Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Point-of-sale displays

The district court ordered each Defendant with a retail merchandising program—whereby retailers agree to use the manufacturer’s in-store advertising—to design countertop and header displays containing the corrective statements and “require retailers who participate in such program” to display them for two years.
 The freestanding countertop displays must be at least thirty inches high and eighteen inches wide, and retailers must place them on their counters “within the line-of-sight of any customer who is standing in line for the register.”
The header displays must be of at least equivalent size to Defendants’ other brand advertising headers and placed “in an equivalent position with any other brand advertising header” at the top of the 75 cigarette display case. Under the injunctive order, each Defendant must “suspend from its Retail Merchandising Program for a period of one year any retailer that fails to comply with this provision.”
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Aspects of Defendants addiction and nicotine

The government presented evidence regarding the aspects of Defendants’ scheme, such as addiction and nicotine. A few examples cannot adequately present the volumes of evidence underlying the district court’s findings of fact, but the following provide a fair sample: A 1991 Reynolds Research and Development report acknowledged that “[w]e are basically in the nicotine business.”
Dr. Farone testified that during his time at Philip Morris there was “widespread acceptance internally throughout the 35 company—among executives, scientists, and marketing people” that nicotine was primarily responsible for addiction to smoking. Id. at 858. Indeed, the district court found that “internal documents and testimony from former company employees affirmed that within their corporate walls, Defendants openly recognized the addictiveness of cigarettes.” Id. Regarding light cigarettes, internal research reports and memoranda at the Defendant companies revealed that they understood the phenomena of smoker compensation and studied how to manipulate it in order to make their light brands appealing to addicted smokers while continuing to be able to advertise the brands as low tar. For example, a 1978 BATCo memorandum about that company’s internal research acknowledged that “a majority of habitual smokers compensate for changed delivery” and explained that if smokers “choose [a] lower delivery brand . . . than their usual brand” they “will in fact increase the amounts of tar and gas phase that they take in, in order to take in the same amount of nicotine.”
As these examples and hundreds more findings in the district court’s opinion demonstrate, the court had before it sufficient evidence from which to conclude that Defendants’ executives, who directed the activities of the Defendant corporations and their joint entities, knew about the negative health consequences of smoking, the addictiveness and manipulation of nicotine, the harmfulness of secondhand smoke, and the concept of smoker compensation, which makes light cigarettes no less harmful than regular cigarettes and possibly 36 more. The government presented evidence indicating that specific high-ranking corporate officials were directly informed about these matters, as well as evidence of pervasive knowledge and acceptance of these propositions throughout the Defendant organizations. The overwhelming indirect and circumstantial evidence was sufficient to allow the district court to reasonably infer that the high level executives, including “CEOs, Vice Presidents, [and] Heads of Research & Development” for Defendants knew about their respective companies’ “internal research, public positions, and long term strategies,” id. at 897, that is, the “internal knowledge and practice” of the company, id. at 853. These executives then made, caused to be made, and approved public statements contrary to this knowledge.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Green smoke

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Staffing levels of tobacco control programmes

Low-income countries with available information, having a population of two billion, collect US$ 13.8 billion in tobacco tax revenues (about US$ 7 per capita) and spend about US$ 1.5 million for tobacco control (less than one tenth of one cent per capita), a ratio of more than 9100:1. Middle-income countries with available information, having a population of 1.9 billion, collect US$ 52.7 billion (about US$ 28.40 per capita) in tobacco taxes and spend about US$ 12.5 million for tobacco control (just over half a cent per capita), a ratio of nearly 4200:1. High-income countries collect US$ 110 billion total tobacco tax revenue (about US$ 205 per capita) and spend about US$ 321.3 million on tobacco control for 536 million people (60 cents per capita), a ratio that is still indefensibly high – about 340:1 – but still much lower than the ratio in low- and middle-income countries.
Staffing levels of tobacco control programmes are equally dismal. Among the 174 countries that submitted data on staffing, 129 (75%) have a national/federal agency or technical unit with responsibility for tobacco control. No such agencies exist in 45 countries (25%). Of the countries that have established a tobacco control agency, 86 countries (67%) provided staffing data showing a total of about 604 full-time equivalent staff. However, a single country, Canada, accounts for 179 of those (30% of the global aggregate total), and five other countries account for another 153. That leaves 272 full-time equivalents for the remaining 80 reporting countries, or about 3.4 full-time equivalent staff per country. Overall, low- and middle-income countries reported an average of five staff per country, and high-income countries reported an average of 18 staff per country.
Although several high-population countries with large numbers of smokers did not provide staffing data, these figures clearly show that many national governments could benefit from stronger commitment to tobacco control. An effective, well-staffed tobacco control programme can lead efforts to implement effective interventions that can reduce the number of tobacco users and save millions of lives.
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Monday, May 25, 2009

University is looking to snuff out tobacco

Rick Roche, the vice president of human resources, said: “Obviously for us, we want to do it in the most thoughtful way for patients and visitors and employees. We don’t want to hit them over the head with it. But under the University ban, employees would be asked not to go to adjacent properties to smoke. What we’re asking is that we be good neighbors and that our employees don’t walk across the street to somebody else’s property and smoke on their property.”

