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– Fully recognize that nicotine use cannot solve any crisis.Accept the fact that there is absolutely no legitimate excuse for relapse, including friction with others,a horrible day, boredom, significant stress, holidays, alcohol use, an auto accident, financial crisis, theend of a relationship, job loss, a terrorist attack, a hurricane, an earthquake, the birth of a baby, or theeventual inevitable death of those we love most. Try and visualize yourself not smoking or using oralnicotine products through each and every step needed to overcome the most difficult challenge yourmind can possibly imagine. Yes you can!

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Endlessly hammered by flavor, aroma, pleasure, friendship, adventure, rebellion andaffordability marketing, our subconscious was the nicotine addiction industry’ssubliminal message board. Twice the traveling hypnotist sold me a couple of days ofunbelievable hypnotic bliss before I tested it and relapsed.
But looking upon our subconscious mind only in terms of being the playground ofothers cheapens and makes it look dumb, while ignoring our conscious ability toretrain it. Even here, if so dumb, why can our subconscious see subliminal messagesinvisible to the conscious mind or feel the influence of tobacco marketing that ourconsciousness thinks has been ignored? Why can it react to triggering cues writtenupon it by hypnotic suggestion, cues meaningless to conscious awareness?Dumb? When typing on a keyboard, what part of the mind and level of awareness isthinking about, locating and striking the correct key? While operating a vehicle, whois really controlling which foot needs to push on which peddle and how hard, or doingthe driving as we read billboards, talk on the phone or daydream?Our conscious mind has unknowingly aided in teaching our subconscious skills andhow to perform activities, including using nicotine.
Now it’s time to knowinglyteach it how to function without it.Whether referred to as our subconscious, unconscious or preconscious, science is stillin the early stages of discovery in understanding the scope of its involvement in dayto-day life. But it’s every bit as real as the never seen portion of an iceberg. Think ofDisney World and awareness of the magic above ground, while an unseen city beneathbrings the magic to life.

There are hundreds of quitting books with millions of words and scores of quick-fix magiccures promising near painless and sure-fire success. There is but one principle that affordsa 100% guarantee of success to all adhering to it ... “No nicotine today.”While the Brandon and Boreland studies afford the junkie-mind an ever so slight amount ofwiggle-room on the violation side of “The Law,” there is zero wiggle-room for those of uswho fully take it to heart. It is impossible to fail so long as no nicotine enters ourbloodstream. If we want to live nicotine-free then why toy with horrible odds?

Is it normal to spend the balance of life under the influence of an adrenaline releasingcentral nervous system stimulant? Prior to climbing into bed to sleep is it normal toconsume a chemical that will make our heart pound up to 17.5 beats per minute faster,74that elevates blood pressure, restricts extremity blood flow causing the temperature of ourfingers to drop up to seven degrees,75 that accelerates our breathing, dilates our pupils,perks our senses, shuts down digestion, and triggers the release of glucose and fats fromour body’s energy stores?Two million years of evolution prepared us well to flee or stand and fight the now extinctsaber tooth tiger.
Our body’s response to sensing danger or sudden stress is activation ofthe “fight or flight” pathways of the sympathetic nervous system. In addiction tostimulating the release of dopamine, nicotine also activates these pathways. Nicotine’s arrival in the brain causes the release of noradrenaline (norepinephrine), which in turncauses more than 100 neuro-chemicals to prepare the body to run for its life or fight. Yetnicotine addicts will tell you that they need nicotine to relax!
Fight or flight is anything buta state of relaxation. We’ll talk more about this later.For now, try to imagine what it is like to go hours or an entire day without havingadrenaline being pumped into your bloodstream. What’s it like to stop beating a tiredhorse, to stop responding to non-existent saber tooth tigers, to again know full andcomplete relaxation for extended periods of time?

The bottom line is that being a “little bit addicted” is like being a “little bit pregnant.”While normal for light smokers to rationalize that they are somehow superior or better ableto control their addiction than heavy smokers, in reality their slavery is just as permanentand just as real. They often find ending nicotine use just as difficult as I did, despite thesignificant difference in nicotine intake.When combined with genetic factors, differing toxin and carcinogen types andconcentrations in different brands of tobacco, environmental factors that subject us to otherchemical agents (employment, hobbies, water and air), and how intensely each cigarette issmoked, the smoker smoking five times a day may face health risks just as great or greaterthan heavier smokers.

