Smoking In Several Newly Smoke-Free Parks

Nate Freeman, the Observer nightlife reporter who gave us the trend story about how young New Yorkers aren't having sex anymore, was sent out by the paper to see how the city was enforcing the new smoking cigarettes ban in public plazas and parks. Turns out, the cops were pretty...

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Coalition Backdown On Cigarettes Leaves Issue With Courts

THE Coalition has bowed to pressure and will support the plain packaging of cigarettes.The decision, which means every MP and senator except Bob Katter now supports the measure, puts beyond doubt the passage of the legislation, a world first, and sets the scene for a legal battle...

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Quitting Is Winning

THE word quitting has long been tagged as a term used negatively. Be it in competitions; in sports, in business deals—in just about every aspect of everyday existence—quitting is closely associated with losing.But as we celebrate World Non-Tobacco day, we have to look at the...

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Plainly, The Public Backs Smokes Plan

HEALTH campaigners say most Australians support plain packaging for cigarettes, despite efforts by the powerful cigarettes industry to mobilise public and political opposition against the Gillard government plan.With public consultation on the landmark bill due to close next...

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New Warnings On Cigarettes Packs From December 1

The Centre has notified the new pictorial warnings for being printed on packages of smoking cigarettes and chewable cigarettes products.The notification, which was issued on Friday and which will take effect from December 1 this year, provides for strong pictorial warnings for...

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Health Board Adopts Smoke-free Resolution In Wyoming County

The campaign to end smoking cigarettes in Casper area businesses earned an endorsement Wednesday from the Natrona County Board of Health.The board unanimously voted to adopt a resolution urging local employers to prohibit smoking cigarettes in their businesses because of the...

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Ending Ads Aimed At Teens

For Tech Valley High School senior James Hazzard, the long list of cigarette ingredients with complicated names is a good way to scare students."Would you know that chocolate is in a cigarette?" said the Sharon Springs resident who volunteers with Reality Check of New York State,...

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Smokers Daring Bloomberg To Ticket Them Under Park Ban

Mayor Bloomberg's Smoke Free Air Act goes into effect on Monday, and shockingly, people physically dependent on a substance that is more addictive than heroin have said that they will probably ignore the law that bans smoking cigarettes in public parks, beaches, the concretewalk,...

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Lawmakers Try To Plug Loophole Allowing Hookah Lounges

Al Narah, Eugene's newest hookah lounge, may have opened in the nick of time.If Oregon lawmakers pass House Bill 2726, new hookah bars would be banned from opening, but the 62 existing lounges statewide plus any established before July would be grandfathered in."We won't have...

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Smoking Ban Taking Hold In Seaside Park

A new law kicks in Seaside Park this summer that could have smokers paying a price.Seaside is enforcing a law where lighting up at public recreation areas may lead to a fine and even community service.As of this season, every corner of Seaside Park's one and a half mile oceanfront,...

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One Air Alliance Helps Businesses In Springfield Prepare For Smoking Ban

Nearly all businesses and public spaces in Springfield will be smoke cigarettes free by June 11, and there's a lot of work to be done to clear the air. Managers at Trolley's restaurant were training workers on Tuesday for a smoke cigarettes free environment."We have been just...

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MSU Leaders Vote To Make Campus Cigarettes-free

Once Montana State University had smoking cigarettes lounges, professors smoked in class and U.S. Tobacco not only sponsored the annual college rodeo, but handed out free chewing cigarettes samples to spectators at the Fieldhouse.Over the last generation, tobacco has been increasingly...

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Spam Email Promotes E-cigarettes To Children

Out-of-state advertisers flooded a Cedar Hills email service for children with thousands of messages promoting smoking cigarettes, according to a multimillion dollar lawsuit filed in federal court.Zoobuh, which promotes itself as providing safe email for kids, claims an Arizona...

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Ban Smoking In Public

Making Durham a healthier place by limiting people's exposure to secondhand smoke cigarettes is a top reason the Durham County Health Department is proposing to ban smoking cigarettes in many outdoor, public places.The Durham County Board of Health recently approved the proposed...

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Atlantic City Casinos Must Enforce No-smoking Laws

Recent reports show Atlantic City’s 11 casinos often fail to enforce New Jersey’s anti-smoking cigarettes laws.There is no reason for the casino floors in Atlantic City to be exempt from the total smoking cigarettes ban that is enforced in every other workplace in the state....

