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    Apr 10, 2013 |Story| KWCH

  1. Obama's budget eyes health costs, cigarette tax

    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next year under the health care law the GOP has bitterly fought to repeal.
    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next year under the health care law the GOP has bitterly fought to repeal.     But the...

    Tags: U.S. Congress, Healthcare Laws, Politics, Medicare, Barack Obama

    2. Apr 25, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  2. Tobacco trafficking ring probe ends with 49th conviction

    The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
    More than $1.3 million in unpaid tobacco taxes was collected and 49 defendants sentenced during an extensive crackdown that spanned several counties and lasted years, the state Attorney General said Wednesday. The final defendant pleaded guilty Tuesday....

    Tags: Laws, Punishment, Trials, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice

    3. Feb 21, 2013 |Story| WDBJ7

  3. All tobacco products are banned at Tazewell County schools

    TAZEWELL, Va. (AP) --
    TAZEWELL, Va. (AP) -- Tazewell County's school system is now tobacco-free. The school board has banned the use of tobacco products at all schools, along with school-related facilities and activities in the county. The new policy includes Ernie Hicks...
    4. Mar 15, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant

  4. Subpoenas Show Federal Probe At State Capitol Is Expanding

    A federal bribery and conspiracy investigation that grew out of efforts to kill a tobacco tax at the state legislature has widened in recent months to include how the state appropriated tens of millions of dollars through bonding.
    The Hartford Courant
    A federal bribery and conspiracy investigation that grew out of efforts to kill a tobacco tax at the state legislature has widened in recent months to include how the state appropriated tens of millions of dollars through bonding. The direction of the...

    Tags: Middletown, Politics, U.S. Congress, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace

    5. Mar 21, 2013 |Column| South Bend Tribune

  5. Indiana's tobacco control funding pitiful

    It's a sad story.
    It's a sad story. In 1999, the General Assembly displayed great wisdom in enacting legislation that allocated $35 million annually from Indiana's portion of the National Tobacco Settlement for a comprehensive state tobacco- prevention program. The...

    Tags: Lung Cancer, Health Insurance Cost, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Disease

    6. Mar 20, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  6. U.S. to revise cigarette warning labels

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit.
    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and...

    Tags: Politics, Altria Group, Inc., U.S. Department of Justice, Tobacco Addiction, Crime, Law and Justice

    7. Mar 19, 2013 |Story| KWCH

  7. Bloomberg's new plan: hide cigarettes

    NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-smoking advocates and health experts hailed proposals from Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would keep cigarettes out of sight in New York City stores, while tobacco companies and smokers called it an overreach.
    NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-smoking advocates and health experts hailed proposals from Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would keep cigarettes out of sight in New York City stores, while tobacco companies and smokers called it an overreach. The ban, which...

    Tags: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Politics, Altria Group, Inc., Advertising, Public Officials

    8. Mar 12, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Harford fifth-graders pledge never to try smoking

    Thousands of fifth-graders around Harford County have pledged never to try tobacco by signing their names on banners that will be exhibited on National Kick Butts Day March 20. Harford County Health Department's Cigarette Restitution Fund Tobacco Program...

    Tags: Students, Woodbridge, Edgewood, Teaching and Learning, Harford County

    9. Mar 27, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  9. Flame retardants: California hearing weighs new safety rule

    — California officials vowed Tuesday to move forward on a new fire safety rule that could eliminate the use of toxic flame retardants in household furniture and baby products sold nationwide.
    — California officials vowed Tuesday to move forward on a new fire safety rule that could eliminate the use of toxic flame retardants in household furniture and baby products sold nationwide. At a public hearing on the proposed standard, what was...

    Tags: Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, Chemical Industry

    10. Feb 26, 2013 |Story| Petoskey News

  10. C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies

    NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general.
    NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general. Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the...

    Tags: AIDS, University of Pennsylvania, Politics, Bruce Springsteen, Viral Diseases and Infections

    11. Feb 28, 2013 |Story| Aberdeen News

  11. Ban intended for hookah lounges backfires

     PIERRE — An attempt by Rapid City officials to have the Legislature make hookah lounges comply with the state’s smoking ban backfired Thursday.  A House panel reversed the legislation, so that hookah lounges would be exempt if they were...

    Tags: Human Rights, Politics, Labor Legislation, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

    12. Dec 5, 2012 |Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press

  12. Hampton settlement close over $80,690 seized by police

    HAMPTON — Hampton prosecutors are working to settle a forfeiture case involving $80,690 that was confiscated from a New Jersey truck driver on the Eastern Shore in January.
    HAMPTON — Hampton prosecutors are working to settle a forfeiture case involving $80,690 that was confiscated from a New Jersey truck driver on the Eastern Shore in January. According to three separate sources with knowledge of the case, Hampton...

    Tags: Laws, Spotsylvania County, Hampton Roads, Northampton County (Virginia), Trials

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