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Project SUN: a Study of the Illicit Cigarette Market In
Project SUN A study of the illicit cigarette market in the European Union, Norway and Switzerland 2017 Results Executive Summary kpmg.com/uk Important notice • This presentation of Project SUN key findings (the ‘Report’) has been prepared by KPMG LLP the UK member firm (“KPMG”) for the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), described in this Important Notice and in this Report as ‘the Beneficiary’, on the basis set out in a private contract dated 27 April 2018 agreed separately by KPMG LLP with the Beneficiary (the ‘Contract’). • Included in the report are a number of insight boxes which are written by RUSI, as well as insights included in the text. The fieldwork and analysis undertaken and views expressed in these boxes are RUSI’s views alone and not part of KPMG’s analysis. These appear in the Foreword on page 5, the Executive Summary on page 6, on pages 11, 12, 13 and 16. • Nothing in this Report constitutes legal advice. Information sources, the scope of our work, and scope and source limitations, are set out in the Appendices to this Report. The scope of our review of the contraband and counterfeit segments of the tobacco market within the 28 EU Member States, Switzerland and Norway was fixed by agreement with the Beneficiary and is set out in the Appendices. • We have satisfied ourselves, so far as possible, that the information presented in this Report is consistent with our information sources but we have not sought to establish the reliability of the information sources by reference to other evidence. -
Imperial Tobacco Australia Limited
Imperial Tobacco Australia Limited Submission to the House Standing Committee on Health and Ageing regarding the Inquiry into Plain Tobacco Packaging 22 July 2011 www.imperial-tobacco.com An IMPERIAL TOBACCO GROUP company Registered Office: Level 4, 4-8 Inglewood Place, Norwest Business Park, Baulkham Hills NSW 2153 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 2 COMPANY BACKGROUND 6 3 NO CREDIBLE RESEARCH TO SUPPORT THE INTRODUCTION OF PLAIN PACKAGING 7 4 INCREASED TRADE IN ILLICIT TOBACCO 10 4.1 Combating counterfeit product 11 4.2 Illicit trade impact from unproven regulations 14 4.3 Plain Packaging is not an FCTC obligation 15 4.4 Plain Packaging will place Australia in breach of FCTC obligations 16 5 PLAIN PACKAGING WILL BREACH THE LAW AND INTERNATIONAL TREATIES 19 5.1 Specific Breaches of the TRIPS Agreement 20 5.2 Plain Packaging will breach the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade 25 5.3 Breaches of Free Trade Agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties 27 5.4 Threat to Australia’s reputation 28 6 THE BILL IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL 29 7 NEGATIVE IMPACT ON COMPETITION, CONSUMERS AND RETAILERS 32 7.1 Adverse effects on consumers and retailers 32 7.2 Known effects on businesses and retailers 34 8 INADEQUATE TIME FOR COMPLIANCE 36 8.1 Uncertainty created by incomplete draft Regulations 38 8.2 Previous timelines at introduction of Graphic Health Warnings 2005/6 40 8.3 The Bill and draft Regulations omit important consumer information 41 8.4 Strict Liability and Criminal Penalties 42 9 AUSTRALIA the “NANNY STATE” 43 9.1 Over regulation 43 -
Analysis of Tobacco Industry Attractiveness: Case of Croatia
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP Vol. I (2020), No. 1, pp. 1 – 16 Analysis of tobacco industry attractiveness: Case of Croatia Bojan MORIC MILOVANOVICa, Darko SOLAJAb aAssociate professor, Libertas International University, Trg J.F. Kennedya 6b, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia bRegional sales manager, British American Tobacco, Nova ves 17, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Abstract Tobacco industry is one of the most profitable global industries with the steady increase in global demand for tobacco and tobacco related products. Tobacco industry in Croatia has a centuries-old tradition and tobacco is one of the most important non-food agricultural crops produced in Croatia. Moreover, tobacco industry in Croatia is one of the major revenue sources of the government’s budget. The aim of this paper is to determine whether tobacco industry in Croatia is attractive enough for a new player willing to enter the market. Paper provides brief overview of the tobacco industry and the impact it has on Croatian economy. Furthermore, paper explains how excise duties and product prices changed over time, shows market consolidation and concentration before and after the EU accession, and in detail depicts forces which determine industry’s profitability, i.e. its attractiveness. Key words: tobacco, market concentration, Five forces framework, Croatia JEL Classification: L10, L66, M21 1. Introduction Tobacco industry is one of the most profitable global industries, and despite of numerous scientific studies exposing the various harmful effects of the long-term use of tobacco products on human health, and despite of placing excise duties on tobacco products, the global demand for tobacco products is in constant uprise. -
Point-Of-Sale: Tobacco Industry's Last Domain to Fight Bans
