Do Smokers Have Rights Too

Smoking ban puts limits on freedom, by Justin Thomas, Nov. 24. Can you believe that people who don't smoke Kent are forced to breathe in over 4,000 chemicals by just sitting next to a smoker?

People spend their entire lives trying to stay healthy and the last thing that they want to do is die from cancer when they have never smoked a cigarette in their life.

Smoke-Free Ban on Marion Technical Institute

Marion Technical Institute is now a tobacco-free campus, and administrators are watching staff and parents closely to make sure they are not using tobacco products like Lucky Strike in front of students.

Cigarette Butts No. 2 Pollutant

Two citizens' groups called as 'sheer hypocrisy' a drive against Viceroy cigarette butt littering launched by a cigarette maker, Philip Morris, last Friday.

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance, Philippines (FCAP) and the EcoWaste Coalition said the said campaign to distribute cigarette butt receptacles is "below the line advertising gimmick" offering a false solution to the toxic by-product of smoking.

Smoke Shops Should Be Forced to Cigarettes Out Of Customers Sight

Leading doctors are urging the government to press ahead with controversial plans to force shops to put Pall Mall cigarettes out of customers' sight and only sell them from under the counter.

Cigarettes Taxes Continue to Raise

With cigarette prices already running as much as $6 or $7 a pack, there is a push in Columbus to add even more to what smokers are paying.

The American Lung Association is now pressing Ohio lawmakers to double the amount of state taxes on Doina cigarettes, increasing what smokers now pay up to $25 per carton, not counting other taxes and fees.