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[New York] Schneiderman sues Native American-owned cigarette company
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed suit against a major supplier of a very popular line of native-brand cigarettes on Monday.
Mar 4, 2013
Albany (NY) Times Union blogs
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Mar 4, 2013 16:30
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Tobacco smoked in ancient California, researchers find
Six hundred years before cigarettes were sold at Pleasanton's Safeway, much earlier Californians were smoking tobacco in the same area. UC Davis researchers have found nicotine in ancient pipes excavated from an Ohlone burial site in Pleasanton at the c
Mar 2, 2013
Santa Cruz County (CA) Sentinel
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Mar 3, 2013 13:37
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[Canada] Ontario Continues Fight Against Contraband Cigarette Trade
The illegal cigarette trade has flourished in the province, despite efforts by authorities to crack down ... The trail of contraband cigarettes often leads right to Ontario’s Six Nations Indian reservation, which has a robust trade of illegal tobacco, th
Mar 1, 2013
National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS)
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Mar 3, 2013 13:39
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[Washington] Yakama tribal cigarette maker could face $30M tax bill
Under the 1855 Yakama treaty, the tribe reserved its right to the exclusive use of the reservation. That lawsuit is pending. Meanwhile, the federal government has sued King Mountain in U.S. District Court, seeking $30 million in federal excise taxes it
Feb 20, 2013
Yakima (WA) Herald
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Feb 21, 2013 10:17
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[Brazil] How Napoleon Chagnon Became Our Most Controversial Anthropologist
his first encounter with the tribe is legendary ... hideous men” — who had just concluded a bloody club fight with a neighboring village ... “Immense wads of green tobacco were stuck between their lower teeth and lips making them look even more hideous,
Feb 17, 2013
New York Times
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Feb 17, 2013 10:29
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[Washington] KING MOUNTAIN TOBACCO COMPANY, INC. v. ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO TAX
Enrolled members of federally recognized Indian tribes, as United States citizens, are subject to federal taxation unless explicitly exempted under federal law or by treaty. Fry v. United States, 557 F.2d 646, 647 (9th Cir. 1977). King Mountain is not exe
Feb 11, 2013
Leagle
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Feb 15, 2013 11:32
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[Australia] Government could control taste of cigarettes, raise taxes in battle against smoking
THE flavour and ingredients of cigarettes would be regulated, smoking in movies controlled and the cost of tobacco would sky-rocket under a radical Government blueprint to stop one million Australians smoking. The five-year war on smoking would also see
Feb 10, 2013
News Interactive Network/News Limited/News.com (au)
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Feb 10, 2013 11:02
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[Mississippi, Virginia, Washington] Tupelo makes deal over Indian raid lawsuit
TUPELO – City officials agree Tupelo police will stay off Yakama Indian Nation lands in Washington State. The City Council approved the decision Tuesday night, apparently as a condition to settle a 2011 lawsuit after federal and local authorities storme
Feb 7, 2013
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
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Feb 15, 2013 11:36
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[Oklahoma] RUCKMAN: Tobacco compacts and the manifestation of destiny
In Oklahoma, we are in the neighborhood of renegotiating the tribal tobacco compacts with the state. ... Maybe the best solution all around would be to strike tobacco peddling from our midst altogether. Even now, some tribes expound the health benefits
Feb 6, 2013
Native American Times
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Feb 6, 2013 07:03
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Trends in the Prevalence of Tobacco Use in the United States, 1991–1992 to 2004–2005
Conclusions: Individuals with substance use disorders or major depressive disorder and Native Americans reported higher rates of past-year daily tobacco use than the general population. These findings suggest the need to emphasize specific interventions
Feb 1, 2013
Psychiatric Services
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Feb 1, 2013 16:39