POINT‐OF‐SALE: TOBACCO INDUSTRY’S LAST DOMAIN TO FIGHT BANS ON ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONS Introduction With tobacco advertising and promotions being either totally or partially banned in the mass media in ASEAN, the tobacco industry has shifted its focus to the point-of-sale (POS), it is now the principal avenue for marketing and promoting cigarettes, particularly to vulnerable minors. Cigarette displays at POS are aimed at keeping cigarettes visible and normalizing the product in the public’s mind. POS outlets are ubiquitous, and there is usually no control over their numbers as well as no regulations over what can be sold, which gives the tobacco industry an easy way to make cigarettes easily available. Most countries in the region allow cigarette advertising and promotions at POS. The Philippines and Thailand are licensing the POS outlets. And Thailand is the only ASEAN country that has a comprehensive ban of tobacco industry advertising and promotions at POS that includes a ban of cigarette packs display. Cigarette packs and cartons must be hidden under the cashier’s counter and its display rack and shelves must be covered. SURVEILLANCE Country Current Remarks law/regulation on POS Cambodia Partial ban Enforcement starts in August 2011 Except pack display Indonesia Partial ban Except pack display Lao PDR Partial ban Except pack display INDUSTRY Malaysia Partial ban Except pack display Philippines Partial ban Except pack display Thailand Comprehensive ban Vietnam Partial ban Allows display of only 1 pack or 1 carton per brand Regional industry tactics and trends in POS TOBACCO Marketing channels Cigarettes are sold in POS such as supermarkets, sundry shops, kiosks, newsstands, mobile vans, street vendors, market stalls, minimarts and convenience stores. -
Menthol Content in U.S. Marketed Cigarettes
HHS Public Access Author manuscript Author ManuscriptAuthor Manuscript Author Nicotine Manuscript Author Tob Res. Author Manuscript Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 July 01. Published in final edited form as: Nicotine Tob Res. 2016 July ; 18(7): 1575–1580. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntv162. Menthol Content in U.S. Marketed Cigarettes Jiu Ai, Ph.D.1, Kenneth M. Taylor, Ph.D.1, Joseph G. Lisko, M.S.2, Hang Tran, M.S.2, Clifford H. Watson, Ph.D.2, and Matthew R. Holman, Ph.D.1 1Office of Science, Center for Tobacco Products, United States Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20993 2Tobacco Products Laboratory, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA Abstract Introduction—In 2011 menthol cigarettes accounted for 32 percent of the market in the United States, but there are few literature reports that provide measured menthol data for commercial cigarettes. To assess current menthol application levels in the U.S. cigarette market, menthol levels in cigarettes labeled or not labeled to contain menthol was determined for a variety of contemporary domestic cigarette products. Method—We measured the menthol content of 45whole cigarettes using a validated gas chromatography/mass spectrometry method (GC/MS). Results—In 23 cigarette brands labeled as menthol products, the menthol levels of the whole cigarette ranged from 2.9 to 19.6 mg/cigarette, with three products having higher levels of menthol relative to the other menthol products. The menthol levels for 22 cigarette products not labeled to contain menthol ranged from 0.002 to 0.07 mg/cigarette. -
Fuel Pump Promos: Continued
Tobacco Control 2001;10:389–393 389 Tob Control: first published as 10.1136/tc.10.4.390 on 1 December 2001. Downloaded from AD WATCH Fuel pump promos: continued Jennifer Mindell spotted a new venue for ciga- rette advertising in the UK in 1997—fuel pump handles at petrol (gas) stations.1 In April of this year, I came across the same marketing technique in Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA, at a Turkey Hill Minit Market, where this convenience store and an Exxon gas station are operated jointly. On the day I visited the Minit Market, all of the cigarette ads appearing on the fuel pump handles promoted a special sale of Camel, Winston, and Salem cigarettes (RJ Reynolds) for $25.48 a carton (fig 1). Similar ads appeared inside the store on a self service ciga- rette display rack. Some of the fuel pump han- dles advertised food or beverage products. A Figure 1 Cigarette ad on a fuel pump handle. sales clerk informed me that the ads on the fuel pumps rotated among several diVerent brands of foods, beverages, and cigarettes. She showed company. The calendar for April 2001 me a list of the products involved in the included an Easter egg run benefiting a paedi- rotation, which included another cigarette atric rehabilitation centre, a walk for multiple brand sold by RJ Reynolds (Doral), as well as sclerosis, a race/walk for breast cancer Marlboro and Basic cigarettes (Philip Morris), research, and a “loving & caring annual walk- and GPC and Viceroy cigarettes (Brown and for-life” in support of “life-aYrming organiza- Williamson). -
Kohl's Corporation 12 March 2021 Dear Ms. Michelle Gass, We Have the Honour to Address You in Our Capacities As Working Group On
