D3 LENGTH: 415 words HEADLINE: Legal smokescreen; Florida tailors the law to put cigarettes on trial BODY: The Florida Legislature last year passed a law -- the first of its kind in the nation -- that snuffed out a major defense of tobacco companies in lawsuits by barring them from ...
Then, if anyone checks the “sellout gazette” and notices that there’s a song being sold this way, they can start a crowd-fund to buy the rights for the public domain. If they raise less than the amount committed to by the company that wants to put it in an ad, then tough shit...
The state of Rhode Island is urging a federal court to throw out a suit by two retailers challenging the state's ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, saying the plaintiffs can't show that there's no rational basis for the law. ...
Federal law is not consistent, however. The legal age at which a person can buy alcohol is set by federal law at 21 years old. It has not always been this way. For many years, the legal age to purchase alcohol was set by the states, and it differed from state to state. However, ...
Public health law is an important tool in non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention. There are different approaches available for achieving policy objectives, including government, co-, quasi- and self-regulation. However, it is often unclear what legal
According to theLancaster Medical Heritage Museum, Lee’s Save the Baby, made by William W. Lee & Co. in the early 1900s, was a children’s cough suppressant to be applied externally to the chest area (although the back cover of the box pictured here said it could be used “Externally...
Parental duties of support will also cease.” Most countries have set the age of majority at 18; however, in the United States, the age of majority is 19 in Alabama and Nebraska and 21 in Mississippi. Many question why a person may enlist in the military or smoke cigarettes legally but ...