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The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online.
A deepening deficit has New York officials looking again at how to collect unpaid taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian tribes to non-Indians.
A deepening deficit has New York officials looking again at collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian tribes to non-Indians.
A court order hasn't stopped a brisk business in tax-free cigarettes on a New York Indian reservation.
The new federal ban on flavored cigarettes took effect on Tuesday, marking one of the first visible signs of the Food and Drug Administration's new authority to regulate tobacco.
CLOVES: Also known as kreteks (pronounced "cree-techs") for the crackling sound they make when burned, the cigarettes contain tobacco blended with cloves.
The nation's top distributor of clove cigarettes is offering fans a new way to get their fix after the spice-flavored cigarettes are banned later this year — cigars.
Doctors have tried warning young people away from tanning beds for years, but their threats of skin cancer typically fell on deaf (but bronzed) ears. Until yesterday, that is, when it seems something clicked.
Federal health officials said Wednesday they have found cancer-causing ingredients in electronic cigarettes, despite manufacturers' claims the products are safer than tobacco cigarettes.
Local officials said they will file a notice of appeal following a court decision that allows the Cayuga Indian Nation to resume selling untaxed cigarettes at two tribal stores in central New York.
Authorities said a woman wasn't wearing any clothes when she knocked on stranger's door in the middle of the night to ask for cigarettes. The Pinellas sheriff's office reported that the woman, 52, went to the strange home early Friday morning. Deputies found her a short time later walking through a mobile home park wearing only boxer shorts.
Australian officials said Friday they want to fast-track rules making cigarettes less likely to ignite fires as part of the government's response to this month's wildfires that killed at least 209 people.
Marlboro, the cigarette favored by adults, is also the runaway favorite of teens who regularly smoke, according to a new federal report released Thursday.
Josh Hubbard examined a cigarette from the pack he had just bought. They were different.
Laws mandating stores only sell cigarettes that are slow-burning and fire-safe went into effect in five states on New Year's Day.
Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved legislation to lower tar and nicotine content in cigarettes and to place large health warnings on the packs.
There are searing images that make indelible and emotional imprints on our brains. The burning twin towers. Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald. Jack Nicholson’s demonic face in “The Shining.” I experienced one of those images as a medical student, on the first day I stepped into an anatomy laboratory.
The World Trade Organization opened an investigation Monday into Thai import charges on foreign cigarettes, acting on a complaint from the Philippines.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg filed a federal lawsuit against eight smoke shops that sell tax-free cigarettes on a Long Island Indian reservation, saying the city is being cheated out of millions in tax revenues.
Is menthol a flavor that should be banned from cigarettes? That's a tricky question, according to the American Medical Association whose members on Tuesday found themselves opposing some government health heavyweights.
The big cigarette tax increases that many states are instituting to balance their out-of-whack budgets are raising fears that the trend will make black-market smokes more profitable and lead to more cigarette smuggling.
Millions of dollars worth of counterfeit tax stamps were seized and a Jordanian man arrested as part of a major undercover investigation into tobacco smuggling in New York, authorities announced Wednesday.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday invalidated parts of Maine's law barring Internet tobacco sales to minors.
The nation's largest tobacco company knew as early as the 1970s that smokers of light cigarettes took larger puffs that delivered greater amounts of tar, according to a newly released memo.
A single joint of marijuana obstructs the flow of air as much as smoking up to five tobacco cigarettes, but long-term pot use does not increase the risk of developing emphysema, new research suggests.
Obama Tells Nation He's Going Out For Cigarettes WASHINGTON—During a nationally televised address Tuesday, a visibly tired and worn President Obama informed the country that he was going out for a pack of cigarettes and would be back in 10 minutes or so.
Report: Prisoners escape, steal cigarettes, then return to prison State prison officials say two southern Middle Tennessee inmates escaped, burglarized a convenience store and then returned on their own.
Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteriaCigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.
Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids WarrantyUnless you've just arrived in 2009 on a time machine, you know that smoking isn't good for you. Did you know, that smoking isn't good for your computer, either? It's true, at least according to Apple.
Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteriaCigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.
