In the 2009 General Assembly session, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine didn’t get no-excuse early voting, a closed “gun-show loophole” or “green” construction requirements in local government buildings.
Legislators did not back his call for a bipartisan panel to redraw the state’s election districts, or to pay for Medicaid deficits by doubling the state tax on a [...]

SINGAPORE : Over 570 people were caught with duty-unpaid cigarettes within the first month of a new law that requires all
legal cigarettes to have a special SDPC (Singapore Duty-Paid Cigarettes) marking. The law came into effect on January 1.
In its annual enforcement report, Singapore Customs said the number of cigarette offenders has gone down [...]

(Buffalo News, The (NY) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 30–Federal attorneys have filed suit against a tobacco wholesale company owned by Arthur “Sugar” Montour, a former Seneca tribal councillor, for failing to pay $18.4 million in federal tobacco settlement assessments.
Montour’s company, Native Wholesale Supply Co., located on the Cattaraugus Reservation, is the exclusive American distributor [...]

Millions of Americans smoke “low-tar,” “mild,” or “light” cigarettes, believing those cigarettes to be less harmful than other cigarettes. However people who switch to low-tar or light cigarettes from regular cigarettes are likely to inhale the same amount of cancer-causing toxins and they remain at high risk for developing smoking-related [...]