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Jessamine Schools Target Underage Smokers

Nov 22, 2011

Students younger than 18 who bring discount cigarette online to East or West Jessamine high schools in Nicholasville can find themselves paying a steep price.Literally.School resource officers at...

Smoke-free Advocates In Bourbon Push For Smoking Ban

Nov 22, 2011

As buy cigarettes dangled from their mouths, Rodney Harney and Chuck Newberry played a friendly game of nine ball in Bluegrass Billiards.Over the pulsing beat of back-to-back Grand Funk Railroad...

Tobacco Sector Hoping For Higher Market Prices

Nov 20, 2011

Having endured a drought-plagued season last fall, burley cheap cigarettes farmers in Kentucky hope to be rewarded for their resilience in sticking with the embattled crop — a lynchpin of the...

Aurora Mom Sues Tobacco Shop Over Teen's Death

Nov 6, 2011

An Aurora mother whose teenage son died in a high-speed crash after smoking cigarettes synthetic marijuana filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Tuesday accusing a buy cigarette online shop of selling him...

New Jersey Tobacco Funds Up In Smoke

Oct 18, 2011

Promises from leaders that monies from cigarette taxes and the cigarettes Masters Settlement Agreement would go to help New Jersey smokers quit have gone up in smoke.It's a key finding of a new...

City Looks To Snuff Out Smoking

Sep 10, 2011

Within a few months the city might outlaw the smoking cigarettes of online cigarettes and cigars in parks, on Third Street, in front of local businesses and other outdoor areas. The city council...

Taxpayer Film Subsidies Promote Youth Smoking

Sep 9, 2011

State governments, including California as well as others in Canada and the United Kingdom, pour hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into major motion pictures that depict smoking cigarettes...

Kentucky Schools Must Adopt Tobacco-free Policies

Aug 29, 2011

In the coming weeks, children across the state are headed back to school. Store fliers are broadcasting sales on pencils and notebooks and computers. Teachers are decorating their classrooms, and...

Tobacco Retailers

Aug 28, 2011

As Gov. Steve Beshear and leaders of the Kentucky General Assembly predicted it would when the state cigarette tax was doubled from 30 cents a pack to 60 cents in 2009, revenue from the cigarette...

Tobacco Fix To End Shutdown May Be Costly

Jul 29, 2011

The budget deal that ended Minnesota’s government shutdown comes with a hefty price: It relies heavily on borrowing $640 million against money from the state’s 1998 tobacco settlement, but may...

Library System Stamps Out Smoking

Jul 28, 2011

A week from today, tobacco use no longer will be allowed on the grounds of public libraries in Wayzata, Mound, Excelsior and Long Lake.They are one of the more than 40 Hennepin County libraries...

Davie County Property Tied To Owner Of Bankrupt Tobacco Companies

Jul 27, 2011

The auction of six Davie County properties associated with the owner of three bankrupt tobacco manufacturers yielded nearly $1.3 million, according to a legal filing Monday.The auction took place...

Michigan's Smoking Ban Took Effect

Jul 26, 2011

A massive expansion of Keno in Jackson County and across the state last year couldn’t overcome the state’s smoking cigarettes ban.Last year the number of locations in the county where people...

Smoke-free Law Has Broad Spectrum Of Support

Jul 25, 2011

In a July 16 letter to the Flint Journal, Melissa Florida of Flushing makes several embarrassing assertions about Michigan’s smoke-free workplace law. For opponents of this law, the facts never...

Marine City Beach Smokers Asked To Keep Off The Sand

Jul 24, 2011

Smoking in public areas is a prevalent issue in Michigan, with non-smoking cigarettes advocates demanding the habit be kept away from the general public.Marine City resident Gary Gabler joined the...

Smoking-hot Trend Becomes A Business

Jul 23, 2011

For cigarette smokers, James and Kristen Bearup are offering a cheaper and less harmful alternative.“We provide electronic discount cigarette online and electronic e-liquid for people who want to...

