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Loose Tobacco Tax Gap under Fire
It’s not often a tax loophole cuts in our favor, and even this occasional win is enough to send the anti-smoking community into orbit. There’s one such “loophole” in President Obama’s children’s...
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New Hampshire Dodges Cigar Tax
The “live free or die” folks have been able to dodge a tax on cigars. The proposed measure, which passed on Wednesday, includes spending cuts borrowing and the possibility of state land sales....
View ArticleGive the Gift of Cigar Knowledge for Father’s Day
So, what do you get the father who has everything? Cigar knowledge. In addition to the sticks you usually pick up for dad, add a copy of The Tobacconist Handbook: The Essential Guide to Cigars &...
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Conflicts of Interest Infecting FDA Tobacco Committee
Smoking cessation company consultants are on a federal advisory committee for tobacco product safety. Nuts? Yeah, that’s an understatement. It isn’t often that an ethics organization (or anyone else...
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Capitalism Trumps Communism: Cuban Cigar Market Spanked by Recession
The tobacco harvest for the cigar industry fell 14 percent relative to 2009, signaling that Cuba felt the troubling economic conditions that affected the world last year. In Pinar del Rio, where the...
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Enforcing Laws on Reserves, Easier Said than Done
Our Friends to the north in Ontario are running into trouble with their reserves refusing to enforce the tobacco laws put in place by government agencies … the same laws that make it illegal the sell...
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Welcome to the Leisure Class
Okay, it’s been at least a decade since you’ve dusted off Thorstein Veblen’s “The Theory of the Leisure Class” (1994 for me), but you see its content every day. Veblen wrote of a leisure class that...
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Texas University Medical Center Refuses To Hire Tobacco Users
The Texas University Medical Center, as of October 1, 2010, will no longer hire applicants who use tobacco products. That was not a typo. A memo had gone out announcing the policy stating that...
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Luxury tobacco from… Central Pennsylvania?!?!
Photo courtesy of thedailyitem.com The demand for luxury tobacco has gone way up in recent times and as a result, Pennsylvania is now the only state that has increased the amount of tobacco production...
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Proof: New York Tobacco Tax Drives Customers across State Lines
It comes as no surprise: New Yorkers are going to Pennsylvania to by tobacco products. Why? Well, it could have something to do with the recent tax increase. Pennsylvania, essentially, is gaining the...
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