How Big Tobacco Preys on the Mentally Ill

infosalus.com – 2 de Abril 2016 – EEUU

Cigarette companies are focusing on those who can least understand tobacco's dangers.

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For teens and tobacco, out of sight might mean out of mind

Reuters.com - 23 de Noviembre de 2015 –EEUU 

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/24/us-health-teens-tobacco-idUSKBN0TD22U20151124#dUT7I5eWv4kTtlgY.99

Hiding tobacco products at convenience stores reduces teens' risk of future tobacco use

eurekalert.org – 23 de Noviembre de 2015 – EEUU

Keeping tobacco products out of view in convenience stores significantly reduces teenagers' susceptibility to future cigarette use compared to when tobacco advertising and products are visible, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/rc-htp111715.php 

Smoking Cigarettes In Movies: Hollywood Has Fixed Its Tobacco Problem, Other Countries Haven't

medicaldaily.com – 3 de Noviembre de 2015 – EEUU

Young people tend to identify strongly with actors, especially actors of their own nationality. So what do they think when they see their idol lighting up a cigarette? A recent study conducted by researchers from the United States, Mexico, Argentina, and Germany has found that while Hollywood has fixed its problem with romanticizing tobacco use, films made outside of the United States continue to show characters smoking on screen.

"Our study found that the presence of tobacco and alcohol in films is high, whether the film is made in Europe or the Americas," said Dr. James Thrasher, senior researcher for the study from the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health, in a statement. "Even in countries where tobacco industry payment for product placement is prohibited by law, more than half of films contain tobacco — countries without these policies were even more likely to show tobacco use on screen."

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Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company on the target for a lawsuit

thehindu.com – 4 de octubre de 2015 – EEUU
The Santa Fe Natural Tobacco company, behind the American Spirit cigarette brand, is the target of a class-action lawsuit, and they have asked to meet with the FDA to discuss their marketing techniques.

The complaints are made from a law firm from Florida, based on the accusation that the cigarette company is deceiving consumers by making them believe that their cigarettes are healthier. Documents from the lawsuit warn the FDA of the use of words like “natural” or “additive free” in their marketing and advertising strategies, violating the law.

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Video games with smoking characters lack tobacco warnings

foxnews.com – 25 de Septiembre de 2015 – EEUU

Video games popular with children and teens often feature characters that smoke even though few packages carry warnings about tobacco-related content, a U.S. study suggests.

Researchers asked 65 players, ages 13 to 50, to list their favorite games and recall how many of these depicted tobacco use. Participants remembered playing 118 different games that are evaluated by the Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB), an industry group in the U.S. that provides voluntary content warnings designed to flag themes that may not be appropriate for younger players.

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Video Game Warnings Fall Far Short in Rating Tobacco Content

ucsf.edu – 14 de septiembre de 2015 – EEUU 

Video games are not adequately rated for tobacco content, according to a new UC San Francisco study that found video gamers are being widely exposed to tobacco imagery. 

The researchers concluded that a national ratings board set up more than 20 years ago is not a reliable source for learning whether video games contain tobacco imagery.

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Women outdo men in tobacco consumption

nyoooz.com – 14 de Mayo de 2015 – India

RAIPUR: When it comes to tobacco consumption, women in Chhattisgarh outdo men. Rate of women smoking and chewing tobacco has gone up by 16% while there`s a 5% dip in addiction among men. Though consumption of tobacco still remains high among men at 63.

9%, data released by the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) based on Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) reveals that in five years (2005-06 and 2009-10), women tobacco users have grown at a higher rate, from 25.2% to 41.6%.

As per National Health Survey-3, 68.6% men and 25.2% women in Chhattisgarh were tobacco users in 2005-06.

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Youth who receive tobacco coupons may be more susceptible to smoking

reuters.com – 6 de Mayo de 2015 – EEUU

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Flavored tobacco is killing underage smokers, experts say

who.int – 18 de marzo de 2015 – Vietnam

Health and legal experts are again calling on the government to impose a ban on flavored tobacco products which have been plaguing the country and exposing children to major health risks.

These risks can be more harmful than those caused by regular cigarettes, experts said, after local media reported that a police raid last week at a café in the southern beach town of Vung Tau found many 12-year-old students smoking shisha, aka hookah.

Police then confiscated 12 bags of the fruit-flavored, sweet-scented tobacco and two smoking water pipes.

The café owner failed to explain the product’ origins and present any license.

