County Accepts $150,000 Grant For Cigarettes Control

he Fond du Lac County Board of Supervisors has voted 15-1 to accept a Tobacco Control and Prevention Grant of $149,980 for fiscal year 2011.The Fond du Lac County Health Department will act as agent for the continuation of a multi-jurisdictional cigarettes coalition that provides...

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Local Hospitals Don’t Plan To Follow National Trend On Hiring Smokers

Smokers: No need to apply for work at hospitals. That’s the message more hospitals and medical businesses in many states are sending to prospective employees.The New York Times reported this week that hospitals in Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania,...

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Cigarettes Ban For MLB Teams

Televisions on Thursday will broadcast the usual iconic images of baseball's opening day: fans cheering from the stands, umpires making close calls at the plate, and players in the thick of the game, spitting cigarettes juice.With smokeless tobacco use spiking among high school...

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Study Finds Poor Diet, Excessive Drinking, Smoking Biggest Issues In Lincoln

Many Lincoln and Marathon county residents still drink too much alcohol, are too fat and smoke cigarettes more than they should, according to a report released this week.The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute's 2011 county health rankings underscores the cultural...

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Sheboygan Council Clarifies 'smoking' Rooms

The City of Sheboygan is easing its restrictions on enclosed public smoking cigarettes areas at businesses such as bars and restaurants, though an official said the city ordinance still would be in compliance with the statewide smoking cigarettes ban.The Common Council Monday...

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Bartenders Feel More Healthy After State Smoking Ban

Wisconsin bartenders who don't smoke cigarettes feel healthier since the state went smoke-free in July, according to a new study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Urban Initiatives and Research.The study surveyed 531 bartenders in urban and rural areas in the...

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Cigarettes For Sale Untaxed

Slow government response to repeated complaints of illegal cigarettes sales has cost the state and legitimate distributors millions of dollars, according to longtime Oklahoma City cigarette wholesaler Alan Beck.For six years, Beck has complained to the Oklahoma Tax Commission...

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Discount Cigarettes Smuggling

A recent wave of state discount cigarettes tax increases, designed to pump revenue into cash-strapped local governments, is inspiring an increasingly dangerous cigarette smuggling industry where big profits lure violent criminal gangs and drug traffickers into the booming illegal...

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Cigarettes Tax Cut

During a floor debate in the Legislature last month on lowering the New Hampshire cigarettes tax, Rep. Patrick Abrami, R-Stratham, said the move was necessary to help small businesses rebound and strengthen a competitive advantage in lower cigarette taxes with neighbor states."We...

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Savanna Discount Cigarettes Expansion

Savanna discount cigarettes are on a drive to consolidate and expand its market share after identifying gaps that need to be filled, the discount cigarette manufacturer’s executive chairman Adam Molai has said.Savanna discount cigarettes, which produces cigarette brands Pacific,...

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Cigarettes Tax Affects Vermont

New Hampshire's House has voted to reduce the state's cigarette tax a dime in hopes of attracting more cross-border cigarettes sales.The House voted 236-93 Thursday to cut the cigarette tax from $1.78 per pack to $1.68 over opponents' objections that the state could not stand...

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Discount Cigarettes - 16 Million Seizure

An Alberta aboriginal chief is among four people facing charges after the seizure of what authorities are calling the province’s largest haul yet of contraband discount cigarettes.But the seizure is proving controversial and is setting up a legal battle between the aboriginal...

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Cheap Cigarettes Plain Packs

When the Rudd government's National Preventative Health Taskforce released a position paper on anti cheap cigarettes measures, they titled it "Making Smoking Cheap Cigarettes History."If that was the goal you'd think the government could just ban cheap cigarettes - a clear,...

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Cheap Cigarettes Safer?

Simply banning the use of words such as “light” and “mild” from cheap cigarette packaging may not be enough to wean cheap cigarettes smokers away from the mistaken belief that some brands are less harmful than others, a study suggests.To curb misleading marketing practices,...

