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[New Jersey, New York] EDITORIAL: Raise NJ's smoking age to 21: Editorial
The “18-to-die-for-your-country” argument is a classic canard. Nearly 90 percent of adult smokers say they started younger than 18. Die-hard smokers cry “freedom” when new restrictions are proposed. But ask the middle-aged smoker who just paid $9 to feed
May 18, 2013
Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger
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May 18, 2013 11:38
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[Delaware, Maryland, New York] Alleged cigarette smuggling site quiet Friday
That's the warehouse space at 27515 Hodges Lane that New York authorities allege was central to Basel Ramadan's multi-million-dollar-generating cigarette smuggling operation. It's exactly 23 miles from Ramadan's home in the Oyster Harbor neighborhood of
May 18, 2013
DelmarvaNow.com
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May 18, 2013 11:26
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[New York] Officials: Cigarette-smuggling ring in East Coast may have terror link
* Suspects allegedly smuggled untaxed cigarettes across various states * One suspect had links to a blind cleric serving life for plotting to blow up New York City landmarks
May 17, 2013
CNN
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May 18, 2013 11:16
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[New York] Cigarette bans at city jails fuel $200-a-pack black market, surge in arrests
Since January 2012, there have been 85 arrests in connection with the black market. A single cigarette at Rikers Island goes for $30 on average, jail sources say.
May 6, 2013
New York Daily News
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May 18, 2013 07:54
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[New York] New Jersey lawmakers joining the city’s crusade to raise the minimum age to buy cigarettes
New Jersey state Sen. Richard Codey stood with City Council Speaker Christine Quinn on Thursday to announce his legislation, which would forbid anyone younger than 21 from buying tobacco products in the Garden State. “Preventing our youth from smoking h
May 18, 2013
New York Daily News
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May 18, 2013 07:50
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[New York] Terrorists may get money from regional, cheap cigarette smuggling ring: Ray Kelly
Some of those arrested in the bust have links to Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheik, and Rashid Baz, who opened fire on a van of Yeshiva students on the Brooklyn Bridge, killing Ari Halberstam. ‘We're concerned because similar schemes have been used in t
May 17, 2013
New York Daily News
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May 18, 2013 07:48
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[New York] Arrested cigarette smuggler linked to 1994 murder of Yeshiva student Ari Halberstam on Brooklyn Bridge
an anti-Semitic livery driver has been doing time for shooting up a van full of Yeshiva students on the Brooklyn Bridge — and killing Ari Halberstam. Now cops have nabbed his “Palestinian uncle.” Muaffaq Askar has long been suspected of supplying convic
May 17, 2013
New York Daily News
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May 18, 2013 07:44
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[Maryland, New York, Virginia] Police: 2 Ocean City brothers central to cigarette smuggling ring
Basel Ramadan, 42, of Ocean City is the accused boss and ringleader of what authorities are calling an untaxed cigarette distribution enterprise. His brother, Samir Ramadan, 39, another local resident, was his right-hand man who focused on control and di
May 17, 2013
DelmarvaNow.com
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May 18, 2013 07:39
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[Virginia] Cigarette smuggling in New York has history of terrorism ties
PIX11 News reported more than eight years ago about links between cigarette smuggling and the financing of terrorism. ... he first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 was said to be partially financed by cigarette smuggling. One of the convicted b
May 16, 2013
WPIX-TV (New York, NY)
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May 18, 2013 07:27
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[New York] Officials: Cigarette-smuggling ring in East Coast may have terror link
A cigarette smuggling scheme that cost New York state millions of dollars in sales tax revenue may have raised funds for militant groups, authorities said. Sixteen Palestinian men, some with ties to convicted terrorists, were indicted Thursday in the all
May 17, 2013
CNN
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May 17, 2013 23:47