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http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/anchorage/smoking/story/8085222p-7977832c.html
Smokers have less than a year left to light up in Anchorage bars and bingo halls.
The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday night voted to ban smoking in those places — and in homes where a baby sitter is working — in a long-debated, long-awaited decision Tuesday night.
The indoor-smoking ban, which goes into effect next summer, passed [...]

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http://hot-cigs.com/news/August-15-2006/folder0/Surgeon-General-gets-smoked.1670.html
Perhaps there was nothing nefarious about the unusually quiet departure of Richard Carmona as U.S. surgeon general. With the ultra-secretive and business-friendly Bush Administration, personnel changes don’t always go down as advertised.
Depending on which explanation you believe, Dr. Carmona either resigned as head of the federal Public Health Service or he was not reappointed by [...]

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http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=7836
Quebec smokers are being left out in the cold, literally, by a recent provincewide ban on smoking in enclosed public places.
Not only has the new law, which came into effect May 31, forced bar and restaurant patrons outside for a cigarette, it seems some smokers are also having a hard time finding a place to [...]

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http://smokker.com/news/04-08-06/Customs-seize-illicit-cigarettes.1694.html
Customs officers seized 3m counterfeit and illegally imported cigarettes in the North West in one 24-hour period.
HM Revenue and Customs officials said the seizures, which took place between 27 and 28 July, offer a snapshot of the ongoing work to tackle tobacco fraud.
The figure includes more than 2.5m non-UK duty paid cigarettes seized in an [...]

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http://us-cigs.com/news/04.08.06/Cleveland-mayor-backs-cigarettes-tax-for-arts.1652.html
Mayor Frank Jackson and members of City Council said Thursday they support a Cuyahoga County proposal to add a cigarette tax to boost funding for the arts.
Cash-strapped cities such as Cleveland have to consider creative ways to offer public funds to the arts, and this tax would help the city’s creative vitality without adding to [...]

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http://hot-cigs.com/news/Aug-04-2006/New-Outdoor-Ashtray-Hits-the-Market.1687.html
Sylvain Bourdeau had his Eureka! moment when he spotted the ground littered with cigarette butts outside a Boucher-ville bar on the eve of Quebec’s ban on smoking in public places. “It hit me like a flash what people do with their cigarette butts,” Bourdeau said yesterday, recalling his May 30 epiphany.
The image also reminded him [...]

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http://www.pbcommercial.com
LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Huckabee, who successfully pushed for a statewide workplace smoking ban earlier this year, predicted Wednesday that cigarettes eventually won’t be sold because of their health risks.
“I think the day will come when we probably won’t” sell cigarettes, Huckabee said on his monthly call-in radio show. “If cigarettes were introduced to [...]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/5239892.stm
Customs officers seized 3m counterfeit and illegally imported cigarettes in the North West in one 24-hour period.
HM Revenue and Customs officials said the seizures, which took place between 27 and 28 July, offer a snapshot of the ongoing work to tackle tobacco fraud.
The figure includes more than 2.5m non-UK duty paid cigarettes seized in an [...]

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