Archive for December, 2009
Chefs have the worst health habits
Chefs appear to have more unhealthy habits than those in any other profession, while those in advertising are near paragons of virtue, according to a survey.
The poll of 3,000 workers in Britain found chefs smoked the most and consumed two snacks of crisps or chocolate on most days.
Farmers also fared poorly, smoking more than 50 [...]
Smoking fine saga dragging on in courts
The already convoluted saga of a Kaikohe bar owner who made history by being the first Northlander fined for allowing smoking inside a pub is set to drag on well into next year.
In December last year, Kaikohe Hotel owner Neal Summers, of RightsideProperties, was fined $5800, not counting court costs, for breaching the then four-year-old [...]
After 400 years, Va. snubs out smoking in eateries
Starting Dec. 1, a new Virginia law bans most smoking in restaurants.
It’s a major shift for a state where tobacco has been king since Jamestown was settled 400 years ago.
Virginia’s neighbor and the nation’s top tobacco producer, North Carolina, passed an even stricter restaurant smoking ban this year. It takes effect Jan. 2.
About 70 percent [...]
Campus cigarette ban a bad idea
I will be the first to acknowledge that walking behind someone smoking on my way to class is extremely annoying.
Moreover, when someone lights up next to me it does feel as though that person is doing something wrong, and that I have some kind of right to breathe relatively clean air without having to move.
For [...]
Reno man sentenced in cigarette tax fraud scheme
A federal judge in Seattle has ordered a 60-year-old Reno, Nev., man to serve nine months in prison and pay $20 million in restitution to the state Internal Revenue Service for failing to pay taxes on cigarettes.
U.S. District Judge James Robart said Robert Stuber, who owned Cowlitz Candy and Tobacco Co., was overcome by greed.
Stuber [...]
Smokers enjoy last cigarettes before ban begins
Smoke filled the air inside Martin’s Downtown Bar and Grill in Roanoke on Monday night. Several smokers knew it would be their last night to light up there and were counting down the hours.
One restaurant after the other in downtown Roanoke had signs on the front doors letting people know they couldn’t light up inside [...]
