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State of California is At It Again!
From a press release from the IPCPR Sacramento, California June 18, 2009 – California legislators are grasping at tax straws that don’t exist as they seek to raise billions of dollars that don’t exist...
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New York City Council Attacks Flavored Tobacco
Well, so this isn’t strictly a story about taxes but the ongoing rush to condemn our favorite past time (as brothers of the leaf) is just ludicrous! Share this with anyone you know in New York and see...
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Jobs Go Up In Smoke: Thanks SCHIPs
CNN ran a nice article about the demise of Hav-A-Tampa cigar company that was killed as a result of SCHIPs and moved off-shore to Puerto Rico. Ironically, children of the worker profiled in this story...
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Tobacco Manufacturers and Retailer Sue FDA
Numerous Tobacco Manufacturers and Retailer File Lawsuit on FDA Provisions A lawsuit was filed this week in federal district court in Bowling Green, Kentucky by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Conwood...
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NYC Health Commission Just Doesn’t Think…
The Rest of the Story blog has a reasoned post today in “NYC Health Commissioner: "We Don't Think Children Should Have to Watch Someone Smoking” about how anti-smoking movement has degraded from...
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Flavored Cigarette Ban Starts Tuesday, Sept. 22nd
The Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, signed into effect by President Barak Obama on June 22 2009 has a provision that prohibits any flavored cigarettes (except for menthol of course) from...
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Stop The Insanity New York!
From the city that brought you the smoking ban in parks and other public places under the guise of protecting children from SEEING people smoking comes a new low in their erstwhile condemnation of the...
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Pipe Tobacco To Be Taxed At Roll-Your-Own Rates?
HR 4439, the Tobacco Tax Parity Act of 2010 was introduced on January 13, 2010 and would tax pipe tobacco at the same insane rate ($24.78 per pound) as roll-your-own tobacco from the current $2.8311...
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Help Stop Tobacco Tax Parity Act of 2010
Ok, so hopefully by now you've contacted your local representatives in Congress about stopping HR 4439. If not, you can stand up and be counted using this website. How else can you help? Get your...
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Anti-Smokerism Support from Cartoonist Dan Piraro
I knew that I always like Dan Piraro’s comic Bizarro and really couldn’t ever place my finger on why. His stuff ranges from visual puns to high-brow concepts to low-brow jokes but his most recent post...
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