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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
A June 5 ballot initiative that would raise California's tobacco tax by $1 per pack could boost the state's economy by nearly $2 billion annually and create 12,000 new permanent jobs in medical ...
If you’ve picked up a magazine recently, you probably noticed new seals which, when broken, take readers straight to a cigarette advertisement in the middle of the publication. As in, you’re ...
Three bills in the Alabama House of Representatives propose raising the state tax on tobacco. Proposed by Reps. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, and Joe Hubbard, D-Montgomery, the bills read today in ...
City health officials are considering a ban on tobacco sales at stores with pharmacies, one of several proposals aimed at keeping youths from buying cigarettes and other tobacco-related products. ...
Last week, the Macomb Police Department conducted a tobacco compliance check on locations throughout Macomb. The grant-funded program "Kids Can't Buy Them Here" is sponsored by the Illinois Liquor ...