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[Oklahoma] Gov. Mary Fallin, city leaders to reveal plan to reduce smoking-related deaths
Fallin will be joined by Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, Ponca City Mayor Homer Nicholson and several health officials.
Feb 19, 2013
AP - Associated Press
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Feb 19, 2013 12:27
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Tea Party Started By - and Maybe Fronting For - Tobacco Industry // Study Documents Latest Industry Front Groups
it actually developed in part as a result of efforts by the U.S. tobacco industry to oppose the nonsmokers' rights movement in the 1980s, says the lawyer who started the movement by getting smoking restricted and then banned on airplanes and buses, and th
Feb 13, 2013
PR Insider (at)
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Feb 18, 2013 06:22
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[Europe, UK] 'Clock ticking' over tobacco packs
Almost 80,000 children have taken up smoking while health officials have considered whether or not to introduce plain packs for cigarettes, campaigners have said. Brightly coloured packages are one of the last marketing ploys that tobacco companies use
Feb 14, 2013
politicsuk.eu (Manchester Gazette) (uk)
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Feb 15, 2013 10:02
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Cigarette tax eyed as way to rescue Kentucky pension system
A leading lawmaker says raising the cigarette tax to $1 a pack would generate about $100 million a year that could be used to shore up the pension system for government retirees.
Feb 13, 2013
Evansville (IN) Courier & Press
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Feb 14, 2013 20:53
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[Australia, Czech Republic] Senator fires up on smokes shares
THE Future Fund has bought shares in a tobacco company which commissioned a report on the economic benefits of people dying prematurely from smoking-related illnesses. It was revealed in a Senate hearing on Tuesday that the fund, which has the job of he
Feb 13, 2013
Ballarat (Vic) Courier (au)
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Feb 13, 2013 12:14
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[Australia] GREENS TO MOVE ON PUBLIC SUPER FUNDS INVESTING IN BIG TOBACCO
The Tasmanian Greens today welcomed the Liberal Party's sudden concern that Tasmania's public sector superannuation fund had invested money into tobacco companies, urging the Liberals to support a Greens Bill to end the practice.
Feb 10, 2013
Tasmanian Times (au)
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Feb 10, 2013 23:29
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[Oklahoma] Governor’s tobacco push gaining allies
This week, the Oklahoma State Alliance of YMCAs came out in support of the legislation as did Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett. Ten cities and towns — none in Cleveland County — have passed resolutions in support of the changes.
Feb 9, 2013
Norman (OK) Transcript
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Feb 10, 2013 22:02
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[Minnesota] Got money to burn? Bill would double Minn. cigarette tax
Minnesota legislators rekindled the debate over tobacco taxes on Thursday as a House committee considered a proposal to vastly increase the cost of cigarettes.
Feb 8, 2013
Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune
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Feb 8, 2013 12:52
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[UK] Packaging heavyweights meet MPs over plain pack plans
Former packaging industry executive Mike Ridgway is spokesman for the UK Packaging Industry Group, which includes seven packaging producers. The group is campaigning against plans for plain packaging and briefed the All Party Parliamentary Group  (APPG
Feb 6, 2013
Packaging News (uk)
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Feb 7, 2013 08:54
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[Massachusetts] EDITORIAL: Targeting nicotine
we urge the Dennis Board of Health to reconsider its position on this important issue. If issuing permits to local retailers is an unfair burden, why is it that all 14 other Cape towns issue the permits? And why is that 279 of the state's 351 municipaliti
Feb 3, 2013
Cape Cod (MA) Times
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Feb 7, 2013 08:42