Smoking Ban Arguments Flare In Committee Hearing | Cigaretteson.net Tobacco News

Shopping cart

Items0
Shipping$0
Total$0

Visit Shopping Cart

Special Offer Chesterfield Red Cigarettes

$16⁰⁰ Buy Now

Voting poll

At what step do You have troubles?

Tobacco News

22.11.2011 Region’s Illegal Tobacco Sales Spike
More than a third of businesses that officials recently checked in southwest North Dakota sold discount cigarette online to minors, according to information released by the Southwestern District Health Unit on Friday.“We were very, very surprised when we saw the results,” said Tammy Hovet, Tobacco Prevention and Control project coordinator for SWDHU.Twenty-two of 63 businesses checked in eight counties sold online cigarettes to minors in September and October, she said. The data shows a sharp spike in illegal sales, since a check of 65 businesses in the same counties in June turned up...
20.11.2011 Alexandria Tobacco Users Are Unhappy With New Law
There is a certain irony to it, some have said.Smokers in Alexandria will have to leave local discount cigarettes stores to light up the products they just bought there.At least 25 feet from the stores to be exact, starting Jan. 1 after the Alexandria City Council passed an ordinance Oct. 4 banning smoking cigarettes in businesses previously exempt from state and local smoking cigarettes bans, including bars and buy cigarettes stores.And some tobacco users are not happy."They think the City Council way overstepped their boundaries," said Vonne Neal, owner of Alexandria's Smoke Shop." With...
09.11.2011 Southern Board Bans Tobacco
All of Southern University’s campuses will ban cigarettes store starting in January, the Southern Board of Supervisors decided.The move makes Southern the first college system in Louisiana to ban all cigarettes products. Nicholls State University became the first public college in Louisiana to become tobacco free at the beginning of this calendar year.Southern University System President Ronald Mason Jr. said the new policy is about promoting healthy lifestyles and setting a quality standard for all of higher education.“We’re going to look at it as the beginning of a cultural...
18.10.2011 New Jersey Considers New Taxes On Non-cigarette Tobacco Products
Little cigars, which are taking increasing space on area tobacco-shop shelves, are shaped and smoked just like cigarettes. But because New Jersey taxes them differently, they cost nearly one-third the price.Over the past several years, increased state and federal taxes have helped turn some smokers on to less-taxed cigarettes store products, local shop owners and anti-smoking cigarettes groups say.New Jersey has a $2.70 tax per cigarette pack, and the federal government has a $1.01 excise tax it enacted two years ago.That sixth-highest cigarette tax in the country may entice more smokers to...
10.09.2011 Free Patches For Smokers
Quitting smoking cigarettes just got a little easier. For a limited time, the California Smokers' Helpline is sending callers from Nevada County free nicotine patches. Eligible cigarettes store users who call 1-800-NO-BUTTS and enroll in the free telephone-based cessation program will receive a free two-week starter kit of patches, while supplies last.The patches are an FDA-approved treatment proven to help smokers kick the habit. They release nicotine into the bloodstream through the skin, reducing withdrawal symptoms and slowly weaning smokers off nicotine. Nevada County was one of 34...

Smoking Ban Arguments Flare In Committee Hearing

Bar and saloon owners made a late-session pitch Monday to ease voter-approved restrictions on indoor smoking cigarettes, arguing that the law intended to protect the health of children and families has crippled their businesses by barring them from serving food if they allow smoking cigarettes.

"We are not traditional restaurants. We are not movie theaters. We are not child-care facilities," Blake Sartini, chief executive of Golden Gaming Inc., told the Assembly Ways and Means Committee.

The 2006 Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act put taverns and saloons in the same class as these establishments with disastrous results, he said.

"We lost a tremendous amount of revenue when we enforced the non-smoking cigarettes laws. We lost a lot of customers," said JoJo Sonner, president of Bully's Sports Bar and Grill. Sonner said the recession hit her business but she also blamed the ban on her business' Chapter-11 status.

"It basically brought us to our knees," she said.

Current law bans smoking cigarettes in places such as malls, government buildings, restaurants and grocery stores. It is allowed in casinos, taverns, saloons and stand-alone bars -- where patrons must be 21 or older -- and where food is considered an "incidental" component of the business.

Roger Sachs of the Nevada Tavern Owner's Association said the ban forced members to lay off about 750 kitchen employees in 2007.

AB571 would allow smoking cigarettes and food service in age-restricted stand-alone bars, taverns and saloons. Supporters said it would give adults a choice to patronize smoking cigarettes establishments.

Opponents told lawmakers the proposed legislation, which surfaced weeks before the Legislature is slated to wrap its 120-day session, is an attempt to subvert a voter-backed smoking cigarettes ban.

"Here we go again," said Michael Hackett, representing the American Cancer Action Network and several other organizations. Changing the food standard and adding the age-restricted establishments to the list of exempt places will render the clean air legislation irrelevant, he said.

"It will be close to impossible to distinguish between a bar and a tavern and a tavern and restaurant when trying to enforce smoking cigarettes laws," Hackett said.

But Assemblywoman Maggie Carlton, D-Las Vegas, said that was the flaw with the existing legislation. The law was purportedly about public health but the legislation was tied to food service, she said.

"People are still smoking cigarettes. You did not change the actual act of smoking cigarettes and the goal in all the groups that you represent is to get people to quit smoking cigarettes or to be healthier and not be exposed to second-hand smoke," Carlton said.

Before her husband stopped smoking cigarettes, the ability to smoke cigarettes and eat determined where they spent their money, she said.

"All you did was get a bunch of folks laid off because we didn't serve food anymore," Carlton told Hackett.

Hackett and other anti-cigarettes speakers said the law is effective in protecting workers from second-hand smoke, and by extension, their families.

Chandra Mayer, of Reno, said any changes to the law should be put to voters.

"We voted. The whole thing seems like sort of a waste of time and money and we want to know why it's not just being sent back to the people to vote on again if we're going to change it," she said.

No action was taken on the bill.

Other cigarettes news and tobacco market events you can find at links bellow:

   • Cheap Cigarettes News

   • Online Cigarettes Tobacco News

   • CigarettesOn.Com Tobacco News

Pay Attention: Cigarettes or other tobacco smoking products are dangerous and can seriously harm your health. Cigarette smoke contains tar and carbon monoxide.

By selecting any cigarette brand for purchase, you are legally confirming that you are at least the legal age to buy cigarettes or other tobacco products in your state.

We ship only to U.S.A. addresses. Cigarettes orders must not be made with the intent to distribute these purchases to minors.

We also understand that making a purchase online involves a great deal of trust on your part. CigarettesON.net take this trust very seriously, and make it our highest priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the information you provide when buying cigarettes online. From this reason all credit card transactions are secure and encrypted.

Catalog

Cigarettes