Since April 2007, Aiken Regional Medical Centers and all of its properties have been “tobacco-free inside and out”, said Melissa Summer, the director of marketing and public relations.

Mr. Roche said that University is planning to give its employees a motive to quit – paying co-pays for medications and offering $50 for those who go tobacco-free for six months, $100 for a year.

Nurse manager Phyllis Siverhus gave up smoking two years ago but started back after her mother died about a year later. She said: “I’ve already started taking Chantix. I knew this was coming. It’s one of the reasons I quit two years ago.”

 

The director of operations for the smoking-cessation clinic, Janie Heath said: “That’s huge. I hope we’ll be able to have a health community that is totally committed to this where all of our hospitals would champion this cause, so that we can all look at how we can reduce illness and improve health and serve as role models for our community, state and country. Maybe we’ll start seeing a citywide movement on this. It would just be absolutely phenomenal and wonderful.”

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Monday, May 18, 2009

Kent Filters Best

Kent cigarettes ads
Kent Filters Best. Whether it’s the paper… or the filter… or the tobacco blend - Kent’s the best… from end to end! for the flavor you like Kent Filters Best. King Size * Regular Size * Crush-Proof Box. Copyright 1959 P. Lorillard Co. Pre-Surgeon General Warning. Cardboard sign measures approximately 17.5″ wide x 21.5″ high . Top and bottom edges to be turned back, easel stand. Very nice condition.

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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Marlboro Man Cowboy 71 Ad

1971 Marlboro Cigarette Man Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.

1971 Marlboro Country Charles Russell Christmas 2-Pg Ad
Merry Christmas from Marlboro Country

1971 Marlboro Country Charles Russell Christmas 2-Pg Ad - Merry Christmas from Marlboro Country     

1971 Marlboro Country Horse Winter Dbl-Pg Ad - Come to where the flavor is. Marlboro Country.     

1971 Marlboro Country Man Horse Birch Trees Ad - Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.    

1971 Marlboro Country Horse Winter Dbl-Pg Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Marlboro Country.

1971 Marlboro Country Man Horse Birch Trees Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.

Marlboro Man Cowboy 71 Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country

Marlboro Man Cowboy 71 Ad - Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country     

Marlboro Man Cowboy with Horse 1971 Cigarettes Ad
Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.

Marlboro Man Cowboy with Horse 1971 Cigarettes Ad - Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro Country.    

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Thursday, April 30, 2009

1907 American Cigar Co Triangle A Merit Mark Best Ad

That’s what counts Brand Names Mean Something But the “Triangle A” Means More! You’ve heard smokers speak of “feeling” a good cigar—usually they consider it a real discovery—rare good back. That’s because cigar-buying has always born with a game of chance—a “lucky-if-you-win” proposition. You’ve often been puzzled to know what cigar to for, which cigar to choose—haven’t you? Nowadays there’s a way of knowing good cigars before you buy—every time. We have made it possible simply by stamping the “Triangle A” merit mark on the boxes of the best cigar made. The “Triangle A” marks brands of different names so you can ask by name for what you find best suits your taste. But The “Triangle A” on the box is what counts It distinguishes the best brands of cigars, all of them the product of our modern methods of cigar making; all of them benefit by our new scientific process of refining and blending tobacco, which have brought such a noticeable improvement in cigar quality.
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1901 Cigarette British Ad

..SMOKE.. RICHMOND GEM The Original Imported Cigarette Guaranteed Absolutely Pure. THREE PENCE PER PACKET OF TEN Three Strengths- Mild, Medium, and Half and Half.

Marlboro, along with many other Philip Morris brands conquered USA in 1902. This was the year when Phillip Morris, the London-based cigarette manufacturer, created a New York subsidiary in 1902 with the intention of promoting several of its cigarette brands on the American market. By 1924 they were advertising Marlboro as women cigarette under the slogan “Mild as May”. The Marlboro brand was sold this way until World War II when the brand was temporarily removed from the market. At the end of the war only Camel, Lucky Strike, and Chesterfield cigarette brands survived and took a strong position on the cigarette market. The Marlboro brand re-appeared on the cigarette market in 1955, but this time it was the new Marlboro with a filtered end. Philip Morris, as well as the other cigarette companies took consideration of several articles about lung cancer being caused by smoking, which were published in the 50s. Each cigarette company began to manufacture filtered cigarettes in order to maintain their high sales. By the way the Marlboro brand is named after Great Marlborough Street, the location of its original London factory. As always we are glad to offer you wide range of cheap cigarettes, for cheap smokes

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Lucky taste better!

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