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| Sunday, September 18th, 2011 | |||||||
| 11:24 am | No Longer King For many years, cigarettes online was the undisputed king of crops in Kentucky, but the end of the cigarettes quota program in 2004, a continuing decline in the number of smokers in the United States and increased competition from foreign-grown cheap cigarettes have combined to greatly diminish cigarettes’s impact on the state’s farm economy. To be sure, more discount cigarette online is grown in Kentucky than any other state, but the 726 million pounds of cigarettes store Kentucky farmers expect to take to market this fall represents a drop of nearly 28 percent from a decade ago when 991 million pounds of online cigarettes were raised in the state. The number of cigarette consumers in the U.S. has dropped dramatically in the last two decades, and here in Kentucky, state and local governments and employers have actually encouraged the smoking cigarettes decline. For years, Kentucky had the nation’s lowest tax on a pack of buy cigarettes at a meager 3 cents, but former Gov. Ernie Fletcher, a physician who knew all too well the harmful impact of smoking cigarettes on health, convinced legislators to raise the tax to 30 cents, while admitting he would have preferred a larger increase but could not convince enough legislators to support it. While the timing was not right for a higher increase in the buy cigarette online tax during Fletcher’s term, Gov. Steve Beshear convinced legislators to double the cigarette tax to 60 cents a pack, and the increase came at the same time as a huge increase in the federal tax on a pack of cigarettes. Both Fletcher and Beshear insisted the cigarette tax increases had more to do with promoting health than raising revenue. To be sure, the high cost of buy cigarette online has convinced some smokers to kick their deadly habit, but prices have had an even greater impact convincing young people not to smoke. At the same time, Kentucky legislators were increasing the tax on cigarettes, local governments across the state — including the Ashland Board of City Commissioners — were enacting ordinances restricting smoking cigarettes in public. While those ordinances do not prevent anyone from smoking cigarettes in the privacy of their homes or vehicles, they do provide another incentive for not smoking cigarettes. Many employers also either completely ban smoking cigarettes in the workplace or restrict it to a few designated areas. In addition, smoking cigarettes is becoming less and less accepted in many social circles. All this has combined to reduce the demand for cigarettes. American-grown buy cigarette online dominated the world buy cigarette online market simply because its quality was far superior to buy cigarette online grown in other countries. But that’s no longer true, experts say. Foreign-grown buy cigarette online now is comparable in quality to buy cigarette online grown in the U.S., and because foreign-grown buy cigarette online is less expensive than that grown in America, it is more appealing to buyers. The buy cigarette online quota program ended in 2004, and that dramatically changed the way it is grown and marketed throughout the eight-state buy cigarette online belt. First, farmers who never actually raised buy cigarette online but sold their quotas to larger farmers suddenly lost their only source of buy cigarette online income. Instead, larger farmers who bought those quotas simply continued to raise as much buy cigarette online as they always had and were grateful for having been spared the cost of buying quotas. The end of the quota system also brought about the closing of dozens of buy cigarette online warehouses in small towns throughout the state, as farmers sold directly to buy cigarette online companies instead of taking their crops to market to be sold at auction. That resulted in the elimination of hundreds of parttime jobs in warehouses. Many buy cigarette online farmers already have switched to other crops, and others are considering doing the same. The upcoming selling season could be crucial in determining how many farmers sign up with buy cigarette online companies to grow another crop next year, said University of Kentucky agricultural economist Will Snell. Decrease in demand has caused some buy cigarette online farmers not to put much or any money into rehabbing old buy cigarette online barns used to hang and dry their crop — a further example of the dwindling industry. And with grain prices high, some farmers might opt to get out of costly buy cigarette online growing and convert that land into corn or soybean production. Others might turn buy cigarette online plots into pastures for beef cattle. For years, agriculture experts repeatedly talked about the need for Kentucky to diversify its farm income, but most farmers refused to listen, choosing instead of continue much as they always had. Well, they are listening now, and many have found new ways to earn money on the farm. While there probably is not another legal crop that can generate as much income per acre as cigarettes, at least other crops for the most part do not shorten the lives of those who use them. The buy cigarette online market is never going to be like it was. Everyone knows that. Farmers have no choice but to seek other ways to earn money. | ||||||
