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Cigarette Tax In Colorado In Talks Of Being Raised To $2.59

July 7, 2016 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

Wallets Will Be Empty If The Suggested Cigarette Tax Passes

Based on current rate of smoking, the cigarette tax could make marijuana a cheaper alternative.

STATES CHRONICLE – Tobacco use is still seen as a large problem in the state of Colorado. Sometimes in the fall season of this year, voters will decide if raising the cigarette tax to over $2 per pack is the best thing to do.

There are not many places in the United States where the cigarette tax is as high as more than $2 per pack. Some parties see it as a drastic discouragement of continuing the habit. Most smokers, however, see it as the government taking full advantage of people suffering from tobacco addiction.

“When you’re rising the price of cigarettes, all you’re doing is making poor people not buy fruit.” – Roisin Conaty

While both sides hold some truth, US governments, and to be closer the point of interest, the Colorado government, have used the capital gained from cigarette tax to fund programs meant to help people stop smoking, as well as campaigns meant to discourage young kids from using tobacco products.

The adult smoking programs did not work but in June 2016, recreational marijuana did become legal in the state of Colorado. The now-in-the-talks vote to raise cigarette tax almost feels like a strong nudge for tobacco users to switch to cannabis instead.

Kids, however, did give up smoking. More accurately, they no longer use regular tobacco products having switched to electronic cigarettes instead. Ever since then, studies have been showing that vaping has a negative impact of the immune system of anyone staying inside vape smoke clouds for too long.

This Is Not Colorado’s First Cigarette Tax

Nevertheless, economists have crunched the numbers and, after its first year, an estimated $315 million will end up in the coffers of the Colorado government if a pack of cigarettes ends having $2.59 tax.

Almost a third of a billion US dollars is good news for the Colorado programs and campaigns indeed. However, just by doing the math, this would mean that Colorado will on average be smoking over 335 thousand daily packs of tobacco cigarettes!

Statistically, one in 16 people in Colorado will buy at least one pack of cigarettes every day after the cigarette tax is increased.

The health implications are huge. People present in second-hand smoke are affected as well, suffering a severe risk of damage to their immune system. Not all commercial and public smoking areas of Colorado are isolated and closed off. Improper education and the refusal of awareness also still affects households where smoke is constantly part of the environment of young people.

If the cigarette tax vote does not pass this autumn, a pack of tobacco cigarettes will continue to have the 84c tax.

Photo Courtesy of Flickr.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Cigarette Tax, Colorado, Smoking, tobacco

Vaping And Smoking Cause Identical Immunity Suppression

June 25, 2016 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Vaping May Not Cause Cancer But It Is Still A Health Risk.

Vaping affects more immune-related genes than smoking, faster.

STATES CHRONICLE – Presently, most people believe that e-cigarettes are a safe and less toxic alternative to regular smoking. However, they have been made available to the public for a far too little time. Several extensive tests on the effects of vaping on people’s health have not yet been fully performed.

A new study now shows that e-cigarette users have a decreased expression of immune-related genes. Cigarette smokers also have reduced expression of immune-related genes, and all the genes which are affected by smoking appear to be affected by e-cigarette smoking.

The more surprising aspect of the study, however, is that e-cigarette users have even more immune-related genes affected, and the rate of affection is actually increased for them.

The study focused on gathering data from three groups.

The first group was comprised of non-smokers. For the duration of the study, exposure to secondhand smoke was kept at the minimum.

Members of the second study group were all active cigarette smokers.

Active e-cigarette users formed the third group.

Individuals who both smoked and used e-cigarettes were explicitly not allowed to participate.

All the participants in the study also had to be healthy individuals under the age of 50.

The participants had to keep logs of smoking and usage, give urine and blood samples, and, a month into the study, nasal passage mucosa samples were also made available.

The study results are not demonstrating that vaping affects health in the same way that smoking does. The full effects of vaping are still being researched. This study is revealing that using e-cigarettes is not an entirely healthy alternative. Immune systems, primarily, are negatively affected by vaping.

Data accumulated from several previous long-term studies have demonstrated that smoking and secondhand smoke exposure both are a significant increase in the risk of bacterial infection. Direct and indirect exposure to smoking has varying degrees of effect in regards to suppressing immunity.

The same immune-related genes which are affected by cigarette smoking are influenced by e-cigarette using but at a faster rate. And using e-cigarettes is currently believed to have an impact on a broader spectrum of immune-related genes. While vaping is considered to be safer for the user and those around him, as well as less of threat in increasing the risk of cancer, long-term adverse effects on the immune system is still a critical health hazard.

Image Courtesy of Wikipedia.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: e-cigarette, ecigarette, Electronic Cigarette, health risk, immune, immunity, smoke, Smoking, tobacco, vape, vaping

CVS Caremark Has Stopped Selling Tobacco Products

September 3, 2014 By Sebastian Mc’Mannen Leave a Comment

A while back we talked about how the FDA proposed new regulations for e-cigarettes and today we’ve got more nicotine and tobacco news: it appears that CVS Caremark has stopped selling tobacco products.

