Provides the latest RSS feeds for Tobacco News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Peking Press.com http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/cat/156a968c788595c9/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 13:48:31 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:48:31 -0400 30 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 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598976/scat/156a968c788595c9 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:40:02 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214598976/scat/156a968c788595c9 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 coaches." ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214595509/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:38:42 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214595509/scat/156a968c788595c9 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 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594853/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:42:53 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214594853/scat/156a968c788595c9 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 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591802/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:11:22 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591802/scat/156a968c788595c9 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 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591801/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:11:21 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591801/scat/156a968c788595c9 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 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591757/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00:57 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214591757/scat/156a968c788595c9 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 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587682/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 14:48:45 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214587682/scat/156a968c788595c9 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 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586422/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:46:59 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586422/scat/156a968c788595c9 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 are ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586423/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:40:10 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586423/scat/156a968c788595c9 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 ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586424/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:35:47 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586424/scat/156a968c788595c9 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may be unknown to many Americans (before today, anyway), but his particular brand of politics and PR is well known north of the border and on ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586197/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:22:27 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586197/scat/156a968c788595c9 reports that it has seen the mobile phone-shot video which shows Mayor Rob Ford smoking from a crack pipe. The newspaper says he appears "incoherent" and "trading jibes with an off-camera speaker who goads the clearly impaired mayor by raising topics including Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau."Mr Ford is apparently seen in the video nodding and bobbing on his chair and appears to ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586426/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:12:17 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586426/scat/156a968c788595c9 By Julie Gordon, Reuters Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denies allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, his lawyer told the Toronto Sun on Friday. Reporters for the Toronto Star, a rival Canadian newspaper, and Gawker Media, a U.S. media outlet, said they had seen a video that appears to show Ford smoking crack. The lawyer, Dennis Morris, told the Toronto Sun that the mayor is denying "any such ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586428/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 13:01:24 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214586428/scat/156a968c788595c9 Daniel is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited. For all the negative publicity, hefty legal settlements, and push to get people to stop using its products, one would think the tobacco industry should be avoided. But if your conscience allows you to own the stock of a company that produces cigarettes and ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583196/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:41:14 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583196/scat/156a968c788595c9 NEW YORK: Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been arrested on charges of running a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling ring in New York, and New York authorities who announced the arrests on Thursday said several of the suspects have ties ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583368/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:18:33 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214583368/scat/156a968c788595c9 A video that allegedly shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine is being shopped around to various media outlets, according to the Toronto ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214581729/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:26:58 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214581729/scat/156a968c788595c9 View results A $55 million cigarette-smuggling ring that cheated several East Coast states out of sales tax dollars could be tied to terrorist groups, authorities said.They made the claims during Thursday’s indictment of 16 Palestinian men - some of whom have known ties to convicted ... http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214580516/scat/156a968c788595c9 Fri, 17 May 2013 08:35:18 -0400 http://www.pekingpress.com/index.php/sid/214580516/scat/156a968c788595c9