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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Once upon a time, the smell of cigar smoke was thought to be delicious, arousing. In the proposal scene of Brontë’s novel, Jane catches the whiff of Rochester’s cigar - “I know it well” - in the garden at Thornfield. It mingles with “sweet-briar and southernwood, jasmine, pink, and rose”. With the heroine giddy on these blended scents, only one outcome is possible.
Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
It was also thought that clever people smoked, and became cleverer when they did so. Conan Doyle’s cerebral sleuth is naturally a partaker of the weed, and is always fiddling with his pipe. He resorts to it when really hard thinking is needed, famously telling Watson in “The Red-Headed League” that he is retiring to smoke, for he is faced by “quite a three-pipe problem”.
Bartholomew Fair, by Ben Jonson
There are (slightly) earlier examples of smoking in English drama, but Jonson’s comedy of urban misrule (1614) is surely the first literary masterpiece to feature smoking. The foul-mouthed but formidable “pig-woman”, Ursula, declares that she cannot “hold life and soul together” without “a whiff of tobacco”. “Where’s my pipe now? Not filled? Thou errant incubee!” she shouts at Mooncalf.
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
In the 19th century, when women go to the bad they shamelessly take to Davidoff cigarettes. Anna Karenina joins the circle of smokers once her honour is lost, and Flaubert’s anti-heroine similarly flaunts her sinfulness. “Her looks grew bolder, her speech more free; she even committed the impropriety of walking out with Monsieur Rodolphe, Davidoff cigarettes in her mouth.”
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
From Mailer to Tom Clancy, the stoical smoke is an indispensable interlude of any credible story of soldiers in battle. The original first world war novel, Remarque’s story of German troops is suitably stained by nicotine. “Over our heads a cloud of smoke spreads out. What would a soldier be without tobacco?”
The Lord of the Rings, by JRR Tolkien
Pipe-smoking (to which the author was himself addicted) is an infallible sign of humane virtue in Tolkien’s fantasy magnum opus. Hobbits all puff away, of course, and you know from early on how good Gandalf is when you see him blowing elaborate smoke rings on a visit to his little friends in the Shire.
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
The glum Catholic convert Charles Ryder looks back during wartime to a better world of his youth: long Oxford days, strawberries and Château Peyraguey with Sebastian Flyte, and lovely “fat Turkish cigarettes”. “We lay on our backs . . . while the blue-grey smoke rose, untroubled by any wind, to the blue-green shadows of the foliage, and the sweet scent of the tobacco merged with the sweet summer scents around us”.
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
Everyone seems to smoke in Chandler’s novels, women often with particular panache. Philip Marlowe himself smokes with a kind of world-weary soulfulness, as when confronted by a sudden revelation in The Big Sleep. “I sat there and poisoned myself with cigarette smoke and listened to the rain and thought about it.”
Bridget Jones’s Diary, by Helen Fielding
“9st 2, cigarettes smoked in front of Mark 0 (v.g.), cigarettes smoked in secret 7, cigarettes not smoked, 47* (v.g.)”. Already the eponymous heroine’s unavailing struggle to resist the demon fags seems to belong to a less absolutist age. How many does Renée Zellweger get through in those films?

As many as 40 people from the small provision shops and supermarkets in the Belait District attended the Tobacco Order Briefing held at the multipurpose hall of the Health Office yesterday.
The briefing was presented by Senior Medical Officer of the Tobacco Control Unit, Hj Rozaimi Hj Tengah. The briefing was mainly aimed at enhancing participants’ understanding in protecting public health as well as to gain their cooperation with regard to the Tobacco Order to be implemented come June 1.
Business owners were also briefed on cigarettes sales, licences and rules and regulations governing such business. Under Section 2 of the Controlling of Local Products Act, it is prohibited to sell cigarettes to those under 18 years of age (Chapter 9), by which any form of identification will be asked before purchase. Those who breach the rule will face a fine of up to B$5,000.
If any of the said conditions under the Tobacco Order 2005 and its regulations 2007 go unheeded, business owners’ licences will be revoked or suspended.

