New York, the nation’s third-most populous state, may begin collecting taxes as soon as tomorrow on cigarettes sold by Indians from their reservations to non- tribal buyers after a judge refused to block the levies. ... read more >>
Posts Tagged ‘Cigarettes’
New York Set to Tax Cigarettes on Indian Reservations
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
State to return Seneca truck, cigarettes
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
ALBANY — Just two days after seizing a truck owned by a Seneca Nation businessman and the thousands of cartons of untaxed cigarettes inside it, the state tax department backed down Wednesday. ... read more >>
ALBANY — Just two days after seizing a truck owned by a Seneca Nation businessman and the thousands of cartons of untaxed cigarettes inside it, the state tax department backed down Wednesday. ... read more >>
Military care packages with cigarettes go up in smoke after new smuggling law takes effect
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Family and friends have suddenly found themselves blocked from shipping cigarettes and other tobacco products to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq because of a new law meant to hamper smuggling and underage sales through the mail. The Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009 quietly took effect June 29. It cut off those care packages by effectively requiring that tobacco be sent with one particular kind of U.S. Postal Service shipping that requires a signature for delivery but does not deliver to most overseas military addresses. ... read more >>
Family and friends have suddenly found themselves blocked from shipping cigarettes and other tobacco products to American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq because of a new law meant to hamper smuggling and underage sales through the mail. The Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act of 2009 quietly took effect June 29. It cut off those care packages by effectively requiring that tobacco be sent with one particular kind of U.S. Postal Service shipping that requires a signature for delivery but does not deliver to most overseas military addresses. ... read more >>
Cigarettes can no longer be ‘light’ or ‘mild’, but can still be color-coded
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
New FDA rules say cigarette makers can no longer market products as light, mild, or low. But tobacco companies will still be using color association. ... read more >>
New FDA rules say cigarette makers can no longer market products as light, mild, or low. But tobacco companies will still be using color association. ... read more >>
Charlie Sheen says he can’t do jail time because he needs cigarettes
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Charlie Sheen’s apparent insistence on access to tobacco seems to be holding up his punishment stemming from his Christmas Day attack on wife Brooke Mueller. Per Radar, the sitcom-star-slash-hot-mess is trying to cut a deal to swap jail time for probation. His previous deal called for a month behind bars, which, according to analysts, was expected to be cut to something closer to two weeks with good behavior. ... read more >>
Charlie Sheen’s apparent insistence on access to tobacco seems to be holding up his punishment stemming from his Christmas Day attack on wife Brooke Mueller. Per Radar, the sitcom-star-slash-hot-mess is trying to cut a deal to swap jail time for probation. His previous deal called for a month behind bars, which, according to analysts, was expected to be cut to something closer to two weeks with good behavior. ... read more >>
Cough up
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Find out why a new report is calling for the cost of a packet of cigarettes to be increased to a pricey £7.42 and have your say. Smoking currently costs the UK £13.74 billion a year, and a new report called Cough up has called for tobacco duty to rise so that cigarettes can become revenue neutral to society. ... read more >>
Find out why a new report is calling for the cost of a packet of cigarettes to be increased to a pricey £7.42 and have your say. Smoking currently costs the UK £13.74 billion a year, and a new report called Cough up has called for tobacco duty to rise so that cigarettes can become revenue neutral to society. ... read more >>
University students expect to graduate with debts in excess of £15,000
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Half of all university students in the UK expect to graduate with more than £15,000 of debt, according to research published today. The latest Sodexo University Lifestyle Survey confirms the establishment of a generation of debt-ridden and anxiety-stricken undergraduates struggling to cope with their academic work. Even the traditional “student experience” appears to be on the wane as growing numbers choose to live at home and shun a busy social life because of work and financial pressures. ... read more >>
Half of all university students in the UK expect to graduate with more than £15,000 of debt, according to research published today. The latest Sodexo University Lifestyle Survey confirms the establishment of a generation of debt-ridden and anxiety-stricken undergraduates struggling to cope with their academic work. Even the traditional “student experience” appears to be on the wane as growing numbers choose to live at home and shun a busy social life because of work and financial pressures. ... read more >>
Cigarettes and alcohol and Obama
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Doctor tells President Obama to eat “healthy diet”! That was the shocking news to come out of the president’s first medical check-up since he moved into the Oval Office. Except that it wasn’t. Instead, the noise machine got excited by the next line from the presidential physician, urging “moderation in alcohol intake”. So does that mean the president of the United States is fond of a drink, wink wink? Not at all – let’s read the actual report and put it in context: ... read more >>
Doctor tells President Obama to eat “healthy diet”! That was the shocking news to come out of the president’s first medical check-up since he moved into the Oval Office. Except that it wasn’t. Instead, the noise machine got excited by the next line from the presidential physician, urging “moderation in alcohol intake”. So does that mean the president of the United States is fond of a drink, wink wink? Not at all – let’s read the actual report and put it in context: ... read more >>
The cigarettes, crisps and creme egg diet (but then do you know what YOUR teenager’s eating?)
Friday, February 26th, 2010
A recent study revealed that teenage girls are starving their bodies of essential nutrients and smoking in an effort to stay thin like their celebrity role models. Lily Elford is a 17-year-old A-level student from Hassocks in Sussex where she lives with her parents, Craig, 51, a surveyor, Claire, 44, a nursery teacher and her two sisters and brother. We asked Lily to keep a food diary for a week – to see what a typical middle-class teenage girl eats and drinks over a seven-day period. The results will shock many people – including Lily’s mother. ... read more >>
A recent study revealed that teenage girls are starving their bodies of essential nutrients and smoking in an effort to stay thin like their celebrity role models. Lily Elford is a 17-year-old A-level student from Hassocks in Sussex where she lives with her parents, Craig, 51, a surveyor, Claire, 44, a nursery teacher and her two sisters and brother. We asked Lily to keep a food diary for a week – to see what a typical middle-class teenage girl eats and drinks over a seven-day period. The results will shock many people – including Lily’s mother. ... read more >>
Glazer: Cost of smoking goes beyond the price of a pack
Monday, February 8th, 2010
I grew up among smokers. Both grandfathers were Prince Albert men, rolling their own cigarettes in tissue-thin paper filled with shreds of tobacco. I kept my preschool treasures in one of the empty red tins with its hinged lid and drawing of the portly prince on the front. My father was a Winston smoker. Almost every dad I knew smoked. Most of the moms did, too. ... read more >>
I grew up among smokers. Both grandfathers were Prince Albert men, rolling their own cigarettes in tissue-thin paper filled with shreds of tobacco. I kept my preschool treasures in one of the empty red tins with its hinged lid and drawing of the portly prince on the front. My father was a Winston smoker. Almost every dad I knew smoked. Most of the moms did, too. ... read more >>
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