Sentences with phrase «like on cigarettes»

Make it one of those taxes like on cigarettes.

Not exact matches

Proponents say a vice tax like this is acceptable, akin to the excessive taxation on cigarettes.

Standing there, leaning on his pool cue, blowing cigarette smoke over the green felt, he hardly seems like a man with a mission.

Overall impact: It might have a positive impact on the economy — especially if you ask the people who propose enacting big taxes on marijuana like we do for alcohol and cigarettes.

Cook said that the services business is akin to a Fortune 100 company, theoretically on par with corporate heavyweights like Twenty - First Century Fox and cigarette giant Philip Morris.

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook, already taking heat for exploiting vulnerabilities in human psychology to hook people on social media, got lit into again Tuesday, this time by a prominent technology chief executive who said the giant social network is addictive like cigarettes and should be regulated like big tobacco.

Seriously, like they have on a pack of cigarettes.

What can one say in the face of such a cabinet of marvels as «the startled cherry of his cigarette» (a Nazi about to be killed by a sniper), or a tool that «lathed the wrinkled lake,» or (my favorite) a line about stars on a river that lie scattered «like jacks tossed on linoleum»?

workers who get LARGE SALERIES & a small portion goes to the poor in the form of a hand out - much at times to be used on luxeries like cigarettes, candy, soft drinks & other things that they would be better off without.

He calmly explained that alcoholism, like lung cancer caused by cigarettes or diabetes brought on by obesity, is a legitimate disease, even if it arises from an avoidable indulgence.

Stupid things like, hey, don't dye your hair black (trust me — it never washes out) and also, Charlie perfume makes a really poor cover - up for the smell of cigarette smoke and someday you'll look back on all of that bad poetry you wrote and laugh until you cry.

It's like the health warnings on packs of cigarettes.

Some customers have urged retailers on social media to begin selling baby formula from behind the counter, like cigarettes.

Alexander Fiske - Harrison, who looks like a warm yet poetically tormented version of JFK Jr., registered my lack of optimism, lit up another cigarette and laughed his smoker's laugh before winking and slapping me on the shoulder.

On an Oklahoma City team that sometimes looks like it would get carded for trying to buy cigarettes, perma - scowling Kendrick Perkins typically looks like the oldest, angriest man around.

Szczesny often does irresponsible things off the field, like this summer he was pictured smoking a cigarette, something Wenger has been particularly strict on with other players, notably Marouane Chamakh.

When we think of peer pressure, we typically have a picture in our minds of a kid handing your child a cigarette, a joint, or a beer and saying something like, «Come on, just try it.»

All ads for snack foods have a label like we have on cigarettes saying that it's bad to snack.

Who likes the smell of cigarette smoke, and it is especially hard on a sensitive pregnant woman's nose and on her system, as well it should be.

It might be a good idea to place a warning running across the bottom of your tv's screen when these shows are on, like the warning on cigarette packs.

Meanwhile, things that could address systemic problems and save the city and state real money, including public pension reform, get shouldered off the road in favor of transient quick fixes like taxes on soda and cigarettes.

Just when it looked like the session was heating up, Miliband sidestepped into a series of questions about plain packaging on cigarettes.

Also, like former Gov. David Paterson, Cuomo is assuming the state will start collecting sales tax on cigarettes sold on Indian land to non-Indian customers, which isn't something the tribes intend to let happen without a fight.

Lawmakers in New York are debating whether to add electronic cigarettes to the state's ban on smoking in public areas like workplaces, bars and restaurants.

«Just like the [Surgeon General's] warning that you see on the side of cigarette packs have changed the perception of smoking, these gun warnings are the first step to changing the public's conversation,» said Councilwoman Vanessa Gibson, a co-sponsor of the gun bill.

The campaign includes graphic photos on cigarette ads, much like NYC's ads that were banned by a federal judge last year.

We also need a restriction on marketing — ideally a ban on marketing of all unhealthy foods, just like cigarettes.

From previous research, scientists know that carcinogens like cigarette smoke leave genetic fingerprints on a person's genome, in the form of characteristic alterations in the letters that make up DNA — sometimes thought of as «spelling mistakes.»

