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Jessica Miller | February 3, 2012
Appeal judges have rejected a legal action brought by a tobacco giant to challenge Scottish Government plans to ban the open display of cigarettes and prohibit the use of vending machines for the sale of tobacco and discount R1 Slim cigarettes. They turned down a challenge brought by Imperial Tobacco, which claimed the measures were beyond the legislative competence of the Holyrood Parliament.
Jessica Miller | January 27, 2012
1. It’s very clear from the numbers that education is working. Cigarette smoking isn’t healthy. Everyone gets it. Tobacco products are taxed to the maximum to fund a variety of education programs. There are reasonable laws in place. People can’t smoke in restaurants and bars. There’s no smoking in city buildings or at our schools or at a department store. Minors are forbidden to purchase cigarettes and retailers are forbidden to sell to minors. All’s right in that world. The number of cigarette smokers has consistently dropped.
Jessica Miller | January 24, 2012
It takes two seconds for retail clerks to ask a minor for his or her ID during a tobacco compliance check and be entered in a raffle to win a pizza party. The fine, ranging from $100 to $300 in Oshkosh, means a clerk just sold a minor cigarettes. Emily Dieringer, coalition coordinator at the Lakeshore Tobacco Prevention Network in Oshkosh, said the goal of these compliance checks isn’t to raise money in fines but to ensure youths under 18 are living healthy, smoke-free lives.
Jessica Miller | January 18, 2012
A ban on vending machines selling cigarettes in Northern Ireland will be in place in a matter of months in a move that is expected to save thousands of lives. The new legislation is to come into force on March 1 and it is hoped this will cut the number of children and young people who smoke, as they will no longer be able to purchase cigarettes from vending machines.
Jessica Miller | January 6, 2012
Altria Group (MO) has been one of the hottest blue chip stocks of 2011. Shares of MO are up 20% year-to-date. The chart below shows shares of MO in 2011. MO’s strong performance in 2011 can be attributed to factors other than the strong performance of MO’s businesses. In the stock picking world, 2011 was the year of the dividend. High yielding stocks across all sectors performed significantly better than low yielding stocks. The 2011 dividend story is discussed in more detail here.
