Literally Sexy Money

From Shiva Naipaul’s travel essay about the Seychelles, “Fall from Innocence”:He refers to a fifty-rupee note adorned with a group of emblematic coconut trees. When examined from a certain angle, the fronds patterned themselves into the letters S-E-X. (I was given a tie adorned...

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Woman Addiction To Discount Cigarettes

A 77-year-old grandmother testified at the beginning of her discount cigarette smokers' lawsuit trial Thursday that she would get "antsy and nervous" when she didn't have a discount cigarette during the years that she smoked discount cigarettes.Even with part of her lung removed,...

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Menthol Cigarettes Ban Could Aid Public Health

Removing menthol cigarettes from sale in the U.S. would benefit public health, members of an advisory panel said in a report that urged more studies.A yearlong analysis shows the menthol flavor harms the public by luring more people to start smoking cigarettes and making it...

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Jury In Favor Of Philip Morris USA

A jury today decided in favor of Philip Morris USA and RJ Reynolds in the first Engle case to go to trial in Clay County (Oliva v. RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris USA).This verdict marks the seventh win for the company in the last ten Engle cases tried in Florida state courts."We...

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Sensitive Artists vs. Astronauts: I Would Not Greenlight That Pitch

Back when science fiction needed to be justified as a pastime worthy of serious people, historian Robert Conquest did so passionately. Beginning in 1962, he edited several volumes of the sci-fi story anthology Spectrum with Kingsley Amis; he was a member of the British Interplanetary...

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Vanderburgh Smoking Cigarettes Ban

Some business owners fear a Vanderburgh County smoking cigarettes ban will hurt their bottom line.On July 8, Vanderburgh County bars and restaurants will be forced to go smoke free cigarettes, under an ordinance passed by county commissioners on Tuesday.Restaurant and bar owners...

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China To Ban Discount Cigarettes

China enacted a new rule to ban smoking discount cigarettes in enclosed public locations, according to the country's Ministry of Health on Tuesday.The new rule, which will take effect on May 1, was added to the revised regulations on health management in public places from the...

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Children Exposed To Cigarettes Smoke

Most parents would want their children to be screened for cigarette smoke exposure when they visit their pediatricians, according to a study published Monday in Pediatrics.Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children surveyed 477 smoking discount cigarettes and...

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New Smokers - Kids

We all know smoking is bad for us, right? But not all smokers realize just how addictive, costly and dangerous smoking is in the long haul.That’s because a majority of new smokers are kids.In Missouri, nearly 20 percent of our high school students are already smoking, and 31,900...

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White Whines of the British Empire

You might think that, for a servant of the British Empire in its heyday, life was a bowl of gulab jamun: there are servants and tiger-hunting, your license to behave eccentrically is basically unlimited, and your hotel’s transportation-request form has a check-box for elephant...

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Monks vs. Astronauts: I Would Greenlight That Pitch

“For a long time the Church and space exploration were pitted against one anothe...

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Katherine Heigl With E-Cigarette

Katherine Heigl just can't seem to go anywhere without sparking up a cigarette.Even in the back of a taxi, the 32-year-old can be seen puffing away on her trusty stick.The actress is on holiday in Miami with her husband Josh Kelley, and cuts a rare sight on the non-smoking beaches...

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The Criminalization of Party Fouls in Sub-Saharan Africa

If any of you have been wondering what the world is coming to, here is that to which it has come: Sloshing whiskey on the president of South Africa gets you hauled before a magistrate:The man accused of spilling his drink on President Jacob Zuma during the Durban July last year...

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Fat-Cat Businessmen Don't Care If Hobo Convention Is Canceled

The Chamber of Commerce in Britt, Iowa, is backing off its proposal to help out with the National Hobo Convention, which has been held annually in Britt for the last hundred years and organized by the Chamber for a number of those. Why? Because the budget proposal submitted...

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Jim Tully, Hobo King of Hollywood

He wasn’t technically the hobo king of Hollywood — the office of hobo king is an elective position that must be ratified by the annual National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa — but Tully went from being the rail-riding son of an Irish ditch-digger to being a Vanity Fair celebrity...

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Why I Personally Would Welcome the Advent of Spring

My instinct for making bad decisions is not infallible, but it was certainly in full operation when I bought my last jacket. My “Huggy Bear” coat (not pictured; imagine hobo-patchwork leather with furry cuffs and lapels) was retired when it developed several large rips and my...

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Camel Cigarettes Ads

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Eminent Theologian Vexed by Board Game

The set-up: In 1927, the Greek government is commemorating the Battle of Navarino (1827) by treating an assortment of British and Russian guests, among others, to an all-night pleasure cruise, where they have furthermore provided — “with a hospitality, a largeness of heart,...

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The Blog Is Back (The Cigarette Smoking Never Stopped)

You might have figured it out on your own from the way new content started appearing all of a sudden, but here’s fair warning: The Cigarette Smoking Blog is back. You can expect to see a lot of aggressively newsy posts, opinions that would embarrass my employer, cooking and...

