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States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales

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 ...
Federal law requires Internet cigarette sellers to provide state revenue officials with names and addresses of their customers ...

The "Bidi Buzz" Continues

Our Internet search efforts identified 147 Web site addresses for Internet cigarette vendors based in the United States ...
The National Center for Tobacco -Free Kids reported that bidi smoke also contains elevated levels of ammonia and carbon monoxide ...
Calls to several Internet cigarette vendors advertising ``tax free cigarettes'' were not returned to The Associated Press on Monday ...

UK Health Development Agency Releases Briefing on Teen Smoking Prevention

The evidence shows that schools, media campaigns, and even shopkeepers can play a significant role in preventing the uptake of ...
Mass media campaigns combined with other interventions are successful in increasing tobacco use cessation, and a variety of smoking cessation treatments work well for older people, including advice from health professionals, buddy support programmes and proactive telephone counselling ...
The HDA has also identified that interventions with retailers can lead to a decrease in illegal sales to under-age smokers ...
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 ...
None of the Web sites posted information that indicated the vendors complied with the Jenkins Act,'' the report said ...

Marlboro Man Spotted in Central Asia: Alive and Well

None of the Web sites posted information that indicated the vendors complied with the Jenkins Act,'' the report said ...
The evidence shows that schools, media campaigns, and even shopkeepers can play a significant role in preventing the uptake of ...
In the first of a two-part series examining the challenges of operating in Central Asia, MARK O'NEILL discovers how multinational tobacco firms succeed in Kazakhstan ...

Cheyenne to decide fate of public smoking

While local tourism officials doubt the ordinance will ding Cheyenne's image as a macho cowboy town, opponents already ...
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 ...
This type of method works particularly well compared to simply providing retailers information on their legal obligations ...
The Marlboro Man may have been banished from much of Europe and the United States but you can still see ...

Mass: Illegal Smokes Easy to Obtain

Brockton Health Agent Lou Tartaglia said tobacco retailers who flout the state's laws on packaging and sales to minors have little to worry about since state funding for spot checks and sting operations was cut in 2002 ...
requested the report, which he said reveals a burgeoning market of online cigarette sales ...
Never mind that individual cigarette sales are illegal in Massachusetts ...
The officials can then pursue the buyers to make sure they pay local sales taxes ...

Santa Rosa City Council Approves Smoking Ban

Federal law requires Internet cigarette sellers to provide state revenue officials with names and addresses of their customers ...
But Internet cigarette vendors openly flout the law, known as the Jenkins Act, according to a report by the U ...

Philip Morris Testing "Accord" in Richmond

Its retail price is expected to be $35 to $40 for a kit that includes a as regular cigarettes, but some tobacco researchers have questioned that claim, saying most cigarettes provide an average of at least 12 puffs ...
None of the Web sites posted information that indicated the vendors complied with the Jenkins Act,'' the report said ...
Some of the most successful ways of stopping children and adolescents from starting to smoke are revealed in the UK Health Development Agency's (HDA’s) new evidence briefing, launched today ...
If the measure passes as expected, it could put an end to legal smoking -- even in bars, restaurants and private clubs ...

Tobacco Shops Grow in Popularity [

This type of method works particularly well compared to simply providing retailers information on their legal obligations ...
CHEYENNE—The City Council tonight will decide whether Cheyenne becomes the second Wyoming town to ban smoking in public buildings ...
CHEYENNE—The City Council tonight will decide whether Cheyenne becomes the second Wyoming town to ban smoking in public buildings ...

Sacramento Crafts Ordinance to Ban Cigarette Sales by Mobile Vendors

The nicotine wallop they pack can produce the dizzy, light-headed, vaguely intoxicated sensation dubbed a said Dr ...
On Saturday afternoon, the store clerk didn't hesitate when asked to sell one Newport to a middle-aged reporter ...
This is the first time that systematic review level evidence on tackling smoking has been brought together in one comprehensive publication ...
The evidence highlights that advertising campaigns targeting young people, either alone or combined with school-based education programmes, work well to prevent young people from taking up smoking ...
City officials are crafting an ordinance -- like 35 others in California -- that would ban mobile vendors from selling cigarettes and force every tobacco retailer to buy an annual permit ...