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Focus park smoking ban on play areas
Published July 10, 2009, 12:25 am, Tacoma News Tribune
Metro Parks and the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department think they have an offer Tacoma’s leaders can’t refuse.
Smoking Banned in City Parks
Published July 9, 2009, 9:46 pm, The Laguna Beach Independent
The City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday in support of an ordinance to impose a smoking ban in public parks, expanding an existing prohibition against lighting up on city beaches.
Tobacco Companies Target Black Community for Disease and Death
Published July 9, 2009, 11:30 am, Skanner
DENVER - “You've come a long way, baby,” was a 1970s advertising slogan for Virginia Slims cigarettes, at least one of which featured a Black woman with an afro, African print tunic top and bell-bottom jeans.
Local Teens Applaud Smoking Ban Passage
Published July 9, 2009, 11:21 am, The Southern Pines Pilot
As Americans celebrated Independence Day 2009, North Carolina teens thanked the legislators who supported the passage of a smoke ban bill (House Bill 2), which will go into effect on Jan. 2, 2010. The new law provides protection from secondhand smoke in restaurants and bars across the state by prohibiting smoking in those places. It also authorizes an expansion of local control so that local ...
Walking a mile in Jesus sandals
Published July 8, 2009, 6:05 pm, The Chicago Maroon
A list of necessities for members of the incoming Class of 2013.
ND tobacco plan includes quadrupling cigarette tax
Published July 8, 2009, 4:59 am, INO News
(AP:BISMARCK, N.D.) A five-year plan for reducing tobacco use in North Dakota would more than quadruple the state's cigarette tax to $2 a pack, ban smoking in bars and renew efforts to prohibit tobacco in schools and on campuses.
Elkhart bars: Smoking ban hurting us :First reading of amendment July 20 in Elkhart.
Published July 8, 2009, 4:08 am, South Bend Tribune
ELKHART -- Just two months after 22 bars in Elkhart went smoke-free, discussions about amending the section of the clean air ordinance to allow bar-goers to light up again is back on the table.
News Updates
Published July 7, 2009, 11:31 pm, Urban Tulsa
Head to Head A leadership change at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame has left a former Tulsa police chief as the organization's new interim executive director, with former chief executive officer Charles "Chuck" Cissel moving to a job as the Hall's artistic director. Harry Stege, a member of the Hal...
Electronic Cigarettes Global Expansion Led by NJOY
Published July 7, 2009, 1:19 pm, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.----NJOY is quickly becoming the most recognized and leading brand of electronic cigarettes, not only in the U.S., but globally, as it now has distribution agreements in place for its smoking alternative in more than 50 countries.
Electronic cigarettes in legal gray area
Published July 7, 2009, 6:51 am, The Suncoast News Pasco
The "smokeless cigarette" is hitting the market, promising devoted smokers a way to get a puff of nicotine and look, act and feel like they're smoking, but without burning tobacco. The device makes the classic pickup line "Got a light?" go the way of secondhand smoke. And it raises questions about regulation and use.
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