There are two different views about the impact of cigarette advertising on cigarette consumption. Thetobacco industry argues that tobacco is a mature industry, and thus advertising affects only the marketshare of advertised brands and has no impact on aggregate demand for cigarettes. In comparison, thepublic health community argues that advertising has a positive effect on demand for cigarettes.Advertising is particularly effective in recruiting young smokers.The effect of cigarette advertising on cigarette consumption has been examined in three differentways:
(1) examining the impact directly, using either annual or quarterly national aggregateexpenditure over time or using cross sectional data;
(2) investigating the impact of an advertising banon demand for cigarettes; and
(3) studying the effect of counter advertising on smoking.

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The Government of Turkey approved Law No. 4207, regulating smoking and
the sale and advertising of tobacco products. The law prohibits smoking in institutions providing
health, educational or cultural services, in closed sporting areas, and within mass transportation
systems. Public businesses with five or more employees must provide special non-smoking areas.
Additionally, the law:
1. prohibits the sale of tobacco products to persons under the age of 18 years;
2. requires the words "Legal Warning: Harmful to Health" to be printed on all packaging of
tobacco and tobacco products produced in or imported into Turkey;
3. requires all establishments where smoking is prohibited to place warning signs as well as
advertising the consequences of violating the prohibition;
4. requires State and private radio and television stations to air a minimum of 90 minutes of
public service messages warning of the harmful effects of tobacco.
Furthermore, the Law prohibits advertising and promotion of tobacco and tobacco products by using
any name, trademark, or trade name.
Although the advertising ban applies equally to both the State tobacco enterprise, TEKEL, which
controls 70 percent of the market, and to private companies, the private manufacturers consider
themselves to be unfairly disadvantaged since, having only recently entered the market, advertising is
critical for them.

The order regarding point-of-sale displays and remand for the district court to evaluate and “mak[e] due provision for the rights of innocent persons,” either by abandoning this part of the remedial order or by crafting a new version reflecting the rights of third parties.
Of course, any such remedy the district court imposes on remand can only affect contracts entered after the injunctive order issues.
 In addition, we agree with Defendants that the injunction appears to order each Defendant separately to require the same retail store to display substantively identical, but separate, signs. The government concedes that, despite the language of the order, the district court could not have intended to require the burden of multiple duplicative displays at each retail store. We therefore direct the district court, if it concludes that some form of a point-of-sale display injunction is still appropriate after considering the rights of third parties and existing contracts, to clarify that its order does not require duplicative displays.

In their next general challenge to fraud liability, Defendantsargue that their false and misleading statements about the health effects of smoking cannot, as a legal matter, be fraudulentbecause their statements were not material. This argument isbased on a flawed understanding of the materiality requirement.In order for a false or misleading statement to qualify asmail or wire fraud, it “must concern a material or important factor matter.”
 This materiality requirement is met if the matter atissue is “of importance to a reasonable person in making adecision about a particular matter or transaction.” Id.Materiality does not require proof that any specific person (ornumber of people) purchased cigarettes as a result of the falsestatements. Nor does it require Defendants’ false statements tobe the cause, reason, or sufficient condition of any person’sdecision to purchase cigarettes. Moreover, no subjectiveevidence regarding any particular person is required; the test isonly whether a reasonable person would consider the matter tobe of importance regarding the transaction.

Note that the representation of his masculinity is droopy. You might argue that this is simply a normal position to hold a cigarette. That is true. However ads are more than just a representation of normality. They are intended to convey meaning. And, as established above and elsewhere, the message associated with many cigarette ads is sexual. This ad is no different. Look carefully at the girls hair, just under the B Kool sign. It is rather matted and does not seem to have the characteristics of normal hair, even when that has been permed or curled.
You will undoubtedly see once again that embedded in the hair are shapes that are characteristic of letters. If these are the letters SEX or variations on these the ad carries the usual sex/cigarette association. The question is will Kool help this guy win the girl or will he remain forever Kool and droopy?

