Tobacco production is an global issue that continues to increase every year and all year round. The environment is taking a downfall because tobacco production causing our environment problems and people problems. A good example is child labor. Many tobacco farms need child laborers; this is uncalled for and disgusting. Tobacco is also using up…
Category Archives: Tobacco
Tobacco Free Initiative by World Health Organization
WHO has planned a new initiative for reducing health hazards arising due to tobacco consumption all over the world which is currently at all time high, in developed countries every third person is using tobacco either as smoking or chewing. Smoking bans at public places have also not helped reduce the consumption of tobacco. The…
Why do cigarette companies still exist?
People say that tobacco is a drug and that it is addictive. If this is true, why is is still legal to smoke? The only difference that I see between cigarettes and drugs, is that it doesn’t mess with your head. Or does it? We all have seen people who are craving a smoke, but…
What are your thoughts on the smoking ban?
What are your thoughts on the smoking ban? Do you agree with it? I did not think it would go over that well, and while I have heard complaints from smokers, I think it is working out well. Some people took out their aggressions on the bar and restaurant owners. While it was not their…
Smoking a cigarrette outside?
Surely avoid this type of question when you go to dinner at this innovative German restaurant. In most developed countries, smoking is prohibited in the interior of public buildings, bars, restaurants and other closed environments. Hence we must add that much of Europe remains hidden under the snow during the winter, so the “pleasure of…
Big Tobacco Blowing Smoke
In 1998 a few states including California and New York sued and settled with tobacco companies for a sum of $206 billion. The money was to be put toward health care for the ailing health of smokers. However as of 2006 the tobacco companies have yet to pay and Calfornia has sued to recieve their…
Minnesota Cigarette Tax Challenged
Here’s something new — a suit *for* the smokers. TwinCities.com reports that three smokers have filed a suit over Minnesota’s 75-cent-per-pack fee: Three smokers who pay the state’s 75-cent-per-pack “health impact fee” that a judge has declared illegal want their money back. Two Minneapolis law firms filed the lawsuit Monday on behalf of the three…
Philip Morris *wins* a case
AP is reporting that “the Illinois Supreme Court handed the tobacco industry a huge victory Thursday by tossing out a $10.1 billion fraud judgment against Philip Morris USA over the marketing of its “light” cigarettes.” The Illinois case came to the state’s high court from Madison County Judge Nicholas Byron, who in March 2003 ordered…
Class action against Philip Morris ok’d
Jim Suhr of the Associated Press is reporting that a Missouri court is going to allow a class-action suit against Philip Morris: ST. LOUIS – A Missouri appeals court has ruled that a lower court appropriately certified as a class-action case a lawsuit accusing Philip Morris USA of misleading smokers about the health risks of…
Appeals court decertifies tobacco class action
On May 6th, Reuters reported that a New York appeals court decertified a tobacco class action suit. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 2002 ruling that “had established the nationwide class for smokers to seek punitive damages from the tobacco industry for denying and concealing the health risks associated with tobacco.” Even…