The red and gold colored boxy design make this phone very unique and actually could be a fun mobile phone to shock your friends, even if you are not a smoker. Nokia and Motorola beware, Chinese mobile phone makers start to invent their own next generation mobile phones. In the back it has a compartment for 7 cigarettes (see photo below) Meet the camera mobile phone that is also a cigarette box. Chewing gum cigarettes sure can fit in this phone as well. Chinese Cigarette Box Mobile Phone....

IT smelt like someone was smoking dried leaves but that presumption was brushed aside when 40year-old Sushila Wati peered out of a door, holding dried tobacco leaves in her hands. In a blink of an eye, Sushila was back in her corner, quietly seated and continuing with her work straightening out dried tobacco leaves with her fingers. She giggled when she saw the expression on the faces of her visitors, all of them obviously thinking the dried leaves were being used in her compound....

The program is an avenue for health care for children whose families make too much money to qualify for TennCare, but not enough to buy insurance on the open market. Tennessee lawmakers are considering two issues guaranteed to make the tobacco lobby squirm: a public smoking ban and a 40-cent increase in the tax on a pack of cigarettes. The program will cost the state $63 million over three years, but that s an investment in the future. Here s the bottom line: The tobacco industry should...

What happens when the government gets used to all this tax revenue from the cigarettes? If this tax is suppose to "help people quit", what if they succed in getting people to quit. They subsidize tobacco farmers with your tax dollars to make sure that a crop comes in. Chet Culver signed the bill that raises the tax $1 and also boosts the tax for other tobacco products. To target any small group with a tax is discriminating against them, an personally I beleive this tax is all about money I...

They say it's no coincidence that apparent theft occurred just after a new $1 increase in the state's cigarette tax went into effect Eleven cases of cigarettes -- more than 500 cartons -- were discovered missing from Boone Freight Lines on Sunday, officials with the Boone County sheriff's office said. They say it's no coincidence that apparent theft occurred just after a new $1 increase in the state's cigarette tax went into effect Eleven cases of cigarettes -- more than 500 cartons --...