Provides the latest RSS feeds for Tobacco News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page industriesnews.net http://www.industriesnews.net/tobacco/&cid=46 en-us Sun, 26 May 2013 02:50:49 -0400 Sun, 26 May 2013 02:50:49 -0400 30 Amanda Bynes was arrested for possession of drugs after she was caught smoking marijuana and exhibiting an erratic behaviour at her NYC apartment, on Thursday. The cops handcuffed the troubled actress and took her in police custody, following complaints that she was smoking the illegal substance in the building's lobby, Contactmusic reported. Bynes, who allegedly tossed a bong out the window, ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214754387&cid=46 Sat, 25 May 2013 02:50:02 -0400 ANI http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214754387   It seems one of the few things the Legislature and Gov. Deval Patrick can agree on in the debate over the state's 2014 fiscal year budget is a dollar-a-pack increase in the tobacco tax - the fifth time the tax has been increased since 1992.   Beacon Hill isn't the only place where politicians agree on tobacco levies. Forty-seven states have raised cigarette taxes a combined ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214772371&cid=46 Sun, 26 May 2013 00:55:45 -0400 General Sources http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214772371 DALLAS (WFSS/CNN) – There's a new trend in the bar scene that involves your favorite hard liquor and dry ice. Breathing in the alcohol vapors gets you buzzed fast and some say you don't ingest any empty calories.But one doctor in Texas is saying "smoking" your alcohol is extremely bad for your health."Once I lost the weight ... if you lose the weight, then you want ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214768830&cid=46 Sat, 25 May 2013 20:24:07 -0400 WLOX http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214768830 Patients in closed mental health wards at Waitemata District Health Board are allowed out for cigarettes as a reward for good behaviour, a patient alleges. A woman who has been a frequent patient at open and closed wards made the claims in a court affidavit submitted to a judicial review in the High Court at Auckland. The review seeks to overturn a smoking ban in closed, intensive-care mental ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214762557&cid=46 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:30:00 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214762557 Michael Delgado, 19, of Osborn Street, was released Friday from the Westmoreland County jail after spending two nights there for refusing to pay $96 in fines and costs for twice smoking at the Eastern Westmoreland Career and Technology Center in Derry ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214753008&cid=46 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:15:08 -0400 Tribune Review http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214753008 ManhattanStores that sell untaxed, smuggled cigarettes not only break the law, but hurt many law-abiding small businesses. Higher cigarette taxes have been critical in reducing both adult and youth smoking rates. Coupled with stronger enforcement measures, such as those the mayor and City Council recently proposed, New York can continue to reduce the number of deaths from smoking and prevent ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214752293&cid=46 Fri, 24 May 2013 23:29:59 -0400 New York Post http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214752293 Rachel Maddow reports on the bizarre story of the mayor of Toronto who denies smoking crack even as a purported video of him doing so is being shopped to media outlets, one of which, Gawker, is accepting public donations to raise the $200,000 asking ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214752294&cid=46 Fri, 24 May 2013 23:17:22 -0400 MSNBC http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214752294 New Delhi: In India, four out of every 10 new cancer cases are tobacco-related. If stringent measures to check the usage of bidi, cigarette and gutka -- the most commonly used tobacco products -- are not taken, then the number of people affected by the disease will increase three-fold, say medical experts. Acoording to Dr P K Julka, professor and head of the oncology division at All India ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214752296&cid=46 Fri, 24 May 2013 23:14:05 -0400 General Sources http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214752296 VICTORIA WHITE: Citizens beware, Kenny's musketeers are leading the Government charge WATCH them riding on, the three musketeers, Alan Shatter, James Reilly and Phil ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214752295&cid=46 Fri, 24 May 2013 23:14:05 -0400 General Sources http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214752295 The U.S. Senate voted 52-44 Thursday afternoon to kill an amendment to the Farm Bill that would have eliminated federal crop insurance subsidies for ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214750773&cid=46 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:11:45 -0400 Hispanic Business Magazine http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214750773 Although nicotine is not included in the categorisation of carcinogen, it is still essentially a poison that travels through the body in the bloodstream, which goes straight to the brain within seven to 15 seconds where it then boosts the "reward centre" that releases chemicals that cause a 'pleasantly happy' ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214750931&cid=46 Fri, 24 May 2013 21:06:18 -0400 BruDirect http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214750931 Click Here Now LONDON -- There are things to love and loathe about most companies. Today, I'm going to tell you about three things to love ... http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214749791&cid=46 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:51:01 -0400 General Sources http://www.industriesnews.net/story?sid=s214749791