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Back East in Tobacco country…do they allow the public to come in and "SEE" how cigarettes, for example are made?

With all the negative public attitude towards them…I doubt it..but was just curious…even as a NON smoker, I think it’d be fascinating to see how it’s all done.

Anyone been? Heard of such tours? If so..where etc? THANKS!

I do not know if they still do, however years ago I went on such a tour in my hometown, and it was fascinating.
When we were finished the tour, they gave us samples of the product.

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I found our Marlboro discontinued theirs, but my daughter has TRASH bags FULL of empty packs from years of smoking. I’d love to help her get these OUT OF MY HOUSE!

Yeah. The Iron Lung is available on page 47 of the catalog.

Seriously, all redemption programs were discontinued in the big settlement. Tobacco companies are no longer allowed to offer incentives for smoking. Just throw them out.

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Instead of education?

What happened to all the money the governator got for selling the road to outsiders? The tobacco companies gave the states enough money to fund healthcare but they spent it on projects instead of the intended uses?

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People of tobacco companies should make an healthy cigarette for example do not put bad stuff inside it, put herbal extracts, honey, green tea, other types of herbs and stuff that’s good for you.

Even with all of that in the cigarette, you’d still be breathing in smoke, which is bad for your lungs anyway

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Does it support medical care, etc?
I could really use some links to websites explaining this, as well as links to sites with some sort of an opinion paper on what we could place this tax on instead, or about how we could eliminate it compleatly if we were to ban smoking nationwide.
I’m doing a persuasive essay for school in which I am persuading the people in my class to support a nationwide smoking ban.
Help is greatly appreciated. =)
I live in Texas…
Hope that helps.

It depends. Taxes on cigarette sales are collected by the federal and state governments and these taxes go into the governments’ general funds. They are used to pay for everything the government spends money on. In recent decades, whenever an increase to the existing taxes on tobacco has been passed, it has always passed under the argument that smoking causes greater health costs, so the "extra" tax money is supposed to be used to fund these costs, plus programs/advertising to encourage/assist quitting.

If you look at it, it is like a Catch 22. They raise taxes on tobacco to cover additional costs that tobacco causes and to try to get people to quit. But if people quit, then tax revenues from tobacco would go down. The government can’t afford to have these tax revenues disappear, so they will need to raise these taxes again to ensure that their tax revenues from tobacco doesn’t go down. In a way, you could say that the last thing the government would want would be for everyone to just quit smoking one day.

Besides, growing tobacco is a huge part of the economy for many southern states. You won’t see a general ban on smoking (or see tobacco being outlawed), because you would go up against not just the tobacco companies and their lobbyists, but the senators and congressmen from these southern states that rely heavily on tobacco as a part of their economy. You wouldn’t want to be the senator that has to go before their constituents and say that the people that voted him into office is now out of work and on unemployment and is now going to lose their homes to foreclosure because he (or she) voted to outlaw tobacco.

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Cigarette companies are now introducing non-combustible products such as SNUS which is a smokeless spit less pouch that you put between your upper lip and gum. Now they are introducing dissolvable products that are milled tobacco products that you put in your mouth and dissolve. I have been reading different articles on these types of products; some say they are better than cigarettes because there is no second hand smoke, while others say this is a new way for the tobacco companies to get people to use tobacco.

Regardless it’s still bad for the person consuming it, I suppose the no second hand smoke is one of the better part so other people won’t be inhaling it too.

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We know that when burned, cigarettes let out countless poisons and carcinigens. Why should I have to breathe in another’s 2nd hand smoke? For instance, when I am driving, I routinely smell cigarette smoke from other people smoking in their cars, even with my windows and vents closed; outside walking I can smell it in the air at times, who knows where it is coming from, obviously though someone is smoking somewhere nearby…etc…I should not have to breathe in these poisons that have been proven to kill individuals who do not use them.

Absolutely. The issues with smoking are plain for everybody to see. The government knows that smoking is horrible, and they know it needs to be abolished, but with the size of the tobacco companies, or economy would go down the tubes.

Tobacco doesn’t help anybody. not only is it killing the person smoking it, it’s messing with all the people around the person smoking it!

It’s a drug. That’s all there is too it. it’s addictive and it kills you. that should be enough to make it illegal.

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(HealthDay News) — A new report card gives the U.S. government consistently failing grades for not protecting Americans from illnesses caused by tobacco.

According to the American Lung Association’s State of Tobacco Control 2008, the federal government as well as most states failed to enact critical policy measures, such as higher taxes on cigarettes and to adequately regulate tobacco products.

