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  • Moment five white Maryland police officers taser and arrest black teenager after he ignored warning to stop vaping on boardwalk

    06/14/2021 2:46:15 PM PDT · by fruser1 · 90 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 6/14/2021 | Gina Martinez
    Bystanders captured the moment a black teen was surrounded by five officers, then tased while his hands were up for allegedly vaping on the boardwalk Footage of Saturday's of 19-year-old Brian Anderson, who appears to be cooperative with police but was immobilized anyway, has gone viral Anderson appears to reach for the strap of his backpack but is instantly tasered by an officer and falls to the ground clutching his stomach in pain Eyewitnesses claimed he had been asked to take off his backpack Ocean City Council has banned smoking and vaping on its beaches and boardwalk, and only allows...
  • Artist David Hockney leaves Los Angeles to live in France because he can 'smoke in restaurants [tr]

    09/10/2019 2:17:51 AM PDT · by C19fan · 136 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | September 10, 2019 | Staff
    Famed British artist David Hockney is giving up Los Angeles after 55 years for Normandy, France, to live out the rest of his days. 'I can do twice as much work there, three times as much,' Hockney tells the Wall Street Journal of leaving the city that made him famous in the 1960s. 'I've probably not much time left and because I don't, I value it even more.' It's there in his new home, which he bought on a whim last year after seeing it for just 25 minutes, that the 82-year-old created his latest work inspired by the view...
  • Peering through the haze

    04/22/2015 6:41:06 PM PDT · by TurboZamboni · 20 replies
    Pioneer Press/NYT ^ | 4-21-15 | Joe Nocera
    They sure know how to "bury the lead" at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On Thursday, the CDC issued its annual National Youth Tobacco Survey; the headline in the accompanying news release read: "E-cigarette use triples among middle and high school students in just one year." This was, indeed, true. In 2014, according to the survey results, 13.4 percent of high school students had used an electronic cigarette at least once during the month the survey was taken. That was up from 4.5 percent in 2013. In a conference call with reporters, Tom Frieden, the director of the...
  • In Maryland, Smoking Could Cost You Job

    07/06/2014 3:16:42 PM PDT · by Drango · 84 replies
    Insurance News Net ^ | July 5 '14 | Lorraine Mirabella
    July 05--Anyone who wants a job next year at Anne Arundel Medical Center -- whether as a surgeon or security guard -- will have to prove they don't smoke or use tobacco. The Annapolis hospital's new hiring policy might be controversial, but it is legal in Maryland and more than half of the United States. And it's a type of job screening that is gaining favor with employers -- from hospitals to companies such as Alaska Airlines -- trying to control rising health costs and cultivate a healthier, more productive workforce. Anne Arundel Medical Center, like a growing number of...
  • Senators: Golden Globes Should Celebrate Achievements in Film, Television; Not Smoking, E-Cigarettes

    01/14/2014 6:12:05 PM PST · by kristinn · 24 replies
    Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) ^ | Tuesday, January 14, 2014
    WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Following a primetime broadcast of the Golden Globes that featured prominent images of celebrities smoking e-cigarettes, U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) today asked NBC Universal and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to take action to ensure that future broadcasts avoid the glamorization of smoking and protect the health of young fans. Electronic cigarettes – or “e-cigs” – have more than doubled in use among high school students in just one year from 2011 to 2012. A report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
  • Science: On second thought, no, secondhand smoke won’t kill you

    12/20/2013 8:27:07 AM PST · by rktman · 100 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 12/19/2013 | Mary Katherine Ham
    Now it can be told. Now that smoking has been banned everywhere but the dryer vent at your apartment based on the notion that secondhand smoke kills everyone around you, The Journal of the National Cancer Institute can tell us this via Jacob Sullum:
  • War Veteran Facing Eviction For Breaking Smoking Rules

    08/23/2013 4:44:59 AM PDT · by Daffynition · 70 replies
    Hart\ford Courant ^ | August 22, 2013 | CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN
    NEWINGTON — When Andy Nowicki was a combat infantryman fighting the Germans in World War II, the army gave him free cigarettes. Now, the habit he picked up 70 years ago, thanks in part to Uncle Sam, might cost him his home. The Newington Housing Authority is suing to evict Nowicki, who will turn 90 next month, and his 90-year-old wife, Leona, from their senior housing apartment in Cedar Village.
  • Christmas crackdown on fireplaces yields 400 complaints; New Year's may be next

