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Electronic cigarettes are opening a new front in the tobacco wars as state and local lawmakers try to restrict the product, which may allow users to circumvent smoking bans.

Delray Beach Florida has become the latest in the battle against personal choice and has banned hiring employees who use tobacco products, all supposedly to save money on health insurance.

RICHMOND, Va. -- The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products - that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine - could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults.

Former UK National Health Service director Margaret Hutchon has died after a nine months' wait (and four cancellations!) to have a critical stomach surgery. State-run healthcare to save us all, eh?

PARIS -- Governments around the world expelled Syrian ambassadors and diplomats Tuesday, an unusual, coordinated blow to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime following a gruesome massacre that the United Nations said involved close-range shootings of scores of children and parents in their homes. The United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and the Netherlands took action Tuesday against Syrian diplomats. Britain's foreign secretary said the countries involved in Tuesday's expulsions would also push for tougher sanctions against Syria.

A pro-life, family-values congressman who worked as a doctor before winning election as a Tea Party-backed Republican had an affair with a patient and later pressured her to get an abortion, according to a phone call transcript obtained by The Huffington Post. The congressman, Rep. Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee, was trying to save his marriage at the time, according to his remarks on the call, made in September of 2000. And, according to three independent sources familiar with the call and the recording, he made the tape himself.

Federal prosecutors in Baltimore on Tuesday unsealed an indictment against Calvin Ayre, the former Canadian billionaire who founded Bodog, one of the world’s biggest online gambling firms. Ayre is accused of operating an illegal gambling business involving sports betting and conspiring to commit money laundering.

Norman Ornstein suggests instead of a coup by right wingers to oust Boehner, they choose non-Congressman Jon Huntsman. The Constitution doesn't say the Speaker of the House must be a Congressman.

Come rain or shine, hard-working teenager Sam Green-Jeffries ­diligently dragged himself out of bed to start his paper round at 6.45 every morning.

So it was a shock when he found that his two years’ devotion to duty meant he was breaking a bizarre law banning children from working before 7am.

Now the 15-year-old – whose dedication has won him a national award – may be forced to quit because starting later is making him late for school.

Incredibly, bureaucrats stepped in after they were tipped off by an anonymous busybody.