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| Pakistan joined the WTO in January 1995 and committed to abide by all the requirements of TRIPS -- including a strong protection for all intellectual property rights -- within an 11-year period. That 11-year period expired on January 1, 2006. Unfortunately, counterfeit medicines continue to be as common as they were 11 years ago. At least half of Pakistan"s population continues to take fake drugs resulting in prolonged illnesses and even death. Additionally, software piracy level is as high as it was 11 years ago and 50 per cent of tax free cigarettes sold in Pakistan continue to be an imitation of the real thing. There is a direct correlation between the level of intellectual property rights protection and foreign direct investment. This correlation is especially significant when foreign direct investment is sought into facilities that manufacture components or complete products and facilities that undertake research and development (R&D). To be certain, every creation is a creation whether it is tangible or intangible. Every creation must be protected. Every creation of the human mind has an origin. Every creation is the creator"s property. Every creator has the legal right to posses his creation. Every creator has the legal right to use his creation. Every creator has the legal right to benefit from his creation. Every creator has the legal right to profit from his creation. Every creation is a creation whether it has physical existence or not. And, every society must provide protection to every creator"s creation. | ||
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| The charge for a group of four was 800 yuan (approximately W114,000, US$1=W1,010). Passengers also had to buy some 800 yuan worth of food and other goods. УThe more cigarettes, sausage and juice you bring, the more you can enjoy your sightseeing,Ф the boatman said. УThis tour is most popular among Chinese tourists.Ф When the boat reached the midpoint of the river, we could see two North Korean naval vessels lying at anchor 50 m ahead of us. We clearly saw North Korean flags fluttering on them. The boatman stopped only 2 m from Ujeok Islet and went round the boat to push the bow ashore. In other words, we had landed in North Korean territory. The guide threw sausages onto the shore. Suddenly, two men came out of the thicket and hastily tucked the sausages into their pockets. The cigarettes the boatman threw disappeared in a moment, too. | ||
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| The Anti-Gravity Marlboro Cigarettes. A cigarette is laid on the table so that about two-thirds of it protrudes over the edge. Yet the cigarettes does not fall. There are two methods of performing this trick. The first requires a prepared cigarette. A bit of metal is hidden in one end of the cigarette, and as that end is much heavier than the other, the cigarette can easily be set so that it apparently overbalances the table edge. The trick was improved after further experiment, so that an ordinary cigarette may be used. Simply moisten one side of the tip of the cigarette. Press that side firmly against the table edge, and the cigarette will stick, although more than half of it hangs over the edge of the table. Do not moisten all the tip of the cigarette as that would give the trick away. Use plain tipped cigarettes in both methods. A cork tip would arouse suspicion. | ||
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| Introduced in 1913, camel cigarettes became R.J. Reynolds' first major cigarette brand and the country's first nationally marketed cigarette. Camel's unique blend of flue-cured, burley and exotic Turkish tobaccos made it the nation's No. 1 selling brand just four years after its introduction. An authentic original, Camel is a brand with a rich heritage and one that also keeps up with the times. Introduced in 1913, Camel was R.J. Reynolds' first major cigarette brand and the country's first nationally marketed cigarette. Camel's combination of a classic nature and contemporary flair reinforce the brand's position as a flavorful cigarette with a rich heritage, a colorful personality and an irreverent sense of humor. | ||
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| Domesticated thousands of years ago by frankincense traders, who trained the gangly cud-chewer to make the long and arduous journey from southern Arabia to the northern regions of the Middle East, the discount camel cigarettes went on to become the desert dweller's primary source of transport, shade, milk, meat, wool and hides. | ||
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| Occasionally, the sponsor's jingle was a famous as the TV show theme song. The Addams Family (1964-1966) was brought to you by Dutch Masters Cigars, with the famous Dutch Masters chorus - "Step up to Dutch Masters, and smile, brother smile!" (After you brush your teeth, please.) Tareyton 100s : classic buy cigarettes commercialsBy the late-sixties, cigarettes companies portrayed their clients not as addicted but motivated, active and loyal - a man or woman with a black eye would exclaim, "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight that switch"; a rugged guy imparts, "Me and my Winstons, we got a real good thing," Marlboro smokers "Come to where the flavor is," while Camel smokers pledged, "I would walk a mile for a Camel." | ||
