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[Florida] Roll-Your-Own Cigarette Stores Owner Fighting Feds To Stay Open

Sam Bontempo, partnership owner of the closed Tobacco Road, roll-your-own cigarette shops in the Tampa Bay area, is set to fight a federal law that led to higher taxes on discounted smokes. The Brandon shop was one of the more popular sites.
Patch.org
added Jul 24, 2012 18:38
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[Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria, South Africa] INVESTIGATION: Tobacco giant, British American Tobacco, caught in intensive smuggling, corporate espionage

Following events in South Africa, the BBC in July 2008 aired a documentary, 'Bannatyne Takes on Tobacco', which looked at BAT's tactics in Africa and revealed that the tobacco multinational was breaking rules in Nigeria, Malawi and Mauritius.
Premium Times (ng)
added Jul 9, 2012 09:05
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[Florida] PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC., et al., Petitioner, vs. JAMES L. DOUGLAS, etc., Respondent.

DOES ACCEPTING AS RES JUDICATA THE EIGHT PHASE I FINDINGS APPROVED IN ENGLE V. LIGGETT GROUP, INC., 945 So. 2d 1246 (Fla. 2006), VIOLATE THE [ENGLE DEFENDANTS’] DUE PROCESS RIGHTS GUARANTEED BY THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION?
Florida Supreme Court
added Mar 14, 2013 14:59
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[Florida] RJ Reynolds ordered to pay $40.5 million by Ft. Lauderdale, FL jury

A Broward County Jury has awarded the Estate of James Schoeff $40.5 ... At the height of the conspiracy the defendant infiltrated every aspect of life. They spent over one-half billion dollars funding a vast lobbying effort to control the government and
Legal-eze - Litigation Consulting & Graphics
added Feb 19, 2013 17:53
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[Rhode Island] LETTER: A Ban on Flavored Tobacco Products

Providence, R.I., is fighting to protect our children from tobacco. We took the ruling by the Food and Drug Administration banning flavored cigarettes a step further by banning the sale of other candy- and fruit-flavored tobacco products.
New York Times
added Sep 13, 2012 06:41
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[Mississippi] Burke co-defendant Benham sentenced to prison on tobacco-tax scheme

Randy Benham, part of the first wave of arrests in area tobacco raids more than three years ago, was sentenced to federal prison today. Benham, 46, will turn himself in to a federal prison Aug. 20 to begin serving 12 months, plus one day on a three-count
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
added Jul 30, 2012 15:38
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[North Carolina] The 2013 Reynolds American, Inc. Annual Shareholders Meeting: orders, points of order, “out of order” and ordered out!

Dr. Sharon Brown, a grandmother and a shareholder from Pennsylvania, who was seated second from the aisle where the company’s sole microphone ... saw Dr. Brown fall to the floor after she attempted to get by the RAI employee. By the time Dr. Brown was ab
Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI)
added May 19, 2013 13:37
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KESSLER: Electronic cigarettes should be part of the harm reduction debate

Last year my company acquired blu eCigs ... We see e-cigarettes as a product that has the potential to play a critical role in the national harm reduction discussion and affords our company a seat at the table in this debate.
The Hill
added Apr 17, 2013 14:51
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[Gibraltar, Spain] Calls for changes on cigarette laws

A NEW law, passed on January 1 this year, which limits the number of cigarettes people can bring out of Gibraltar, is being challenged. The law is designed to crackdown on tobacco trafficking and states that residents of La Linea and the Campo de Gibral
The Olive Press (es)
added Mar 4, 2013 12:26
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Congress Again Urges FDA to Regulate Cigars and Pipe Tobacco

In an August 27, 2012 letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, Representative Henry Waxman (the architect of the Tobacco Control Act giving FDA regulatory authority over tobacco products) again urged FDA to assert jurisdiction over cigars and pipe tob
Tobacco Law blog— Troutman Sanders LLP
added Oct 3, 2012 20:52
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