Reynolds American has decided to make the desire of smokers to quit the harmful habit
Second in terms of sales U.S. cigarette manufacturer, the company Reynolds American, producing such brands as Camel and Pall Mall, intends to engage seriously in the sale of tools to help smokers fight the addiction.
According to the edition of The Wall Street Journal, to this end, the U.S. tobacco giant is in talks to acquire Swedish company Niconovum, producing chewing gum and sprays containing nicotine. These products allow smokers to regularly receive a needed dose of nicotine, abandoning the inhalation of harmful cigarette smoke.
Upon successful completion of the transaction, the amount of which is estimated at 30 million euros, tabakozameniteli will have to be approved by the U.S. Office for the Control of food and medicines, but after that they will be able to get to the counter.
Many American tobacco companies are already engaged in pharmaceutical business, but Reynolds will be the first, which sells tools to combat smoking. This, incidentally, is not the first attempt to sell the company to smokers tabakozameniteli, formerly Reynolds launched the production snyusa Camel - chewing tobacco.
Buy Swedish Niconovum is an attempt by the Reynolds deal with the fall of tobacco consumption in the United States. Since 1998 the volume of cigarette sales in America are reduced on average by 2% per year. Recently, as the ban on smoking in public places will hit the profits of tobacco companies even more - an estimated Fitch R
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Tobacco Case
A year ago, Russia has ratified the Framework Convention of the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight the use tabakosoderzhaschey products. The bill, prepared by the State Duma Committee on Health, which was submitted recently to the consideration of the authorities, aimed at implementing the basic tenets of the Convention, which entered into force in Russia in 2010.
The National Strategy for Tobacco Control was developed in the two-year agreement MHSD Russia and the WHO and the means by significant changes in the Federal Law "On Restriction of tobacco smoking. The authors of the bill are confident that the implementation of their proposed measures will contribute to improving health in Russia and in general reduce the number of smokers, the proportion of which, according to statistics from the company Businesstat, in 2008 amounted to 40,5%, ie 59 million people. Thus one of the most active buyers of cigarettes is an audience aged 10 to 19 years - in the rating of adolescent tobacco use, we take 4 th place. Therefore, it is young people will be primarily shielded from the global promotion of smoking, which, as the advocates of tobacco control measures, is the place to be in contemporary Russia. For example, over the next 5 years in the country should be completely banned tobacco advertising, and the well-known inscription "Smoking is dangerous to your health" on cigarette packs will be given not 10%, as now, but not less than 30%. In addition, manufacturers of tobacco products will be denied the opportunity to sponsor large-scale actions.
Changes will not only advertising, but also direct ways of selling cigarettes. The new bill provides for the complete elimination of tobacco kiosks, as, according to the developers of the National Strategy for Tobacco Control, it stands are the main cause of the availability of cigarettes to minors. However, tobacco manufacturers believe that such measures will not lead to anything else as to the emergence of illegal production and illegal outlets, which, unlike the retail stalls, it will be impossible to control.
- Some specific proposals seem populist-extremist, - told the online edition BFM.ru CEO Association of tobacco products "Tabakprom Vadim Zhelnin. - Today is fine - it is 300 rubles at the kiosk. Earning a kiosk with a sold bundles of less than 3 rubles. To cover the fine, to sell 100 packets. If someone is really watching the kiosk, this measure would be very effective. The problem is that for this no one was watching.
According to the proposal of legislators tobacco products must be sold in the stores area not less than 50 square meters. meters, while tobacco POS-terminals (point of sales), located at cash registers, will be eliminated.
- Supermarkets should remove the computations of tobacco, past which can not pass without a glance, - told BFM.ru deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Health Nikolai Gerasimenko. - If new legislation is adopted, the retail network will provide, in its stores separate rooms or sections for cigarettes, as had been done some time ago with alcohol.
Also as part of the WHO expected to change in excise policy. By 2010, the planned increase in excise tax from today's 3.54 to 5 rubles, which, according to experts, can lead to increased cost of cigarettes to 20-25%.
In addition, in the nearest plans of the National Committee for tobacco control isolate in the cafes and restaurants, rooms for smokers, whose area is less than 50 square meters. meters. Cigarette smoke still gets into the territory for those who do not want to combine eating with the use of nicotine - believe legislators. In the premises, whose area of more than a specified footage, smoking will be permitted only in specially equipped rooms for the type of those who today are located in airports. In addition, the new bill provides for an absolute ban on smoking in private cars, in areas of medical and educational institutions, institutions related to culture and sport. The size of penalties provided for violation of the new antinicotine order is still in development. The sponsors hope that their proposed law is approved by the Government of Russia and will enter into force by the end of that - early next year, but the specific time limits for, the bill to the Duma has not yet determined.
