The state board of health urged R.J. Reynolds to stop using Colorado as a test market for “dissolvable” tobacco products that look like toothpicks, breath strips and mints.

The board asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate the controversial Camel products as tobacco, giving it more oversight power.

R.J. Reynolds responded that it would not stop its test marketing of Camel “Sticks, Strips or Orbs” in Colorado.

Read more at denverpost.com.

Dietmar and Jean Voitel are stuck in an HOA Twilight Zone, paying dues to a homeowners association even though the board has dissolved and no services are being performed. Neighborhood apathy has prevented anyone from taking control or abolishing the HOA. Photo by