AG's Office Looking At Roll-your-own Cigarette Machines

Jul 22, 2011

The West Virginia Department of Administration has alerted Attorney General Darrell McGraw to what it calls an "apparently new phenomena" of roll-your-own cigarette machines in tobacco stores in...

No Decision On Expansion Of Smoking Ban

Jul 21, 2011

Tilda Briggs loves her job as a table gambling dealer, but after eight hours of breathing in cigarette and cigar smoke cigarettes from gamblers, her lungs begin to hurt."There's a lot of players...

Dangerous New Products

Jul 20, 2011

The tobacco companies are responding to statewide smoking cigarettes restrictions by developing new smokeless tobacco products. One look at these products and it's apparent they have little in...

Lit Up Over Smoke Shops

Jul 19, 2011

The recent influx of tobacco shops in South Beloit has raised some concerns among South Beloit City Council members.Monday, council members discussed options available to the city in regulating the...

San Francisco Cracks Down On Hookah Lounges

Jul 18, 2011

The smoking cigarettes ban in San Francisco has been in place for years, but a change to that law last year is now having an impact on places where a certain kind of smoking cigarettes has...

American Indians Hit Hardest By Tobacco Costs

Jul 17, 2011

Smoking costs American Indians in California $795 million a year in health care and lost productivity, according to a report released yesterday by researchers at UCLA.By analyzing census figures,...

Evendale Bar Faces Loss Of Liquor License After Smoking Ban Violations

Jul 16, 2011

"I am not paid by the state of Ohio over here to enforce their laws," says Pitzer.He's the son of the owner of Peg's Pub. He invited us inside the darkened bar to show it has "No Smoking" signs up...

Fultondale City Leaders Set An Example With A Tough Smoke-free Ordinance

Jul 15, 2011

Fultondale city leaders get it. They understand the danger to their citizens that comes with secondhand smoke. They know that while tobacco smoking cigarettes is legal, it's also lethal.If somebody...

Anti-smoking Ordinance Intrudes On Rights Of Businesses

Jul 14, 2011

The Fultondale smoking cigarettes ordinance goes too far. The law is a direct intrusion on a storeowner's right to run his business as he sees fit.The city can outlaw smoking cigarettes in all...

Minn. Leaders Make Deal To End Government Shutdown

Jul 13, 2011

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton and top Republicans agreed Thursday to end a budget impasse that prompted the longest state government shutdown in recent history, after the Democratic governor...

Budget Talks Under Way

Jul 12, 2011

Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative leaders are in budget talks after Dayton offered to accept a Republican revenue plan to end Minnesota's two-week-old government shutdown.The two sides...

Has Dayton Caved?

Jul 11, 2011

Observers may be giving President Obama credit for being a savvy poker player. The next few hours will decide if Gov. Dayton is seen in the same light. Monica Davey of the New York Times writes:...

Statewide Smoking Ban Gains Foothold

Jul 10, 2011

When the statewide smoking cigarettes ban went into effect one year ago, there were considerable concerns among bar and restaurant ownersSome feared that business would drop off dramatically if...

Salem Council Waits To Decide Fate Of Smoking In Parks

Jul 9, 2011

The Salem City Council decided to continue a public hearing rather than vote on a smoking cigarettes ban in parks at Monday night's meeting.A total of four public hearings were scheduled for the...

Indoor Smoking Ban's One-Year Anniversary Passes Quietly

Jul 8, 2011

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of Wisconsin's indoor smoking cigarettes ban.Although the ban was heavily debated before it was passed, Maureen Busalacchi, executive director of SmokeFree...

Hookah Lounge Bill Passes

Jul 7, 2011

By the slenderest of margins, the Oregon House gave final legislative approval Wednesday to a bill aimed at preventing more hookah lounges from opening across the state.The bill now heads to the...

Butts Out

Jul 6, 2011

If the Township Council adopts the ordinance, Pequannock will be one of the latest locales to ban smoking cigarettes in public parks. But the township ban would only extend to parks that include...

Consider New Tobacco Revenue

Jul 5, 2011

Gov. Mark Dayton offered something new Wednesday as part of his latest offer to legislators.According to a press release issued by ClearWay Minnesota (clearwaymn.org), an independent, nonprofit...

