Declining revenues for tobacco education, an uptick in youth smoking and a tobacco chew rate almost 70 percent greater than the statewide average are raising concern in the Tobacco Education Network. Jon Sapper, assistant superintendent for the Humboldt County Office of Education, said county schools in 1990 received approximately $450,000 from a variety of sources for drug, tobacco and alcohol education programs. There were some teaching classroom sessions on how to teach the consequences...

Kearney-Area News Tobacco-free right thing for Good Sam, president says By MOLLY ALBRECHT, Hub Staff Writer 11/15/2007 Updated 11/16/2007 01:06:03 PM CST Email to a friendPrinter-friendly KEARNEY To mark the 31st anniversary of the Great American Smokeout today, Good Samaritan Hospital has announced all of its campuses will be tobacco-free starting Jan. Kearney-Area News Tobacco-free right thing for Good Sam, president says By MOLLY ALBRECHT, Hub Staff Writer 11/15/2007 Updated 11/16/2007...

The holograph turns the statue around, and inside and out, so that viewers can marvel at the construction in a way impossible to 16th-century Florentines -- who just knew that they had been given something magical, and put it in their main square as a mark of municipal authority. The holograph turns the statue around, and inside and out, so that viewers can marvel at the construction in a way impossible to 16th-century Florentines -- who just knew that they had been given something...

Long before Detroit became known for automobiles, the city had earned a national reputation for the manufacturing of cigars and chewing tobacco. Tobacco companies, in fact, were among the city's leading employers at the turn of the 20th century. Competition from enterprises elsewhere in the country helped to close Detroit's years as the nation's leading tobacco producer. Detroit's tobacco industry began to die out toward the middle of the 20th century. With the influx of German and Jewish...

Corporate income tax: Increases from 7 percent to 8.25 percent. Proposal calls for a study of "combined reporting," which advocates say would make it more difficult to shelter income in out-of-state subsidiaries. New rate is applied to computer services, which are now exempt. Sales tax: Increases from 5 to 6 percent. Titling tax on vehicles: Increases from 5 to 6 percent. More on washingtonpost.com.

Imperial's bid values them at 50 euros each, more than triple the price when the former French and Spanish tobacco monopolies merged to form Altadis in 1999. The Spanish company, which makes more than 10 percent of its revenue in the world's biggest economy, faces increased competition with rival cigar maker Swedish Match AB amid the dollar's 12 percent, six- month decline against the euro. Altadis, the largest manufacturer of cigars in the world, maintained its August forecast for...