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| The smoking ban in many of our cities is all about clean air. The issue isnt just second hand smoke from cigarette smoke. When statistics are compiled they never tell us what the air quality from inhalation of smog or forest and home fires, disel and exhaust fumes while sitting in traffic contribute to the cancer and heart disease statistics stated by the anti smoking groups. The valley I live in was under a 45 day bad air quality this past summer. Warnings to the old and young or anyone who had breathing problems to stay indoors. This warning means to me that every person who works outside or every child who played in our parks and school yards was breathing foul air with every breath they took for 45 days. What effect does this have on the statistics? It is my understanding that if you build a camp fire or BBQ in your back yard that the smoke from these seemingly harmless activities are just as harmful as any smoke filled bar or restaurant. You must think about our fire fighters when you think about smoke inhalation. What are the cancer and heart disease statistics for this group of workers directly involved in weekly or daily smoke from fires? If their statistics are included in the smoking statistics does it reflect a true picture of cigarette smoke in relation to clean air? My personal feeling is that any death or recorded illness where the person is or has been a smoker is lumped into the smoking statistics. Irregardless of the persons occupation, or other health issues they might have. | ||
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| As a sidenote, I should mention that disclosure of the ingredients in cigarettes will do nothing to protect the public's health. We already know that cigarettes kill - knowing the specific ingredients in the cigarettes, beyond the more than 4,000 chemicals that have already been identified - is not going to help out substantially. After all, what is there that we are going to find out from disclosure of all ingredients that we don't already know from the identification of the thousands and thousands of ingredients that we have known about for the past 30 years or so? The cigarette additives have already been disclosed and that long list hasn't been of any use to protecting the public's health. But that's neither here nor there. The point is that the American Cancer Society is once again using deceit to support the FDA bill. Either that or they are keeping one of the juiciest secrets of all time. | ||
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| As the Anti-Smoking Lobby continues to intensify its insatiable agenda for a cigarette-free world, tobacco share prices on Wall Street keep on rising. It is November 1998, and negotiators for tobacco companies and eight states have just announced a massive anti-smoking settlement initiative that could cost the industry $206 billion over 25 years. "It’s a great day for attorneys general," says Christine Gregoire, attorney general for the state of Washington and the leader of the state negotiators. "Joe Camel and his ilk are in intensive care and will be gone by April." That same week, studies are released showing no significant decrease in the number of cigarette smokers in America. "Our policies are working," insists Gregoire. On the outside, it sure seems like the Anti-Smoking Lobby is winning. In exchange for payments over 25 years, the states are dropping suits that posed an enormous legal and financial threat to the tobacco industry. In addition to paying the states, the tobacco companies will spend $1.7 billion to study youth smoking, finance antismoking advertising, and accept curbs on marketing practices. The Anti-Smoking Lobby wanted even more; their initial drive was for a Federal bill that would have cost the tobacco industry $516 billion in total. And they have made a promise to continue until cigarettes are a thing of the past. | ||
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| A group of long-term marbloro smokers filed an unusual lawsuit yesterday against Philip Morris USA, seeking to require the company to pay for medical tests to detect early-stage lung cancer. While most tobacco -related lawsuits have sought billions of dollars in punitive damages, this suit, filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, asks that Philip Morris USA, the maker of Marlboro cigarettes and a unit of Altria, be required to pay for low-dose CT scan tests, a new method for identifying potentially cancerous lesions in the lungs. The suit, which seeks class-action status, would include smokers in New York State who are 50 or over, have been smoking at least a pack of Marlboros a day for 20 years and have not been diagnosed with lung cancer. Jerome H. Block, a lawyer at Levy Philips & Konigsberg in New York who filed the suit, said it was intended to save lives by getting smokers tested early. "Hopefully, this suit will change things so that we will be dealing with lung cancers that are caught when they can be treated," Mr. Block said. "Today, most detection happens when cancer is already advanced." | ||
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| Ok everyone... how come cigarette smoke bothers you to the point that you say things like "you can inhale but not exhale".. when the air we are breathing with pollutants from cars and airplanes (the good old diesle engine), pesticides and that crap ChemLawn sprays on all my neighbors lawns so they don't get weeds and so they don't have bugs, and the perfumes that some people wear that choke you and smell so bad that your very expensive steak and crab dinner tastes the perfume the lady sitting next to you is wearing? How come no one is bitching about that??? HUH? Damn Casper, good points. Pollution from diesel engines is expected to shorten the lives of 21,000 Americans by the year 2010, according to a new report published by the Clean Air Task Force. It also contributes to more than 400,000 asthma attacks each year. It's amazing how many times some small-penis redneck will spray me with black smoke when I am walking on the sidewalk or riding my bike. I'm sure there is a corrolation between the diesel driving redneck and the lady with too much perfume...they are probably married....:rolleyes: | ||
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| The burning tobacco on the end of a buy cigarettes heats the air drawn through it. The hot air then passes over the unburned tobacco in the discount cigarettes rod, causing nicotine and other volatile components to evaporate. As the air cools while being drawn through the cigarette, some of these volatile components, including nicotine, condense onto smoke particles. A smoker inhales this nicotine-rich aerosol, which happens to have a mean particle diameter in the submicron range, permitting efficient alveolar deposition and subsequent extremely rapid absorption into the systemic blood. | ||