PALAIS DES NATIONS • 1211 GENEVA 10, SWITZERLAND Mandates of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises; the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights; the Special Rapporteur on minority issues; the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences; the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children REFERENCE: AL OTH 118/2021 12 March 2021 Dear Ms. Michelle Gass, We have the honour to address you in our capacities as Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises; Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights; Special Rapporteur on minority issues; Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief; Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences; Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; and Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 44/15, 37/12, 43/8, 40/10, 42/10, 43/20 and 44/4. We are independent human rights experts appointed and mandated by the United Nations Human Rights Council to report and advise on human rights issues from a thematic or country-specific perspective. We are part of the special procedures system of the United Nations, which has 56 thematic and country mandates on a broad range of human rights issues. -
MS in Focus 6 Intimacy and Sexuality English
MS MSin in Focus focus IssueIssue One •• 2003 2002 Issue 6 • 2005 ● Intimacy and Sexuality The Magazine of the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation 1 MSin focus Issue 6 • 2005 Editorial Board Executive Editor Nancy Holland, EdD, RN, MSCN, Vice Multiple Sclerosis President, Clinical Programs and Professional Resource International Federation Centre, National Multiple Sclerosis Society USA. Editor and Project Leader Michele Messmer Uccelli, BA, MSIF is a unique collaboration of national MS MSCS, Department of Social and Health Research, Italian societies and the international scientific Multiple Sclerosis Society, Genoa, Italy. community. Managing Editor Helle Elisabeth Lyngborg, Information It leads the global MS movement in sharing and Communications Manager, Multiple Sclerosis best practice to significantly improve the International Federation. quality of life of people affected by MS and in Editorial Assistant Chiara Provasi, MA, Project Co- stimulating research into the understanding ordinator, Department of Social and Health Research, Italian and treatment of the condition. Multiple Sclerosis Society, Genoa, Italy. Our priorities are: MSIF Responsible Board Member • Stimulating global research Prof Dr Jürg Kesselring, Chair of MSIF International Medical • Stimulating the active exchange of and Scientific Board, Head of the Department of Neurology, information Rehabilitation Centre, Valens, Switzerland. • Providing support for the development of Editorial Board Members new and existing MS societies Guy Ganty, Head of the Speech and Language Pathology • Advocacy Department, National Multiple Sclerosis Centre, Melsbroek, Belgium. All of our work is carried out with the complete involvement of people living Katrin Gross-Paju, PhD, Estonian Multiple Sclerosis Centre, with MS. West Tallinn Central Hospital, Tallinn, Estonia. Marco Heerings, RN, MA, MSCN, Nurse Practitioner, Designed and produced by Groningen University Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands. -
Tobacco Compliant List by Brand Name ______
OKLAHOMA OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL TOBACCO ENFORCEMENT UNIT 313 NW 21st STREET OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73105-3207 _____________________________________________________________________________ Tobacco Compliant List by Brand Name _________________________________________ 1839 (RYO) – PM - (Premier Manufacturing, Inc.) 1839 – PM - (Premier Manufacturing, Inc.) 24/7 – NPM - (Xcaliber International Ltd., LLC) 305 – NPM - (Dosal Tobacco Company) American Bison – PM - (Wind River Tobacco Company) American Bison (RYO) – PM - (Wind River Tobacco Company) Aura – NPM - (Cheyenne International, LLC) Bali Shag (RYO) – PM - (Top Tobacco, LP) Basic – PM - (Philip Morris, USA) Benson & Hedges – PM - (Philip Morris, USA) Berkley (FL, MS, TX only) – NPM - (Xcaliber International Ltd., LLC) Berley – NPM - (Xcaliber International Ltd., LLC) Black & Gold – PM - (Sherman’s 1400 Broadway N.Y.C. LLC) Bronson – PM - (Liggett Group LLC) Bugler (RYO) – PM - (Scandinavian Tobacco Group Lane Limited) Cambridge – PM – (Philip Morris, USA) Camel – PM - (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) Camel Wides – PM - (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) Canoe (RYO) – PM - (Wind River Tobacco Company) Effective 05/14/2021 Capri – PM - (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) Carlton – PM - (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) Carnival – NPM - (KT&G Corporation) Chesterfield – PM - (Philip Morris, USA) Cheyenne – NPM - (Cheyenne International, LLC) Cigarettellos – PM - (Sherman’s 1400 Broadway N.Y.C. LLC) Classic – PM - (Sherman’s 1400 Broadway N.Y.C. LLC) Commander – PM - (Philip Morris, USA) Crowns – PM - (Commonwealth Brands, Inc.) DTC – NPM - (Dosal Tobacco Company) Dave’s – PM - (Philip Morris, USA) Decade – NPM - (Cheyenne International, LLC) Doral – PM - (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) Drum (RYO) – PM - (Top Tobacco, LP) Dunhill International – PM - (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) Dunhill – PM - (R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company) Eagle 20's – PM - (Liggett Group LLC) * Vector Tobacco Inc. -
Vaping and E-Cigarettes: Adding Fuel to the Coronavirus Fire?
