The Illinois legislature sent Gov. Pat Quinn a Medicaid reform and tax package that falls short of his stated goals and raises cigarette taxes to help address a $2.7 billion Medicaid shortfall.
The legislative package sent to the governor on June 7 would cut $1.6 billion from several state programs Ream more »
The Missouri School Boards Association voted to support a plan that would raise Missouri’s lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax from 17 cents per pack to 90 cents beginning in January.
MO School Boards Association Spokesman Brent Ghan said, “We think it’s kind of a tough argument to make that we ought to remain the lowest tobacco tax in the country when we continue to struggle to find new revenue to fund public education and other things that we need here in the State of Missouri.”
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Tobacco companies are known for not going down without a fight.
The struggle against Australia’s new plain packaging laws is no exception.
Big tobacco has rolled out the big lawyers and won the support of tobacco exporting countries. Ream more »
The perseverance of Farm Labor Organizing Committee activists in North Carolina paid off in early April when Reynolds American finally agreed to meet with the union. FLOC has been demanding since 2008 that the tobacco giant discuss working conditions for tobacco pickers. Ream more »
A story appeared today in USA Today’s Green House section about efforts around the world to start recycling cigarette butts. When I saw it, I almost yelled out, “Hallelujah!” in the middle of my office.
If there’s one thing I could eliminate from my environment, it would be discarded cigarette butts. Ream more »
A Northland man has been fined $1500 for unlawfully manufacturing tobacco that he bought from a Motueka man.
Wellsford man Ross Ferguson, 64, has been convicted and fined $1500 for unlawfully manufacturing tobacco along with Motueka man Reginald Jury.
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A new campus-wide tobacco policy has been put into effect that prohibits the use of all tobacco products on Sam Houston State University grounds.
The policy went into effect June 1 and bans the use of cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smokeless tobacco and all other tobacco products, and applies to all students, faculty, staff, employees of contractors and visitors of SHSU. Ream more »
Zimbabwe earned US$95 million from tobacco exports in the first half of the year, an industry representative group said on Saturday. In a statement, the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board said the bulk of the crop was exported to China, with South Africa in second place.
It said as of 1 June, 2012, the country had exported a total of 23.2 million kilogrammes of tobacco, mainly to Asian and European countries.
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Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Tuesday were at a South Scranton tobacco business conducting an investigation, city Police Chief Dan Duffy said.
Agents spent part of the day at the 1111 S. Washington Ave. business, though the chief said he was not privy to the details of their probe or what they were looking for.
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THIS year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is taking momentum from the World No Tobacco Day to remind the world of the tobacco industry’s efforts to weaken the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). According to WHO, the tobacco industry today is daring to fight governments over tobacco-control programmes. Ream more »