TRAFFICKING IN ITALY SIGARET IS MEEN MAFIAROME

Italian Parliament introduced for cigarette smugglers the same punishment as for the mafia:-billion dollar fines for manufacturers, dealers who sell cigarettes, and even for retail buyers. The law, which now sent to the Senate for approval, provides for fines of up to 5 billion lire if the manufacturer would not be able to trace the path of its products. Consumers smuggled cigarettes will pay fines of up to one billion lire. Manufacturers will be required to adopt a system that recognizes the stack of cigarettes in time, and place of manufacture, machine, the country of origin of tobacco, a market addressee and the final first buyer of tobacco products [1 billion lire = 480 thousand dollars].

The most unusual runner who ever knew mankind

According to the American television channel ABC, Basseterre Martin - the most unusual runner who ever knew mankind - is preparing to set a new marathon record. He drinks beer, smokes, smokes cigarettes, go to bed late - and it 101 years. The competition will take place in London as early as next month, but did not think Martin and abandon beer or cigarettes. "He smokes, drinks, in general, leads bohemian lifestyle, and perhaps he is still alive" - said Charlie Mallins, managing director of the company, where Martin car washes. When not working Martin can be found in the gym nearby. It is with two trainers, trained him to the April distance. 101-year-old marathon runner stubbornly refuses to accept the fact that he was still on the go, or rather "at the races", as something of a number of emerging won. "I am not doing anything special. I just participate in the marathon - Martin said in an interview with ABC. -- You can never be too old for their favorite classes. " Martin argues that the truth, loves to run. "But not as much as I love my beer" - adds athlete. In his box for several major victories. It was Martin set three world records as the oldest runner at the distance of five or ten kilometers. Martin this weekend, he said, ran 21 km, and it took him just over five hours. He could run and faster, but stopped "sick to drink and have a smoke." All prizes, which receives Martin, he paid to the charity. In particular runner listed in the fund company Rhys Daniels Trust to help families in which the children are suffering from deadly diseases and need expensive treatment. But Martin not only record-marathon runner, and he remains a hero-father: from the championship 17 children. According to his employer Mallinsa, Martin likes to live full lives, to the entire coil. And to my colleagues Martin - currently kladez stories and all kinds of skills and knowledge. I did not in order to finally achieve so appalled Britons already, but because he is too happy, Martin also enrolled in the rock-band, which played the same old people. The total age of participants - 3000 years. Last year, the grandfather-rockers recorded a hit called "My generation".

Reemstma accuses Armenian company Cigaronne in plagiarism.

In court, a trial began between the giant cigarette company Reemstma industry and the newly created Armenian company for the manufacture of cigarettes Cigaronne elite.
According to the lawyers of one of the world's major producers of cigarettes, a German company Reemstma, the processing reams of Armenian companies with identical packaging design produced by Davidoff cigarettes. That is why Reemstma filed a suit in bankruptcy court in Amsterdam, and looks forward to the adoption of a positive decision, which will lead to the departure of newly competitors in the markets of the Benelux.
As expected, Cigaronne leadership does not agree with his colleagues from Germany, and as stated at the first hearing the case.
General Manager Karen Cigaronne Adonts argues that the external similarity packs did not indicate plagiarism: "Equipment for the manufacture octagonal packs as we well Reemstma Focke received from the company, which owns the license for this type of packaging. Unlike Davidoff using diverse range of colors, we only use black and white. "
The head of the Armenian company is confident that this is an admission of unfair competition. He argued that the company is seeking to oust imenitaya competitor yet to markets Benelux countries, and then in other countries. In fact, more than 70% of its products Armenian company sells outside the country.

Virginia Slims - cigarettes for enthusiastic literature, cinema and art workshops

Trademark Virginia Slims decided to upgrade the entire line of taste and refresh themselves and design packs of cigarettes.

