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States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales

In Massachusetts lawmakers recently approved a 75-cent hike on a pack of cigarettes, a move officials hope will bring in an extra $190 million annually ...
In Illinois, the state boosted cigarette taxes by 40 cents to a total of 98 cents a pack ...
Our Internet search efforts identified 147 Web site addresses for Internet cigarette vendors based in the United States ...
The officials can then pursue the buyers to make sure they pay local sales taxes ...
Federal law requires Internet cigarette sellers to provide state revenue officials with names and addresses of their customers ...

Tobacco Therapies Doubtful [02/22-4]

States are losing millions in tax dollars as more people buy cigarettes from online vendors who routinely ignore a federal law requiring them to report sales to local regulators, a new ...
A variety of products have come on the market in recent years, promoted to help people stop smoking or reduce tobacco usage ...
One Web site told buyers ``We do not report to tax authorities in ANY state ...
By 2005, Internet tobacco sales in the United States could exceed $5 billion and states could lose about $1 ...

US News on Secret Tobacco Papers

In Illinois, the state boosted cigarette taxes by 40 cents to a total of 98 cents a pack ...
In fact, according to the report, 78 percent of the sites indicated that the vendors do not comply with the law ...
Thomas Bliley, reveal evidence of coverups and suppression of scientific re search to an extent not previously detailed ...

Children with Asthma Twice as Likely to Face Year-Round Attacks if Parents Smoke

The PACE project is led by U-M School of Public Health Dean Noreen Clark, Ph ...
The trend could undercut efforts by cash-strapped states to raise revenues by hiking cigarette taxes ...
Those findings, made by University of Michigan re search ers and scheduled to be presented here on May 4 at the Pediatric Academic Societies Annual Meeting, reinforce the importance of educating parents about how their own smoking can affect their children with asthma ...
Why Join ASH Children with asthma whose parents smoke at home are twice as likely to have asthma ...

Secret Weapon Against Underage Smoking

Moments later, the woman behind the counter was the recipient of a $50 ticket for selling cigarettes to a 17-year-old ...
Staff re search er Karl Evanzz contributed to this report The CVS at the Pointer Ridge Shopping Center in Bowie was filled with customers early one recent evening when a tall youth stepped up to the counter ...
Officials in California estimated a tax loss of approximately $13 million from May, 1999 through September, 2001 because of the failure of Internet cigarette vendors to comply with the federal law ...

Bill Takes Aim at Delivery of Tax-Free Cigarettes in Mail

They note that mail cannot be inspected without a search warrant, and say that it would be impractical to make postal clerks decide which packages to accept or reject ...
He is the county's thin brown line against illegal sales in the 1,040 establishments licensed to carry cigarettes and other tobacco products ...
Federal law requires Internet cigarette sellers to provide state revenue officials with names and addresses of their customers ...
And in one sense, the 39,000 tobacco industry documents released last week for all the world ...

Collect Back Taxes from Residents that Purchased Cigarettes Online

Calls to several Internet cigarette vendors advertising ``tax free cigarettes'' were not returned to The Associated Press on Monday ...
However, once found, the list providing names and addresses of Illinois residents proves lucrative: The taxes owed this year from Illinois customers of just ...
requested the report, which he said reveals a burgeoning market of online cigarette sales ...
According to the report, one re search firm estimated Internet tobacco sales in the United States will exceed $5 billion in 2005 and the states will lose about $1 ...
The Illinois Department of Revenue is notifying hundreds of Illinois residents who purchased cigarettes on the Web that they must pay the state's 98-cent-per-pack tax ...

Online Tobacco: Postal Service Must Deliver Cooperation

Why Join ASH Children with asthma whose parents smoke at home are twice as likely to have asthma ...
One Web site told buyers ``We do not report to tax authorities in ANY state ...
Officials also note that privacy laws make it illegal to inspect priority mail - the tobacco sellers' favorite delivery method - without a court-ordered search warrant ...
Only the Postal Service or its masters in Congress can change that policy, and so far, there's no smoke or fire there ...
However, once found, the list providing names and addresses of Illinois residents proves lucrative: The taxes owed this year from Illinois customers of just ...

Court Reinstates Tobacco Suit

Without asking for identification, the clerk retrieved the cigarettes ...
You see, while the state can and has banned private package carriers like FedEx from shipping cigarettes, lawmakers in Albany can't touch the federally created post office ...

Study Delves into Minds of Smokers

What they have found, however, has proved more controversial than most re search ers expected: Smokers are more depressed and suffer a higher rate of anxiety disorders and other psychological maladies ...
When you've already been called a liar, a death merchant, a corrupter of children, and a manipulator of science, it's hard to imagine that your public image could get much worse ...
The report recommends shifting primary enforcement of the law from the Federal Bureau of Investigations to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, in part because of the ...