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stjoenews.net | Statewide smoking ban goes to kansas governor.
Patrons of bars and restaurants across Kansas may have to put out their cigarettes indoors and walk outside to light up.
On Thursday, the Kansas House passed, by a vote of 68 to 54, a statewide public smoking ban, sending it to Gov. Mark Parkinson’s desk. The Kansas Senate passed a statewide smoking ban last year. If Mr. Parkinson signs the new legislation — and he is expected to — Kansas will be among 40 states that have restrictions on where people can smoke.
The Truth about Dating: Run away from that smoker | SeacoastOnline.com.
Think smokers are sexy? Think again.
In one of the first columns I wrote four years ago I stated that being a cigarette smoker lowered a single person's Dating Quotient more than any other factor. I guess it's OK to plagiarize myself, so I will paraphrase two statements that I wrote in 2005.
I repeat that the absolute hardest person to match in the singles' marketplace is someone who smokes cigarettes on a regular basis, every day. Moreover, if that person identifies himself as a pack a day (or more) smoker, the resulting stigma is somewhat equivalent to being at least 100 pounds overweight or, even worse, being a Yankees fan looking for love in the bleachers at Fenway Park.
Cigarette stocks go down in flames; ITC plunges 6% .
The shares of cigarette and tobacco product makers today fell on the BSE, led by sector leader ITC that declined over 6 per cent, after Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced hike in excise duty on cigarettes, cigars and cigarillos in his Budget Speech.
In bad news for smokers, Mukherjee, while presenting the Budget for 2010-11, announced the upward revision of excise rates up to Rs 2,363 per 1000 (barring cigarettes of less than 60 mm). Also, chewing-tobacco products will attract excise duty of 60 per cent as against the earlier 50 per cent.
UMaine to go tobacco-free by 2012: Voluntary compliance urged in 2011 [Bangor Daily News, Maine].
The University of Maine will become the second institution of higher learning in the state to go tobacco-free, beginning on a voluntary basis in 2011 and becoming mandatory in 2012, school officials said Thursday.
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