Tobacco
Pascagoula council approves smoke-free ordinance
Pascagoula will go smoke free in late July. The city council approved a comprehensive smoking ban Tuesday that applies to all restaurants, bars, stores, motel/hotel lobbies, common areas of buildings and indoor workplaces. The ordinance takes effect in 30 days. Councilman Joe Abston, who brought up the idea of a ...
Exhibit looks at early Louisiana 'Pipe Dreams'
In the early 1700s, France sent thousands of colonists and slaves to Louisiana in the belief that tobacco would refill a treasury drained by wars. That period of envisioning the state as a promised land is the focus of "Pipe Dreams," an exhibit opening Tuesday and running through Sept. 15 ...
US judge in Microsoft antitrust case dies at 76
Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a historic Microsoft antitrust case and the drug possession trial of former Mayor Marion Barry, has died. Jackson died at his home in Compton, Md., his wife Patricia told The Associated Press on Sunday. He was 76 and ...
2 sue WVU to stop smoking ban from starting July 1
A student and a research assistant are suing West Virginia University to stop a campus-wide smoking ban from going into effect July 1. The Dominion Post (http://bit.ly/15Zwlsk) says Kyle Gregory and Dennis Cole are demanding an injunction in Monongalia County Circuit Court. They argue the smoking ban is discriminatory because ...
UK to start regulating e-cigarettes as medicines
Britain will start regulating electronic cigarettes and other products containing nicotine as medicines, according to the country's top regulator. E-cigarettes are battery-operated products that turn nicotine into a vapor inhaled by the user. The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said in a statement Wednesday it would treat e-cigarettes as ...
Marlboro maker Altria jumping into e-cigarettes
Tobacco company Altria Group Inc. is launching its first electronic cigarette under the MarkTen brand in Indiana starting in August and expanding its smokeless product offerings. The owner of the nation's biggest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, announced the details of its NuMark subsidiary's foray into the fast-growing business Tuesday. ...
Senate passes farm bill, moving debate to House
The last time Congress passed a farm bill, Democrats had control of the House and the food stamp program was about half the size it is today. That was five years ago. Conservatives calling for an overhaul of the domestic food aid program will try to trim the nation's nearly ...
Senate passes half-trillion dollar farm bill
The Senate on Monday passed a five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm bill that expands government subsidies for crop insurance, rice and peanuts while making small cuts to food stamps. The bill passed on a bipartisan 66-27 vote. The legislation, which costs almost $100 billion annually, also would eliminate subsidies that are paid ...
UT apartment manager rankles some with smoking ban
Many Utah housing complexes have policies that discourage smoking. But one Layton landlord has rankled some of his tenants after announcing a sweeping ban that likely would squeeze people out of the government-subsidized apartments if they don't quit soon. Randy Banks has garnered the support of the Davis County Health ...
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___ US government collecting huge number of phone records WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama administration is defending the National Security Agency's ...
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