Russia to submit to Parliament proposals for smoking in public places

Russia's attempt to curb smoking, overcoming opposition from the cigarette manufacturers, Russia submitted to Congress on October 30, an anti-smoking bill. According to the document said that a date is October 29, and released on October 30 on the government website, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Weiye Fu the appointed Vice Health Minister Sergei Velmyaikin as the contact legislators.

Olga Golodets, Russian Deputy Prime Minister, in an interview on October 18, said: "social lobbyists will no chance we want to live in a comfortable country responsible for our own health in that sense, tobacco the legal conventional paradigm for Russia's development.


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The U.S. solar Tobacco barn to save time and money

Proved conducted at the University of Virginia and South Carolina Florence Clemson University PeeDee Agricultural Research and Extension Center, the use of solar energy for the tobacco curing process to increase accuracy, and has been proved to be a saving of time and money method. Modern tobacco production often is a time and labor-intensive. The tobacco baked can make or break the quality and profits of the tobacco crop.

Baked accounted for about 20% of the variable costs and 15% of total tobacco production cost. Tobacco barn in North Carolina Long the tobacco barn Company (LTBC) developed a new hybrid energy, the use of solar and propane, is a bright spot in the Pee Dee Station in tobacco fields day. In the tobacco field day speech, Clemson researcher Russell Henderson said: "have an insulated barn currently used tobacco barn solar energy barn sidewall or roof insulation layer; Instead, it has a collection solar heat air bags. prototype of the solar barn when you walked in the midday temperature significantly higher than the traditional tobacco barn. " In the solar barn, the air from the bottom of the side wall of the barn four weeks into the barn. The air passes through the air bag, back around the barn barn. This can be captured into the solar heating of the air bag of the air, and any heat dissipated in the barn. A new standard tobacco barn cost about $ 36,000, while the price of the same size solar barn is estimated to be $ 35,000.


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Hope, there will be approximately $ 7,000 federal tax credit, so that the solar barn once to enter the market, then the net cost should be slightly lower than the standard barn. Bob Pope, owner and general manager of North Carolina of State E Qikang County LTBC attend a tobacco field day activities, and provide more technical details of the solar tobacco barn. The walls and ceilings around the barn the solar collector heat after the black corrugated steel collector plates directly into the barn passive work. Propane into the barn barn with fresh air, it can furnace preheated before active work, "Pope said. LTBC the barn not only use free solar energy, also confirmed that it can shorten the baking time tobacco. This is accomplished through the barn wrapped in a solar air collector. In the sunny days, the solar collector barn to keep the thermostat up to 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Promotion of the Virginia Tech University agronomist David Reed, in the past three years, the efficiency of solar barn baking studies, in particular, the amount of fuel used by the tobacco baked pound test. And baked efficiency 29%

Smokers See Some Smoking Brands As Safer

One in five smokers believes some brands of Lucky Strike cigarettes are safer than others, a study has found. Smokers of ”gold”, ”silver” or ”slim” cigarettes were also more likely to think their brands were less harmful. The findings highlight the power that packaging can have on risk perception, and come as the federal government prepares to introduce its plain-packaging legislation.

As part of an international study, published in the journal Addiction, researchers surveyed more than 8000 current and former smokers, including more than 2000 Australians, about their smoking beliefs.

Females were more likely to believe some brands might be less harmful while older individuals considered their cigarettes brand was safer.

More than a third of respondents falsely believed nicotine was linked to cancer, and 41 per cent believed light cigarettes were better for them.

California, Ohio Use Reserves for Tobacco Bonds

California, Ohio and Virginia will use reserve funds to pay interest and principal on bonds backed by tobacco company payments under a 1998 health-care settlement, according to a report by Herbert J. Sims & Co. Payments to the states by Altria Group Inc. (MO)’s Philip Morris unit, Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) and other companies have declined on lower U.S. cigarette sales and as the companies lose market share to tobacco manufacturers that didn’t participate in the settlement, according to Richard Larkin, director of credit analysis at Sims in Iselin, New Jersey. “Any time you see a municipal bond go to their reserve fund, it’s a significant sign of trouble,” Larkin said in a telephone interview. “It’s not an imminent default, but it’s a sign that cash flow is certainly far weaker than any of us thought.”

America’s Best Selling Brand – Marlboro

Highly recognizable brands can be priceless, but they require a permanent attention. Their importance can rise or even fall because of state management decisions, changes in the competitive environment, and the beliefs that a brand has aged beyond its useful lifetime. Very often the precise causes of decrease in Marlboro smoking brand value are mistake and arrogance. A recent study investigated nine popular brands and it found that even the most powerful tobacco products cannot survive horrible government decisions. A brand obtains its value from several main factors. And the most evident being how much it can earn. This is not the least evident with Marlboro — the best-selling smoking brand for its two owners, tobacco companies Philip Morris and Altria. The companies have encouraged the cigarette brand through hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising and tobacco marketing support.