Police: Anchorage store clerk charged after firing weapon at cigarette carton thief

A tobacco store clerk faces two criminal charges for firing a gun at a thief who ran out of the store with a carton of cigarettes Wednesday evening, according to Anchorage police.

Ebenie Rafael Andujar, 22, has been charged with reckless endangerment and "discharging a firearm," the Anchorage Police Department said.

Officers responded to Smoker's Choice — located at the south end of a small strip mall near Minnesota Drive and Spenard Road — shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday for the report of a theft with a shot fired.

A man entered the store and then ran out with the cigarettes without paying, police said.

"An employee fired one shot after the suspect," APD spokeswoman Renee Oistad said. "There is no indication that the suspect was armed and no indication that anyone was injured."

Online court records do not yet show the charges against Andujar.

While the store clerk faces a criminal penalty, the cigarette snatcher hasn't been caught.

Police describe the suspect as a skinny white man about 5 feet, 8-10 inches tall. He has dirty blond hair and "scruffy facial hair." He was last seen wearing a white zippered hoodie with black sleeves and a black tank top underneath, khaki cargo shorts and white tennis shoes.

Anyone with information about the suspect is asked to call police at 907-786-8900.

Resource : https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2017/06/29/police-anchorage-smoke-shop-clerk-charged-with-firing-weapon-at-cigarette-carton-thief/

Twelve reasons once and for all to stop Smoking

Tobacco causes great harm to the health and psyche.

We all know that Smoking is harmful, and the effect of cigarette smoke and nicotine on the body is very negative, but there is also the issue of dependence on Smoking — first psychological, then physiological. Specialists years looking for methods to combat this habit.

Appeared Smoking a long time ago: more old frescoes in Hindu temples depicting saints who smoked the smoke of aromatic plants with special tubes. Such pipes were found during archaeological excavations in Egypt. In one of his writings, Herodotus noted that the Scythians have a bad habit of inhaling the smoke of burned plants. The same can be read in ancient Chinese literature.

Smoke inhalation of psychoactive plants, for example, the peoples of Eurasia were used for conducting rituals. But widespread Smoking among the bulk of the people at that time were not. The first mention of tobacco was found in Central America over a Millennium before our era.

Doctors used tobacco as a painkiller. Tobacco also needed for conducting religious rituals with smoke inhalation. Native Americans believed, for example, that when a person inhales tobacco, his soul communicates with spirits. In South America it was popular cigars from whole leaf tobacco.


When the natives gave Columbus tobacco leaves, he just threw them out, not appreciating the gift. However, at the end of the sixteenth century Smoking became a popular habit, and began the first fight with him. In Russia in the VII century during the reign of smokers were punished with sticks. Humanity began to understand that tobacco causes great harm to the health and psyche. What are the reasons you can call today to quit Smoking?

1) One bundle of cigarettes smoked per day, according to the degree of harmful effects on the body is equivalent to the radiation of 500 x-rays per year.

2) Smokers suffer from cancer, coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive bronchitis three times more often than nonsmokers.

3) Nicotine can have damaging effects on the brain, the liver, and gonads.

4) the heart rate is higher in smoker than non-smoker, so his heart will wear out faster.

5) tobacco tar contains carcinogenic in very high concentrations. Scientists conducted an experiment: put the tobacco tar rabbit ear for some time, after which the animal appeared the tumor.

6) Cough, unpleasant taste in the mouth, vomiting or nausea, dizziness for those who are beginning to smoke — not the most pleasant symptoms.

7) after a few years of habitual Smoking appears morning cough with phlegm, hoarseness, yellow teeth, and after thirty years of age, the skin begins to become loose, the person looks older than their peers.

8) Smoking is harmful both to the smoker and people around, especially dangerous for children, can cause they have asthma.

9) women who smoke often climax occurs ahead of time.

10) cigarette Smoke reduces the amount of good cholesterol that protects against cardiovascular disease.

11) Many cases of impotence in men associated with dangers of Smoking or its consequences.

12) When Smoking in day a pack of cigarettes, a person breathes air that is polluted to 1,000 times more than allowed by health standards.

Resource: http://micetimes.asia/twelve-reasons-once-and-for-all-to-stop-smoking/

Vaping, a gateway to cigarette smoking

E-cigarettes may harm public health and ultimately increase the burden of cancer if their use contributes to more cigarette smoking among youth.          
                         E-cigarettes may harm public health and ultimately increase the burden of cancer if their use contributes to more cigarette smoking among youth. A new collaborative Dartmouth study led by Samir, Soneji and James Sargent demonstrates that this potential harm should be taken very seriously.


The study focused on an important and controversial question: Does e-cigarette use increase the risk of future cigarette smoking among adolescents and young adults? The team conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies that began with non-smoking youths and asked whether initial e-cigarettes use increased the risk they would subsequently transition to smoking cigarettes.

To rule out the possibility that e-cigarette users were simply higher risk youths, the analyses adjusted for known risk factors for cigarette smoking (like having a friend that smokes). The results showed strong and consistent evidence of greater risk between initial e-cigarette use and subsequent cigarette smoking initiation, regardless of how initiation was defined and net other factors that predict cigarette smoking.


The studies did not address why e-cigarette use increases risk of transitioning to cigarettes. The reason could be that e-cigarettes mimic smoking behaviour through similar involvement of hand-to-mouth movements, or puffing and exhalation. E-cigarette aerosol also contains nicotine, so use of these devices could enhance exposure and eventual addiction to this substance.

"The finding is very consistent across studies. That along with the strength of the association makes it probable that e-cigarette use is one cause of cigarette smoking," said Sargent. "E-cigarette use could affect population trends in youth smoking if use becomes more common, and that is the big public health concern."

"In addition to the currently enacted age restrictions on in-store sales, regulatory actions to limit e-cigarette use could include restrictions on advertising campaigns that may be viewed by adolescents, flavour restrictions for e-cigarettes that exclude fruit and candy flavours, strict standards for reporting actual nicotine content in e-liquid, and requirements for strict age verification for online and retail sales of these products" suggested Soneji.

Until more effective regulatory actions are taken, the team will continue to evaluate the excess risk posed by e-cigarette use for cigarette smoking with newer generations of e-cigarettes.

The findings will be published in an upcoming issue of JAMA Pediatrics. 

Resource : http://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/diagnostics/vaping-a-gateway-to-cigarette-smoking/59384333