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Cops: Man Refuses to Pay for Cigarettes Because He's 'the King'
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsAs Mel Brooks famously stated, it's good to be the king. That is, of course, when you really are the king. Police in Michigan say one man learned the hard way that you won't get treated like royalty just because you claim to have regal lineage. Officers in Warren say Joseph Lawrence Borowiak tried to yank a pack of cigarettes away from a 7-Eleven clerk after claiming he didn't need to pay for the smokes because he was "the king," according to MSNBC. ...
China Limits Smoking in Films, TV Shows
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIJING -- China is ordering makers of films and TV shows to limit the amount of smoking depicted on-screen, the latest effort to curb rampant tobacco use in the country with the largest number of smokers in the world. The order from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television viewed Tuesday on its website orders producers to minimize plot lines and scenes involving tobacco and show smoking only when necessary for artistic purposes or character development. Minors under age 18 cannot be shown smoking or buying cigarettes, and characters may not smoke in public buildings or other ...
Opinion: Why Not Discriminate Against Smokers?
By Jacob Sullum - AOL NewsThe New York Times reports that "more hospitals and medical businesses in many states are adopting strict policies that make smoking a reason to turn away job applicants." The shift from smoke-free to smoker-free workplaces has provoked objections not only from tobacco companies but also from civil libertarians and even some anti-smoking activists. Another View on Hiring Smokers Refuse to Hire Smokers? What's Next? -- Pam Parker, co-founder, Opponents of Ohio Bans According to the Times, the American Legacy Foundation, a leading anti-smoking group, says job ...
Smoking French Icons Allowed to Puff on Posters Again
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsFrench politicians have voted to amend a strict anti-tobacco law that snatched cigarettes and pipes from images of some of the country's most famous smokers. Fear of breaking the 20-year-old Evin Law, which banned the direct and indirect promotion of tobacco and alcohol in public places, had led authorities to remove dozens of smokes from historical images. The legislation first sparked public outrage in 1996, when the post office used a photo of renowned author Andre Malraux for a stamp but airbrushed out his ever-present Gauloise. The law was back in the headlines almost a decade later ...
Spain's Famed Tapas Bars Go Smoke-Free
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsMADRID -- Spanish sidewalks are crowded with smokers forced to light up outdoors for the first time today, after their government imposed one of the toughest smoking bans in all of Europe, bidding farewell to the smoky haze that used to envelop Spain's famed tapas bars. The ban went into effect Sunday, at the end of the New Year holiday weekend when most cafes and businesses were closed. Today is the first real day of business under the new ban, which prohibits smoking in all restaurants, bars, cafes, airports and discos -- and even some outdoor spaces like park playgrounds and near the ...
Judge Strikes Down NYC's Gruesome Tobacco Ads
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- The city's campaign to scare smokers with grotesque images of decaying teeth or a diseased lung wherever tobacco products are sold was struck down Wednesday by a federal judge who concluded that only the federal government can dictate warnings that must accompany the promotion of cigarettes. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff handed a victory to the nation's three largest tobacco manufacturers and the retailers who sell their products when he ruled on the legality of a 2009 city Board of Health code change requiring the display of smoking cessation signs where tobacco products are ...
Has Obama Finally Licked His Smoking Habit?
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyTwo wars, a jobless recovery and a brutal Election Day might make some folks nervous enough to grab a cigarette. But the hard times have had the opposite effect on President Obama, who hasn't had a smoke in nearly a year, according to his White House spokesman. "I've not seen or witnessed evidence of smoking in probably nine months," Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Thursday. "I think he has worked extremely hard. And I think he would tell you, even when, in the midst of a tax agreement and a START [arms] deal and all the other things that accumulate, that even where he might have ...
Health Agencies Urge MLB Tobacco Ban
By Jeff Fletcher - AOL NewsWith a year to go before the expiration of the MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement, a new campaign to ban smokeless tobacco in the big leagues has officially begun. A consortium of 10 health agencies – from the American Medical Association to the American Heart Association to the American Cancer Society -- have joined in a campaign to encourage MLB to ban the use of smokeless tobacco in the next CBA. The group, led by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, sent letters to commissioner Bud Selig and Michael Weiner, the head of the Players' Association, two weeks ago. (PDF: Read the letter ...
Study: 2nd-Hand Smoke Kills 600,000 Each Year
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 26) -- Secondhand smoke kills more than 600,000 people worldwide each year, including more than 165,000 children under 5, according to results from the first global study of tobacco's impact on nonsmokers. The World Health Organization surveyed 2004 data from 192 countries, and found that 40 percent of children are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke, compared with 33 percent of adult men and 35 percent of nonsmoking women. Such exposure sickens untold millions each year. Tobacco is the world's leading cause of preventable death, killing about 5.7 million people worldwide annually. ...
RJ Reynolds Ordered to Pay $80M in Wrongful-Death Suit
By Lisa Flam - AOL News
(Nov. 17) -- A Florida jury has ordered R.J. Reynolds to pay $80 million to the daughter of a man who smoked for six decades and died of lung cancer in 1996, reversing Big Tobacco's recent courtroom-winning streak in the state. The jury in Bronson, Fla., sided with Dianne Webb, who claimed in a wrongful-death lawsuit that the death of her father, James Cayce Horner, was caused by an addiction to smoking fueled by Reynolds' manipulation and deception, according to The Associated Press. Chuck Burton, AP R.J. Reynolds says it will appeal a Florida jury's decision that the company was mostly to ...
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