Don’t Give Up The Fight To Quit Smoking

Jul 4, 2011

Cigarette smoking cigarettes rates in New York state have fallen 15.5 percent. This is a triumph for many people who have worked hard to overcome their addiction to cigarettes. Every day, more...

A Corpse On Every Pack

Jul 3, 2011

People who are trying to quit smoking cigarettes need all the help they can get. But they don't need to look at a corpse every time they reach for a cigarette.When I finally kicked the habit, many...

Cigarette Transport Ring

Jul 2, 2011

A former Prince George's County Police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to multiple charges stemming from a conspiracy to transport untaxed cigarettes and cocaine.Sinisa Simic, 25, pleaded guilty to...

CT Scans For Smokers Could Lower Lung Cancer Deaths By 20 Percent

Jul 1, 2011

Phyllis Curtis of Baltimore said she might not be alive today if she hadn't heard an advertisement on the radio calling for heavy smokers to volunteer to test out lung cancer screening using CT...

CMU Has No Plans To Ban Smoking Entirely

Jun 30, 2011

Now that the University of Michigan has gone smoke cigarettes free, some wonder if other universities will follow suit.U-M is the first major school in Michigan to put such a policy in place.Under...

Leave Cigarettes Case Revenue Alone

Jun 29, 2011

For most of a decade, Pennsylvania has primarily spent its share of cigarettes settlement revenue on health-related measures.Under Gov. Tom Ridge, Pennsylvania created its cheap cigarettes fund...

Deter Kids From Smoking

Jun 28, 2011

Lori Smith doubts the graphic warning labels showing up on cigarette packs next year will have much of an impact on her smoking cigarettes.Smith was taking a quick smoke cigarettes break at a...

Restore Cigarettes Money To Its Rightful Place

Jun 27, 2011

Since taking office in January, Gov. Tom Corbett and his allied Republican majorities in the state House and Senate have been guided by two principles as they approach crafting a new budget: no...

Opponents Celebrate Defeat Of Cigarette Tax Bill

Jun 26, 2011

With the Rhode Island General Assembly's 2011 session quickly drawing to a close, opponents have already planned the victory celebration for defeat of a bill which would have lowered the tax on...

NV Tavern Owners Push Change In No-smoking Law For Bars

Jun 25, 2011

Tavern owners Monday asked lawmakers to loosen the voter approved anti-smoking cigarettes law to permit both food and smoking cigarettes in their establishments.Lobbyist Sean Higgins said when that...

TAVERN OPERATOR PREDICTS MORE JOBS

Jun 24, 2011

Smoking and food service are back in Las Vegas bars and taverns.The Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill 571 in the final hours of the session that would repeal some of the restrictions in the...

Cigarettes Chewing Poses Cancer Threat

Jun 23, 2011

South Asian men are more likely than any other group in New Jersey to use chewing cheap cigarettes — and health officials are concerned that many actually believe it is good for them.In the first...

Smokers React To Graphic Images On Packs

Jun 22, 2011

When it comes to local smokers and nonsmokers, the Food and Drug Administration appears to have gotten their attention using disturbing images for cigarette packaging.However, how effective the...

Reston Could Ban Public Smoking

Jun 21, 2011

Reston health advocates -- or fun haters, depending on who's offering the description -- have started a movement to ban smoking cigarettes in public areas operated by the town's neighborhood...

NM Land Commissioner Bans Fires, Fireworks And Smoking On State Trust Land

Jun 20, 2011

Fireworks, open fires and smoking cigarettes are being banned on New Mexico's state trust land until further notice.New Mexico Land Commissioner Ray Powell announced the ban Monday. It covers 13...

1 Miss. Casino Tests Limit On Smoking

Jun 19, 2011

A legislator who has pushed for anti-smoking cigarettes laws, and one time proposed a prohibition on lighting up at Mississippi casinos, is praising a Biloxi casino's decision to strictly limit...

