in S.D. parks

leonel.sanchez@uniontrib.com (Leonel Sanchez, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Anybody wanting to know how San Diego’s ban on smoking in public places is doing need only look at the piles of cigarette butts a local group recently picked up in two dozen local parks. “It’s not working,” said Manuel Andrade of Social Advocates for Youth San Diego, staring at bags containing more than 50,000 butts that his group displayed near a playground at Colina del Sol Park in City Heights. While a city official says the ban is cutting down on smoking outdoors, Andrade insists more needs to be done to educate the public about the ordinance and to enforce it — particularly at the parks. SAY San Diego, as the group is better known, and hundreds of volunteers collected 42,757 butts in 2008 and 50,347 last year at 24 parks throughout the city. “We know it’s got to be self-enforced, but police need to give citations. That’s a must-do,” Andrade said.

N.H. moving ahead with e-cigarette ban for youth

opinion@seacoastonline.com (Associated Press) — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Electronic cigarettes are readily available at mall kiosks and the Internet, come in flavors like tobacco, strawberry, chocolate and vanilla, and replace smoking with "vaping." And though they deliver a dose of nicotine steam, they can still be legally sold to and used by minors. Mara Zrzavy, a 16-year-old ConVal Regional High School student from Peterborough, thinks that's just wrong, and worries kids her age will view e-cigarettes as cool and become addicted to the nicotine. After they're hooked, some will switch to regular cigarettes, which are cheaper, she said. "It's like having a new cell phone. It's cool. It's electronic," she said. Zrzavy and other New Hampshire youth involved in anti-drug programs helped persuade the House to pass a bill barring e-cigarette use by minors and hope the Senate will do the same. Supporters want lawmakers to apply New Hampshire's law on tobacco products to e-cigarettes. New Jersey has barred use by minors, in workplaces and other indoor public places. Several other states are considering laws restricting use by minors.

Smoking, alcohol banned in Brelsford Park

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:00:00 GMT

The new adventure playground in Coffs Harbour's Brelsford Park will now be smoke-free. The park has been added to a growing list of public facilities going smoke-free, such as the International Sports Stadium.

N.H. teen leads push to ban e-cigarettes

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Electronic cigarettes are readily available at mall kiosks and the Internet, come in flavors like tobacco, strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla, and replace smoking with "vaping.'' And though they deliver a dose of nicotine steam, they can still be legally sold to and used by minors. Mara Zrzavy, a 16-year-old ConVal Regional High School student from Peterborough, thinks that is wrong, and worries children her age will view e-cigarettes as cool and become addicted to the nicotine. After they are hooked, some will switch to regular cigarettes, which are cheaper, she said. "It's like having a new cellphone. It's cool. It's electronic,'' she said.

Teen Smoking Called a 'National Catastrophe'

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Moscow's top doctor said Friday that smoking-related diseases were growing and warned that teenage smoking was leading to a "national catastrophe." Dr. Leonid Lazebnik painted a grim picture of the harm that tobacco was causing Russians, telling a round table that 65 percent of men and 30 percent of women have smoked at some time in their lives. In contrast, Lazebnik said, the figures in the mid-1980s were 48 percent of men and 5 percent of women. He said 24.6 percent of Muscovites are smokers. "But the scariest thing of all is our future," Lazebnik said. "In Moscow, 73 percent of boys and 65 percent of girls smoke. I see this as a national catastrophe." . . . City Hall and federal officials attending Friday's round table promised to lobby for laws that restricted smoking in public places and limited cigarette sales. "We will have no success without a legal base," said Yulia Grimalskaya, deputy head of City Hall's department for family and youth policies.

Stores complying with tobacco law: Clerks refuse to sell to underage teens who don’t have ID

tom.morton@trib.com ( TOM MORTON Casper Star-Tribune ) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Sixteen stores visited by Casper police Thursday complied with the law by refusing to sell tobacco products to undercover teenagers, Sgt. Steve Schulz said Friday. “There were no sales to the minor, which is great and outstanding,” Schulz said. “Every clerk asked for an ID.”