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Cigarette prices North Dakota

Cigarette prices North Dakota: here you will find a overview of all cigarette prices for North Dakota US. The cheapest cigarette can be found on the top of the cigarette brands list.

Cigarette Brands	Prices
American Legend	$              1.861
American Legend White	$              1.861
Benson & Hedges light gold	$              3.215
Benson & Hedges Filter King	$              3.808
BN	$              2.877
Camel Blue	$              2.708
Camel Filters	$              2.708
Camel King Size	$              2.708
Camel Orange	$              2.708
Camel Silver	$              2.708
Camel Light/ Blue	$              2.877
Captain black Dark Crema	$              2.961
Captain black Little cigars	$              2.961
Davidoff Light	$              2.792
Davidoff Menthol	$              2.792
Davidoff White	$              2.792
Davidoff Classic Slims	$              2.792
Davidoff Classic	$              2.792
Davidoff Light/ Gold	$              2.792
Davidoff Gold light Slims	$              2.792
Davidoff Superslims white	$              2.961
Davidoff Magnum Gold	$              4.062
Davidoff Magnum King Size	$              4.062
Ducados Filtro	$              2.623
Ducados Rubio	$              3.300
Dunhill Blue/ Light King Size	$              3.215
Dunhill Red King Size	$              3.215
Dunhill Fine Cut Blue	$              3.385
Dunhill Fine Cut Silver	$              3.385
Dunhill Fine Cut Menthols	$              3.385
Dunhill International	$              3.723
Fortuna Soft	$              1.692
Fortuna Red	$              2.030
Fortuna Blue	$              2.200
Fortuna Menthol	$              3.300
Gauloises Blondes Blue	$              2.284
Gauloises Blondes Ultra Yellow	$              2.284
Gauloises  Brunes Non Filter	$              2.284
Gauloises Blondes Red	$              2.538
GB Silver	$              2.030
Gitanes Blunes Filter	$              2.284
Gitanes Blunes Non Filter	$              2.284
Gitanes Legeres Blondes	$              2.623
Glamour Blossom Aroma	$              2.708
Golden State King Size	$              1.861
John Player Special King Size	$              3.215
Karelia White	$              2.030
Karelia King Size	$              2.030
Karelia Light/ Blue	$              2.030
Karelia Ome Superslims	$              2.200
Karelia Ome Superslims Yellow	$              2.200
Karelia Blue Slims	$              2.284
Karelia Slim Party	$              2.284
Karelia Cream Slims	$              2.284
Karelia Ome Menthol	$              2.369
Karelia Slims	$              2.369
George Karelia & Son S.Virginia	$              2.538
George Karelia & Son Smother	$              2.454
Kent Silver Neo King	$              2.961
Kent White Infina King Size	$              2.961
Kent King Size Rounded pack	$              3.215
Kent Nanotek	$              3.215
Kent Silver Neo 100's	$              3.215
Kent Blue Futura	$              3.215
Kent King Size	$              3.215
Kent Nanotek Neo	$              3.639
Kent Deluxe 100's	$              3.808
Lambert & Butler	$              2.454
Lambert & Butler Gold	$              2.454
Lambert & Butler Menthol	$              3.892
L&M Red	$              2.623
L&M Light/ Blue	$              2.708
Lucky Strike Red King Box	$              2.877
Lucky Strike Blue/ Silver	$              2.877
Marlboro Red King Size	$              2.792
Marlboro Light/ Gold	$              3.639
Marlboro menthol	$              3.639
Mayfair Blue	$              2.792
Mild Seven Blue	$              2.538
Monte Carlo Light King Size	$              1.946
Monte Carlo King Size	$              1.946
More International 120's	$              2.708
More International Menthol	$              2.708
Nat Sherman's MCD Luxury	$              2.369
Nat Sherman's Black & Gold	$              2.623
Newport King Size	$              3.385
Pall Mall Blue light	$              2.961
Pall Mall Blue light Smooth taste	$              2.961
Pall Mall classic	$              2.961
Parliament Silver King	$              3.723
Parliament Super Slims	$              3.723
Parliament Silver Full Flavor	$              3.723
Parliament Silver Light/ Blue	$              3.723
Parliament Silver 100's Soft	$              3.723
Parliament light/ Blue 100's	$              3.723
Peter Stuyvesant King Size	$              3.215
R1 Red King Size	$              2.369
R1 Blue Cigarettes	$              2.538
Raquel Slims Menthol	$              2.200
Raguel Slims Blue	$              2.284
Regal King Size	$              2.623
Richmond King Size	$              2.623
Rothmans King Size	$              3.215
Rothmans International	$              3.385
Rothmans Royal 120's	$              3.385
Royal Club Blue King Size	$              1.946
Royal Club Full Red King Size	$              1.946
Royal Club Red King Size	$              1.946
Salem Menthol King Size	$              3.808
Silk Cut Silver	$              3.215
Silk cut Purple	$              3.554
Sobranie Cocktail 100's	$              3.385
Viceroy King size Filter	$              2.538
Vogue Arome	$              3.469
Vogue Lilas Superslim	$              3.469
Vogue Blue Superslim	$              3.469
Vogue Menthol Superslim	$              3.469
Wallstreet Orginal	$              2.200
West Red King Size	$              2.284
West Silver/ Light	$              2.284
Winston Filter Soft	$              2.369
Winston Blue Superslim	$              2.454
Winston Blue King Size	$              2.538

