Voodoo Tiki Tequila and South Beach best kept secret The Terrace Bar Cigar Lounge announced today they have entered into an agreement to make Voodoo Tiki Traditional and Infused Tequilas available at the exclusive South Beach hot spot. Voodoo Tiki Platinum, Reposado, Anejo, and the smash hit Desert Rose Prickly Pear Infused are available now. The Terrace will also be one of the first venues in the nation to receive the brand new Blue Dragon Blue Raspberry and Kiwi Infused tequila.
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West Lafayette Indian restaurant Bombay has undergone dramatic changes. Gone are the buffet and lunch. Here are hookahs, an expanded bar and late night hours. “We’ve been planning on doing this for years,” explained Vic Singh, manager of Bombay. “(Purdue University) students want to have a hookah with their food.”
With new cocktails, martinis and draft beer, Bombay has reinvented itself as a nighttime destination. Still, the dinner menu is intact with chicken tikka masala, chicken makhani and palak paneer still available. read more…
For most Ohioans, finding free help to fight a smoking habit became much more difficult in the last few weeks.
The Ohio Tobacco Quit Line (1-800-784-8669), once available at no cost to anyone who picked up the phone, received no funding in the new two-year state budget. As of July 1, the call-in line is available free only to pregnant women, Medicaid recipients and those who are uninsured. State health officials had requested $2 million annually for the Quit Line.
“We have taken steps to continue to provide services to the most vulnerable population,” said Mari-jean Siehl, chief of the Healthy Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation Program. read more…
During an undercover operation that snuffed out an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 cannabis trees from four illegal sites, law enforcement officials raided “what looks like a football field of marijuana plants - all in a row, standing in the sunshine” Wednesday afternoon in the forested heart of Mt. Madonna County Park.
So far, no suspects have been named.
The effort involved five deputies from the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Marijuana Eradication Team, who worked in conjunction with a dozen other officials from the U.S. Forrest Service and National Guard involved with C.A.M.P - the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting. read more…
The Florida Supreme Court yesterday upheld a $28 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds, affirming the first of thousands of cases that will be tried following the dismantling of a statewide class action.Reynolds said it will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it doesn’t have much to entice the SCOTUS justices into taking the case.
The problem is fundamental to U.S. law: Appeals courts can only consider issues that were properly raised in the courts below them. And the U.S. Supreme Court, when it’s looking at a state-court judgment, can only consider federal constitutional questions. read more…
The hookah bars are once again going through a major crisis in Ahmedabad. The city police commissioner has ordered that hookah bars in the city be shut down with immediate effect from Tuesday.
The reason behind the order is said to be the so called anti-social nuisance being created in such hookah bars whose customers are mostly teenagers.
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Robert Pattinson and Brad Pitt are just two of Hollywood’s worst smokers. Are these stars setting a bad example for their fans?
RPattz has taken heat for his cigarette addiction in the past. Although some fans say he looks mega hot lighting up, the heath effects are scary to think about. Pattinson’s girlfriend, Kristen Stewart, is also a smoker. read more…
Medical marijuana advocates are rallying together to overturn the recently passed Montana Marijuana Act.
Patients for Reform Not Repeal are beginning to gather signatures to get the new law on the ballot. Organizers say Senate Bill 423 is an unworkable mess and a failure.
They need to collect just over 24,000 signatures or 5 percent of the qualified voters in 34 house districts to get the law on the ballot. Then, in order to suspend the current law, they need to collect 31,000 signatures or 15 percent of the qualified voters in 51 house districts. read more…
Expectant mothers who stop smoking around the time of getting pregnant can eliminate the heightened risk of low birthweight, premature birth and associated brain damage from tobacco, according to British research.
A team led by Professor Nick Macklon, from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Southampton, UK, studied data from some 50,000 pregnancies registered at the Southampton University Medical Centre between 2002 to 2010. read more…
The E Cigarette is a rechargeable battery operated Electronic Cigarette which when inhaled, the vapour released provides you with the sensation of smoking a traditional cigarette, gives you your nicotine kick however, not the harmful toxins that are in Traditional Cigarettes. The E Cigarette takes away all the negative implications associated with traditional tobacco as it has no odour and it doesn’t give off harmful toxins therefore it is safe to smoke in public places.
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