Archive for March, 2010
Cigs contain pig’s blood, academic says
Cigarettes may contain traces of pig’s blood, an Australian academic says with a warning that religious groups could find its undisclosed presence “very offensive”.
University of Sydney Professor Simon Chapman points to recent Dutch research which identified 185 different industrial uses of a pig - including the use of its haemoglobin in cigarette filters.
Prof Chapman said [...]
‘NMI tobacco fund not being used properly, posts $2.865M deficit’
Appropriations out of the CNMI’s Tobacco Control Fund exceeded actual revenue by more than $2.865 million between Fiscal Years 2003 and 2009, and $7 million or 72 percent of the $9.97 million received by the Fund was used for programs not related to the original intent of the law.
These were some of the key findings [...]
Tobacco smuggler spared jail
A SMUGGLER who crammed almost 1,000lbs of hand-rolling tobacco and 28,000 cigarettes into a people-carrier has been spared jail.
Officers from HM Revenue & Customs found the vehicle’s roof-box filled with cigarettes and tobacco was hidden under blankets when Karl Hansen was stopped at Poole Ferry Port, Dorset.
The 47-year-old was given a six-months prison sentence, which [...]
