The governor says he wants any tax changes to be fair and "pro-growth," and that he intends to ask for a study commission to recommend those changes. Barbour said that he would not support a grocery tax cut because the State Tax Commission does not keep records on how much money the state's 7 percent tax on food brings in each year. The most fair tax change that our state could make this coming year is cutting the state's grocery tax. Mississippi has the highest grocery tax rate in the...

Friends and family members can get information on how to help someone they know quit using tobacco. * Referrals to local tobacco addiction treatment programs and services. For friends, family and tobacco users, the Quit Line provides information on tobacco use, dependence and addiction treatment. Quit Line tobacco addiction treatment specialists have a statewide list of resources so they can refer callers to established programs within their own area. With the new $1 per pack cigarette tax...

Heavy taxes must be imposed on all alcoholic drinks if Britain's "binge-drinking" culture is to be broken, doctors will warn the Government in a report. The taxes should be "proportionate", with the biggest levies imposed on drinks with the highest alcoholic content, says the British Medical Association. In the report, to be published in the new year, the association will call for the Government to introduce a raft of new measures to combat binge-drinking, which critics say has increased...

Public health experts expect the tax increase will discourage children and young adults from starting smoking and lead people across multiple age groups to seek help in quitting, said Judy Burrows, chronic disease prevention director for the Marathon County Health Department. One possible explanation for the increase among that age group is it used to be legal for the tobacco industry to market products to minors, said Faye Tetzloff, Portage County health officer. Smoking prevention...

The farming sector is further disadvantaged by outdated farm equipment, the limited availability of important crop inputs such as fertilizer and herbicides, and generally poor agronomic practices. However, despite the availability of over 10 million hectares of land for agricultural use, Iran imports 30 to 50% of its annual food requirements. Iranian farmers are involved in the production of a wide array of crops including wheat, rice, barley, corn, pistachio nuts, almonds, hazelnuts, and...

The tax proposals, including a major adjustment of the income tax and a 1 percent increase in the sales tax, would raise $890 million for the general fund and roughly $400 million for the transportation trust fund. He voted against the compromise measure at a committee meeting Thursday and said he would vote against the bills because he doesn't support tax increases. Republican delegates said they hadn't heard the details of a tax compromise hammered out by leaders of both chambers late...

Declining revenues for tobacco education, an uptick in youth smoking and a tobacco chew rate almost 70 percent greater than the statewide average are raising concern in the Tobacco Education Network. Jon Sapper, assistant superintendent for the Humboldt County Office of Education, said county schools in 1990 received approximately $450,000 from a variety of sources for drug, tobacco and alcohol education programs. There were some teaching classroom sessions on how to teach the consequences...

Kearney-Area News Tobacco-free right thing for Good Sam, president says By MOLLY ALBRECHT, Hub Staff Writer 11/15/2007 Updated 11/16/2007 01:06:03 PM CST Email to a friendPrinter-friendly KEARNEY To mark the 31st anniversary of the Great American Smokeout today, Good Samaritan Hospital has announced all of its campuses will be tobacco-free starting Jan. Kearney-Area News Tobacco-free right thing for Good Sam, president says By MOLLY ALBRECHT, Hub Staff Writer 11/15/2007 Updated 11/16/2007...

The holograph turns the statue around, and inside and out, so that viewers can marvel at the construction in a way impossible to 16th-century Florentines -- who just knew that they had been given something magical, and put it in their main square as a mark of municipal authority. The holograph turns the statue around, and inside and out, so that viewers can marvel at the construction in a way impossible to 16th-century Florentines -- who just knew that they had been given something...