Man faces up to 15 years in prison for stealing cigarettes, cash
A Gaston man is in jail today charged in connection with three breakins at a convenience store on U.S. 321 near West Columbia.
Mr. Henry Antonio Burgess, 40, of 213 Oakglenn Drive, was charged Friday with three counts of second-degree burglary, according to the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department.
Investigators said someone broke into El Cheapo three separate [...]
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 [...]
Electronic cigarettes lack smoke but not addiction
PANAMA CITY — The tips glow using an LED light to simulate fire as the smoker draws on the tip, but the distinctive cigarette smoke smell is missing.
Amid a move by health care professionals to make Bay County a little more tobaccofree by going to tobacco-free campuses Nov. 19, electronic cigarettesarestartingtoappear around Bay County and [...]
Red Ribbon Week focuses on fun free of addiction
HOUMA — The day his 8-year-old son handed him a beer was the day Mike Arp of Houmadecided he would quit drinking and smoking.
“If this little guy thinks I need a can of beer when I come in the door, there’s something wrong,” Arp remembers thinking. “I didn’t really care about anything except my beers [...]
Cigarette firm could face pressure to settle
An anti-tobacco lobby group says revelations that Imperial Tobacco Canada attempted to destroy its own damning studies will put pressure on the firm to settle lawsuits by several provinces.
“What can they say? That our studies are wrong? They have no real answer,” said Michael Perley, executive director of the Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco.
On [...]
Charges pending after fight over cigarettes
A 19-year-old Minneapolis man was arrested for third-degree assault and minor consumption of alcohol after he allegedly punched a man following an argument over cigarettes in the 4300 block of McColl Drive Saturday morning (Sept. 26).
Police were called to a report of a fight involving several people at about 6:48 a.m. in Evergreen Point Apartments, [...]
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals land $10M for smoking cessation trials
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals has received $10 million in federal stimulus funding to start running its first late-stage human clinical trials on a smoking cessation vaccine, even as it continues to search for a partner or buyer for the product.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, an agency within the National Institutes of Health, has awarded the grant, [...]
