Cigarette Case

I am a cigarette accessories collector. 
It means that my collection contains a lot of cigarette accessories like: ashtray, lighter, cigarette case and so on.
I will relate about my cigarette cases.
My collection includes cigarette cases made of different materials. Some cigarette cases are made of gold, silver, brass, chrome, leather, aluminum, canvas and plastic.
Many of cigarette cases have unscripted on them some designs, from amazing artwork to pictures of celebrities.  You can personalize your cigarette case also. Here, you can use your imagination and it should be without limits. I mean that you can stand out your name or your initials on your cigarette case. It will very fashionable.Many men print their lovely women on their cigarette case. In this case, they want to show their feelings for their women. Moreover, in this case they combine virtue and femininity.

According to statistics, many famous tobacco companies like Zippo and Bic sell cigarette cases more than cigarette lighters. It means that cigarette cases have more popularity than other cigarette accessories.Some companies are produced their own line of cigarette accessories. More than that, some of these companies don’t have anything in common with tobacco industry.
For example Playboy has its own line of cigarette cases, but we know that Playboy magazine is aside from tobacco industry.You shouldn’t think that if you aren’t a smoker you mustn’t buy cigarettes accessories, especially cigarette cases. You can use them to keep inside other things. For example, you can place in it some sensitive devices like: flash cards, SIM cards and so on. You may use cigarette case as a pocket. In this case, you can place in it things like: coins, credit cards, identification cards and so on. For the last, I can say that you can use a cigarette case even like a personalized gift. Moreover, you can engrave it with the name of the celebrated person.

Cigarettes - an important source of tax revenue

Cigarettes are an important source of tax revenue in many localities. This has historically been an impediment for health groups trying to discourage cigarette smoking, when governments seek to maximize tax revenues. Moreover, some countries have a state cigarette monopoly, which has the same effect on the attitude of government officials outside the health field.In the United States partly determine the rate of cigarette taxes, where the states and tobacco is a farm products tend to least.It cigarette tax has been shown that the higher prices to discourage smoking cigarettes. Every 10 percent increase in the price of cigarettes reduced youth smoking by about seven percent and overall cigarette consumption by about four percent.Thus increased cigarette taxes are proposed as a means of reducing smoking.Many people in Britain now illegally import cigarettes due to the increased tax. A package is less than half price in all other countries, thus, illegal importers a big profit, while still providing very cheap cigarettes. The average price for 20 legal cigarettes is £ 5.20, while imported goods are sold in packs for less than £ 3; this is due to extremely taxation.

