The federal government points to its pioneering legislation to
make cigarette packs a uniform and anonymous dull brown as evidence of its will to take on the cancerous global industry in the interests of people's health.
Not exact matches
Research tells us that plain, standard
packs make cigarettes less attractive and help reduce the number of young people who start smoking.
It is taxing a
pack of
cigarettes $ 4.35 that has
made the Indians and out of state purchases more attractive!
In New York City, which levies steep taxes of its own on tobacco products, a
pack of
cigarettes would come with a tax of $ 5.85,
making it the nation's first city to break $ 5, antismoking advocates said.
Health warnings cover about 10 percent of a
cigarette pack's exterior surface in the United States, but there is broad support, even among smokers, for
making them significantly larger, a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center study has found.
For example, the fact that a
pack of
cigarettes comes in recycled packaging does not
make them «green.»
From one pocket you fetched out a
pack of
cigarettes and from another a shiny lighter, it
made a grinding noise when you flipped it, and a flame sprang up.
When you live in a country where
cigarettes run you $ 2 a
pack and travel to a city where they cost $ 12, it just
makes good sense.
Between 1967 and 1974, for example, Chamberlain completed several series of sculptures
made of urethane foam, galvanized steel, and heavy gauge aluminum foil which were based on the common movement of the hand in wadding tissue paper or sponges, or crumpling empty
cigarette packs.
They had the same proportions as the
cigarette packs I'd been crushing when I sat around in bars, drinking a lot and
making sculpture out of
cigarette packs as we emptied them.»