“Effective tobacco control saves both lives and money,” Charles D. Connor, president and chief executive officer of the lung association, said during a Monday afternoon teleconference. “Tobacco use is the number one preventable cause of death in America.”

Tobacco-related diseases such as lung cancer and COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) kill more than 392,000 Americans each year, and another 50,000 die from exposure to secondhand smoke, Connor said.

“All the while, tobacco companies continue to find new ways to keep smokers hooked,” he said. “Each day, the tobacco industry lures 1,100 kids into becoming regular daily smokers. Also each day, 1,000 people die from tobacco-related diseases. It’s easy to see from this arithmetic that the tobacco industry is motivated to attract new young replacement smokers.”

This year’s report card for the federal government was “abysmal,” Paul Billings, the association’s vice president for national policy and advocacy, said during the teleconference.

Specifically, the federal government got:

• An “F” for FDA regulation of tobacco products — the bill authorizing FDA regulation of tobacco products passed overwhelmingly in the U.S. House of Representatives but was not considered by the U.S. Senate before it adjourned for 2008.
• An “F” for a cigarette tax — the federal government’s cigarette tax is 39 cents per pack, well below the “F” standard of anything just less than 60 cents a pack.
• A “D” for failing to ratify the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, a treaty designed to limit smoking’s health risks worldwide. The Bush Administration again “neglected to submit the treaty to the Senate for ratification,” the report card said.

The report card also faulted the federal government for not doing more to increase access to smoking-cessation programs, Billings said. “While the Medicare drug program covers smoking-cessation drugs, the federal government does not require state Medicaid programs to cover cessation treatments and services for Medicaid recipients,” he said. This, despite the fact that people receiving Medicaid smoke at almost a 60 percent higher rate than the national average, he added.

On the state level, no state earned a straight A. “Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island received the best grades,” Billings said.

But even these states fell short in at least one grading categories, including smoke-free air laws, amount of state cigarette tax, funding for tobacco-cessation programs, and covering tobacco-cessation treatments for Medicaid recipients and state employees, Billings said.

The states with the worst grades — all Fs — were Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, according to the report.

Twenty-three states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have enacted comprehensive smoke-free air laws that protect almost all workers from exposure to secondhand smoke, Billings said. Fourteen states got an “F” in this category, he said.

In 2008, only Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and the District of Columbia raised cigarette taxes. The average state tax is $1.19 per pack, Billings said. New York state has the highest tax at $2.75 a pack; South Carolina has the lowest at 7 cents a pack.

Billings said that only Alaska and Delaware funded tobacco-cessation programs to the level recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Tragically, 42 states received “Fs” in this category,” he said.

The CDC estimates that smoking costs the U.S. economy more than $193 billion each year, including $96 billion in health-care costs and $97 billion in lost productivity, Connor said.

The way to stem this loss of lives and money is through strong tobacco control laws, Connor said. But not enough is being done, he said, adding that he hopes the new Obama administration will be more active in supporting tobacco control.

“Firstly, the Congress must give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco products,” Connor said. “State governments must step up and fully fund tobacco-cessation programs, increase cigarette taxes, and pass comprehensive smoke-free air laws.”

Reaction to the report was strong.

Dr. James Rohack, president-elect of the American Medical Association, said in a prepared statement, “This new report confirms that weak government tobacco policies fail to support smokers’ efforts to quit, and fail to discourage teens from smoking.”

He added, “The AMA encourages federal and state lawmakers to pass legislation that invests in tobacco prevention programs and will help Americans quit using tobacco and protect them from exposure to second-hand smoke.”

Vince Willmore, vice president for communications at the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said: “This report underscores that we know how to win the fight against tobacco use in the United States, but need strong political leadership to implement proven solutions at all levels of government.”

“This report lays out a roadmap for the federal and state governments to follow, beginning with Congressional enactment of FDA regulation of tobacco products,” he added.

David Sutton, a spokesman for Altria Group Inc., the parent company of the tobacco giant Philip Morris, said: “We sell our products only to adult consumers. We are looking for folks who choose to smoke who are of legal age to do so. We are going to compete for their business, but we are not looking to recruit new smokers and we certainly don’t want anyone under age using tobacco products of any kind.”

Sutton said Philip Morris is “opposed to excise taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products because they unfairly burden adult tobacco consumers.” The company supports the efforts of smokers who want to quit and endorses having the FDA regulate tobacco products, he said.

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