Tobacco Wars

November 16, 2006 marked the day that Hawaii became the 14th state to enact a smoke-free law. For more information go to the Department of Health, website for more links.More recently, five cigarettes companies have filed lawsuits in federal court to counter the graphic warning...

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Smokeless Tobacco Lozenges

Bite-size dissolvable "orbs" that look like breath mints and melt in your mouth are the tobacco industry's latest attempt to fight falling U.S. cigarette sales.Charlotte is one of two test markets for Winston-Salem-based Reynolds American Inc.'s newest products: dissolvable,...

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Mocksville Tobacco Companies

An U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has established the bidding procedures for the assets of three bankrupt Mocksville tobacco companies.At stake is the attempt by CB Holdings LLC of Raleigh to buy Renegade Holdings Inc., Renegade Tobacco Co. and Alternative Brands Inc. for $15.6...

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Shop Allows Customers To Manufacture Their Own Cigarettes

Smokers are taking advantage of a new batch of stores popping up in the Bay area that offer customers a way to produce a carton of cheap cigarettes for half the price."What we are is a roll your own cigarette station," Tobacco Road manager Jacob Salazar said.The store on 49th...

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Electronic Cigarettes Are Worse Than Smoking The Real Thing

Touted as a safer alternative to traditional smoking cigarettes, electronic buy cigarettes are supposed to give smokers their nicotine fix without the cancer-causing side effects of tobacco. But some have serious concerns that the battery-operated vaping devices may actually...

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Soffer V. R.J. Reynolds

Rod Smith's fire-breathing, jury-searing performance yesterday convinced a Gainesville jury to award $5M damages to the survivors of Maurice "Mickey" Soffer late last night. The jury found RJR liable on negligence and product liability claims, but ruled in favor of the defendant...

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Tighten Rules On Smoking Aboard Ships

Norwegian Cruise Line's announcement this month that it will prohibit smoking cigarettes in all staterooms starting in January is the latest sign that smoking cigarettes and cruising aren't going to be a good mix in the future.Norwegian, which sails the Sun out of Port Canaveral...

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A New Type Of Cigarette Venture

Jamaicans for decades have bought buy cigarettes by the stick and by the carton at corners shops, from streetside sellers, and a multiplicity of businesses that make money off a habit that is hard to kick.What has been absent up to now is a dedicated retail channel focused solely...

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Rolling With It

Given all the people who’ve quit smoking cigarettes and the rising cost of online cigarettes in an already tough economy, it’s surprising to see businesses opening throughout South Florida with names such as Miami Smokes, Cigarette Station, Ciggy Mart and Tobacco Factory. These...

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Sexy Girls Smoking Cigarettes

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Cigarettes As An Art

John Ravenal, VMFA Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art talks about creating a 40-foot long carpet that uses cigarettes online to depict a tiger skin.A half-million cheap cigarette online shaped into a 40-by-15 foot carpet depicting the coat of a tiger is being created at...

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Trafficking Untaxed Cigarettes

A 39-year-old New York man was sentenced Tuesday to 21 months in prison for purchasing cheap cigarettes in Delaware bearing counterfeit state tax stamps and selling them for a profit in New York City.Eduard Ifraimov, who emigrated from Russia in 2002 and received his U.S. citizenship...

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Arrest Made In Cigarette Theft Ring

One man was arrested Wednesday and police were looking for two others following thousands of dollars in cigarette thefts.On July 19, two men broke into a Sinclair gas station, 2322 E. 4500 South, about 3:10 a.m., and immediately started filling garbage bags with cigarettes."Hundreds...

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Claflin To Become Smoke-free Campus

Claflin University will enact a no-smoking cigarettes policy on campus beginning Saturday.The policy is applicable to all students, employees, volunteers and visitors, the university announced Thursday."This policy will positively impact the health of all people affiliated with...

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Cigarette Disposal Units Around Town

The Little Compton Town Council discussed potential options to prevent and limit litter around town at Thursday night's meeting. This issue was initially brought up in the spring by residents Robert Marra and Sandy Farr representing the Sogkonate Garden Club."They contacted...

