Alabama
Associated Press (AP)
» Alabama governor vetoes bills that would have used tobacco tax in 3 counties for grant program (May 3, 12) [intro]
Randolph Leader (Roanoke, AL)
» Governor vetoes tobacco tax bills (May 3, 12) [intro]
California
Boing Boing
» ARMSTRONG: The Tobacco Wars, Continued (May 2, 12) [intro]
Daily Titan (Cal State Fullerton)
» Cigar Club at CSUF (May 1, 12) [intro]
Marin Scope
» MAYER: Need your YES vote on deceptive Proposition 29 (May 3, 12) [intro]
San Jose (CA) Mercury-News
» City advances scaled-back restrictions: smoking in parks (May 2, 12) [intro]
The Orion (Calif. State U. Chico)
» Campus smokers face $48 fine (May 1, 12) [intro]
Connecticut
Hartford (CT) Courant
» Relabeling Roll-Your-Own Tobacco as Pipe Tobacco Costing Feds, States $1.3 Billion in Lost Revenues (May 3, 12) [intro]
Florida
(Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Sun-Sentinel
» Tobacco tax: Florida missed $63 million in tobacco tax revenues (May 3, 12) [intro]
Georgia
WBRL Channel 3 (Columbus, GA)
» Survey finds secondhand smoke a problem in multi-family buildings (May 2, 12) [intro]
Kansas
Topeka (KS) Capital-Journal
» Tobacco bill proponents push back (May 3, 12) [intro]
Massachusetts
Boston (MA) Globe
» Belmont Board of Health raises tobacco age from 18 to 19 (May 3, 12) [intro]
Quincy (MA) Patriot Ledger
» Cohasset to consider ban on electronic cigarettes (May 3, 12) [intro]
Taunton (MA) Gazette
» Middleboro considers tobacco sales ban for pharmacies (May 3, 12) [intro]
Michigan
Allegan County (MI) News
» County's smoking ordinance doused (May 3, 12) [intro]
Jackson (MI) Citizen Patriot
» Michigan's smoking ban necessary to protect health of employees and general public, several online readers say (May 2, 12) [intro]
Mississippi
WTVA (Tupelo, MS)
» Aldermen expand city's public smoking ban (May 1, 12) [intro]
Missouri
KBIA 91.3 FM (Columbia-Jefferson City, MO)
» AUDIO: If you tax them, they will quit (May 3, 12) [intro]
Jefferson City (MO) News Tribune
» EDITORIAL: Our Opinion: Don't get fooled again with tobacco tax hike (May 2, 12) [intro]
Missouri News Horizon
» Legislature Expands Cigarette Tax to Include ‘Roll-Your-Own’ Sellers (May 2, 12) [intro]
New York
Catskill (NY) Daily Mail
» Cigarette likely cause of fire that displaced 120 cats (May 3, 12) [intro]
Ithaca (NY) Journal
» New York lost $16.9 million from tobacco tax loophole (May 3, 12) [intro]
Ridgewood (NY) Times Newsweekly
» City To Landlords: Post Smoke Policy (Apr 26, 12) [intro]
Staten Island (NY) Live
» Discarded cigarette butts litter the sidewalk near Staten Island's RUMC | SILive.com (May 3, 12) [intro]
Village Voice blogs
» Drug Fans: More Teens Smoke Weed Than Cigarettes; The War On Drugs Has Failed (May 3, 12) [intro]
North Carolina
Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times
» Bele Chere board delays decision on tobacco sponsorships (May 3, 12) [intro]
Lakeland (FL) Ledger
» Anti-Tobacco Activists Protest Family Dollar Selling Cigarettes (May 3, 12) [intro]
North Dakota
KQCD-TV (Dickinson, ND)
» VIDEO: One Year Since Bismarck Smoking Ban (Apr 9, 12) [intro]
Tennessee
News 12 Chattanooga, TN
» Roll-your-own cigarette bill headed to governor (May 1, 12) [intro]
The Tennessean
» TN may boost tax on 'roll-your-own' cigarettes (May 3, 12) [intro]
Texas
Houston (TX) Chronicle
» $31 million in unintended consequences (May 3, 12) [intro]
Your News Now (YNN)
» San Marcos council bans alcohol, tobacco in city parks (May 2, 12) [intro]
Washington
Aberdeen (WA) Daily World
» Local governments will be nudged to go smoke-free in parks and some other public places (May 3, 12) [intro]
The Daily (University of Washington)
» BURKE: More designated smoking areas needed on campus (May 1, 12) [intro]
West Virginia
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail
» Fewer raise tobacco after federal buyout (May 3, 12) [intro]