Who Consumes The Most Tobacco and Alcohol

With spending habits waning amid soaring interestrates and rising gas prices, it is perhaps useful to note the trends in the stickiest of spending habits - tobacco, alcohol, and fast food...

Norway tops the heap in terms of alcohol and tobacco spend...

Tovacco Gifts

I heart smoke

Let’s get the party started!

Sobranie Cigarettes were first within frames of Russian customs and first produced at the end if XIX century, and at present time it keeps manufacturing in London, and the same place – Old Bond Street. Sobranie cigarettes are designed for cocktail evenings, important persons and luxury. There are different styles like Sobranie Cocktail and Black Russian Cocktail, with filter designed with gold foil and a ring making it familiar with standard Sobranie cigarettes.

Shall we say it is a brand representing high class of society? Yes, Sobranie cigarettes are always accompanied with sumptuous atmosphere and talks about different concepts. Shall we say it is extremely expensive to enjoy it? Definitely not. This brand is not as costly as, for example, Dunhill cigarettes, but much more affordable, and the taste of Sobranie is very pleasant in comparison with other similar products. The main feature of Sobranie cigarettes is that it is made of not just good tobacco blend, but also contains particular components like mint, making the taste always fresh and new.

Russian-style cigarettes as Sobranie can be called so, are very popular on the territory of CIS, and considered to be very expensive brand in this area, and the prize variations are close to Dunhill cigarettes. The body of the pack is embodied with an eagle – Russian emblem – and blends used in these cigarettes suits Russian preferences and flavors.

Other view on Sobranie cigarettes is female positioning, but it doesn’t prevent males from trying it. Of course there is no strict separation, but the elegance of pack, smooth taste and feminine grace of these cigarettes proves feminine orientation. When you appear on the party with Sobranie cigarettes, you immediately become a part of the party and ready to club. The color palette of Sobranie cigarettes contains mostly white, pink or blue variations, and you are to choose what you lie most of all. Disregarding the type you prefer, you will surely get qualitative flavor and taste you paid for and expect to get.

We can speak a lot about numerous advantages of buying cigarettes online, but let’s better speak about ways of obtaining it. Surely you can purchase it through numerous stores and markets, but it is much more preferable to buy it through online stores, as here you may have significant discount on those cigarettes you like or wish to try. So you don’t have to make long journey to the Europe, Russia or Asia. Purchase them through online store without leaving your own place.

Are you a Marlboro fan?

