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Put Your Name Down Early!

Written on: November 23rd, 2009 in Blog Posts

This will be a busy week for many, so you may want to file away this review until next week- or use the library catalog to place a hold on what is sure to be a very popular item in our public libraries.
Nabokov had a “new” book released recently, and this week the New York Times Sunday Book Review wrote about the newly published title by Michael Crichton, who died last year- the manuscript for Pirate Latitudes was discovered on his home computer, and according to the Times reviewer, may have been “completed but not truly finished,” since there are a variety of continuity errors and a hasty ending that suggests this might have been an early work that was put away and never quite gotten back to- however, it’s also a “straight up pirate story” that will have a lot of appeal to Crichton fans.

Q: Can I buy clove cigarettes overseas and have them imported? Will they be seized?

Written on: November 23rd, 2009 in Q & A's

A:   In September, the FDA banned flavored cigarettes, including clove cigarettes.  It is now illegal to manufacture, import, distribute, or sell flavored cigarettes.

The FDA is working to ensure illegal imports do not reach consumers and your purchase may in fact be seized.  In a recent  media briefing, the FDA stated, “We’ve established procedures at the border to watch for products which violate this ban to prevent them from entering the United States.”

The FDA has also created a website devoted to information concerning the ban: http://www.fda.gov/flavoredtobacco

Menthol cigarettes and flavored pipe tobacco are not affected by this ban.

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