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Tag: Tobacco

Health · Politics

A tax break for the cigar smoker?

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 12, 2017, 7:45 AM May 12, 2017
78

In the list of people in Minnesota who are suffering, can anyone top the smoker of premium cigars?
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Health

And then they came for my cigarettes…

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 13, 2014, 2:04 PM Nov 13, 2014
32

Westminster, Massachusetts, a little rural town deep in the heart of the ancestral homeland of NewsCut, became a national battleground in smokers’ ‘rights’ this week when it was poised to become the first community in the country to ban the sale of tobacco products. Read more →

E-cigs are bad news for some states’ tobacco bond payments

Bruce MacDonald June 24, 2014, 9:00 AM Jun 24, 2014
11

Payments from tobacco companies go down as cigarette sales decline — and e-cigarette use grows. Read more →

Sports

Baseball tradition kills Tony Gwynn

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 16, 2014, 11:05 AM Jun 16, 2014
3

A few months ago, I tweeted that nothing can make you feel older than when your childhood baseball heroes die. I was wrong. Nothing can make you feel older than when your adult baseball heroes die. Tony Gwynn, the greatest hitter of his generation, died today. He was 54. When he was elected to the Read more →

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