The cigar industry is preparing to fight a tobacco tax that health advocates hope to push through the General Assembly next year.

The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association, which represents thousands of mostly mom-and-pop cigar stres, said it is organizing in hopes of preventing the proposed tax on cigars and others tobacco products other than cigarettes from passing.

“Maryland voters are sick of increased taxes disguised to obscure government over-spending and they are tired of being told what to do and how to behave,” Bill Spann, CEO of the IPCPR said in a statement.

Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative is pushing for the the new tax. They successfully pushed dime-a-drink tax on alcohol through the last General Assembly session.

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updated 8:57 AM EST, Thu February 23, 2012 Addicts shoot up drugs in 1969, when Gary Stromberg says the drugs of choice were pot, cocaine, heroin and alcohol. STORY HIGHLIGHTS

(CNN) — The Whitney Houston headlines last week sent a familiar shiver through me.

In the 1970s, I ran one of the leading entertainment business public relations firms. Celebrity clients were wildly indulging themselves, accountable to no one. It was money, power and prestige, with no one to say, “That’s enough.”

Drugs and alcohol were endemic.

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• 1. To get relief from eye irritation wash it water to which is added a few drops of rose water.2. Apply a little refined castor oil on the eyelids to be free of boils in or around the eyes.3. Splashing cold water several times into eyes will keep your eyes clear and perfect.4. To lubricate dry eyes soak cotton pads in water squeeze out extra water and cover the eye with them for 20 minutes.5. A weak solution of water and sugar will cleanse your eyes and improve your eyesight.6. The juice of fenugreek seeds leaves is effective cure foe conductivities.7. Take a ripe banana along with little curd and water twice a day.8.

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This cutting-edge pain management strategy is described in an article published in a peer-reviewed journal from The article is available free online, along with a related article on pain following spinal cord injury.

A single injection of fibronectin, a glycoprotein produced in the body that helps anchor cells in place, can prevent the development of chronic pain that often develops after a spinal cord injury. and from the Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, and Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, OH, describe the successful outcome following injection of a small quantity of fibronectin into the spinal dorsal column of animals immediately after a spinal dorsal column crush injury.

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