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Marlboro maker Altria to sell e-cigarettes
Tobacco giant Altria Group Inc. is launching its first electronic cigarette, joining the trend toward smokeless products amid a slump in sales of its classic Marlboro brand. Altria joins competitors such as Lorillard Inc. that have already ventured into...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, New Products, Science and Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Electronics
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El fabricante de Marlboro lanza su primer cigarrillo electrónico
Nueva York, 11 jun (EFE).- La tabaquera estadounidense Altria, que fabrica marcas como Marlboro, anunció hoy el lanzamiento en agosto próximo de su primer cigarrillo electrónico, llamado MarkTen, con el que busca entrar de lleno en este creciente mercado....Tags: Reynolds American Incorporated, Philip Morris USA
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NY proposal would make 21 minimum age for tobacco
No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City, under a new proposal announced Monday that marks the latest in a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the nation's largest city. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn...Tags: Services and Shopping, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Michael Bloomberg, Grocery Coupons
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Critics revive past promises to knock Obama budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...
Tags: Medicare, Consumer Confidence, Consumers, Prices, Inflation and Deflation
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U.S. to revise cigarette warning labels
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and...
Tags: Reynolds American Incorporated, Human Rights, Eric Holder, Tobacco Addiction, U.S. Supreme Court
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Bloomberg's new plan: hide cigarettes
NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-smoking advocates and health experts hailed proposals from Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would keep cigarettes out of sight in New York City stores, while tobacco companies and smokers called it an overreach. The ban, which...
Tags: Restaurants, Manhattan (New York City), Dining and Drinking, Michael Bloomberg, Human Rights
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Is franchising your next step to leaving corporate world?
Two South Florida businessmen turned into franchise entrepreneurs this past October when they were at the crossroads of their professional futures. Franchising looks good for people who want to get off the corporate treadmill and create their own ladder...
Tags: Sales, Business, Sunrise (Broward, Florida), Consumers, Broward County
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Tobacco educator not surprised by surgeon general's report on teenage smoking
Daily American Staff WriterClara Hinton, Somerset County tobacco educator, said she isn't shocked by a surgeon general's report that many teenagers are smoking cigarettes and using smokeless tobacco. "We had incredible programs in place, then funding was cut," she said. "Meanwhile...Tags: Tobacco Addiction, USA Today, Companies and Corporations, Health, Regina Benjamin
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Alaska Joins Several States In Cigarette Label Lawsuit
Channel 2 NewsSeveral states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, saying the federal government should be allowed to require the...Tags: Hampshire, Human Rights, Companies and Corporations, Lungs and Airways, Laws
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Tobacco companies file lawsuit over warning labels
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tobacco companies want a judge to put a stop to new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and pictures of diseased lungs, saying they unfairly urge adults to shun their legal products and will cost...Tags: Trials, Human Interest, Human Rights, Companies and Corporations, Lungs and Airways
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Debt crisis averted, stock market focus will turn back to economy
Money & CompanyThe U.S. stock market lately has felt a lot worse off than it really was. That’s the backdrop as the new trading week begins, with Congress and the White House apparently in a deal to raised the federal debt ceiling......
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