Taxing Internet Sales
Sometime after the Easter holiday, Senator Dick Durban (IL), will introduce a bill to tax all sales on the Internet.
Gov. Race in WV
Find out how all the candidates stack up, what their views are on tobacco taxes, abortion and many other topics.<br type="_moz" />
First, Do No Harm
FORCES Columnist Andrew Phillips comments on a <a href="http://www.kens5.com/news/texas-news/118830484.html">recent inciden</a>t that occurred in Dallas, TX, where a physician allegedly attempted to run a smoker over with his car.
In the Sixtieth Year of the Anti-Smoking Stampede
The American Cancer Society has released its 2010 statistical report on lung cancer. Soren Hojbjorg offers his insightful analysis.<br type="_moz" />
Plain Packaging and "And"
Michael J. McFadden comments on the dubious claims a recent study makes regarding plain packaging.<br type="_moz" />
Tobacco Settlement
How have states spent the 75 billion dollars received from the Master Tobacco Agreement? Balancing their state budgets and other things.<br type="_moz" />
New Hampshire
A new study funded by Tobacco Free Kids disputes the claims made by The Retail Grocers Association. They are debating the tax decrease of tobacco tax. Tobacco Free Kids is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation who’s parent company is Johnson and Johnson they produce an entire product line of smoking cessation devices. Surely, a conflict of interest.<br type="_moz" />
NY Double Talk
Smoking in condo’s is the new hot button in New York. "It’s not a question of whether you can smoke in your apartment," says Talel. "Of course you can smoke in your own apartment. But when your smoke goes into a neighbor’s apartment, then you are smoking in your neighbor’s apartment, and your neighbor has a right to not have smoking taking place in their apartment."<br />
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Where is the proof that smoke goes into some one ele’s apartment? Note: not one condo board has placed restrictions, nor should they.<br type="_moz" />
Virginia
The Virginia Wholesalers and Distributors Association is the statewide business trade group representing food, beverage and tobacco wholesalers in Virginia are against raising tobacco taxes. They are against new taxes because it leads adults to purchase cigarettes from the Internet or adjoining states. It also leads to contraband traffic.<br />
Growing Your Own
As "sin" taxes are being imposed to cover the bloated tax and spend agenda of State coffers, people are beginning to grow their own tobacco.<br />
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Twenty tobacco plants will yield more than a pack a day of cigarettes for a year. Start growing them in your own backyard and free yourself from "sin" taxes!<br type="_moz" />