Sugar can harm like alcohol and tobacco, regulate it: article says The Los Angeles Times | Move over salt. Step aside, saturated fat. There’s a new public enemy in the pantry, and it’s … sugar. | In a provacative commentary coming out in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature, and two colleagues from UC San Francisco argue that the added sugars in proces...
Imperial Tobacco shares climb despite disappointing update The Guardian | Cigarette maker says volumes fell 7% in first quarter, but blamed one off factors | Cigarette maker Imperial Tobacco has been an uncertain market recently, and despite a disappointing update from the company ahead of its annual meeting later its shares are moving higher. | Imperial said first quar...
Tobacco industry rides out recession with rising share prices The Guardian | Cigarette shares defy falling sales. The secret? When taxes rise for health reasons, manufacturers increase their prices too Threshing room at the Ceylon Tobacco Company factory in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The company is part of British American Tobacco. ...
Benham closer to sentence in tobacco scheme The Charlotte Observer | TUPELO, Miss. A Tennessee man has been given until March 26 to comment on a presentence report related to his conviction on federal charges of avoiding paying taxes on thousands of packs of blackmarket cigarettes. | Randy Benham of Cordova, Tenn., ...
Benham closer to sentence in tobacco scheme The News & Observer Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name | tool goes here The Associated Press | WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Officials have suspended a softball coach at a Forsyth County school for five days without pay because of a recorded tirade again...
Blew Smoke Premium Cigars starts reward program The Examiner | Blew Smoke Premium Cigars announced the launch of their new rewards program that will earn you store credit for each purchase made. | "Our regulars have been asking for a rewards program, and we're happy to finally offer one," said Dean DiStasio, o...
Tobacco Farmers Eye Rich Pickings All Africa [The Herald] ZIMBABWE'S tobacco farmers could make rich pickings when the auction floors open next week as the world's main competitors expect low yields owing to floods. | ...
JFK ordered 1,200 Cuban cigars hours before authorising them as illegal Newstrack India | London, Feb 9(ANI): John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as possible just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo, which subsequently made them illegal, it has been revealed. | The 34th President of the Uni...