Chattanooga Times Free Press | Progress slow in choking off smoking ratesSmoking will soon become a crime punishable by imprisonment. All the millions of tax revenue will come from another source and used to house prisoners. I can just see someone giving up cigarettes and walking outside for some fresh air and getting run over by smoky old dump truck.
Quitters get a shot in the arm with smoking vaccineSteve Ballou, an ex-smoker for more than a decade, started slipping back into his old ways with cigars. He'd have one when he was out with the guys, then when he was driving home from work, then one after dinner.
Drug May Help Smokers Quit...Moving to Phase III TrialsThe NicVAX vaccine prompts the immune system to create antibodies that bind to the nicotine molecules in the blood. The now-larger molecules are prevented by their size from crossing the blood-brain barrier.
From Monday 9 November, British lawmakers have agreed a new display ban on cigarettes in shops and vending machines.
Smoking Gun: Just One Cigarette Has Harmful Effect On Arteries Of Young Healthy Adults"Even one cigarette has serious adverse effects on young adults, according to research presented by Dr. Stella Daskalopoulou at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009."
Twisted man who forced girl, 3, to smoke cigarettes is jaileA 31 year old man thought it would be amusing to video tape a 3 year old girl smoking. A neighbor saw the tape and turned him in. The calendar may say e is 31, but his behavior says he is 13!
Man Jailed For Letting 3-Year-Old Girl Smoke CigarettesNewcastle Crown Court heard that the girl asked Graeme Conroy, 31, for a cigarette and when she started smoking it was filmed on a mobile phone. The court heard that the child had smoked three cigarettes before the filming took place.
Cigarette maker destroyed studies on tobacco, researchers sayImperial Tobacco Canada destroyed seven million pages of research which included decades worth of studies that indicated the devastating effects of smoking, a new medical journal article alleges.
Workplace study: 45% of food-service workers smokeIf you break smokers down by their occupations, the workers who are most likely to smoke are in the food-service industry, says a report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Out of all U.S.
When my daughter was born in 1968, I had no health insurance and a crappy low paying job, yet I still managed to pay for her hospital birth with cash because the cost was only about $1000 total.
Four-year-old boy a heavy smokerSHOCKING pictures have emerged of a boy who is a heavy smoker - at just four years of age. And the Jianghuai Morning Post reports that little Dong Dong, from Banqiao village in China's Anhui province, has been smoking since he was only two.
Sinatra was buried with bourbon, cigarettes and candy Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of bourbon, a pack of cigarettes, a lighter and a roll of dimes so he could call his loved ones from beyond the grave, according to a new book.
Man douses another's face with gas and lights it!A man suffered severe burns to his face, chest and hands during a fight over beer, cigarettes and money this afternoon.
30 word rant: Obama, Government, Binden, Right Wing, Left Wing, Cigarettes, RacismNo one in this country should be either surprised or shocked to hear the far right raise its voice in political dissent while the equally far left occupies the White House.
Flavors Banned From Cigarettes to Deter YouthsFederal health officials banned the sale of flavored cigarettes on Tuesday in the first major crackdown since the Food and Drug Administration was given the authority to regulate tobacco.
F.D.A. Bans Sale of Flavored Cigarettes - NYTimes.comThe FDA has banned flavored cigarettes because it is a gateway for young people to begin smoking. It has not affected the cigar industry as of yet.
'I'm giving up my cigarettes...after 95 years!'She lit her first cigarette as the lights were going out over Europe at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Since then she has reached for her trusty Player's Navy Blue (or, latterly, Embassy) through the ups and downs of all the following decades.
Rash of cigarette thefts tied to black market & taxesEight cases have popped up in Boca Raton and Delray Beach in which thousands of dollars worth of cigarettes have been stolen from grocery stores and gas stations.
Cool crisp fall air, I remember. The sweater with the deep pockets I used to dig my hands down into. We would walk out to the pond and light up.
Teacher Forces Student to Smoke 42 Cigarettes in 2 HoursKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian teacher forced a student to smoke 42 cigarettes in two hours as punishment after finding the boy had a cigarette and lighter, a news report said Thursday.
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