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Tobacco was first
cheap cigarette used by the peoples of the pre-Columbian Americas.
Native Americans apparently cultivated the plant and smoked it in
pipes for medicinal and ceremonial purposes.
Christopher Columbus brought a few leaves and seeds with him back
to Europe, but most Europeans didn't get their first taste of until
the mid-16th cheap cigarette century, when adventurers and diplomats
like France's Jean Nicot -- for whom nicotine is named -- began
to popularize its cheap cigarette use. Tobacco was introduced to
France in 1556, Portugal in 1558, and Spain in 1559, and England
in 1565. The first successful commercial crop was cultivated in
Virginia in 1612 by Englishman John Rolfe. Within seven years, it
was the cheap cigarette colony's largest export. Over the next two
centuries, the growth of as a cash crop fueled the demand in North
America for slave labor. At first, was produced mainly for pipe-smoking,
chewing, and snuff. Cigars didn't become popular until cheap cigarette
the early 1800s. Cigarettes, which had been around in crude form
since the early 1600s, didn't become widely cheap cigarette popular
in the United States until after the Civil War, with the spread
of "Bright" a uniquely cured cheap cigarette yellow leaf grown in
Virginia and North Carolina. Cigarette sales surged again with the
introduction cheap cigarette of the "White Burley" leaf and the
invention of the first practical cigarette-making machine, sponsored
by cheap cigarette baron James Buchanan "Buck" Duke, in the late
1880s.
By the early 20th century, with the growth in cheap cigarette smoking,
articles addressing the health effects of smoking began to appear
in scientific and medical cheap cigarette journals. In 1930, researchers
in Cologne, Germany, made a statistical correlation between cancer
and cheap cigarette smoking. Eight years later, Dr. Raymond Pearl
of Johns Hopkins University reported that smokers do not cheap cigarette
live as long as non-smokers. By 1944, the American Cancer Society
began to warn about possible ill effects cheap cigarette of smoking,
although it admitted that "no definite evidence exists" linking
smoking and lung cancer. A statistical cheap cigarette correlation
between smoking and cancer had been demonstrated; but no causal
relationship had been shown. More cheap cigarette importantly, the
general public knew little of the growing body of statistics. That
changed in 1952, when cheap cigarette Reader's Digest published
"Cancer by the Carton," an article detailing the dangers of smoking.
The effect of the article was enormous: Similar reports began appearing
in other periodicals, and the smoking public began to take cheap
cigarette notice. The following year, cigarette sales declined for
the first time in over two decades. The industry cheap cigarette
responded swiftly. By 1954 the major U.S. companies had formed the
Industry Research Council to counter cheap cigarette the growing
health concerns. With counsel from TIRC, companies began mass-marketing
filtered cheap cigarette and low-tar formulations that promised
a "healthier" smoke. The public responded, and soon sales were booming
again.
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Camel
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Camel Lights
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Coalition
targets mail-order tobacco
An unlikely coalition of tobacco manufacturers and anti-smoking
groups is backing legislation to impose tougher penalties for avoiding
excise taxes on cigarettes.
The measure, which the House Judiciary Committee adopted last week,
would amend existing laws for mail-order sales, making it a felony
to evade state taxes on cigarettes through Internet sales.
The Senate has adopted a somewhat similar measure that would require
Internet firms to report their transactions, making it easier for
states to ensure that taxes are collected.
Online tobacco sales totaled $1.2 billion in 2002, which translated
into $200 million in lost taxes to the states, according to the
National Association of Convenience Stores. For the most part, online
sellers do not collect taxes levied by states, allowing them to
sell cigarettes for less.
Mark Berlin, legislative counsel for Altria Group Inc. -- parent
company of Philip Morris, the nation's largest cigarette maker --
said his group strongly supports the bill. "We would like to
see anti-contraband, anti-smuggling legislation emerge from this
Congress," he said.
The legislation would make it a felony to traffic in cigarettes
without collecting the required taxes. The initial penalty would
be $5,000; a second offense could draw a $10,000 fine.
The bill's supporters are "trying to give states the tools
to enforce their own laws with respect to interstate tobacco sales,"
said Rep. Mark Green, R-Wis., a sponsor.
Online tobacco sellers, unsurprisingly, oppose the measure. Ali
Davoudi, who heads the Online Tobacco Retailers Association, testified
recently that the bill "would exacerbate the disparate treatment
of Internet tobacco retailers."
"It would compel them, unlike all other interstate retailers,
to participate in the tax-collection process. Giving individual
states the authority to bring actions against retailers would lead
to a patchwork of different enforcement decisions in each state,"
Davoudi said.
Some Native American tribes also oppose the measure, saying it intrudes
on their sovereignty. John Dossett, general counsel for the National
Congress of American Indians, said the House measure would allow
state attorneys general to challenge Indian reservation rules in
federal court.
"We don't want to set a precedent where states enforce (laws)
on Indian reservations," Dossett said. "This would be
like allowing the District of Columbia to sue Maryland."
Backing the bill is a coalition of cigarette companies, convenience
stores and health groups. Eric Lindblom of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids said Green's bill is one of the few instances in which his
group and tobacco firms "are on the same side."
"We want the taxes that have been passed on cigarettes to be
collected," he said. "If you increase the price of cigarettes,
smoking goes down."
The National Association of Convenience Stores has hired the Alexander
Strategy Group to press its case in Congress. Tobacco accounts for
one-third of the group's sales. Trade groups have blanketed Congress
with information, saying online tobacco sales make it easy for children
to avoid age-verification checks
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(Tar 8mg, Nicotine 0.7mg) Manufactured in Europe.
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