Answer Still Vague About Obama's Smoking Habi...

At a press conference on Friday, when asked about Obama's smoking habits press secretary Robert Gibbs gave a fairly vague answer about the president's smoking habits. Though smoking is prohibited in the White House, it has been concluded that Obama may sneak a smoke here and there. Obama applauded Congress at a briefing about the new bill, giving the Food and Drug Administration the right to control tobacco...

E-Cigarette Put to the Test

The New York Times' City Room recently decided to test yet unregulated e-cigarette. In New York City, the laws on smoking are fairly strict so this was the place to try things out. As the smoke released by this fake cigarette is fairly realistic it got some fairly negative reactions on the subway. It seemed that only smokers themselves accepted the cigarette warmly. The e-cigarette seemed to be a way to start up some...

Audrey Hepburn Smoking Brings in Thousands

A stamp featuring movie star Audrey Hepburn sold for about $93,800 last Tuesday at an auction in Germany. The buyer and the seller of the stamp remain anonymous. Only five copies of the stamp are known to exist. Sean Ferrer, Hepburn's son refused to grant copyright for this stamp and order printing of the stamp to stop. He had objections about the cigarette hanging from the mouth of the "Breakfast at...

Gwyneth Would Love to Smoke Again

Rarely do you hear someone admit that they have regretted their decision to quit smoking. Gwyneth Paltrow is one of the few who admits she has regrets about quitting. However, she has decided to pick up the habit when she hits 70. Paltrow gave the habit up for family, she put out the butt when she became pregnant with her daughter Apple in 2003. She is aware of the negative health effects of cigarettes and hates that aspect...

Tobacco Industry Still Resilient

Tobacco farming used to be an older man's game, but Lindsay Pasley has eagerly joined the fun. Recently, he took 20 tons of tobacco leaf to Clay's Tobacco Warehouse, and he earned himself enough money to "have a nice Thanksgiving and Christmas." In Mount Sterling Clay's is the last tobacco warehouse that is conducting auctions, when there used to be four. The owner of the warehouse Roger Wilson, is...

Russia's Black Market Cigarettes

Kaliningrad has the atmosphere of a frontier town, it is an isolated Russian town on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and is also the place of a new phenomenon which has authorities in the West worried. Russians are being held responsible for the cigarettes that are flooding into Europe and Britain, at cut-rate prices. There was a recent seizure of such cigarettes in the UK at Coventry, with an undercover journalist being able to...