The availability of leading cigarette brands at discounted prices has caused the authorities to take some strict and legal measures to discourage the increasing smoking rate. The government  of the United States of America has recently applied tax hikes to the taxes on cigarette manufacturers. This not only discouraged extra production but also discouraged the increased consumption. Another effort for government to restrict the usage of cigarettes is the cutoff on cigarette advertisements. Reduction of smoking can be induced by managing the demand and supply of the cigarettes.
 Regardless of what efforts the government uses, smoke lovers will always be smoke lovers. They will constantly try getting their favorite cigarettes at discounted prices just like Marlboro lovers who are always trying to find Marlboro cigarettes online at affordable prices.
 Even when the Marlboro cigarettes are unavailable at discounted prices, the buying rate grows steadily. The reason for that is the addiction that the customers have developed with the Marlboro brand. The ardent smokers usually select a brand of cigarettes and then stay loyal to it because in their perception it fulfills their needs like no other brand. Thus you will notice that if these customers are unable to find discounted prices for Marlboro cigarettes,  they will start looking for Marlboro cigarettes online at high prices.
 It is true that the availability of brands like Marlboro at cheaper prices has induced growth in the demand of cigarettes. However, this is not the only reason of non-stop trending of the cigarette market. Even if the cigarettes are highly prices there are always going to be customers who will buy their favorite brands despite the high prices. There can be two reasons for that, either the customer has uncontrollable addiction to that brand of cigarettes or he can afford to buy cigarettes at high price.
 No matter what price Marlboro charges for its cigarettes, Marlboro lovers will buy Marlboro cigarettes. A tip for all the Marlboro lovers, if you are looking for Marlboro cigarettes cheap, go to online stores as they will not only provide original Marlboro cigarettes but also provide them at cheaper prices.

Smoking Men, Style and Life

Cigar vs. Cigarette: Cultural Difference

Cigar smoking is often considered as a more refined as cigarette smoking. Cigars are mostly popular in the US than in other parts of the world, with about 2.2% of adult consuming them. They are in a greater demand among men than women. They are often used in caricatures of wealthy people and symbolize masculinity and strength.

20% of adults in the US smoke cigarettes, although this rate has been decreasing since the 1960s. Also cigarette smoking is considered less sophisticated that cigar smoking. Nowadays people pay attention mostly on the health risks of cigarettes use than cigar smoking as the first are considered more popular. At present it is prohibited to smoke both cigar and cigarettes at workplaces, restaurants, stores and many public places.

Korean Merchants protest cigarette prices

Korean merchants from across the province claim they’re being forced out business by Imperial Tobacco.

More than 800 members of the Ontario Korean Business Association, which represents 2,000 stores, travelled to Toronto on Tuesday to rally outside media companies to get their message out.

They charged that Imperial Tobacco is selling busy stores tobacco products at cheaper prices than retail outlets which are less active.

Association president Ken Lee said the company began last month charging mom and pop stores more expensive prices for cigarettes, as compared to stores that sold a huge volume of smokes.

Lee estimated about 30% of Ontario stores purchased cartons $5 to $10 less than other stores.

“This pricing is very unfair to us and it will drive many small stores out of business,” he said on Tuesday. “Many stores that don’t get a good price have to sell cigarettes at cost or under cost to stay alive.”

About 60 of the businessmen, who travelled from Niagara Falls, Barrie and other areas, were holding signs in a rally outside the Toronto Sun’s King St. E. offices on Tuesday.

Store owner Jay Jin said he has a tough time keeping his store open and called for a universal price for cigarettes.

“Under this system it is very difficult for us to make a living,” Jin said.

Imperial spokesman Eric Gagnon said some merchants belong to a preferred pricing program and get better rates based on the volume sold and other criteria they have to meet.

“We haven’t seen any store closures in a pilot project,” Gagnon said on Tuesday.

The European Travel Retail Council raises alarm over duty-free tobacco threat

The European Travel Retail Council (ETRC) has expressed its concern that a claim in the World Health Organization's (WHO) Tobacco Free Initiative technical report on price and taxation policies of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) could threaten the future of duty-free tobacco sales. The report suggests that duty-free tobacco sales undermine national taxation policies, which could be indirectly used to attack the duty-free industry. It also claims that duty-free is a major source of illicit trade, tax avoidance and tax evasion.

ETRC secretary general Keith Spinks said: "These are claims made without any basis. Duty-free sales account for less than 1% of the global tobacco market. It is disingenuous in the extreme to suggest that with such limited presence, duty-free undermines national taxation policies. We anticipate the working group with begin its work in 2011 and the industry across the world will be responding accordingly."

