MCC Tobacco Free

Signs posted on the Mesa Community College campus alert students, Thursday, June 28, 2012 of a campus wide tobacco free ban. Starting Monday, all Maricopa County Community College District campuses will be smoke- and tobacco-free, joining a group of more than 500 universities and colleges that prohibit smoking on their campuses, according to no-smoke.org, a non-smoking advocacy group. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

MCC Tobacco Free

Signs posted on the Mesa Community College campus alert students, Thursday, June 28, 2012 of a campus wide tobacco free ban. Starting Monday, all Maricopa County Community College District campuses will be smoke- and tobacco-free, joining a group of more than 500 universities and colleges that prohibit smoking on their campuses, according to no-smoke.org, a non-smoking advocacy group. [Tim Hacker/ Tribune]

MCC Tobacco Free

New teen tobacco program

Saturday, July 2, 2011 9:00 am

A new contract from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is helping Arizona Department of Health Services employees protect youths from tobacco. The contract allows ADHS to work with retailers to make sure they are following the rules about the sale of tobacco, including making sure the buyer is old enough to buy it.

Tobacco sales to minors targeted

Thursday, March 1, 2007 5:05 am

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he warned businesses that if they sold tobacco to young teens, he’d come after them.

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Tobacco sales to minors targeted

A 23-year-old store clerk from Phoenix was handcuffed but later cited and released by sheriff’s officers after selling cigarettes to a minor.

Tobacco regulation likely

Sunday, August 24, 2003 8:29 pm

It's an imperfect idea, but ours is an imperfect world, and there's reason to concur with a proposal to end federal support of tobacco farming with an industry-financed buyout and placement of the industry under regulation by the Food and Drug Administration.

Big Tobacco’s bucks push weak smoking ban

Friday, September 1, 2006 10:41 am

Backers of a statewide initiative to ban smoking in bars and restaurants fear Big Tobacco’s huge contributions to a competing measure will blow away their efforts like the wisp from a lit cigarette.

Big Tobacco’s bucks push weak smoking ban

Friday, September 1, 2006 6:18 am

Community colleges prepare for tobacco ban

Saturday, November 19, 2011 7:00 am

A picture of untreated "hairy tongue," a jar of tar, another jar filled with green phlegm, a replica of stained teeth with ulcer-covered gums and tongue, a blackened lung, nail polish remover and rat poison all lined the IGNITE (Influence, Guide, Network for Inter-Collegiate Tobacco Education) table at Mesa Community College's student center.

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Congress looks into smokeless tobacco in baseball

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:10 am

WASHINGTON — The Major League Baseball Players Association is telling Congress that it discourages members from using smokeless tobacco, but players should be allowed to use substances that are legal and available to the general public.

Court: Sweep of tobacco tax was illegal

Friday, July 24, 2009 11:37 am

State legislators and the governor acted illegally in taking $7 million from a 2006 tobacco tax initiative to instead balance the state budget, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday.

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Court: Sweep of tobacco tax was illegal

Gunman robs Mesa tobacco store

Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:29 am

A gunman robbed OK Tobacco store in Mesa about 11 a.m. Wednesday and then fled the scene, police said.

Scientists eye tobacco for plague vaccine

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:09 am

The plant blamed for millions of lung disease infections and cancer-related deaths could help save lives. While doctors shun tobacco for its cancerous effects, plant scientists at Arizona State University and around the world are embracing the plant family for its genetic flexibility.

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