Starting today, CVS Caremark has stopped selling tobacco products and experts are hoping that other major drugstore chains will follow CVS’ lead.

The decision was made because CVS needs to strengthen its image as a health care company. It also plans to change the company’s name to CVS Health, but the stores will not suffer any name changes.

CVS Caremark Has Stopped Selling Tobacco Products

CVS Caremark Has Stopped Selling Tobacco Products

CVS has around 7,700 retail locations, which makes it the second-largest drugstore chain in the U.S.

The American Pharmacists Association has urged drugstores in March 2010 to stop selling cigarettes and many small chains have done so, but CVS Caremark is the first large chain to take notice and change.

Mark Myers, the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids had this to say about CVS’ decision:

CVS’ announcement to stop selling tobacco products fully a month early sends a resounding message to the entire retail industry and to its customers that pharmacies should not be in the business of selling tobacco. This is truly an example of a corporation leading and setting a new standard.

CVS is also going to release a quit smoking campaign that will include medication support, coaching and an assessment.

CVS Caremark CEO’s, Larry Merlo, father died of tobacco-related cancer. Merlo said about how CVS has stopped selling tobacco products:

The contradiction of selling tobacco was becoming a growing obstacle to playing a bigger role in health care delivery.

What are your thoughts on the fact that CVS Caremark has stopped selling tobacco products? Do you think this decision was a long time coming? Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: business, CVS Caremark, Smoking, tobacco

Electronic Cigarette Smoking Among Teens Rising In US: Study

September 6, 2013 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

Amid the US government leaving no stone unturned to check use of electronic cigarettes among teenagers, a government study indicates a sharp rise in the use of these modern cigarettes by the adolescents.

The trend tends to be troubling, public-health authorities stressed.

Notably, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is mulling over proposing a policy to regulate these battery-powered devices, which turn nicotine-laced liquid into vapor and represent a small but fast-growing alternative to traditional cigarettes. The proposals for regulations for e-cigarettes are likely to arrive by next month. The findings may influence the FDA decision heavily.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the percentage of high-school students who have tried an e-cigarette rose to 10% in 2012 from 4.7% in 2011. Some 2.7 percent of middle school students surveyed had used e-cigarettes in 2012, up from 1.4 percent in 2011. Last year, nearly 1.8 million middle and high school students nationwide tried e-cigarettes, the report said.

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Since 2010, more than two dozen states have moved to ban the sale of e-cigarettes to minors amid an absence of federal oversight.  The twelve states that have laws preventing e-cigarette sales to minors includes- California, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. New York banned e-cigarette smoking within 100 feet of an entrance to a public or private school.

Meanwhile, federal rules already prohibit the sale of traditional tobacco products such as regular cigarettes to anyone under 18.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Electronic Cigarette, FDA, Smoking, tobacco

Pictorial warnings on Cigarette packs hardly enable teenagers to Quit Smoking

September 5, 2013 By Janet Vasquez Leave a Comment

The government is leaving no stone turned to control youngsters from engaging in smoking habit. With the initiatives like giving anti-smoking messages on cigarette packs, the government has hoped for remarkable results in their goal. However, a new study has played down the impact of such moves. It says picture warnings on cigarette packets depicting the dangers of smoking make little impact on teenage smokers.

According to the study, big anti-smoking messages on the front of cigarette packets may help deter youngsters tempted by tobacco but have little effect when they are on the back of the pack. However, they did have an effect on non-smokers and experimental smokers.new-fda-graphic-warning-against-smoking-reading

The study – published by the Tobacco Control journal – looked at data from the Youth Tobacco Policy Survey before and after the introduction of the images. In 2008, cigarette packets sold in Britain had large text warnings on the front and back. In 2011, these were joined by anti-smoking pictures on the back panel of the pack.

Around 2,800 children participated in the survey, which unfolded in two waves, in 2008 and a followup in 2011. Of the 2,800 children who were questioned, one in 10 was a smoker, while the others were either non-smokers or children who had just experimented with smoking.

All were asked if they recalled the text message or the picture, and say which warning was likely to discourage them from smoking. The most commonly recalled messages were the two types of general warnings on the packet front.

“Smoking kills” was remembered by 58 percent in 2008, while “Smoking seriously harms you and others around you” by 41 percent.

These rates fell to 47 percent and 25 percent respectively in 2011.

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In contrast, the more specific text messages on the back of the pack were recalled by less than one percent of participants both in 2008 and 2011. Recall of the back-of-the-pack images was generally below 10 percent in both waves.

Lead researcher Dr Crawford Moodie said that while it was disappointing that the images did not seem to have an impact on smokers, the rise in the numbers of non-smokers and experimenters being deterred was a “really positive” result.

But he said there was also a risk of people becoming desensitised – the images and text warnings have not changed since they were introduced in 2003 and 2008 respectively.

“Other countries regularly change their warnings. I think if we rotated them here they would have more impact.”

The study was published in the specialist journal Tobacco Control by the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

 

Filed Under: Lifestyle Tagged With: Cigarette, pictorial warnings on Cigarette packs, quit smoking, Smoking, tobacco

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