The WHO working group, which was established to examine the use of price and taxation policies as a means to reduce the demand for tobacco following the fourth Conference of the Parties in Uruguay last week, will look to integrate finance ministries into tobacco control, an area typically reserved for health ministries. Its focus will be on areas raised by the WHO's Tobacco Free Initiative in its technical report.

The group will comprise representatives from five states from each of the WHO's six regions and function without a budget in 2011. It also faces substantial opposition from various EU countries which believe taxation should remain a matter for national governments.

In a further development, the WHO will hold the next round of negotiations on the Illicit Trade Protocol in early 2012. The ETRC and other stakeholder organisations have consistently defended the industry against claims that duty-free is a major source of illicit trade.

Law snuffs out mailing smokes to deployed troops

Family and friends have suddenly found themselves blocked from shipping cigarettes and other tobacco products to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq because of a new law meant to hamper smuggling and underage sales through the mail.

The Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009 quietly took effect June 29. It cut off those care packages by effectively requiring that tobacco be sent with one particular kind of U.S. Postal Service shipping that requires a signature for delivery but does not deliver to most overseas military addresses.

April Woods, the 26-year-old wife of a Fort Campbell soldier in Afghanistan, used to regularly send him packages of snacks, drink mixes, pictures and cartons of his favorite variety of Marlboros.

"I would hope that they would change it. It's just ridiculous that they take so much away from our soldiers," Woods said.

Woods said her husband, Sgt. Randall Woods, doesn't have easy access to the stores on some Afghanistan bases that sell cigarettes and he also doesn't keep a lot of cash on him while deployed.

"So the only way he has to get cigarettes is through family members," she said.

Woods said every friend of hers with a spouse who smokes is very upset over the restrictions.

The law was created to prevent minors from ordering cigarettes through the mail and to prevent trafficking by requiring tracking and confirmation that the recipient is old enough. It allows small shipments of tobacco products, but only via Express Mail because that's the only postal service product that meets the identification requirements under the law.

"The issue is that Express Mail is not available to some overseas military destinations, primarily Iraq or Afghanistan," said Beth Barnett, spokeswoman for the postal service in Tennessee.

Families don't have any other options for shipping cigarettes. The law only affects the U.S. Postal Service because UPS and FedEx do not allow consumer-to-consumer shipping of tobacco.

Lynn Becker, a spokeswoman for the bill's sponsor, Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin, said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the law did not intend to restrict mailing tobacco to soldiers.

"Sen. Kohl's counsel is working with the legal office at USPS to determine whether there is an alternative to Express Mail that could be used to reach troops overseas," Becker said. "He's also working on a legislative fix to ensure that service members overseas can receive care packages that include tobacco products."

Kohl sent a letter to the Postmaster General asking him to change the regulations, because the bill also expressly permits the shipping of tobacco from adult to adult, including to military addresses.

The military has been trying to reduce smoking among soldiers and vets, including banning indoor smoking and ending smoking on submarines by the end of the year. The Pentagon laid out a plan in 1999 to reduce smoking rates by 5 percent a year and reduce chewing tobacco use to 15 percent by 2001, but wasn't able to achieve the goals. And the Defense Department received a study last year recommending the military move toward becoming tobacco-free perhaps in about 20 years.

But the sudden shift on mailing rules has sown confusion among family and charity groups who now wonder how else to get cigarettes to troops.

Susan Baldwin, of Fairview, Tenn., is the mother of two sailors in the Navy. One of her sons is deployed and asked her to send him a certain type of coffee and his favorite brand of menthol cigarettes.

Baldwin went to the post office to ship the items, but was repeatedly told she couldn't include the cigarettes in the package.

Tracy Della Vecchia, executive director and founder of MarineParents.com, said she thinks a quick fix would be to just exempt packages to military addresses from having to ship by Express Mail because soldiers serving overseas are old enough to buy tobacco.

"It's discriminating against people who are serving in combat zones," she said.

In the past, the group has sent care packages to Marines that include smokeless tobacco or cigarettes if they request it.

