Colorado Movie Theater Shooting: 71 Victims The Largest Mass Shooting
ABC News provides a detailed report of the tragic shooting at the Dark Night premiere in Colorado. Twelve people were killed and 59 were injured in Aurora, Colo., during a sold-out midnight premier of...
View ArticlePentagon Tobacco Might One Day Stop Syria’s Nerve Gas
Back in July, when the Syrian regime announced that they might be willing to use their load of chemical weapons, it set off alarm bells around the planet. The only way to safeguard people against a...
View ArticlePentagon hopes nicotine plant can ‘cure’ chemical weapons effects
The phrase ‘chemical weapons’ has sparked fear in the US for years, so the Pentagon recently dished out $2.7 million for research on using a plant closely related to tobacco to protect soldiers from...
View ArticleGreat Moments in Local Journalism: CBS Says Autauga County, AL Drug Raids Are...
Pretend you're an Alabama ;reporter; how might you report on a massive, county-wide early morning drug and weapons round-up, a year and half in the making? And say that raid resulted in 36 arrested...
View ArticleFlorida city passes ban on hiring smokers
In an attempt to save money on insurance, a city in South Florida has banned hiring employees who smoke or use tobacco products, causing some Americans to complain that the government is controlling...
View ArticleRussia launches anti-smoking crackdown
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia launched a crackdown on smoking on Tuesday with a bill to ban tobacco advertising and raise taxes on cigarettes to help tackle a public health crisis in the world's second...
View ArticleEU commissioner resigns in tobacco-lobbying dispute
EU health commissioner John Dalli has resigned "to defend his reputation" in a dispute on tobacco lobbying.Related Stories[Opinion] 'Inside EU knowledge' - an affront to transparency … Read More
View ArticleEU commissioner pleads innocence in tobacco scandal
The EU health commissioner at the centre of a tobacco lobbying scandal has spoken out to newspapers and on TV to protest his innocence.Related StoriesEU commissioner resigns in tobacco-lobby dispute …...
View ArticleEU freezes tobacco law after lobbying scandal
The EU has frozen work on its new anti-tobacco law amid warnings it is falling into a tobacco industry trap.Related StoriesEU commissioner resigns in tobacco-lobby disputeEU commissioner pleads...
View Article[Ticker] Maltese PM ‘shocked’ by commissioner’s resignation
Maltese Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said Wednesday he was "shocked" to hear about the resignation of EU health commissioner John Dalli, himself a Maltese politican, over allegedly favouring a Maltese...
View Article[Ticker] Report: Dalli middleman asked for €60mn
Mouth-tobacco producer Swedish Match has told Swedish paper Aftonbladet that a middleman for former EU commissioner John Dalli asked for €10 million immediately and a further €50 million later on to...
View ArticleWomen smokers who quit may add decade to life
New study finds women who stop smoking before the age of 30 eliminate almost all risk of tobacco-related death. … Read More
View ArticleHostess Liquidation: Teamsters Seen As Collateral Damage In Bakers’ Strike
Until the company announced Friday that it intended to liquidate and lay off most of its nearly 19,000 employees, Hostess Brands, the maker of iconic Twinkies and Wonder Bread, had spent several months...
View ArticleThe Problem With Licensing Smokers: Too Much Individual Responsibility
Simon Chapman, an Australian anti-smoking activist, argues in PLoS Medicine that "new, creative, and radical efforts to achieve the tobacco control endgame" are "vitally important." Jeff Collin, a...
View ArticleHostess, Union Agree To Mediate, Likely Helping Twinkie-Maker Avoid Shutdown
Hostess Brands and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union agreed to mediate on Monday, according to a tweet from CNBC. The agreement will reportedly prevent a...
View ArticleFeds Seize Over $2 Million from Retired Air Force Colonel Accused of Selling...
Next week retired Air Force colonel William Oldenburg will go on trial for selling Spice, a synthetic marijuana product that he says ;police had told him was legal, at his two Boise, Idaho, stores:...
View ArticleHostess Bankruptcy: Mediation Between Union, Company Breaks Down
Hostess' bankruptcy mediation with the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union has broken down, and the company plans to proceed with liquidation as planned, The...
View ArticleWant to Save Health Care Costs? Then Subsidize Smoking
I was provoked to bring up this topic one more time by a report in today's Washington Post that describes various ways in which the Obama administration is fiddling with health insurance as the age of...
View ArticleUS: The number one arms supplier for Mexican drug cartels
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View ArticleBanks cashing in on guns for drug cartels
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View ArticleYasser Arafat and the Radioactive Cigarette
While the world awaits the results from tests for polonium on Yasser Arafat's exhumed corpse, it is a good time to ask whether polonium poisoning had to be a deliberate act. There are other options,...
View ArticleAs Candidate In 2008, President Obama Promised Tougher Gun Laws
We've been down this road before. President Barack Obama wipes his eye as he talks about the Connecticut elementary school shooting, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, in the White House briefing room in...
View ArticleMike Bloomberg Pushes For Obama To Pass Gun Control Package
“Words alone cannot heal our nation — only action can do that,” said the New York mayor. View Video › An emotional New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday afternoon that if the shooting at...
View ArticleProhibitions Don’t Work, And New Technology Makes That More Obvious
As I've mentioned before, the Ottoman Empire once punished tobacco use by death. That worked out so well, the law was rescinded a generation later amidst a cloud of fragrant smoke. Americans being...
View ArticleObama So Loves Immigrants He’s Spending Record Amounts of Money to Keep Them...
