Tag: cigarettes
The unseen cost of cigarette pollution: Billions in environmental damage
The yearly economic cost of cigarette plastic waste amounts to approximately $26 billion.
Biden administration plans an immediate ban on menthol cigarettes
Studies prove that such bans will help people quit smoking, especially those disproportionately affected by menthol cigarettes.
Tobacco industry donates millions to try and defeat Medicaid expansion in...
"Voters in Montana have a simple choice: side with companies that kill or with Montanans who need access to healthcare.”
New tobacco filters sprout seeds when littered
“After all, any business that makes only money, we believe, is a bad business.”
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Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Trump’s repression of dissent is backfiring
In response to the Trump administration’s attempts to quell dissent and tilt the playing field, people are not shrinking in fear, but getting more bold in their resistance.
UN inquiry says Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza
A new UN Commission report details more than 20,000 children killed, tens of thousands injured, attacks on hospitals and schools, and evidence that Palestinian children were treated not as collateral damage, but as targets.
Supreme Court gives Trump administration more power over green card holders
The 6-3 ruling allows border officials to treat some lawful permanent residents accused of crimes as applicants for admission, raising new fears of detention, deportation, and years of legal limbo.