Silver and her colleagues studied the sales
of illegal cigarette packs at licensed New York City retailers in the spring and fall of 2014, after the minimum price law was established.
Nearly three - dozen organized crime members were busted by federal authorities in Manhattan for an odd mishmash of crimes — trafficking 5 tons of stolen chocolate as well as hordes
of illegal cigarettes.
Not exact matches
If you ask a lot
of people who they think was responsible for heading up the campaign that resulted in pot being
illegal, many would guess it was
cigarette companies.
Andrew Cuomo begins his second term in office amid strife over the police killing
of Eric Garner, an unarmed citizen in State Island who was selling
illegal cigarettes, and the murder
of two police officers.
Former Legislator TJ Briggs, D - Ellenville, introduced a resolution that would have made it
illegal for youngsters under the age
of 18 to possess
cigarettes, however, he withdrew the proposal when it became clear it would not pass the Legislature.
Also that year, then - Legislator TJ Briggs, D - Ellenville, introduced a resolution that would have made it
illegal for people under the age
of 18 to possess
cigarettes.
Also that year, former Legislator TJ Briggs, D - Ellenville, introduced a resolution that would have made it
illegal for youngsters under the age
of 18 to possess
cigarettes, however, he withdrew the proposal when it became clear it would not pass the Legislature.
In 2017, former Legislator TJ Briggs, D - Ellenville, introduced a resolution that would have made it
illegal for people under the age
of 18 to possess
cigarettes, though he withdrew the proposal when it became clear it would not pass.
The appointment
of a special prosecutor was prompted by a number
of recent incidents where civilians were killed by police, including Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who police put in a choke hold after Garner was accused
of selling
illegal cigarettes on the sidewalk.
The massive sums to be made in tobacco smuggling have led to its development into a worldwide trade involving the
illegal movement
of containers
of millions
of cigarettes.
The revised lawsuit in Manhattan federal court alleges FedEx made nearly 33,000
illegal shipments
of cigarettes to consumers in New York state between 2006 and 2012.
NEW CASTLE — The Town
of New Castle might make it
illegal for anyone under the age
of 21 to purchase tobacco products, including vape pens, electronic
cigarettes, chewing tobacco, cigars, among others.
Andrew Cuomo begins his second term in office amid strife over the police killing
of Eric Garner, an unarmed citizen in Staten Island who was selling
illegal cigarettes, and the murder
of two police officers.
The contraband included more than 1.5 million
illegal cigars and 47,000 cartons
of untaxed
cigarettes.
The appointment
of a special prosecutor was prompted by a number
of recent incidents where civilians were killed by police, including Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who police put in a choke hold after Garner was accused
of selling
illegal cigarettes.
Evoking memories
of a more troubling era, the NYPD finds itself under mounting criticism over the death
of a Staten Island man whom police were arresting for selling
illegal cigarettes...
Altria, the parent company
of cigarette giant Philip Morris, released a packet
of information arguing that the hike would be an unfair burden that would hurt consumers and retailers, and could lead to increased
illegal trafficking.
In 2006, The Department
of Health estimated that New York State was losing as much as $ 550 million in taxes through the
illegal sales
of untaxed
cigarettes.
Criminal justice reform advocates say the strategy leads to the types
of confrontations that Garner, who was being questioned for selling
illegal cigarettes, faced.
«15 percent
of cigarettes sold in NYC have
illegal tax stamps, study finds.»
«Our research found that
illegal cigarettes are regularly available over the counter in New York City,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor
of public health at NYU's Steinhardt School
of Culture, Education, and Human Development and College
of Global Public Health.
Illegal cigarettes, packaged to resemble genuine brands, supply about 5 percent
of the market in the United Kingdom.