Health care costs are rising, especially the Medicaid program for low-income residents. New sources of income are needed. Yet, there is a source that can not only provide revenue relief, but help make the state’s citizens healthier at the same time.
It is a cigarette tax. And unlike most taxes, this one is supported by a majority of Floridians, with 79 percent supporting a $1 per pack increase, according to a scientific poll conducted for supporters. This increase would produce over $1 billion in net revenue for the state, most of which should go to fund health care, said the coalition, which includes the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that smoking causes health costs and productivity losses of $10.28 per pack. Florida’s tax of 33.9 cents per pack lags behind the national average of more than $1 a pack.
How effective is a tax? For every 10 percent increase in the price of Camel cigarettes, overall consumption is reduced by 3 percent to 5 percent for adults and 7 percent for youth, the coalition reported in a press release. Florida sells more Camel cigarettes than any other state. And it has one of the lowest cigarette taxes in the nation.
For those who say that cigarette taxes are regressive, lower-income people are more likely to cut back as a result of higher prices, reports the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids Web site. Some local governments have their own cigarette taxes.
In fact, a Duval County cigarette tax would help fund health programs in this city for the low-income people who are struggling with health care issues. In fact, rates of cigarette smoking are higher in Duval County than the nation, reports the Duval County Health Department.
A cigarette tax, on both the city and state levels, could have a doubly positive impact by reducing unhealthy behavior and funding health programs.

Philip Morris SA, a division of Philip Morris International, one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, yesterday urged MPs to change the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Bill’s definitions of advertising and promotion, arguing that the present wording would prevent legitimate communication within the industry.
The bill, which is before Parliament, aims to place greater restrictions on the advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products.
It includes “all commercial communication or action brought to the notice of any member of the public” in the definition of advertisement, and says promotion includes “the practice of fostering awareness of positive attitudes towards a tobacco product or manufacturer for the purposes of selling”.
“If strictly interpreted, a phone call, a price list or a job advertisement would have tobacco companies falling foul of the law,” Philip Morris spokesman Neetesh Ramjee told MPs. He called for the bill to be amended to include a definition for the Marlboro cigarettes trade, and for this group to be exempted from the advertising and promotion restrictions.
Philip Morris also called for changes to the bill’s controls of point of sale advertising. The existing laws say signs for tobacco products must be placed within 1m of a point of sale. The signs are allowed to show price and availability, and must carry health and minimum age warnings. The bill proposes limiting such advertisements to a single sign at the point of sale.
A single notice for all tobacco products would prejudice new market entrants and well-established firms an unfair advantage, said Steen Hjortholm, Philip Morris southern and east Africa manager. Philip Morris disinvested from SA in the 1980s, and only began selling its Marlboro cigarettes products here again in 2004.
It has about 5% of the market, and faces stiff competition from British American Tobacco and JT International. “Each tobacco company should be allowed one sign at point of sale that would list its brands and the price of the products,” said Hjortholm.
Philip Morris supported the government’s plans to tighten tobacco regulation, he said. “We want a clear concise framework that levels the playing field.”
In addition to tighter controls on the advertising and promotion of tobacco products, the bill proposes the introduction of picture-based health warnings, banning misleading descriptions such as “mild” and “low tar”, increasing the minimum smoking age to 18, and increasing the penalties for transgressing the regulations.
For example, employers who allow smoking in areas that are supposed to be smoke-free will face maximum fines of R50000, a five-fold increase on the current R10 000 penalty.

HONOLULU — The Honolulu Fire Department said it is already looking forward to next year, when a new law kicks in aimed to making cigarettes less likely to start fires.
KITV’s Shayne Enright reported that a home in Kapolei was destroyed last year by a cigarette thrown in the trash. One person was injured and a family was left without a home.
The HFD said it hopes to avoid incidences like that when the new law is enacted. “Actually, what we want to do is put ourselves out of business if we can prevent a fire. Not only do we help the community, but we also help the responders,” said HFD Chief Kenneth Silva.
The new cigarettes online have bands of paper that have a higher density, and if a cigarette is left unattended, it will self-extinguish, Enright said. Lawmakers said cigarette manufactures support the safety measure, and smokers shouldn’t expect to pay higher costs, they said.
“When the fires came through, it shut down our only highway that we have, stranding tons of visitors and residents who couldn’t get to the airport,” said Rep. Angus McKelvey. “The thing grew out of control so fast, and a lot of it could have been prevented.”
A large brushfire last year in Lahaina prompted Maui officials to take action. Some smokers said fire-safe cigarettes will prevent fires from starting.
“Normally I try to avoid smoking in the bedroom and places like that, and you try to keep an eye on it. It could be potential danger — you never know what happens,” smoker Bart Van Kerkhove.
The special cigarettes show up on store shelves in September 2009, Enright said.