Smoke Free Florence (SFF), an organization dedicated to the prevention of secondhand smoke cigarettes in the Pee Dee Region, is making efforts to wipe out the harmful effects of smoking cigarettes and buy cigarettes products in Florence and surrounding areas. An ordinance was...
Monday, October 31, 2011
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Wolcott Gibbs, Tragic New Yorker Virtuoso
The saddest author bio for a magazine editor to encounter is one that says “So-and-so is working on a biography of X,” especially if X is the subject of the article the bio is attached to. The only way to deal with a byline like that is to smile and say, well, fella, I sure...
Widener University Practices A Strict Tobacco-free Policy
Widener University students make all kinds of decisions about their lives, from how much to drink at parties to whether to show up for classes.But there's one decision the school has made for them:No using tobacco. Not on campus.Last year, Widener became the first four-year...
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Correctional Officers Can Smoke
Inmates can't smoke cigarettes in Florida prisons anymore, but employees still can.Facing resistance from the union representing correctional officers, Corrections Secretary Ken Tucker has lifted the order from his predecessor that required all prisons in Florida to be smoke-free...
Friday, October 28, 2011
Syzmanski V. R.J. Reynolds
Jack Szymanski had his voice box removed in 1993 as a result of laryngeal cancer.Keith Mitnik (Morgan & Morgan) descrdibed for the jury the time in which Mr. Szymanski started smoking cigarettes cigarettes. "When this story started, in the 1950's...almost half the adult...
Thursday, October 27, 2011
The Triumph of the Calorie
History Today has a piece out called "American Pie: The Imperialism of the Calorie," the story of the statistical regimentation of food. It started with the invention of the calorimeter (pictured), which was an American invention, of course. The native cuisine of the U.S....
Famous Actors Part XI
Celebrity Actors Smoking Part XIHere we have the eleventh part of selected pictures with Hollywood Famous Actors smoking cigarettes. Enjoy the collection of photos with Celebrities Smoking Cigarettes.1. Steve Martin Smoking CigaretteCelebrity Steve Martin Smoking Capital CigaretteAbout...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Fatalism Will Prevail, If It’s Meant to Be!
Fatalism is a distinct flavor of the conservative disposition, but the distinction between fatalism and plain-vanilla standpattism usually doesn’t matter, since they arrive at the same principle by different routes: We shouldn’t do anything we can’t predict all the consequences...
Campaign Seeks Ban On Candy Flavored Tobacco
Former resident Valencia Morris of the Miami-Dade County Health Department is on a mission to have all candy flavored buy cigarettes products banned from South Miami.Morris and representatives from the South Miami Alliance for Youth recently spoke at city hall in hopes the mayor...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
What Phillip Blond Should Do Now
I have no idea if the Sunday Telegraph’s allegations against Phillip Blond are true. For all I know, it’s some disgruntled employee who’s behind the stories that Blond is a high-living rock star who likes to take hot women on vacation to Sharm El Sheikh, that he “asked a fellow...
County Inspectors Accused Of Taking Cigarette Tax Bribes
Two Cook County revenue investigators have been fired for allegedly accepting “thousands” of dollars in bribes — hush money from convenience stores and other outlets selling cigarettes without paying the local online cigarettes tax.That’s according to a new report released Thursday...
Monday, October 24, 2011
Does the Insanity Defense Cover Drunkenness?
If you are a Staffordshire bull terrier and your crime was committed in the U.K., then yes. "Diesel" mauled a ten-year-old boy earlier this summer, and according to something very silly called the Dangerous Dogs Act of 1991, he ought to have been put down. But Diesel was granted...
Teenager Plays Active Role In Tobacco Battle
There are area youth who take a different approach in the fight against teens’ smoking cigarettes: at the front lines.Or rather, some youth stand in line and see what clerks will sell.Local police solicit the help of teens to do periodic compliance checks on establishments with...
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Case Made For More Tobacco-free Zones In Biddeford
Steve Kerner enjoys smoking cigarettes a cigar when he’s out walking his dogs at Clifford Park in Biddeford, but under a new proposal by the city’s Recreation Commission, he may no longer be able to do that.Biddeford already bans smoking cigarettes at playgrounds and playing...
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Cancer Society Seeks To Put Tobacco Tax Increase On Ballot
The price of smoking cigarettes in Missouri could soon see a substantial price increase if a new voter-driven petition effort is successful.This week, the secretary of state gave approval to a group led by the American Cancer Society to begin circulating a petition that would...
Friday, October 21, 2011
Rainbird Gets Jail Time In Cigarette-taxes Case
A federal judge sentenced Paul Rainbird, former lieutenant governor of San Ildefonso Pueblo, to 33 months in prison and fined him more than $90,000 for selling contraband cigarettes.Rainbird, 58, who in the mid-1990s directed the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, which...
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Famous Actors Part X
Celebrity Actors Smoking Part XHere we have the tenth part of selected pictures with Hollywood Famous Actors smoking cigarettes. Enjoy the collection of photos with Celebrities Smoking Cigarettes.1. Ralph Fiennes Smoking CigaretteCelebrity Ralph Fiennes Smoking Bond Superslims...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)