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Tobacco firm open to reasonable sin tax hike
Philip Morris and Fortune Tobacco Corp. said it is open to a ‘reasonable increase’ in sin taxes but opposed proposals, including those of the Department of Finance, on ‘indexing’ tobacco taxes to inflation. “We’re not opposed to a reasonable increase...
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Cigarette taxes helping Greece's financial picture
It might seem like Greece's fiscal crisis would have led its citizens to take up smoking but in fact, the opposite is true. The government has raised tobacco taxes modestly, and it already appears to be reducing the nation's sky-high smoking rates. The...
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Customs seize cigarettes in adapted goods vehicle
Customs arrested a Latvian national as he attempted to drive a Spanish registered goods vehicle out of Gibraltar via the commercial gate. Roman RIMDJONOKS, a 34 year old resident of Fuengirola, Spain was arrested on Friday after Customs Officers searched...
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Dollar-a-pack cigarette tax measure falls behind
A ballot measure that would increase state taxes on cigarettes by a dollar a pack fell behind early Wednesday, the secretary of state's office said. Proposition 29, which would raise $810 million a year for cancer research and smoking cessation programs,...
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Steeper fines needed for illegal cigarette transport
A man accused of smuggling 600 cartons of unstamped cigarettes through Cecil County is on the lam after failing to appear for a pretrial hearing on Friday. As a result, Cecil County Circuit Court Judge Keith A. Baynes issued a bench warrant calling for...
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Tobacco store robbed, front door smashed in Seabrook
Police continue to search for a suspect who robbed a Seabrook tobacco store early Sunday morning. Around 3:10 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 8, police responded to a burglary alarm sounding from the Tobacco Depot on 167 Lafayette Road. Once on scene, officers...
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APD searching for tobacco shop robbery suspect
Police are searching for a man they say robbed a tobacco and novelty shop over the weekend. APD says the man went into the Kash Tobacco and Novelties Shop on Payton Gin Road on Aug. 25 around 9 p.m. He demanded money while displaying a gun, then fled...
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US Report Studies Youth Tobacco Use, Prevention
More work needs to be done to keep young Americans from using tobacco, including creating smoking bans and increasing taxes on tobacco products to deter youth, the U.S. Surgeon General's office said in a report released Thursday. The report said it's...
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Penberthy: Big tobacco's social cost
They argue that cigarettes are a legal product, smoking is a matter of choice and that when it comes to telling us how we can live our lives, the nanny state can go stick it in its pipe and smoke it. This is all fine, up to a point. And that point is...
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State could get unexpected $46 million from tobacco tax
An unexpected payoff for state government comes with the Affordable Care Act -- about $46 million a year in tobacco tax money with no home. Known as "Obamacare" to its opponents, the federal health care law is designed to make sure nearly all Americans...
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Doin' it right: put that cigarette down
If an upbeat music video filmed in a hospital emergency ward isn't quirky enough for you, add in a shot of an icy morgue drawer being opened to reveal a skeleton with a cigarette, says The Vancouver Sun. No one can say the Vancouver Coastal Health authority...
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Russia launches anti-smoking crackdown
Russia launched a crackdown on smoking on Tuesday with a bill to ban tobacco advertising and raise taxes on cigarettes to help tackle a public health crisis in the world's second largest tobacco market after China. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said...
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Philippine leader ignores call to quit smoking
PHILIPPINE President Benigno Aquino will not quit smoking despite the country's top medical body publicly appealing for him to lead by example and kick the habit, his spokesman said Saturday. The Philippine Medical Association called on Aquino to give...
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Time to pass a statewide smoke-free workplace ban
Every day, thousands of Texas employees are forced to work in conditions where they are exposed to the harmful effects of secondhand smoke. Additionally, the patchwork of city smoking ordinances that exists across our state creates an inconsistent playing...
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Mo. gov candidates do not support tobacco tax
None of Missouri's governor candidates support an effort to increase cigarette taxes and then use the funds for education and tobacco prevention. The measure on the November ballot would raise Missouri's cigarette tax to 90 cents. It currently is 17 cents,...
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Tobacco, smoked or smokeless, still a health concern
In response to the recent letter defending smokeless tobacco use ("All tobacco products are not equally harmful," Jan. 24), the risk of tobacco trumps all others. Fifty cigarettes a day increases the risk of end-stage lung disease and lung cancer 150-fold....
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1-U.S. municipal tobacco bonds face Fitch downgrades
Some 150 tranches of U.S. municipal tobacco bonds could be downgraded one to two notches within the next two to four weeks, Fitch Ratings said on Monday, as it now assumes the payments states get will remain flat. States, counties, cities and towns sold...
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Quitting smoking is a battle fought out in the desert spaces of our imagination
We are no longer on speaking terms, however much I wish it were otherwise. But I must never see her again. She was ruining my life, clouding my judgment, dominating too much of my mental space. Without her, every long hour seems to drift without purpose....
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Electronic Cigarette Company Wants to Help Americans Beat the Heat
Automatic Cigarettes is offering a deal on starter kits between July 9 and July 16 to help consumers beat the heat. Automatic Cigarettes, already the best priced electronic cigarette on the market today, is offering 50% off of all starter kits for one...
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Proposed State Tax On Cigarettes Could Create 12,000 Jobs
The California Cancer Research Act (CCRA), a statewide June 5 ballot initiative, aims to increase the tax on cigarettes, and a recent University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study says the initiative would create thousands of jobs and significantly...
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Tobacco tax means one company can never leave the arena zone
t Arena developers aren't saying how much tobacco tax money will help build the development around Allentown's hockey arena complex, but they admit it's so much money that the cigarette-selling wholesale company generating it is forbidden from ever leaving...
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Gillette Stadium going smoke-free
Gillette Stadium is going completely smoke-free. The home of the New England Patriots and New England Revolution had some designated smoking areas near pedestrian ramps, but they will be eliminated. Stadium officials were expected to make an official...
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Eating houses banned from selling tobacco related products
The Government of Goa has issued directives to all the eating premises and establishments in the State not to keep or sell or provide any tobacco or tobacco products in any form of cigars, cigarettes, biddies, Gutka, hukkahs, etc at their respective eating...
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Cigarette prices on the rise
Cigarette prices are going up much to the dismay of smokers. Winston-Salem based Reynolds American has announced that it will match a price increase by competing cigarette maker Altria Group. That means both companies are raising prices by 6 cents a pack...
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Tobacco co-ops competing for place in current market
Perhaps the most drastic changes among the tobacco cooperatives has been made by the Burley Stabilization Corporation (BSC), which served Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. • In 2010, it moved its headquarters 200 miles to get closer to its primary...