When Did We Know About The Effects Of Cigarette Smoking

  It seems a day doesn't go by that we don't hear or see something about cigarette smoking and the tobacco companies being blamed for the destructive effects of cigarette smoking on our health, is it a bad rap put on the tobacco companies, or a way for the states to collect more taxes. If you haven't heard the states our increasing the tax on cigarettes, on January 1st Texas increased the tax by a $1.00 a pack to $1.41, New Jersey levies a nation-high $2.58 state tax per pack. 
Bangor Maine bans smoking in cars carrying children which went in to effect on Jan.19, it allows the police to stop cars if an adult is smoking while a child under 18 is a passenger. The smoker can be fined $50. Most large companies now have smoke free workplace policies. 
So when did we become aware that cigarette smoking was bad for us? It would seem to be on January 11, 1964, when Surgeon General Luther Terry issued a landmark concluding, for the first time, that smoking is a direct cause of lung cancer, heart disease, and emphysema. In 1964, 50-percent of adult males and 46-percent of all Americans smoked cigarettes. 
Then on May 27, 2004 the U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona released a new comprehensive report on smoking and health, revealing for the first time that smoking causes diseases in nearly every organ of the body. Published 40 years after the surgeon general's first report on smoking, which concluded that smoking was a definite cause of three serious diseases, this newest report finds that cigarette smoking is conclusively linked to diseases such as leukemia, cataracts, pneumonia and cancers of the cervix,kidney, pancreas and stomach. 
"We've known for decades that smoking is bad for your health, but this report shows that it's even worse than we knew," Dr. Carmona said. "The toxins from cigarette smoke go everywhere the blood flows. I'm hoping this new information will help motivate people to quit smoking and convince young people not to start in the first place." 
Statistics indicate that more than 12 million Americans have died from smoking since the 1964 report of the surgeon general, and another 25 million Americans alive today will most likely die of a smoking related illness. It would seem that the tobacco companies have killed more of us than all the wars in history. 
So it looks like we have know that cigarette smoking is bad for are health a little over 40 years right, well in my research I found the following information dated 1892 Titled The Destructive Effects of Cigarette Smoking. 
Cigarettes have been analyzed, and most physicians and chemists were surprised to find how much opium is put into them. A tobacconist himself says that the extent to which drugs are used in cigarettes is appalling. Havana flavoring for this same purpose is sold everywhere by the thousand barrels. This flavoring is made from the tonkabean, which contains a deadly poison. The wrappers, warranted to be rice paper, are sometimes made of common paper, and sometimes of the filthy scrapings of rag pickers bleached white with arsenic. What a thing for human lungs. 
The habit burns up good health, good resolutions, good manners, good memories, good faculties, and often honesty and truthfulness as well. 
Cases of epilepsy, insanity and death are frequently reported as the result of smoking cigarettes, while such physicians as Dr. Lewis Sayre, Dr. Hammond, and Sir Morell Mackenzie of England, name heart trouble, blindness, cancer and other diseases as occasioned by it. 
Leading physicians of America unanimously condemn cigarette smoking as one of the vilest and most destructive evils that ever befell the youth of any country, declaring that its direct tendency is a deterioration of the race. 
Look at the pale, wilted complexion of a boy who indulges in excessive cigarette smoking. It takes no physician to diagnose his case, and death will surely mark for his own every boy and young man who will follow up the habit. It is no longer a matter of guess. It is a scientific fact which the microscope in every case verifies. 
He also goes on to list the cost of smoking and I was surprised that one cigarette cost between 5 and 10 cents each, that's one to two dollars a pack which was a lot of money then. 
If the physicians new in 1892 the destructive effects of cigarette smoking why has it taken over 115 years to inform us that the tobacco companies have been poisoning us and we need to quit smoking, could it be the tobacco companies lobbing efforts, who knows, but now that we are aware and the tobacco companies no were aware, they won't be up to any more tricks to keep us hooked, they even put links on their web sites to stop smoking sites to help us quit smoking. 
Guess what if you believe that you under estimate the power of greed, the following is taken from Massachusetts Department of Public Health they are one of only 3 states that require tobacco companies to submit reports and what they found is, that from 1998 to 2004 the amount of nicotine in a cigarette has increased steadily, the study showed that regardless of brand that the amount of nicotine that is actually delivered to the smokers lungs has increased significantly overall, nicotine yields increased ten percent. Marlboro, Newport, and Camel, the three most popular brands with young smokers, all delivered significantly more nicotine, and Kool menthol increased a woping twenty percent. 
Nicotine in tobacco is a highly addictive drug that affects nearly every organ in our body with the increased levels of nicotine in cigarettes it makes it more difficult to quit smoking. Smoking is a very powerful addiction, and it can take multiple attempts to quit smoking but you must keep trying, you can successfully quit smoking. 
Today we have many resources to help us quit smoking, so lets send a message to the tobacco companies and spend that cigarette money on as many stop smoking programs that it takes. 
A lot of the quit smoking programs on line offer full money back guarantee so what do you have to lose except a bad habit and the destructive effects of cigarette smoking on our health.

