What The Ban on Cigarettes Mean

 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with plans to ban menthol cigarettes and all flavored cigars—policies that agency officials say could help prevent some of the roughly 500,000 U.S. deaths linked to tobacco each year.

“The actions we are proposing can help significantly reduce youth initiation and increase the chances that current smokers quit,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf said in a statement. “It is clear that these efforts will help save lives.”

CVS Quits Selling Cigarettes

Rumors are that +CVS/pharmacy will not be selling cigarettes anymore. CVS will stop selling tobacco products in all of its stores and urges other stores to join in. CVS Caremark Corp said on Wednesday that it would stop selling tobacco products at its 7,600 stores by October, becoming the first U.S. store to do so. 

CVS stops selling tobacco today, offers quit-smoking programs. CVS Caremark, is America's leading retail pharmacy with more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drug stores. Ending tobacco sales today boosts CVS’ ability to partner worldwide. As CVS sharpens its focus on customer health, the nation's second-largest drugstore chain will tweak its corporate name and stop the sale of tobacco.

Tobacco Company To Cut 2,300 Jobs

The world’s second largest tobacco company by sales looks to streamline its operations. British American Tobacco Plc (BATS.L) said on Thursday it would lay off 2,300 employees globally by January.

The company said the move would impact over 20% of its senior roles as it takes steps to eliminate duplicate roles in its aim to create fewer but larger business units among other things.

BAT plans to cut 2,300 jobs

The “New Category” business includes brands like vuse for e-cigarettes, velo - a nicotine pouch for the gums and glo for tobacco heating devices.

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Illinois Raises Smoking Age To 21

Cocaine And Money

Illinois Raises Smoking Age To 21

HB 345 takes effect July 1. It aims to reduce tobacco use among teens and young adults by preventing them from starting, said Pritzker and state lawmakers who attended Sunday’s bill signing.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation on Sunday that raises the legal age for purchasing cigarettes, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21.

Statistics show that most smokers start as teenagers, and the younger they are when they start, the more likely they’ll become addicted. Illinois joins a growing list of states and municipalities adopting “Tobacco 21” policies, as vaping among teens is on the rise.

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Man Rides Tricycle Naked

Jermaine Jones, 31, was collared after Lakewood police officers found the nude man chewing glass and tobacco under a stairwell in the Ocean County complex. A New Jersey man was busted for riding a tricycle naked through an apartment complex after getting high on cocaine.

The cops were responding to reports that Jones was naked and riding through the complex on a child-sized tricycle. Jones, of Trenton, was taken to Kimball Medical Center, where he was treated for cuts to his mouth.

After admitting to cops that he was high on cocaine, Jones was booked on charges that included disorderly conduct and being under the influence of a controlled substance.

South Africa Rated The Most Unhealthiest Place To Live

Countries most people consider to be idyllic, such as Saint Lucia and Barbados, ranked poorly, which comes down to poor diet and lack of exercise.

The ranking is based on 10 measures: healthy life expectancy, blood pressure, blood glucose (diabetes risk), obesity, depression, happiness, alcohol use, tobacco use, inactivity (too little exercise), and government spending on healthcare.

South Africa was ranked the most unhealthy country on earth, while Canada came out on top as the most healthy country.

The latest statistics from the World Health Organisation show that South Africans have a 26% probability of dying from cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic respiratory disease between ages 30 and 70. 

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Independent Record Labels You Should Know

From independent icons like XL Recordings and Sub Pop to newer teams like 88 Rising and Mind of a Genius, here are some of the essential labels you should know. As always, we encourage you to do your own digging and share your own favorites with us, but as long as you discovered just one new label, artist, or piece of music that you love from this list, then we did our job.

From legendary indies to internet-based upstarts, these labels are all doing something special.

Ralo‘s apartment was raided by the FBI

Atlanta rapper Ralo‘s apartment was raided by the FBI on Thursday for reasons that are not yet being publicly released. Ralo was not home at the time of the raid, because he was in jail in Dekalb County for a criminal conspiracy charge.

E-Pipes Buying Guide for Newbies

 

E-Pipes for Sale: Buying Guide for Newbies

Studies show that vaping is a safer and healthier option than smoking. With e-pipes, you can enjoy the thrill of consuming smokeless tobacco plus a variety of flavors. You can also regulate the amount of nicotine you consume if you are cutting down on your addiction.

If you have across e-pipe for sale and you are thinking of getting one, this guide is for you. We cover all the main factors you must consider when buying an electronic pipe or cigarette. You will also get additional information about vape juices. 

Cocaine And Money

Cocaine comes from a natural plant grown deep in the jungles of South America. To bear fruit, farmers plant the plant that make cocaine; then the plant is picked and processed for distribution. The shimmering white colored powder cross over transnational borders and eventually find its way around the world where hordes of users sniffed it up into someone's sniffing nose or shot into a user's veins. Cocaine can either make you poor and weak, make you do the unimaginable, make you wealthy--or it can even take your mind on weird trips. As Rock Star singer Rick James once said, "Cocaine is one helluva drug."