Vaping and e-cigarettes: Adding fuel to the coronavirus fire? abcnews.go.com/Health/vaping-cigarettes-adding-fuel-coronavirus-fire/story By Dr. Chloë E. Nunneley 26 March 2020, 17:04 6 min read Vaping and e-cigarettes: Adding fuel to the coronavirus fire?Because vaping can cause dangerous lung and respiratory problems, experts say it makes sense that the habit could aggravate the symptoms of COVID-19. New data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week warns that young people may be more impacted by COVID-19 than was initially thought, with patients under the age of 45 comprising more than a third of all cases, and one in five of those patients requiring hospitalization. Although scientists still don’t have good data to explain exactly why some young people are getting very sick from the novel coronavirus, some experts are now saying that the popularity of e-cigarettes and vaping could be making a bad situation even worse. Approximately one in four teens in the United States vapes or smokes e-cigarettes, with the FDA declaring the teenage use of these products a nationwide epidemic and the CDC warning about a life-threatening vaping illness called EVALI, or “E-cigarette or Vaping- Associated Lung Injury.” Public health experts believe that conventional cigarette smokers are likely to have more serious illness if they become infected with COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization. Because vaping can also cause dangerous lung and respiratory problems, 1/4 experts say it makes sense that the habit could aggravate the symptoms of COVID-19, although they will need longer-term studies to know for sure. -
Fuel Pump Promos: Continued
Tobacco Control 2001;10:389–393 389 Tob Control: first published as 10.1136/tc.10.4.389 on 1 December 2001. Downloaded from AD WATCH Fuel pump promos: continued Jennifer Mindell spotted a new venue for ciga- rette advertising in the UK in 1997—fuel pump handles at petrol (gas) stations.1 In April of this year, I came across the same marketing technique in Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA, at a Turkey Hill Minit Market, where this convenience store and an Exxon gas station are operated jointly. On the day I visited the Minit Market, all of the cigarette ads appearing on the fuel pump handles promoted a special sale of Camel, Winston, and Salem cigarettes (RJ Reynolds) for $25.48 a carton (fig 1). Similar ads appeared inside the store on a self service ciga- rette display rack. Some of the fuel pump han- dles advertised food or beverage products. A Figure 1 Cigarette ad on a fuel pump handle. sales clerk informed me that the ads on the fuel pumps rotated among several diVerent brands of foods, beverages, and cigarettes. She showed company. The calendar for April 2001 me a list of the products involved in the included an Easter egg run benefiting a paedi- rotation, which included another cigarette atric rehabilitation centre, a walk for multiple brand sold by RJ Reynolds (Doral), as well as sclerosis, a race/walk for breast cancer Marlboro and Basic cigarettes (Philip Morris), research, and a “loving & caring annual walk- and GPC and Viceroy cigarettes (Brown and for-life” in support of “life-aYrming organiza- Williamson). -
Office of Tobacco Control Annual Report 2016
2016 ANNUAL REPORT MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OFFICE OF TOBACCO CONTROL table of contents Introduction..............................................................................................................page 3 Overview....................................................................................................................page 4 Mission + Values.....................................................................................................page 5 Infrastructure, Administration, and Management...........................................page 6 Economic Impact...................................................................................................page 12 Tobacco Tax Revenue...........................................................................................page 16 Adult Tobacco Data..............................................................................................page 20 Statewide Interventions........................................................................................page 24 Cessation Services................................................................................................page 27 Community Interventions....................................................................................page 29 Youth Tobacco Data..............................................................................................page 31 Youth Programs.....................................................................................................page 36 Mass Reach Health Communication