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Bill Hicks on smoking and Yul Brynner 23 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
Two great skits I found from Bill Hicks about smoking. I just kind of stumbled into these (mostly by looking at Yul Brynner’s famous commercial from the grave about smoking). The first video is a sho...
R.J. Reynolds quietly loses $37.5 million judgement 5 Aug 2013 | 12:24 am
This story didn’t get as much attention as I would’ve have expected, I think because it’s actually becoming routine. A jury last week awarded a family who lost their wife and mother to lung cancer in...
Casper smoking ban battle — petition drive fails after hundreds of signatures thrown out 3 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am
Casper, Wyoming a few months ago implemented a smoking ban for all restaurants and bars. Well, after only a few weeks, bar owners went to the city council and whined about the effect of the ban on th...
Lawsuit filed over “smoke shacks” built by Great Falls bars, injunctions filed, groups formed, it’s a mess 3 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
This is a hell of a convoluted story. It’s too complicated to tell the whole story here, so I’ll sum up … It’s a city/county health department fighting the courts, owner of some Great Falls, Montana b...
Philip Morris profits down 8 percent in second quarter 2013 21 Jul 2013 | 12:52 am
Oh, happy day. Philip Morris (Altria), the No. 1 private cigarette manufacturer in the world, saw its profits drop a dramatic 8 percent in the second quarter of 2013, mostly due to lagging sales. Phil...
Good news everyone … teen smoking reported at lowest point ever 19 Jul 2013 | 11:21 pm
This is such good news, I’m actually having difficulty believing it at face value. (Too good to be true syndrome…). According to a federal study (called the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Fam...
Keanu Reeves does not approve of you smoking! 19 Jul 2013 | 10:55 pm
From the new movie “Generation Um” Hah, I actually saw something like this about 10 years ago, in which a drunk chick threw a massive temper tantrum for being told a bar was a non-smoking establishme...
Oops, “Smokers’ glitch” means smokers won’t pay more for “Obamacare” coverage — for the moment 14 Jul 2013 | 11:26 pm
Hah, OK, this is actually kind of funny. An example of government bureaucracy at its best. Under the Affordable Care Act, smokers were looking at paying up to 50 percent more than non-smokers through...
Smoking ban relaxed in Casper 1 Jul 2013 | 12:07 am
Casper, Wyoming Here’s something you don’t see very often. A town actually remove or relax a smoking ban. Late last month, Casper, Wyo., removed its smoking ban on bars because some bar owners compl...
Sexy e-cigarette advertising 6 Jun 2013 | 02:38 am
I noticed this beginning a couple of months ago — a sexy new ad campaign for an e-cigaratte called Blu. I first saw an ad on TV and was shocked to see a cigarette ad on TV, then realized it … Continue...
