As always, we need the tax on tobacco to be raised to make tobacco products less affordable and my colleagues want a lot more advertising on television. I wish now we hadn't pushed the smokers outside to smoke in public in front of children, like the many teachers, who nonchalantly take their coffee and cigarette out to the school entrance to get their fix. There's only one aunty in our immediate whanau who smokes and when she visits she wears a nicotine patch to minimise the number of...

Mending Britain's "broken society" is the biggest challenge facing the country, Tory leader David Cameron argued - as a Conservative policy group called for a tax rise on alcohol to combat binge drinking. A key proposal is making drinkers pay up to 400 million a year extra in tax to fund tough new treatment for drug addicts. In its interim Breakdown Britain report last year, the group warned that massive debt, drug addiction and the breakdown of the family were creating a "growing...

Logan tobacco sold for $9. One sucker tobacco averaged $116. Farming continued to be an important part of the economy in 1977, as it has throughout the history of Logan County. The stockyard became a cooperative with the facilities remodeled. Logan County has a new assistant commonwealth attorney, and he is ready to hit the ground running. Their families and their communities are integral to their successful development into contributing adults. Doctors, attorneys, barbers and beauty shops...

Between us, our families have been farming our lands for 10 generations, and were faced with a major turning point in the future of agriculture in this state. With the end of the tobacco program, changes in world commodity markets, rapid population growth, and increasing environmental demands on farms, we need to find ways to create a new vision for farm viability that can help us cultivate our next generation of farmers. Flatwood Farms (Ernies farm) in Granville County grows 110 acres of...

Now, Ritz said, cigarette makers are trying to "bamboozle" the public into thinking that smokeless tobacco is a good substitute for cigarettes. A typical worker in a bar that allows smoking inhales the equivalent of 1 packs of cigarettes during an eight-hour shift, Day said. Nine states have approved clean-air acts since Colorado enacted its law, bringing to 22 the number of states with clean indoor-air acts, Bertoli said. Exposure to second-hand smoke causes an estimated 3,000 deaths...