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Barring Cigarettes Sales On Tribal Land To Non-Indians

Nov 22, 2011

The Fourth District Court of Appeal has upheld an injunction barring the sale of discount cigarette online by stores operating on lands held in trust in eastern Riverside County for the Agua...

Apartments Pose High Secondhand Smoke Hazards

Nov 20, 2011

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that multi-unit housing can expose hazardous secondhand smoke cigarettes to non-smokers living adjacent to those who do...

Multi-Unit Housing Smoke-Free Initiative

Nov 6, 2011

A new statewide push aims to protect non-smokers from the dangers of secondhand smoke, meaning smokers could be told not to light up in their own apartments.The voluntary initiative, led by the...

Smoking Ban May Go Too Far For MSU

Oct 18, 2011

From a health standpoint, there’s a lot to be said for banning smoking cigarettes from the Montana State University campus. But the blanket ban on cigarettes store use adopted by campus leaders...

Vashon Retailers Cited For Cigarettes Sales To Minors

Sep 10, 2011

King County's overall retailer compliance rate has also dropped — from 96 percent in 2009 to less than 89 percent in the 999 inspections done so far this year.The ongoing stings, conducted...

The Power Of Persuasion

Sep 9, 2011

An advertisement in the newspaper the other day for hypnosis classes to helping people with weight control issues got me remembering back to when I needed help to kick a habit.While I'm not a big...

Bastrop Prohibits Cigarettes In Parks

Aug 28, 2011

The nine parks in the city of Bastrop will soon be cigarettes-free, thanks to the Board of Aldermen.At Thursday night's meeting, the board voted unanimously in favor of the ban after hearing public...

Students Work To Ban Cigarettes Use In Films For Children

Jul 30, 2011

Moviegoers who saw the computer-animated, PG-rated and widely acclaimed film "Rango" earlier this year also saw more than 50 instances of discount cigarettes use - albeit by secondary...

Subway Workers Enjoy An Illegal Smoke Break

Jul 29, 2011

The MTA is conducting an investigation into two transit workers caught on camera smoking cigarettes cigarettes in the Christopher Street 1 Train station early Sunday morning, around 5 a.m. The...

Health Consortium Focuses On Cigarettes

Jul 28, 2011

The Columbia County Community Healthcare Consortium recently released its report for improving preventative and primary care in Greene and Columbia counties.The New York State Department of Health...

Being Hooked On Hookah Can Be Harmful

Jul 27, 2011

Hookah, a type of water pipe smoking cigarettes where herbal buy cigarettes is often infused with a fruity taste or smell, is popular in many city bars. The smoke cigarettes is heated, passed...

Sellers Doubt Cigarette Pack Scares Will Work

Jul 26, 2011

It will be more difficult to overlook anti-smoking cigarettes messages on cigarette packs when jarring images including damaged lungs and a smoker with a tracheotomy incision start showing up...

Funding Cuts Make It Harder To Find Stop-smoking Programs

Jul 25, 2011

Those seeking a stop-smoking cigarettes program in the Dayton area will be harder-pressed to find one than in years past.Cuts in state funding have led to the elimination of some programs,...

Company Gets 2 Cigarettes Brands

Jul 24, 2011

Raleigh-based CB Holdings has reached an agreement to buy the assets of Renegade Holdings, a cigarette manufacturer in Davie County.Renegade Holdings is the privately held parent of Renegade...

CB Holdings Buys Bankrupt Davie Cigarettes Companies

Jul 23, 2011

Phelps is also facing a lawsuit that alleges that Phelps made a fraudulent transfer of $8.1 million in assets from the three companies and used it to help buy the six parcels of land, as well as...

Cigarettes And Time Are Key Ingredients For Low-gravity Garden

Jul 22, 2011

Jim Rock and Roxanne Gould have spent their lives cultivating and nurturing Native American heirloom vegetables.In their latest project, the husband-and-wife team sent 800-year-old buy cigarettes...

