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1. What does Greece have in common with New Jersey?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... demands, was forced to inaugurate a severe cutback in expenditures in state pensions, government worker salaries and increase revenue by slapping more taxes on cigarettes, alcohol, gems, and VAT (similar ...

2. Coal-fired power plants becoming an endangered species
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... health, farm, and community organisations. Despite a heavily funded ad campaign to promote so-called clean coal (one reminiscent of the tobacco industry's earlier efforts to convince people that cigarettes ...

3. Remembering New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick at 100: Outspoken, unique and 'the conscience of Congress'


(Life/Style)

... cigarettes. Described by many as tall and patrician, but down-to-earth and pungent, she inspired the Lacey Davenport character in Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" cartoons. She was a Republican who was an ...

4. Really?
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

No Tax is correct; no one's forced to buy lottery tickets. The same with cigarettes and alcohol. IMHO, if someone lacks the common sense or brainpower to blow their earnings on lottery tickets and not ...

5. Tax revolters watching New Jersey politicians
(Opinion/Commentary)

... the gap in June, it better not include any tax increase. That means no new sales tax, no new income taxes, no new taxes on liquor, gas or cigarettes and no new property tax. No new taxes period." The ...

6. Legalizing medical marijuana is a good thing
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... MARY PAT ANGELINI, believe that teenage use of cigarettes going down is bad thing?? I've been an avid medical marijuana supporter for quite some time, and from the thousand of papers and journals I've ...

7. Did a national tax revolt start in Wildwood, New Jersey?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... everything I buy and the highest property taxes of any state in the union. In addition, I pay special hidden taxes on gasoline, liquor and cigarettes. And with this new health-care plan about to pass, ...

8. Christie names criminal justice, law and authorities unit directors
(N.J./State)

... initially targeted the smuggling of counterfeit cigarettes into the U.S. from China. The investigation ultimately led to the illegal importation of approximately five million dollars in high quality counterfeit ...

9. Egypt’s use of torture exposed on the Internet
(World/International)

... is in imminent danger of torture and bodily harm inflicted through various means, including beatings, kicks, floggings, burning with cigarettes, sexual harm... electroshocks to the feet, head, sexual organs ...

10. End it
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... domestically. If lawmakers cared about our children, marijuana would be treated like cigarettes and require an ID for purchase. If any of them cared about our economic situation, they would END THE WAR ...

11. Electronic Cigarettes saved my life!
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Electronic cigarettes and personal vaporizers are definitely top notch in my book. You avoid all the problems of traditional cigarettes. I made the switch after smoking for more than a decade. Psychologically, ...

12. Electronic Cigarettes
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Hello Senator Vitale, If you're reading this article, please know that I am a voting citizen of your district. I have no qualms over restrictions to the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors, which ...

13. Gay marriage on Monday’s agenda for New Jersey lawmakers
(N.J./State)

... that would regulate the sale and use of the increasingly popular electronic cigarettes. The bills, S-3053 and S-3054, sponsored by Sen. Robert Gordon (D-Bergen) and Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex) would ...

14. e-cigarettes, Wagner and Voss
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... should realize that smoking is so dangerous and so attractive for some people that we should support any potential escape routes, such as ecigarettes. 2. The one misrepreented study by the FDA that has ...

15. Bill to combat e-cigarettes approved by New Jersey Assembly health committee
(Health/Healthquest)

Legislation proposed to prohibit the sale of electronic cigarettes to minors and include e-cigarettes in the state's Smoke Free Air Act, which prohibits smoking in indoor public places and workplaces, ...

16. Free nicotine patches available to New Jersey’s 700,000 smokers for Great American Smokeout
(Health/Healthquest)

... on Thursday as part of the Great American Smokeout. "We hope smokers will see the Great American Smokeout not just as one day without cigarettes, but as the beginning of a tobacco-free life. Well give ...

17. This debate has become ALL about politics.....
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... to 4000 chemicals. The electronic cigarette FINALLY offers smokers an option where before there was none. Before, the smoker had only 2 choices, continue to smoke chemical laden tobacco cigarettes, or ...

18. Study shows smoking bans cause drop in heart attacks
(Health/Healthquest)

... smoke is not just deadly for tobacco users. Those who breathe in smoke from other people's cigarettes also have an increased risk for heart attacks. A new study shows that smoking bans have significant ...

19. Tax Foundation report compares state-by-state revenue sources
(U.S./Nation)

... counted by the report include general sales taxes as well as "selective" taxes on products such as gasoline and cigarettes. Property taxes, meanwhile, bring in 61.3 percent of New Hampshire's combined ...

20. Common Sense
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One thing is for certain. Cigarettes are clearly NOT safe. Cigarettes KILL. Why ban an alternative to smoking, when cigarettes CLEARLY kill people? Another thing that is logical! $27.95 for 510 starter ...