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Campaigns on California ballot measures raise $150 million
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Tobacco companies add $15 million to fight cigarette tax
PolitiCalTobacco companies are stepping up their efforts to defeat Proposition 29, the June ballot measure that would hike cigarette taxes by $1 per pack. On Friday, the parent companies of Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reported giving...... -
Big Tobacco adds nearly $9 million to fight against cigarette tax
PolitiCalThe parent companies of Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reported nearly $9 million in contributions to the campaign against Proposition 29, the June ballot measure that would hike cigarette taxes by $1 per pack.... -
El fabricante de Marlboro lanza su primer cigarrillo electrónico
Nueva York, 11 jun (EFE).- La tabaquera estadounidense Altria, que fabrica marcas como Marlboro, anunció hoy el lanzamiento en agosto próximo de su primer cigarrillo electrónico, llamado MarkTen, con el que busca entrar de lleno en este creciente mercado....Tags: Reynolds American Incorporated, Altria Group, Inc.
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NY proposal would make 21 minimum age for tobacco
No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City, under a new proposal announced Monday that marks the latest in a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the nation's largest city. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Altria Group, Inc., Groceries, Michael Bloomberg, Food and Drug Administration
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Critics revive past promises to knock Obama budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...
Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Consumers, Economic Indicator, Budgets and Budgeting, Medicare
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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. Instead, the Food and...
Tags: Judges, Reynolds American Incorporated, Tobacco Addiction, U.S. Supreme Court, Altria Group, Inc.
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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. The ban, which...
Tags: Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Public Officials, American Cancer Society, Altria Group, Inc.
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No 'gift' in cigarette sting, City Council members say
HAMPTON — Two City Council members say Hampton's city manager has backed off her prior assertion that a "gift" from a private entity provided funding for an undercover police company created to go after cigarette bootleggers. In a Sept. 27 email...
Tags: Finance, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Safety of Citizens, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Why ATF backed out on Hampton cigarette stings
HAMPTON — One day in the spring of 2010, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) approached the Hampton Police Division about working with him on undercover cigarette stings. That agent, Clifford D....
Tags: Prosecution, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Hampton Roads
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Wedded: Alexandra Heifetz and Kyle Jones
For The Baltimore SunWedding Day: Aug. 11, 2012 Her story: Alexandra Heifetz-Jones, 29, grew up in Dayton. She lives in Davis, Calif., and is in her second year at the University of California-Davis School of Law. Her mother, Suzanne Heifetz, is a clinical social worker in...Tags: Entertainment, Chocolate Cake, Weddings, Apple iPod, Asparagus
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Colleges move toward absolute bans on smoking
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As a political science major at Ohio State University, Ida Seitter says, she lit up many a cigarette to help her through the stress of exam season. Right or wrong, they were her security blanket as she toiled through college....
Tags: Tobacco Products, The Ohio State University, City University of New York, University of Missouri , Colleges and Universities
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