Think of the lives that would be saved if the state would tax alcohol the way they did every pack of cigarettes. If you want to call me stupid and ignorant well then that just shows how smart you are and that you can not accept that not everyone in this world agrees with you. Maybe it would be more feasable to tax $1 per case of beer, rather than the individual beer. It takes years for cigarettes or secondhand smoke to kill, and smoking mostly kills only the smoker. I would like to voice...

He said tobacco growing had made the people poorer since the only good houses in the villages were tobacco curing barns. Last year, the West Nile districts of Arua, Koboko, Yumbe and Nyadri produced about 10m kilogrammes of flu-cured Virginia tobacco from which the farmers earned nearly Shs18 billion but the benefits of the money cannot be seen in terms of physical development. Last year, the West Nile districts of Arua, Koboko, Yumbe and Nyadri produced about 10m kilogrammes of flu-cured...

At even the hint of a new Toronto tax on cigarettes - one of eight potential fees and levies under review by the city - convenience store owner Wan Sook Suk throws up her hands in despair. Her alarm over the city flexing new powers to levy its own taxes and fees, permitted under provincial legislation that took effect last Jan. That new taxes are coming is certain, despite a resounding "no" from residents and small business at public consultations over the past two weeks. globeandmail.com:...

Gannett News Service A government scientific advisory panel proposed sweeping changes Thursday to reduce the health burden of tobacco, which claims 490,000 American lives a year. Authors from the IOM, a panel of independent experts who advise the government on health policy, say they aim "to reduce smoking so substantially that it is no longer a significant public health problem. The report's authors say tobacco is a unique product, because it kills more Americans than AIDS, alcohol,...

The report notes that cigarettes are unique in that they contain carcinogens and other dangerous toxins and would be banned under federal law if these statutes did not expressly exempt tobacco. Prior to that Americans consumed tobacco primarily as chewing tobacco or cigars. The report calls on Congress and the president to give FDA the authority to enforce standards for nicotine reduction and to regulate companies' claims that their products reduce exposure or risk. Andrew von Eschenbach...