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[Israel] KASHUA: One last cigarette and I'll be a better man ($$)
There are 12 cigarettes left in the pack − I counted before I started writing. They will be the last 12 cigarettes I smoke before kicking the habit.
May 17, 2013
Ha'aretz Newspaper/Magazine
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May 18, 2013 11:39
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[Africa] ZAKUMUMPAf: Uganda should ban tobacco advertising
When I was growing up as a child in the 1980s and the 1990s, the back pages of TIME and Newsweek magazines were almost always adorned with a surreal image of a trim, middle-aged white man. ... The Uganda Tobacco Control Bill (2012) proposes to ban tobacc
May 16, 2013
The Observer (ug)
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May 17, 2013 10:53
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[Minnesota] COLLINS: Bad 2011 tobacco deal leads to 2013 stadium deal
a plan to take a fiscal hammer to smokers. Again. The plan was unveiled at a Capitol hearing today and includes $24.5 million in one-time revenues from a tax on the current cigarette inventory, MPR's Tim Nelson reports.
May 16, 2013
Minnesota Public Radio (MPR)
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May 16, 2013 16:37
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[California] FOX: The Economic and Criminal Consequences of Raising the Tobacco Tax
California Retailers Association president Bill Dombrowski warned passing the 230% tax increase on a pack of cigarettes (from $ 0.87 to $2.87) would cost jobs and increase the sale of cigarettes through the black market. He’s right on both counts. The M
May 16, 2013
Fox&Hounds
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May 16, 2013 13:53
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[UK] BREWER: Plain cigarette packets could reduce nicotine addiction
The government has apparently capitulated to big tobacco’s recent advertising campaign about “hard evidence” for enforcing plain cigarette packaging. Although plain packaging may reinforce health warnings, arguably the most important warning—that because
May 15, 2013
British Medical Journal
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May 17, 2013 14:28
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[UK] BREWER: Plain cigarette packets could reduce nicotine addiction
By downplaying addiction both big tobacco and the government effectively tell vulnerable adolescents that becoming addicted to a drug doesn’t really matter. Only about a fifth of regular smokers smoke 10 a day or fewer. In contrast, hardly …
May 15, 2013
British Medical Journal
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May 16, 2013 09:51
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[Connecticut] O'FLAHERTY: Clear benefit to higher cigarette tax
Rarely is an issue so clear cut. Increasing the cigarette tax will reduce smoking, save lives, save money by reducing tobacco-related health care costs and increase revenue to balance the state budget and fund critical programs. This should be an easy cal
May 15, 2013
Connecticut Post
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May 16, 2013 09:19
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[District of Columbia, Virginia] On Metro, can you e-smoke one if you got one?
"What most people don't realize is that it is actually local ordinances that govern what's prohibited on Metro," Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said. In 2010, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II ruled that the state's smoking ban does not apply to
May 14, 2013
The Washington Post
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May 19, 2013 15:50
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[Africa, Kenya] The Cutting Edge: TOO MANY SMOKERS
Does the ban on smoking in public only apply to Nairobi’s central business district? asks Peter Mathenge. In Nairobi West shopping centre and at the Nyayo National Stadium, for instance, smokers freely indulge in the habit.
May 14, 2013
Daily Nation (ke)
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May 17, 2013 13:50
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[UK] MONBIOT: Oxford University won't take funding from tobacco companies. But Shell's OK
I have asked the Shell professor of earth sciences at Oxford, the university itself and the umbrella body Universities UK to explain the ethical difference between taking tobacco money for cancer research and taking fossil fuel money for energy research.
May 14, 2013
Comment is Free (The Guardian, UK)
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May 14, 2013 19:07