Officials Give Mixed Signals On Enforcing Internet Cigar-sale Ban

Jun 18, 2011

If you live in Maryland and order a box of $5 stogies over the Internet this summer, you might get busted for accepting an illegal cigarettes shipment.Or you might not.Comptroller Peter Franchot...

MSU To Become Cigarettes-free

Jun 17, 2011

Morehead State University will become cigarettes-free July 1, joining more than 400 colleges and universities throughout the country that have similar policies.The decision announced last November...

Not Since Earl Long Commenced Cavorting With A Stripper Has A Louisiana Governor Acted This Strangely.

Jun 16, 2011

As expected, the House of Representatives has declined to overturn Gov. Bobby Jindal's veto of a bill to extend a temporary 4-cent levy on packs of cigarettes, with several Republicans and a...

Proposed Cigarette Tax Increase Adds To Smokers' Frustration

Jun 15, 2011

Springfield's smoking cigarettes ban just went into effect Saturday, and smokers are just beginning to adjust. So they won't be happy to hear of another effort that would affect them- a cigarette...

N.J. Almost Last In Personal And Economic Freedoms

Jun 14, 2011

A professor who wrote a report by a libertarian think tank said Monday that New Jersey is one of the least free of the 50 states, but qualified his remarks by saying, "We're not talking about...

Lighting Up At University Of Michigan About To Get Harder

Jun 13, 2011

It's about to get harder for Joe Chemler to smoke cigarettes his daily three or four cigarettes.The researcher at the University of Michigan won't light up outside his building come July 1. That's...

Smoking Ban Necessary Step For Enhanced Public Safety

Jun 12, 2011

This being my first column for The Daily Athenaeum, I felt it was appropriate to write about something important – a matter of life and death.And that is really crux of the issue, isn't it?...

White Plains Adds Parks, Plazas To Smoking Ban, Gets Mixed Public Reaction

Jun 11, 2011

"They're taking my rights away," the Brookhaven, Long Island, man grumbled as he sat on a shaded concrete staircase and smoked in Renaissance Plaza.His buddy, Fred Jean, another Brookhavenite,...

Businesses Preparing For Smoking Ban

Jun 10, 2011

Unless a judge issues an injunction against Springfield’s voter-approved smoking cigarettes ordinance, city officials will start enforcing it at 12:01 a.m. Saturday.Supporters and opponents are...

Lawsuit Clouds Springfield's Smoking Ordinance Launch

Jun 9, 2011

Bars and restaurants in Springfield are seeking a little clarity when it comes to Springfield's new smoking cigarettes ordinance.A lawsuit challenging the law could delay the start of the...

Utah Department Of Health Crafts Anti-hookah Rules

Jun 8, 2011

The Utah Department of Health wants to cork hookah pipes — at least in public places.The health department has crafted new rules under the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act that redefine “lighted...

Healthy Horry To Host Press Conference In Myrtle Beach

Jun 7, 2011

The Healthy Horry Coalition will host a press conference at Ripley's Aquarium at Broadway at the Beach Tuesday morning.The press conference will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will introduce the Healthy...

Nevada Assemblyman Makes His Case For Banning Smoking On College Campuses

Jun 6, 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...

St. Charles County Council Wants Voters To Decide Issue

Jun 5, 2011

There were impassioned pleas against placing a countywide smoking cigarettes ban on the ballot in St. Charles County, including one by state Rep. Kathie Conway, R-District 14.“A smoking...

Smoking Ban Ballot Issue

Jun 4, 2011

The St. Charles County Council voted 4-2 Tuesday to allow voters to decide whether they would ban smoking cigarettes in all public buildings, including bars and restaurants.But that doesn’t...

St. Charles County To Put Smoking Ban On Ballot

Jun 3, 2011

Before a packed audience Tuesday night, the St. Charles County Council voted 4-2 to send a proposed smoking cigarettes ban to voters in the Nov. 6, 2012, election.The bill, which would outlaw...

In Year Of Smoking Ban

Jun 2, 2011

Since Michigan went smoke cigarettes free on May 1, 2010, local health departments verified 1,126 complaints of smoking cigarettes in bars, restaurants and bowling alleys across the state.Of those...

