At a high school in Maryland’s capital city of Annapolis, the principal ordered doors removed from bathrooms to keep students from sneaking hits in the stalls. A school system in New Jersey installed detectors in its high schools to digitally alert administrators to students looking for their next “rip.” And recently in Fairfax County, Virginia, […]
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Obama praises CVS for pulling tobacco from shelves
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is praising CVS Caremark for its decision to stop selling tobacco products at its drugstores. Obama says CVS is setting a “powerful example,” and says the decision will help his administration’s efforts to reduce tobacco-related deaths and disease and bring down health care costs. Obama is a former cigarette […]
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Two teenagers face drug charges in Farmington
FARMINGTON — A 15-year-old student at Mt. Blue High School is accused of possessing marijuana and tobacco, and another 15-year-old is accused for having drug paraphernalia in his possession on school grounds, police said. School resource officer Bridgette Gilbert investigated the separate incidents Friday, according to her report, Farmington police secretary Bonnie Pomeroy said Tuesday. […]
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House overturns LePage veto of bill designed to help MaineCare recipients quit smoking
AUGUSTA — Lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly overrode Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of a bill designed to reduce tobacco-related illness in Maine, but the House narrowly sustained a budget bill veto that could reduce state revenues by about $7 million between now and mid-2015. LePage last week vetoed LD 386, An […]
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Arbitrators rule Maine can keep tobacco settlement funds
AUGUSTA — Maine’s attorney general says an arbitration panel has blocked an effort by tobacco companies to reclaim about $50 million owed to the state under a 1998 settlement. Janet Mills says the panel of three retired federal judges made the decision Wednesday. Under the settlement, Maine and other states got annual cash payments from […]