May 28, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Cigarette":
Society: 10 May 12
A smuggler travelling across Sweden's (wild) western border recently baffled customs officials who found over 500 cowboy hats stashed in the back of his car along with booze and cigarettes.
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National: 30 Apr 12
Police in western Sweden are kept busy by a large number of illegal shipments of alcohol and cigarettes, believed to be bound for Norway.
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Business & Money: 19 Apr 12
The European Commission in Sweden has repudiated rumours in Swedish media that moist snuff will be banned as a result of a planned tobacco directive.
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Education: 19 Apr 12
A student at a school in southern Sweden, angry that he couldn’t get his computer to work, went berserk on Monday throwing furniture around and trying to strangle the principal.
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National: 3 Apr 12
Swedish home-help service workers have recently been instructed to assist a disabled man who suffers from alcohol addiction to purchase drink.
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National: 2 Apr 12
A Swedish mother who encouraged her three-year-old son to drink beer and filmed as he was given cigarettes was convicted on Monday and fined for her actions.
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National: 26 Mar 12
The mother from southern Sweden, charged with forcing her 3-year-old son to smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, has confessed to all charges but was unable to offer any explanation why she acted the way she did.
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Society: 1 Mar 12
A Swedish dog sledder's perceived racist insults ruined a recent reunion of Iranian graduates in Kiruna and left their Sweden-based host "ashamed" of inviting her friends to the country.
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National: 7 Feb 12
Police continue to hunt for the man suspected in the stabbing a 10-year-old girl outside of her school in Gothenburg on Monday. As the girl recovers in hospital, local residents remain on edge following the attack.
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Society: 7 Feb 12
A mother in Sweden has been charged with abuse and breach of alcohol laws after coaxing her 3-year-old to have beer and cigarettes.
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National: 11 Jan 12
A gang of teenage boys have been charged for ambushing and assaulting a 17-year-old boy in a playground north of Stockholm at the behest of a 16-year-old girl who had accused the boy of raping her.
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National: 5 Jan 12
The Öresund bridge has long been known to be an important route for weapons smugglers to get their wares into Sweden. Despite this, only seven illegal weapons were seized there over the course of 2011.
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Business & Money: 3 Jan 12
Users of snus, or moist snuff, will get less for their money as manufacturers reduced pouch content by ten percent when the tax on tobacco was raised at the beginning of the year.
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Politics: 31 Dec 11
Tobacco users in Sweden will have to dig deeper into their wallets as another tax increase comes into force in the new year, while parental leave benefits as well as housing allowances are set to increase starting on January 1st.
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Society: 21 Nov 11
A velvet-voiced Dutchman who could also hold his own on a mechanical bull didn't let a lack of snow diminish his joy at being crowned winner of the 2011 Santa Games in Gällivare in northern Sweden on Sunday.
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Lifestyle: 8 Nov 11
While Ikea, H&M, and Ericsson are all well known Swedish brands, here's a list of ten more products and brands from the land of the midnight sun that any self-proclaimed Swedophile should also know.
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Science & Technology: 1 Sep 11
Infants born to mothers who used moist snuff or 'snus' while pregnant are at a greater risk of suffering from apnea than children whose mothers merely smoked during gestation, a new Swedish study shows.
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National: 20 Aug 11
Sweden's controversial littering law is under fire after local authorities have reported no change in garbage left in public places since it came into effect in July. Critical voices are now calling for a sharpening of the rule.
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Lifestyle: 21 Jul 11
As more and more Swedes roll up their sleeves and trouser legs to get tattoos, contributor Emy Gelb takes a look at what inspires them to let their bodies become walking works of art.
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Lifestyle: 12 Jul 11
US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe is the subject of a major new exhibition at Stockholm’s Fotografiska museum which recently fell foul of the social media censor, contributor Katherine Dunn paid a visit to see what all the fuss is about.
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Politics: 10 Jul 11
New laws come into force in Sweden on Sunday in a bid to combat the growing litter problem across the country.
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Society: 5 Jul 11
The percentage of Swedish 15-year-olds who drink alcohol has dropped to the lowest level in decades, and cigarette smoking among teens is also on the decline, according to a Swedish newspaper report.
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National: 2 Jul 11
Excepting cigarette butts and chewing gum from Sweden's upcoming litter law has caused an uproar. Several organisations are critical, but environment minister Andreas Carlgren wants to wait and see the new law's effect.
