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MedPage Today  Dec 3  Comment 
Smokers who light up shortly after waking up have greater exposure to nicotine than those who wait until later in the day (MedPage Today) -- regardless of how many cigarettes they smoke, researchers found.
Wall Street Journal  Dec 2  Comment 
Tobacco giant Reynolds American agreed to buy Sweden's Niconovum for about $44 million, gaining a foothold in the market for smoking-cessation products.
New Straits Times  Dec 1  Comment 
KUALA LUMPUR: The sale of cigarettes in packets of fewer than 20 sticks will be prohibited from June 1 next year.
New Straits Times  Nov 26  Comment 
PUTRAJAYA: Public reluctance to report vendors selling contraband cigarettes and unlabelled cigarette boxes makes it hard for enforcement officials to curb its sale.
Bloomberg  Nov 24  Comment 
For the opening scene of a book, it’s hard to beat a hardened gangster calmly threatening to liquidate the main character, who’s furiously smoking clove cigarettes as he ponders his strategy.
MedPage Today  Nov 16  Comment 
Smokers appear to be at nearly four times the risk of bladder cancer than they were in the mid-1990s, possibly stemming from changes to the design and composition of cigarettes in the 1960s and 1970s, a new study found.
New York Times  Nov 16  Comment 
Water pipes and cigarettes are still found everywhere, despite laws and appeals to health concerns, but antismoking forces are making another try.
New Straits Times  Nov 13  Comment 
PONTIAN: Marine police conducting an operation against illegal immigrants on Thursday seized about RM240,000 worth of keretek cigarettes at Pulai Pisang here. They also detained two suspected Indonesian smugglers.
PR Newswire  Nov 13  Comment 
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- E Cigarettes National, one of the top U.S. suppliers and retailers for e cigarette products has announced the upgrade of its already wildly popular site. The upgrade was stated as an attempt to increase the
Reuters  Nov 12  Comment 
Alison Cooper is set to become the second youngest female chief executive of a FTSE 100 company as she looks to put sales growth at the top of her agenda for the world's No 4 cigarette group Imperial Tobacco Plc
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