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http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/flavored-tobacco-is-killing-underage-smokers-experts-say-39931.html

Delhi Govt. acts tough on tobacco companies, stops distribution of advertisement boards

thehealthsite.com – 9 de marzo de 2015 – India

From trying to ban the sale of loose cigarettes to issuing statutory warnings and health risks on cigarettes packs, the government is trying everything it can, to curb tobacco use in the country. After all, the increasing use of cigarettes, and other tobacco products can take a huge toll on public health. While surveys have confirmed that banning loose cigarettes has affected cigarette consumption and sales across the country, efforts are still falling short to deter people from tobacco usage. In another move, Delhi government has written to various other tobacco companies asking them to remove advertisement boards from shops and warned them against free distribution of boards or counters having tobacco ads among vendors. (Read: Why was the proposal to ban loose cigarettes opposed).

Additional Director (Health) S K Arora informed that various tobacco companies have been asked to remove advertisement boards from tobacco shops and other places. Following repeated violation of Section 5 of the COTPA, 2003, tobacco companies have also been asked to not distribute boards or counters having tobacco advertisements as free gifts to vendors. Section 5 of the COTPA, 2003, prohibits direct and indirect advertisements of tobacco products including at point of sale. (Read: Ban on gutka, pan masala, khaini, supari – can we finally say goodbye?)

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Dade City urges merchants not to sell candy-flavored tobacco products to underage patrons

tampabay.com – 11 de Febrero de 2015 – EEUU

DADE CITY — City commissioners are asking local merchants to stop selling and marketing fruit- and candy-flavored tobacco products to underage patrons.

The commission passed the resolution Tuesday after a presentation by several teen members of Students Working Against Tobacco, a Florida youth organization aimed at educating fellow youth about the dangers of tobacco.

Several commissioners said they were unaware of some of the products on the market, such as dissolvable, flavored tobacco tablets that look like mints.

While selling tobacco to anyone under the age of 18 is illegal, the students said kids their age still manage to obtain the products. Dade City joins Pasco County and the cities of San Antonio and New Port Richey in adopting resolutions. The students hope to get all of the county's municipalities on board in order to present a united front with the state Legislature.

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Youth anti-smoking campaign supports tobacco legislation

vtdigger.org – 5 de Febrero de 2015 – EEUU
A group of high school students from across Vermont visited the Statehouse this week to combat the influence of the tobacco industry on young people.

The students were with the Health Department’s Our Voices Exposed (OVX) campaign, which aims to empower young people to get involved in tobacco prevention.

Lt. Gov. Phil Scott told the group to advocate for better prevention by talking to their legislators, but also encouraged them to lead by example and make healthy choices in their own lives.

Tian Berry, a Burlington High School senior, said the OVX chapter at her school visited local convenience stores to see what tobacco products they sell and how they’re marketed. She said many of the products are set at eye level for children and feature advertising that would appeal to them.

Each year the industry spends $18 million on marketing in Vermont, according to the Health Department. Much of that money, 93 percent, goes toward point-of-sale advertising, according to the Center for Public Health and Tobacco Policy.

In Vermont 13 percent of high school students are current smokers, and 1,000 adults die each year from smoking, according to Health Department figures.


Two House bills aimed at youth tobacco cessation are now before the House Human Services Committee.

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Snuffing Out China's Deadly Habit

usnews.com – 1de Febrero de 2015 – China

China is home to nearly one-third of the world’s smokers: more than 300 million of them. That’s not much less than the total population of the United States. Since 2006, overall smoking rates in China have remained static at about 25 percent. Every year, approximately 1.2 million Chinese die from tobacco-related diseases, and about 100,000 more perish from the effects of secondhand smoke. If these trends continue, tobacco-related casualties in China will reach 3 million per year by 2050.

To help address this health crisis, China’s parliament is considering a ban on all tobacco ads except those at point-of-sale retail locations. How does this compare to the current state of play regarding Chinese tobacco ads? And could the new law shift the tobacco-control landscape?

Current laws ban direct tobacco advertising at the national level. But major loopholes allow for carefully constructed “stealth” marketing. For example, an enormous billboard at the Changyang Road of Shanghai reads “Ai Wo Zhonghua,” which can be interpreted as “love my China (Zhonghua)” or “love my Zhonghua cigarettes.” The billboard even resembles a pack of Zhonghua smokes. Unsurprisingly, nearly 50 percent of Shanghai smokers and 40 percent of nonsmokers thought of Zhonghua cigarettes when surveyed about the meaning of “Ai Wo Zhonghua.”

