EU court rules minimum price for cigarettes illegal The Star | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Court of Justice has ruled that France, Austria and Ireland are breaking EU law by imposing a minimum price on cigarettes, dismissing the defence that such measures protect public health. | The European Commission or EU executive had taken the countries to court f...
Tobacco tax rationalization infests Ute nation The Examiner | Tuesday Utah House legislators bought into Rep. Ray's tobacco tax rationalization like so many willingly have done before. Rep. Ray says it's personal since his mother smoked and cigarettes caused his family so much harm over the years. Utah has 9% of its population that smokes and it is time to r...
Djukanovic Confirms Plans for Eventual Withdrawal Balkan Insight Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic has confirmed his earlier plans to withdraw from his post, but he did not specify the date when such a withdrawal might happen. | In an interview with TV Montenegro on Tuesday, Djukanovic denied that the wit...
Cigarette smuggler guilty of trying to hire hitman The Examiner Comments ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Map, News) - A Fairfax man at the center of a massive cigarette-smuggling ring pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to hire a hitman to murder someone he thought had stolen from him. | The plea in U.S. District Court from Xi...
Trust in prison trusties shaky Houston Chronicle | Days after a Texas prison trusty sneaked into a Sugar Land Walmart to buy cigarettes, contraband-sniffing dogs outside Beaumont's Stiles Unit pinpointed a cache of tobacco, 19 cell phones and 18 phone chargers hidden behind a prison food barn. Both...
TO COVER FOR SHELL SUPPLY --> BIR suspends talks on strip stamp deal Malaya By Dennis Gadil | The government has suspended negotiations with stamp-tax contractor SICPA Product Security S.A. in deference to a recommendation of the House ways and means committee for the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to cease entertaining th...
Why alcohol is as bad as crack The Daily Telegraph Australia | CAN you imagine settling down for a dvd night with your girlfriends over a crack pipe? | Or shooting up with your boss after work on a Friday? How about popping some pills with your roast chicken at your mother-in-law’s Sunday lunch? | These ...
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Solons hit Swiss firm on tobacco smuggle claim The Daily Tribune | 02/25/2010 | Key members of the powerful House ways and means committee lambasted officials of Swiss firm Sicpa Product Security SA (Sicpa) for claiming that it could prevent the...
27,000 cigarettes seized in Londonderry BBC News | More than 27,000 counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes have been seized in raids on shops in Londonderry. | Revenue and Customs officials, along with police, searched 30 retail pre...
Trusty slips out of Sugar Land prison, makes cigarette run to Walmart The Dallas Morning News | AUSTIN - A convicted burglar slipped out of his prison unit to buy cigarettes, then returned unnoticed a short time later, authorities said, eventually leading to a contraband search and further criticism of Texas prison security. | "It might be fu...
Texas Prisons The Dallas Morning News | AUSTIN - A convicted burglar slipped out of his prison unit to buy cigarettes, then returned unnoticed a short time later, authorities said, eventually leading to a contraband search and further criticism of Texas prison security. | "It might be fu...
Tobacco CONTROL & REGULATION bill: A need for more pragmatic approach The Himalayan | KATHMANDU: Health Minister Umakant Chaudhary recently introduced the landmark, Tobacco Products (Control & Regulation) Bill 2066 for discussion in parliament with the aim of formulating a comprehensive law to control and regulate the tobacco indust...
Colo. bar owner says he found smoking ban loophole The Examiner Comments COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Map, News) - A Colorado Springs bar owner says he found a loophole in the statewide smoking ban by putting a tobacco shop inside his establishment. | Murray Street Darts now includes CJ's Tobacco Shop, and a judge has ruled that makes the tavern exempt from the ban. | Murray Street Darts owner Bruce Hicks says he c...
