Monday, June 16, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
Cigarette prices North Dakota
| 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 |
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Happiness
“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing," thought Francie, "something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up; a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue; for a man, a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - just to be with someone you love. Those things make happiness.”― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Defendants liability
Defendants raise numerous challenges to the correctness of the district court’s findings that they committed racketeering acts, which we take up in Parts III and IV. In this section, however, we are concerned only with the existence of these findings, not their validity. By statutory definition, any violation of the mail or wire fraud statutes can qualify as “racketeering activity.”
To prove a violation of the mail and wire fraud statutes, the government must show a scheme or artifice to defraud and a mailing or wire transmission in furtherance thereof. “Where one scheme involves several mailings, the law is settled that each mailing constitutes a violation of the statute.”
Where, as here, the mail and wire fraud statutes serve as the predicate offenses for a RICO violation, each racketeering act must be a mailing or wire transmission made in furtherance of a “scheme or artifice to defraud.” Thus, in order to identify the racketeering acts, the district court must first have found a scheme to defraud, then concluded the alleged mailings or wire transmissions were in furtherance of such scheme.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tobacco Information – Summary
Tobaccois an product processed from the leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. Tobacco had already been used in the Americas when European settlers arrived and introduced the practice to Europe, where it became hugely popular. With the arrival of Europeans, tobacco became one of the primary products fueling the colonization of the future American South, long before the creation of the United States. The initial colonial expansion, fueled by the desire to increase tobacco production, was one cause of the first colonial conflicts with Native Americans and became a driving factor for the use of African slave labor.
Many countries set a minimum smoking age, regulating the purchase and use of cigarettes . All methods of tobacco consumption result in varying quantities of nicotine being absorbed into the user's bloodstream. Over time, tolerance and dependence develop. Absorption quantity, frequency, and speed seem to have a direct relationship with how strong a dependence and tolerance, if any, might be created.
The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of cigarettes -related products. It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, moist environment, which means it is farmed on all continents. Tobacco is a commodity product similar in economic terms to foodstuffs in that the price is set by the fact that crop yields vary depending on local weather conditions. The price varies by specific species grown, the total quantity on the market ready for sale, the area where it was grown, the health of the plants, and other characteristics individual to product quality. Laws around the world now often have some restrictions on smoking but, still 5.5 trillion cigarettes are smoked each year. Taxes are often imposed heavily on tobacco.
The tobacco industry is heavily dominated by giant firms. Due to historical growing areas, many of these companies are concentrated in the southern United States, particularly Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia. Other companies are based around the world. Tobacco advertising is becoming increasingly restricted around the world.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Mobiles and Cigarettes
Topics covered include sociology of cigarette use, social shaping of health scares, industrial structure and political influence, advertising, cultural images, gender and age issues etc.
Phones have replaced cigarettes as the thing people fiddle with
* When nervous, waiting for a to meet or hear from someone, or trying not to look out of place
* They are a distraction from loneliness, insecurity, nervousness
They are used to fill time waiting
* smoking or calling when waiting for the bus
We often have to go outside a building or room to use them.
* We cannot get reception, or, as with cigarettes, we are not allow by explicit or implicit rules to use them indoors.
* The little crowd of smokers and phoners is a common sight. However smokers are united by their activity, phoners separated.
They are displayed in public places
* When put on the table in a pub or café they have brand and model status
* They must be near at hand - for the next call or next smoke.
* A group of smokers all get out their cigarettes packs and put them of the table when the sit down. Phoners do the same thing.
They are associated with certain stereotypes
* The socially successful - the peron everyone wants to know.
* E.g. the sophisticated business person/socialite (advertisers preferred)
* E.g. beautiful people having fun
* Actually used by: many people
* The spotty teenager on the bus
They are used in characteristic ways by different people
* Discretely, hidden in hand, back turned
* Elbow stuck out the side - characteristic of overweight lorry drivers, to use a blatant stereotype!
* If you use two at the same time you probably have a problem.
