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That has resulted in a lack of truly objective or independent voices on the stem cell program's 29-member board. Proposition 29, similarly, places most spending from the tobacco tax in the hands of a nine-member board that must comprise one ...
May 27, 2012 at 08:09 | Source: Los Angeles Times
MANATEE -- Armed with statistics that show 90 percent of cigarette smokers start before age 18, a group of Lee Middle School students is pressing the Manatee school board to declare all of the county's schools "tobacco-free" campuses.
May 15, 2012 at 03:51 | Source: Bradenton Herald
“I resent the tobacco industry’s ability to influence public policy ... a spokesman for the Equalization Board, the state’s tax administrator, citing the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office. Smoking is the leading cause of ...
May 27, 2012 at 12:12 | Source: Arlington Heights Daily Herald
The Monroe County Parks and Recreation board has voted to prohibit smoking and tobacco chewing at all five county parks — Karst Farm Park, Flatwoods Park, Will Detmer Park, Ferguson Nature Park and Jackson Creek Park. Signs banning the ...
May 21, 2012 at 20:47 | Source: Herald Times
Tobacco costs Oregonians at least $2.4 billion a year in direct and indirect costs related to smoking and tobacco use. That’s over $13 per pack of cigarettes sold, nearly three times what the smoker pays. A recent report by the American Lung ...
May 16, 2012 at 18:02 | Source: Oregonian
following your company's appearance before a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee this week that you are operating illegally because your company has not been licensed by the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board? In terms of the TIMB regulations, we have an ...
May 19, 2012 at 08:11 | Source: AllAfrica.com
A storm is brewing between the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board and four auction floors operating in Zimbabwe over a local company buying the crop from non-contracted farmers in Karoi and Rusape. The auction floors believe the Mashonaland Tobacco Company's ...
May 16, 2012 at 08:50 | Source: AllAfrica.com
On May 2, a group of 25 teens, parents, Asheville and Buncombe health leaders, and concerned citizens met with the Bele Chere board to discuss the future ban on tobacco sponsorship starting in 2013. The health advocates highlighted the fact that ...
May 13, 2012 at 16:54 | Source: Asheville Citizen-Times
Dhaka, May 24 (bdnews24.com)—In a distinctive approach, MPs have written to the National Board of Revenue (NBR) and the Finance Ministry with a call to slap higher taxes on tobacco products considering the harm it inflicts on the people. Anti-tobacco ...
May 25, 2012 at 06:45 | Source: Bangladesh News 24 hours
Last year, Ellis and Tresa Watson, director of the county's anti-drug coalition also approached the county school board and proposed the group make all school locations 100 percent tobacco-free — meaning employees would be prohibited from ...
May 26, 2012 at 03:52 | Source: Hernando Today