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Overall, Missouri's slave population represented 10 percent of the state's population in the 1860 U.S. Census. But in Little Dixie, county and township slave populations ranged from 20 to 50 percent by 1860, with the highest percentages for the counties developed for large plantations along the Missouri river.
[106] [107] In 2004, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that the state's food and tobacco sales laws do not preempt cities and counties from enacting smoking regulations of any kind. [108] Localities in Kentucky with smoking bans that include all bars and restaurants (37 total):
August 29 marks the 10-year anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, and since then, New Orleans and surrounding areas have never been the same.
California's adult smoking rate has dropped nearly 50% since the state began the nation's longest-running tobacco control program in 1988. California's state government reported saving a total of $86 billion in healthcare costs after allocating $1.8 billion for tobacco control; this was a 50:1 return on investment compared to total cost of the ...
The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) was entered on November 23, 1998, originally between the four largest United States tobacco companies (Philip Morris Inc., R. J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson and Lorillard – the "original participating manufacturers", referred to as the "Majors") and the attorneys general of 46 states.
The state reported 635,887 total outages on Saturday. As states begin to pick up the pieces of Helene's destruction, relief efforts and funds are being created to help. ... To help Hurricane ...
John Templeton, 46, evacuated with his family from Asheville on Saturday, a familiar exercise after having evacuated Houston during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and performing relief work in 2005 in ...
State Year Code Notes California: 2005 CA LABOR CODE § 96(k) & 98.6 Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities but has been interpreted by the courts as not creating any new substantive rights Colorado: 1990 CO REV. STAT. ANN § 24-34-402.5 Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities Connecticut: 2003