Teens who have fewer than three family dinners a week are 3.5 times more likely to have abused prescription drugs and to have used
illegal drugs other than marijuana, three times more likely to have used marijuana, more than 2.5 times more likely to have smoked
cigarettes, and 1.5 times more likely to have tried alcohol, according to the CASA report «While substance abuse can strike any family, regardless
of ethnicity, affluence, age, or gender, the parental engagement fostered at the dinner table can be a simple, effective tool to help prevent [it],» says Elizabeth Planet, one
of the report's researchers, and the centers vice president and director
of special projects.
Despite the PG rating, this film briefly (but heavily) implies teens are partaking
of illegal drugs, and contains
cigarettes (a brief shot shows a smoke smoldering in an ashtray) and alcohol use as well as brief drug references.
Enforcement Weak «You can not bring an
illegal load
of cigarettes through the Bosphorus, but for some reason the government keeps the punishments very weak when it comes to
illegal fishing,» Koryürek said.
I've never had a puff
of a
cigarette (or ingested any
illegal substance) in my life — but we'd agree that freedom is good for the health
of a nation (not that it's ever perfect — I would prefer all drugs legalised, for one example) and rejoice in this example in history, the blessing
of which has flowed back to us in the UK and way beyond.
Although Egypt has been working to blow up the tunnels and prevent the
illegal smuggling
of everything from guns,
cigarettes and lingerie, they're impossible to control, report smugglers.
There are really two issues that must be considered when asking the provocative question about whether potentially precluding an employee on the basis
of an addiction to
cigarettes would be a violation
of that individual's rights under the Ontario Human Rights Code: (1) is the practice
illegal; and (2) if not always, then when?
The Health Minister's justifications are even tougher to swallow with Ms. Aglukaaq explaining that, «baggies
of cheap,
illegal tobacco can make it easier for children and teens to get
cigarettes into their hands and start smoking, which obviously has a negative impact on their health.»
Again, pro-pot proponents like to compare pot to alcohol or tobbacco, fair enough, but under the Excise Act, 2001 anyone who makes
illegal sales
of tobacco and alcohol is subject to possible imprisonment, and you'd better believe that if people were openly selling
cigarettes and booze without a license, you can be sure they would be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent
of the law (indeed provincial authorities are quite aggressive in prosecuting such persons).
But it's not
illegal in any way, unlike a lot
of the things that North Korea is doing today to generate funds: counterfeiting US dollars and
cigarettes or selling wildlife and
illegal drugs.
Assessments conducted at earlier phases are specified in previous articles.7, 8 At the 15 - year follow - up assessment, adolescents completed interviews that measured whether they had been adjudicated a person in need
of supervision (PINS) resulting from incorrigible behavior such as recurrent truancy or destroying parents» property; their frequency
of running away from home; and the number
of times they had been stopped by the police, arrested, convicted
of a crime or
of probation violations, and sent to youth correctional facilities.14 They also reported on their disruptive behavior in school; number
of school suspensions; delinquent and aggressive behavior outside school; experience
of sexual intercourse; rates
of pregnancy; lifetime number
of sexual partners; and frequency
of using
cigarettes, alcohol, and
illegal drugs during the 6 - month period prior to the 15 - year interview.15
Parents were asked questions about their children's behavioral problems (the Achenbach scale); school suspensions; arrests; and use
of cigarettes, alcohol, and
illegal drugs, including the effect
of alcohol and other drugs on their children's lives.
The experience
of interpersonal distress during childhood is also correlated with depression, aggression, and drug misuse (e.g.,
cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and
illegal drug use) later in life (DeFronzo and Pawlak, 1993; Anda et al., 1999; Nation and Heflinger, 2006; Leeb et al., 2011; Shonkoff et al., 2012).
More precisely, The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports «70 %
of teens have tried alcohol by their senior year in high school, 50 % have abused an
illegal drug, 40 % have smoked
cigarettes, and 20 % have used prescription drugs for recreational, or for nonmedical purposes.»
Similarly, the frequencies
of adolescents»
cigarette use, heavy episodic drinking, and marijuana use were strongly related to the proportion
of their friends who used
illegal substances.