"For now, I will absolutely not send any tobacco, because we are a huge organization and I don't want the much needed supplies like baby wipes and toothpaste to go unreceived," she said.

But for parents looking to make their son or daughter a little happier while in a war zone, that's not always an easy decision.

Woods said her husband and the soldiers he's serving with are doing the best they can among themselves.

"Basically everyone tries to share what they can share," she said.

Types of Tobacco Use

Manufactured cigarettes consist of shredded or reconstituted tobacco processed with hundreds of chemicals. Often with a filter, they are manufactured by a machine, and are the predominant form of tobacco used worldwide.
Bidis consist of a small amount of tobacco, hand-wrapped in dried temburni leaf and tied with string. Despite their small size, their tar and carbon monoxide deliveries can be higher than manufactured cigarettes because of the need to puff harder to keep bidis lit.
Cigars are made of air-cured and fermented tobaccos with a tobacco wrapper, and come in many shapes and sizes, from cigarettesized cigarillos, double coronas, cheroots, stumpen, chuttas and dhumtis. In reverse chutta and dhumti smoking, the ignited end of the cigar is placed inside the mouth. There was a revival of cigar smoking at the end of the 20th century, among both men and women.
Kreteks are clove-flavoured cigarettes. They contain a wide range of exotic flavourings and eugenol, which has an anaesthetising effect, allowing for deeper smoke inhalation.
Pipes are made of briar, slate, clay or other substance – tobacco is placed in the bowl and inhaled through the stem, sometimes through water. Sticks are made from sun-cured tobacco known as brus and wrapped in cigarette paper.
Chewing tobacco is also known as plug, loose-leaf, and twist.
Pan masala, or betel quid consists of tobacco, areca nuts and staked lime wrapped in a betel leaf. They can also contain other sweetenings and flavouring agents.
Varieties of pan include kaddipudi,hogesoppu, gundi, kadapam, zarda, pattiwala, kiwam, mishri, and pills. Moist snuff is taken orally. A small amount of ground tobacco is held in the mouth between the cheek and gum. Increasingly manufacturers are pre-packaging moist snuff into small paper or cloth packets, to make the product easier to use.
Other products include khaini, shammaah and nass or naswa.
Dry snuff is powdered tobacco that is inhaled through the nose or taken by mouth. Once widespread, its use is now in decline. Cigars are smoked throughout the world. Regional variations include cheroots and stumpen (western and central Europe) and dhumtis (conical cheroots) used in India.
The water pipe, also known as shisha or hubbly bubbly, is commonly used in north Africa, the Mediterranean region and parts of Asia. Bidis are found thoughout south-east Asia, and are India’s most used type of tobacco.
Kreteks are clove flavoured cigarettes widely smoked in Indonesia. In Southeast Asia clay pipes known as suipa, chilum and hookli are widely used. Tobacco is used orally throughout the world, but principally in Southeast Asia. In Mumbai, India, 56% of women chew tobacco.
Cigarettes are available throughout the world. Filter-tipped cigarettes are usually more popular than unfiltered cigarettes. Hand rolled cigarettes are also widely smoked in many countries. Whether it is inhaled, sniffed, sucked or chewed, or whether it is mixed with other ingredients, there is no safe way of using tobacco.

Governments losing $40 billion yearly due to cigarette smuggling

Governments worldwide are losing some $40.5 billion in revenues annually due to tobacco smuggling, a report by the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease showed.

Based in Paris, the union’s effort has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of internationally-recommended Stop TB Strategy that has been used to treat 32 million people in 202 countries.

In its report, the union said some “11.6 percent of the global cigarette market is illicit and this is equivalent to $40.5 billion in lost revenues.”

“Higher income countries, where cigarettes are more expensive, have lower levels of cigarette smuggling than lower income countries, contrary to the tobacco industry claim that the overall level of smuggling is dependent on cigarette price,” the report stated.

Majority of the world’s smokers live in low and middle-income nations.

“If this illicit trade was eliminated, governments would gain, in principle immediately, at least $33 billion, and from 2030 onwards save over 160,000 lives a year, resulting from an overall increase in cigarette price of 3.9 percent and a consequent fall in consumption of two percent,” it showed.

