Cigarette — Puyuruaq Puyuruanilu englumni!—Don’t smoke in my house! Tobacco was introduced to the Alutiiq by Russian entrepreneurs. Traders imported this commodity in large quantities for use as payment and provisions for Native hunters and laborers. An 1833 report on Kodiak area settlements by Vasilii Ivanovich Kashevaroff, the son of a Russian merchant and an […]
Health warnings cover about 10 percent of a cigarette pack’s exterior surface in the United States, but there is broad support, even among smokers, for making them significantly larger, a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center study has found. The study, published in the journal PLoS One, found that a majority of smokers and nonsmokers who responded to a randomized […]
An Akiachak teen has been jailed and faces Arson charges after a Friday incident where he attempted to burn down his uncle’s house while the man was sleeping inside, the trooper dispatch reported on Saturday. According to the trooper report, 19-year-old John Nick Jr had gotten into an altercation with his uncle, 57-year-old George Manutoli, over […]