http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/country/mexico.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/moreover/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080702005843&newsLang=en http://tobacco.org/news/268215.html Tobacco One, Inc. (Pink Sheets: TBCO) announced today that they have purchased a regionally popular cigarette brand from a Mexico City businessman for cash plus common stock. The previous owner will stay on as a consultant to Tobacco One, Inc. for a minimum two-year term. The brand was first introduced in Mexico City in 2006. It remained a regional brand until recently when Tobacco One's international marketing team finished a three-month feasibility study focusing on national expansion and consumer acceptance. During this study, Tobacco One in partnership with the Mexico City marketing firm Integra Marketing, S.A. de C.V. obtained numerous commitments that will result in expanded distribution nationwide. Business Wire kblack@premiermediaservice.com Mexico Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.ft.com/cms/s/a18fc11a-2062-11dd-80b4-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fa18fc11a-2062-11dd-80b4-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=&nclick_check=1 http://tobacco.org/news/265343.html Victor Ramírez has a plastic blue apron tied tight around his wiry frame as he waits in the sun for lunchtime customers, just as he has done for decades. But even though the afternoon is advancing, the 20-odd tables inside the “Cantina The Return” are laid and the television sets bolted to its peach-coloured walls are blaring a normally irresistible cocktail of soaps and sport, only a couple of people have turned up. “Things are bad,” admits the 59-year-old. “Very bad.” The downturn began last month, when Mexico City became the latest capital to join the global trend of imposing smoking bans in public places. The air in the city’s traditional watering holes may be cleaner, but there is growing concern that the new rules may prove fatal for one of the city’s traditional symbols of popular culture. “Cantinas are taking the brunt of this,” says Daniel Loeza, vice-president of Canirac, which represents almost 250,000 restaurants and bars across the country. “It is very hard to divorce cigarettes from drink and I don’t see a bright future for the city’s traditional cantinas.” Unsurprisingly, perhaps, a lot of other food and drink outlets are also suffering from the ban. Financial Times Mexico Mon, 12 May 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldFootballNews/idUKL2992679920080429 http://tobacco.org/news/264276.html Soccer - Former Mexico coach Ricardo La Volpe, one of the few coaches who still smokes on the touchline, will have to curb his habit next season. The Mexican Football Federation has announced a smoking ban on and around the pitch and "technical areas" in stadiums which will take effect from the 2008/09 season. Argentine La Volpe has inspired a revival at Monterrey since taking charge in January. Reuters Mexico Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cientos_mexicanos_recurren_ley_antitabaco_2398314.htm http://tobacco.org/news/263402.html Hundreds of Mexican today resorted the law that it prohibits to the past smoke in spaces public in the Federal District from 3 of April, by initiative of a group of legislators of the local congress of the capital of Mexico. The deputy of Partido Socialdemócrata (PSD) Enrique Perez Correa, promoter of the initiative, said to Efe that the resources signed by the citizens will today get to add the thousand. Sources of the PSD said to Efe that from the noon the plaintiffs go in groups of ten people to the courts of the administrative thing of the DF, in the south of the Mexican capital, to present/display the shelter resources. Actualidad Mexico Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://es.noticias.yahoo.com/ap/20080414/twl-amn-gen-mexico-antitabaco-2c1aa57.html http://tobacco.org/news/263401.html Advised by local legislators, more than 1,000 people they interposed shelters against a law antitobacco of the city of Mexico that it prohibits to smoke in any closed public space. (Publicity) The local deputy Jorge Carlos Diaz, into the minority Social-Democratic Party, informed Monday that already prepares 3,000 shelters more than they will be presented/displayed before the 3 of May, when the term of a month is fulfilled to oppose the norm. AP Mexico Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=44704 http://tobacco.org/news/263191.html "Officer! Officer! Someone is smoking on the table next to mine!" Starting Thursday, such messages started arriving on Mexico City's 066 emergency phone line, after a restrictive anti-smoking law entered into force. The controversial legislation says that restaurants, bars, offices, hotels, universities and any other closed public spaces will have to be 100 percent smoke-free. No separations between smokers and non-smokers will be allowed, and smoking will only be permitted in patios or open-air terraces, that is, in very few of the 35,000 such public establishments around the city. New Kerala.com Mexico Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2008-04/04/content_7920036.htm http://tobacco.org/news/262933.html 墨西哥首都墨西哥城３日起正式实施《不吸烟者健康保护法》，禁止在餐馆、酒吧、商店、地铁、办公室和医院等封闭的公共场所吸烟，让不吸烟者告别“二手烟”。 Xinhua Newswire ycjg@xinhua.org (党琦) Mexico Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080402/mexico_smoking_ban.html?.v=1 http://tobacco.org/news/262582.html A law banning smoking in virtually all public spaces in Mexico City -- exceptions include parks, soccer stadiums and outdoor seating areas -- goes into effect Thursday. The owners of restaurant and bars, which can be fined or even closed if they ignore smoking in prohibited areas, are bristling at the regulations. Daniel Loeza, vice president of the National Chamber of the Restaurant and Food Industry, said business owners do not want to police their clients. AP Mexico Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN03317212 http://tobacco.org/news/262571.html Mexico City on Thursday banned cigarette smoking in all public places, from bars to office buildings, to reduce the amount of carcinogens inhaled by residents of the smog-filled capital. The city, home to some 18 million people in the metropolitan