Proposed Bill Pushing for Uniform tax for cigarettes

A new bill was submitted to the House of Representatives by The Department of Finance. The proposed bill imposing a uniform excise tax of P14 a pack on nearly all cigarettes brands starting 2010, and adjusting the rate annually to account for inflation.
The proposed bill, which the administration claimed contained minimal amendments to the bill earlier filed by Rep. Danilo Suarez, also calls for the imposition of two tax rates in 2009 prior to the adoption of a single rate in 2010.
In 2009, the excise tax will be P8 for brands with a net retail price of P6.50 a pack or below, and P14 for those whose net retail prices above P6.50 a pack.
“We are trying to gain support for this bill from Congress,  it is always difficult to push for new tax laws,” Finance Undersecretary Gil Beltran claimed.
Finance Secretary Margarito Teves earlier claimed the government was pushing for a single excise tax rate on the cigarettes purchase because the current system was too complicated and difficult to administer.
There are four tax brackets for cigarettes based on prices:
P2.23 a pack (for cigarettes with net retail price of below P5 a pack)
P6.74 a pack (for those costing between P5 and P6.50)
P10.88 a pack (for those costing between P6.50 and P10)
P26.06 a pack (for those costing more than P10)
Beltran claimed that with a uniform rate, tax administration would be easier. A simple tax system helps encourage tax compliance and therefore shore up tax collection, the finance official claimed.
The complexity of the cigarette tax structure was one factor blamed for shortfalls in excise tax collection in the past.
But while the bill seeks uniformity, it does not allow lowering of current tax rates that are already higher than the rates being proposed in the bill. This means that cigarette brands currently imposed a tax of, say P26 a pack, cannot have its tax lowered to P8 in 2009 and P14 in 2010.
The P8 and the P14 rates cited in the proposed bill cover only cigarettes packed by machines, which are the most common type.
Cigarettes packed by hand, according to the proposed bill, will be levied an excise tax of P2.47 a pack on the first year, and the rate will increase every year commensurate with inflation.
The draft bill also claimed cigars will be taxed P200 a piece on the first year, and the rate will increase annually thereafter by an amount equal to the product’s inflation.

Cigarettes sweetened to lure young smokers

New research suggests tobacco companies are sweetening cigarettes, which could make them more attractive to young people. 
Additives included plum juice, maple syrup and honey to make products taste better. These ingredients were apparently identified from tobacco company websites.
A  British newspaper, The Independent, reported findings of the study that examined sweet additives in tobacco. Results were published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology. 
The newspaper quoted researchers saying: “The addition of sugars in tobacco can enhance tobacco use in at least two ways — naturalisation of the harsh taste of cigarette smoke and generation of acetaldehyde, which increases the addictive effect of nicotine.” 
It went on: “Moreover, the sweet taste and the agreeable smell of caramelised sugar flavours are appreciated in particular by starting adolescent smokers.” 
Mike Daube, president of the Australian Council on Smoking and Health, called on tobacco companies to reveal all their ingredients. 
“We would like legislation at a Federal level that forces them to reveal everything that goes into cigarettes,” he said. “If we don’t know what goes into cigarette we don’t know how harmful they are going to be in combination with other components.” 
The newspaper quoted a cigarette executive’s denials that sugar additives encouraged young people to smoke. 
He said that cigarettes sold in Britain typically did not have sugar.

E-cigarettes gain ground in China

Beijing: With its slim white body and glowing amber tip, it can easily pass as a regular cigarette. It even emits what look like curlicues of white smoke.
The Ruyan V8, which produces a nicotine-infused mist absorbed directly into the lungs, is just one of a rapidly growing array of electronic cigarettes attracting attention in China, the United States—and the scrutiny of health officials.
Marketed as a healthier alternative to smoking and a potential way to kick the habit, the smokeless smokes have been distributed in swag bags at the UK film awards and hawked at an international trade show.
Because no burning is involved, makers say there’s no hazardous cocktail of cancer-causing chemicals and gases like those produced by a regular cigarette. There's no secondhand smoke, so they can be used in places where cigarettes are banned, the makers say.
Health authorities are questioning those claims. The World Health Organization issued a statement in September warning there was no evidence to back up contentions that e-cigarettes are a safe substitute for smoking or a way to help smokers quit. 
It also said companies should stop marketing them that way, especially since the product may undermine smoking prevention efforts because they look like the real thing and may lure nonsmokers and kids. 
“There is not sufficient evidence that (they) are safe products for human consumption,” Timothy O’Leary, a communications officer at the WHO’s Tobacco Free Initiative in Geneva, said.
The laundry list of WHO's concerns includes the lack of conclusive studies and information about e-cigarette contents and their long-term health effects, he said. AP