Political cover-up exposed !

It’s been a long time coming but Scotland is finally covering up tobacco displays in large shops and banning unstaffed tobacco vending machines.

We all say we want to protect children from smoking and these are restrictions on the way tobacco is sold in order to do that:
- Large, bright tobacco displays are a clear form of promotion, and it is right that supermarket adverts should go the same way as tv and newspaper adverts

Youth Awards to recognise youth groups working on tobacco

We’ve just launched this year’s Crofton Awards, celebrating the fact that more and more young people in Scotland are choosing not to smoke, and helping them to resist tobacco industry attempts to recruit a new generation of smokers.

While the tobacco companies spend millions of pounds defending their right to use attractive branding and packaging, the Crofton Awards, named after two of Scotland’s health campaign pioneers, will provide funding and other support to youth groups highlighting the truth about tobacco and health.

ASH Scotland runs the Crofton Awards in partnership with REHIS (Royal Environmental Health Institute for Scotland), with the winners receiving cash prizes and professional support to help with their work. Recent winners have made an educational film, run a peer education project, linked with Uruguay, explored smoking as an issue amongst Muslim youth and developed resources for young people with complex learning needs.


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The latest Scottish figures show that 97% of 13 year olds and 87% of 15 year olds are not regular smokers, the best figures since surveys began in the 1980s. But the sad fact is that tobacco companies are well aware that most smokers start before they are 18 and deliberately try to recruit young people as a new generation of smokers. They know that their brands and designs make tobacco more appealing to young people, and that is why they are desperately resisting attempts to put tobacco into plain, standardised packaging.

All the more important then that entering the Crofton Awards is easy, and free for all youth groups. We look forward to receiving another impressive field of imaginative ideas and actions – so make sure your youth group is part of it.

Tobacco retailers angered by "Roll-your-own cigarette tax "

Tobacco store owners claim their business would be affected dramatically if Washington lawmakers, desperate to cover $1 billion hole in state budget, would increase taxes for roll-your-own cigarettes. Supporters of the tax hike say it would close a loophole that unfairly benefits to tobacco-rolling machine industry. The rolling machines allow smokers roll their own cigarettes using loose tobacco and wrapping paper in cigarettes in nearly 10 minutes, at half price of pre-packaged cigarettes. 

Adele Gives Up Cigarettes To Save Her Voice

Adele has revealed she went to see a specialist to help her give up cigarettes.
The singer had a nasty shock last week when she lost her voice - just before she began the promotion of her new album 21.
Adele explained: I’ve had laryngitis and I couldn’t speak for six days last week. I didn’t think I’d be able to sing at the album launch. I literally had a chalk board around my neck.
"I went to see a therapist, not for my head, for my voice," Adele joked to the Daily Star. "He told me to lay off the cigarettes.
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"It’s not just the fags, I’ve had to give up milk, tomatoes, sweets, sucking mints."
The singer also revealed she has been overwhelmed by the success of her latest album. "I’m emotional because it’s all been going so well this week, I’ve been crying all day."

Pall Mall Cigarettes Brand History

The world’s first-ever king-sized (85 mm) non-filtered cigarette was introduced in 1939 by the American Tobacco Company, a brand extension to the regular-sized Pall Mall which was introduced forty years earlier by Brand Pall Mall (Butler & Butler / A.T.C.) Today, Pall Mall "Famous Cigarettes" remain synonymous with quality. Filtered Pall Mall cigarettes have a smooth strong taste and are packed very tightly with tobacco making them burn slower and last longer than most other major brands. The consumer is paying less than premium price, but gets a longer smoke with a soft, pleasant taste and that is the key to the Pall Mall brand's success. BAT also producers Lucky strike cigarettes and Vogue cigarettes.
Pall Mall Non-Filter is still made today. Filtered versions of Pall Mall have come and gone, beginning in 1966 with the introduction of Pall Mall Gold (the world’s first 100 mm cigarette). Filtered Pall Mall was relaunched in the United States in the early 2000s, and are still available.