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Society: 22 Jun 11
Throwing a beer can anywhere but in the trash is set to become a costly affair in Sweden after a new law to combat litterbugs comes into effect in July. Cigarette butts, however, are exempt.
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Politics: 20 Feb 11
Sweden's social affairs minister Göran Hägglund has demanded that the EU removes its ban against moist snuff or 'snus', arguing that the product is "significantly less damaging than cigarettes".
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National: 14 Feb 11
A mother and her baby were trapped in an apartment in a Stockholm suburb on Sunday under threat from a man with nine poisonous snakes.
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Society: 24 Jan 11
Sales of nicotine replacement therapy products in Sweden jumped 10 percent last year compared to 2009 as they become more easily available across the country, according to figures from the Apoteket Service.
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Society: 22 Jan 11
In a rare public interview, the younger brother of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson rejected claims that he and his father have jealously guarded the author’s inheritance from his longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson.
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Society: 21 Jan 11
Ignition interlock devices designed to bar intoxicated individuals from driving cannot be trusted, according to a Swedish sobriety group for motorists on Friday.
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Lifestyle: 14 Jan 11
Introducing... is The Local's guide to the Swedish celebrity. In this installment contributor Malin Nyberg profiles Björn Ranelid, a fleet-footed author and Let's Dance favourite who’s not afraid to battle the Nobel literary establishment.
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Society: 20 Nov 10
An 83-year-old man from Sölvesborg in southern Sweden has been convicted for extinguishing a neighbour’s cigarette with a bucket of water.
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National: 15 Nov 10
A man from Landskrona in southwestern Sweden has been charged for deliberately running his wife over with his car and killing her in September.
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Politics: 12 Oct 10
Sweden's finance minister Anders Borg presented a budget for 2011 on Tuesday morning including 13 billion kronor ($2 billion) in new measures, promising to move Sweden from "crisis to full employment".
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National: 5 Oct 10
A 43-year-old Swedish citizen was charged on Tuesday with war crimes and kidnapping in connection with his job as a prison guard in Bosnia in 1992.
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Society: 16 Sep 10
An 83-year-old man from Sölvesborg in southern Sweden is facing charges after he extinguished his neighbour’s cigarette with a bucket of water.
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Politics: 26 Aug 10
The ruling Alliance coalition has promised its fifth in-work tax credit if it wins the election next month, it promised as it rolled out its manifesto on Thursday.
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Sport: 8 Jul 10
"We're disappointed, but such is life," Germany's Ambassador to Sweden, Joachim Rucker, said after watching his team exit the World Cup at the Goethe-Institut in Stockholm with his countrymen - and a sole exalted Spanish family.
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Travel: 19 Mar 10
If watching the Olympics gave you an itch to hit the slopes, consider Romme Alpin, a bus ride from Stockholm, says Davrell Roberts Tien.
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National: 25 Feb 10
Two seasoned criminals threatened to blow up themselves and the police station in Kristianstad in southern Sweden on Thursday morning. The drama ended when the men gave up shortly before 5am.
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National: 4 Feb 10
The Swedish publisher of Liza Marklund and US author James Patterson's crime novel Postcard Killers has denied that the book was inspired by Klas Östergren's The Last Cigarette.
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National: 16 Dec 09
A North Korean diplomat and his wife have been sentenced to eight months in prison by a court in Stockholm for attempting to smuggle more than 230,000 cigarettes into Sweden.
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Lifestyle: 10 Dec 09
What’s on in Sweden: Dubstep comes to Stockholm, Alice Cooper pays a visit to Gothenburg and Elvis has been spotted in Malmö.
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National: 20 Nov 09
Two North Korean diplomats are being held on suspicion of trying to smuggle 230,000 cigarettes from Russia into Sweden.
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Society: 13 Nov 09
An 11-year-old boy has been ordered to pay 1.9 million kronor ($276,000) in damages after causing smoke and water damage to a Stockholm home.
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Lifestyle: 27 Oct 09
Lazy, self-entitled and spoiled. These are just a few of the choice adjectives employed to describe the generation born in the 1980s, the first generation since Hemingway's to be characterised as “lost.” But just how accurate is the stereotype, asks The Local's Charlotte Webb.
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National: 15 Oct 09
Two porn peddlers from northwestern Sweden have been convicted for selling pornographic films with exceedingly violent content.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Sep 09
As countries across the EU curb smoking in public, Sweden is fighting to get a European-wide ban lifted moist tobacco, AFP's Marc Preel reports.