Florida Court Upholds $30 Million Cigarettes Award

Jul 21, 2011

The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a jury's order that the R.J. Reynolds cigarettes online Co pay nearly $30 million to a woman whose husband died of lung cancer after decades of smoking...

R.J. Reynolds Loses Bid For Appeal Of $28.3 Million Verdict

Jul 20, 2011

Florida’s Supreme Court declined to hear R.J. Reynolds online cigarettes Co.’s appeal of a $28.3 million verdict in a case that the cigarette maker argued may affect thousands of so-called...

Painful Deal Delays Day Of Reckoning

Jul 19, 2011

Minnesota is likely to be open again for business soon, but it won't be quite the same.The budget deal expected to be approved by the Legislature early this week, after an unprecedented government...

State Launches Crackdown On Reservation Cigarettes

Jul 18, 2011

The state has begun a crackdown on tax-free sales of cheap cigarettes by American Indian retailers, including seizure of thousands of cigarettes products in recent weeks and secret surveillance of...

State And Feds Beef Up Cigarette Actions

Jul 17, 2011

State officials announced Friday that they have stepped up enforcement of cigarette-tax collections, which includes going after wholesalers that supply untaxed cigarettes online sold to non-Native...

NY Cancer Plan Notes More Diagnoses, Fewer Deaths

Jul 16, 2011

Nearly 3,000 fewer New Yorkers died of cancer last year compared to a decade ago, according to the state's new draft cancer plan.The draft report obtained by the Associated Press also shows nearly...

Smoking Fines Cost Ohio Bar Liquor Permit Renewal

Jul 15, 2011

The state is poised to remove the liquor permit of a Cincinnati-area bar that would be the first Ohio establishment to lose its license for violating the state smoking cigarettes ban, and other...

Ban On Smoking While Driving While Kids Are In The Car On Its Way

Jul 14, 2011

Smoking is already banned in restaurants, bars, and other public places and if a New York City Lawmaker and a powerful cancer fighting organization have their way, it could be banned in vehicles as...

Warnings For Cigarettes But Not For Alcohol

Jul 13, 2011

Now that “Big Brother” has mandated the display of grisly labels on cigarette packages, will we see similar pictures — fatal auto accidents, hit-and-runs, battered women, tearful children of...

Banning Smoking In Condos

Jul 12, 2011

Cigarette smokers have been cast out from our parks, beaches, boardwalks, bars, restaurants, and automobiles with children on board, and now that we've got them isolated in their apartments...

City Will Discourage Smoking In Parks

Jul 11, 2011

It only took one vote to prevent the Batavia City Council on Monday from passing a ban on drinking in public parks. But stopping passage of the ordinance change is only temporary.The city council...

South Portland Bans Cigarettes At Public Beaches, Parks

Jul 10, 2011

City councilors on Wednesday unanimously approved a ban on the use of cigarettes products at or within 25 feet of the city's public beaches, parks and recreation facilities. The ordinance was...

Escanaba City Council Approves Smoking Ordinance

Jul 9, 2011

An outdoor no-smoking cigarettes ordinance was approved by council Thursday for specific locations in Escanaba including parks where children are concentrated and city buildings.Council voted 3-2...

Adding Riders To Stabilized Leases

Jul 8, 2011

Q My landlord recently sent me a renewal lease for my rent-stabilized apartment. He included a rider that prohibited smoking cigarettes and the building of wall partitions in the apartment. Is the...

Philip Morris Takes Legal Action In Counterfeit Cigarettes Fight

Jul 7, 2011

Philip Morris USA is continuing to take the legal road in its push to stop the sale of counterfeit cigarettes. In its latest move, the company filed suit in U.S. District Court against 34 New York...

Mark Dayton Turns To Cigarette Tax

Jul 6, 2011

Gov. Mark Dayton offered to give up his demand for an income tax hike on the rich if Republicans agree to a $1-per-pack cigarette tax increase — and pointed to former Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s...

