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Persistent Pressure “There’s still a huge amount of slack in the economy, which is persistently exercising downward pressure on prices,” even though the drops have eased, Yoshiki Shinke, a senior economist at Dai-Ichi Life Research Institute in Tokyo, said before the report. “It’s hard to predict when prices will turn positive,” he said, predicting that gross domestic product will shrink this quarter.
Pressure for the BOJ to do more to fight deflation has grown, with both ruling and opposition lawmakers calling for legislation that would give politicians more control over monetary policy.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. A group of lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Party of Japan said this week the bank should adopt an inflation target to eradicate price declines and help bolster employment. The members also want to revise a law that guarantees the central bank’s independence.
Your Party, an opposition group,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], last week submitted a bill to the parliament, calling for a revision that would incorporate a target. Smokeless tobacco products ― which come in shapes ranging from toothpicks to orbs and in flavors from cherry to peach ― so far have not met with the same intense scrutiny, although there have been some changes. In June, the FDA increased the size of warning labels on smokeless products.
“This product is addictive” and “This product is not a safe alternative to cigarettes,” say the warnings. Scientists say that overall, smokeless tobacco products are less harmful than cigarettes, in large part because of a reduced risk of lung cancer. But medical experts agree that quitting tobacco altogether is the best alternative.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. The FDA won’t report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services until 2012 on whether such products pose a threat to adolescents and children.
In a letter to tobacco-maker R.J. Reynolds in February, Lawrence Dayton,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], director for the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], expressed concern that the Camel dissolvables line ― which includes tobacco strips that dissolve in the mouth, sticks that resemble toothpicks and orbs that look like hard candy ― could be appealing to children and adolescents. “Absolutely none of us, no one, wants kids to smoke or to use tobacco products,” said Todd Holbrook, senior director of marketing for Camel Snus, at Reynolds.
Approximately 170 countries were willing to adopt legal measures last Friday in order to regulate flavored tobacco products, citing concerns that the youth is lured by flavorings in tobacco and become addicted to smoking.[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. During the conference organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the countries that ratified WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that took place in a resort in Uruguay, known as the 4th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the WHO tobacco convention,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the participants decided to draw up guidelines on the ingredients of cigarettes and other tobacco products.