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federal cigarette tax
| 1 | Cigarette Use Among U.S. High School Students CrossRef | ISI | MEDLINE Cigarette use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States ...
leveling off or change in direction) in addition to an overall increase or decrease over time ...
Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ...
Quadratic trends indicated significant but nonlinear trends in the data over time ...
The national YRBS, a component of CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, used independent three-stage cluster samples for the 1991-2003 surveys to obtain cross-sectional data representative of public and private school students in grades 9-12 in all 50 states and the District of Columbia ... |
| 2 | Critics Say Flavored Smokes Cater to Kids When a significant quadratic trend accompanied a significant linear trend, the data demonstrated a nonlinear variation (e ...
Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of ... |
| 3 | Read What the Judge Ruled, Then See The Docs Themselves Porter law firm memorandum regarding a possible public survey to show no need for stronger labelling on cigarette packaging regarding the dangers of smoking, the writers concluded that was a bad idea ...
said it believed the Liggett documents did not ``remotely fit the description accorded them by the plaintiffs ...
to prevent or delay further regulation of the tobacco industry, while at the same time individual industry members were internally writing such things as ...
Prevention efforts must be sustained to ensure this pattern continues and the 2010 objective is achieved ... |
| 4 | The War Over Cigar Labels Heats Up Rutter found that about 300 documents of the Tobacco Institute contain evidence of fraud by the industry ...
Last week, several cigar manufacturers went to federal court to block the Massachusetts law, which was supposed to go into effect Aug ...
Gentry, an attorney for the state, said: ``We know from the Liggett attorneys that they are particularly germane to the crime/fraud issue ...
Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of ... |
| 5 | Why Do U Subsidize the Tobacco Industry? Apparently the tobacco cases are an exception to that rule,'' Weber said ...
Many people concerned about smoking may be surprised to learn that they and their taxes not only help to subsidize the tobacco industry, but actually help it to run major deceptive ad campaigns ...
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is smoking mad at the tobacco industry, and is lighting up an effort to fight back against an aggressive industry advertising campaign opposed to higher federal taxes on cigarette s ... |
| 6 | States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales The congresswoman said her staff will try to build support for her proposal after Labor Day ...
There is a question of relevance and that has not yet been established,'' Weber said ...
The lack of oversight lets children illegally purchase cigarette s online, said Meehan, who plans to file a bill requiring Internet cigarette shops to verify the age, address and identity of purchasers before shipping tobacco products ...
A report by the Annenberg Public Policy Center estimated that, between April and July, the industry had spent $40 million on the campaign ...
Data are presented only for non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Hispanic students because the numbers of ... |
| 7 | The "Bidi Buzz" Continues When I sent my staff around to figure out how much money was being spent, I was floored,'' Miss Kaptur said ...
The cost to states can run into the millions, according to the report ...
Bidis are small, but federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials reported they release three to five times more tar and nicotine than regular cigarette s ...
Perhaps the same principle should apply to forcing nonsmokers to subsidize tobacco advertising ...
The popular television show, says Jeff Stier, associate director of the group ... |
| 8 | Highlights Advantages of State Lawsuits Over Flawed Global Deal to prevent or delay further regulation of the tobacco industry, while at the same time individual industry members were internally writing such things as ...
The industry also must remove cigarette -vending machines from any place accessible to children and remove tobacco advertising in sports arenas and on public buses and trains ...
If the returns were unfavorable, they could be destroyed and there would be no record in any office of the nature of the returns,'' the document ...
The industry, meanwhile, avoided the massive negative publicity generated by a trial that would have opened up 40 years of damaging internal documents to a jury in a case that was set to be televised live while Congress and the White House were considering the national deal ... |
| 9 | White House Fighting Uphill On Cig Tax Hike Miss Kaptur said she has received more than 100 letters on the matter ...
The administration's 55-cent increase would be in addition to the industry's price increase and would more than double the federal tax on cigarette s, which is already scheduled to rise to 39 cents a pack in 2002 ...
Bidis are widely available in area tobacco stores, but a spot check failed to find them ... |
| 10 | ASH Quoted As 2 MI Companies Announce Non-Smoking Policies for Employees Bidis are widely available in area tobacco stores, but a spot check failed to find them ...
An industry spokesman said the tobacco companies would vigorously contest the tobacco increase ... |
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