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[New Jersey] MULSHINE: Smoking out a major flaw in Obamacare

Jan. 1 is when the much debated individual mandate to buy health insurance takes effect. ... smoking — or simply saying that you smoke — can put you beyond reach of the individual mandate to buy health insurance that is cornerstone of the entire plan.
Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger
added Mar 28, 2013 16:26
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[UK] E-Lites announces partnership with MCE British Superbike Championship

E-Lites, the UK’s biggest e-cigarette brand, has announced a ground breaking partnership with the MCE British Superbike Championship for the 2013 season. The partnership signals a return to motorsport for a smoking related product for the first time sinc
Talking Retail (uk)
added Mar 28, 2013 10:48
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[New Zealand] Cancer charity shrugs off tobacco link

The New Zealand Association of Convenience Stores (NZACS), whose members include British American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco, will donate the proceeds of its golf day next month to the Breast Cancer Research Trust. The fundraiser at the Remuera Golf C
New Zealand Herald
added Mar 28, 2013 10:45
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Bonnie J. Addario reflects on the passing of singer Bobbie Smith

Recent news of high-profile lung cancer cases and deaths highlights need for more funding and better research ... "It is time we stop singling out just lung cancer as a smoking disease. Smoking is also a cause of many other cancers, vascular disease and
PR Newswire
added Mar 28, 2013 10:15
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[New York] Why is funding being cut to state's anti-smoking programs?

If New York gets hundreds of millions of dollars each year from the big settlement with the tobacco companies, why is funding being cut again to the state's anti-smoking programs?
WHEC 10 NBC (Rochester, NY)
added Mar 27, 2013 06:01
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[North Dakota] ND Measure Reimburses Smoking Ban Costs

North Dakota lawmakers have endorsed a bill that would reimburse business owners for signage incurred from a new statewide smoking ban.
AP - Associated Press
added Mar 26, 2013 14:46
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[Europe] MEPs vote on supporting redundant tobacco workers

MEPs in the European Parliament's Budget Committee are to vote this afternoon on providing €3.9 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 270 workers made redundant by Austria Tabak GmbH and by 14 suppliers and downstream produ
New Europe
added Mar 26, 2013 13:52
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[Europe] Bulgaria to Seek EU Funding for Rose Production, Tobacco Growing

Caretaker Agriculture Minister Ivan Stankov has said that Bulgaria will seek EU funding for developing rose production and tobacco growing at the meeting of Member States' ministers of fisheries and agriculture in Luxembourg. Photo by BGNES
Novinite.com (bg)
added Mar 26, 2013 13:23
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Obamacare funds 'Tips from Former Smokers' and other public health campaigns

Perhaps one of the most unnerving campaigns, unnerving at least for smokers, is the national “Tips from Former Smokers” campaign launched by the CDC last year. The graphic series of advertisements features disabled and disfigured ex-smokers testifying to
Examiner.com (National)
added Mar 25, 2013 16:57
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Ukip plans to stop benefit claimants buying tobacco and alcohol

Some long-term benefit claimants would be banned from using their benefit cash to buy cigarettes, alcohol or satellite TV subscriptions under proposals due to be presented at the UK Independence party's spring conference on Saturday.
The Guardian (uk)
added Mar 25, 2013 13:00
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