    12/28/2011 1:10:13 PM PST · by SmithL · 39 replies · 2+ views
    San Jose Mercury News ^ | Updated 12/28/11 | Mike Rosenberg
    The Bay Area's air-quality police were out in force over Christmas weekend, cracking down on wood fires. And the smoke cops could be sending out belated stocking stuffers -- hefty fines -- to several dozen people caught using their fireplaces. Regulators said more than 400 people tattled on their neighbors for lighting wood fires in their homes on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, a holiday tradition that was illegal this year because of poor air quality. Authorities say they didn't issue any fines on the spot but are sorting through 77 cases of potential violations after working overtime, patrolling in...
  • MD man pleads guilty in black-market cigarette scheme (big customer base with $8/pack NY tax)

    04/02/2011 4:05:21 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 33 replies · 1+ views
    Washington Post ^ | April 1, 2011 | Maria Glod
    A 34-year-old Bowie man acknowledged in federal court Friday that he participated in a ring that distributed more than 17 million black-market cigarettes, a scheme that prosecutors said cost the government more than $2.6 million in taxes. Chun Chen, who goes by Eddy and owned a carryout restaurant in Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit extortion in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt... The far-reaching probe became public last fall, when then-Prince George’s County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) and his wife, Leslie, now a council member, were arrested. Jack Johnson was indicted in February on bribery charges. Leslie Johnson...
  • NYC Council Bans Smoking In Parks, Beaches

    02/02/2011 4:12:59 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 14 replies
    CBSNewYork.com ^ | 2/2/11 | CBS
    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Smokers have just one message to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council members: butt out of our business. “We’re outside. We should have freedom to smoke,” City Hall Park smoker Harvey Forbes told CBS 2’s Magee Hickey. By a vote of 36 to 11 on Wednesday the City Council approved a bill to ban smoking in all city parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas. “People who have made the decision not to smoke have civil liberties too and their health and their lives should not be negatively impacted because other people have decided to smoke,” Council Speaker...
  • Surgeon-General’s Report on Tobacco Called ‘Unscientific and Potentially Unethical’

    12/16/2010 11:53:21 AM PST · by jazusamo · 53 replies · 1+ views
    CNSNews ^ | December 16, 2010 | Susan Jones
    U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin addresses the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 30, 2010. (Photo by Penny Starr/CNSNews.com) (CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Surgeon-General’s report that even a single cigarette can harm a person’s health is unscientific and potentially unethical, a cigar and pipe trade group says.According to the report released on Dec. 9 by Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, “there is no risk-free level of exposure to tobacco smoke.” In announcing the report, Benjamin said exposure to tobacco smoke – even occasional smoking or secondhand smoke – “causes immediate damage to your body that can...
  • Mass. jury rules against Lorillard, awards $71M to dead smoker's family

    12/14/2010 2:52:48 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 25 replies · 1+ views
    boston.com ^ | Dec. 14, 2010
    A Massachusetts jury today ordered cigarette manufacturer Lorillard Inc. to pay $71 million in damages to a dead smoker's family for allegedly seducing the Boston woman decades ago into smoking Newport cigarettes. The Suffolk Superior Court jury awarded compensatory damages of $50 million to the estate of Marie Evans and $21 million to her son, William Evans. A hearing on punitive damages in the lawsuit has been scheduled for Thursday. The total amount of damages awarded could rise significantly at that hearing. The case was the first to claim that Lorillard had decided to target minority communities with samples of...
  • County wants to ban public e-cigarette smoking (King Co; WA State)

    12/13/2010 7:37:59 PM PST · by Stoat · 67 replies
    The Seattle P.I. ^ | December 13, 2010 | VANESSA HO
    Five years after Washington residents voted to ban smoking cigarettes, cigars and pipes in public places, King County wants to add one more thing to the list: Electronic cigarettes.The 2006 state law banned smoking in bars and restaurants on the basis that second-hand smoke causes cancer and other diseases. King County's rationale for adding e-cigarettes, also known as battery-powered nicotine-delivery devices, to the list of forbidden acts is a little different. The fake cigs, from which users inhale vaporized nicotine, don't emit smoke. Rather, they produce a less-smelly, combustion-free mist.But public health officials say they're so similar to the real...
  • Nanny Bloomberg's Outdoor Smoking Ban

    10/16/2010 1:03:20 AM PDT · by neverdem · 55 replies
    American Thinker ^ | October 16, 2010 | Peter Wilson
    Last month, New York Mayor Bloomberg proposed a ban on outdoor smoking in and on 1,700 parks, plazas, and beaches. The City Council in Cambridge, Massachusetts recently followed New York's lead (Chronicle 10/4/10), joining a number of college campuses and California cities. This radical intrusion into private lives is rationalized as a public health measure to protect citizens from secondhand smoke. It's therefore worth reviewing the debate from the past decade when it became the accepted view that secondhand smoke is a public health risk. Anti-smoking activists state with assurance that "the science is settled"; secondhand smoke murders 3,000 or...
  • Bloomberg Mulling Over Smoking Ban At NYC Parks, Beaches

