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Cigar-ette?


Thirty-nine states and Guam Guam (gwäm), Chamorro Guåhan, the largest, most populous, and southernmost of the Mariana Islands (see also Northern Mariana Islands, an unincorporated territory of the United States (2005 est. pop.  are lobbying to change federal regulations that allow tobacco companies to classify clas·si·fy  
tr.v. clas·si·fied, clas·si·fy·ing, clas·si·fies
1. To arrange or organize according to class or category.

2. To designate (a document, for example) as confidential, secret, or top secret.
 certain products as little cigars rather than cigarettes. Taxes on cigars are significantly lower, and cigars don't don't  

1. Contraction of do not.

2. Nonstandard Contraction of does not.

n.
A statement of what should not be done: a list of the dos and don'ts.
 have the same advertising and health restrictions imposed on them. The attorneys general claim the only distinction between little cigars and cigarettes is that the little cigars are brown. But industry officials contend that wrappers In data mining and treatment learning, wrappers were used by Ron Kohavi and George John. Their idea was to wrap their treatments learners in a preprocessor that would search to make subsets from the current set of attributes.  on little cigars contain tobacco, which isn't found in cigarette paper. They also say the tobacco in little cigars is different from that found in cigarettes. Consumption of little cigars has more than doubled in the last decade. They sell for about half the price of cigarettes.
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Title Annotation:STATELINE; federal regulations on tobacco companies
Publication:State Legislatures
Article Type:Brief article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Sep 1, 2006
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