• Victoria primed to ban outdoor smoking (20/02/2012 )
    VicHealth is believed to have called for the move in a report to Health Minister David Davis. Premier Ted Baillieu previously has said he would take advice on smoking in alfresco dining areas from ...
  • If anti smoking plain package zealots succeed, the only winner will be the black market (20/02/2012 )
    The anti smoking industry has such zeal that it has lost all sense of how humans behave. This puritanical group, for whom their cause is a substitute for religious belief, are concerned to make ...
  • Four jailed for five million cigarettes scam (20/02/2012 )
    Four men have been jailed for their involvement in smuggling almost five million cigarettes into the country through Dover and evading over £800,000 in duty. Transport boss John Lester, 52, was ...
  • Tobacco Quitline offering free coaching to pregnant women (20/02/2012 )
    The Michigan Department of Community Health's Michigan Tobacco Quitline is now offering free coaching for pregnant women who are uninsured or enrolled in Medicaid and want to quit using tobacco. ...
  • Big Tobacco prepares for packaging switch (20/02/2012 )
    Big Tobacco has launched an aggressive fight back against the plain packaging law. The curbs on Australia’s $9.5bn-a-year smoking market do not pose much of a threat to profits. But the bigger ...
  • Bill will raise tax on tobacco products (20/02/2012 )
    Smokers and dippers alike might be shelling out a little more dough to indulge in the nicotine habit, if three lawmakers have their way in this session. A fresh bill put before the Senate in ...
  • Austin Recovery to Become Tobacco-Free (20/02/2012 )
    Most smokers have thought about quitting, and many have even tried. Unfortunately, despite the well-established knowledge of the negative health consequences of both first and second hand smoke, ...
  • Lawmakers Seek to Slash Cigarette Tax (20/02/2012 )
    Rhode Island has one of the highest cigarette taxes in the nation and now several state lawmakers say they would like to make changes to compete with Massachusetts and Connecticut. State Rep. ...
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