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NICHOLSON: Bill to Raise Texas' Smoking Age Stalls after Lawmakers Realize Fewer People Would Buy Cigarettes

Rather, as the Morning News' Robert Garrett reports, it was because it would cost the state quite a sizable chunk of tax revenue. ... Maybe the Legislature can split the baby here: raise the smoking age, lower the drinking age, and call it a wash.
Dallas Observer
added Feb 20, 2013 23:18
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[Texas] Tech Doc: Limiting secondhand smoke pays off by decreasing the incidence of heart attack

February is Heart Month. As such, it is good to remember that tobacco use causes heart disease, not only in people who smoke cigarettes or use other tobacco products, but also in nonsmokers who are exposed to tobacco smoke.
Lubbock (TX) Avalanche-Journal
added Feb 19, 2013 12:51
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[Texas] Teen tobacco use in Taylor County points to need for sting, official says

Those numbers worry Melanie Seals, prevention and intervention services director at Abilene Regional Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. She said she’s excited for the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office to begin its tobacco sting operation program March 1.
Abilene (TX) Reporter-News
added Feb 15, 2013 09:29
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[Texas] 2 commissioners question electronic cigarette ban

Two weeks after Travis County commissioners unanimously voted to ban all tobacco products on county property ... Commissioners Sarah Eckhardt, a Democrat, and Gerald Daugherty, a Republican, cited concerns with overreach of government in banning use of
Austin (TX) American-Statesman
added Feb 14, 2013 20:44
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[Texas] Summer trial slated against HEB by shopper who bonked head on cigarette rack

An summer trial has been slated in litigation brought by Devin Woods, who bonked his head on a cigarette rack while lifting his groceries at H-E-B. 
Southeast Texas Record
added Feb 13, 2013 12:33
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[Texas] Shopper suing H-E-B after bumping head on cigarette rack

Devin Woods alleges in the suit that H-E-B was negligent in not warning him about dangerous conditions when he went to pick up his groceries on April 13, 2010. Woods says he struck his head on a cigarette rack and is suing for past and future medical expe
San Antonio (TX) Business Journal
added Feb 13, 2013 12:15
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[Texas] AFD: Dropped cigarette ignites Austin fourplex fire; one dead

Eight people are now without a home. The Red Cross is assisting. Witnesses said an elderly woman was smoking a cigarette upstairs when she dropped it, and her chair caught on fire. She started screaming for help, and that's when a neighbor tried to rush
KENS Ch. 5 Eyewitness News (San Antonio, TX)
added Feb 10, 2013 10:20
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[Texas] HFD: Smoking in bed led to elderly man's death

Investigators with the Houston Fire Department said an elderly man died Thursday night after a cigarette he was smoking apparently lit his mattress on fire. The man, who police said was 80 years old, was found dead inside his apartment just after 11:15 p
KHOU CBS 11 (Houston, TX)
added Feb 3, 2013 12:35
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[Texas] State Senator Wants to Raise Smoking Age

State Senator Carlos Uresti is proposing raising the legal age to purchase, consume and possess tobacco products from 18 to 21. "It's going to save lives and it's going to save money," Uresti said.
KABB FOX 29 (San Antonio, TX)
added Feb 3, 2013 03:17
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[Texas] Man attacks officers during spat over cigarette

A security guard working at the VIA Crossroads Park & Ride Tuesday said he asked Garcia to take his lighted cigarette to a designated smoking area, rather than smoke at the bus stop, which is a smoke free zone, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
KSAT-12 (San Antonio, TX)
added Jan 31, 2013 13:08
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