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Wed, 4/08/10 – 20:54 | 2 Comments

Diet shopping or thrift shopping, whatever you call it, one thing is apparent – you want to spend less money on what you buy. Wise buyers don’t just pay on discount items, they look for …

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Should “Roll-Your-Own” Cigarettes Be Taxed?
Wed, 1/09/10 – 2:55 | No Comment

What do you think, should “roll-your-own” cigarettes be taxed? This will hurt smokers and tobacco shops that offer rolling machines, but will keep things fair between them and the manufacturers of rolling tobacco.

The issue lies on the high-speed rolling machines, labeled as pipe-tobacco, which produce a carton of rolled tobacco in just 8 minutes. What do these machines actually produce, rolling tobacco or pipe tobacco? And what do these shops actually sell, rolling tobacco or pipe tobacco?

If we see the produce, consumers get rolling tobacco similar to that of Marlboro and other cigarette brands. Essentially, these products must pay taxes just like the others. Technically, though, the machines were provided to make rolling-you-own tobacco much easier to customers. They need not do it manually. If these machines produce tobacco in a much slower pace, would the issue become as big as what it is now?

However, due to the more than tripled increase in sales of “roll-your-own” tobacco, from which the U.S. government could have raised $345 in a span of 15 months, they may as well be subject to levy. While there is no clear difference between pipe tobacco and rolling tobacco, roll-your-own tobacco shops and their customers will enjoy $2.83/pound “pipe tobacco” compared with $24.78/pound rolling tobacco, with the help of roll-your-own cigarette machines.

Besides rolling tobacco manufacturers and the government itself, anti-smoking organizations will be the first to say yes to taxing “roll-your-own” tobacco. I can see many physicians in Grey’s Anatomy scrubs will also say yes.

Drink and Live Long?
Tue, 31/08/10 – 3:00 | One Comment
Drink and Live Long?

Moderate drinkers, those who drink 1 to less than three a day, live longer according to a recent study completed by researchers of University of Texas in Austin and Stanford University in Palo Alto. The …

Brewed Tea is Way Better than Bottled Tea
Mon, 23/08/10 – 3:43 | One Comment
Brewed Tea is Way Better than Bottled Tea

Tea sales in the U.S. reach $7 billion annually. Many are hooked, but little do they know that they are actually drinking more water and sugar than tea. The polyphenols, the healthy antioxidants, they’re after …

How to Turn Scrub Pants into Capri
Thu, 19/08/10 – 3:55 | No Comment
How to Turn Scrub Pants into Capri

Did your scrub pants shrunk, or was it simply short for your height now? If you neither want to exhaust yourself with rants against your provider nor spend for new scrub pants, you can always …

4 Ways To Make Old Scrub Tops New Without The Stitches
Wed, 18/08/10 – 1:26 | 2 Comments
4 Ways To Make Old Scrub Tops New Without The Stitches

What will you do with your old nursing scrub tops? Make a quilt? Make a rug? Make a tote bag? Hmmm… Why not refashion them? You will not just have “new” nursing scrub tops and …

How Herbs and Spices Help in Trimming Weight
Fri, 13/08/10 – 1:06 | No Comment
How Herbs and Spices Help in Trimming Weight

2)  Trimming Weight
Herbs and spices are also reliable shoulders when you have weight management problem due to uncontrolled use of salt and sugar. They can bring down calories without ruining the flavor of your dishes, …

Medical Benefits of Herbs and Spices
Thu, 12/08/10 – 1:04 | No Comment
Medical Benefits of Herbs and Spices

1)  The Medical Benefits
You may not know it, but the cinnamon that you often use for baked apple actually curb inflammation in the body, lowering risks of heart disease and cancer. Cinnamon, a spice taken …