They are lent and borrowed
* Friends think nothing of letting each other make calls or cigarettes .
* Except when there are hardly any left.
* One person with a phone or pack is enough for a whole group on an outing.
They are seen as antisocial in many public or social contexts
* They both annoy other people around the user.
* There are social codes about when it is appropriate to use
* Those that control social spaces make rules to restrict anti-social behavior, especially banning use, or restricting to certain areas. See below.
They are highly social
* They are an essential part of flirtation
* They are a point to start conversation
* They are used to note phone numbers
Teenagers want them
* Use them to show off/build identity
* They are often one of the few personal possessions of young people.
* Starting smoking and getting a mobile phone, were/are important boundary markers in growing up
* They make/made up a key part of youth culture.
* They can be subversive.
* They are banned in schools (phones), smoke
* Catch 'em young
Their use is banned in many of the same places because of social interference or technical interference, or danger of fire.
* Theatre
* Hospital
* Railway carriages (smoke, phones)
* Petrol stations
* Parliament
They can cause fires - (phones by explosion)
Actually there is no evidence for this with phones, but that does not put off certain 'licensing authorities' from banning them on these grounds, such as in European filling stations.
They have highly disputed health issues.
* There are government studies
* Corporate denials
* Hidden patents and research
* There is a whole range a device to make them 'safer'
* Companies do not like to advertise 'safer' versions as that implies existing versions are dangerous
* Heavy users and children are most at risk
They are dangerous to use when driving
* One takes ones eyes and mind off the road to initiate use, and to hold them
* They both use the in car power socket
* Arkansas has banned smoking in cars with young children
There are important 'class' issues over use
* Different parts of the population prefer different brands
* Nokia - teen, young, more female
* Ericsson - company people, engineers, boring men
* Motorola - more sophisticated
Smaller versions are
* More feminine (packs of cigarettes )
* More discrete
* Are for lighter users (number of cigarettes , battery size, functions)
Gender differentiating in branding and design
They both are associated with small pictures of popular culture
- Logos, cigarettes cards
You go to the newsagent/tobacconist to buy them
They have similar industrial characteristics
* The industries both have huge political lobbies
* They contribute lots of revenue to governments though tax
* The industries are both highly regulated
* The industry is made of multinationals
* The growth markets are in the developing world
* In developing countries tobacco and telecoms have often been state enterprises
Monday, May 26, 2008
Vietnam opens non-smoking week

Vietnam launches the inaugural National Non-Smoking Week today in an effort to raise awareness of the consequences of smoking and protect young people from such dangers.
During National Non-Smoking Week, all forms of advertisement, trade promotion and sponsorship by tobacco companies will be prohibited.
In addition, cigarettes retail prices and import taxes will see a hike and aban on selling cigarettes to people under 18 years of age will also go into effect.
The week will end on Saturday.
The Ministry of Health as well as the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will work with the World Health Organization to implement the week to mark World Non-Smoking Day, May 31.
The survey also showed that 56 percent of men and close to 1.8 percent of women in Vietnam smoke regular cigarettes , 31 percent of whom are young people.
The number of tobacco-related deaths in Vietnam hits 40,000 on average annually.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
SMOKING CELEBRITIES
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.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Solons eye replacing text with pictures on cigarette packs

A bill aiming to replace the current text warnings on cigarettes packs with pictures on the effects of smoking will be discussed in the committee on health Tuesday at the House of Representatives.
Under HB 3364 or the Picture-Based Health Warning Bill, all packages of cigarettes and other tobacco products shall have colored and graphic health warnings on their front and back panels to warn the public about the hazardous effects of smoking.
"Madali lang po makinig [pero] hindi naman natin talaga nakikita yung mga nangyayari. Pag nakita po talaga natin, baka magdalawang isip na tayo, [It's easy to listen, we never really get to see the effects. Maybe if we do, we may change our minds]" Congresswoman Anna York Bondoc, co-author of the bill, said.
