Last year tobacco growers in the Myrtleford area accepted a multi-million-dollar buy-out offer from the Federal Government and tobacco companies to stop growing the leaf. The State Government said yesterday the search for a tobacco landmark in Myrtleford was just a small part of the $200 million put up by the Government for drought initiatives to help farmers and their communities. Can someone please explain to me, how building a monument with drought relief funds can help the people who...

The cost of a pack of cigarettes would jump under a congressional proposal to have smokers finance an expansion of a health care program for children. The Senate is considering a plan to slap a 61-cent increase on the federal tax on cigarettes while the House is mulling a bill calling for a 45-cent hike. The tobacco tax is an unreliable revenue source for the health care program, he said, because cigarette sales are decreasing while health care costs are skyrocketing. It is reasonable to...

Men in suits, Shiite clerics in white turbans and black robes, women in Western blouses and others shrouded in veils participated in the 275-seat national assembly's final session before its recess. critics, Parliament failed to pass laws concerning oil investment and revenue-sharing among regions, the reintegration of former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime into government and on holding provincial elections. Some gripped their black leather briefcases in the lobby of the...

That "one cause" is a sudden threat to the premium-cigar industry in the United States: a little-known provision of the current incarnation of the SCHIP State Children's Health Insurance Program bill, now before the Senate, which would increase the tax on premium cigars by up to 20,000 percent. That "one cause" is a sudden threat to the premium-cigar industry in the United States: a little-known provision of the current incarnation of the SCHIP State Children's Health Insurance Program...

They found that hookah smoke produced nearly two orders of magnitude greater amount of "tar" from a single smoking session than that produced from a single cigarette. Smoking hookah has been linked to cancer of the gums (much like chewing tobacco) and gum disease. I actually think it's great that Carlisle's becomming more diversified -sushi, indian, perhaps a mongolian bbq in the near future? The hookah is a cultural experience, something to try once or twice with friends as you would in...