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RICHMOND, Va. – Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars’ vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants.
Driven largely by ever-rising tobacco prices, he’s among a growing number of smokers that have turned to their green thumbs to cultivate tobacco plants to blend their own cigarettes, [...]

LONDON — British American Tobacco PLC Wednesday confirmed the appointment of former Bank Of Ireland Governor Richard Burrows as its new chairman.
Mr. Burrows will replace Jan du Plessis on Nov 1.
[ Mr. Burrows was previously Bank Of Ireland governor and co-chief executive of Pernod Ricard.] AFP/Getty Images
Mr. Burrows was previously Bank Of Ireland governor and [...]

CLAYTON, MO - The St. Louis County smoking ban battle is heating up once again with enemies on the issue standing together against the ban. And they’re opposed to it for the same reason: exemptions. When the debate over a County-wide smoking ban started about one month ago, there were plenty of people speaking out [...]

The serine-threonine protein kinase gene, designated pkv (protein kinase-viroid induced) was previously found to be transcriptionally activated in tomato plants infected with the plant pathogen Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd). These plants exhibited symptoms of stunting, and abnormal development of leaf, root, and vascular tissues.
The encoded protein, PKV, is a novel member of the AGC [...]

ANKARA — About 1,000 coffee house owners demonstrated Tuesday against a drastic smoking ban introduced in Turkey last month, urging the government to relax restrictions to save struggling businesses.
The crowd gathered in a park outside the health ministry, brandishing banners that called for a revision of the ban and threatened to punish the ruling Justice [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. — The state of Oregon has gone to court to block the sale of electronic cigarettes on the same day that a New York county banned their sale to minors.
Oregon Attorney General John Kroger and Jon Cooper, majority leader of the Suffolk County Legislature on Long Island, N.Y., said Tuesday the lawsuit and [...]

Union resistance means the Thailand Tobacco Monopoly must reconsider its organisational restructuring, said chairwoman Jantima Sirisaengtaksin.
Mrs Jantima said it was incumbent on management of the state enterprise to reopen talks with the TTM’s 3,000- strong union and that restructuring did not imply a privatisation.
“The policy to change the TTM into a juristic person is not [...]

A director is soon to be named to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) new tobacco division. Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said she plans on announcing the head of the new post this week, reported CNN.
Although Commissioner Hamburg did say she personally interviewed six potential candidates, she declined to say who is in line for [...]

As one of the main ingredients in cigarettes, tobacco certainly gets a bad rap.
But the tobacco plant has been used to develop a new vaccine to thwart the dreaded norovirus – an illness that has been know to wreak havoc on cruise ships sickening passengers (sometimes hundreds of passengers) with diarrhea and vomiting.
The vaccine is [...]

Oregon Attorney General John Kroger today filed a lawsuit against Smoking Everywhere, alleging that the Florida-based “electronic cigarette” company made false health claims about its nicotine delivery device and targeted children with sweet flavors such as bubblegum, chocolate and cookies ‘n’ cream.
Electronic cigarettes are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and [...]

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The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) plans to install electronic scanners in all cigarette factories to monitor the volume of their production and thus enable the government to collect the right amount of specific and ad valorem taxes from the manufacturers, it was learned yesterday.
BIR officials said the plan to install the scanners is aimed [...]

A tobacco plant virus is spreading into Connecticut from Massachusetts, the latest malady from the chilly, sodden summer that is ruining everything from vine ripe tomatoes to early corn.
“This has been one miserable growing season, with the constant rain and humidity,” said Steven Reviczky, executive director of the Connecticut Farm Bureau.
In Massachusetts, many tobacco farmers [...]

Amcor Ltd., Australia’s largest packaging company, offered to buy part of Rio Tinto Group’s Alcan packaging unit for $2.03 billion to become the biggest supplier of drug and healthcare packets.
Amcor will get the global pharmaceuticals and tobacco packaging as well as the Asian and European food packaging units Rio acquired in its $38 billion takeover [...]

The only thing needed to start a crime wave is make it difficult for addicts to satisfy their needs. Prohibiting alcohol in the 1920s or enacting dumb laws to deter drug use never have worked. They only serve to fuel a black market.
The result: organized crime, continuous violence, overstuffed prisons and billions of tax dollars [...]