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Discarded Cigarette Butts Found At Edmond Wildfire

Fire investigators say discarded buy cigarettes may have started Thursday's wildfire that burned 200 acres and threatened homes in northeast Edmond.Firefighters will monitor the area throughout the weekend to make sure the fire doesn't flare up, said Assistant Fire Chief Tim...

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Five Ways to Make Your Own Fun When in Antarctica

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Fire-Safe Cigarettes

Fire-safe buy cigarettes have made a huge difference in the number of residential cigarette-related fires in the last two years, but this year they've had a negative impact on the city's wildfires.Since Oklahoma legislators passed a bill in 2008 requiring cheap cigarettes to...

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UM Tobacco Ban Sends Strong Message

The University of Montana is finally, officially, 100 percent tobacco-free. It and UM-Western can now be counted among the nearly 250 campuses that have completely banned tobacco.This change - which UM has been gradually working toward for about a year - is worthy of note, and...

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Shelly Vetoes Smoking Ban, Cites Protection

Shelly, who recently has received multiple kudos from national anti-smoking cigarettes advocates, faulted the legislation for lacking language he said was needed to emphasize the importance of protecting Navajo infants and children from the dangers of smoke cigarettes and tobacco...

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Westporters Want Smoke-Free Air At The Beach

The ocean breeze, hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill and even suntan lotion — these are aromas one might expect at the beach. One smell Westport resident Jennifer Tyrrell-Courtney doesn't expect is cigarette or cigar smoke."I don't think people should be allowed to smoke cigarettes...

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American Cancer Society Drops Appeal Over Convention Center Smoking

The American Cancer Society has dropped its appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court in a fight over allowing smoking cigarettes in the Las Vegas Convention Center.The American Cancer Society, which opposes smoking cigarettes because of the health hazards, signed a stipulation this...

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Woman Severely Burned After Smoking In Bed

Careless smoking cigarettes appears to be the cause of a fire last night that has sent a Chattanooga woman to the hospital with severe burns. Chattanooga firefighters were dispatched to a house fire at 3024 Westside Drive just before midnight last night. Captain David Barie...

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Tobacco Free At Rose State

Rose State College in nearby Midwest City today joins a growing list of college and university campuses that have gone tobacco free in recent years.Oklahoma State University is tobacco free, as is the OU Health Sciences Center, but the University of Oklahoma’s Norman campus...

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UM-Western Campus Goes Smoke-free

The University of Montana Western Campus is now officially smoke cigarettes free. Every year, more and more college campuses enact "tobacco-free" ordinances, banning the use of cigarettes, chew, and any other form of tobacco.But the while the University of Montana Western is...

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Smoke-free Ordinance Vital For A Healthier Augusta

Tobacco use remains the No. 1 preventable cause of disease and death in the United States, resulting in more than 430,000 deaths a year from personal use and more than 50,000 deaths annually from secondhand smoke cigarettes exposure.Additionally, in recent years, the surgeon...

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Navajo Nation President Vetoes Smoking Regulation

Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly on Friday vetoed a smoking cigarettes regulation act passed last month by the tribal council, saying the measure doesn't go far enough to protect the health of Navajos.Tribal lawmakers voted July 20 to prohibit smoking cigarettes in public...

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State Snuffs Chiefs Job In Tobacco Prevention Agency

Iowa's top tobacco-control official has lost her job after her division's budget was cut by two-thirds.Bonnie Mapes, 60, headed the Division of Tobacco Use Prevention and Control since 2004. She took early retirement after her boss, Public Health Director Mariannette Miller-Meeks,...

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City Leaders Want To Ban Flavored Tobacco

There is a new spin on traditional chewing tobacco, and it's being sold to area minors. You can find it in cherry, root beer and cool mint flavors and the city of Fort Myers wants it banned.Despite the label's disclaimer, the Lee County Health Department says dissolvable tobacco...

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