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Mendte On Chewing Tobacco
Four U.S. senators and health officials from the cities hosting theWorld Series are urging the baseball players union to agree to a ban on chewing tobacco at games and on camera.
The senators, including No. 2 Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois, and...Tags: Frank Lautenberg, Family, Bud Selig, Dick Durbin, Behavioral Conditions
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Camel To Sell Hipster-Friendly Cigarettes
wpix.comR.J. Reynolds is setting its sights on its latest target -- Williamsburg, the hipster capitol of New York -- with its newest line of Williamsburg Camel cigarettes. The iconic camel will appear on the front of the cigarette box on what appears to be...Tags: Williamsburg (Bronx, New York), New York, Health, Real Estate Sellers, American Apparel
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NY Plans $1.60 Per Pack Cigarette Tax Increase
New York plans a $1.60 increase per pack in the cigarette tax, making it the nation's highest, as well a long-delayed plan to crack down on the sale of cigarettes by tribes to non-Indians, according to a bill Gov. David Paterson's administration announced...Tags: Rhode Island, New York City, Health, Government, Emergency Planning
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Public Opinion Sought For Graphic Anti-Smoking Measure
The Board of Health wants to introduce a new anti-smoking amendment, but they wants the the public's opinion first.
New Yorkers are being called upon to give their opinion in a public hearing on July 30 on a new Health Code amendment that would put...Tags: New York City, New York, Health, Death, Crime, Law and Justice
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Tobacco taxes are great, but Proposition 29 stinks
Yes, our freeways and surface streets are crumbling. But the next time your front wheel hits an enormous pothole, you can remember with pride that California is the world leader in one form of highway maintenance: paving the road to hell with good...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Don Perata, Finance, Christopher Reeve, University of California, Berkeley
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High cigarette taxes won't work in Pennsylvania: too many roads
There was good news a couple of days ago for Kiwi smokers. A plan to increase cigarette prices to $100 a pack ($75 U.S.) has been scrapped, and they will have to pay only $20 a pack ($15 U.S.) by 2016. New Zealand, already with some of the highest prices...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Economy, Business and Finance, Justice System, Health Insurance, Government
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House OKs cigarette tax hike
SPRINGFIELD — Smokers are likely to pay $1 more a pack after the Illinois House on Friday approved a cigarette tax increase to avoid even deeper cuts to health care for the poor.
The House has long been the stumbling block to higher tobacco taxes,...Tags: Chicago Tribune, New York City, Health, Justice System, Government
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Voice of the People, May. 26
I'm quite surprised by "Cigarette-related fires" (Voice of the People, May 15), from Bill Phelps, communications director of Altria Client Services, a response to the Tribune's brilliant but aggravating investigation of the machinations of the cigarette...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Health, Johns Hopkins University, Science, NATO
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Illinois House approves $1-a-pack cigarette tax increase
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD --- The Illinois House today approved a $1-a-pack cigarette tax hike to generate money for health care coverage for the poor. The 60-52 vote by the House, which has in the past rejected cigarette tax hike proposals, came a day after lawmakers...Tags: Health, Health Insurance, Politics, Barbara Flynn Currie, U.S. Senate
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CDC: Smoking prevention efforts get short shrift from states
Los Angeles TimesEvery day, about 3,800 American kids try a cigarette for the first time. A thousand of them will grow up to to have a daily smoking habit, and nearly 300 will wind up dead due to a smoking-related disease. Those statistics would be depressing under...Tags: Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Prevention, Quitting Smoking, Polio
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Md. tobacco tax will save lives
As Gov.Martin O'Malleysigns into law the revenue measure passed during the recent special session, most of the attention will be on the income tax changes in the bill. Also in the new law will be an historic and life-saving increase in our state's tax...Tags: Government, Politics, Executive Branch
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Iconic Cuban cigar goes un-smoked at home
McClatchy NewspapersPINAR DEL RIO, Cuba -- The elderly cigar maker sits at a rustic table next to a tobacco field and a barn filled with hanging rows of aging tobacco and meticulously selects the brown leaves, rolling the most tender ones carefully for the center of the...Tags: Human Rights, Cuba, Politics, Havana (Cuba), Fidel Castro
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