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| I typically feel it is tacky to pull educational rank on someone, but in your case, I'll make an exception. You should take a critical thinking course that focuses on the various flaws in logic. You have demonstrated the classic slippery slope argument of "If you let Johnny go to the dance today, then he'll be robbing banks tomorrow." A smoke tax is in no way related to a food tax, which doesn't even exist here in Utah. Unlike cigarettes, we must have food to live, and the government is smart enough to realize that. No politician who wants to stay in office would impose a food tax. In fact, here in Utah, there is discussion of eliminating sales tax on food. Smoking is unhealthy, and it's completely avoidable. It places an unfair burden on others and has absolutely no socially redeeming value. My feeling is that if you insist on acting in a way that is knowingly unhealthy to you and your family, is a socially aberrant behavior, and drives up the insurance costs of others, you certainly should pay a financial price for making that choice. | ||
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| This is a critical difference. The bill merely gives FDA the ability to require changes in cigarettes, but it doesn't require that FDA mandate any such changes, nor does it give the FDA any guidance in suggesting what changes would make cigarettes less toxic and less addictive. Nor is there any evidence that simply by reducing levels of various constituents, a cigarette could be made that is less toxic and/or less addictive. In fact, the bill gives the tobacco companies the opportunity to use their tremendous political power to block any attempt by the FDA to require the reduction or removal of constituents, especially nicotine. An escape clause in the legislation essentially requires Congressional approval of FDA action (by allowing the industry to use its political power to get Congress to exercise its veto power that the bill specifically provides). It seems like outright deception for the American Lung Association to tell its constituents, falsely, that the proposed legislation would require cigarettes companies to make changes to their cigarettes to make them less toxic and less addictive. | ||
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| Villanizing Cartoons: Lawsuit settlements are only one aspect of the misguided, trend-setting Anti-Smoking Lobby agenda. They also want to limit advertising, but this has proven equally futile, and again, at great cost. This time, the price includes Freedom of Speech. The November tobacco settlement also includes prohibitions on advertising; specifically, tobacco companies may not use billboards, merchandise or cartoon characters as marketing vehicles. The idea is to protect the eyes and ears of vulnerable children. But within days of news of the settlement, the media was already explaining the futility of the new prohibitions. The Street.com reported, "In an industry already adept at boosting its product, the ad bans are likely to spark a surge in promotional creativity." ABC News went further, "The United States need only look to other countries, which have paved the way in creative loopholes around cigarette advertising restrictions. After Canada’s 1989 ban, the industry sponsored jazz festivals, tennis and golf tournaments, car races, comedy shows, even fireworks displays. In European nations that ban tobacco ads, the companies have gone so far as entering other businesses so they can keep their brand names before the public, selling marbloro and Camel watches and opening "Marlboro Country" travel agencies." According to former cigarette company ad agent Ken Harris, "Unless you make tobacco usage illegal," controlling cigarette advertising "is like grabbing ahold of a puddle of water." | ||
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| The message of the Anti-Smoking Lobby is clear: If we cannot persuade you to stop, we will make you stop. At all costs. Perhaps it would be instructive to look at it from their perspective. What is the first step that needs to be taken? After all, they way they see it, cigarette are objectively bad. They cause lung cancer. Of course, the over-consumption of anything can lead to health problems, but unlike sodium, caffeine, carbonated beverages, sugar, saturated fat, artficial sweeteners and cholesterol, the Anti-Smoking Lobby does not have a personal stake in the freedom to consume nicotine, so it becomes evil. Those who "enjoy" it are clearly delusional victims of a massive Philip-Morris marketing campaign. Smoking is just plain wrong, and since most people do not like cigarettes, our democratic government can officially *make* them wrong. | ||
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| In addition to nicotine, a burning cigarettes online generates as many as 6,000 other compounds, many of which are toxic. Most are generated by the burning tobacco on the end of the cigarette. The absolute and relative production of these many substances depends on a number of factors: importantly, the temperature and duration of the burn. In addition, compounds present in cigarette smoke undergo complex chemical reactions. Many are extremely short-lived. Others condense on the cigarette rod, where they can be re-extracted or rereacted. Because these processes vary with smoking topography (i.e., how the cigarette is smoked, number of puffs, puff volume, puff duration, etc.), the toxins generated can vary from puff to puff. Certainly, the exposures experienced by one smoker differ considerably from those of another (1). This variability has greatly confounded and limited attempts to quantify cigarette "yields." It also poses major problems for investigators studying the toxic effects of cheap cigarettes smoke. | ||
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