Smokers be turned inside out

Till the end of 2009 in the Duma amendments can be made to the legislation on restriction of smoking of tobacco. The first today has told about it RBC замглавы the Duma committee on health protection Nikolay Gerasimenko. Now the document passes legal check.
Among innovations - increase of excises on tobacco products, occurrence on cigarette packs of photos with the disfigured lungs of the chain smoker, an interdiction for sale of cigarettes from trays and in booths. Besides, from packs the inscription "lungs" should disappear. The main health officer of the country Gennady Onishchenko earlier repeatedly acted For this measure.
Among other restrictions - an interdiction for smoking in establishments of public health services and sports establishments. And at restaurants and bars zones for smokers should be entered special, isolated. And deputies have not forgotten about themselves. In the State Duma building introduction of special zones for smokers also is supposed.
Герасименко has reminded that the measures connected with restriction of a tobacco smoking, Russia should accept within the limits of realisation of the convention of the All-Russia organisation of public health services on restriction of smoking of tobacco.
Earlier the government has introduced the bill which means the accelerated growth of excises on alcohol and tobacco production in the State Duma. The document assumes increase since 2010 of the rate of the excise on cigarettes with the filter on 41 %. In 2011 the excise again will grow - on 22 %, and in 2012 - on 23 %. The excise rate Even more should increase by cigarettes without the filter - on 67 % in 2010, on 39 % - in 2011 and on 42 % - in 2012.
According to the European regional bureau the CART to Russia, smoking is at the bottom of premature death of 25 % of citizens of the country. According to Independent institute of social policy, in 2006 at least 7,8 million Russians suffered from the diseases caused by smoking, and the State expenditure of system of public health services on their treatment has exceeded 48 млрд rbl. that has made 5,6 % of all expenses on medicine.

Paper

The paper for holding the tobacco blend may vary in porosity to allow ventilation of the burning ember or contain materials that control the burning rate of the cigarette and stability of the produced ash. The papers used in tipping the cigarette (forming the mouthpiece) and surrounding the filter stabilise the mouthpiece from saliva and moderate the burning of the cigarette as well as the delivery of smoke with the presence of one or two rows of small laser-drilled air holes.According to Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, the burning agents in cigarette paper are responsible for fires and reducing them would be a simple and efficient means of dramatically reducing the ignition inclination of cigarettes. Since 1980s Philipp Morris and RJ Reynolds developed fire-safe cigarettes but did not market them. The burn rate of cigarette paper is regulated through the application of different forms of microcrystalline cellulose to the paper. Cigarette paper has been specially engineered by creating bands of different porosity to create "fire-safe" cigarettes. These cigarettes have a reduced idle burning rate which allows them to self-extinguish. This fire-safe paper is manufactured by mechanically altering the setting of the paper slurry.New York was the first U.S. state to mandate that all cigarettes manufactured or sold within the state comply with a fire-safe standard. Canada has passed a similar nation-wide mandate based on the same standard. Many other U.S. states have passed or are considering fire-safe mandates.European union wishes to ban in 2011 cigarettes that are not fire-safe. According to a study made by European Union in 16 European countries, 11000 fires were due to cigarettes between 2005 and 2007. They caused 520 deaths and 1600 people injured.