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Previous studies have <b>suggested associations of adult exposures</b> to secondhand smoke (SHS) with respiratory symptoms, but no study has focused on blue-collar industrial environments. We assessed the association between SHS and respiratory symptoms in 1,562 non-current smoking U.S.<br />
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Please note studies suggest, this is an important statement.&nbsp; Epidemiology studies on SHS do not prove causation.&nbsp; It is just a hypothesis. Results under 2.0 are statistically insignificant.<br />
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U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) was joined today by Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) to introduce the <i>Tobacco Tax Equity Act</i> to close loopholes in the tax code that allow tobacco companies to avoid the federal cigarette and roll-your-own (RYO) tobacco tax. Because pipe tobacco is taxed at a lower rate than cigarettes, some companies have begun relabeling RYO tobacco as pipe tobacco to avoid paying the federal cigarette tax. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that establishing tobacco tax parity and closing loopholes in the tobacco tax code would generate roughly $3.6 billion over 10 years.

&quot;Several tobacco companies are appealing a federal judge’s order that they place corrective statements in their marketing materials&quot;.<br />
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Why wouldn’t they?&nbsp; Unless the health nannies plan to put pictures of fat asses on potato chips, soda and everything else that people enjoy, including nasty car accidents on all liquor why should they be singled out? Think how much fun it will be to go grocery shopping with aisles full of disgusting photo’s everywhere you look. Barely anything one eats these days is healthy, including breathing the air and drinking water from plastic bottles.<br />

THOUSANDS of tobacconists from across Europe have marched on the European Union headquarters to protest against a planned EU crackdown on smoking that includes gruesome health warnings placarded on packets.<br />
<p>&quot;Smoking is part of the culture of Europe,’ said the head of Austria’s VCPO tobacconists, Klaus W Fischer. &quot;&quot;This will end up like prohibition in the US in the 1920s.&quot;<br />
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Well that is the plan unless smoker’s take action!<br />
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<p>According to the Tax Foundation study, public policies often have unintended consequences that outweigh their benefits. One consequence of high state cigarette tax rates has been increased smuggling, as criminals procure discounted packs from low-tax states to sell in high-tax states. Growing cigarette tax differentials have made cigarette bootlegging both a national problem and a lucrative criminal enterprise.</p>