The vote late last month is the latest part of a growing effort by area activists to snuff out cigarette litter at its source. But despite Ontario s strict laws against smoking in indoor public places it doesn t look as if a cigarettes or cigarette butts are on the hit list on beaches on this side of the border. Commissioners in Ottawa County, which borders the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, said they are frustrated by the volume of cigarette butts littering Great Lakes sands and are...

The property tax exemption has been increased from $5,700, allowing homeowners to exempt the first $25,000 of the value of their single-family home from all local property taxes. Under the old program, homeowners could not make more than $26,200 a year and qualify for the property tax break. The state plans to finance the $300 million-a-year in local tax breaks by "securitizing" tobacco industry proceeds - selling future settlement payments to private investors. Rhodes said homeowners who...

The reason: State and local officials banned the sale of tobacco products at fairgrounds events in an effort to make New York the healthiest state in the nation. Visitors this year will be able to drink beer, eat deep-fried Twinkies and smoke in designated areas, but they won't be able to buy cigars from Tarnowicz, a Connecticut-based vendor who has peddled tobacco at the fair for the past 10 years. Smoking mad Vendor files lawsuit challenging as "discriminatory" a recently added state...

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Thus he was deeply disappointed last month when the Oregon Legislature failed to pass a tobacco tax that would help correct this wrong. And days later he was elated when Salem's Democratic majority managed at least to squeeze the tax onto the November ballot as a constitutional amendment. And that means they'll need to tune out the barrage of shallow rhetoric they're going to hear from the hired guns of the tobacco industry and its political backers. In another good move, lawmakers also...