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China Bans Indoor Smoking [VIDEO]

China has banned public, indoor smoking, effective May 1. Residents will no longer be able to smoke in libraries, shopping malls and restaurants.

FDA Panel Suggests Ban on Menthol Cigarettes [VIDEO]

Cops: Man Refuses to Pay for Cigarettes Because He's 'the King'

As Mel Brooks famously stated, it's good to be the king. That is, of course, when you really are the king. Police in Michigan say one man learned the hard way that you won't get treated like royalty just because you claim to have regal lineage. Officers in Warren say Joseph Lawrence Borowiak tried to yank a pack of...

President Obama Has Quit Smoking; Twitter Exhales

She should know. According to first lady Michelle Obama, the president is no longer sneaking a drag here and there. Speaking at a White House luncheon to mark the anniversary of her "Let's Move" initiative to combat childhood obesity, Mrs. Obama said it has been about a year since the president last lit up. "It's been...

Smoking French Icons Allowed to Puff on Posters Again

French politicians have voted to amend a strict anti-tobacco law that snatched cigarettes and pipes from images of some of the country's most famous smokers. Fear of breaking the 20-year-old Evin Law, which banned the direct and indirect promotion of tobacco and alcohol in public places, had led authorities to remove...

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06/01/12 Armed with wrench, cigarette bandit strikes again Source: NBC - WDSU 6 - New Orleans LA Police in Shreveport say a man who threatened employees of a convenience store with a large wrench in a late night robbery appears to be the same man in two other recent similar robberies.
06/01/12 Palmyra Police Looking for Cigarette Theif Source: FOX - WPMT 43 - York PA The J&M Mart on East Main Street in Palmyra was the victim of a theft today.
06/01/12 EverSmoke E Cigarette Celebrates Fathers Day by... Source: EmailWire Ever Smoke is a leading electronic cigarette brand which has failed to attract the likes of the heavy as well as the light smokers the world over by offering e cigarettes of the highest quality at a highly affordable rate.
06/01/12 Man threatened with shotgun after refusing to hand... Source: The Essex Gazette A TEENAGER threatened a man on Clacton seafront with a gun when he refused to hand over more than one cigarette.
05/31/12 Italian designer Stefano Zimbaro: design is like food Source: dongA.com This comment from a lecturer momentarily stirred the audience at KT&Gs Sansang Madang in Seouls Mapo district.

Background on cigarettes

A cigarette (from the French for "small cigar". Cigar comes, through the Spanish and Portuguese cigarro, from the Mayan siyar; "to smoke rolled tobacco leaves") is a small roll of finely cut tobacco leaves wrapped in a cylinder of thin paper for smoking.

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