Golden Gate
Golden Gate cigarettes are produced in Germany. These cigarettes are made specifically as low cost cigarettes. Although Golden Gate cigarettes are produced as value brand cigarettes, the tobacco used for them originates in the same countries where the tobacco for many of the world's top cigarette...
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Golden Gate cigarettes are produced in Germany. These cigarettes are made specifically as low cost cigarettes. Although Golden Gate cigarettes are produced as value brand cigarettes, the tobacco used for them originates in the same countries where the tobacco for many of the world's top cigarette...
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Industry News: Small business owners take on local government
Author: HELEN KRIEGER / NEWS STAFF WRITER
In less than a month, two small business owners have challenged the Board of Health's authority, arguing local government has gone too far.
Gas station owner Steve Lowe and horse-riding instructor Jen Brown never met each other until last week, when they realized they had something in common -- they were both fighting the Board of Health's right to require permits.
The Board of Health took Lowe, owner of Lowe's Mobil on Main Street, to Westborough District Court because he refused to buy a town permit to sell tobacco.
Lowe has told reporters he has a tobacco license from the state and he has argued the town should not require separate licensing.
In a telephone interview last night, Lowe declined to give further comments until he gets a verdict from the district judge on Jan. 30.
Industry News: Women more neurotic than men: tobacco study
Author: Mark Kennedy / Ottawa Citizen
Women are more likely to smoke than men and find it harder to quit because they are more neurotic, according to an internal tobacco industry research report.
The secret 1976 report, to be made public today, was conducted for British American Tobacco (BAT), the firm that was then the parent company for Imperial Tobacco of Canada and which has since purchased Imperial outright.
The document was prepared at a key crossroads for the industry in the mid-1970s, when consumers were becoming increasingly alarmed about the health hazards of smoking and cigarette companies were worried about the potential of plummeting sales.
In fact, the report noted, the number of female smokers in most countries was rising at a faster rate than the number of male smokers. For that reason, the tobacco company's researchers conducted intensive studies -- ranging from measuring smokers' brain waves to gauging the impact of slim, low-nicotine cigarettes -- to figure out what makes women smoke.
The results were produced in a summary report, marked "restricted" and titled "The Smoking Behaviour of Women."
"It appears that female smokers are, or consider themselves to be, more highly motivated to smoke than male smokers and there is evidence that they find it harder to stop smoking," the report concluded.
"Although it is not completely clear why this should be the case, it may be related to the observations that women are more neurotic than men and more likely to need to smoke in stressful situations, presumably because they are less well able to deal with stress."
Health Canada released a second set of so-called Guildford documents last May, and is to release its third set today -- in the midst of National Non-Smoking Week.