This means that in just six years, more than a million lives from low and middle-income nations would be saved.

The report was released during the opening of the third inter-governmental negotiating body on the Protocol on the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products in Geneva, Switzerland recently.

The protocol is the first agreement to be negotiated under the World Health Organization-led Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the world’s first global health treaty.

Origin of imports and destination of exports

In the early 1990s, the United States of America took the largest share of Turkish exports (over 55 percent), followed by EU countries (about 25 percent). Over time, the share of the United States has declined to about 30 percent and the share of EU countries increased to nearly 40 percent.
The major importers of Turkey’s tobacco are now the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa and Germany. In 1990, Turkey imported almost all its tobacco from the United States.
Turkey is a net importer of tobacco from the United States, Switzerland, France, Canada, Zimbabwe, Malawi and South Africa, and net exporter to the remainder.

UK tobacco case

LONDON - Six companies will pay a maximum of 173.3 million pounds ($342.5 million) after admitting unlawful practices relating to the retail price of cigarettes in the UK, under a deal with Britain's Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

Japan Tobacco said its Gallaher unit had agreed to pay 93 million pounds for taking part in anti-competitive practices during 2000 to 2003, before the Tokyo-based cigarette group bought the British tobacco company in 2007.

The other five groups, all retailers, were Wal-Mart-owned Asda, First Quench, One Stop Stores (formerly called T&S Stores), Somerfield and TM Retail, a statement by the British regulator said on Friday.

A number of the six parties had previously applied to the OFT for leniency and the total penalties the groups agreed to pay, if all leniency and early resolution discounts are given, is 132.2 million pounds, rather that the pre-discount penalties total of 173.3 million pounds, the OFT said.

The OFT did not say when a final decision on the level of fines would be taken.

The regulator added that supermarket group Sainsbury Plc was the first to apply to the OFT for leniency and will receive complete immunity if it continues to co-operate.

Investigations will continue against Imperial Tobacco Plc, Shell and retailers Morrisons, Morrisons-owned Safeway, Tesco and the Co-operative Group, the OFT said.

Imperial Tobacco said in a statement it had not admitted to any infringement of competition law and had not acted in any way contrary to the interests of consumers. It said it would continue to co-operate with the OFT. (Editing by Mike Elliott and David Holmes)

Global factors see AP tobacco auction prices at all-time high

BANGALORE: Prices of FCV (Flue-Cured Virginia) tobacco in the ongoing auctions in Andhra Pradesh have touched all-time high. At the end of May 8, the 76th day of the AP auction conducted by the Tobacco Board, 111.33 million kg (mkg) had been sold for an average per kg price of Rs 78.44, almost 63% higher than the average of Rs 47.59 realised from the sale of 110.85 mkg in the corresponding period of last year’s auction.
Industry sources say the steep spurt in prices is because of a global supply constraint following factors like withdrawal of Chinese cigarettes from the export market because of stock adjustments to meet rising domestic demand. All of this has seen auction prices for high grades from AP’s NLS (Northern Light Soil) region crossing the per kg price of Rs 100 for the first time ever.
Prices for NLS high grades are ruling in the range of Rs 105 to Rs 118 per kg. With 111 mkg being auctioned out of this year’s AP crop of 170 mkg, farmers expect the brisk pace of sales to continue and the auction to be completed by the middle of June.

Fire-Safe Cigarettes Will Prevent Fires

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 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.

SMOKING CELEBRITIES

There's absolutely no doubt that celebrities have an impact on the rest of us and there's a hot debate currently on whether the influence that fame brings should also demand a certain amount of responsibility.

Is it true that celebrities really desist from endorsing cigarettes of all hues? Is it because they are conscious of their social responsibilities? Pictures of celebrities smoking appear glamorous and civilized, regardless of the context of the scene in a movie and thus it strikes a cord with teens. They are shown at parties with a cigarette which pushes young people to emulate them. The brands they smoke, cigarettes , Camel, Winston, Virginia Slims, Salem etc, become a point of campus discussion.

