cigarette ban

    By Damanick Dantes

    | 4:30PM 6/10/2010
    Government's hate on cigarettes is strongest in San Francisco. The city becomes the first in the nation to ban tobacco sales in drugstores. San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom is against tobacco products being sold alongside products that are meant to help improve the health of his constituents....

    By Tom Johansmeyer

    | 4:00PM 11/19/2009
    A major tax increase on loose cigarette tobacco has caused pipe tobacco sales to surge dramatically this year. Historically, the tobacco industry manufactured around 270,000 pounds of pipe tobacco per month. Yet, in April, it hit 566,000 pounds, ultimately skyrocketing to 1.7 million pounds in...