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Society: 28 Aug 09
Sweden has uncovered a treasure trove in its government archives of valuables belonging to the family of the last Russian tsar.
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Society: 27 Aug 09
Stockholm city employees will be ordered to stub out their cigarettes at work from May 1st next year as the city is the latest Swedish municipality to announce a ban.
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Society: 25 Aug 09
Smokers are costing Swedish municipalities 2.6 billion kronor ($367 million) per annum in the form of breaks and sickness absences, a new report shows.
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Society: 17 Aug 09
Four out of ten Swedes aged 14-15 have reported deliberately injuring themselves, a new report shows.
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National: 7 Aug 09
A feud in southern Sweden between a cigarette-puffing woman and her smoke-sensitive neighbour has finally been put to rest by Swedish environmental courts.
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Lifestyle: 22 Jul 09
Kurt Wallander, the brooding protagonist of Henning Mankell’s famed crime novels, recently came to United States’ television screens in a performance by Kenneth Branagh, giving viewers an unexpected opportunity for reflection, The Local’s Marge Thorell explains.
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Analysis & Opinion: 18 May 09
While pondering the remembrance of things past, Jeanne Rudbeck decides she'd much rather sip a latte in the city than flee Stockholm for Nature with the rest of the population.
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National: 14 May 09
A court in Malmö convicted two 15-year-old girls from southern Sweden for the “torture-like” beating of another 13-year-old girl in a dispute over insulting text and internet chat messages.
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Lifestyle: 13 May 09
Sweden's rising hip-hop star Adam Tensta talks to The Local's Majsan Boström about bright musical prospects, growing up in a tough Stockholm neighbourhood, and recording in the same studio as boyhood idol Michael Jackson.
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Society: 31 Mar 09
A bus driver in Falun in central Sweden has been charged for licking the faces of young girls while on duty.
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Science & Technology: 25 Feb 09
Researchers in Sweden have found that people who are overweight from a young age run a much increased risk of dying prematurely.
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Business & Money: 4 Feb 09
Swedish Match is joining forces with Swiss-based tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI) to market smoke-free tobacco around the world
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Society: 3 Feb 09
A Stockholm-area middle school teacher who purchased beer for two 15-year-old girls has been sentenced to 7,500 kronor ($900) in fines.
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National: 2 Feb 09
When a police officer was offered two different prices for a pack of cigarettes at a tobacco store in southern Sweden, he put his nicotine craving aside and called for backup.
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Society: 4 Jan 09
From 2010 it will become illegal to sell cigarettes in Sweden and across the EU that are not self-extinguishing. The new rules are forecast to save many of the 2,000 lives lost across the continent to fires ignited by cigarettes.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jan 09
With flat prices dropping like autumn leaves, Jeanne Rudbeck thought it was about time to start shopping around for a new home in Stockholm. Or Paris. Or Florida. But was it all just a pipe dream?
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Society: 27 Nov 08
A group of volunteers from the American Club of Sweden cooked up a Thanksgiving feast on Thursday for residents and staff at one of Stockholm’s homeless shelters.
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National: 5 Nov 08
A 15-year-old Swedish boy is facing as much as six months in prison over a ripped bag of chips.
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Society: 27 Oct 08
Two buxom Swedish models have sparked a debate about the country’s traffic policing policies after they managed to escape fines despite admitting to driving twice the legal speed limit.
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Travel: 22 Sep 08
If you're looking to pamper yourself this autumn, a spa trip to the Baltics could be just the ticket, writes Alannah Eames.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Jul 08
Bangladeshi refugee and writer Tasneem Khalil explains why the Riksdag's vote in favour of the surveillance law has him feeling let down by the country to which he fled to escape state-sanctioned domestic spying.
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National: 18 Jul 08
Court documents released in connection with murder charges filed against Anders Eklund reveal in startling detail how the 42-year-old truck driver killed 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund.
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Society: 7 Jul 08
A pensioner in northern Sweden has vowed never again to set foot in his local supermarket after being asked to prove he was over 18 when buying a pack of cigarettes.
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Society: 25 Jun 08
Swedish teens drink and smoke less than their peers in most other countries, but when it comes to sex, young people in Sweden are far from being the most careful.
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Society: 11 May 08
The Umeå branch of supermarket chain Ica in northern Sweden is clearing its shelves of cigarettes.
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Travel: 28 Apr 08
In his book Cycling Back to Happiness, English journalist Bernie Friend covers 6,000 kilometres of northern Europe on a bicycle in a bid to overcome his paranoia. In the last of our three excerpts, Bernie and his pal Rhys get unexpectedly Eurovisioned in Gothenburg.
