AC Milan are intended to fine Mario Balotelli after the striker was seen smoking in a train toilet en route to Florence for the club's battle with Fiorentina on Friday morning.The striker has been reaching the headlines for all the right reasons after moving from Manchester City in late January and has obtained seven goals in as man ...

Generally speaking, worldwide cigarette regulation is stiffening. Several months ago Australia became the first country to prohibit cigarette branding. According to its plain packaging guidelines, all smoking products are sold in standard, olive packages with health graphic images of smoking-related illnesses on the front and back sid ...

Neither tobacco nor cigarettes are considered uniform product. This is mostly due to the distinct factors (kind of soil, rain fall, irrigation, and climate) in the different tobacco cultivating locations, tobacco leaves differ in size, thickness, color, and most of all flavor. Such factors as the environment, the leaf’s placeme ...

It is considered that the origin of cigarette dates back to 6000 BC. The manufacture of tobacco started in America, where people began using its leaves for smoking and chewing. The first smokers were from Maya civilization in Central America.  Aztecs in South America smashed tobacco leaves bundled them in corn husks to light up. ...

When processed tobacco crop is delivered at the factory, it is first examined for quality and thoroughly mixed with additional components that the brand formula requires, such as flavorings or expanded tobacco.Observing the diverse types of tobacco and blend ingredients utilized is very important, that is why computers are more and ...

Celebrities as well as other people have the same needs, wishes and bad habits. Probably one of the common bad habits that they share with us is smoking. Celebrities are always followed, that is why their look is the main criteria that make them popular. Most of all, this concerns women. Famous actresses, singers and even political w ...

For the first time, cigar smoking was registered in the 10th century, when local inhabitants of the Caribbean Sea and Mesoamerica islands took pleasure in it. The first European cigar smokers were Columbus’s crewmen, who supposedly landed in Cuba and lighted up tobacco wrapped in maize husks, in the late 15th century. Nowaday ...

On June 11 the FDA Tobacco Regulation was given the power to control smoking products. This bill was a significant step for federal regulation of cigarette producers. The bill allows the Food and Drug Administration a full authority over the tobacco industry up to now: besides it offers the FDA the capability to carry out product co ...

Cigarette advertising targeted at women started in the 1920s. Already by the middle of 1930s, cigarette advertisement aiming at women was something ordinary.The first cigarette advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes included a message “Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet” it was used specially in order to make an asso ...

Are mild and light cigarettes safer than regular cigarettes? A lot of smokers consider that these cigarettes help quit their habit or that they are better for their health. In fact light cigarettes are just easier to smoke for smoke beginners. However have you ever though about the real effect of mild and light cigarettes? Do the mil ...