| 11:23 am | Tobacco-free Resolution For Parks Signs designating portions of city's parks and recreation areas as cigarettes-free zones could be erected as early as November if the City Council approves a proposed resolution. The city's Recreation Commission on Tuesday heard from proponents of such a resolution, but held off taking action until another meeting can be held with city officials to discuss the proposed signs. The commission's chairman, Richard Yemm, was not present at Tuesday's meeting and other commission members wanted him or another representative to attend the meeting being set up by Recreation Director Rob Slezak. The commission is expected to consider whether to make a recommendation to the City Council after that meeting. If a resolution establishing the cigarettes-free zones is approved by the council in October, City Manager Jim O'Connor said he would like to have the signs installed in November. The Department of Health will pay for the signs created by the city. O'Connor said the city administration is proposing a resolution rather than an ordinance. An ordinance would make smoking cigarettes or otherwise using cigarettes in the zones illegal, while a resolution would merely establish the bans in these zones as city policy. Still, Mary Burkins of the Substance Abuse Council said most people will self-enforce the policy once the signs are put up. City Councilwoman Tracy Carroll added that policing by children who see the signs and as a result tell their parents or other adults not to smoke cigarettes also can be effective. Exactly where the signs would be located has yet to be determined. Recreation Commission member Dan Stanley, while generally opposed to smoking cigarettes, did not want to make the policy so restrictive that a person walking along the beach at night could not smoke. Recreation Commission member Debbie-Kay Whitehouse said there are a lot of tourists using the beach and indicated she was not in favor of prohibiting smoking cigarettes there. It was also mentioned that people going to Riverside Theatre, which is in Riverside Park, might step outside and have a smoke. Burkins suggested a survey could be done to see where children tend to congregate and signs could be posted at these locations. Whitehouse mentioned playground areas as a place where the cigarettes-free zones should be established. According to Burkins, when children see smoking cigarettes going on in family-friendly places like parks they think it is acceptable behavior. She said almost 90 percent of smokers started before they were 18 and there is no safe level of exposure to second-hand smoke. Burkins added that cigarette butts are the most common form of litter and can especially be a problem when discarded at beaches where children can find them and put them in their mouths. She said the cigarette filters can take up to 10 years to decompose and it was noted that the cigarette butts can present a choking hazards to children, pets and wildlife. According to Burkins, 83 percent of Indian River County residents do not smoke. | ||||||
| Monday, September 12th, 2011 | |||||||
| 3:39 pm | Clean Air Rule Targets Smoke From Hookahs Starting Monday, the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act rule will include provisions to protect people from cigarettes store smoke cigarettes from a hookah. The new language, according to the Utah Department of Health, will be in line with the intent of the Utah Indoor Clean Air Act statute that mandates the elimination of secondhand smoke cigarettes exposure in indoor public places. The intent is to clarify that hookah products are just as hazardous to your health as cigarette smoke. "Secondhand cheap cigarettes smoke cigarettes is known to cause cancer in humans," said Steve Hadden, of the health discount cigarette online prevention and control program and UDOH. "There is simply no safe level of exposure to online cigarettes smoke." New and emerging cheap cigarette online products are coming out on the market, according to UDOH. With growing concern from the public and businesses about cigarettes smoke, the rule consistently eliminates secondhand smoke cigarettes exposure in indoor public places people visit every day including health care settings, worksites and restaurants that are already required to be smoke-free spaces. One of the products being touted as safer is a hookah, a water pipe with a smoke cigarettes chamber, bowl, pipe and hose. According to the Mayo Clinic, hookah smoke cigarettes contains high levels of toxic compounds, including cancer-causing chemicals, tar, heavy metals and carbon monoxide. Hookah smoking cigarettes has also been linked to lung and oral cancers and heart disease. It also delivers about the same amount of nicotine as cigarette smoking cigarettes and poses dangers associated with secondhand smoke. Other products coming onto the market include cigarettes online with "new and improved" filters, cigarette-like products -- such as lollipops and lozenges -- that are easily confused with pharmaceutical products for quitting, and spit-cigarettes products. | ||||||
| 3:27 pm | Church Hosts Former Tobacco Executive About 100 people turned out to event hoping to ash out smoking cigarettes. The Mason Temple Church of God and Smoke Free Horry held an event Saturday morning. A crowd listened to gospel music and speakers talk about the dangers of smoke cigarettes and second hand smoke. "Here in this community a lot of people are affiliated with faith communities so we thought it would be a great way to get out the word on the dangers of smoking cigarettes and second hand smoke cigarettes by partnering with the faith community," Organizer Ty Grissett said. The keynote speaker at the event was former cigarettes executive La Tanisha Wright. Wright says she left the company she worked for, saying she could no longer tolerate how cheap cigarettes companies were targeting minority youth. | ||||||
