Archive for November, 2009
New discovery shows cigarettes full of disease causing bacteria
Researchers from France have used a technique called DNA microassay to find that cigarettes are full of a variety of disease causing bacteria. In the past, scientists used small pieces of cigarettes and lab cultures to test cigarettes for bacterial contamination. Some of the disease causing bacteria also found in soil, responsible for [...]
Focus on gratitude, not craving a cigarette
With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, we prepare for a day designated solely to focusing on abundance and gratitude. Many of us, however, lose sight of the meaning of the holiday and become swept up in the activities that surround it instead.
We’re consumed by where we’re going, what we’re eating, when we’ll start shopping on [...]
Lincoln police cite 3 clerks for selling tobacco to minors
Lincoln police cited three clerks on suspicion of selling tobacco to minors during a Tuesday night compliance check during which they sent minors to try to buy tobacco at 41 businesses, said Capt. Joy Citta.
A clerk at Express Stop, 8150 O St., allegedly sold tobacco to a minor and did not ask to see an [...]
Dropping butts is expensive habit for fined pair
TWO Lichfield women have been prosecuted after they were caught throwing cigarette butts onto the ground.Environmental health officers witnessed the women littering their cigarettes.But because both failed to pay their £75 fixed penalty notices, they were taken to court.
Lisa Sheasby, aged 21, of Dimbles Lane, pleaded guilty in writing to the charge of littering.Tamworth Magistrates’ [...]
Customs make €5m tobacco haul at port
CUSTOMS OFFICERS believe they have foiled a sophisticated illegal cigarette processing operation following the seizure of tobacco, cigarette paper, filters and packaging for 12 million cigarettes.
The €5 million shipment arrived at Dublin Port on Monday from Holyhead. A follow-up surveillance operation by Customs officers was in place near Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, on Tuesday. Security sources [...]
Soldiers seize Spanish cigarettes worth millions
THE army has busted a consignment of 12 784 volumes of Spanish cigarettes, Seville’s at a roadblock between Mhlumeni and Siteki at around 10am yesterday.
Sources said the white Hino 500 truck, with no company label, came from Zimbabwe via Mozambique and was destined to South Africa through Lavumisa Boarder.
The truck is registered RFD 175 [...]
Tobacco Trail stretch almost finished
Work is expected to wrap up by Thanksgiving on a 4.7-mile segment of the American Tobacco Trail from Green Level Church Road near Apex to Scott King Road in Durham.
Once completed, the $2.2 million project, funded by a partnership between the town and the N.C. Department of Transportation, will offer cyclists, walkers and even horseback [...]
14 charged with cigarette smuggling
Federal prosecutors in Alexandria charged 14 people Thursday with paying money or trading guns and drugs to purchase 388,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes intended for sale in New York.
The case in U.S. District Court is the latest to target smugglers who buy truckloads of cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia and sell them in other [...]
Private-consumption-tax increase on the way
The private consumption tax, or ÖTV, implemented on tobacco products is expected to rise as the government also plans to adjust the tax gap between “rural diesel” and “euro diesel” fuel.
Certain products may see an increase in ÖTV, Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek said during a meeting of the Turkish Parliament’s Planning and Budget Commission to [...]