The brand's signature dark green pack was changed to white in 1942. In a famous advertising campaign that used the slogan "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war", the company claimed the change was made because the copper used in the green color was needed for World War II. American Tobacco actually used chromium to produce the green ink, and copper to produce the gold-colored trim. A limited supply of each was available, and substitute materials made the package look drab. However, the truth of the matter was that the white of Lucky Strike cigarettes package was introduced to update the label and to increase the appeal of the package among female smokers; market studies showed that the green package was not found attractive to women smokers who had become an important consumer of tobacco products. The war effort became a convenient way to make the product more viable while appearing as devoted at the same time.

In order to estimate authority of products created by this enterprise is enough to mention its premium cigarettes brands: Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Benson & Hedges, Merit, Parliament, Alpine, Basic, Cambridge, Bristol, Bucks, Chesterfield, Collector's Choice, Commander, English Ovals, Lark, Players and Saratoga.

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American company R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., A manufacturer of Camel Cigarettes, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall, Winston and Salem, with the first held in 1913 rebranding Camel brand.
Picture a camel on the package remains unchanged on pack of Camel Cigarettes, but turned entourage: designers have developed a new image oasis, which is brighter now allocated to the stack of cigarettes, and the pyramid, located on the far background, become larger in size and gained a clearer form. In addition, the brand name has become darker, and the stack of a color code and the inscription: Since 1913

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I've been reading and hearing a lot of opinions about the extra dollar per pack tax on cigarettes and it reminds me of what we were taught in school about how America first became a country of its own. The English were charging too much tax on tea and there was a term called taxation without representation. Shouldn't we tax hamburgers, French fries, doughnuts and candy bars, and anything else fattening?
Then we can tax things with too much salt or caffeine. Do you see where this is going? You can't fairly tax one thing more than another, and the real problem is the budget and the lack of revenue and it's not fair to pick one group of the population to bail out the rest.
The government can't manage the budget with the taxes they have now and can't cut anymore then raise taxes on everything evenly.

U.K. stocks advanced as a drop in the pound sparked a rally in exporters, offsetting a continued sell off in banking shares.   AstraZeneca Plc and Imperial Tobacco Group Plc rose more than 2 percent as the pound tumbled against the U.S. dollar and euro, increasing the value of sales made overseas. IG Group Plc advanced 14 percent after saying first-half profit gained on increased short-term trading on currencies.
    Lloyds Banking Group Plc plunged to the lowest since at least 1998 as Merrill Lynch & Co. said the lender has too little capital and will struggle with funding and bad assets.   The benchmark FTSE 100 Index added 25.93, or 0.6 percent, to 4,134.4 in London at 12:48 p.m. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index, a benchmark for European stocks, lost 0.7 percent. The FTSE All- Share Index gained 0.5 percent, while Ireland’s ISEQ Index dropped 1.3 percent.
    “The U.K. is outperforming its European discount cigarettes peers today which reflects the weakness we are seeing in the currency,” said Graham Secker, a U.K. equity strategist at Morgan Stanley in London. “It’s a natural hedge.”
    The pound breached $1.40 for the first time since 2001 and had its biggest drop against the euro in a month after the U.K.’s second bank-bailout plan in three months, announced yesterday, raised concern the global financial crisis is deepening.   AstraZeneca, the U.K.’s second-largest drugmaker which generated than 50 percent of its revenue in the Americas in 2007, increased 2.1 percent to 2,819 pence. Imperial Tobacco, which made just 8 percent of its revenue in the U.K. last year, climbed 2.8 percent to 1,960 pence. ICAP Plc jumped 4.6 percent to 267.25 pence. The world’s biggest broker of trades between banks generated 41 percent of its revenue in the Americas in 2008.
    IG Group Gains   IG Group, owner of the IG Index financial-market betting brand, advanced 14 percent to 254 pence. Net income for the six months through November rose to 37.7 million pounds ($52.7 million) from 33.1 million pounds a year earlier. Revenue climbed 47 percent to 126.5 million pounds, slightly above company forecasts from November.
    Lloyds, which completed the takeover of HBOS Plc yesterday, lost 23 percent to 49.8 pence, extending its 34 percent retreat in the previous session when banking stocks tumbled the most since 1985.
    “The merger of HBOS and Lloyds TSB creates a bank which will face challenges on capital, funding and asset quality,” wrote Manus Costello, a London-based analyst at Merrill Lynch. “We expect Lloyds Banking to lose money in 2008, 2009 and 2010, largely a result of bad-debt provisions.”

