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Ocean City cigarette smuggling ring had ties to terror groups, police say
The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Restaurant and Catering Industry, New York City, Lawyers, Heroin
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Key Witness Talks Of $5,000 In Refrigerator And Texts About Killing Smoke-Shop Bill
The Hartford CourantHarry Raymond Soucy, the key witness in the federal trial of Robert Braddock, gave explosive testimony Wednesday, claiming that he put $5,000 in a Republican legislative leader's refrigerator last year — and was featured in audiotapes and text...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Prosecution, Police Investigations, Police Arrests, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Bethel Officials, Businesses Weigh Impact of Tobacco Tax
Channel 2 NewsBethel officials and local businesses are trying to assess the effect of a new $2.21-a-pack tax on cigarettes passed in December and in effect since March 1, rapidly adding money to city coffers. According to the Associated Press, city officials say the...Tags: Sales, Business
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Smokeless tobacco use among U.S. kids and teens has leveled off
After years of decline, the rate of smokeless tobacco use among young people has leveled off, new research shows. In 2011, 5.2% of middle school and high school students in the U.S. reported using snuff, chewing tobacco or dipping tobacco at least...Tags: Science and Technology, Health and Safety at School
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$2 per pack tobacco tax on fast track in California Legislature
This post has been updated. See below for details. A proposal to raise the tobacco tax by $2 per pack of cigarettes cleared its first two policy committees Wednesday, with Republicans unified in their opposition. Sen. Kevin De Leon (D-Los Angeles)...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Finance, Personal Income, Elections
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Rosenthal: Health and hypocrisy at the drugstore
You now can go to a Walgreens and get examined by a medical professional. Maybe your blood pressure is a little high, or you've suffered from asthma for years. Walgreens has prescription and over-the-counter medications for you. And, on your way out...Tags: Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Services and Shopping, Health and Medical Professionals, Medicines
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Jury awards $2 million to ex-smoker's family
A Palm Beach County jury Thursday found three tobacco companies partly responsible for a grandmother's chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema and lung cancer death following years of suffering. They awarded more than $2 million in actual damages...Tags: Lung Cancer, COPD, Delray Beach, Diseases and Illnesses, Crime, Law and Justice
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Police seize 310 cartons of unstamped cigarettes
matthewu@herald-mail.comPolice seized 310 cartons of cigarettes from a vehicle that was stopped at a Martinsburg-area Sheetz on Wednesday, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court documents. Oda Qarqat, 46, of Bogota, N.J., was arraigned Thursday on charges of no...Tags: Defendants, Prisons, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Coalition asks Hampton prosecutor to appoint grand jury to investigate cigarette sting
HAMPTON — The Coalition for Justice for Civil Rights is asking Hampton's top prosecutor to request a special grand jury to investigate the police department's undercover cigarette sting for possible criminal wrongdoing on the part of police officers...
Tags: Prosecution, Police Investigations, Judges, Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice
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Smoking and the right to dumb choices
As thoroughly awful as everyone knows cigarettes to be — still the No. 1 cause of premature death in this country — public officials walk a blurry line when they try to reduce smoking's terrible toll. As long as they lack the will to ban...
Tags: New York City Council, Marketing, OxyContin (drug), Advertising, Michael Bloomberg
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Japanese tobacco company announces $7.5 million upgrade, expansion to Danville facility
An international tobacco company is investing $7.5 million to upgrade and expansion its Danville processing facility. Governor McDonnell made the announcement Tuesday in Tokyo. JTI Leaf Services’ Danville facility employs 270 full-time and...
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Consumer safety
If the government knows certain products cause severe health problems on consumers, the manufacturers should be required to have warning labels advising consumers about the risk. For example tobacco is known to cause cancer and heart related problems,...Tags: Politics, Human Rights, Consumers
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