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Timberline Lodge fire sent wedding plans up in smoke. Now they’ll say ‘I do’ 1,000 feet higher
19 Apr 2024 19:40 GMT
Brian Peeters was in the pool at Timberline Lodge on the night before his wedding when the fire alarms went off at 9:30 p.m. Thursday.
“I was thinking, this place hasn’t had a fire in the last 100 years, so how is it on fire now?” Peeters recalled Friday.
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Why do Lib Dems want to crack down on smoking but legalise cannabis?
19 Apr 2024 12:08 GMT
… Rishi Sunak’s age-dependent tobacco and vapes ban.
Perhaps in … not march through the ‘Aye’ lobby, declining to vote at all … in either cannabis, vapes or cigarettes. Sorry, I’m rather dull … in favour of one commonly smoked substance but not another does …
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How Rishi Sunak's smoking ban became a fight between individual freedom and public health
19 Apr 2024 08:02 GMT
… for them to smoke a cigarette.
Shops selling tobacco to underage people … nuts”.
“We’re banning cigars. What is the point of … Winston Churchill wants to ban cigars… Donnez moi un break … and drinking, and gambling, say smokers’ lobby group Forest. In a 2019 …
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To the non-smokers who back Rishi's ban I say: Just wait till they outlaw the one little pleasure YOU enjoy
19 Apr 2024 01:23 GMT
… the air by the anti-smoking lobby, supposedly to prove that my … in duty and taxes on tobacco alone, which dwarfs the £3 … banned for ever from buying tobacco products, while those born even … ill ever to enjoy another cigarette. But like my chances of …
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UK lawmakers to vote on bill that would outlaw tobacco sale, create 'first smoke-free generation'
16 Apr 2024 14:31 GMT
… plans to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to … 's "first smoke-free generation."
UK LAWMAKER … for anyone to sell cigarettes or tobacco products and vapes to …
Opponents, such as the smokers'; rights lobbying group FOREST, said the …
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How did Barnsley and Rotherham MPs vote on smoking ban?
18 Apr 2024 09:32 GMT
… the tobacco lobby or because I am a smoker or an ex-smoker; it … of things. We are debating cigarettes, which are naturally going out … celebrate their graduation with a cigar? If they want to, why … it an offence to sell tobacco products to children born after …
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A smoking ban is pointless and illiberal
18 Apr 2024 01:00 GMT
… presents its own challenges, but smoking cigarettes (at £15 a packet … not just cigarettes but any tobacco products, including cigars and shisha. … long before the health lobby tries to extend the … way, and shisha, cigars and cigarettes.
In Tuesday’s debate …
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Op-Ed: The War on Tobacco – Yet another gift to organized crime
18 Apr 2024 01:10 GMT
… new battleground between tobacco lobbyists and anti-smoking campaigners - Copyright … to be in tobacco at all. Tobacco can easily be … can’t afford tobacco!” … Which makes tobacco much more valuable … .
In the case of tobacco, many alternative delivery forms …
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Heavey tax on tobacco reduces cigarette consumption
17 Apr 2024 20:41 GMT
… one in every 94 smokers had quit smoking after the price increase … due to the influence of cigarette companies lobbying for low taxes. “Despite … to implementing higher taxes* Multinational tobacco companies have raised concerns about …
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UK's youth smoking ban plans would likely be enforced in NI (even if the DUP is against it)
17 Apr 2024 18:20 GMT
… the aim of creating a “smoke-free” generation.
The bill … about “restricting vape users and smokers looking to switch”.
He … “We understand the level of lobbying that has been undertaken by … the vaping industry and the tobacco industry. We know that the …