CHICAGO - Lorillard Inc, the No. 3 U.S. cigarette maker, posted lower-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday, hurt by higher-than-expected excise taxes and expenses from the national tobacco settlement agreement.

However, Lorillard, which separated from conglomerate Loews Corp (L.N: Quote, Profile, Research) in June, also continued to gain market share. Shares of the company, whose brands include Newport, Kent, True and Maverick, rose nearly 2 percent.

Net income fell 9 percent to $217 million, or $1.25 a share, in the second quarter from $239 million, or $1.37 a share, a year earlier.

Excluding one-time items, Lorillard earned $1.29 a share, below the analysts' average forecast of $1.36, according to Reuters Estimates. Goldman Sachs said the company had earned $1.32 a share before items.

Goldman analyst Judy Hong said the quarter was "not a stellar" one for the Lorillard. In a research note, she blamed the profit shortfall on higher-than-expected excise taxes and settlement expenses, but said the company's U.S. volumes came in better than expected and it continued to gain market share.

Hong said she expected profits to improve in the second half of the year as the company benefits from price increases.

Big U.S. tobacco companies agreed in 1998 to pay $206 billion to 46 states to help pay the costs of treating ailing smokers under a 25-year master settlement. The deal, which ended a long legal battle, included restrictions on the advertising and marketing of tobacco.

Lorillard's sales rose 1.3 percent to $1.07 billion, above the $1.03 billion analysts had expected.

The Greensboro, North Carolina-based company credited the sales increase to higher average unit prices and higher net unit sales volume

North Carolina  - By far, the leading U.S. export to Iran is Cigarettes. Also among the leading exports are Bra's and Bull Semen. Bull Semen? This may explain Iranian women and those facial scarves.

When asked about the export of American Cigarettes to Iran an anonymous source at the Pentagon replied "can you think of an easier way to conquer Iran?" He paused momentarily and then continued "If we can't send in Rambo we'll send in the Marlboro Man. If we can't send in Chuck Norris we'll send in Joe Camel. Who needs Smith and Wesson when you have Benson & Hedges"?

 

BOSTON - The tax on a pack of cigarettes in Massachusetts will jump by a dollar under a bill signed into law by Gov. Deval Patrick.
  The tax, one of the highest in the nation, goes into effect immediately. Patrick signed the bill Tuesday, a day after House and Senate lawmakers rushed to approve the bill by the start of the new fiscal year.
  The increase brings Massachusetts' cigarettes tax to $2.51 per pack. New York has the highest cigarette tax in the nation at $2.75 per pack. Supporters say the tax increase would help raise $174 million in revenues. They say the extra money will go to help cover the cost of the state's landmark health care law.
  They also defended taking up the final version of the bill one day before the tax was intended to take effect. Opponents say the measure unfairly targets one group of people and will hurt small Massachusetts businesses that sell cigarettes close to the New Hampshire border.
  The House approved the measure by a 93-52 vote after a brief debate and sent the bill to the Senate, where it was also approved by a 26-9 vote Monday.
  Neighboring states are also eyeing higher cigarettes taxes, though not as dramatic an increase. Vermont's cigarette tax rate climbs by 20 cents to $1.99 per pack effective Tuesday, a jump that follows a 60-cents-per-pack increase in 2006.
  New Hampshire's cigarette tax, now $1.08 per pack, is slated to jump to $1.33 in October if it doesn't generate at least $48 million in revenues between July and October. Some Massachusetts stores had begun collecting the tax earlier in the day on Monday anticipating that Patrick would sign the bill into law.
  Anti-smoking advocated hailed the new tax. "Increasing the tobacco tax is one of the most effective tobacco control strategies with the impact on our youth undeniable," said Marc Hymovitz, spokesman for the American Cancer Society. "The effect of this tax increase will be an estimated 25,000 smokers quitting and 46,000 youth never starting to smoke."

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A senior manager of a wealthy corporate house, who drove up in an Indica car for an important meeting with tobacco farmers in Rajahmundry town last week, arrived a bit late at the venue only to find himself in for a big surprise.

Most of the cars parked outside the venue premises were Ford ikons and Honda Citys. And virtually every single vehicle at the lot outranked his Indica.

Tobacco farmers of Andhra Pradesh have apparently had good income following record prices at auctions and most of them seem to have upgraded from the entry level Maruti 800s to bigger, swankier cars.