After a while, it's like walking over cigarette butts on the streets of New York; smallish, purply dinosaur bones are everywhere.

The sulforaphane induced both types of cells to increase their levels of a protein that turns on genes that promote detoxification of carcinogens, like those found in cigarettes, and protect cells from cancer.

Building on that project, the researchers have now designed a machine that smokes cigarettes in a very human - like manner, and hooked it up to organs - on - chips lined by human lung small airway cells so the smoke interacts with these cells in a realistic way.

TIA can be a sign that something bigger is coming (about a third of people who experience a warning stroke will go on to have an acute stroke), so doctors will recommend lifestyle changes, such as a healthier diet, exercise, and cutting out alcohol and cigarettes in addition to treating risk factors like high blood pressure in an effort to prevent a more serious stroke.

While the study can't prove that one is related to the other, the findings would seem to support what critics have long said: Smoking by glamorous (or even not - so - glamorous) people on the silver screen is like free advertising for cigarettes.

I mean I was inside my brain, but I smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, drank Mountain Dew like it was water, and lived on bagels and carrot cake.

Taxes on meat and animal protein like that to cigarettes is possible.

I also picked up some unhealthy habits like smoking cigarettes (yuck) and too many drinks with friends on weekends.

Let's not discuss that it smells like cigarette smoke, let's just focus on how pretty it is.

I'd like to find some tighter fitting, cigarette style maternity pants (not jeans) with roughly a 30 or 31 inch inseam, which is ankle length on me, but it seems like everything in that style is a few inches shorter and looks more capri on my legs (and thus less work appropriate).

You can almost picture a Humphrey Boggard - era goddess reclined on a chaise lounge, gently swirling a cup of bourbon in her hand, nonchalantly puffing away at her cigarette as she listens to the detective, her body cocooned in the silk georgette shirt like it's a second skin.

One negative we saw upfront was that there's nowhere to share alcohol or cigarette use like there is on other apps.

It begins with 4 - year - old Tonya's arrival on the ice, pushed there by her stage - mother - from - hell, LaVona Golden (Allison Janney, puffing on More cigarettes and swearing like a longshoreman).

A long - time presence on the Croisette with a Palme d'Or (the short «Cigarettes & Coffee III»), a Grand Prix («Broken Flowers»), a Golden Camera («Stranger Than Paradise») and Best Artistic Contribution («Mystery Train») for his efforts, the fest loves him, and clearly he likes going there too.

Looking like Borat's lost wayward sister, this glum college student lives in a grey dorm on a grim campus where practically everybody seems to be dealing in contraband (cigarettes, candy, even showers) or is up to some sort of shady shenanigans.

Sure, there's an abrasive desperation that permeates the film, collating in its characters minds, seeping into their very fabric like the cigarette smoke that Halley insists on huffing indoors with her child present, but there is hope laden in Baker's empathic approach.

THE DISC: Some Blu - ray discs should maybe sport a warning label like those «Smoking Will Give You Lung Cancer and Then You'll Die Horribly» ones found on cigarette packs...

Bill Murray (Coffee and Cigarettes, Garfield) plays a Jacques Cousteau - like oceanographic filmmaker named Steve Zissou, whose latest adventure had taken them on the trail of something Zissou dubbed the Jaguar shark.

Compare this to other French noir like Jean Renoir's superlative Night at the Crossroads (1932)-- Renoir compensated for his more leisurely pacing with a hypnagogic atmosphere and dream - like imagery like a dolled - up woman putting out her cigarettes on a live turtle shell.

Turturro has attracted some talented colleagues to his projects, like Kate Winslet, Susan Sarandon, and James Gandolfini on 2007's Romance and Cigarettes.

My personal preferences would be for states to impose a new consumption tax on something that's bad for the world, like gambling or carbon emissions or sugar or cigarettes, but states could also impose a special tax on millionaires or rent out some state asset (like highways or parking lots).

When they are less likely to feel trust and bonding to one another, eventually other bad things start to happen, too — there are more signs of disorder, like cigarette butts or broken bottles on the sidewalk or in the streets, more groups loitering on street corners, more prostitution, and so forth.