A safer state
Clearly, the cradle of mass cigarette manufacturing has turned over a new leaf. North Carolina’s legislated ban on smoking in bars and restaurants takes effect today (having allowed one last smoke-filled holiday), and as of yesterday, all cigarettes made or sold here must be of the “fire-safe” variety.
Both measures dovetail with broader trends: a growing [...]
New Mich. cigarette law has some smokers fuming
A new state law intended to reduce the fire hazard posed by smoldering cigarettes has frustrated some Michigan smokers, who complain that the safer cigarettes taste foul.
The law, which takes effect Jan. 1, requires all cigarettes sold in Michigan to be engineered to automatically extinguish when left unattended. To comply, cigarette companies usually add two [...]
More Young Smokers Use Menthol Cigarettes
More adolescents and young adults are smoking menthol cigarettes, according to a government report, a potentially troubling sign when overall smoking rates have dropped and menthol is the only flavoring not banned under sweeping tobacco laws passed earlier this year.
Menthol cigarettes make up about a quarter of the $70 billion market for cigarettes. Big producers [...]
Man charged with trafficking in stolen cigarettes
The operator of a North Stafford convenience store was arrested Thursday for purchasing untaxed cigarettes from an undercover Stafford detective, police said.
Navnit Mohan Jasani, 30, who runs the Onville Kwik Stop on Garrisonville Road, is charged with two counts of receiving stolen property, racketeering, conspiracy and two counts of cigarette tax evasion.
He was indicted this [...]
Penalty for selling cigarettes to underage decoy reduced
A tiny Chinatown store accused of selling cigarettes to an underage decoy had a tobacco license suspension reduced after it claimed that the decoy’s ID was damaged and difficult to read.
Sam & Son Market, which opens on Powell Street at 5 a.m. to sell newspapers, cigarettes, lottery tickets and snacks, was initially suspended by the [...]
Troubled times for New England tobacco farmers
They’re among the lucky few, John, Fred and Dave Arnold. There’s a good supply of crisp broadleaf tobacco drying in their 14 curing sheds and over the next couple of weeks they’ll be pulling it down, bundling it up and selling it for the best price they can get. Pretty much what their family has [...]
Law & Disorder in Cassia County
Assault with a knife, et cetera:
Police responded to Oakley High School, on the principal’s request, to talk to a 14-year-old boy about, as the report reads, “bringing cigarettes to school and threatening to kill his step dad” - also calling his parents “white trash losers,” the report reads.
The previous night, he was reportedly told to [...]
Candidates outline visions for Nyack
Nyack will elect a new mayor and two new trustees when village voters go to the polls Nov. 3.
Village Trustees Denise Hogan and Richard Kavesh are vying to become mayor. Current Mayor John Shields is retiring after eight years of service in the part-time, $18,000-a-year position.
Meanwhile, Democrats Doug Foster and Jen White and Republican Maureen [...]
Tobacco lobby may delay pictorial warnings on cigarette packs
The country’s tobacco lobby may force the government to delay its decision over cigarette packs carrying pictorial health warnings, sources in the Health Ministry said on Sunday.
On World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the government had announced the introduction of pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs and had given the industry a six-month deadline [...]
