Area smokers Winston fuming over cigarette tax
Local smokers Winston and tobacco retailers are burning mad over the latest federal cigarette tax increase – the largest ever – which went into effect last Wednesday. ... read more >>
View ArticleEx-bootlegger details illicit city Winston-cigarette trade
A former bootlegger testified that she made more than $200,000 a year buying unstamped Winston-cigarettes at the Poospatuck reservation in Mastic and reselling them in the Bronx at a federal court...
View ArticleMother dies despite daughter’s attempts to save her in second fatal Brooklyn...
A beloved Brooklyn mom died in a smoky blaze Monday despite her daughter’s desperate attempt to save her. Flames and dense smoke closed in on Sandra Lubin’s fifth-floor apartment in the Bayview Houses...
View ArticleCigarette ad sparks anger in Brooklyn neighborhood
A Brooklyn neighborhood is one of ten locations across the country to be featured in a new ad campaign. The campaign is for cigarettes, and that has some people fuming. “I guess I’m one of those people...
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