Talking to some of the farmers at the recent Tobacco Institute of India awards function in Rajahmundry, Business Line found out that they were not only investment-savvy, but also possessed a sound head on their shoulders.

A TOWERING office block sprouting tobacco plants, private gardens transformed by sculptures and random video screens installed around the city centre will be just some of the stranger sights of this year's Edinburgh Art Festival.

The programme was launched today, with the diverse selection of exhibits and events including a chance to listen to a modern version of a record sent into outer space or read quotes from the Bible on giant rotating lightbulbs.

pective of Tracey Emin's work, being held at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, is this year's major exhibition, and the controversial artist is expected to draw huge crowds. Among the more striking highlights on show around the city will be East Lothian-based artist Ettie Spencer's Tobacco House, which will see large tobacco crops growing out of the windows of St Margaret's House on London Road, as well as an outdoor crop grown behind the Craigmillar Arts Centre.
The artist hopes that the installation in the former pensions building will raise questions about the issues of slavery, poverty and taxation surrounding the tobacco industry, as well as brightening up the "grim" building.
She has not yet decided what will be done with the crop but will be taking suggestions from the public during the festival.
Another event sure to catch the eye will be Boris Eldagsen's Spam: the musical, a series of video installations based on two years' worth of spam e-mails collected by the artist. As it is a work of "guerrilla" art, organisers were in the dark over exactly where, or what, the installations would be, but said they would include videos around the city centre.
The videos will also be uploaded to internet sites in dozens of countries across the globe, in a bid to create the world's biggest piece of spam art.
Big Things on the Beach is again working with the festival after last year's successful sandbag pyramids, and this year have organised Garden Gallery, which will see artists placing works in the gardens of private houses around Portobello beach.
The homeowners have all given their permission, and the works will all be visible from the street, with tours being arranged to take people around the event.
The festival includes more than 50 exhibitions, and features more than 120 events, including artists' talks, screenings, debates, tours and family projects.
Director Joanne Brown said she was "overawed" by the quantity and quality of the work.
She said: "I feel really proud of the way the city has taken on the Art Festival, and we now have so many galleries commissioning work and organising events, most of which are free to the public and which will really raise the profile of visual arts."
The Edinburgh Art Festival runs from July 31 to August 31.

Imperial Tobacco Group Plc, Europe's second-largest publicly traded cigarette maker, plans to cut 2,440 European jobs after buying Altadis SA for 12.6 billion euros ($20 billion) earlier this year.

Six of 58 factories will shut as staff numbers fall by about 6 percent, Imperial said today. The plants slated for closure are located in its hometown of Bristol, England, as well as Spain, France, Germany and Slovakia. The maker of Davidoff cigarettes fell 3.3 percent in London trading as the plan failed to persuade some analysts to lift their savings estimates.

Western European tobacco companies have eliminated jobs as governments restrict smoking and advertisements. Gareth Davis, Imperial's chief executive officer since the company was spun off from Hanson Plc in 1996, has beat cost-savings goals consistently since the cigarette maker bought German rival Reemtsma in 2002 and then cut 4.4 percent of its jobs.

Expectations for today's announcement ``got carried away,'' wrote Jonathan Leinster, an analyst at UBS in London, who repeated his ``sell'' rating on the stock today. He left his savings estimates unchanged and said he's ``not satisfied'' with expense reduction related to the Altadis merger.

Almost half of the job cuts, or 1,060 positions, will take place in France, equating to almost a quarter of Imperial's local payroll. The company stuck to forecasts for expenses of 600 million euros for the reductions and plant closings and annual cost savings of 400 million euros by the year through September 2012.

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Imperial fell 64 pence to 1,879 pence in London trading. The stock has declined 20 percent in 2008 after rising more than sixfold in the prior eight years.

The cigarette maker will need to negotiate with unions over the job cuts and gain approval from the French and Spanish governments. Plans to reduce payrolls have sparked strikes this year by French workers from hospital staff to employees of newspaper Le Monde.

``They're brutally tearing the company apart,'' Jorge Tome, a representative of Spain's Comisiones Obreras union, said in an e-mailed statement. ``Once again they're showing that the only thing that counts is profit and not a social commitment.''

The takeover of Madrid-based Altadis added about 27,000 employees to Imperial's work force. The Iberian company, which was formed when Spain and France merged their tobacco monopolies in 1999, makes cigarettes under brands including Gauloises and Gitanes and also is the world's largest cigar manufacturer.

