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June 10, 2012 / Associated Press / Lawrence, KS  — Kansas lawmakers have decided that electronic cigarettes should be just as off-limits to people younger than 18 as the real thing, so starting July 1 it will be illegal for minors to buy or possess the vapor-emitting... Read More

June 5, 2012 / USA Today Travel / — Want to light up a cigarette before or after your next flight? Good luck with that.  According to the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, indoor smoking is completely banned at 27 of the 35 busiest U.S. airports.  Soon it will... Read More

May 31, 2012 /Businessweek/ —  Cigarette makers led by Philip Morris International Inc. (PM) (PM) and British American Tobacco Plc (BATS) are scrambling to derail Russian plans to halve smoking in the world’s largest tobacco market after China. The companies, along with... Read More

MOSCOW, May 21, 2012 / RIA Novosti / — Russia’s Health Ministry has submitted a draft law to parliament banning the open sale of cigarettes and smoking in public places, in a bid to cut deaths in the world’s largest smoking nation. The ministry hopes the new... Read More

KENTUCKY, May 7, 2012 / WFPL News / –  A new poll by a nonpartisan health organization suggests a majority of Kentuckians would support a statewide smoking ban. The Kentucky Health Issues Poll is conducted by the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. And its 2011 poll, taken... Read More

ANN ARBOR, May 6, 2012 / AnnArbor.com/ – In the two years since the smoking ban went into effect in Michigan, a couple of things have become abundantly clear. The first is that the ban enjoys widespread popular support. The second is that it has done what it’s supposed to... Read More