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Maine Facts Plantronics Headsets - $5 Off & Free Shipping!Prevention Efforts are Working in Maine

Thanks to the tobacco industry, Maine is faced with discouraging statistics. Smoking kills more people from the state than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined.                     Press herald

However, since 1997, when PTM began, to 2005, rates for adults who smoke decreased from 30% to 21%, and the rate among high school students plunged nearly 60%. We still face challenges combating the highly funded efforts of the tobacco industry, but smoking rates in Maine have declined substantially, and Maine’s efforts at funding and partnering for prevention are working.

Maine has received national recognition for its impressive outcomes in tobacco prevention in schools, workplaces, communities and retail stores. Tobacco free Maine

Excise tax per pack $2,00 in Maine
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Statewide smoking ban: Effective January 1, 2004, laws from 1985 and 1999 were expanded such that smoking is banned statewide in all workplaces and public places in Maine, including bars and restaurants. 

The law exempts places open to the public during hours when it is closed, stage performances involving smoking, smoking for religious rituals, 

factories where labor unions have contracted to have smoking areas, designate areas in hospitals, designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, private residences except 
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when used as a childcare or healthcare facility, beano and bingo halls, tobacco specialty stores, and off-track betting parlors that were in existence on June 30, 2003. 

The state law is silent as to whether local governments may regulate smoking more strictly than the state, though as of April 2009 no local government in Maine has done so. 
Effective September 1, 2008, smoking is banned in any car when a person under the age of 16 is present, though no driver may be pulled over or searched solely for violation of this law.
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PORTLAND, Maine — A Maine man is teaching people how to grow medical marijuana at what’s being called “Marijuana State University.”

Panasonic Phones & Shavers - $10 Off + Free Shipping!Fifty-six-year-old Ray Logan has been growing marijuana for 30 years, but when he started it was a recreational and illegal hobby. Now he’s taking advantage of Maine’s medical marijuana law to share his expertise legally.

He taught his first class earlier this month in Portland. More classes are scheduled.     Bangor publishing Medical Marijuana

The Portland Press Herald says Logan is offering three-hour workshops for people who want to learn how to grow high-quality marijuana in their homes.

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To avoid conflicts with police, Logan uses basil rather than marijuana in his classes to demonstrate the growing techniques.                  
Maine man teaches legal pot growing techniques