The corn is mainly used for animal feed. In 2004, Grissett and his son, like many tobacco farmers in the region, took their portion of the $12 billion tobacco quotas buyout and chose to stop growing the crop after the federal government cut the subsidy program that set market prices and production controls for decades. In 2004, Grissett and his son, like many tobacco farmers in the region, took their portion of the $12 billion tobacco quotas buyout and chose to stop growing the crop after...

Property tax relief, property tax repeal, another income tax, increased sales taxes, gambling - lotteries, casinos, pari-mutuel betting, electronic slot machines, sin taxes - alcoholic beverages and tobacco, taxes on utilities, taxes on petroleum and petroleum products, taxes, taxes, taxes. Property tax relief, property tax repeal, another income tax, increased sales taxes, gambling - lotteries, casinos, pari-mutuel betting, electronic slot machines, sin taxes - alcoholic beverages and...

The Burlingame Police Department together with the San Mateo County Tobacco Prevention Program, Breathe California and the Youth Leadership Program distributed information about tobacco laws and penalties to grocery stores, liquor stores and gift shops that could potentially sell tobacco to minors. San Mateo County is battling teen smoking through education not just for minors but for merchants that sell tobacco. The Burlingame Police Department together with the San Mateo County Tobacco...

O'Malley said this summer that he wants to expand Medicaid, but yesterday he said he has reservations about using an increase in the tobacco tax to pay for the expansion. The House of Delegates approved a $1-a-pack increase to the tobacco tax this spring as part of a plan to expand Medicaid, but the measure died in the Senate. Martin O'Malley said yesterday that the state is likely to raise its tobacco tax - perhaps by another $1 a pack - to help solve its budget woes. A $1 a pack increase...

About half of throat cancer and mouth cancer occur in smokers and almost all particularly aggressive mouth cancers occur in people who chew tobacco. Bladder cancer is also associated with tobacco use and other cancers have been implicated. And the threats of tobacco smoking and the burden it superimposes on our health requires a string of reforms to revert the trend. Although, the number of cancers seen each year is slightly above average for an old industrial urban state, the death rate...