Sentences with phrase «of illegal cigarettes»

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.

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.

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.