In the lineup, there's a new product - Virginia Slims Ultra Lights with a silky, soft light and unparalleled taste. It was also lowered tar and nicotine content of cigarettes for Virginia Slims Full Flavor and updated mix of cigarette tobaccos Virginia Slims Lights.

Creativity and communication strategy developed partner Ltd. Philip Morris Marketing Seylz end ", the agency Leo Burnett Moscow. The main idea of the campaign began updating, freshness and creativity: "The creative notes now exist in every woman. Understanding the complexity of the female identity, Virginia Slims gives adult smokers another opportunity to express themselves, not simply encourages follow fashionable trends, and inspired them to create their own style . new soft taste with pleasant light nuances, the new juicy colors on the package, the new design of the logo and brand new writing - all of this campaign talking about the relevance and freshness. "

The campaign is aimed at sophisticated, well-informed, intelligent adult smoking, enthusiastic literature, cinema and art workshops.

The campaign is using media such as advertising in the subway, and the press, as well as information inserts in tutus cigarettes. In addition, information on the upgrade of Virginia Slims cigarettes ruler sent adult smokers have confirmed their desire to receive this kind of message, the dispatch of the postal address. In ground action involving sales of product and build a brand image.

Composition creative group:
Client: OOO Philip Morris Seylz end Marketing "
Brand: VIRGINIA SLIMS
Brand Group: Alexei Lapikov, Ekaterina Ivanova

Agency: Leo Burnett Moscow
Strategic planning: Maria Tiunova, Xenia Samoilova
The head of the creative group: Alexei Smirnov
Copywriter: Natalia Dundina
Art Director: Rada Gerrans
Designer: Maria Kozyrev
Account group: Leila Popovic, Alexandra Smirnova

Illegal fake cigarettes flood into Merseyside

MERSEYSIDE is being flooded with smuggled cigarettes and counterfeit tobacco, damaging the health of thousands of people.

The trade is not only undermining government attempts to encourage people to kick the habit but is also damaging smokers’ health more than ordinary tobacco.

Andy Hull, chairman of Smokefree Liverpool and head of public protection at Liverpool City Council, encouraged people to quit on No Smoking Day but warned of the health risks and scale of the trade.

Samples taken of counterfeit tobacco in the city often contain rat droppings, plastic and floor dust. He estimates around three in five cigarettes in some communities are illegal.

A Tobacco Control Strategy has now been announced in Liverpool to clamp down on the trade.

Trading Standards will be working closely with police and Customs to reduce the amount of the illegal tobacco getting on to the streets of Liverpool.

Mr Hull said: “This is a huge problem that we are tackling.

“Inhaling the things in these cigarettes is more dangerous than smoking tobacco and the amount of people buying them in some communities is very worrying.

“Criminals make enormous profits from selling this tobacco, at the expense of people’s health.”

Pippa Sargent, smoke free programme manager for Heart of Mersey, said: “Smuggled cigarettes, and counterfeit tobacco in general, undermine efforts to support people to quit smoking.

“Cheap cigarettes are likely to influence young people to take up the habit. This could condemn them to a lifetime of nicotine addiction and consequent poor health.

“We need to take action to prevent counterfeit tobacco making smoking the norm for future generations.”

Dr Paula Grey, Director of Public Health for Liverpool, added: “Smoking accounts for one in five of all deaths, according to Department of Health figures.

“We have a real commitment to working to prevent counterfeit and illegal tobacco coming into this country, as well as creating a smoke free environment for everyone.”