Miami, FL — Americans are becoming increasingly health conscious. They’re also more aware than ever of the vital need to do everything they can to be more green — that is, earth friendly.
Green Smoke Electronic Cigarette- The natural choice
Cigarettes and tobacco kill people. Green Smoke does not contain one carcinogen. They’re certainly safer than tobacco [...]

The Obama administration is proposing a major overhaul of the U.S. health care system, and the insurance industry is poised to play a major role in the process. Insurance firms, like any business, are driven by profit, and this fact compromises any health care plan that includes them. In case there is any doubt that [...]

CHICAGO - One state has already banned e-cigarettes, the battery-powered tobacco-free smoking tubes. This week, two distributors of the products challenge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in federal court for confiscating product shipments from China; the FDA says they are dangerous.
The tube looks like a paper-and-tobacco cigarette and produces vapors of nicotine and flavors [...]

MADRID -(Dow Jones)- Spain is ready for total smoking ban in public places, Spain’s health minister Trinidad Jimenez said in an interview Monday with radio station Cadena Ser.
“Right now, with the information we have and the study we are doing of the current [smoking] law, I think the society is mature enough… and we want [...]

Nina Ball regularly walks by a row of smokers outside the charter school in North Philadelphia where she helps youths find jobs and get into college. A year ago, she might have bummed a cigarette there.
But today, after a series of group counseling and fitness sessions at a local health clinic, she hopes she has [...]

Shenzhen First Union Industry Co., Ltd is a leading manufacturer and exporter in Shenzhen. We specialize in the R&D, production and marketing of e-cigarettes, automatic cork openers and head massagers. We are committed to providing consumers with healthy products and guiding people to lead a healthier life. To develop more overseas markets, we became a [...]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2009 — Attention all smokeless tobacco users! It’s time to banish the comforting notion that snuff and chewing tobacco are safe because they don’t burn and produce inhalable smoke like cigarettes. A study that looked beyond the well-researched tobacco hazards, nitrosamines and nicotine, has discovered a single pinch –– the amount in [...]

The Nigerian parliament is currently debating sweeping new tobacco control legislation in a bid to break the growing tobacco addiction in the country. The bill has strong backing from anti-tobacco groups and health organizations.
“Change starts from now. I dare to be different. I will remain smoke-free. I am the future, and the future starts now, [...]

ALBANY — Despite a ballooning budget deficit, the Paterson administration quietly has written off taxes it had been expecting to collect on sales of cigarettes by American Indian retailers — an admission that yet another governor has no plans to resolve the long-standing, thorny matter.
In April, Gov. David A. Paterson and lawmakers agreed on a [...]

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois casino lobbyists weren’t blowing smoke when they said that a statewide smoking ban has cost the industry — and government — lots of money, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis have found.
They say state and local governments lost $200 million in taxes last year because of the ban.
That’s more [...]

As California’s fiscal crisis deepens, despite desperate efforts by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature, the state’s politicians are casting about for ways to relieve the financial – and political – pressure.
That’s why, almost by default, raising the state’s cigarette tax, now 87 cents a pack, has again moved to the Capitol’s front burner.
The [...]

An increase in the annual state application fee for tobacco vendors may cause many of them to stop selling cigarettes and cigars.
The 900 percent increase for small vendors is part of the New York state budget. The increase is so large that the real goal isn’t revenue gain but to reduce the number of tobacco [...]

Sidestepping laws against smoking in public, Californians now can puff nicotine without lighting up from “cigarettes” that contain no tobacco.
Electronic cigarettes are touted as a way to smoke anywhere, anytime, without harmful tar, odor, butts, flame or secondhand smoke.
“No one can tell you ‘No’ anymore,” claims one e-cigarette company, Smoking Everywhere, which describes its product [...]

A recent study showed that high blood pressure is picked up less often in people who smoke. Researchers investigated more than 20,000 men and women in England and found that smokers were less likely to be aware that they had high blood pressure than non-smokers.
Experts said that smoking and high blood pressure, also [...]

Send for the Sanity Inspector – quickly. There is work for him among the denizens of Liverpool city council. The council is proposing to use its powers to upgrade to an 18-certificate the classification of films “if they depict images of tobacco smoking”, in order to protect the vulnerable youth of Merseyside from exposure to [...]