A new study from the Migration Policy Institute documents a shocking amount of money being devoted to keeping immigrants out of the U.S. How much money? The U.S. government spends more on federal...
View ArticleGovernment Officials Predicting “Waco-Style Standoff” In Response To Obama...
(Paul Joseph Watson) Expressing his opposition to the New York SAFE Act, Gloversville Mayor Dayton King has sensationally warned that any federal gun confiscation program could lead to a “Waco-style...
View ArticleHostess Union Hires Investment Bank To Represent Workers As Company Sells Off...
NEW YORK -- The pension fund for one of Hostess Brands' unions has hired an investment bank to represent workers and pensioners as the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread sells off its brands.In a...
View ArticleHow cigarette smuggling fuels Africa’s Islamist violence
Contrabrand tobacco is a $1bn trade in north Africa, run by extremists including Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who masterminded the attack on the Algerian gas plant. The trade is highly profitable – and very low...
View ArticleAfghanistan explores mining opportunities
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View ArticleDems move to change federal pot laws
SEATTLE (AP) — An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax.While passage this...
View ArticleYoani Sanchez: A Box of Cigars Cost a Year’s Salary in Cuba
My grandfather chewed tobacco, biting down on it and moistening it with his saliva in an obsessive ritual that continued throughout the day. He also had a pipe, to which he added the coarse-cut tobacco...
View ArticleDocuments reveal tobacco companies funded their own ‘tea party’ first
A study published Friday in the scientific journal Tobacco Control unearthed documents that reveal the tobacco industry’s desire to fund a new “tea party” to advance their anti-regulation objectives...
View ArticleJesse Jackson Jr. spent money on elk heads, Michael Jackson fedora
On what did former Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. spend $750,000 in misused campaign funds? According to the Chicago Tribune, the answers range from the luxurious to the bizarre, including "a holistic...
View ArticleNIH Director Regrets Taxpayer-Funded Hatchet Job Linking Tea Party to Big...
At a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said he was "quite troubled" by ;a taxpayer-funded study that tarred the Tea Party movement as a...
View ArticleColorado’s Marijuana Task Force Pushes Bad DUID Law, Pot Protectionism, Heavy...
The final report of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force, which was appointed by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to advise the state legislature on how best to regulate recreational marijuana,...
View ArticleNYC plan would keep tobacco products out of sight
NEW YORK (AP) — A new proposal would require New York City retailers to keep tobacco products out of sight under a first-in-the-nation proposal aimed at reducing the youth smoking rate, Mayor Michael...
View ArticleWould Colorado’s Courts Overturn Restrictions on Marijuana Ads?
Last week I noted that the marijuana ad restrictions supported by Colorado's Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force seem vulnerable to challenge under the state constitution's free speech clause. The...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg’s plan would keep cigarettes out of sight
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled legislation Monday to force shopkeepers to cover cigarettes with a curtain or use some other method to keep tobacco out of view. The bill, which needs approval...
View ArticleKatherine Mangu-Ward Talks E-Cigarettes, Cancer, and Pina Coladas on...
Managing Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward talked e-cigarettes today on HuffPostLive. Tune in for a vast array of surprisingly scientifically literate guests, stay for host Josh Zepps, who was such a fan of...
View ArticleFPSRussia compound raid leaves 40-plus ATF, FBI agents empty-handed
The noise made by popular YouTube channel FPSRussia – famous for destroying man-made mechanisms with the most advanced firearms – has finally been heard in federal quarters. On Wednesday, Alcohol,...
View ArticleOur Food Supply: What You and Your Family Need to Know
The only way to achieve vibrant health and clarity of mind is to only consume organic food. Plain and simple. … Read More
View ArticleObama angers Republicans, Democrats as new budget unveiled to Congress
The proposal includes an additional $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decades, bringing total deficit savings to $4.3 trillion based on the administration’s calculations. The main...
View ArticleATF: Shop that sold Newtown weapons violated regulations hundreds of times
A gun store in East Windsor, Connecticut that sold two of the firearms found after the Newtown massacre recently saw its license revoked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)...
View ArticleObama Wants to Fund Universal Pre-K Using Cigarette Taxes. It Won’t Work.
President Obama’s new budget proposes paying for a $66 billion universal pre-kindergarten program by increasing the federal cigarette tax to $1.95 a pack. In theory, that raises about $78 billion over...
View ArticleEU anti-smoking laws threaten African trade
http://www.youtube.com/v/m9g1bsFIjkM?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Continued here: EU anti-smoking laws threaten African trade
View ArticleFirst responder at West, Texas explosion charged with possession of pipe bomb
Bryce Reed, 31, was booked at the McLennan County jail early Friday and brought before a judge to make an initial appearance later in the day where he declined to enter a plea. The Los Angeles Times...
View ArticleKentucky puffs on as tobacco farming dwindles
http://www.youtube.com/v/dqMHDVv24bY?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata More - Kentucky puffs on as tobacco farming dwindles
View ArticleSweden abandons bid to lift EU snus export ban
The Swedish government has given up its efforts to force the European Union to scrap its ban on the export of snus, choosing instead to focus on protecting the popular moist tobacco product's use in...
View ArticleSweden ‘saves’ moist snuff in EU battle
Swedish moist snuff users could breathe a sigh of tobacco-scented relief on Friday after the government announced that a new EU tobacco directive will allow Sweden to continue to determine the...
View ArticleBoston police officer arrested after bombs and explosives found inside home
Police Officer Kirk D. Merricks, 43, is now facing 11 counts of possession of an explosive device, four counts of obtaining stolen property and one count of illegal possession of ammunition. A bomb...
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