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WASHINGTON----The Electronic Cigarette Association today urged decision-makers to seek alternatives to combustible tobacco that reduce Americans’ exposure to the multitude of harmful chemicals and toxins found in cigarettes.
Scott Bendett poses at his Habana Premium Cigar Shoppe in Albany on Monday with packages of pipe tobacco.
North Carolina restaurants and bars go smoke-free in January, the result of a new state law. What may be an inconvenience for smokers impacts local tobacco farmers much more severely, several said.
Congress is considering Senate Bill 1147, the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act. This widely supported bill is good for Oklahoma’s residents, retailers and the state budget and is worthy of Sens. Jim Inhofe’s and Tom Coburn’s co-sponsorship to see it can pass the Senate this year.Licensed retailers here in Oklahoma that sell tobacco products collect and pay all required excise taxes on them ...
Starting Thursday, Kentucky's two largest universities are declaring themselves smoke-free, drastically restricting cigarette smoking to create healthier campuses. The University of Kentucky is banning all tobacco products anywhere on campus, while the University of Louisville is restricting smoking to designated outside areas, with plans for a complete campus ban by next November.
No, it wasn't more early morning fog you spotted over Centennial Park.It was the smoky haze of the 11th annual Cigar Heritage Festival, which drew aficionados of all things stogie to the Ybor City park today.
The Great American Smoke-out kicked off Thursday and one area community is hoping to snuff out cigarette smoking for good.
The North Platte Telegraph Property owners can be subject to legal action from tenants who are not being protected from secondhand smoke, according to a local group. The Lincoln County Tobacco Free Coalition has announced its focus on the issue at McKinley Education Center on Thursday.
Even with a small amount of unburnt tobacco clinging to it, a single cigarette butt soaked for a day is enough to turn a liter of water a sickly yellow brown and kill 50 percent of fish swimming in it. Without tobacco, it takes about 4 smoked filters to do the same job.
The fire that broke out in Black Eagle on Friday night was most likely caused by a cigarette in a garage or shed, according to Black Eagle Fire Chief Tom Martin.
Maybe a team of crooks just needed a nicotine fix. Or maybe, police say, they plan to sell a bundle of stolen cigarettes on the black market. According to police, two Hispanic men used baseball bats to batter their way early Thursday morning into two Valeros and a CVS Pharmacy to steal cigarettes. The most seriously hit was a Valero on Pecan Valley and Southcross. That was just after 2'30 a.m ...
