General Tobacco Launches New Product Line Extension Vaquero Filtered Cigars

Redrant: Yesterday I was at a convienience store here in Minnesota. Little cigars" were $1 per pack. I thought I would check up on it. They are taxes far less than cigarettes and not covered by the master settlement. Greg Lang


General Tobacco Launches New Product Line Extension Vaquero Filtered Cigars
Last update: 10:09 a.m. EDT Oct. 17, 2008
MAYODAN, N.C., Oct 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vidal Suriel, Founder and President of North Carolina-based General Tobacco (GT), announced today the launch of the new Vaquero Filtered Cigars 100's Box. The Vaquero Filtered Cigars are the latest addition to GT's product line catalog and will be available in a variety of flavors, such as Natural, Lights, Vanilla, Menthol, Peach, Cherry and Wildberry.
"We are very pleased to present our new Vaquero Filtered Cigars," said J. Ronald Denman, Executive Vice President and General Counsel for General Tobacco. "For years, Vaquero has been a favorite among 'little' cigar smokers, and to reward our loyal customers and show our appreciation, we have launched this new filtered product in the 100's Box. Due to the increased weight and re-design of our packaging, the Vaquero Filtered Cigars comply with legal requirements for cigars, and therefore avoid the higher taxes associated with cigarettes."
Vaquero Filtered Cigars 100's Box joins the other successful brands of General Tobacco including GT One, Bronco, Silver, 32 Degrees and Champion. For more information regarding General Tobacco and their entire catalog of tobacco products, visit www.generaltobacco.com.
General Tobacco Company, the sixth largest tobacco company in the nation with approximately $300 million in annual sales, is a full participating member of the Master Settlement Agreement. The company began its operation in 2000 distributing its own cigarette brand, GT One(R). Because of the popularity of this value-priced, excellent quality product, the company now distributes Bronco(R), Silver(R), Vaquero Little Cigars(R), 32 Degrees(R) and Champion(R). As one of the largest tobacco companies in the country, General Tobacco continues to hold a leading position in the value-priced cigarette market. Its mission is to distribute superior quality tobacco products at competitive prices.
SOURCE: General Tobacco General Tobacco
Kelly Dickerson, Director of Marketing
336-445-4000 / 877-500-9595
kdickerson@generaltobacco.com
Copyright Business Wire 2008

Star Tribune: How can you encourage more smokers to quit?

How can you encourage more smokers to quit?  (From a reorting sense, fairly well written.  Worth reading the full article.)  http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/30909814.html 

Redrant:  My comment posted:  Greg Lang

If this wasn't so blatently unethical it would be funny!

Let's see!  We have this super-duper freebie help to quit smoking.  Doctors apparently don't' believe in it enough to try to refer patients to it with giving the doctors a de facto "bribe".

Did I mention that it is a free service to Minnesota residents?  It saves the medical provider the cost of their own co-pay counseling service. A paramedic type at the doctors office can handle the basics of explaining Clearway "program".  Like fixing a car, you try the cheapest option first.  

Clearway must be a great program.  After all, the mainstream media told us that it was!  Interesting that doctors in Minnesota won't use it without a de facto "bribe".

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Feeling the burn over back-yard fires.

http://www.startribune.com/local/30870774.html?cache=n&uccb=1223917765#post_comments

READER COMMENT OF DAY: "Social Engineering at finest!

You can thank your social engineers for this beauty. There's is a formula for socialism: 1) Force people to live in confined spaces. 2) Remove freedoms under the guise of "protecting the minorities". 3) Individual freedoms are lost. Seven years ago we moved outside the range of the social engineers for these very reasons. We water when we want, we burn when we want, we party when we want, etc... We look at everything inside 494/694 as the "Soviet Zone of the Twin Cities".

posted by seneubA on Oct. 13, 08 at 10:39 AM

Redrant:  Comments I posted Greg Lang 

All together now, sing along!  "Let the circle be unbroken".

Smoke cops (WROTE)

I live in the Seattle area and I thought the left wing smoke cops lived out here, but I see they are starting to creep out into the heart of America. Seattle has banned beach fires because of global warming. First the smoke nazis will start with health reasons to ban bon fires. The next reason will be global warming. And politicians who are beholden to environmentalist nuts, will act immediately and ban the bon fire due to global warming concerns. Mark my words, it will happen. I witnessed it out here on the left coast. .

Like the cranky shopkeeper who wants you away from his awning when it rains citing "insurance regulations" Seattle wants to ban beach bonfires due to "global warming".  

Like the cited shopkeeper, theses "greenie weenie" don't know what their are talking about.  In Seattle, it is basically driftwood that is burned in the bonfires.  In the "global warming/climate change" claim burning of bio fuels such as wood is considered "carbon neutral".  The carbon, according to this theory, is mined" IE coal, oil or natural gas.  There is a 99+% chance that a dead tree will decay with time, especially in a moist environment.  The biological decay agents, from bacteria to termites convert the carbon in the wood to carbon dioxide in the decay process so the beach fire is technically "carbon neutral".

That said, wood fires emit a lot of soot and gaseous pollution.  This tends to be localised, rain and moisture in the air eventually knock it down so it doesn't really contribute to "global warming/climate change" according to the "carbon footprint" claims. 

The Strib discussions seems to limit posting size so save to a notepad or word (where you spellcheck) before posting so you don't "lose your muse!"

Bicycling around my Longfellow neighborhood I see that these fires are a cool weather thing.  It is  social tool, people will usually invite you to join.  Being cold weather people can close windows and Minnesota houses are pretty "tight".  

You are reaping what you sow with supporting the anti-smoking prohibitionists.  They are always going for the next step, never, ever satisfied.  

I'm 58 and recall when Minnesota had far worse air quality.  This was not bad compared to Los Angeles and big Eastern cities but on the occasional "doldrums/inversion" days there would be a "haze". 

      Back then, asthma, allergies and respiratory diseases in children were rare even though the air was far more polluted back then.  After the Belin Wall fell Western health "experts" went into Danzig, Germany, which had bad industrial pollution expecting to find an "epidemic" of childhood respiratory diseases and allergies.  Surprise!, the rates were far lower than in the West.

The modern "prohibitionists" ignore this.