If the bill is implemented, the sale of cigarettes that do not have the graphic health warnings will be banned, while descriptions of the brand such as "low tar, "light," ultra-light," and "mild" that might mislead the public will be removed, Bondoc said.
Cigarette manufacturers will also be mandated to shoulder the printing expenses of the picture-based health warnings, she said.
Manufacturers, importers, exporters, and distributors not complying with the rules will pay a fine of P1 million on the first offense, P5 million on the second offense, and P20 million on the third offense. An imprisonment of not more than one year may also be imposed on the third offense upon the discretion of the court, according to the bill.
Implementation of the bill is targeted for Sept. 6, 2008, the deadline of the compliance of the Philippines with the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), according to Congresswoman Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel, co-author of HB 3364.
The FCTC is a world treaty on smoking which took effect in 2005 with 350 countries, including the Philippines, as signatories. Other countries, such as Canada and Singapore have imposed the use of picture-based health warnings on cigarette packs.
"Kung nagawa nga ng iba, bakit hindi natin magawa dito [If other countries were able to implement it, why not here]?" said Dr. Ulysses Dorotheo, FCTC Program Manager of the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance.
He cited the cigarette packs with image warnings that were being sold in Thailand but manufactured in the Philippines.
Friday, April 18, 2008
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Curing tobacco with less wood

Malawi has grown tobacco for over 100 years now with the first tobacco seeds introduced in the country in 1893. First tobacco exports from the then Nyasaland are reported to have taken place at the turn of the 20th Century.
Today cigarettes is the biggest forex earner in the country bringing in 60 percent of the country’s export revenue and it is the largest employer in rural areas with 70 percent of the workforce in the industry.
However the boom in the cigarettes industry has brought with it its own negative consequences, especially in matters to do with the environment.
According to Nico Nijenhuis, a research student from the University of Twente in The Netherlands, and currently on an internship with GTZ/ProBEC, Malawi has an estimated 10,000 smallholder tobacco growers, 65 percent of whom use wood to cure tobacco.
Nijenhuis says it takes a single small holder farmer 13.5kilogrammes of wood to cure a single kg of tobacco.
According to German Scholar, Helmut Geist who conducted a Global Assessment of Reforestation Related to Tobacco Farming in 1999, Malawi clears 55,000 hectares of woodlands annually to cure tobacco.
Heist pegged the percentage of tobacco related deforestation in Malawi at 26.1 percent, representing a quarter of all the deforestation that happens in the country.
Today some analysts suggest that these figures might have increased significantly as production has switched away from politically unstable (yet fuel-efficient) Zimbabwe to other Southern African countries like Malawi where wood is the only practical fuel for curing flue cured tobacco.
And again the rise in demand for Malawian Flue Cured Tobacco as evidenced by the rise in prices at the auction floors has encouraged farmers to grow more of it.
This season government has set the minimum selling price for Flue Cured Tobacco at $2.20/kg (K316) while its counterpart, Burley, which is air cured is at a minimum of a $1.61/kg (K231).
Such good prices are not doing the country’s forests any justice. Farmers, most of whom do not have and woodlots of their own, continue to cut down trees wantonly in order to have fuel for curing their tobacco.
And most of the trees that are cut are from indigenous forests, never to be replaced.
Concerned with the alarming levels of deforestation, Alliance One, GTZ, ProBEC and Total Land Care teamed up to look at energy efficient ways of curing tobacco.
The answer to this problem was the rocket barn.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Coffee and Cigarettes are Parts of a Balanced Diet
Dr. Juan Valdez said that coffee should be considered a fruit. Coffee is grown and harvested much like berries and grapes and thus should be considered a fruit.
Dr. Randolph J. Reynolds added that cigarettes contained tobacco, which is grown and harvested like cabbage, lettuce, and other leafy vegetables.
The study also stated that the benefits of a healthy lifestyle can be achieved with as little as 6 cups of coffee and 20 cigarettes per day.


