Health care - The Senate agrees to ask voters for a rise in the tobacco tax to fund coverage for uninsured kids Saturday, June 16, 2007 DON COLBURN and BILL GRAVES SALEM -- The Senate agreed Friday to ask voters in November to raise the state's tobacco tax to expand health coverage for about 84,000 uninsured Oregon children. Health care - The Senate agrees to ask voters for a rise in the tobacco tax to fund coverage for uninsured kids Saturday, June 16, 2007 DON COLBURN and BILL GRAVES...

Department of Agriculture said surveys since 1997 have shown annual decreases in the land used for farming in Horry and Brunswick counties. In recent years, and since a federally approved tobacco buyout in 2004, a number of area farmers have sold whole farms or portions for development, or diversified their crops to make continued farming profitable. Avery, which Shelley and his son, Cam, now use for small tasks, is a symbol of their family's roughly 60-year farming tradition. In its...

Attorney General s Office of allegations that the company s convenience stores lacked proper procedures to curb tobacco sales to minors. Massachusetts law requires retailers to check the photo ID of every customer who appears under the age of 27 to verify that the customer is at least 18-years-old before selling tobacco products, and we expect retailers to abide by that law, said Attorney General Martha Coakley. Massachusetts law requires retailers to check the photo ID of every customer...

Like a superhero, I had jumped from one roof to another in a single bound; climbed trees and parachuted to earth with an old umbrella; caught snakes and scorpions with my bare hands; ridden my bicycle hands-free -- downhill; and brought one of my fathers speculums to school for show-and-tell. Like a superhero, I had jumped from one roof to another in a single bound; climbed trees and parachuted to earth with an old umbrella; caught snakes and scorpions with my bare hands; ridden my bicycle...

But the sales of other products such as premium cigars, small cigars, hookahs and smokeless tobacco have increased modestly, he said. Rising awareness of the health dangers of tobacco means fewer people push the door of the nearly centennial store, and the business is dying its slow death. In California, each pack of cigarettes is taxed 87 cents, and other tobacco products are taxed at 46. Like other tobacconists across the nation, Radich suffers from tobacco having fallen out of the...

They say workers are also becoming harder to find because of an increase in enforcement raids that have made it more costly for laborers to sneak into the U. Some fear North Carolina will suffer like California did last year, when a shortage of workers there resulted in rotting crops because there wasn't anyone to harvest them. A comprehensive immigration reform plan supported by President Bush and a group of bipartisan senators fell 15 votes short of the 60 needed on Thursday. Brent...