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Science & Technology: 28 Apr 08
Swedish researchers believe they may have developed a successful anti-nicotine vaccine.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Apr 08
A smoking ban in Sweden's cafés and restaurants has redefined the lives of smokers and non-smokers alike, writes Peter Vinthagen Simpson.
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Travel: 14 Apr 08
In his book Cycling Back to Happiness, English journalist Bernie Friend covers 6,000 kilometres of northern Europe on a bicycle in a bid to overcome his paranoia. Here, in the first of three excerpts, he describes a close encounter with moist snuff.
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National: 14 Apr 08
A 57-year-old woman was found dead on Sunday on a farm in southern Sweden.
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National: 26 Mar 08
Police in Stockholm have recovered the body of Irish tourist John Aherne.
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National: 26 Mar 08
Police and the Swedish Coast Guard are continuing to search for missing Irish tourist John Aherne.
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National: 25 Mar 08
The search for missing tourist John Aherne is continuing on Tuesday evening after a dive conducted by police again proved inconclusive.
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National: 20 Mar 08
Police in Stockholm are continuing the search for John Aherne, an Irish tourist missing since the weekend.
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Lifestyle: 19 Mar 08
Rami Abdelrahman travels to Jordan and tracks down the first link in the chain of an underground operation involved in the smuggling of Iraqi refugees to Sweden.
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National: 6 Mar 08
A man has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for three separate sexual assaults against teenage girls.
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Society: 16 Feb 08
A local politician in Sweden has proposed that non-smokers should be rewarded with extra holiday.
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Lifestyle: 14 Feb 08
Almost anything goes for death notices in Swedish newspapers, where personalized drawings are a growing trend.
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National: 11 Feb 08
The teacher was also seen handing cigarettes to students during recess.
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Society: 11 Jan 08
A man in Stockholm has been charged with murdering a 45-year-old man, after being arrested on Monday for allegedly trying to murder a man he met on a gay contact site.
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National: 4 Jan 08
A Swedish citizen has been arrested in Croatia on his way back to Sweden carrying 12 kilos of heroin.
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Society: 19 Sep 07
Swedes will soon for the first time be able to buy anti-smoking treatments alongside cigarettes, after the government announced plans to end the Apoteket state pharmacy's monopoly on selling the products.
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Business & Money: 17 Sep 07
International credit worries were reflected in Stockholm share prices on Monday, with the OMXS index falling 1.6 percent. The more narrowly-based OMXS30 fell by the same amount.
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Society: 13 Sep 07
A 49-year-old woman who had been banned from smoking in her own garden is once again free to light up where she chooses after winning her appeal at the Environmental High Court.
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National: 11 Sep 07
A 49-year-old woman banned from smoking in her own garden has appealed the Environmental Court decision on the basis that it constitutes a violation of her human rights.
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National: 28 Aug 07
Two brothers from southern Sweden have been jailed for a month after a court failed to believe that 40,000 cigarettes brought into the country were for their personal use.
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National: 26 Aug 07
Not smoking can be bad for your health too, it seems: a 25-year-old man was shot on Saturday night, apparently for not having any cigarettes.
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National: 23 Aug 07
A woman in southern Sweden has been told by a court that she may no longer light up in her own garden because her neighbour happens to be very sensitive to cigarette smoke.
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Society: 14 Aug 07
People who use Swedish oral tobacco, snus, absorb higher levels of nicotine and some cancer-causing substances than smokers, according to a new study by the University of Minnesota.
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National: 1 Aug 07
A 49-year-old Swedish woman has died after falling from a fifth floor window at a hotel in Copenhagen. The woman was on holiday with her husband and two children when the accident occurred.
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Lifestyle: 20 Jul 07
The terrible summer might have people reaching for their skiing jackets, but Kathleen Harman prefers to warm up from the inside out, with Stockholm's best Indian curry.
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Lifestyle: 4 Jul 07
Tail fins, greasy quiffs and the Confederate flag? This isn’t fifties America, but rural Sweden, where Rock and Roll never died and Raggare cruise the streets in lovingly preserved Classic American cars. Ben Kersley finds out more about the American timewarp in the middle of the Swedish countryside.
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National: 29 Jun 07
A 12-year-old girl has been subjected to a brutal assault by three teenagers in Luleå town centre. Over the course of two hours, the girl's assailants beat her, spat at her and inflicted her with cigarette burns.
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