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wsj.com – 25 de noviembre 2014 – China

China Considers Tobacco Advertising Limits, Public-Smoking Ban

BEIJING—China is considering a ban on tobacco advertising and smoking in public places as the world’s largest nation of smokers faces a mounting and costly toll from treating chronic diseases.

Measures under consideration include a ban on all forms of tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotion, according to draft legislation published Monday on the website of the State Council, China’s cabinet.

The draft includes bans on smoking in indoor, public places as well as the outdoor areas of locations ranging from hospitals to schools to fitness venues. It also includes plans to cut smoking scenes in film and TV and prohibit vending machine sales of cigarettes.

China’s leaders are attempting to stub out smoking in the world’s largest tobacco market by sales, as tobacco use is contributing to rising incidences of chronic conditions such as heart disease and lung cancer in the country. China is home to more than 300 million smokers.

The World Health Organization estimates that smoking kills more than one million Chinese each year. Death and health complications related to no communicable disease will have cost China $500 billion in the decade ending in 2015, the WHO says.

The new regulations would impact China’s state-owned China National Tobacco Corp., which holds a monopoly on tobacco in China. Its cigarette makers account for 43% of the world’s cigarette production, according to the American Cancer Society and the World Lung Foundation.

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dailymail.co.uk – 13 de Octubre de 2014 – UK

First e-cig TV adverts from next month: Commercials will not be allowed to target young people and feature actors who look under 25

The first TV commercials showing electronic cigarettes will be shown from November 10, it was announced yesterday.

However, the adverts will not be allowed to target young people and no actor in an ad may look as if they are aged under 25.

The guidance set down by the advertising regulator clears the way for e-cigarette manufacturers to market their product as openly as drinks producers, who are also banned from linking alcohol with youth or youth culture.

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psfk.com – 14 de Agosto de 2014 – EEUU

Yale Medical Library Exhibit Features Historical Tobacco Ads, Anti-Smoking Materials

The Public Service Announcement, better known as the PSA, is one of the most effective tools for raising awareness about public health problems like addiction or other harmful behaviors. Whether they were commercials on TV or ads put into magazines and public transportation, these images are usually graphic or upsetting enough to stick with the people who see them. After all, they have to combat years, if not decades, of advertising for the products in question which helped to get the people hooked in the first place.

Of these products, tobacco is the most notorious. Once it was discovered that smoking cigarettes was bad for your health, both advertisers and health officials had a challenge on their hands, the former on how to sell a deadly product, the latter to get people to stop consuming it. The Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University has created an online exhibit that highlights these efforts, as well as the history of tobacco advertising and anti-smoking campaigns available to the public.

The exhibit contains many of the old tobacco ads for different brands, each of which can be searched for individually. While there are significantly more ads for tobacco products than there are anti-smoking one, their historic value is immense, not just for the history of health communication but also for the field of advertising. After all, these ads convinced whole generations to consume an ultimately deadly product, and still are.

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tuoitrenews.vn – 11 de Junio 2014 – Vietnam

Tobacco without picture-based warnings rampant in Vietnam despite ban

Cigarettes with no graphic warning images on their packaging are still widely available across Hanoi one year after a regulation dictating that picture-based warnings be included on tobacco packaging took effect.

Following checks earlier this week, Tuoi Tre undercover reporters found many of the popular tobacco selling posts in the capital city as selling products that have no warning labels with the mandatory graphic pictures.

Such tobacco is available at a store run by Huyen, who sells a pack of Craven A at VND31,000 (US$1.46), while the normal rate is only VND17,000.

“The [VND17,000] one has label with graphic warning image, while mine does not,” she explained the exorbitant price.

Huyen said she has sold many products without the warning pictures over the last year because “people feel uneasy to inviting each other to smoke cigarettes with the graphic pictures.”

As of May 1, 2013, all cigarettes sold in Vietnam are required to have health warning messages in picture on their packaging, under a circular issued by the Ministry of Health, and Industry and Trade.

Packaging that bear text-based health warning, or has no warnings at all, are deemed illegal.

The Vietnam Tobacco Association (VTA) said the tobacco products without the warning images on their packaging have been hoarded by cigarette sellers before the regulation took effect.

When similar products have no longer been produced, these speculators began to sell their hoards at double market prices.

