Posts Tagged ‘children’

national cigarette tax

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

national cigarette tax
If you legalize drugs and tax it?

all drug cartells, all drug gangs, distribution networks, enforcing agencies, all killings, most of border problems, most of guns bought, money laundering and enforcement, about 39% of jail population and all cost of enforcement will not be needed.
on the cotrary, there will be a national income, like cigarettes.
isnt that a sane solution ?????

All?

Not happening.

I don’t think making something stupid and dangerous “legal” just to tax it makes sense nor is to be considered “sane”

That’s just me.

2010 CIGARETTE TAXES TAX INCREASE STATE FEDERAL LAW

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kids cigarettes

Friday, October 31st, 2008

kids cigarettes

When the average person thinks of an apron, the first thing that comes to mind is some type of work apron, be it a kitchen or a shop. However; anyone that has worked with kids, particularly in a school, recreation facility or day care center, knows that they too need aprons for art time and eating. Going with out them can mean that from time to time a child is going have to spend the last half of the day with a shirt smeared with paint drenched in milk or juice.

How it Used to Be

In years past, there were very few sources for these types of aprons for children and even then, those few sources had very limited choices. Custom aprons of any type, were virtually out of the question, unless a person or organization was willing to spend an arm and a leg having their kids aprons custom made or printed.

Multitudes of Choices and Option

Now, thanks to the Internet all that has changed. This is because new online sources make it so easy and affordable to find just the exact kids aprons that you are after. Also, because these online sources specialize in aprons of all types, you will find a veritable cornucopia of design and color scheme choice to select from.

Eric the Pyro

Also, new high fabrics mean that todays choices in kids aprons are not only stain resistant, but fame resistant as well. This means that they will always look great and you wont have to worry about little Eric the Pyro going up in smoke when he breaks out the cigarette lighter that he has brought from home.

Custom kids aprons are also now problem now. This means that you can easily have aprons created that have your school or organizations name and logo printed on the front. Another great idea is to have each kids name printed on their own apron. Thanks to new digital printing technology all this is now so easily affordable

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Salem Cigarette Commercial Featuring Kids

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cigars banned

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

cigars banned

In the past fifteen years, the premium-cigar industry found itself in rebound. After decades of competition from cigarettes, the aging of its customer base, and overall consumer trends indicating a decline in smoking in general (we’ll return to this in a moment), many observers figured cigars were done for. Then came 1992. The fourth quarter of that year showed some of the first industry growth in years, and this trend metastasized in coming years. By 1996, the industry was seeing 36 percent first-quarter growth.

But cigars returned at an ironic time. High-profile class-action suits, controversy over Joe Camel, and decreasing general consumer interest in smoking, among other things, led to an increase in smoking bans in public buildings, offices, and, eventually, whole cities. Airports helped lead the trend; among the major travel hubs where you’re no longer welcome to light up are Los Angeles’ LAX and Dallas-Fort Worth.

All of which raises a question – if you’re a smoker going on vacation, what are your options?

Thankfully, the web site SmokingSection has, aggregating information sent in by smoking readers, listed and ranked over fifty major airports by their friendliness to smokers. Their rankings, like those of your high-school English teacher, run from A to E: A for airports where you can smoke by the waiting gate; E for airports where you not only can’t smoke indoors, but the nearest smoker-friendly outside areas require a small trip in themselves (and may be unacceptably far from takeoff gates).

So where should you travel if you want to smoke, not only when you reach your destination but on the way there? Well, the answer seems to be: Texas. The Lone Star State offers the only A-ranked airport out of the dozens surveyed. That’s Dallas Love Field, a smallish airport that receives only flights from major area transport provider Southwest Airlines. Frequently-flying cigar smokers who live in that wildcatter’s capital should feel lucky.

Texas offers us a B airport as well – these are the places where you can’t smoke near the gates, but that do offer smoker-friendly bars, restaurants, and/or lounges nearby. That would be at Lubbock – the same city from which Buddy Holly hailed. (But don’t take that as a bad omen.) Other southern and southwestern states are well-represented among the B airports, which makes sense, given the close links between many of these states and the history of the tobacco industry. Restaurants at New Mexico’s Albuquerque Airport, as well as at airports in Charlotte, North Carolina; Charleston, West Virginia; Phoenix, Arizona; Tucson, Arizona; Norfolk, Virginia; and – appropriately enough – Richmond, Virginia, that famous tobacco town. (Where would American smoking be without Virginia?)

Orange County, California, offers an airport named for John Wayne, and appropriately the tobacco-loving Duke’s namesake airport also offers B-class accommodations. So do the major regional airports in Tampa, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, and New York City (both JFK and LaGuardia), in several large cities in Ohio (Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton), in Fairbanks, Alaska; Moline, Illinois; and Ontario, Canada. Visitors to our nation’s capitol can also light up at a few of Washington, DC’s airport bars, though these are apparently hard to find.

It’s a good thing that the weather in Texas and California is generally fairly clement, because some major airports in both of these states ban all indoor smoking – but outdoor smoking areas are available at a conveniently close distance. The aforementioned Dallas-Fort Worth and LAX both disallow indoor smoking, which accounts for their C rating, but they do invite smoking customers to step outside. The Worcester, Massachusetts airport has a similar arrangement. (Enjoy that brisk Massachusetts air.) These are the C-class airports.

After that it gets dicier. Quite a few major American airports seem to fall into the D or E classes, with smoking accommodations within the airport that require a bit of a hike, or (in the case of the E-class airports) nothing at all but outside areas located far from gates. Many D airports offer those ubiquitous glass lounges where smokers are invited to light up and take a load off; these include Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Las Vegas (McCarran), and Atlanta (Hartfield). Happy hunting!

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