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[Arizona] Anti-smoking group's goal: Don't smoke in the car
If you're smoking in the car with a minor, you could pay a fine. That's what the Kingman Youth Coalition Beating Up Teen Tobacco (KYCBUTT) will be pursuing at the next City Council meeting on Tuesday. The group is asking the council to enact an ordinanc
Apr 17, 2015
Kingman (AZ) Daily Miner
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Apr 17, 2015 12:00
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[New Jersey] Local History: Cigarette warning makes smoking history
The report told "only facts the public already knew," wrote The Millville Daily's Dave Gifford, an admitted smoker for years. Many would read "and for the most part shrug" off the report, wrote Gifford. "That's the way Americans are."
Apr 13, 2015
Vineland (NJ) Daily Journal
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Apr 14, 2015 01:41
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[China] Just a Lot of Hot Air: It's Smoking Ban Time (Again)!
this June, the ‘Beijing Smoking Control Regulation’ will be implemented. It’s the strictest regulation on tobacco ever... The smoking ban has a long and sad history in China. On May 1, 2008, Beijing first implemented the ‘Beijing Ban on Smoking in Public
Apr 13, 2015
The Beijinger (cn)
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Apr 13, 2015 11:34
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Richard L. Bare, Director of ‘Green Acres,’ Dies at 101
first professional work was a comedy short that he wrote and directed called “So You Want to Give Up Smoking.”.... a bumbling Everyman named Joe McDoakes who was trying to kick the habit. Warner Bros....released it in theaters in 1942.
Apr 13, 2015
New York Times
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Apr 13, 2015 10:00
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[Iowa] U.S. Census Bureau Daily Feature for April 11
FIRST TAX ON CIGARETTES Profile America -- Saturday, April 11th. On this date in 1921, Iowa became the first state to enact a tax on cigarettes, rolling paper and associated paraphernalia. The tax was very modest, being just $1 per 1,000 cigarettes. Iow
Apr 11, 2015
PR Newswire
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Apr 13, 2015 10:24
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[Virginia] Funeral for a former slave takes center stage at Appomattox
A Civil War cannonball that ripped through Hannah Reynolds' master's cabin made her a footnote of misfortune, the lone civilian death at the Battle of Appomattox Court House. She died a slave at 60, hours before the war to end slavery unofficially came to
Apr 8, 2015
Winston-Salem (NC) Journal
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Apr 10, 2015 14:20
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Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88
In 1957, Mr. Freberg was selected to fill Jack Benny’s time slot on CBS Radio. He ... angered executives by refusing tobacco advertisements. CBS pulled the show after 15 weeks
Apr 8, 2015
New York Times
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Apr 8, 2015 12:12
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[UK] You must be smoking! Shocking ciggie ads from the past ($$)
Lung-believable cigarette ads that are in stark contrast to today's anti-smoking messages / The new law came into force yesterday, preventing cigarette packets from being visible at the point of sale in any establishment stocking them.
Apr 7, 2015
The Sun (uk)
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Apr 9, 2015 11:46
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REPS. HERNANDEZ/PAN/BONTA: California must renew fight against tobacco
Tobacco use results in $13 billion in health care costs annually, with more than $3.5 billion being used to treat Medi-Cal patients with tobacco-related illnesses... Medi-Cal is severely underfunded .... The $2 tax on tobacco products will help give the
Apr 7, 2015
Sacramento (CA) Bee
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Apr 8, 2015 10:37
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[New York] Art for the Knowing Nose
Art that incorporates scent has always been an outlier... In 1902, a poet and art critic named Sadakichi Hartmann tried using perfume and a fan to stage a “scent concert” in New York, but was foiled by clouds of tobacco smoke and was eventually booed offs
Apr 6, 2015
New York Times
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Apr 6, 2015 12:54