Julie Reese V. R.J. Reynolds

Jun 1, 2011

Julie Reese had her first cigarette in 1939 at age 10, and was a pack-a-day smoker of Camel and Kool cigarettes by the time she was 16. In 1994 she was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and...

Parents Hit By Smoking Ban In Playground

May 31, 2011

An outdoor Dublin playground now has a smoking cigarettes ban.The council-run playground is seen to be following the lead of New York where smoking cigarettes has been banned in all public parks,...

City Cracks Down On Sale Of 'loosie' Cigarettes

May 30, 2011

The mayor of Providence on Wednesday signed a new measure aimed a cracking down on youth smoking cigarettes and the retailers who feed the habit."Every day I see kids smoking cigarettes before...

Judge Blocks Tax On Indian Cigarettes

May 29, 2011

A day after a federal appeals court cleared the way for New York to begin taxing reservation cigarette sales to non-Indian customers, a state judge set a new obstacle Tuesday, preserving business...

New Yorkers Have Mixed Feelings About Ban On Smoking In Parks

May 27, 2011

Smoking has long been illegal in New York City bars and restaurants, including open-air restaurants, as well as in public transit, workplaces, schools and stores, among other places. On May 23rd,...

Kansas Is Test Market For New Cigarettes Product

May 26, 2011

Tuesday, May 31 is World No cigarettes Day, a day to consider the dangers of cigarettes products and an opportunity to share with Kansans that the discount cigarettes industry has introduced a new...

New Policy Prohibits Smoking Within 30 Feet Of All Buildings

May 25, 2011

A new policy at Elon University will restrict smoking cigarettes to specific areas of campus, effective this fall semester. The policy does not reflect a transition toward a smoke- and...

Beaches, Parks Off Limits To New York Smokers

May 24, 2011

New York's City Council passed the ban in February, over some grumbling about government meddling in people's private lives, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed off on it shortly afterward.The law...

City Sun Bathers And Park Lovers Will Breathe Easier With New Smoking Ban

May 23, 2011

Sun bathers and nature lovers will breathe a little easier starting Monday as the city expands its strict smoking cigarettes ban.The new law prohibits lighting up at public parks, beaches and...

Americans For Tax Reform

May 22, 2011

Today Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a non-profit taxpayer advocacy organization, reiterated its opposition to HB 591, legislation that would raise taxes on cheap smokes products. ATR notified...

Seaside Park To Enforce State's Most Stringent Ban

May 21, 2011

Borough officials are intent on letting smokers know the beaches and boardwalk here are not ashtrays.The Borough Council adopted an ordinance on April 28 that gives Seaside Park the strictest...

Smoking Summit Lacks Two Invitees, But Is Called Fruitful

May 20, 2011

A summit meeting of area leaders held Tuesday to discuss unifying the region's smoking cigarettes bans did not quite happen as planned, as representatives from Jefferson County and the city of St....

Newton Fatal Fire May Have Started With Man Smoking

May 19, 2011

A 58-year-old man died in a fire Tuesday that investigators believe started with a chair in his living room and was caused by careless smoking cigarettes in combination with the victim also being...

Cigarettes Tax Increase Would Hurt All Louisianans

May 18, 2011

We can't tax our way out of a budget crunch, and we can't tax our way to health. But some folks at the statehouse in Baton Rouge haven't gotten that message.House Bill 63 would raise the state tax...

Cupertino City Council Votes To Put A Stop To Smoking

May 17, 2011

Want to light up in a Cupertino park? Think again. The Cupertino City Council unanimously amended a city ordinance on May 3 that now prohibits smoking cigarettes in recreational areas such as city...

Republican Majority Casts Out Cigarettes Tax Increase

May 16, 2011

Idaho House Tax Chairman Dennis Lake said the policy proposal to raise the state tax on cheap cigarettes was never introduced into the legislative session this year because of a lack of support...

