by admin | Nov 30, 2005 | Health / Medicine
The Washington, D.C.-based Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids has released its annual State Spending report looking at how individual states are spending the multi-billion dollar tobacco settlement money. The rankings of the fifty states and the District of Columbia place...
by admin | Nov 8, 2005 | Politics / Govt
Missourians might soon have a choice of tobacco tax petitions. A second group hopes to be on the streets soon with a proposal to hike tobacco taxes – but it has a different use for the $350-Million a year the tax might raise. The Alliance for Health and Justice...
by admin | Jun 22, 2005 | Health / Medicine
Saint Louis University is going to keep track of whether the anti-smoking initiative launched by the Missouri Foundation for Health is working. The Foundation is investing about $40.5-Million during the next nine years to discourage tobacco use in the state. And,...
by admin | Nov 30, 2004 | Politics / Govt
Attorney General Jay Nixon is urging the Legislature to make sure additional money coming to the state from tobacco companies be used to fight teen smoking. Nixon says the state will begin getting $7-Million in extra tobacco money each year as smaller tobacco...
by admin | Nov 23, 2004 | Business, Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
The Kansas City Council is to vote today on a ban on smoking in public places, but critics say the ordinance has been watered down so much by those it would have affected that it’s almost worthless. The ordinance bans workplace smoking, except in designated...