Alexander Gliskov, Deputy City Council:
- I think it will be unrealizable standards, as well as existing today, the restriction on the sale of beer to minors. The law may not be sold, but sales are made, and the passport of buyers no one asks. In my opinion, should be dealt with prevention, not a ban, because the implementation of this law will simply be no one to control. For example, abroad, some employers increase wages for those who did not smoke or drink, - these are effective measures.
Paul Reyef, head of the cigar house Emilio Reyes Cigars, SA:
- In general I am for the adoption of this law, because they are opposed to cigarettes - namely cigarettes. Our company is engaged in a little different kind of activity: cigars - that is, pure tobacco, which is more useful than harmful. From a pure nicotine is no dependence, the global medical community has long recognized this. We do not fall under this bill due to the fact that our cigars are sold only in specialized shops, where the usual schoolboy will not go. Child simply can not afford to buy one cigar for 500-700 rubles. And the law limiting smoking personally, I would suggest another article for consideration: to write, as in Switzerland, on cigarette packs "Smoking harms your health as cigarettes contain chemical additives, addictive. It was chemistry, not the nicotine contained in tobacco, helped the whole world on cigarettes, making them household drug. As for the remaining paragraphs of this law, I am sure that it is not so categorically will never. The turnover of the cigarette industry in Russia - one million euros per hour. This is one of the main items of income of the state. If the cafes and restaurants banned smoking areas, attendance of such schools will drop by 99%. Losing a profit simply unprofitable.
Boris Hassan, Ph.D. in Psychology, Director of the Institute of psychology and pedagogy of development:
- We are again going after the European practices, but not everything that is being implemented in the West, we have held as well. Few take action - to fully realize it yet, not arranging various loopholes and deductions, as often happens in Russia. Of course, if the law is adopted, it will be a painful period for many people. Tactically be disadvantages in income, but strategically - advantages in matters of health. Overall, therefore, attempt to curb smoking bad, ideologically I support those who adopt these measures. Another thing that I have doubts about this project. If such solutions are not provided with certain echelons of measures, not systematic, they will eventually discredit themselves. Here, for example, imposed a ban on casinos and slot machines. But they have gone underground and constantly having something here and there, and fines are not to violate the law a significant risk. So here. Smoking - firmly ingrained habit, therefore, most likely, anti-tobacco campaign ride on our country and would remain dormant. If you close the tobacco stalls - means, cigarettes will be sold in some other places. And the prices will rise, and among teenagers would be considered a special virtue to purchase tobacco products. In good if you take such a bill, it requires a serious mobilization of all media, in order to organize a propaganda coup and to keep it. And when someone in one, and the rest are beginning to express doubt or oppose understandable unambiguous decision falls within the liberal discourse.
Oleg make hoarse sounds, CEO of supermarket chain "Commander":
- I am positively to the new law, provided that it is common to all shops and supermarkets. Of course, improvement and moving boxes of tobacco products to another location will lead to a rather serious instantaneous costs, and sales will fall. But, from my point of view, it would be better. Because the global health of the country is more important than our local losses. Regarding the distribution of alcohol and tobacco, we are far behind Western countries. When I have been abroad, I noticed that the European advertising of cigarettes made so that tobacco products do not want to buy. And if people are buying fewer cigarettes, then they will be less smoke. There will be fewer smoking - better health - so they will work, will have more income - in the end and we also earn and compensate all the damages.
The National Strategy for Tobacco Control was developed in the two-year agreement MHSD Russia and the WHO and the means by significant changes in the Federal Law "On Restriction of tobacco smoking. The authors of the bill are confident that the implementation of their proposed measures will contribute to improving health in Russia and in general reduce the number of smokers, the proportion of which, according to statistics from the company Businesstat, in 2008 amounted to 40,5%, ie 59 million people. Thus one of the most active buyers of cigarettes is an audience aged 10 to 19 years - in the rating of adolescent tobacco use, we take 4 th place. Therefore, it is young people will be primarily shielded from the global promotion of smoking, which, as the advocates of tobacco control measures, is the place to be in contemporary Russia. For example, over the next 5 years in the country should be completely banned tobacco advertising, and the well-known inscription "Smoking is dangerous to your health" on cigarette packs will be given not 10%, as now, but not less than 30%. In addition, manufacturers of tobacco products will be denied the opportunity to sponsor large-scale actions.
Changes will not only advertising, but also direct ways of selling cigarettes. The new bill provides for the complete elimination of tobacco kiosks, as, according to the developers of the National Strategy for Tobacco Control, it stands are the main cause of the availability of cigarettes to minors. However, tobacco manufacturers believe that such measures will not lead to anything else as to the emergence of illegal production and illegal outlets, which, unlike the retail stalls, it will be impossible to control.
- Some specific proposals seem populist-extremist, - told the online edition BFM.ru CEO Association of tobacco products "Tabakprom Vadim Zhelnin. - Today is fine - it is 300 rubles at the kiosk. Earning a kiosk with a sold bundles of less than 3 rubles. To cover the fine, to sell 100 packets. If someone is really watching the kiosk, this measure would be very effective. The problem is that for this no one was watching.