Apartments Can Be Smoke-free

Jul 5, 2011

Californians know the dangers of secondhand smoke. We have made work places and restaurants smoke-free. However, for people in apartments, secondhand smoke cigarettes has become a health...

Beloit Smokers Comply With Ban

Jul 4, 2011

The one-year anniversary of Wisconsin’s smoking cigarettes ban is approaching, and city officials say the community for the most part has been in compliance.Beginning July 5, 2010, it became...

There’s More Work To Be Done

Jul 3, 2011

This week our state celebrates the five-year anniversary of the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act. Thanks to the law, millions of Coloradans are now protected from cheap smokes smoke cigarettes at work...

USI Campus Goes Smoke Free

Jul 2, 2011

Clearing the air at the University of Southern Indiana by going smoke cigarettes free.So if you're on campus, you can light up in your car but that's about it. After nine months of preparation, the...

Candy-flavored Cigarettes Resolution Passes In Sarasota County

Jul 1, 2011

Several Sarasota County youths from Students Working Against cigarettes (SWAT) clubs presented comments to the commission about these "starter" products, which come in a variety of appealing...

Kentuckyians Buy 120M Fewer Packs Of Cigarettes In-state Since Tax Increase

Jun 30, 2011

Smokers purchased 120 million fewer packs of cheap cigarettes in Kentucky over the past two years after the state doubled its cigarette tax to 60 cents a pack, a state economist said Friday.Greg...

Worcester Fights Smoking

Jun 29, 2011

If the ordinance goes into effect, it would represent a groundbreaking use of the 2009 law, which so far has received little scrutiny in court. Ten years ago, the US Supreme Court struck down a...

Cigarettes Tussle

Jun 28, 2011

A local and a national story last week shed light on the complexities in the war on cigarettes.The city of Worcester has put a hold on the advertising section of its new cigarettes ordinance, while...

Hookah Smoke Means Double Trouble For Users

Jun 27, 2011

Kelsey Connolly, a junior from Stilwell, enjoys the occasional hookah smoking cigarettes with friends on Massachusetts Street. The atmosphere in the hookah bar is filled with excitement. The room...

Smoking Ban Still The Best Alternative

Jun 26, 2011

Delaware County's new ban on smoking cigarettes in bars and taverns hasn't taken effect yet, but it's causing plenty of brouhaha.If some of the story chat comments accompanying an online article in...

Lawmakers Compromise On Cigarette Tax

Jun 25, 2011

A Louisiana senator has agreed to accept the state's cigarette tax renewal that the House tacked onto his proposal to fund a popular college scholarship program, potentially ending one of the most...

Restricts Smoking In City Parks

Jun 24, 2011

Attention smokers: no longer will you be able to light up wherever you want in city parks.Beware of future signs announcing designated smoking cigarettes areas.On Monday, the City Council...

Menthol Cigarettes Marketed

Jun 23, 2011

cigarettes companies increased the advertising and lowered the sale price of menthol cigarettes in stores near California high schools with larger populations of African-American students,...

Cigarettes Money

Jun 22, 2011

The Arkansas Education Department says three schools in the state will get $150,000 each next school year to pay for school-based health centers.A news release Friday said the money will go to...

Local Anti-Cigarettes Efforts Lauded

Jun 21, 2011

Working together has helped Cherokee County health organizations become one of the state’s leading forces to combat cheap cigarettes use.The same cooperative effort ensures the county will be...

Smoking Ban Could Save State Millions

Jun 20, 2011

Indiana could save a cool $74 million in health-care costs over the next five years by banning Hoosiers from lighting up at work, according to a first-of-its-kind report Wednesday from the American...

Comprehensive Smoking Law Would Save 82,000 Lives In Indiana

Jun 19, 2011

If Indiana enacted a comprehensive statewide smoking cigarettes policy and increased its cigarettes tax by $1, there would be 105,600 fewer smokers, 82,000 deaths would be averted and about $116...

Man Causes House Fire While Cleaning Foot Infection

Jun 18, 2011

First responders were called to the scene of a home where a man accidentally started a fire with rubbing alcohol and a cigarette.According to Battalion Chief Shannon Stone with the Fort Walton...

