attorney for Eastern Washington, has estimated that Washington state lost about $56 million in tax revenue in schemes to bring untaxed cigarettes from Indian reservations in Idaho. The indictment charges Cook with a count of conspiracy to traffic in contraband cigarettes, 20 counts of contraband cigarette trafficking, a money laundering conspiracy count and 40 counts of money laundering. Prosecutors allege the 4,500 cartons of untaxed cigarettes seized from the smokeshop came from an Idaho...

Despite a two-year decline in the amount of money tobacco makers spend on marketing and advertising, the American Medical Association says too much is still spent on promoting cigarettes and other forms of smoking. But anti-smoking advocates said promotional spending was still double the amount spent in 1998, the year the tobacco firms entered into a landmark multi-state settlement, the Associated Press reported. Spending on marketing and advertising among the five largest US tobacco firms...

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When I was a boy I thought as a boy, but now that I am a man I have put away boyish things, as the saying goes, and Ive grown to prefer dried tobacco leaves ground up with fiberglass and soaked in nicotine, packed in dull blue and black tins and sold by the U. When I was a boy I thought as a boy, but now that I am a man I have put away boyish things, as the saying goes, and Ive grown to prefer dried tobacco leaves ground up with fiberglass and soaked in nicotine, packed in dull blue and...

The ordinance would ban smoking in or within 12 feet of the entrance to any public building - defined as any building that is not used as a private residence. The ban includes cigarettes, cigars and tobacco pipes. It also prohibits owners or operators from placing in their buildings ashtrays, smoking paraphernalia, or signs that indicate that smoking is permitted. In February, the Yoakum city council was presented with a petition that contained more than the necessary valid signatures to...

In fact, it's now on a path toward letting the Food and Drug Administration regulate the advertising and sale of cigarettes, but not ban either nicotine or tobacco. At one point he defended the 44-cent increase that jacked up the state cigarette tax to almost a dollar and raised the average price per pack at Hoosier outlets to $4. The rhetoric that accompanied the latest increase in Indiana's cigarette tax makes no sense to me. We talk about the sale of cigarettes as if it's legitimate...