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Oregon Smokers Urged to Participate in 30TH Annual Great American Smokeout

Thursday is the Smokeout: if you are thinking about quitting, call the Oregon Tobacco Quit Line – (800) QUIT-NOW.

(SALEM) - Statistics show as many as 18.9% of Oregonians smoke. Of those, 76% want to quit.

PLEASE Don’t Throw Your Cigarette Butts Out The Window

Throwing a cigarette butt out of your vehicles window is not only littering, it could cause a bark dust or grass fire that could lead to thousands of dollars in property damage or worse.

(SALEM) - While I’m not opposed to people and their right as Americans to smoke, as a new home owner, I’m a little disgusted over the number of smokers who throw their butts out the window for others to pick up.

Reynolds Makes Big Move Into Smokeless Tobacco

Camel Snus (pronounced "snoose") will be test-marketed in Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas, beginning by the end of June.

(CHARLOTTE, N.C.) - Reynolds American Inc., the nation's second-largest cigarette maker, said its first-quarter profit rose 23 percent and it is planning a second major push into the smokeless tobacco category with a snuff product under its famous Camel brand.

Experts Say Fire Safer Cigarettes Would Reduce Oregon Fires

(Salem) - Oregon fire officials say that on Friday, April 21st, a smoldering cigarette ignited nearby paper causing a fire
in a mobile home and hospitalizing an Ontario resident.

The unidentified woman was transported to the Oregon Burn Center in Portland, where she later died. According to Ontario Fire Chief Terry Mairs, who investigated the fire, the damage to the single family residence is estimated at $5,000.

The Oregon Fire Safety Coalition wants the public to be aware the technology exists to reduce cigarette-caused fires and could reduce fire deaths, injuries and property loss if it were in use in the state.

Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Tobacco Companies

In a payment due on April 17, state received only $66.3 million of an expected $75 million annual payment.

(SALEM) - Attorney General Hardy Myers on Monday sued tobacco companies over the disposition of nearly $15 million in payments due to Oregon under the terms of the historic Master Settlement Agreement.

The MSA was signed by 46 states in 1998. Included in the lawsuit are the "big three" tobacco companies, Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, and Lorillard, as well as over 25 other cigarette manufacturers.

Myers Announces Agreement With Nation`s Largest Retail Pharmacy to Curb Tobacco Sales to Minors

(SALEM) - Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers today filed a settlement agreement with the nation`s largest drug store chain in which the company will implement new procedures to reduce sales of cigarettes to minors. Named in an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance filed in Marion County Circuit Court is CVS Pharmacy, Inc. of Woonsocket, Rhode Island.