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Illinois House approves $1-a-pack cigarette tax increase
Clout StreetSPRINGFIELD --- The Illinois House today approved a $1-a-pack cigarette tax hike to generate money for health care coverage for the poor. The 60-52 vote by the House, which has in the past rejected cigarette tax hike proposals, came a day after lawmakers...Tags: Politics, Democratic Party, Medicaid, Barbara Flynn Currie, Health Insurance
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Cigar Retailers Worry Regulations Could Burn Business
doug.magditch@cw33.com, Follow Me @DougMagditchKids: time to hang up your smoking jackets. The FDA is looking to regulate premium cigars. The reason? It says manufacturers market to kids. Local cigar retailers say the regulations could burn up their businesses. "We like to smoke cigars for stress...Tags: Food and Drug Administration
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Americans turn less to cigarettes, but find substitutes
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - While more Americans than ever before are quitting their cigarette habit, a growing number are also turning to large cigars and pipes, suggesting that gains in curbing tobacco consumption may be more elusive than previously thought....Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, McAfee, Inc., Disease Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Recreational Substance Use
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ANTIQUES: Hidden value found in art tiles
Bargain-priced American art pottery vases are hard to find. But, art pottery tiles made by important companies still are inexpensive, because they have had little publicity. Tile collectors in England and Holland pay high prices for tiles made in their...Tags: Mickey Mouse (fictional animal), Waterbury, Economy, Business and Finance, Prices, Companies and Corporations
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Alleged $100M customs fraud scheme uncovered
SAN DIEGO -- The head of a San Diego-based border trade agency faces federal charges, along with seven other people and three international trade companies, involving an alleged multimillion-dollar customs-fraud scheme, federal officials announced...
Tags: Punishment, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Elon Musk of SpaceX: The goal is Mars
As shipments go, it was routine — about half a ton of supplies — except it was delivered by the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. SpaceX partnered with NASA in this new model, the brainchild of Elon Musk, who's behind...
Tags: Space Programs, Economy, Business and Finance, NASA, Science and Technology, Companies and Corporations
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Cigarette use down, other tobacco up, CDC says
Cigarette consumption has gone down since 2008, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But other tobacco use has gone up. That includes use of pipe tobacco for roll-you-own cigarettes and cigarette-like cigars, the agency...
Tags: McAfee, Inc., U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Prevention, Quitting Smoking
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Campaigns on California ballot measures raise $150 million
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With cigars, politicians protect Americans from getting the best
No one can deny that the American cigar industry leads a charmed life, especially in Pennsylvania. First came the Cuban trade embargo half a century ago, leaving Americans as the only people in the world who cannot legally obtain the world's best cigars,...
Tags: Republican Party, Economic Sanctions, Dominican Republic, Fidel Castro, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania)
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Report shows teen tobacco use on the decline
While tobacco use among U.S. middle and high school students showed a slow decline from 2000 to 2011, health officials say more focus needs to be spent on preventing youth from becoming addicted to tobacco products. A report, released Friday by the...
Tags: Health Organizations, Schools, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, High Schools
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Australia upholds world's toughest anti-cigarette law
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia's highest court upheld the world's toughest law on cigarette promotion Wednesday, prohibiting tobacco company logos on cigarette packs that will instead show cancer-riddled mouths, blinded eyeballs and sickly...
Tags: Judges, Dominican Republic, Justice System, Economy, Business and Finance, Crime, Law and Justice
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High cigarette taxes won't work in Pennsylvania: too many roads
There was good news a couple of days ago for Kiwi smokers. A plan to increase cigarette prices to $100 a pack ($75 U.S.) has been scrapped, and they will have to pay only $20 a pack ($15 U.S.) by 2016. New Zealand, already with some of the highest prices...Tags: New Zealand, Crime, Law and Justice, Economy, Business and Finance, Justice System, Government
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