Serbian State Secretary at the Ministry of Economy and Regional Development Jasna Matic said on Monday (June 4th) that with the removal of the obstacles between Serbia and Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia -- which included import and export taxation -- Parliament can adopt the bill needed to ratify the agreement. After adopting an action plan to regulate domestic tobacco laws earlier this year, Serbia has now cleared the way to ratify the CEFTA treaty with the rest of the...

Dallas: Police say stealing of cigarettes is a growing problem 12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, May 31, 2007 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News teiserer@dallasnews.com Police captured two bandits Wednesday as one of them tried to walk out of a Greenville Avenue convenience store with a bag full of pilfered tobacco products, authorities said. Dallas: Police say stealing of cigarettes is a growing problem 12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, May 31, 2007 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News...

Steve Glass is a tobacco farmer whose crop grows on 30 acres of prime farmland and in a good year produces 75 thousand pounds of tobacco. Parched and withering just a week ago, the lack of May rains had farmers like Steve Glass worried about this year's burly crop. One more rain before the 4th of July and tobacco will grow waist high and set us up for a good if not bumper crop later this summer. In the little sandy valley of Eastern Kentucky, a suddenly lush tobacco field has made quite a...

Story Highlights Expert panel calls for higher cigarette taxes, ban on Internet sales Tobacco products should be regulated by FDA, group says FDA should force gradual reduction in nicotine levels, panel suggests If cigarettes were introduced for first time now, expert says, they'd be banned Adjust font size: WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U. Story Highlights Expert panel calls for higher cigarette taxes, ban on Internet sales Tobacco products should be regulated by FDA, group says FDA should...

If they had agreed, of course, it wouldn't really be a carbon tax, just another tax on oil companies. How pathetic, particularly since there's absolutely no reason for a carbon tax to represent a tax increase, even if it does make some things more costly. Bechard's folly will sound good to some who are fed up with high gas prices, but it's the equivalent of jacking up cigarette taxes to discourage smoking, then demanding that tobacco companies keep cigarettes as cheap as ever. It is...

Topeka Worried that Kansas could lose federal anti-tobacco dollars for the second time in five years, two state agencies have launched a new effort to keep stores from selling cigarettes and other products to minors. Driving the initiative is a fear that Kansas will be forced to divert state funds to anti-tobacco programs for failing to comply with federal standards on preventing minors from buying tobacco products. A federal law requires that in random checks, at least 80 percent of a...