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Big name US high-grade issuers rush to beat Apple's jumbo deal
ReutersBy Shankar Ramakrishnan NEW YORK, April 29 (IFR) - Some of the US's biggest brand names raced to the market on Monday to lock in tight pricing on their deals before Apple comes to the market with its jumbo offering. A total of USD6.725bn was raised...Tags: Wells Fargo & Co., The Home Depot, Target, Deutsche Bank AG, Banking
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NY proposal would make 21 minimum age for tobacco
No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City, under a new proposal announced Monday that marks the latest in a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the nation's largest city. New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn...Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Michael Bloomberg, Dining and Drinking, Groceries, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Critics revive past promises to knock Obama budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, U.S. Congress, Inflation and Deflation, Tobacco Products, American Cancer Society
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U.S. to revise cigarette warning labels
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and...
Tags: Judges, Lawyers, Tobacco Products, Tobacco Addiction, Food and Drug Administration
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Bloomberg's new plan: hide cigarettes
NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-smoking advocates and health experts hailed proposals from Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would keep cigarettes out of sight in New York City stores, while tobacco companies and smokers called it an overreach. The ban, which...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Tobacco Products, Government, Michael Bloomberg, American Cancer Society
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Wedded: Alexandra Heifetz and Kyle Jones
For The Baltimore SunWedding Day: Aug. 11, 2012 Her story: Alexandra Heifetz-Jones, 29, grew up in Dayton. She lives in Davis, Calif., and is in her second year at the University of California-Davis School of Law. Her mother, Suzanne Heifetz, is a clinical social worker in...Tags: Weddings, Chocolate Cake, Book, Arts, Education
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Campaigns on California ballot measures raise $150 million
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Colleges move toward absolute bans on smoking
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — As a political science major at Ohio State University, Ida Seitter says, she lit up many a cigarette to help her through the stress of exam season. Right or wrong, they were her security blanket as she toiled through college....
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Health, Colleges and Universities, Tobacco Products, Companies and Corporations
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Prop. 29 would impose $1 cigarette tax
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO -- California's primary elections are around the corner and one of the propositions has been making national headlines. Proposition 29 would put a $1 tax on every pack of cigarettes sold in California. If passed, it is expected to raise more...Tags: Republican Party, Tobacco Products, Politics, Primaries, American Lung Association
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Big Tobacco wins fire marshals as allies in flame retardant push
The problem facing cigarette manufacturers decades ago involved tragic deaths and bad publicity, but it had nothing to do with cancer. It had to do with house fires. Smoldering cigarettes were sparking fires and killing people. And tobacco executives...
Tags: Michael Hawthorne, Economy, Business and Finance, Tobacco Products, Electronics, Furnishings and Furniture Industry
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Tobacco companies add $15 million to fight cigarette tax
PolitiCalTobacco companies are stepping up their efforts to defeat Proposition 29, the June ballot measure that would hike cigarette taxes by $1 per pack. On Friday, the parent companies of Philip Morris USA and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reported giving...... -
CDC unveils graphic ads to combat smoking
CNNFederal health officials are unveiling Thursday a $54 million national media campaign to get smokers to quit and prevent anyone else, especially children, from starting. The campaign, called "Tips From Former Smokers," is intended to educate Americans...Tags: Judges, Heart Disease, Lungs and Airways, Tobacco Products, American Heart Association
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