USF To Ban Smoking On Most Of Tampa Campus

Jun 17, 2011

USF has a message for smokers: Put out your cigarette or go over there.Those who smoke cigarettes at the main campus of the University of South Florida will soon be asked to do so in designated...

Live Oak Smoking Ban In Parks Moves Ahead

Jun 16, 2011

A proposed ban in Live Oak on smoking cigarettes in parks and within 50 feet of the entrance to public buildings won support from eight speakers, including four high school students.Mayor Gary...

Countywide Smoking Ban On The Ballot

Jun 15, 2011

St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann vetoed a bill that would place a countywide smoking cigarettes ban proposal on the November 2012 ballot.Ehlmann said his main objection was the inclusion...

Careless Smoking Blamed In Fire That Killed Northeast Area Man

Jun 14, 2011

An elderly man died from smoke cigarettes inhalation and burns early this morning after a fire broke out in an apartment building in the Northeast area of Kansas City.Firefighters responded about...

Lobbying Continues To Avoid Cigarette Tax Renewal Veto

Jun 13, 2011

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s plan to veto a cigarette tax renewal within days has set off a heavy lobbying scramble among lawmakers and the governor’s administration, haggling over expected attempts to...

Washington Cigar Smokers Push For Space Of Their Own

Jun 12, 2011

Cigar aficionados could light up at their favorite bar under a bill up for a vote in the Washington Senate this week.The measure would allow cigar lounges in some bars and discount cigarettes...

City Will Initially Focus On Educating Businesses About Springfield Smoking Ban

Jun 11, 2011

City officials tasked with enforcing Springfield's new smoking cigarettes ordinance expected some grumbling.But they didn't plan to slap defiant smokers with tickets when the ban took effect at...

Smoke All You Want, But Whine To Someone Else About The Costs

Jun 10, 2011

From the beaches to the airplanes to your favorite restaurant and most workplaces, there's something noticeably different about the air we breathe today compared to a generation ago.It's not...

Combined Resources Will Help Indiana In The Fight Against Cigarettes

Jun 9, 2011

Recently, Indiana joined the rest of the world in celebrating World No cigarettes Day. This global health observation was created to teach people about the dangers of online cigarettes use and...

Bill To Lift Smoking Ban Passes Assembly

Jun 8, 2011

Nevada smokers soon may be able to light up in bars and taverns -- and enjoy meals -- under a bill passed by a narrow 23-19 vote Sunday in the Assembly.The bill, sought by tavern and bar owners who...

Lawmaker Makes Case To Ban Smoking On NV Campuses

Jun 7, 2011

University and college students may now have a choice when they go outdoors on state university and college campuses: Smoke over there or don't smoke cigarettes at all.Current law bans smoking...

Hospital CEO Backing Smoking Ordinance

Jun 6, 2011

When it comes to our health, choices we make as individuals have a lasting impact on our lives. As a community, with the help of our county commissioners, we find ourselves on the verge of making a...

Indiana Will Continue Fight Against Cigarettes Use

Jun 5, 2011

Indiana joined the rest of the world Tuesday in celebrating World No cheap cigarettes Day. This global health observation was created to teach people about the dangers of cheap cigarettes use and...

Health Commissioner Will Expand Anti-smoking Efforts

Jun 4, 2011

Stung by criticism from anti-smoking cigarettes advocates who fear he’ll diminish efforts to combat cheap cigarettes use, Indiana Health Commissioner Dr. Gregory Larkin is working to calm those...

Health Officials Urge County To Enact Ban

Jun 3, 2011

The debate is over. We know that secondhand smoke cigarettes kills.According to the 2006 Surgeon General's report, there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. In an eight-hour shift,...

Cigarettes Companies Still Targeting Kids

Jun 2, 2011

Karen Davis, a registered nurse and regional health specialist with the Arkansas Department of Health, talked to Paragould School District health educators Wednesday about new products cigarettes...

