New US legislation will soon ban the postal service from handling smokeless tobacco, chewing tobacco and roll your own cigarette tobacco; adding additional and unnecessary stress to the men and women fighting for freedom. Online Tobacco Distributors Association: Everyone knows the dangers of tobacco; no one doubts the surgeon general’s warning. However, for many of the men and women who are courageously fighting for the freedom of their homelan ... Jump to full article >>

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City Councilman Darrell L. Clarke wants the city to venture where the state has not yet dared to go: the taxing of chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, and cigars. Clarke said he would introduce on Thursday a bill setting a 3.6-cent tax on each cigar and a 36 cents-per-ounce tax on loose forms of tobacco. That would mean 43 cents on a typical 1.2-ounce can of chewing tobacco. Snuff is also included, as are rolling papers, at a yet-to-be-determined rate ... Jump to full article >>

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Rick Bender sat on a stage at the Ohio Statehouse fiddling with a chewing tobacco can as people stared at his disfigured face. Bender is used to it. He does this kind of thing on purpose. For the last 17 years, Bender has traveled the country, warning people of the dangers of tobacco use. Bender grew up in Kentucky and California and started using chewing tobacco at age 12. By age 26 in 1989, doctors diagnosed him with oral cancer, took out a thi ... Jump to full article >>

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It’s one of the most old-fashioned taxes of all, but the question of what you measure to levy it is emerging as the latest skirmish in the never-ending battle for space on stores’ tobacco shelves. The stakes can be high — a change in the way Texas levied its excise tax on smokeless tobacco has just about driven old-fashioned, loose-leaf chewing tobacco out of the state. Now, in Virginia, the muted clash over the excise tax betwe ... Jump to full article >>

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The prevalence of consuming chewing tobacco is almost double than smoking tobacco in the country, revealed a study yesterday. At the dissemination programme of the research findings at the National Press Club in the city, it was also revealed that women are taking more chewing tobacco than men. The prevalence of non-smoking tobacco chewing is 43.2 percent while the tobacco smoking is 23 percent in the country, the study showed. It found that 42 p ... Jump to full article >>

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Rick Bender started using spit tobacco when he was 12 years old because he wanted to fit in with his friends and he thought it was safer than cigarettes. “It turned out to be the biggest lie I was ever told,” Bender, 47, told an audience of about 30 Wednesday night at Montana State University. Copenhagen snuff was “my brand of poison,” Bender said. He remembered TV ads featuring a star football player and the slogan, “Take a pinch inste ... Jump to full article >>

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