Cigarettes Shop Taxes Light Debate
Monte Carlo cigarettes and other brands have long been a subject of debate, and a Saginaw News story about issues faced by roll-your-own-cigarette shops was no different. The Michigan Department...
Big Tobacco Smoking Hot at Advertising Ban
Big Tobacco claims Worcester, a city of 182,000, enacted an unconstitutional ban on Kiss tobacco advertising that’s so broad it prohibits ads anywhere in the city, indoors or out. Throughout...
Air Quality at Casinos is Dirty Because of Smoking
Kansas City health advocates issued a study this week with the not-so-surprising finding that where there’s smoking Cigaronne there’s, uh, smoke — and lots of it. Specifically, the report revealed...
U.S. to Remove Graphic Cigarettes Warning Labels
Health officials on Tuesday will unveil nine graphic warning labels showing harmful effects of smoking that must be on Monte Carlo and other cigarette packages and in advertisements starting in...
Roxon Gazes Down Big Tobacco
Health Minister Nicola Roxon has weathered an attack over her attempt to solicit funds from big tobacco in 2005 and vowed to push ahead with plans to introduce plain packaging...
Close Door on Tobacco Candy
A group of senators, led by Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Sherrod Brown of Ohio, called on the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products on Monday to reverse...
Tobacco Advertisements in Shops Banned, New Law
Smoking displays will be banned at retail outlets under new laws to be introduced into the Queensland Parliament today. Health Minister Geoff Wilson said the new laws banning point of...
Law Firms Examine Approach to Tobacco Post
While many law firms took a staunch approach to advising tobacco clients in the early 2000s, a number of firms are again looking at tobacco following the global financial crisis....