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[Australia, UK] DAUBE/CHAPMAN: Cameron’s cave-in on plain packaging is a boost to industry
When Australia’s former health minister Nicola Roxon was asked about the need for action at the launch of the report that recommended plain packaging, she said, “By not acting we are killing people.” The UK prime minister and his colleagues would do well
May 10, 2013
British Medical Journal
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May 19, 2013 11:27
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[Minnesota] Lileks: Make smokers pay for it all ...
So why not fund everything with cigarette taxes? Rather than burden individuals and businesses with a million little fees, just shift everything to smokers. There aren't enough people puffing, you say? Alas, it's so. So: 1. The state will mandate smokin
May 18, 2013
Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune
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May 18, 2013 21:23
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[Missouri] Hooker: Who is really blowing smoke? ($$)
I researched a few websites to see exactly how dangerous it really is and why the government should get involved. Some of the sources are from groups such as the EPA, the World Health Organization and the CDC. No doubt many of these points were buried dee
May 18, 2013
Sedalia (MO) Democrat
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May 18, 2013 21:20
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[Missouri] Satnan: The time for indoor smoking ban has come ($$)
Despite the clanging of the critics, it is way past time for Sedalia to have an across-the-board indoor smoking ban. And when you look at those critics’ arguments, when you peel away all the puffery about individual rights and government intrusion and
May 18, 2013
Sedalia (MO) Democrat
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May 18, 2013 11:45
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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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[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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[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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[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