Betty Allen V. R.J. Reynolds

Jun 1, 2011

In his closing argument, Brian Denny of Searcy Denny told the jury, “There’s no question that Herman Allen was a stand-up guy, there’s no question that he was strong willed, there’s no...

Teens Stand Up To Deadly In-Store Cigarette Advertising

May 31, 2011

This World No cigarettes Day, when it comes to in-store cigarettes online advertising, Hudson Valley youth want to send clear message to cigarette makers: we've seen enough!Recruiting "replacement...

News Lands City's First Parks Smoking Ban Ticket

May 30, 2011

The Daily News landed the city's first smoking cigarettes ban ticket Friday - and it took all day to do it.The News sent one staffer to the beach at Coney Island and another to the High Line,...

Coles And Woolies Loom As Big Cigarettes Rivals

May 29, 2011

What do the big foreign-owned mining companies have in common with the big foreign-owned purveyors of cancer sticks? A lot of money to con punters and pressure pollies, and a lot of weak...

Smoke-Free Parks And Beaches

May 28, 2011

Mayor Bloomberg signed a bill that prohibits smoking cigarettes within New York City's parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas.By supporting this legislation, we welcome the chance to improve the...

Rabbis Less Strict On Smoking

May 27, 2011

Beginning this week, you can be fined for lighting up in New York City parks and on beaches, the latest step in the city's war on smoking cigarettes spearheaded by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.Say what...

Texas Lawmakers Attempt To Make Smoking Bans The Norm

May 26, 2011

The rest of the state of Texas could go smoke-free the way Kilgore, Longview, Nacogdoches and Tyler have already gone.The Texas House of Representatives have approved a measure banning smoking...

New York's Smoking Ban Extended To Parks And Beaches

May 25, 2011

News travels fast in these globalised times, but not so fast that New York's latest smoking cigarettes ban covering all its 1,700 parks and 14 miles of beaches had reached Nanjing, the capital of...

Pregnant Smokers A Sad Part Of Our Cigarettes Culture

May 24, 2011

One of the most worrisome health concerns in Tennessee is the high percentage of residents who continue to smoke. But the most recent data from the 2011 Tennessee Women’s Health Report Card...

Vanderbilt Cancer Study Looks For High-risk Smokers

May 23, 2011

George Burns puffed on a cigar, told jokes about it and lived to be 100 during his career in comedy while hundreds of thousands of unlucky smokers died from lung cancer.A new research study at...

Clinton County To Consider New Smoking Policy

May 22, 2011

Clinton County legislators are eyeing a new policy that would ban smoking cigarettes on just about all county properties."We want to establish an environment of no smoking cigarettes for the public...

Board Of Troubled NYC Opera Meets To Talk Future

May 21, 2011

The New York City Opera, a pillar of American culture that for decades has built daring new productions along with the careers of stars like Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and Beverly Sills, is...

Oakfield Park Is Now Cigarettes-free

May 20, 2011

The Oakfield Town Board last week adopted a resolution to make Elroy D. Parkins Park on Drake Street and all town-owned or -operated outdoor recreational facilities cheap cigarettes free, according...

Should Smoking Be Banned In Bars

May 19, 2011

Should the government tell Louisiana bars to put out the smoking cigarettes lamp? A bill to extend the state's restaurant smoking cigarettes ban to all bars gets its first hearing of the session...

A Bill Up For Vote Could Adopt New Regulations

May 18, 2011

A bill that prohibits smoking cigarettes in Connecticut hookah lounges, except those open before the end of last year, is facing a key legislative vote.The General Assembly's Planning and...

Upper West Side Condo Votes To Ban Smoking

May 17, 2011

NEW YORK CITY’S smoking cigarettes ban spreads from bars and restaurants to parks and beaches Monday, and now one condominium on the Upper West Side has taken the step of prohibiting residents...

USM May Ban Butts

May 16, 2011

A proposed cheap cigarettes ban is a hot topic in Gorham at the University of Southern Maine campus.Proponents of a ban want to halt a health hazard and have cleaner campuses by changing a policy...

