Virginia legislators quit on time last night, approving a budget-balancing plan that protects state jobs and softens cuts to education, health care and police with nearly $1.5 billion in federal stimulus funds. Revisions to the two-year, $77 billion budget capped the final hours of a 46-day session, during which lawmakers adopted additional restrictions on smoking in public but resisted tougher ...
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Virginia legislators quit on time tonight, approving a budget-balancing plan that protects state jobs and softens cuts to education, health care and police with nearly $1.5 billion in federal stimulus funds. Revisions to the two-year, $77 billion budget capped the final hours of a 46-day session, during which lawmakers adopted additional restrictions on smoking in public but resisted tougher ...
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A woman smoking a cigarette while hooked up to an oxygen supply set herself on fire early Friday and badly burned her lower body, Middletown fire officials said.
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A woman smoking a cigarette while hooked up to an oxygen supply set herself on fire Friday and badly burned her lower body. It was the third such fire in Middletown this year, and a frightening illustration of the power of nicotine, experts say.
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A woman smoking a cigarette while hooked up to an oxygen supply set herself on fire early Friday and badly burned her lower body, Middletown fire officials said.
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A woman smoking a cigarette while hooked up to an oxygen supply set herself on fire early Friday and badly burned her lower body, Middletown fire officials said.
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A woman smoking a cigarette while hooked up to an oxygen supply set herself on fire early Friday and badly burned her lower body, Middletown fire officials said.
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Oregon Lottery sales are down nearly 20 percent, and bar owners and the Oregon Restaurant Association blame state lawmakers who voted to extend the state’s smoking bans to bars.
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Virginia Adams has been smoking for about five years, but the McBain junior said recent federal legislation may provide the motivation she needs to quit. Beginning April 1, the per-pack federal excise tax on manufactured cigarettes will rise to $1 from 39 cents, raising retail cigarette prices about 20 percent nationwide.
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