Cigarettes in Indonesia, the world's fifth largest cigarette market, are among the cheapest in the world with a pack costing around $1.

 

Four Indonesian NGOs filed a lawsuit against the president and parliament on Thursday for not signing a global tobacco treaty, saying the high level of tobacco use was forcing millions into poverty.

The Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) along with three other NGOs slammed the government for not taking stronger measures to increase cigarette prices while prices of basic needs such as food have risen after fuel prices were hiked nearly 30 percent in May.

Cigarettes in Indonesia, the world's fifth largest cigarette market, are among the cheapest in the world with a pack costing around $1.

Although smoking has taken a toll on the health of Indonesians and pushed millions further into poverty, Indonesia is reluctant to sign the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) aimed at cutting cigarette consumption because of concerns about the developing country's economy.

The World Health Organization's FCTC aims to reduce tobacco consumption, including through a ban on advertising and promotion.

China, which is the world's largest cigarette producer, is among the 168 signatories to the treaty.

Indonesia's $8-billion tobacco industry is big business which provides jobs for 7 million people and contributes about 10 percent to the government's coffers.

"We demand the Indonesian president ratify FCTC because it can protect people from the bad impact of tobacco," Tulus Abadi, an anti-tobacco activist at YLKI, told reporters after the case was filed against President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a Jakarta court.

"The majority of smokers are poor people who allocate more money for cigarettes than for education and food."

Most Indonesians smoke traditional clove cigarettes which were invented in the late 19th century to ward off illnesses.

Called "kretek" for the crackling sound they make when they burn, the cigarettes usually contain added flavours such as chocolate and dried fruits. Some taste sweet, others spicy, but they are all distinctly Indonesian.

Some big cities in Indonesia, including Jakarta, have banned smoking in public areas, but these local regulations are still not implemented, Tubagus Haryo Karbyanto, an activist of the Jakarta citizens forum, told reporters.

 

Numbers compiled by the state show cigarette sales in decline at Oneida Indian Nation stores and other Native American shops.

However, these numbers may not tell the whole picture about these locations that do not collect state taxs on tobacco products. Indian tribes do not collect state levies on the grounds that they are sovereign nations.

The Oneidas bought nearly 2.6 million cartons of cigarettes last year from state licensed agents, down from nearly 2.8 million in 2006, according to figures supplied by the state Department of Taxation and Financ. The drop amounts to approximately 7 percent.

The 2005 level was 2.1 million cartons.

Under the new state tax of $2.75 for each pack, the Oneidas’ reported cigarette purchases for last year would represent about $71.3 million in state revenue losses.

Department spokesman Tom Bergin cautions that actual cigarette sales could be higher because his department’s numbers do not include any sales to Indians by vendors not required to report such transactions to the state.

Statewide, the number of cigarette cartons sold to tribes dropped from 36 million in 2006 to 30.4 million last year, a decrease of approximately 18 percent, according to the state data.

The Seneca Indian Nation in Western New York fell from 17.8 million cartons in 2006 to 12.2 million last year. The Senecas sell the most cigarettes of the eight nations.

PRAGUE  - Czech tobacco group Philip Morris CR sees no reason for further tax hikes on cigarettes in the next several years after the last rise at the start of the year, weekly Euro reported, citing the group's new CEO.
    'After a rise in the consumer in January 2008, the Czech Republic fulfilled and passed the minimum tax, and therefore we do not see a reason for raising the rate for several years,' Euro quoted Alvise Giustiniani as saying in an interview.
    The tobacco group's Czech has eroded in recent years amid fiercer competition and tax hikes on cigarettes, and analysts expect the company to face challenges in 2008 due to strong stockpiling from competitors.

MADRID - Imperial Tobacco Group Plc. unit Altadis SA. has obtained an additional 37.30 percent of Cia de Distribucion Integral Logista SA., raising its stake in the unit to 96.92 percent, bourse regulator CNMV said.
    In January, Imperial Tobacco presented a full cash bid for the outstanding in Logista at 52.5 euros per share, following its acquisition of Altadis.
    The acceptance period for the takeover bid ended May 6.
    The UK tobacco cigarettes manufacturer has said it plans to keep Logista listed on the Spanish.