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Unkechaug Chief: Mayor’s Figures on Untaxed Cigarettes are ‘Made Up’
The Long Island tribal leader rails against the lawsuit and the mayor himself, for being ‘fanatical about being God.’
Posted 10/02/08 in Daily Intel : Those Things'll Kill Ya
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City of New York Attempts to Gross Out Smokers
A new set of free matchbooks depicting rotting lungs, tumors, and ruined teeth will be passed out to eager smokers across the city.
Posted 09/22/08 in Daily Intel : New York City Is the Man
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Bloomberg, Gates Mercifully Decide Against Ruling World
Instead, they'll put their vast wealth toward preventing cigarette deaths in developing countries.
Posted 07/24/08 in Daily Intel : White Men With Money
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Smoker Falls Four Stories, Lives to Destroy Lungs Another Day
It's an amazing story, which makes us remember that amazing scene from 'Sex and the City'!
Posted 04/28/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Standpipe Cut
• As Robert Morgenthau's office starts a criminal investigation of the Deutsche Bank blaze that killed two firefighters, it turns out that the faulty standpipe had been deliberately cut — and recently. [NYP]
Posted 08/22/07 in Daily Intel : The Morning Line
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Staten Island Is Marlboro Country; Manhattan Too Soused to Notice
The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has a new blockbuster report out, ratting on our fair city's vices. As expected, smoking is on decline throughout NYC — treating it like Murder One can do that to a habit — with the citywide percentage of smokers at 18. The nationwide average is 21 percent. The trend holds true for all boroughs except one. That proud, black-lunged holdout is Staten Island — the borough that probably shouldn't smoke at all, given its proximity to highly flammable toxic waste. Almost one in three Staten Islanders lights up, compared to less than one in five in Manhattan. Fresh Kills, indeed.
Posted 10/27/06 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Ask a Newsstand Guy: Even More Cig Taxes?
New York's pricey smokes might be getting even pricier, with word in today's Post that the city wants to raise its cigarette tax — currently $1.50 per pack — by another 50 cents. We stopped by Mushtaf Ahmed's newsstand, at Third Avenue and 49th Street, where — as a stream of customers stopped by for sodas, candy, and cigarettes — we asked him what this will mean for the city's smokers. Do you think you'll be selling fewer cigarettes? I think definitely the people who generally smoke less, occasional smokers, it affects them, because anybody who smokes occasionally, they will stop. But anyone who is habitual or addicted, he will smoke. The chain smoker won't stop, but the people who smoke a little will stop.
Posted 10/20/06 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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