According to the proposal of legislators tobacco products must be sold in the stores area not less than 50 square meters. meters, while tobacco POS-terminals (point of sales), located at cash registers, will be eliminated.
- Supermarkets should remove the computations of tobacco, past which can not pass without a glance, - told BFM.ru deputy chairman of the Duma Committee on Health Nikolai Gerasimenko. - If new legislation is adopted, the retail network will provide, in its stores separate rooms or sections for cigarettes, as had been done some time ago with alcohol.
Also as part of the WHO expected to change in excise policy. By 2010, the planned increase in excise tax from today's 3.54 to 5 rubles, which, according to experts, can lead to increased cost of cigarettes to 20-25%.
In addition, in the nearest plans of the National Committee for tobacco control isolate in the cafes and restaurants, rooms for smokers, whose area is less than 50 square meters. meters. Cigarette smoke still gets into the territory for those who do not want to combine eating with the use of nicotine - believe legislators. In the premises, whose area of more than a specified footage, smoking will be permitted only in specially equipped rooms for the type of those who today are located in airports. In addition, the new bill provides for an absolute ban on smoking in private cars, in areas of medical and educational institutions, institutions related to culture and sport. The size of penalties provided for violation of the new antinicotine order is still in development. The sponsors hope that their proposed law is approved by the Government of Russia and will enter into force by the end of that - early next year, but the specific time limits for, the bill to the Duma has not yet determined.
Alexander Gliskov, Deputy City Council:
- I think it will be unrealizable standards, as well as existing today, the restriction on the sale of beer to minors. The law may not be sold, but sales are made, and the passport of buyers no one asks. In my opinion, should be dealt with prevention, not a ban, because the implementation of this law will simply be no one to control. For example, abroad, some employers increase wages for those who did not smoke or drink, - these are effective measures.
Paul Reyef, head of the cigar house Emilio Reyes Cigars, SA:
- In general I am for the adoption of this law, because they are opposed to cigarettes - namely cigarettes. Our company is engaged in a little different kind of activity: cigars - that is, pure tobacco, which is more useful than harmful. From a pure nicotine is no dependence, the global medical community has long recognized this. We do not fall under this bill due to the fact that our cigars are sold only in specialized shops, where the usual schoolboy will not go. Child simply can not afford to buy one cigar for 500-700 rubles. And the law limiting smoking personally, I would suggest another article for consideration: to write, as in Switzerland, on cigarette packs "Smoking harms your health as cigarettes contain chemical additives, addictive. It was chemistry, not the nicotine contained in tobacco, helped the whole world on cigarettes, making them household drug. As for the remaining paragraphs of this law, I am sure that it is not so categorically will never. The turnover of the cigarette industry in Russia - one million euros per hour. This is one of the main items of income of the state. If the cafes and restaurants banned smoking areas, attendance of such schools will drop by 99%. Losing a profit simply unprofitable.
Boris Hassan, Ph.D. in Psychology, Director of the Institute of psychology and pedagogy of development:
- We are again going after the European practices, but not everything that is being implemented in the West, we have held as well. Few take action - to fully realize it yet, not arranging various loopholes and deductions, as often happens in Russia. Of course, if the law is adopted, it will be a painful period for many people. Tactically be disadvantages in income, but strategically - advantages in matters of health. Overall, therefore, attempt to curb smoking bad, ideologically I support those who adopt these measures. Another thing that I have doubts about this project. If such solutions are not provided with certain echelons of measures, not systematic, they will eventually discredit themselves. Here, for example, imposed a ban on casinos and slot machines. But they have gone underground and constantly having something here and there, and fines are not to violate the law a significant risk. So here. Smoking - firmly ingrained habit, therefore, most likely, anti-tobacco campaign ride on our country and would remain dormant. If you close the tobacco stalls - means, cigarettes will be sold in some other places. And the prices will rise, and among teenagers would be considered a special virtue to purchase tobacco products. In good if you take such a bill, it requires a serious mobilization of all media, in order to organize a propaganda coup and to keep it. And when someone in one, and the rest are beginning to express doubt or oppose understandable unambiguous decision falls within the liberal discourse.
Oleg make hoarse sounds, CEO of supermarket chain "Commander":
- I am positively to the new law, provided that it is common to all shops and supermarkets. Of course, improvement and moving boxes of tobacco products to another location will lead to a rather serious instantaneous costs, and sales will fall. But, from my point of view, it would be better. Because the global health of the country is more important than our local losses. Regarding the distribution of alcohol and tobacco, we are far behind Western countries. When I have been abroad, I noticed that the European advertising of cigarettes made so that tobacco products do not want to buy. And if people are buying fewer cigarettes, then they will be less smoke. There will be fewer smoking - better health - so they will work, will have more income - in the end and we also earn and compensate all the damages.
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