    08/22/2010 12:30:32 AM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 44 replies
    CBS New York ^ | August 22, 2010
    NEW YORK (CBS 2) – From the inside-out, there may be a new “no-go” when it comes to smoking. Mayor Bloomberg’s anti-smoking crusade could be coming to a city park or public beach near you, a plan plenty of people say crosses the line, reports CBS 2′s Dave Carlin. CBS 2 has learned that Mayor Bloomberg is looking at a possible smoking ban for all city parks and public beaches. “Now you’re gonna stop me from smoking in the park? Where am I gonna smoke at?” West Side resident Anthony Cintron said. “What’s next? It will be something else in...
  • Senate vote endangers Seneca mail-order cigarette business

    03/12/2010 4:41:44 PM PST · by Drango · 57 replies · 1,117+ views
    Buffalo News ^ | 3/12/10 | Jerry Zremski
    By Jerry Zremski NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF WASHINGTON — The Senate late Thursday unanimously passed a bill that could devastate the Seneca Nation's mail-order cigarette business, voting to ban the U.S. Postal Service from mailing tobacco products. The Senate's sudden and bipartisan passage of the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) Act thrilled anti-smoking advocates while infuriating the Senecas, who say the bill could threaten as many as 1,000 jobs in Western New York. The Senate passed the bill as part of its routine legislative work at the end of Thursday's session. The House in May passed a slightly different version...
  • Air pollution inspectors find 47 violations of home fire burning ban on Christmas Day

    12/28/2009 3:15:11 PM PST · by SmithL · 77 replies · 2,065+ views
    Contra Costa Times ^ | 12/28/9 | Dennis Cuff
    Another holiday. Another sweep of smoke scofflaws. Bay Area air pollution inspectors found 47 homes where wood fires were on Christmas Day during a Spare the Air alert when cold, unhealthy air was forecast. The tally was more than double the 22 violators detected on Thanksgiving Day when the Bay Area Air Quality Management District also called a Spare the Air alert. Violators get written warnings for a first offense and $400 fines for a second offense. While critics have bashed the air district for intruding on a holiday burning tradition, a spokesman for the agency on Monday defended the...
  • You Can't Burn a Yule Log or Anything Else Made of Wood on Christmas Day in the Bay Area

    12/24/2009 1:06:11 PM PST · by SmithL · 39 replies · 1,312+ views
    KRON 4 San Francisco ^ | 12/24/9 | Brian Shields
    SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- You can celebrate Christmas but you won't be able to burn the Yule Log on Friday in the Bay Area. That's because the Bay Area Air Quality Management District is prohibiting the burning of wood on Christmas Day. Friday will be the season's third winter Spare the Air day. Officials are blaming what they call "stagnant weather conditions. “Air quality is unfortunately forecast to be unhealthy on Christmas Day, and the Air District is taking steps to protect public health by issuing a Winter Spare the Alert,” said Jack Broadbent, executive officer of the Air District...
  • Housing complex owners vote to ban smoking

    07/20/2009 10:29:56 AM PDT · by End Times Sentinel · 81 replies · 1,159+ views
    Leader-Telegram (WI) ^ | Julian Emerson
    It's not just indoor public places in Eau Claire where lighting up is prohibited. Now residents of a south side, owner-occupied housing complex will have to snuff out smoking in their homes, the most recent sign of public anti-smoking sentiment. Members of the Fairfax Parkside Homeowners Association on Wednesday voted to outlaw smoking inside residences that are part of the 34-unit development. The ban also prohibits smoking in shared spaces, such as porches and garages, but does allow it in yards and on patios. Of the 19 association members who voted on the issue, 15 favored the anti-smoking regulation proposed...
  • Congress Plans Incentives for Healthy Habits

    05/09/2009 6:51:44 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 41 replies · 1,502+ views
    The New York Times ^ | May 9, 2009 | Robert Pear
    In its effort to overhaul health care, Congress is planning to give employers sweeping new authority to reward employees for healthy behavior, including better diet, more exercise, weight loss and smoking cessation. A web of federal rules limits what employers and insurers can do now. Congress is seriously considering proposals to provide tax credits or other subsidies to employers who offer wellness programs that meet federal criteria. In addition, lawmakers said they would make it easier for employers to use financial rewards or penalties to promote healthy behavior among employees. Two Democratic senators working on comprehensive health legislation, Max Baucus...