LePage Would Veto Cigarette Tax Hike

May 15, 2011

But the proposal faces strong opposition, including a veto threat from Gov. Paul LePage.At a news conference in Augusta on Monday, Tina Chapman, president of the Mid-Maine United Way in Waterville,...

Combine Cigarettes Tax Hike

May 14, 2011

Missouri hospital executives who lost a long-simmering lawsuit against online cigarettes companies last month shouldn't fret over the potential loss of more than $455 million in civil damages.A...

Webb City Council Places Smoking Ban On Agenda

May 13, 2011

The City Council will again consider an ordinance for a citywide smoking cigarettes ban in public places.During the public comment portion of Monday night’s council meeting, eight proponents...

Blackfeet To End Smoking In Glacier Peaks Casino

May 12, 2011

Smoking no longer will be allowed at the Glacier Peaks Casino in Browning.The Blackfeet Tribal Business Council voted 5-4 Monday for a total smoking cigarettes ban."The council believes we're...

Montana Teens Targeted By Cigarettes Companies

May 11, 2011

cigarettes advertising hasn't been seen on TV in decades, and in 1998 cheap cigarettes companies agreed to discontinue even more marketing practices, after 46 states alleged that cigarettes...

Annual Cigarettes Payment $75.9 Million

May 10, 2011

The money came from the cigarettes industry, with 75 percent going directly into the cheap cigarettes Settlement Endowment Trust Fund, he said. The remainder is made available for appropriation by...

Beach Smoking Ban Snuffed

May 8, 2011

Dogs can’t run free, nobody can drink alcohol, but smokers can still light up at the town’s beaches.But while Town Meeting extinguished a proposed smoking cigarettes ban for the 3.5 miles of...

Lawsuit Over Smoking Ban

May 1, 2011

With less than a week remaining before the city’s anti-smoking cigarettes ordinance goes into effect, developments have occurred in two legal challenges to the ordinance.Warren Circuit Judge John...

Cigarette Tax Hike Makes Sense

Dec 20, 2010

West Virginia has one of the highest cigarettes rates in the nation and one of the lowest cigarette taxes. State government also is facing a possible budget shortfall of $100 million. ...

For The New Year, Cost-Effective Options To Stop Smoking

Jan 12, 2010

LIKE many ex-smokers, Tonya Guess, 33, of Chesapeake, Va., tried just about everything to quit. There were hundreds of nicotine patches, an online support group, a prescription for an...

For Tobacco States, A Change Is In The Air

Jan 5, 2010

Reporting from Arlington, Va. - The changing face of the Old Dominion can be seen in the stuff Jimmy Cirrito sweeps up off the floor of his bar every night. It used to be cigarette butts -- now...

New Trial Denied In Tobacco Patent Lawsuit

Dec 28, 2009

A federal judge in Maryland has denied Star Scientific Inc.'s request for a new trial after the company lost a patent infringement case against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Petersburg-based Star, a...

Smoking Continues Gradual Decline Among U.S. Teens, Smokeless Tobacco Threatens A Comeback

Dec 15, 2009

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Teen smoking reached its recent peak levels around 1996 and 1997, followed by a sharp decline for about six years and a continued more gradual decline ever since, according to...

Smoking Ban For All City Parks

Dec 11, 2009

The Peterborough County- City Health Unit is ready to approach city council with its plan to have the city's non-smoking bylaw expanded to all city parks. The first phase of the plan has been in...

Safety Concerns Prompt Park Rule Changes

Dec 8, 2009

STOCKTON — Clearing the way to ban smoking in county-run parks and requiring life vests for children in public waterways are among proposed changes to the rules governing San Joaquin County Parks...

North Carolina Prods Obese Workers, Smokers Toward Healthier Lifestyles

Dec 4, 2009

North Carolina is offering teachers and state employees cheaper and easier access to medication aimed at helping them lose weight and quit smoking. The aid is a carrot that goes along with the...

Tobacco Growers Likely To Lose A Market

Nov 30, 2009

Burley cigarettes growers, a dwindling breed in the mountains, likely will be able to sell their crop at just one local market this year. Warren Anders, along with his sons, will operate...