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Smoking has been a lifelong habit for Pete Quinto. Since I was 21, he said. Im 53. He lives in New Jersey, a state where the tax on cigarett stanley cup es is just under $3 a pack, but it could be higher. I know New Yorks pretty high, Quinto said.New Jersey may soon be, as well. The governor is proposing a state cigarette tax of $4.35 a pack, placing it on par with New York and Connecticut as one of the highest cigarette taxes in the nation.The very highest Washington D.C., at $4.50 a pack. Yet, cigarette taxes vary wildly across the country. The lowest is in Missouri: a mere 17 cents per pack. Others include 30 cents in Virginia, 84 cents in Colorado and $1.33 in Florida. Raising taxes is the quickest way to reduce tobacco, particul stanley cup arly among young people and the poor, whom the tobacco industry preys, said Matthew Myers, who heads up The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.He said there is a direct link between higher cigarette taxes and lower smoking rates. The advantage of tobacco taxes is they reduce tobacco use more effectively, more efficiently and more predictably than any other single tactic, while also raising revenue for government, Myers said.Yet, critics have pointed out that lower-income smokers get hit the hardest by taxes like these and a U.S. Surgeon General report earlier this year, found they have the least access to programs to help them quit.Still, at least one academic study, Tax Burden on Tobacco, shows the connec stanley tumbler tion between higher taxes and lower smoking rates. Cmox 10 chemicals found in common household products
Alliance Ohio police have sent a warning to other area law enforcement agencies after the skin on a man s arms was eaten away, possibly as a result of injecting a new heroin combination.Graphic pictures obtained by Cleveland-based WEWSshow black marks and skin peeled off both arms of a 25-year-old man. It s very, very disturbing, said Alliance Police Sgt. Michael Yari stanley cup usa an.Narcotics officers said they arrested a heroin addict last week and noticed the horrific injuries.He told officers he bought heroin laced with Rizzy powder in Canton and injected it into his arms.A website provides the following the desc stanley italia ription of Rizzy: Rizzy powder is a flower centerpiece maker. For white flower centerpiece, add 1/2 teaspoon to water in vase. Cut the end off of a flower so that it has a fresh surface. Allow several hours for Rizzy to be incorporated into the petals of the flower.It also includes a disclaimer, Toxic. Do not ingest. If heroin was laced with the powder, Yarian fears it could become the latest, dangerous drug trend. Now we got skin dying, he said. It s so new that we re not even sure what all the dangers are yet. The alert stanley usa sent to several police department mentions Rizzy is used by florists to dye rose petals.However, Lynn Forbes who works at Canton Wholesale Floral, said she has never seen it in the industry. I ve done this my whole life. I am sure this is not in any of your local florists and I don t think any of the local florists have ever heard of the product, Forbes
Smoking has been a lifelong habit for Pete Quinto. Since I was 21, he said. Im 53. He lives in New Jersey, a state where the tax on cigarett stanley cup es is just under $3 a pack, but it could be higher. I know New Yorks pretty high, Quinto said.New Jersey may soon be, as well. The governor is proposing a state cigarette tax of $4.35 a pack, placing it on par with New York and Connecticut as one of the highest cigarette taxes in the nation.The very highest Washington D.C., at $4.50 a pack. Yet, cigarette taxes vary wildly across the country. The lowest is in Missouri: a mere 17 cents per pack. Others include 30 cents in Virginia, 84 cents in Colorado and $1.33 in Florida. Raising taxes is the quickest way to reduce tobacco, particul stanley cup arly among young people and the poor, whom the tobacco industry preys, said Matthew Myers, who heads up The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.He said there is a direct link between higher cigarette taxes and lower smoking rates. The advantage of tobacco taxes is they reduce tobacco use more effectively, more efficiently and more predictably than any other single tactic, while also raising revenue for government, Myers said.Yet, critics have pointed out that lower-income smokers get hit the hardest by taxes like these and a U.S. Surgeon General report earlier this year, found they have the least access to programs to help them quit.Still, at least one academic study, Tax Burden on Tobacco, shows the connec stanley tumbler tion between higher taxes and lower smoking rates. Cmox 10 chemicals found in common household products
Alliance Ohio police have sent a warning to other area law enforcement agencies after the skin on a man s arms was eaten away, possibly as a result of injecting a new heroin combination.Graphic pictures obtained by Cleveland-based WEWSshow black marks and skin peeled off both arms of a 25-year-old man. It s very, very disturbing, said Alliance Police Sgt. Michael Yari stanley cup usa an.Narcotics officers said they arrested a heroin addict last week and noticed the horrific injuries.He told officers he bought heroin laced with Rizzy powder in Canton and injected it into his arms.A website provides the following the desc stanley italia ription of Rizzy: Rizzy powder is a flower centerpiece maker. For white flower centerpiece, add 1/2 teaspoon to water in vase. Cut the end off of a flower so that it has a fresh surface. Allow several hours for Rizzy to be incorporated into the petals of the flower.It also includes a disclaimer, Toxic. Do not ingest. If heroin was laced with the powder, Yarian fears it could become the latest, dangerous drug trend. Now we got skin dying, he said. It s so new that we re not even sure what all the dangers are yet. The alert stanley usa sent to several police department mentions Rizzy is used by florists to dye rose petals.However, Lynn Forbes who works at Canton Wholesale Floral, said she has never seen it in the industry. I ve done this my whole life. I am sure this is not in any of your local florists and I don t think any of the local florists have ever heard of the product, Forbes