City Weighs Cigarettes

May 15, 2011

The Community Youth Coalition was at it again Tuesday, this time dressed as faux game show contestants buzzing in to answer questions about cheap cigarettes in front of the Cortez City Council.The...

Smoking Still Legal On Rehoboth Beach

May 14, 2011

Smoking will be banned in parks and playgrounds in Rehoboth Beach but city commissioners on Friday stopped short of a prohibition of smoking cigarettes on the beach and boardwalk.The ban will take...

Smoking Ban Snuffed Out As Macon Council Fails To Overturn Veto

May 13, 2011

Two weeks of public back-and-forth and a wave of public comments about tighter smoking cigarettes regulations in Macon weren’t enough to shift a single vote among City Council members.Tuesday’s...

Schuyler Expands Smoking Restrictions

May 12, 2011

Schuyler County office building properties are now smoke-free, but Monday night's vote to enact the ban was not unanimous."This is an imposition on our employees who have a short break and are...

Trial Aimed At Helping Pregnant Women Stop Smoking

May 11, 2011

A clinical trial to test the safety and efficacy of a medication that could help pregnant women stop smoking cigarettes has begun enrollment at The University of Texas Health Science Center at...

Thieves Steal $11,800 Of Cigarettes

May 10, 2011

Three suspects stole $11,800 worth of cigarettes from a supply truck in Amherst County last week, officials said.The Amherst County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft, which happened...

Texas Should Ban Smoking

May 9, 2011

We join many Texans in supporting legislation that would ban smoking cigarettes statewide in workplace environments and indoor public places where people gather. In the past, we've supported such a...

No Gavel For Obama’s Pay-for-play Appointee

May 8, 2011

The Constitution clearly delineates the power of “advice and consent” on judicial nominations to the U.S. Senate alone. Moreover, “advice and consent” means more than a rubber-stamp of the...

Milford High Students Smoking In The Bathrooms

May 3, 2011

School Committee members were surprised to learn last night that smoking cigarettes is still a problem at the high school.In a curriculum update from the health and physical education department, a...

No More Ice Cream Signs On Cigarette Truck

May 3, 2011

You never could buy an ice cream sandwich at the cigarette truck in Greenwich, but it looked like you could. Not any longer.The owners of a Sunoco station on the Connecticut-New York border have...

Connecticut Doing Too Little

May 3, 2011

Connecticut is doing a mediocre job at stopping smoking cigarettes, according to the American Lung Association.The Nutmeg State earned a D+ average overall in the association’s annual State of...

Navajo President's Smoking Ban Not Enforceable

May 2, 2011

Navajo President Ben Shelly cannot enforce an executive order to ban smoking cigarettes in public places on the reservation, his spokeswoman said Thursday, easing concerns that an immediate...

Montville Bans cigarettes In Public Parks

May 2, 2011

In the very near future there will be no lighting-up or even using chewing cigarettes online in Montville's public parks.The director of the Uncas Health District said he's heard from parents,...

Teen Girls Say Pink Camel In Cigarette Ads

May 1, 2011

Years ago, a popular cigarette advertising campaign proudly proclaimed to women, "You've come a long way, baby!" But a recent study of teens shows the war on cigarette advertising that targets...

Blumenthal Pushes For Removal Of Menthol cigarettes Products

May 1, 2011

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) wrote the Food and Drug Administration today expressing support for their continued work to protect public health through the “removal of menthol cigarettes from...

Smoke-free Casinos Preferred By Most New Englanders

May 1, 2011

Ban smoking cigarettes near the slot machines and gaming tables and watch casino revenues tank.For years, that gaming-industry mantra has run up against - and often overrun - claims that gamblers'...

The Best And Worst Of Weeks For Big Tobacco

May 1, 2011

It’s been a week filled with litigation highs and lows for Big Tobacco.First, the bad news for cigarettes companies. In Florida, where thousands of smoking cigarettes suits have been filed in the...