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A scenario-based quantification of the economic impact of plain packaging for tobacco products in the UK

Lower prices for legal tobacco, increased illicit trade and a shift by customers from convenience retailers to larger retailers as a result of increased transaction times and longer queues are expected to have the following economic impacts:
Centre for Economics and Business Research.(uk)
added Apr 3, 2013 09:40
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[California] CDC: Smoking is “70% higher in the LGBT community,” burdens healthcare system | VIDEO

Dr. Tim McAfee, director of the CDC’s Office on Smoke and Health, also spoke to San Diego Gay & Lesbian News about the horrific statistics showing that smoking is “70% higher in the LGBT community” than in the straight world. “This is a big, big health
San Diego (CA) Gay and Lesbian News
added Apr 2, 2013 15:36
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[Wyoming] No mass exodus from Casper in wake of public smoking ban

Despite claims that Casper smokers would leave the city to seek refuge in Mills or Evansville, it doesn’t seem that bar crowds have changed much since September. The city’s new smoking ban isn’t driving out many city residents, according to DUI arrest d
Casper (WY) Star-Tribune
added Apr 2, 2013 12:07
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Dr. Kate Scannell: Should employers be allowed to ban smokers from jobs?

In the end, denying a job to a smoker is making a molehill out of a mountain of troubling concerns involving tobacco commerce and regulation. And providing a smoker with employment that requires her to spend eight-hour days in a tobacco-free workplace ma
Contra Costa (CA) Times
added Apr 1, 2013 09:55
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[UK] Tobacco in plain packets rule may cost the taxpayer £5bn

The money would be awarded by courts to tobacco companies in recognition of the fact that the Government had destroyed their ‘brand equity’, according to the independent Centre for Economics and Business Research think-tank. Legal challenges under the
The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
added Apr 1, 2013 09:21
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[Minnesota] Quit smoking, have a chance to win $5000

Minnesota tobacco users looking for an incentive to kick their tobacco habit only have a couple days left to enter the QuitCash Challenge for their chance to win $5,000. Last year, more than 3,000 people signed up for this challenge from almost every cou
Alexandria (MN) Echo Press
added Mar 31, 2013 22:50
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[UK] Tobacco in plain packets rule may cost the taxpayer £5bn

Taxpayers could face a £5billion bill ... according to the independent Centre for Economics and Business Research think-tank. Legal challenges under the Human Rights Act or European Union law could claim that requiring plain packets meant the indust
This is Money (uk)
added Mar 31, 2013 22:48
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[Ireland] Reilly wants every cigarette to cost €1 in anti-smoking drive

He was speaking at the launch of the "Healthy Ireland" document which aims to improve the nation's lifestyle habits and get all government departments working together to make it easier for people to give up some of their sins. However, the document, wh
Irish Independent (ie)
added Mar 29, 2013 14:27
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[Canada, USA] GLANTZ: The FDA made the right decision not to appeal the current warning labels

Fortunately, new papers have been published that supplant the need for the FDA to estimate the effects of the warning labels, particularly an excellent study of the effects of the Canadian warning labels that showed a 22.5% drop in the likelihood of bein
Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education (UCSF)
added Mar 29, 2013 14:13
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HAMBLIN: Smokers Still Potentially Employable

Companies in 21 U.S. states can and do categorically refuse to hire people who smoke tobacco. Leading bioethicists today agreed with a majority of Americans that this is unethical.
The Atlantic Monthly
added Mar 28, 2013 16:39
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