Jessica Miller | June 30, 2010
Taylor Momsen has been slammed by anti-smoking campaigners for lighting up illegally on stage on Sunday – officials have branded it “a dumb thing to do.” The “Gossip Girl” star was performing with her band The Pretty Reckless in California when she took time out from their set to smoke. The 16 year old is two years below the legal age to buy and smoke Virginia cigarettes in the state of California – and her onstage antics have sparked outrage.
Category: smoking addiction |
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Jessica Miller | June 30, 2010
Tobacco sellers should be licensed like bottle shops to reduce the number of shops offering Glamour, Winston and other smoking brands and make it easier for people to quit smoking, the state government will be told today. A study by the Cancer Council’s Newcastle-based research centre, found nine out of 10 smokers were snared by ‘‘tobacco traps’’, cigarette outlets on almost every street corner.
Category: anti-smoking regulation |
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Jessica Miller | June 30, 2010
The Merriam City Council on Monday discussed whether to ban smoking Kiss, Virginia and other discount cigarettes on all city property — including outdoors in parks and outside buildings. Council members passed a resolution that brings the city in line with the Kansas Indoor Clean Air Act, which beginning July 1 prohibits smoking within 10 feet of doors, open windows or air intakes of government buildings statewide.
Category: No Smoking |
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Jessica Miller | June 30, 2010
The pending state budget has spooked Pennsylvania’s anti-smoking activists. An annual payment the state gets as part of a legal settlement with tobacco companies is supposed to go to a number of health care sources. A couple of months ago, Gov. Ed Rendell told legislative leaders about a plan to redirect more than $300 million from that settlement into Pennsylvania’s general fund, which is basically a pot for all the state’s money that isn’t designated for a specific purpose.
Category: anti-smoking regulation |
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Jessica Miller | June 29, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday put an end to Washington’s bid to fine Big Tobacco more than a quarter of a trillion dollars for violating federal racketeering law. But the high court also rejected cigarette-makers’ request to review a lower court’s ruling that the companies had violated federal anti-gang laws over several decades by denying the health risks of Marlboro smoking, marketing to young people and making defective products.
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Taylor Momsen has been slammed by anti-smoking campaigners for lighting up illegally on stage on Sunday – officials have branded it “a dumb thing to do.” The “Gossip Girl” star was performing with her band The Pretty Reckless in California when she took time out from their set to smoke. The 16 year old is two years below the legal age to buy and smoke Virginia cigarettes in the state of California – and her onstage antics have sparked outrage.
