Archive for January, 2010
Seneca Tribe Targets Senator for Support of Cigarette Shipping Bill
The reelection bid of freshman Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is being challenged by the Seneca Nation, which may spend $250,000 to oppose her because Gillibrand backs the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) Act — a measure that would ban the U.S. Postal Service from delivering cigarettes.
The Buffalo News reported Jan. 25 that the tribe, a [...]
Rat poo, cigarettes and raw meat
The results are in from the latest round of Tyler health inspections, and they are not good. From Gentry, to the Loop, and points in between we find out where inspectors had to watch their step.
Inspectors shut down Taqueria Jr’s located at 3815 SSW Loop 323 after finding rodent droppings underneath the prep area and [...]
Shopkeeper fined over illegal tobacco
A shopkeeper from Birmingham has been fined following the discovery of around 10,500 illegal cigarettes at his Black Country store.
Customs investigators seized the cigarettes and 3.5 kilos of flavoured tobacco from The Best of Persia Store in Chervill Rise, Heath Town, Wolverhampton during a crackdown on smuggling in the region. The cigarettes included Marlboro, Jin [...]
Plan to use funding to restrict candy-flavored tobacco rejected
Wisconsin lawmakers have rejected a plan to use $3 million in federal stimulus funding to restrict the sale of candy-flavored tobacco products.
The Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee on Thursday voted to send the request back to the Department of Health Services.
The department had proposed a campaign to push for a statewide ban on candy-flavored products such [...]
Philip Morris Pushes Smokeless
Tobacco giant Philip Morris USA Inc. is urging the Food and Drug Administration to adopt a regulatory plan that would encourage smokers who can’t or won’t quit tobacco to switch to less-harmful smokeless tobacco.
Philip Morris and U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co., both units of Altria Group Inc., said in a letter to the FDA late last [...]
Police probe break-ins
Medford police are investigating a pair of unrelated burglaries from over the long holiday weekend.
Two businesses were targeted in break-ins in which thieves made off with beer and cigarettes from a convenience store and the cash register — with cash inside — from a Japanese and Chinese restaurant.
A burglar broke a window and climbed inside [...]
Davao City seeking ways to discourage cigarette sales
The city council plans to amend its anti-smoking ordinance to make it more difficult for people to buy cigarettes.
Among the proposals is to ban retailing cigarettes per stick, as well as on selling these on the streets, Councilor Peter T. Lavina said. This, he added, should make it difficult especially for the poor to spend [...]
