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The customs office at Incheon International Airport has advised South Koreans departing for Thailand to carry no more than 10 packs of cigarettes as the Southeast Asian country enforces strict customs clearance checks on tobacco.
Incheon Airport Customs warned that any travelers carrying more than 10 packs of cigarettes might face heavy fines if they fail [...]

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http://www.hot-cigs.com/news/Jun-28-2006/New-marketing-tactics-by-the-tobacco-industry-reported.493.html
A new American Lung Association report, Alcohol-Flavored Cigarettes – Continuing the Flavored Cigarette Trend, shows that the tobacco industry continues to target the nation’s youth and young adults with their deadly products using underhanded marketing tactics.
“Unfortunately, tobacco products remain virtually unregulated in the United States,” said John L. Kirkwood, President and CEO of the American [...]

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http://www.bloomberg.com
June 27 (Bloomberg) — Gallaher Group Plc, which makes Benson & Hedges cigarettes in the European Union, said competition to lower prices in Austria and Spain is weighing on profit this year.
Earnings before interest, tax and amortization from its tobacco business in continental Europe in the first half “is expected to be broadly flat versus [...]

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http://www.infozine.com
Recent findings have disproved the common belief that Hubble-Bubble smoking (Sheesha or hookah) is a safer and healthier alternative to traditional cigarette smoking.
Melbourne, Australia – infoZine – Smoking Hubble-Bubble does not reduce the risk of tobacco exposure – on the contrary, it poses potential harm to health.
The study – co-authored by Dr. Sana Al-Mutairi from [...]

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http://www.ladowntownnews.com
Smoking kills. Make no mistake about it. No one is immune to the carcinogenic effects of cigarette smoke. No matter what your heritage, if you smoke the risk of lung cancer and other diseases rises significantly
But a recent study by scientists from the USC Keck School of Medicine and the University of Hawaii in Honolulu [...]

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ALBANY, NEW YORK (2006-06-26) A coalition of anti-smoking groups and convenience store owners is urging Governor Pataki to sign a bill passed by the state legislature that would prevent the sale of untaxed cigarettes in New York.
New York has a law on the books that requires the collection of the sales tax on cigarettes sold [...]

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http://www.pantagraph.com
STREATOR — A ban on smoking in public places was unanimously rejected by the City Council on Wednesday night, but a prohibition on public smoking by minors was adopted.
City Manager John Kolata proposed a ban on smoking in public places like those adopted earlier this year in Bloomington-Normal and Chicago. It would have taken effect [...]

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http://www.pioneerlocal.com
A new village ordinance passed last week prohibits smoking in most indoor public places in Schaumburg, but patrons in restaurants and tobacco stores can keep on smoking — for now.
Village officials promised this week that the latest ordinance isn’t the final regulation.
“This is not the only thing we will be doing,” Mayor Al Larson said. [...]

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http://www.guampdn.com
Members of the Guam Hotel Restaurant Association have not yet taken a position on the newly enacted Natasha Protection Act. And until they do, lawmakers don’t plan to change what some have called a flawed law, the legislative speaker said yesterday.
At the GHRA’s General Membership meeting yesterday, Speaker Mark Forbes told the leaders of the [...]

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http://www.alamosanews.com
Hendricks briefs commissioners
ALAMOSA — San Luis Valley officials are preparing for the July 1 implementation of the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act.
SLV County Commissioners Association members met this week with Paula Hendricks, regional coordinator for the San Luis Valley Tobacco Education & Prevention Partnership.
Hendricks said the implementation of the clean air act is still scheduled [...]

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