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 [...]
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 [...]
Punitive tax on tobacco cannot be justified
Four products used to control stress are food/snacks, alcohol, tobacco and drugs. Consider the mind/body interface. The body is a marvelous vessel of self-regulating functions until the mind succumbs to stress, affecting body functions.
My choice: tobacco, through cigarettes, cigars, snuff or chewing. I prefer roll-your-own cigarettes. Rolling your own involves buying tobacco in bulk — [...]
ICS seeks €1 hike for cigarettes
The Irish Cancer Society is urging the Government to increase the tax on cigarettes by €1 in the forthcoming budget in order to fund the fight against tobacco smuggling.
The organisation denies that an increase in the price of cigarettes would increase the sale of cheap smuggled tobacco.
“High price is not the problem. The problem is [...]
Ex-prison worker sentenced in tobacco-dealing case
A former worker at an Illinois federal lockup is now headed to federal prison for lying to investigators about a behind-bars tobacco-dealing operation that earned him $35,000.
In addition to six months in prison, 45-five-year-old Kenneth White of Centralia also was ordered Friday in East St. Louis to spend two years on supervised release after his [...]
Call for ban on cigarette machines
A charity has repeated its calls for a ban on cigarette vending machines prior to a parliamentary debate on new ways to restrict the sale of tobacco.
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) says the machines make it too easy for young people to buy tobacco underage.
As part of the Health Bill, which will be debated in [...]
Evil mum Charlotte Sutton stubbed out cigarette three times on her toddler
A court has been told how a 15-month-old toddler was left with horrific burns after her evil teenage mother stubbed out a cigarette on her.
Chain-smoking Charlotte Sutton, 19, who scarred her daughter by stubbing out a fag three times on her back, shrugged yesterday as she was given nine months’ youth detention.
Afterwards, the toddler’s whistleblowing [...]
Senate Must Not Bow to Tobacco Industry by
The Lung Association today released the following statement with regards to Bill C-32 which is currently before the Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs:
“The massive increase in sales of flavoured tobacco in the past number of years is due to tobacco companies targeting children and young people. For years there were very few flavoured tobacco [...]
