A row between leading cigarette makers and shopkeepers over who should pay the tax led to the boycott in the southern Indian state of Kerala. South Indian shopkeepers halt cigarette sales over new tax rules. We will continue our protest until the company yields to our demands or the government comes up with alternatives,' T. Monday, 16th April 2007, 10:02 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (XFN-ASIA) - Smokers in southern India have been forced to look around for their favorite brands as local...

Despite a two-year decline in the amount of money tobacco makers spend on marketing and advertising, the American Medical Association says too much is still spent on promoting cigarettes and other forms of smoking. But anti-smoking advocates said promotional spending was still double the amount spent in 1998, the year the tobacco firms entered into a landmark multi-state settlement, the Associated Press reported. Spending on marketing and advertising among the five largest US tobacco firms...

The F-T-C report says tobacco companies spend most of their promotional dollars on price discounts to cigarette retailers and wholesalers to cut the price of cigarettes to smokers. WASHINGTON A federal agency says that after setting a record high in 2003, tobacco companies spent less money marketing and advertising their products in 2004 and 2005. Report says tobacco companies spending less to market products. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The...

In fact, it's now on a path toward letting the Food and Drug Administration regulate the advertising and sale of cigarettes, but not ban either nicotine or tobacco. At one point he defended the 44-cent increase that jacked up the state cigarette tax to almost a dollar and raised the average price per pack at Hoosier outlets to $4. The rhetoric that accompanied the latest increase in Indiana's cigarette tax makes no sense to me. We talk about the sale of cigarettes as if it's legitimate...

Employees who participated in a worksite health program improved blood pressure control by 9 percent and diabetes control by 15 percent, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 8th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke. Worksite health programs improve blood pressure and diabetes control. Employees who participated in a worksite health program improved blood pressure control by 9 percent and diabetes control by 15...