NC examining cig stamps again to deter smuggling The News & Observer | RALEIGH, N.C. -- For years, buying low-tax North Carolina cigarettes and selling them on the black market in a high-tax state up north has been an easy way to make big money for criminal enterprises. | Load up a van of Camels or Marlboros and reap a $100,000 profit to sell them if the destination ...
Illegal tobacco costing $600m a year Newsvine | THE illegal tobacco industry, increasingly moving from locally produced tobacco to smuggled cigarettes, is costing the nation $600 million a year in lost revenue, a new study says. | The study, commissioned by British American Tobacco and conducted by consultants PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), says...
NC examining cig stamps again to deter smuggling The News & Observer | RALEIGH, N.C. -- For years, buying low-tax North Carolina cigarettes and selling them on the black market in a high-tax state up north has been an easy way to make big money for criminal enterprises. | Load up a van of Camels or Marlboros and reap ...
Gov to push school aid, bridge for looming cliff The Examiner Comments HARRISBURG, Pa. (Map, News) - When Ed Rendell delivers his annual budget speech for the last time Tuesday, the governor known for bringing a kitchen-sink full of priorities is expected to outline a narrower set of goals. | For one, the secon...
Historians hope to publish "Mein Kampf" in Germany The News & Observer | BERLIN -- Publish Hitler's infamous memoir "Mein Kampf" in Germany? It sounds like the ultimate taboo. | But a group of German historians is lobbying to do just that, arguing that it's necessary to get an authoritative annotated edition ready for b...
Illegal tobacco costing $600m a year Newsvine | THE illegal tobacco industry, increasingly moving from locally produced tobacco to smuggled cigarettes, is costing the nation $600 million a year in lost revenue, a new study says. | The study, commissioned by British American Tobacco and conducted...
Lawmaker wants pot growers, sellers to get license The Examiner Comments SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - A California lawmaker is proposing to require all marijuana growers and sellers to be licensed by the state as a way to increase sales tax revenue. | Democratic state Sen. Ron Calderon said Wednesday he plans to i...
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Failed tobacco tax sees hopes go up in smoke Hong Kong Standard Smokers may evade the indoor smoking ban by sneaking puffs, but evading the tobacco tax is more dangerous. The 50 percent tax hike last February increased the cost of a pack of cig...
Selling cigs to kids becomes a common convenience for stores Hong Kong Standard The vast majority of small shops and convenience stores are selling cigarettes to underage children, a survey has found. | //--> BeatriceSiu | Monday, January 25, 2010 | ADVERTISEM...
STIFFER PENALTIES: Mandatory jail term needed New Straits/Business Times | 2010/02/02 | SHAIK ABBAS IBRAHIM, Chief executive Confederation of Malaysian Tobacco Manufacturers THE Confederation of Ma-laysian Tobacco Manufacturers welcomes the call by enforcement agencies in the country for stiffer penalties for criminal act...
The Big Question: Can the number of smokers in the UK be reduced to one ... The Independent | Why are we asking this now? | Yesterday the Government announced a 10-year strategy to halve the number of smokers from 21 per cent to 10 per cent of the population by 2020. That means persuading four of the eight million current smokers to give up...
Battle Over U.K. Cigarette Packaging Gears Up Wall Street Journal By JEANNE WHALEN | Tobacco companies are digging in to fight a possible U.K. ban on one of their last marketing tools: cigarette packaging. | The U.K.'s Department of Health said Monday that it would consider mandating generic packaging for all cigar...
Greece's smoking ban not working, say officials m&c | Athens - More than six months after Greece introduced a ban on smoking in public places, officials were conceding that the third attempt to stamp out the habit is failing, it was reported Friday. | Greece, one of the last bastions of smoking in the European Union, introduced a ban on smoking in public places on July 1. | According to a report in ...