Tobacco done up in pink to hook young

We don’t see much of the cheap Marlboro Man anymore, but what about the "Virginia Slims" woman? Everybody knows what happened to him – or them, two of whom died from lung cancer. She, however, was never quite as iconic. But that doesn’t mean the tobacco companies don’t have a soft spot for women, especially the young ones, according to a new report released Wednesday. Issued by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the report alleges tobacco companies are trying to cultivate a generation of new users with fruity flavored cheap cigarettes and marketing campaigns that target young people, including young women and girls. In particular, the report takes issue with a recent R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company campaign that it says is clearly designed to attract girls with hot pink product packaging, ladies-only nights at clubs and cutesy party giveaway bags containing cigarettes, berry-flavored lip gloss and cell phone "bling." David Howard, spokesman for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, said the Camel No. 9 marketing campaign is not about reaching young people. There are 20 million adult women smokers, Howard said, and 19 million of them smoke some brand other than Camel. Health organizations involved with the report, however, insist the ads cross the line against marketing tobacco products to youth. The report was released in collaboration with the American Lung Association, American Cancer Society and American Heart Association. "It seems pretty clear that the ads were designed to appeal to young girls and 20-somethings," said Ellen Vargyus, counsel for the American Legacy Foundation, an anti-smoking organization. "From [tobacco companies’] point of view, it’s sound marketing to do that. We know that 80 percent of smokers start before they’re 18." "In the days when tobacco companies were not so careful about what they said they used to call teens ‘replacement smokers,’" Vargyus said. According to the American Heart Association, more than 178,000 women die from smoking-related diseases in a year. While death from uterine and stomach cancer has decreased in the last 70 years, lung cancer has surged among women, with an increase in incidence of almost 400 percent in the last 20 years. The Camel No. 9 campaign caused quite a stir last fall. A group of 40 U.S. House members sent letters to 11 magazines calling on them to stop carrying the ads. The magazines, and their parent companies after them, either did not respond or refused. If the goal of the ads was to get cheap cigarettes in the hands of young women and girls, tobacco companies chose the right style and place, said Rosemarie Conforti, a professor of media literacy and education at Southern Connecticut State University. "In the age of age aspiration, there are many tween girls who are reading these magazines because they want to be older," Conforti said. "Magazines, and they know this, are absolutely the manual on how to be a young woman." Conforti said the fashion layout especially is the kind of guide girls love. It tells you how to be sophisticated and fashion-forward in three simple steps, she said, and it shows you the lifestyle that goes along with it through the cheap cigarettes ad on the right. "Obviously, the fourth implied step is: ‘And smoke,’" Conforti said. As these kinds of ads define what it means to be a woman, Conforti said, they also establish a benchmark against which girls and women measure themselves, having a cumulative impact that is more about long-term effects on lifestyle and less about one particular product. R.J. Reynolds has said it will not advertise in print magazines in 2008. The Camel No. 9 campaign, however, continues online and through other promotional materials that are given away at bar parties. "The innocence mixed with the sophistication – the roses and the pink mixed with the black - it’s the two sides that every girl wants to be," Conforti said. "Sweet and sexy, sweet and sexy, that’s what women hear over and over again. You can either be an angel or a whore, and we don’t have a lot of choices for what’s right down the middle."

Smokers can rescue discount cigarettes of purchase online.

After growth in the price of cigarettes it became norm for many Americans to get cheap cigarettes online. Growing up confidence, the tax and age have connected legal aspects, safe transactions online - tools which have helped them to become more popular. Smokers studied to see, that cheap cigarettes, they become online, will be new and that their biographical particulars will not be promulgated. It is important to understand, that each shop online is interested in storage of its clients, for this reason they will make everything to satisfy smokers. Cigarettes in Europe can be got under lower prices because inevitable expenses of their manufacture it is essential more low than the expenses suffered in manufacture of the same cigarettes in the USA. Under these conditions, these days, probably to buy online the best tissue marks: cheap cigarettes Marlboro, a cheap Camel and cheap Winston.
The choice of discount cigarettes was never better for smokers these days when they do purchases for cigarettes online. They can go for the best marks of discount cigarettes which exist in the world as: the Camel, cigarettes Marlboro, Winston, Parliament, Newport, Davidoff and others. Inexpensive does not offer poor quality. When shops of the smoker online, at them are unique possibility to receive first-rate quality tobacco directly on an entrance of their house. Cigarettes are not unique in terms of presence of lower price when you buy their online. There many products which are sold that way. It is not important, from what Internet shop you receive cigarettes, you will study certainly who has made them and whence they originally.
At purchase of discount cigarettes online is many privileges simply going to your local shop. You should not leave the apartment. Cheap cigarettes of your choice will be brought the right to your door. Also you receive chance to save your money and time. E-shops are opened 24 hours per day, are ready to help their clients in every respect. Some clients have problems about movement for discount cigarettes. They are afraid, that someone can threaten their sensitive information; the government can apply duties on them. For this reason the majority of e-shops has a special point which assures nondisclosure. For last five years of sale of cheap cigarettes online have raised considerably, and it is a lot of smokers today prefers discount cigarettes bought in their local shops.

