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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: Safety of Citizens, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Police Investigations, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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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: U.S. Department of Justice, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Lawyers, Prosecution, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia)
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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: John Varvatos, University of Maryland Medical Center, Family, Education, Chocolate Cake
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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: Health, Colleges and Universities, The Ohio State University, City University of New York, Companies and Corporations
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Prop. 29 would impose $1 cigarette tax
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO -- California's primary elections are around the corner and one of the propositions has been making national headlines. Proposition 29 would put a $1 tax on every pack of cigarettes sold in California. If passed, it is expected to raise more...Tags: Politics, Elections, Republican Party, Primaries, American Lung Association
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Big Tobacco wins fire marshals as allies in flame retardant push
The problem facing cigarette manufacturers decades ago involved tragic deaths and bad publicity, but it had nothing to do with cancer. It had to do with house fires. Smoldering cigarettes were sparking fires and killing people. And tobacco executives...
Tags: Politics, Furnishings and Furniture Industry, Michael Hawthorne, Lobbying, Disasters and Accidents
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CDC unveils graphic ads to combat smoking
CNNFederal health officials are unveiling Thursday a $54 million national media campaign to get smokers to quit and prevent anyone else, especially children, from starting. The campaign, called "Tips From Former Smokers," is intended to educate Americans...Tags: Politics, Health, Judges, Elections, Family
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Roll-your-own cigarettes is lighting up a fight in Richmond
NEWS7 Senior ReporterA fight over roll-your-own cigarettes is heating up in Richmond. New machines in a growing number of shops have gotten the attention of Virginia's cigarette makers. The issue is now lighting up the legislature. The customer dumps the loose tobacco,...Tags: Chesterfield County, Tobacco Products
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Fight over roll-your-own cigarettes is lighting up the legislature
ReporterThe customer dumps the loose tobacco, loads the paper tubes, punches a few buttons on a touch screen and the RYO Filling Station comes to life, cranking out the finished cigarettes It’s easy to see why shops like Tobacco Direct have become...Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Chesterfield County, Labor Legislation, Tobacco Products
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Alaska Joins Several States In Cigarette Label Lawsuit
Channel 2 NewsSeveral states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the...Tags: Judges, Health, Politics, Respiratory Disease, Lungs and Airways
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Tobacco companies file lawsuit over warning labels
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tobacco companies want a judge to put a stop to new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and pictures of diseased lungs, saying they unfairly urge adults to shun their legal products and will cost...Tags: Politics, Judges, Lungs and Airways, Human Rights, Laws
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