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Students Favor Smoking Ban, Poll Results Say

The results are in and the majority of the people who responded to a campus-wide poll, issued by the University of South Dakota Student Government Association, want it to be against the campus policy to smoke cigarettes a cigarette anywhere on campus.With 1,192 participants,...

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Spartanburg City Council Approves Smoking Ordinance

Several downtown restaurant owners vowed to continue to fight the newly adopted smoking cigarettes ban after Spartanburg City Council overwhelmingly approved the ordinance Monday.Kevin Moore, proprietor of Delaney's Irish Pub, said he will continue to talk to council members...

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Cigarettes Tax Is A Win-Win For Rhode Island

Tobacco taxes have proven to be a major public policy success all across the US. Taxing cigarettes helps reduce cigarette smoking cigarettes (and other tobacco use) as it raises the revenue states need, so that states can afford to treat the illnesses tobacco use causes.The...

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Oregon Lawmakers Aim To Limit Growth Of Hookah Lounges

As Oregon lawmakers and advocacy groups have sought to make the state's indoor buildings smoke cigarettes free, they say one type of business was unintentionally exempted from the rules -- hookah lounges. Hookah lounges are popular among college-age kids, who frequent the businesses...

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We All Pay For Unhealthy Behaviors

Just like secondhand smoke, unhealthy habits hurt us all. In Coos County, they hurt a lot.Rankings by the Public Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation put us dead last -- to coin a phrase -- among Oregon's 33 counties for a list...

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Cigarettes To Blame

Firefighters doused another blaze started by cheap cigarettes Monday night, and investigators said it's the sixth incident in the past three months.Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue crews responded to the 12000 block of SW North Dakota street in Tigard just before 8 p.m. after...

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County Campaigns Against Secondhand Smoke

An estimated 4,000 people each year in California die from secondhand smoke, according to Santa Clara County Department of Public Health officials, who kicked off an ad campaign Tuesday to warn people about the dangers of secondhand smoke.The campaign was announced at a news...

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Possible Cigarette Tax Hikes In Store For Alabama

State representatives in Alabama and Maine are seeking cigarette tax hikes of $1 per pack and $1.50 per pack respectively, reported tobacco-news.net and Forbes.Alabama State Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham) proposed House Bill 457, which would raise the state's cigarette tax...

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California Supreme Court Ends Big Cigarettes’s Campaign To Deny Smokers Justice

On May 5, 2011, the California Supreme Court ended big tobacco’s campaign to deny Californians injured by cigarettes access to justice. In the case of Nikki Pooshs, big tobacco had successfully argued in the lower court that a lung cancer victim could not sue them because the...

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Office Of The Attorney General

Attorney General Jack Conway announced today that Kentucky, as required under the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between the major cigarettes manufacturers and 52 states and territories, received its annual payment of nearly $100 million in tobacco settlement money this...

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High Court Hears Tavern Smoking Ban Challenge

Four and a half years after a smoking cigarettes ban went into effect, the Nevada Supreme Court is considering a case that could overturn a law some tavern owners say has ruined their businesses.The court heard arguments Monday in Carson City from an attorney for Bilbo's Bar...

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Activists Seek Ban On Casino Smoking

Faced with increased competition from gaming in other states, Las Vegas hotels and resorts have been less than enthusiastic about an outright ban of smoking cigarettes in their casinos.A number of casinos on the Strip and in Las Vegas have tried to accommodate nonsmokers by...

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Vermont Senate OKs Tax

The Senate wrapped up two days of stop-and-start deliberations on a $24.3 million tax package Friday with a 20-8 vote of support, followed quickly by a nearly unanimous vote for a $4.68 billion budget to operate state government next year.The tax bill, which the Senate had to...

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Shumlin Cuts Deal With Campbell On Cigarette Tax

Gov. Peter Shumlin has been spending more time at the Statehouse this week. He even paid a visit to the cafeteria on Wednesday to break bread with House Speaker Shap Smith and others. (The governor has graced the dining hall a handful of times over the course of the session.)It’s...

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$1 Cigarette Tax Is Likely Up In Smoke

A heavy lobbying campaign to increase Vermont’s cigarette tax will continue its legislative push in an effort to reduce smoking cigarettes rates while raising an additional $10 million in revenue.House members recently voted on a 27-cent increase on the state’s cigarette tax...

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Coalition Challenges Shumlin To Produce Stats On Cigarettes Tax Increase

In the wake of the Governor’s efforts to push the Senate last week to reduce a cigarette tax increase by $.47, a statewide public health coalition challenged the Governor today to back up his claims against the tax with actual statistics.The Vermont Senate on Friday rejected...

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