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More States Adopt Fire-Safe Cigarette Legislation

As of Jan. 1, 2009, new laws requiring stores to only sell fire-safe cigarettes took effect. The number will jump from the current 18 states that already have fire-safe cigarette requirements,...

Mississippi legislators gear up for 2009 session

JACKSON — Mississippi lawmakers begin their 2009 session on Tuesday, and everything they do during their three months at the Capitol will be limited by a lagging economy and a tight budget. ...

Tax Collection Barred On Cigarettes Sold On Reservations

A new revenue source Governor Paterson has been hoping for as he tries to close a record deficit may be going up in smoke. A State Supreme Court judge is temporarily barring the state from...

Lessons for Other Smokers in Obama’s Efforts to Quit

Will one of President-elect Barack Obama’s New Year’s resolutions be to quit smoking once and for all? His good-humored waffling in various interviews about smoking made it plain that Mr....

Your Mail High court ruling a win

The U.S. Supreme Court handed down a significant victory this week for consumers and public health by ruling that smokers can use state consumer protection laws to sue tobacco companies for...

Cut tobacco FDI to 74%: DIPP

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) in the commerce ministry proposes to scale back the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) ceiling for the tobacco industry from 100 to 74 per cent...

Yes, you can love your tobacco...till death

THE first pull blows the stress away, but a few more puffs from that cigarette and you could start losing teeth and, worse, your mouth could begin to decay. The process is called oral cancer,...

Tobacco states eye higher taxes

RICHMOND, Va. | - Two of the nation's top tobacco-producing states are weighing whether to raise cigarette taxes to plug budget deficits that have sent politicians scavenging for sources of...

Marc Kilmer: Snuff out the idea of a higher cigarette tax

Florida is facing serious budget problems, so Gov. Charlie Crist and legislative leaders are exploring ways to trim spending, boost revenue or devise some combination of the two. One bad idea...

N.Y. court rules in favor of tobacco companies in $20 mil suit

ALBANY, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - New York's higher court has rejected an argument that says tobacco companies have been negligent in their designs of cigarettes, using levels of nicotine and tar...

 

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