Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Strong cigarettes

Seven Years' War against the court's largest cigarette manufacturers in the United States ended in victory for opponents of smoking. The District Washington is obliged to tobacco giants such as Philip Morris, British American Tobacco, Liggett and Lorillard Tobacco, to stop tempting local smokers to light and mild cigarettes since 2007.

This means that from January 1 of such varieties as cigarettes with low tar, light, ultra-light, soft and natural outlawed in the United States. According to the BBC the court found tobacco manufacturers guilty of conspiring to provide smokers with false information about the hazardous effects of smoking. In addition, cigarette manufacturers will now have to defend publicly in publications Sunday, national publications and their Web sites. Tobacco companies must run their own campaign of anti: correcting information about the dangers of smoking cigarettes should be in the Packs. Light cigarettes have appeared in the United States as promoting healthier smoking at 60. Today, the American tobacco industry used this label to refer to cigarettes with a tar content of the law.

U.S. Minister has not had time to take compensation totaling $ 280 billion to finance campaigns against smoking. Thus the material costs of tobacco manufacturers agreed to pay court costs of $ 135 million. However, this did not prevent opponents of cigarettes with the celebration of victory: The fact that the prohibition of light and soft blocked the entire structure of the sale of tobacco products. Nevertheless, the court in Washington has been applied only in the U.S.: it is used in Europe, for example, to describe the various forces cigarette color-coded.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Smugglers have equipped the entire bus system caches

In an unusual hiding place equipped to conceal illegal goods, customs officers have faced in Poland at the checkpoint in Bezledy allocated by the General Consulate of Poland in Kaliningrad. On careful examination was sent to a bus belonging to one of the Kaliningrad companies engaged in passenger transportation. As it later turned out, this verification has the longest border with Russia. Getting to the hotel to the caches customs began on Thursday, about 20.00, and completed the inspection on Friday after 4 am.
First, inspectors drew attention to the rather large wall in the driver's seat, sewn upholstery. Cutting the wall, the customs officers saw the door hiding place, where they were made of iron armor. Just open the door failed, because they were closed for electromagnetic lock, which is impossible to break even with the scrap. After some time, customs officers found a wire leading to the electromagnet, cutting and de-energized device which, they were able to turn the heavy door handle. The cache was recovered 1,768 packets of cigarettes.
But it's hiding place was only a smaller part of the whole system caches. The service dog, which participated in the inspection, something sensed in the back of the bus. Under the steering wheel revealed another door, also upholstered in armored with iron and locked with the help of an electromagnet. But no one expected that the door hiding the real maze, and so large that the customs officer was able to enter inside. Moving from one part to another, he came upon a wall, fragments sewn saw that prevent access. Surprisingly, supertaynike customs officers did not find any cigarettes, even though they estimated there could hold about 20 thousand packs of tobacco products.
The long and laborious examination ended with criminal charges against the driver. The bus, with its refurbishment as smuggling, according to the provisions of the current Polish legislation has been confiscated.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Smoking a pack of cigarettes

Smoking packs of cigarettes a day is equivalent to the annual Drinking a cup of coffee nicotine, which easily would be sufficient to kill a herd of horses.