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Cigarettes Factory

After completing the preparation and conditioning process, the tobacco is ready for the cigarette. We have arrived at the phase called “Secondary”; it consists in the manufacture of the actual cigarette, followed by the packaging of the 20 cigarettes, of the cartons with 200...

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Rejected Plan For Smoke Shop

A smoke shop at Raley’s Town Centre is a threat to families and children, and is not the right business for a future downtown — at least that’s the consensus from the Planning Commission — who unanimously rejected allowing a smoke shop to move into one of the shopping center’s...

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Cigarette Machines Rolls

The price of smokes just got lower in Portland, and the number of smokers, particularly teenagers, is sure to rise.The Hollywood Liquor Store in Northeast Portland installed Oregon’s first RYO Filling Station machine on Tuesday, an automated cigarette-rolling device that enables...

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Counterfeit Discount Cigarettes

Altria Group, owner of Phillip Morris, filed suit against seven Chinese companies for allegedly selling counterfeit versions of Phillip Morris products, among them false copies of their iconic Marlboro Cigarettes. Phillip Morris says that this is the first time that an American...

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Cheaper Cigarettes

Ned Roscoe, a former owner and officer of Cigarettes Cheaper! with Napa ties, was convicted Tuesday in federal court in San Jose of multiple counts of bank fraud.The fraud occurred while Roscoe ran the 800-store Cigarettes Cheaper! national discount chain with $1 billion in...

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New Camel Cigarettes Blue Seattle Pack

Congrats Seattle smokers! Soon, when you take a pull off that sweet and smooth Camel stogie, you can read the pack and learn how awesome you are for living here (and, if you keep smoking, perhaps dying here too). Tobacco giants R.J. Reynolds just launched a new city-themed ad...

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Camel Cigarettes No. 9

A recent marketing campaign for Camel cigarettes appears to have attracted the interest of teen girls, a study shows.The ads for Camel No. 9 cigarettes — which ran in magazines such as Vogue cigarettes, Cosmopolitan cigarettes and Glamour cigarettes — were a hit with girls ages...

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Florida Woman Wins Lawsuit Against Tobacco Companies

Kim Mathews says she's been trying to quit smoking off and on for about ten years. She picked up the habit as a young teenager back in 1973."When I tried to quit I found that it's not as easy as just putting them down. Your body craves the nicotine," said Mathews. In the case...

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Menthol Cigarettes Sales Could Be Banned

Menthol cigarettes are no more harmful than regular cigarettes, tobacco industry representatives argued Thursday as a federal advisory panel opened a two-day meeting to consider whether to ban the sale of those cigarettes.Menthol cigarettes, which account for one-quarter of...

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Quit Smoking Or Loose Weight

Included in Negron’s revamp of the state-federal Medicaid program – which Negron will release tomorrow – is a component aimed at what senators are calling “personal responsibility.”Sen. Don Gaetz, a Niceville Republican who helped craft Negron’s bill, said Medicaid patients...

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Britney Spears Pregnant Smoking

Britney Spears has denied that she is pregnant with her third child and says that her bloated tummy is simply down to new medication she is taking.The singer spoke out after pictures after pictures published this week showed the star smoking a cigarette with a suspiciously bloated...

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"Gossip Girl" Star’s Smoking Habit Ignites Criticism

‘Gossip Girl’ star Taylor Momsen is getting chastised for being a bad influence on her teenage fans.The 16-year-old actress, who plays Dan’s little sis Jenny Humphrey on the hit CW series, was recently snapped with a lit cigarette in her mouth, and wearing a barely there miniskirt.The...

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Pro-Smoking Videos, Often Sexual, Prominent On YouTube

Pro-smoking videos, and especially those that are sexual in nature, are prominent on the online video site YouTube and very accessible to young people, says a Michigan State University professor whose study of the issue was recently published in the journal Health Communication."The...

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Florida Jury Returns Multi-Million Verdict Against Tobacco Companies

A jury in Gainesville, Florida today assessed punitive damages in the amount of $1.5 million against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (RJR) and another $1.5 million against Philip Morris (PM) in an Engle Progeny case. The same jury on Tuesday night awarded the family of John Huish...

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Jury Awards Widow With $3 Million In Tobacco Suit

A Suwannee County woman was awarded $3 million by an Alachua County jury Thursday in a lawsuit against two tobacco companies stemming from the death of her husband, a longtime smoker.Anna Louise Huish was awarded $1.5 million against RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co. and another $1.5...

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$3 Millions Punitive Damages Awarded In Huish Tobacco Triali

"There is only one side to this story", Searcy Denney's James Gustafson told the jury in closing the punitive damages phase of the trial. "We proved this case with their own documents. We proved this case with the things they wrote at the times they did them."We brought you...

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