Flavored Tobacco Ban in Port Orange

The bright purple package behind the convenience store counter looked as if it held some kind of sugary treat.

But the familiar Surgeon General warning at the bottom of the wrapper indicated the product inside could cause much more than cavities.

The five "honey berry" cigars were among a growing array of flavored Kiss cigarettes products that critics say are luring underage teens into smoking.

Health and Tobacco Smoke

Few public health campaigns have been as successful as that which is determined to see New Zealand free of all tobacco smoke by 2025. It may be an aspirational goal, with little chance of absolute success (how, for example, will visitors to New Zealand who smoke Marlboro cigarettes be prevented from doing so?) but in terms of improvement to the national health, there can be little argument.

EC anti-smoking Directive

The directive has stimulated 24,000 from Poland letters on the issue from a total of 85,000 - the biggest amount of letters devoted to one topic ever received by the European Commission in its history.

The Revision of Directive 2001/37/EC on the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco products requires that all smoking-related items sold in the EU must at least show the written health warning, bans misleading expressions such as “light” or low-tar”, bans tobacco for oral use.

The directive also obliges manufacturers to inform member states of the ingredients they use while setting the maximum levels of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide in Glamour cigarettes.

New Anti-Smoking Campaign

A hacking cougher with emphysema and a guy using a hand-held electronic device to talk through a tracheotomy hole are among the powerful images in the state’s newest anti-smoking television campaign.

The 30-second ads, which began airing Monday and run through Sept. 25, were highlighted Tuesday at a news conference at Roswell Park Cancer Institute to announce the effort to persuade smokers to quit.