smoking laws

A new tax began in July 2013. A friend working there reports that a $3 cigar at a B&M before the tax is now $ 5. The National Association of Tobacco Outlets (NATO) noted that, according to Massachusetts Department of Revenue staff, the department is mailing to each wholesaler and retailer the...

Maybe I'm in the wrong loops or just don't follow it, but I'm not seeing or hearing of any new tobacco legislation being introduced. You guys hearing of anything significant? DL

Well the main municipality in the area and my home town will vote tonight to ban all smoking in public places. It is expected to pass and is said to be the toughest in Texas. DL

Bristol is thinking about banning smoking on all city streets in the city. Most of the hopitals in CT just voted to make every inch of their property smoke free. Even no smoking on your break in your car. CIGNA has just outlawed smoking on its entire campus. These just happened yesterday due the...

This is the place I am a member. They have been fighting in court for quite awhile http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoe ... 30-ON.html

story by Darrell R. Santschi in The Press-Enterprise online (www.pe.com) reported that the City Council of Loma Linda, California has passed a smoking ban so restrictive that offenders could find themselves receiving a wallet whopping citation. After July 24, anyone caught smoking in parks...

Group Gets Around Smoking Ban By 'Acting' The Part LAKE MILLE LACS, Minn. (AP) ? All the world's a stage? Then the smokers in a resort here are the actors. Barnacle's Resort in Lake Mille Lacs turned its normal Saturday night business into a play, testing a loophole in Minnesota's smoking ban...

Illinois - Smoking is prohibited within a minimum distance of 15 feet from entrances, exits, windows that open, and ventilation intakes that serve an enclosed area where smoking is prohibited under this Act so as to ensure that tobacco smoke does not enter the area through entrances...

Strictly informational... When I was in Florida, I learned that there is smoking in public places like bars, but if there is food being served at all, it is non-smoking. I believe that is statewide, but i dunno.

This is a developing story...

I just read that the new Illinois law forbidding a person to smoke in a private establishment has no exemptions. Therefore, the Big Smoke in Chicago has been cancelled. So much for freedom!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071229/ap_ ... n_s_health anyone got any more detailed info? it hinted that there was not a tobacco tax increase (it didnt out and out SAY it though) but gave no info on where the money was comming from.

I recently went to catch a buddies show at a bar in DeKalb, IL. I walked in with a 5 Vegas Miami Torpedo in my mouth, and as the lady was checking my ID, another bar worker came up to me and asked me if that was lit, told me no smoking in DeKalb as of sep1...i thought he was kidding me...i was...

Well the smoking ban is here. The bars in the area have to choes to be a bar. Most the bars here offer family dinning. If the bar choeses to be a bar no one under 18 can be in the bar but if they choes to be a family restarunt then there is to be no smoking. I didn't go to the bars that often...

Check the link below for new proposed tax increase http://news.aol.com/story/_a/congress-a ... 2509990001 They say anything about cigars but I am sure it is in there.

Yes, the Democrats brought up SCHP again today. This time they said they will reduce the income to $63000.00, but still fund this social program by putting the cigar business out of business with a 6000 percent tax increase. If you have a Republican congressman that voted for the override, now...

FAILED! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21358583/

http://www.nbc11.com/news/14307719/detail.html

"President Bush has vetoed legislation expanding a children's health insurance program by $35 billion over five years." Well the veto is official. And it doesn't sound like they have to votes to overturn so we are safe for a little while. But never safe forever.

Well, as of 0700 today, my town, Mount Pleasant, SC, went smoke-free. No smoking in any indoor public places, including cigar shops. While I don't think I've smoked in a public place here (my B&M is closer to my work, which is 20 miles from here), it's still frustrating that I can't. I've heard...