A pack of Vinataba with graphic photo warning, for instance, costs only VND15,000 while the one with text label fetches VND30,000.

“The mandatory graphic warning pictures leave an unfavorable impression on smokers so they prefer products with text-based warnings,” commented VTA general secretary Pham Kien Nghiep.

“This has created the chance for hoarders to sell their products at exorbitant prices.”

Tobacco smuggling in Vietnam has soared since the mandatory picture-based health warning regulation became effective, according to the VTA.

It rose 30 percent in the first four months of this year, reducing sales of locally made cigarettes, the association said.

Vietnam’s tobacco sales in the first three months of this year dropped 9 percent from a year earlier, which will cause a VND2 trillion ($94.34 million) loss in tax collection, according to the VTA.

Vu Van Cuong, chairman of the Vietnam National Tobacco Corporation (Vinataba), said most of the tobacco making plants have obeyed the regulations to print picture-based health warning on the tobacco packaging.

Those with text-based warnings are hoarded by the distributors, he said.

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http://tuoitrenews.vn/business/20329/tobacco-without-picturebased-warnings-rampant-in-vietnam-despite-ban

chinadaily.com.cn – 9 de Junio de 2014 – China

Comprehensive ban sought on tobacco ads, promotion

Public health and tobacco control activists called for a comprehensive ban on all forms of tobacco advertising and promotion in the nation's advertisement law, which is being revised.

In the publicized draft amendment to the current law, which took effect in early 1995, media including radio, TV, movies, newspapers, websites and magazines are banned from advertising tobacco products.

"That leaves loopholes for the tobacco industry sneaking into emerging new media platforms like WeChat," said Liang Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, on Monday.

Other new forms of advertising include napkin boxes in restaurants, playing cards and seat covers in airplanes.

Wu Yiqun, deputy director of Think Tank, an NGO that is committed to greater controls on tobacco and smoking, agreed with the call for a comprehensive ban. "The method of listing media platforms should be abandoned. Instead, all forms of tobacco advertising should be banned in the new version of the law," Wu said.

That's in line with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which took effect in China in 2006 after the government ratified it in 2003, Wu said.

The convention requires a comprehensive ban on all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. It also demands signatory countries to introduce legislation to ensure the implementation of the convention's legal obligations.

However, in China's current draft amendment, "the ban is somewhat partial", Wu noted.

Tobacco advertising is not banned in public areas such as shopping malls, supermarkets, Internet bars and public restrooms, she added.

So the tobacco industry is "intruding into these places", she said, citing tobacco product retailers in particular.

"They do a lot of on-site promotions like new product tasting," she said.

That is not covered in the draft amendment at all, said Xu Guihua, deputy director of the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control.

A recent survey conducted by China CDC found that nearly 49 percent of Chinese students ages 13 to 15 reported having seen tobacco advertisements in recent months.

Additionally, 2 percent said they have received free cigarettes distributed by tobacco companies, mostly at retailers, the CDC said.

Xu noted that so far, 41 countries worldwide had introduced an advertising and promotion ban for tobacco retailers.

Liang Xiaofeng said: "Young people are particularly susceptible to tobacco advertising. Therefore, banning tobacco advertising helps prevent the young from taking up smoking."

A study conducted in 22 countries indicated that a comprehensive advertising ban would help reduce tobacco consumption by at least 6.3 percent.

shanjuan@chinadaily.com.cn

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http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-06/10/content_17574316.htm

northlandsnewscenter.com – 5 de mayo de 2014 – EEUU

Lethal Lure: tobacco prevention & policy campaign

Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) --- The American Lung Association has launched a new campaign focused on the dangerous lures of young people to tobacco use.

In the past year the ALA, along with a group called Iron Range Youth in Action, have been conducting audits of establishments that sell tobacco products.

The number of advertisements, types of tobaccos, and product placement, were among the things the auditors looked at.

ALA officials say raising awareness about strategies used by the tobacco industry to lure younger people into use of their products, is key to preventing use in the future.

"And we want to raise that awareness because the tobacco industry has shifted their marketing strategy since the master settlement and some of the restrictions have been put on them around advertising," said Dir. of Tobacco Prevention & Control Pat McKone.

With the information gathered from the store audits, the American Lung Association will develop an educational toolkit to help youth resist tobacco at the point of sale.

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http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/Lethal-Lure-tobacco-prevention--policy-campaign-258045671.html