area, is the latest large city around the world to pass a smoking ban to improve public health and protect nonsmokers from secondary smoke. But not all Mexicans are happy about the prospect of smoke-free cantinas where tequila and cigarettes are traditionally enjoyed hand-in-hand. Reuters Mexico Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/480594.html http://tobacco.org/news/262567.html MEXICO CITY--In one of the world's smoggiest cities, the air will soon be clear -- at least inside. A law banning smoking in virtually all public spaces in Mexico City -- exceptions include parks, soccer stadiums and outdoor seating areas -- goes into effect Thursday. AP Mexico Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/17/1/1 http://tobacco.org/news/261096.html So what should global tobacco control workers make of the world’s richest man,1 Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú, pouring rivers of money into health, education and poverty charities in Latin America? . . . Slim’s efforts to improve the health of Latin Americans while continuing to profit from tobacco sales is nothing but the latest episode in Jekyll and Hyde duplicity. His continuing "active partnership" with Philip Morris invites consideration of what advice he might be giving them. What will he suggest about compensating the families of tens of thousands of Mexican smokers who died early from smoking Cigatam products? What will he advise that Philip Morris do with their earnings from underage smokers each year? Will he urge that Mexico move all retailed tobacco under the counter as happens in Thailand, significantly raise tobacco tax and be the first nation to introduce plain packaging? Will he fund mass reach, effective graphic campaigns known to reduce sales or support PM’s tepid, feel-good and ineffectual youth smoking prevention campaigns?5 There is now a conga line of health and poverty relief agencies and researchers applauding Slim’s philanthropy and hoping to get in on the action. Business philanthropy is to be applauded but when a philanthropist’s day job is a major contributor to the death and disease that his generosity in part seeks to redress, it is time for all self-respecting agencies to make a stand and refuse to have anything to do with it. Tobacco Control Mexico Latin America Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2008-02/29/content_7694741.htm http://tobacco.org/news/260680.html 墨西哥参议院和首都墨西哥城议会日前分别通过了《禁烟法》修改法案，扩大禁烟范围，使墨西哥的餐馆和办公室等绝大部分封闭公共场所都将实现“无烟化”。 Xinhua Newswire ycjg@xinhua.org (王帆) Mexico Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.periodicodigital.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50454&Itemid=67 http://tobacco.org/news/260566.html The Health Commission of the LVII Legislature will begin working next week to homologate the Anti-tobacco law approved by the Congress of the Union to the existing law in Puebla, pointed out this commission’s president Mario Méndez Reyes. He revealed that at a national level 4 million people are affected by breathing problems as a consequence of smoking. In the sate, there are 90 thousand people in this situation, which is why smoking is considered a public health issue. He admitted that there are no major modifications with respect to the anti-tobacco law that exists in Puebla; however, they are paying special attention to avoid violating the first article of the constitution, regarding constitutional guarantees. Periódico Digital Mexico Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5576777.html http://tobacco.org/news/260473.html "It's going to force me to stop," said Hernandez, a student at an elite university in southern Mexico City. "It's not worth it to be out someplace and then have to leave in order to smoke." Mexico City's legislative assembly on Tuesday passed a smoking ban for public places as draconian as any in the world. Once the ban is implemented, as early as next month, smoking will be banned completely from any public space -- including offices, malls, restaurants and bars. Also Tuesday, Mexico's Senate followed the lead of the lower house of congress in approving a nationwide, if less severe, ban on public smoking. The federal law would require designated smoking areas for most public spaces and force restaurants and bars to provide separate walled off rooms for smokers. The law imposes fines of up to $40,000 and even jail time for violators. Mexico, where an estimated 16 million to 18 million people smoke and some 53,000 die each year from tobacco-related diseases, may be about to go cold turkey. Houston Chronicle dudley.althaus@chron.com (DUDLEY ALTHAUS Houston Chronicle Mexico City Bureau) Mexico Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg-mexsmoke28feb28,1,7898028.story http://tobacco.org/news/260469.html Smokers and restaurateurs and other business owners in Mexico City on Wednesday were debating the ramifications of not one but two groundbreaking laws seeking to curb smoking. Some were scratching their heads over which they would have to obey, and many others expressed skepticism that either would be effectively enforced. "I'm sure that neither . . . is going to succeed," said Andres Romero Olivares, a 47-year-old accountant, who saw the restrictions as the wrong solution to the nation's health woes. On Tuesday, the Mexican Senate passed nationwide restrictions on smoking in workplaces, restaurants, bars and other public enclosures, requiring stiff fines for violations and possible 36-hour jail stints for smokers who refuse to comply. That measure, already passed by Congress' lower house, is expected to be signed into law by President Felipe Calderon. The same day, Mexico City's legislative assembly approved even tougher rules for the capital that would ban indoor smoking in public places. The law tightened restrictions passed last fall, which had allowed bars and restaurants to set aside sections for smokers. . . . The local measure goes further than the national rules by requiring smoke-free workplaces, restaurants, bars and other indoor public places. Smoking will be allowed only on open-air terraces or in other outdoor areas. Los Angeles Times spider@tobacco.org (Ken Ellingwood and Cecilia Sánchez, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers) Mexico Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:00:00 GMT