Could it be that the stars themselves have been influenced by the glamour that was once associated with cigarettes? Perhaps if you spend long enough in the fantasy world of film you start to believe in the celluloid image. Just like Gloria Swanson in 'Sunset Boulevard' you lose touch with reality.

After all, it's not so long ago that everybody who was somebody in Hollywood smoked and was proud of it. cigarettes smoking was glamorous and sophisticated. Just think of the iconic image of Audrey Hepburn in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' as Holly Golightly posing elegantly with her long cigarette holder, upswept chignon and little black dress.

What's not so elegant of course is the way Audrey Hepburn succumbed to the smoking habit herself. Ignoring her mother's 'beauty tip' to: "keep to six cigarettes a day only", Hepburn managed two or three packs at her worst times - even smoking in her nun's habit on the set of 'The Nun's Story' and chain smoking her way through 'My Fair Lady'. Unsurprisingly, she suffered from asthma for most of her life and died of cancer at only 63 - looking frail and old for her years. Not the kind of ending we like to imagine for the sublime Holly Golightly.

There's no doubt that the very nature of the movie business has caused many a celebrity to start treading the nicotine path. Smoking is as common in movies today as it was back in the 1950's although overall smoking in the population at large has reduced. Could it be that a cigarette has become the film prop of choice for actors looking for an easy way to inhabit another skin?

For some celebrities - tired of the constant criticism and the ciggy shots splashed across the tabloids - a kind of smoking defiance has crept in. As Gwyneth Paltrow once said, "I smoke and I'm not going to stop!" Paltrow - famous for getting through a pack of Camel Lights a day in her teens and twenties - has only very recently quit smoking. Perhaps she started to wonder how her fine, fair skin and ethereal beauty would cope with the collagen depletion in her fourties and fifties.

Some celebrities keep going with the smoking habit whatever the consequences and even if it impacts on their relationships. It's well known that smoking was a bone of contention between Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston during their marriage. Brad Pitt is on record as saying how much he hated his ex-wife's chain smoking. His disapproval didn't cut much ice with Jennifer though - as recent paparazzi photos show. You have to ask why one of the worlds most loved and naturally attractive women would do this to themselves?

Similarly, iconic top model Kate Moss is regularly photographed with her cigarettes , a lighter and a mobile phone as her only fashion accessory. As a supreme super model its probably not surprising that Moss still manages to appear effortlessly elegant and beautiful however she's photographed - at least for now. She certainly shows no signs of wanting to quit smoking any time soon. Perhaps like so many in her world - she associates smoking with thinness. Or perhaps, for her, it's the least troubling of her addictions.

When celebrities do chose to quit its fascinating that the reasons given are so often not about looks. Catherine Zeta-Jones for instance, quit smoking - so she said - because she didn't want her children to start asking questions. Not as you might have thought - because beauty is her personal trademark and smoking would kick-start skin aging and undermine her potential to earn huge sums of money.

Whatever the reasons celebrities have for smoking or for deciding to quit - the truth about skin damage and smoking very rarely features as a major factor in the debate. Well - we think it should. So our advice to all you celebrity smokers out there - carry on smoking if you want but don't expect your fickle public not to notice the effect on your looks. And when you hit a deluded middle age you may still be able to say, like Gloria Swanson in 'Sunset Boulevard': "I'm ready for my close-up now Mr de Mille" - but only if it's filmed in heavy soft-focus, expertly back-lit and then extensively re-touched afterwards.

Bill Would Mandate Fire-Safe Cigarettes Be Sold In Tennessee

Legislation that would allow only fire-safe cigarettes to be sold in Tennessee is headed to the governor for his consideration.

The measure sponsored by Senate Speaker Pro Tempore Rosalind Kurita, a Clarksville Democrat, unanimously passed the Senate last year and was approved in the House 97-1 earlier this month.

But the bill didn't go to the governor until Thursday because both chambers had to work out some differences.

The law would only allow the sale of cigarettes made with paper that self-extinguishes if left untouched by the smoker.

Supporters say they reduce the risk of accidental fires.

Six states have mandated the sale of fire-safe cigarettes and 20 others are considering it.

Gov. Phil Bredesen could not be immediately reached for comment about whether he will sign the bill.