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37 Million Cigarettes Seized At A Port

Customs have seized the biggest haul of smuggled cigarettes at Tilbury Port in the past decade.Officers from HM Revenue & Customs seized 37 million cigarettes at the port.The cigarettes, smuggled in to avoid paying duty, are through to be worth around £8.5million in unpaid...

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Discount Cigarettes Store Armed Robbery Commited By Teens

In Arizona's Most Wanted -- a discount cigarette robbery from a gas station convenience store may not sound like a big deal, but Silent Witness says how these suspects stole the discount cigarettes makes them very dangerous.What should have been a slow Sunday afternoon suddenly...

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Contraband Cigarettes

As we head to the polls in May, Albertans must consider an issue that impacts every Canadian, yet is virtually ignored by the federal government — the illegal contraband cigarettes trade. It’s a problem from coast to coast, and Alberta is especially at risk, having experienced...

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Christopher Robin Visits the Houses of Parliament

In honor of Poem in Your Pocket Day, here is "When We Were Very Silly," a parody of A. A. Milne by J. B. Morton (a.k.a. the humor columnist "Beachcomber"). It describes a very healthy attitude toward politics.There are Communists and Socialists and Conservatives and things,There...

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The Noida Sisters: Anomie à deux

In Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, two sisters have been rescued after seven months of self-imprisonment in which neither left the house, even to get food. Both had doctorates. The elder of the two, Anuradha, 43, died shortly after being taken to the hospital:"Anuradha's mouth...

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Discount Cigarettes Tax Increase Is A Good Public Policy

Discount cigarettes cost less in Louisiana than in 47 other states. Not surprisingly, we have the ninth-highest rate of tobacco use in the country. Equally unsurprising: Louisianans rank No. 2 in terms of how unhealthy we are.While Gov. Bobby Jindal repeats his mantra of no...

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Cigarettes Tax To Snuff Out Competition

The editorial "Make all companies pay" pitched another new cigarette tax, but left out a few details.It had plenty of smoke from David Sutton of Altria/Philip Morris, who is suddenly concerned about Medicaid patients in Florida. He offers the same distortions repeated for years...

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My Teenage Laziness Validated: Ten Years Was Not Too Long to Wait

You probably thought that you had to wake up too early when you were a teenager. Everyone does. But the thing that made my bleary-eyed whimpering special — the difference between you and me — is that far from being mere whining, mine was, I now know, backed up by scientific...

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Discount Cigarettes Machines

Ever-rising state and federal taxes on discount cigarettes, designed to discourage use but also generate government revenue, have made a pack of smokes very, very expensive. A pack of discount cigarettes can cost anywhere from over $6 to over $11, depending on the state. That...

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70 Million Illegal Cigarettes

The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) on Monday announced the arrest of nine people in Lithuania for the illegal smuggling of cigarettes after an extensive investigation that resulted in the seizure of millions of cigarrettes.The criminal investigation, which had been coordinating...

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State Department Claims Douglas Kmiec Is Too Catholic for Malta

Douglas Kmiec — early "Obamacon," author of the 2008 election book Can a Catholic Support Him?, and not unrelatedly, current ambassador to Malta — has been rebuked by the State Department for "spending too much time writing and speaking about subjects such as abortion and his...

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Plain Cigarettes Packets?

The Federal Government wants to stop discount cigarettes companies from putting logos or brands on cigarette packages from mid-next year, after new laws come into force.It also wants to make the dull-green packets feature larger health warnings, including images of diseased...

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New Cigarette Package

They have been sold on their supposed health benefits, sex appeal and flavour. But new legislation may prove the final nail in the coffin of discount cigarettes advertising.Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon has released a draft of the discount cigarettes plain packaging bill...

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More Hideous Cigarette Packaging

Smoking cigarettes rates in Australia have been falling for decades, without Health Minister Nicola Roxon's latest proposal for even more hideous cigarette packaging. In 1945, almost three-quarters of Australian men smoked cigarettes. At the last count, the proportion of Australians...

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