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$2 per pack tobacco tax on fast track in California Legislature
This post has been updated. See below for details. A proposal to raise the tobacco tax by $2 per pack of cigarettes cleared its first two policy committees Wednesday, with Republicans unified in their opposition. Sen. Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles)...
Tags: Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Personal Income, Elections
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British cigarette branding plan stalls, prompting criticism
Reuters* Government says yet to make a decision on plain packaging * Health groups 'deeply disappointed' by delay on new laws By William James LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) - The British government is still considering banning company branding on cigarette...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Imperial Tobacco Group Plc, National Government, Government
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Latest Indiana news, sports, business and entertainment
CHILD SERVICES-MENTAL HEALTH DCS pilot program closes mental health gap (Information in the following story is from: The Times, http://www.thetimesonline.com) INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A pilot program to provide mental health services to children in...Tags: Indiana State University, Health and Safety at School, Science and Technology, Government, Health Insurance Cost
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Indiana State weighs charging employees who use tobacco more for their health insurance
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Indiana State University is considering changing its health insurance policies to reward employees who agree to health screenings and risk assessments and penalize those who use tobacco products. ISU officials tell the...Tags: Indiana State University, Health and Safety at Work, Health and Safety at School, Indiana State University, Health Insurance
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Jury awards $2 million to ex-smoker's family
A Palm Beach County jury Thursday found three tobacco companies partly responsible for a grandmother's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and lung cancer death following years of suffering. They awarded more than $2 million in actual damages...Tags: COPD, Diseases and Illnesses, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Death
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Police seize 310 cartons of unstamped cigarettes
matthewu@herald-mail.comPolice seized 310 cartons of cigarettes from a vehicle that was stopped at a Martinsburg-area Sheetz on Wednesday, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court documents. Oda Qarqat, 46, of Bogota, N.J., was arraigned Thursday on charges of no...Tags: Defendants, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Prosecution, Prisons
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Smoking and the right to dumb choices
As thoroughly awful as everyone knows cigarettes to be — still the No. 1 cause of premature death in this country — public officials walk a blurry line when they try to reduce smoking's terrible toll. As long as they lack the will to ban...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Advertising, Marketing, OxyContin (drug), New York City Council
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Japanese tobacco company announces $7.5 million upgrade, expansion to Danville facility
An international tobacco company is investing $7.5 million to upgrade and expansion its Danville processing facility. Governor McDonnell made the announcement Tuesday in Tokyo. JTI Leaf Services’ Danville facility employs 270 full-time and...
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Consumer safety
If the government knows certain products cause severe health problems on consumers, the manufacturers should be required to have warning labels advising consumers about the risk. For example tobacco is known to cause cancer and heart related problems,...Tags: Politics, Consumers, Human Rights
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Throat cancer survivor speaks to Martinsburg High students
matthewu@herald-mail.comAfter throat cancer took his voice box, it took David Briles three years to learn how to speak a complete sentence by burping continuously. The 59-year-old Charleston, W.Va., native never regained much of his ability to laugh again, but was determined...Tags: Politics, Teaching and Learning, Human Interest, Relay for Life, U.S. Marine Corps
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UIC to go tobacco-free this summer
RedEyeStudents, faculty and other employees of the University of Illinois at Chicago will have to kiss their tobacco products--and their electronic cigarettes--goodbye this summer thanks to a new tobacco-free campus policy that will go into effect July 1....Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Health and Safety at School, Science and Technology, Electronics, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago
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Critics revive past promises to knock Obama budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...
Tags: Economic Indicator, Taxation, Social Security, Medicare, Government Health Care
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