But it is no secret that selling cocaine on a grand scale can bring filthy riches to a player in the dope game. Cocaine prices vary but profits are enormous for a heavy hitter depending where the dope is sold. Narcotic analysts explains that illegal drugs like and cocaine and heroin cost much less where it is produced. Worldwide, prices can range from $2 a gram in Panama to over $300 per gram in New Zealand.

According to U.S. law enforcement, Colombian national police, and Foreign narcotic experts, a wholesaler can buy a kilo of cocaine straight from the jungle in Colombia for approximately $2200.00. At Colombian ports, wholesale prices for a kilo of cocaine average between $5,500.oo, and $7,000.00. DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) officials has reported over the years that cocaine prices increased exponentially once it leaves production and transferred to markets in the United States and foreign markets. Actually, as the report points out, the farther away, and the more isolated the drugs are from different countries the higher the cost for dealers and users.

 For example, Central America cocaine cost $10,000.00 per kilogram, and in Southern Mexico that same kilo sells for $12,000,00, unless a broker make an agreement to reduce the price based on multiple kilos of cocaine. Notice the much higher price between Central America and Mexico. After cocaine is transported into Mexico City area, a kilo is worth approximately $16,000.00 near the border town of Northern Mexico. Depending on the location in the U.S., wholesale on the streets average between $24,000.00, and $27,000.00.

Coca (a substance made from leaves that actually make cocaine) is one of the oldest, potent, most dangerous stimulants of natural origins. Australian world renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud who once used cocaine himself became the first to publicly promote cocaine as a tonic to cure depression and sexual impotence.

Around 1886, the popularity of the drug got a higher boost when maverick John Pemberton mixed coca leaves as an ingredient in his new soft drink now known today as "Coca Cola". Effects from consumers sipping coke only skyrocketed Coca-Cola popularity during the 1900s.

Back during the 1600s, people chewed coca like tobacco. In the 1800s, cocaine earned the distinction as a popular mind altering substance to get high on among the upper-class people in Europe. If history correct, Pope Leo XIII gave papal endorsement to a coca-treated Bordeaux wine. During 1850s' an Italian neurologist named Paolo Manteganza, became so addicted to gnawing on coca leaves until he wrote excitedly about the effects.

Inmate Found Decapitated

(The Wrap-Up Magazine) A North Carolina inmate who escaped prison using a toothbrush shank was found decapitated two weeks after escaping. Kelvin Singleton’s headless body was discovered April 7 by a hunter walking through the woods in Bertie County, 15 miles from the Chowan County Detention Center. He was naked and his body was partly decomposed.

Authorities identified the body on Tuesday, and were still searching for the escaped inmate’s missing head. The beheading remains a mystery to investigators. Singleton’s headless body had been in the open field near Ashland Church Road for about a week. Singleton escaped on March 29, after he carved a shank out of a toothbrush and forced a guard to release him.

The 26-year-old had been behind bars for robbing an Edenton tobacco store at gunpoint and speeding off in the clerk’s car in January, police said. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, attempted kidnapping and larceny of a motor vehicle.

Bernie Sanders Wants Legal Marijuana

Bernie Sanders has once again voiced his support for legalizing marijuana; this time, while speaking at George Mason University in Virginia. The New York Times reports that the event was live streamed to about 300 college campuses throughout the country, putting all eyes on the Democratic hopeful. When the controversial subject came up, he told his young audience that “in my view, the time is long overdue for us to remove the federal prohibition on marijuana.”

In order to regulate the substance, Sanders says we should look to the example of how local and state laws oversee the sale of alcohol and tobacco. He explained: “That means that recognized businesses in states that have legalized marijuana should be fully able to use the banking system without fear of federal prosecution.”

Advocates for legalization have argued that many who are currently incarcerated face unfairly harsh sentences for such a nonviolent crime. Sanders recognizes this view, saying the he saw a “racial component” to the millions imprisoned for drug offenses which reflected that the “criminal justice system is broken.”

Gang Member Enters Police Station Armed

Baltimore police officers are on heightened alert after they disarmed a man who took a loaded handgun into a police station. Police said Jason Armstrong, 29, told them he was acting on orders of the Black Guerrilla Family gang.

They said he walked into the Northeastern District station on Argonne Drive near Morgan State University shortly before 9 a.m. smelling of marijuana. Officers searched him and found a .22-caliber handgun with a bullet in the chamber, marijuana and cocaine.

Police said he told officers he had been ordered by BGF leaders to walk into a police district station with the gun and drugs to test police security. Armstrong was taken into custody and faces narcotics and gun charges, police said. His charging documents had not yet been posted to the state’s online database Tuesday night, and neither he nor an attorney could be reached for comment.

Batts said he plans to convene a meeting with “federal partners” including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to discuss the Black Guerrilla Family. Baltimore FBI spokeswoman Amy J. Thoreson said the agency has offered Baltimore police any assistance it can provide.

In early December, police union officials in New York circulated information they said they received from a Maryland police department that the gang would target its officers. Batts, asked about the warning during a Twitter chat with residents at the time, called it an “anonymous hoax.”

The Baltimore FBI office later issued a memo saying the gang was targeting “white cops” in Maryland. The memo said a gang contact claimed that BGF members linked to the corruption scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center wanted to “send a message” by attacking white officers.