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  • Toronto mayor denies video showing him smoking cocaine

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has declined association with video-related clips that show him smoking cocaine. Someone who tried to sell it to Toronto Star newspaper filmed the footage on a smartphone. Toronto Star reporters were shown the video by an anonymous tipster in a car park. The newspaper claims that it did not pay money for the video and did not obtain the copy of the same and hence could ...

  • Others Have Seen Video of Mayor Smoking Crack

    smoking crack cocaine . "It appears to show Ford in a room, sitting in a chair, wearing a white shirt, top buttons open, inhaling from what appears to be a glass crack pipe. Ford is incoherent, trading jibes with an off-camera speaker who goads the clearly impaired mayor by raising topics including Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and the Don Bosco high school football team Ford ...

  • Jurys Still Out On Electronic Cigarettes

    A way to stop smoking, or an encouragement to start? The role of the e-cigarette is a controversial one, but already some schools, social venues and public bodies have decided to treat them as they would normal cigarettes and ban them. But those who support their use say they provide an alternative way to ingest nicotine without the harm caused by smoking, and say millions of lives could be ...

  • Youth campaign focuses on tobacco

    BISBEE -- Teens from Douglas have joined youth from across the state this month in the global fight to end tobacco use. As members of the statewide anti-tobacco youth coalition -- STAND (Students Taking a New Direction) -- they are working to shed light on the dangers of tobacco use. To mark World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the students have been collecting written pledges from community ...

  • And now green tobacco sickness

    There IS an occupational health risk that can be acquired from the green tobacco plant which even tobacco farmers themselves are not fully aware of. This is the green tobacco sickness (GTS), a form of nicotine poisoning that may be contracted by handling while moist, fresh, green tobacco leaves. The nicotine from the plant, which is soluble in water, can be drawn out into the surface of the ...


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Ratcatcher [DVD]

Ratcatcher [DVD]

Lynne Ramsey's feature debut Ratcatcher won't win any awards for originality of subject matterafter all, the pains of adolescence in the lower economic strata depicted in a social-realist manner is hardly new in British filmmakingbut it is done so deftly, with such a exquisitely poetic touch and keen understanding of the paradoxical coexistence of filth and beauty in the world, that you ca ... ...

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  • O.C. cigarette smuggling ring had ties to terror groups police say

    Ocean City , over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and development companies, court records show.This week, however, authorities in New York alleged Basel, 42, and Samir Ramadan, 39, were also at the top of a multi-million dollar cigarette smuggling ring and said they believe members of the ...

  • Lib Dem minister urges coalition to carry out plain cigarette packet plan

    A health minister has urged the coalition to press ahead with forcing cigarettes to be sold in plain packets to reduce sales, despite the plan being dropped from the Queen's speech because of unease in Downing Street.Norman Lamb, a Liberal Democrat, has urged ministers to make Britain the first country in Europe to adopt what he claims would become a key element of the legacy of ...

  • Canada buzzing over alleged video of mayor smoking crack

    Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto, waves the pan american flag during the Closing Ceremony of the XVI Pan American Games at the Omnilife Stadium on October 30, 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Dennis Grombkowski, Getty ...

  • Torontos mayor allegedly caught on camera smoking crack cocaine

    TORONTO - A video purportedly of Toronto's mayor smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada.The video has not been released publicly and there is no way to verify whether it is authentic. Reports by gossip website Gawker and The Toronto Star said it was taken by a man who claimed he had sold crack to Mayor Rob Ford.Ford said when he emerged from his house on Friday that the allegations ...

  • Transaction in Own Shares

    Imperial Tobacco has today, 17 May 2013, purchased 150,000 ordinary shares at an average price of 2297.63 pence per ordinary share. The highest price paid was 2306.0 pence per share and the lowest 2275.0 pence per share. The purchased shares will all be held as treasury shares. Following the above purchase, Imperial Tobacco holds 93,383,532 ordinary shares as treasury shares. The total number ...

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