tobacco

Vaping meets prohibition in the United States.
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In March of this year, California lawmakers voted to raise the legal age for buying and smoking cigarettes/tobacco products from 18 to 21, making California the second state, after Hawaii, to make such a move statewide.

Has the California legislature gone too far?
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For the first time ever, the rate of daily cannabis use has now surpassed the rate of daily cigarette use.
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Tobacco has been cultivated as a cash crop in the USA for many decades. Because of its high revenue potential, tobacco growers often went the extra mile to ensure a good harvest. Toward that end, the growers eagerly embraced the latest and ‘greatest’ farming methods which kept pests and weeds at bay.

When paradigms shift, tyrants fall, or corporations lose their market, it is often not from some spectacular event, but by a single, humanizing display. We have just witnessed such an event during the interview of high-profile GMO advocate Patrick Moore.

Is there a way to mitigate the damage caused by smoking cigarettes? Preliminary research is showing the answer to this question may be yes, and the result could be a financial blockbuster to anyone able to patent a form of it.

David Cronin’s book Corporate Europe: How Big Business Sets Policies on Food, Climate and War (Pluto Press) is based on his years as a journalist in Brussels looking at the way in which the European Union’s institutions really work. I also spent thirteen years in Brussels, working at the European Parliament and, before that, five years working as an advisor to the late Tom Megahy, an EU-critical left Labour Euro-MP, back in the North of England.

A deal with Obama?I'm just back from my little Tuscan summer adventure. I rented a house in the countryside, near the small town of Montespertoli in the Chianti region, with some friends. It wasn't my first time in Italy. I used to live in Innsbruck, Austria, one of the planet's most boring towns, and I would escape through the Brenner Pass down into Italy at every opportunity.

Howie with a crackpot happily wearing attention-drawing accouterments, Pasadena, 2009 Many Republicans will tell you former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) invented the TEA Party-- Taxed Enough Already-- to help popularize the Republican scheme to eliminate progressive taxation, which they feel puts too much burden on the wealthy-- and replace it with a flat tax that would force the burden down the income scale.