Richland has become the latest city to put a hold on medical marijuana gardens.
Tuesday night, City Council approved a 6-month moratorium on community pot grows, but says the issue is far from dead.
At the required public hearing two weeks ago, nearly a dozen people spoke out about the issue, and every single one was in favor of these group gardens.
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A Kanawha judge has ordered a Moundsville cigarette company to comply with state laws and pay at least $82,500 in annual state taxes it was fighting.
Compton Point, a store in Moundsville, sells empty paper cigarette tubes and loose tobacco and allows consumers to place the materials in a machine that rolls them into a product that can be smoked. Consumers save about $7 per carton in the process.
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Imperial Tobacco Group Plc (IMT), the maker of West and Davidoff cigarettes, forecast higher full-year sales, led by growth in eastern Europe and Asia.
Net revenue from tobacco will probably increase 2 percent excluding currency shifts in the 12 months through September, the Bristol, England-based company said today in a statement. That matched the median of three estimates in a Bloomberg News survey. Results will be “in line” with the company’s expectations, the Davidoff maker said. Ream more »
The UN’s health chief challenged governments on Monday to accelerate the implementation of a robust framework convention on tobacco control despite the “despicable efforts” of the tobacco industry to subvert it.
World Health Organisation director-general Margaret Chan told the general assembly in New York that fully implementing the UN’s anti-smoking Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, signed by over 170 countries, “would bring the single biggest blow to heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory disease.”
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U.S. tobacco stocks have luxurious yields. Yet, a big problem lurks: Cigarette companies are in a declining business. Americans are smoking less. Surprisingly, earnings have held up well, and are, in many cases, rising. Still, although those juicy dividends beckon, tobacco should look for companies bucking the trend and actually selling more product.
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For some, the upside may be worth the risk, while for others, addiction compels them to continue.
Smoking can also kill you quickly.
But officials said there’s no upside to risking fire, as highlighted by a recent ruling that “unattended smoking materials” caused the Altoona blaze on March 22 that killed five people: Thomas Boyles, 57; Baron R. Snyder Sr., 40; Christopher S. Alvord, 23; Warren A. “Boo” Carter Jr., 35; and Joey A. Middaugh, 17.
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A new study shows teen smokers who start exercising have a better chance of quitting the habit.
Those with the West Virginia Prevention Center started their research back in October of 2009. More than 200 students from 19 schools participated. Their average age was 16 and a half.
“The kids in the study were regular smokers. They smoked about a half a pack a day during the week and up to a pack on a weekend day, so these were addicted teen smokers.”
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Last week, the board of directors of tobacco giant Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM) approved a 20.3% increase in its quarterly dividend to 77 cents per share. This was the fourth consecutive annual dividend increase for the company since it was spun off from Altria Group (NYSE:MO) in 2008.
In a previous article, I outlined a few reasons why I am buying Philip Morris International now. The company is well positioned to capitalize on its strong brand in emerging economies, Ream more »
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week two new SMS smoking cessation programs, QuitNowTXT and SmokeFreeTXT, as part of their Text4Health initiative. The programs, a collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, are aimed separately at adults, and teens/young adults, respectively.
HHS formed the Text4Health Task Force in November 2010 to provide recommendations for HHS’ role in encouraging and developing health text messaging initiatives, Ream more »
Medical marijuana businesses in operation in Glenwood Springs will have to pay a series of license and registration fees once the city’s moratorium on such businesses expires on Oct. 1.
The Glenwood Springs City Council approved the fee structure at the council’s regular meeting Thursday.
Earlier in the evening, a group of about a dozen area residents appealed to the council to participate in a community dialogue on the hazards of medical marijuana. They say the presence of medical marijuana businesses is making the drug more available to youth. Ream more »