Jessica Miller | March 5, 2012
A rainbow of fruit-flavored blunts, cigars and cigarillos line the shelves behind the counter at the Eustis Mobil convenience store on U.S. Highway 441. Tobacco users have their pick: apple, grape, peach and more. But a movement is gaining steam across the state against flavored tobacco. Local officials argue the candy like taste and shiny, colorful wrappers are meant to attract children and get them hooked on tobacco products. About 100 resolutions — including several in Central Florida — have been adopted across the state, urging businesses to stop selling fruit- and liqueur-flavored tobacco, including cigars, chew and snuff.
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Jessica Miller | February 9, 2012
Standing outside the Capitol on a brisk January afternoon, Rep. Bob Nonini cups his hand deftly to shelter a cigarette — not from the wind, but from a camera. The Coeur d’Alene Republican and House Education Committee chairman has the distinction of being the lone Idaho lawmaker who still regularly, if bashfully, steps outside for a discount Classic cigarette smoke. “This is private,” Nonini says, declining further comment this week.
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Jessica Miller | January 5, 2012
Plans are under way to legally require the display of cigarette additives known to cause addiction by causing smoke to be inhaled more directly into the lungs or improving the cigarette’s taste. The Ministry of Health and Welfare said Wednesday that current laws on cigarettes “are lacking in cigarette safety management, with no standards for managing the various cigarette additives with harmful ingredients, or regulations requiring their display.”
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Jessica Miller | October 27, 2011
British American Tobacco has warned that a squeeze on disposable income and tax hikes by cash-strapped governments are pushing smokers into a growing illicit tobacco market. The world’s second largest tobacco company and producer of the Lucky Strike brand said a growing trade in illegal cigarettes was a threat to its business, overshadowing a rise in sales of BAT’s legitimate products.
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Jessica Miller | August 17, 2011
Lorillard, the maker of Newport cigarettes, said that it and three other tobacco companies sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday seeking to stop the agency from putting new warnings on Chesterfield cigarettes. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, Greensboro, N.C.-based Lorillard said in a statement. The company said it was joined in the complaint by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Commonwealth Brands and Liggett Group.
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