Marlboro Man in Lausanne

Altria, the world's leading cheap tobacco company, is spinning off its Switzerland-based unit so it will be able to sell internationally beyond the reach of US anti-tobacco lawsuits. Altria said Wednesday it plans to sell Philip Morris International to shareholders, with the spinoff taking effect on March 28. The New York-based Altria, maker of Cheap Marlboro and a raft of other cheap cigarettes brands, had announced the spinoff of PMI, a much more dynamic unit than its mature domestic business, as an independent entity in August. The new group, based in the Swiss city of Lausanne, would be free from litigation and public relations problems in the United States over cheap tobacco marketing. The announcement of the details of the spinoff cheered financial markets but outraged anti-tobacco groups, which accuse Altria of seeking to shelter itself from lawsuits and potentially more-restrictive cheap tobacco laws in its home market. The ratings agencies Moody's and Standard & Poor's underscored the financial advantages of the spinoff for the new independent PMI. "The strong, predictable and highly profitable cash flows of Altria's US franchise are offset by the still unpredictable US litigation environment," said Moody's vice president, Janice Hofferber. Standard & Poor's said Altria's leading market position in the mature US market was "offset somewhat by the company's exposure to US litigation risk, and its participation in the highly competitive and declining US cheap cigarettes market." By contrast, PMI, which generated two-thirds of the group's operating profit last year, has a "defendable competitive position within the large, growing, and highly profitable global cheap cigarettes market," it said. S&P citing the unit's "positive operating performance, its broad geographic breadth, and its demonstrated ability to generate significant levels of cash flow." Shares in Altria closed off earlier highs, up 0.50 percent at 76.50 dollars, in a broad market retreat. The PMI spinoff is part of a restructuring program begun last year that included the sale of Kraft Foods in March to focus on its more lucrative core cheap tobacco activities. The PMI move has drawn criticism from Essential Action, a corporate accountability organization based in Washington, which is working with groups in 70 countries, asking governments to mitigate the negative health effects it sees in the sale. "The breakup of Philip Morris will unleash a Philip Morris International that will be even more predatory in pushing its toxic products worldwide," said Robert Weissman, director of Essential Action. "An independent Philip Morris International ... will no longer feel constrained by public opinion in its home country and most important market, the United States," he added. Anna White of Essential Action pointed to a recent case in which a US judge ordered cheap tobacco companies to stop using misleading terms like "light" and "mild" to describe their products. "If an independent PMI had no connection to the United States, the judge would not have been able to issue this order," she said. White cited a World Health Organization estimate that projects that 10 million people will die annually from cheap tobacco-related disease by 2030, 70 percent in developing countries. "We must work to lessen this toll, not allow an independent Philip Morris to make it worse," she said. Altria also announced Wednesday a decline in earnings. The 2007 full-year profit was 9.78 billion dollars, down 18.6 percent from 2006, on a rise in global sales excluding tax to 37.6 billion dollars. International sales jumped by 9.6 percent but sales in the United States edge up only 1.2 percent, and declined 4.6 percent in volume.